Archive for the 'Tips / Tricks' Category
Monday, February 8th, 2010
For my previous post, the Box Office Trailers, I converted 10 Movie trailers for 4 different devices. While the video format for these devices is similar, I used a feature of DVD Catalyst 3 that can not be found in any other product on the market; Multi-Device.
Multi-Device enables you to queue up multiple devices (Multi-Device) [...]
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
# 1. Avatar
AVATAR takes us to a spectacular new world beyond our imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption and discovery, as he leads a heroic battle to save a civilization.
Source: http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/avatar/hd/
http://www.tools4movies.com/boxoffice/bold/avatar.mp4
http://www.tools4movies.com/boxoffice/droid/avatar.mp4
http://www.tools4movies.com/boxoffice/iphone/avatar.mp4
http://www.tools4movies.com/boxoffice/nexus/avatar.mp4
# 2. Edge of Darkness
“Edge of Darkness” is an emotionally charged thriller set at the intersection of politics and big [...]
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
One of the most asked questions is in regards of black borders on the video, and how to get rid of them.
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
First post on the Nexus Forums, but I’m actually quite active on the DroidForums
A few days ago I started a thread there with movie trailers for the Droid, and figured I might as well do the same for all the Nexus One users.
The trailers are all converted from Quicktime HD files (720p or 1080p) [...]
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Monday, January 11th, 2010
To show off the capabilities of your Droid, as well as the capabilities of DVD Catalyst 3, I converted a couple of movie trailers to a format that plays onthe Verizon/Motorola Droid Smartphone.
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
As of DVD Catalyst 3.84.5, DVD Catalyst includes profiles for the new Google Phone, the Nexus One.
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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
For some reason today a lot of people are asking questions in regards of Digital Copies.
I have seen quite a few on forum websites, as well as received several by email today, so I figured I’d write up a small article in this regard.
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Saturday, December 26th, 2009
CONVERSION SPEED
*Install the Boosterpack. The boosterpack installs an additional conversion engine, which is basically a newer version than the one DVD Catalyst has. It’s a free download, and will speed things up considerably, even with the same settings.
*Turn off the CPU indicators. In Global Settings > Advanced, remove the checkmark for them, restart DVD Catalyst, [...]
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Saturday, December 26th, 2009
A few days ago, I was asked to write up something about video quality and conversion speed. There are a lot of ideasfloating around the web on this topic, written by people who think they know a lot about video (including me). In most of these write-ups, people just throw around a bunch of numbers, [...]
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
As of 3.83.5, DVD Catalyst has a preset setting for the Droid. Just select Verizon > Droid from the dropdowns, and all the settings will be set properly for your device.
While the Droid supports quite a few different video formats, the settings in DVD Catalyst make use of the H264 video format, which provides the [...]
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