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How to: Quick and Easy Video for the iPhone, Apple TV and new iPods

Kevin Edwards — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:03:18 +0000

Ripping DVDs, transferring video from cameras, or converting downloaded videos from various sources for Apple products can be a difficult and time consuming process. Now with a software update for the Turbo.264 hardware-based video encoder from Elgato Systems, Macintosh users now have a definitive best and fastest way to encode video for all of Apple’s latest products.

This small device simply plugs into any Intel or PowerPC based Mac with a USB port (USB 2 is highly recommended). All of the heavy processing normally done by your computer is offloaded onto the Turbo.264 encoder, resulting in much faster encoding and freeing up your Mac for other tasks.

The older and slower your Mac, the more significant the speed increase will be with this device. We found the Turbo.264 encoded video up to 20 times faster on a G4, but even on higher end Intel based Macs, encoding times were drastically improved with the Turbo.264.

The Elgato Turbo.264 goes for about $90 on Amazon.com, making it a very inexpensive way to bring new life to an old Mac as a video encoding workstation.

The new software for the Turbo.264 couldn’t be any easier to use. As with the earlier software, it allows for batch processing, but more importantly, it provides support for custom data rates and other settings. It also includes simple selections for encoding video optimized for the Apple TV, iPhone, iPods, or the recently announced iPod Touch, iPod Classic and iPod Nano (also known as the iPod Nano Fatty.

While the included software is easy to use, the Turbo.264 comes with plug-ins for QuickTime that allow it to work with any application that uses QuickTime for export. This includes Final Cut Express, Final Cut Pro, iMovie (including both HD and ‘08) and third party video apps such as Roxio Popcorn.

For an alternative to the Turbo.264 from Elgato, consider the VideoExpress from Miglia. The Miglia compares very well in terms of hardware and performance, but we find the software for the Turbo.264 to be much better due to the ability to easily customize the settings.

[9/12/2007 - update…]See also:
More Quick and Easy Methods for Video on Your iPhone, Apple TV or New iPod

Tags: Ripping DVD, Turbo.264, video encoder, Elgato Systems, Macintosh, Apple, Intel, PowerPC, USB, Apple TV, iPhone, iPod, iPod Touch, iPod Classic, iPod Nano, iPod Nano Fatty, QuickTime, Final Cut Express, Final Cut Pro, iMovie, Roxio Popcorn, VideoExpress, Miglia

Demo: AtTask Project and Portfolio Management

Brad Baldwin — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:23:04 +0000

AtTask’s VP of Sales, Abraham Knell, shows off the @task Project and Portfolio Management solution. The application has a simple UI that is easy to learn and use. Tabs and drop-down menus in headers give the web-based offering a rich, desktop client-like experience without the hassle of software installs or updates. AtTask offers APIs to integrate into other Enterprise and workflow systems. And with http://www.apple.com Apple as a client, it should come as no surprise that there is an iPhone Web App.

Employees can collaborate and update projects through Microsoft Outlook. Dashboards with traditional Gantt charts and graphical cost, risk, and benefit views make it easy for management to determine status.

Tags: AtTask, Abraham Knell, @task, iPhone Web App, Microsoft Outlook

On location at iPhone DevCamp

editor — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:52:00 +0000

Just a week after the debut of the iPhone, about 300 developers gathered at the Adobe offices in San Francisco this weekend for a three-day developers camp/hackathon. The goal was to hack together applications for the iPhone. Apple doesn’t allow developers to write applications for the phone itself, so developers created Web-based applications that iPhone users will experience by visting Web sites in Safari. The applications spanned the spectrum, from games to apps that help you find nearby gas prices, shop on Amazon and iTunes, create word processing documents or use IM. We talked with event organizers Raven Zachary and Chris Messina and got a peek at some of the applications, including TeleMoose, gOffice, and AppMarks.

Tags: iPhone, developers, Adobe, Raven Zachary, Chris Messina, TeleMoose, gOffice, AppMarks

iPhone: One Week Later

Michael Cote — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:52:01 +0000

Coté speaks with Dave “KirinDave” Fayram about a week of iPhone use. As Dave is a developer (at PowerSet) and an Apple fanboy, in addition to talking about the pure user experience, he gives us a developers’ perspective and wish-list. We talk about using the maps features, Dave’s pleasure at finally having a smart-phone that meets his expectations, using the mobile Web to to find things like good Chinese food while he’s out, the different developer integration points and hooks (like knowing the iPhone agent ID, CSS, and the tel and mailto protocols for URLs), integration with corporate IT, and then the drawbacks of trying to do everything at once on the iPhone.

Tags: KirinDave, iPhone, PowerSet

A Carnival in the Apple Store Line, iPhone Mania!

Jeremiah Owyang — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:39:27 +0000

Jeremiah Owyang does his signature walkthrough through the Palo Alto Apple Store customers waiting patiently for the iPhone to go on sale in a few hours. Over 100 people showed up, camped out, in anticipation for this revolutionary communication device.

Tags: Jeremiah Owyang, Apple Store, iPhone

What will Apple do with all that crazy iPod money?

Michael Klinger — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:15:09 +0000

Twelve b-i-l-l-i-o-n dollars in cash and more coming in with a billion in profit for the last quarter…. With these record earnings, what will Steve Jobs decide to do with all that crazy iPod money? Apple Voices’ Michael Klinger and Kevin Edwards discuss potential ways Apple could spend the money.

We’d also like to know your thoughts, will Apple:
Merge with Adobe?
Purchase TiVo?
Purchase Palm?
Build its own mobile network or contract a MVNO?
Buy the Beatles Catalog / Apple Corps?
Squander the money on an iPhone trademark lawsuit?
Other?

Photo by Nerd Herd via Flickr/Creative Commons

Tags: Steve Jobs, iPod, Apple Voices, Michael Klinger, Kevin Edwards, Apple, Adobe, TiVo, Palm, MVNO, Beatles, iPhone

iPhone: Has Cingular Thrown in the Towel?

Jason Lopez — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 23:41:01 +0000

Apple CEO Steve Jobs suggested in his MacWorld 2007 keynote that the new iPhone can connect to the Internet via WiFi. Really? And Cingular is okay with that? A reading of the description on Apple’s Web site seems to confirm it. “iPhone is fully multi-tasking, so you can read a web page while downloading your email in the background over Wi-Fi or EDGE.” In this podcast, Steve Jobs demonstrates the iPhone’s Web muscle and announces some partnerships to make Internet functionality easier.

Tags: Apple, Steve Jobs, MacWorld, iPhone, Cingular