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The slow rollout of Android 4.0 to Samsung’s recent Galaxy devices continues, and the latest variation to receive Ice Cream Sandwich is the Galaxy S II LTE. We should all be familiar with the ICS feature set by now, as well as Samsung’s TouchWiz alterations. The news was spotted on Samsung’s Korean site, but we wouldn’t be surprised to see the new software popping up on devices elsewhere shortly (AT&T’s Skyrocket already saw a leaked update in March). According to a tweet from the company, it’s still working on an update for the LTE’s 720p-screened HD cousin (although we hear Tizen already works great), but you can hit the source link for more information.

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Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC) is the best codec for iMovie editing, which actually is a mov format. As we know, Nikon D800 record videos in MOV format, but these mov footage always in HD (1080p, 720p or 1080i ). And contain different codec. These mov movies can’t be supported well by iMovie. When you want to edit Nikon D800 MOV recordings in iMovie, in order to get the best video quality, you are suggested to transcode MOV to AIC.

AIC is a video codec designed to be an intermediate format in an HDV workflow. It features high performance and quality, being less processor intensive to work with than other editing formats. There are lots of video conversion software to help people converting videos, but few of them have the ability to output AIC. I know the one that do this well is named Pavtube Video converter for Mac. It has many profiles for Apple’s editing software. Including Apple Prores Family for FCP, Apple Intermediate Codec for FCE or iMovie, and output for other common editing software. It’s a good choice for you to convert Nikon D800 .mov Clips to iMovie. You can refer to the following steps.

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Asus Transformer Pad TF300 supports a variety of video formats, such as AVI, Divx, WMV, QuickTime, H.264. It sports a 10.1 inch display with resolution 1280*800, which has the ability to play HD videos. However, not all of the movies we have are these formats. Nowdays, there are kinds of video types. Like MKV, VOB, M2TS, MOD, FLV, MTS, Tivo and more. These formats have their own characteristic for different uses.

For example, MKV, M2TS are famous for their High defination quality, most movies ripped from Blu-ray discs are Mkv or M2TS files. MTS, MOD, even AVCHD are camera formats, videos recorded by cameras alway use these formats. At the same time, most DVD movies with the extension .vob. While Tivo is a special format used by Tivo ( TV programs recorded by Tivo use this format). As you see, video types are complex. Though Transformer Pad TF300 supports a variety of video formats, only a small part.

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Some people have the demand to rip Blu-ray movies  for Apple TV 3, because Blu-rays’ pretty good viewing experience on HDTV. While most DVD movies are produced in HD quality. So if we convert DVD movies to Apple TV 3 for watching on HDTV, the Viewing is not too bad.

How to rip DVD movies to Apple TV 3? Of course, a professional DVD to Apple TV 3 converter is necessary. There are numbers of DVD ripping software in the market. Choose the one you like. But, according to my own experience, which do the best is called Pavtube DVD Ripper. It could handle all of the DVD movie files, like DVD discs, DVD ISO or IFO image files.

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Canon XF300 and XF305 combine excellent imaging systems with a design that delivers advanced mobility and versatility. The broad feature set and adaptability of these models will allow users to shoot in almost any situation and for any given purpose, from independent filmmaking to commercial broadcast.  They provide outstanding image quality.

Both new XF models record industry standard MXF files, an open-source file format compatible with major file-based workflow systems used by professionals today. However, this format isn’t supported well by most editing software. Though FCP X is the latest version of Final Cut Pro, it still hasn’t the ability to read and edit .mxf files directly. Today, this article will show you the easiest solution to help importing Canon XF300/XF305 MXF footage into FCP X for editing.

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To be honest, though Transformer Pad TF300 gives us many entertainment, i spent most of the time to watch movies on it. It’s Beautiful 10.1-inch screen packs a resolution of 1,280×800 pixels. Which is suitable for enjoying HD movies. I have many 1080p or 720p MKV movies, so i plan to put the MKV video files on Transformer Pad for outdoor viewing.

However, it’s not as simple as i thought. When i stream multiple MKV videos to Transformer Pad, none of them can be recognized, there is an error message, said that, unsupported video formats. Finally, i learned that Transformer Pad TF300 isn’t powerful enough to read and playback MKV videos, due to the complexity of MKV. It’s really a great pity for me.

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