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Twelve Tips for Christmas: Tip #6

Chet Davis demonstrates how to use the Rotate #2 function (Effects Pack 8) to adjust your horizon -- to correct a mis-set tripod

Length 3:41

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12 Tips For Christmas: Tip #5

Casablanca Expert Chet Davis demonstrates how he prepares his videos for internet playback using two functions in the Special menu.

Length 4:26

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12 Tips For Christmas: Tip #4

Casablanca Expert Chet Davis demonstrates the Action Function/s to Mark and clear your Storyboard.

Length 3:00

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Twelve Tips for Christmas: Tip #3

Casablanca Expert Chet Davis shows how to use the Range function in the Edit Menu to perform a Quality Control check on your video work.

Length 3:15

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Twelve Tips for Christmas: Tip #2

In this short video Chet Davis demonstrates how to back-time your audio element... how to position music, etc. so it ends precisely when you desire

Length 3:26

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12 Tips For Christmas: Tip #1

Casablanca Expert Chet Davis demonstrates the newer Power Key function to add multiple scenes from the Scene Bin to your Clipboard

Length 2:46

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Casablanca Store N' Share Software Released in PAL

Macrosystem AG announced the release of the Store 'n' Share software that premiered at the IFA Conference in Berlin earlier this Fall.

This new software allows the Casablanca Next Generation editor the very cool ability to use an externally connected (USB) hard drive with Bogart SE v2 or v3 as an alternative to the internal hard drive.  The Store'n'Share software can save your projects directly to the external hard drive.

From the Macrosystem AG website:

"If you record a project to an external hard drive you can then also connect it to other Bogart systems, provided Casablanca Bogart Store'n'Share is activated, and edit the project as if it were on the original machine - if on both systems the effects used in the project are also active.

In conjunction with HD backup you can also use the external hard drive to back up your internal hard drive. Saved projects can also be re-activated at a later date as a working project."

This software is only available for the Casablanca Next Gen series with the OS of Bogart SE V2.5a and above.  This software is in NTSC testing but there is no estimated release date for North America at this time.

Details on the MS AG website

Great Tip For Compressed Audio On Your DVD Projects

Regularly I answer questions dealing with Compressed Audio on DVD Authoring.  With this option in DVD Arabesk software you can 'fit' more data onto a DVD... but it does take longer to compile/render the DVD project and you run the risk of having your recipient/audience run into an audio incompatibility.  This incompatibility resides in their DVD player. Most every contemporary DVD player (and models from the past several years) have the ability to playback compressed audio but it may require an adjustment in their DVD player menu.

Tim Kennelly of Videosonics had a great suggestion on the Casablanca Forum this past week that I really liked, so much so I wanted to share it with you all here:

...(adjusting for compressed audio) is a simple setting issue on their DVD player, but I hate the thought that I put a ton of work into a finished product and their first experience with it is without audio as audio is an important part of the video.

That said, I prefer the video quality at high and the audio compressed over the video quality at normal and the audio uncompressed.

If my client has ordered a package that I expect to go over the high/uncompressed time limit I like to send them a short sample DVD demo with compressed audio and ask them to play it in their system and let me know if they get audio with it.

If they say no, I talk them through how to fix that.

It's a one time deal to do with a DVD player (simple internal menu audio control change from LPCM or PCM only to All) and then I know that their wedding video will play back with audio when they get it."

Great suggestion Tim! 

You may find the chart on this public (free) page at CasablancaExpert.com of value: How Much Can I Fit Onto a DVD?

MSUS Releases New Add-on Software for NTSC - Including BlueBox World!

MSUS announced today the release of several add-on software products for NTSC customers.  The long awaited Blue Box World for Bogart OS owners is here!  

The NTSC updates released today are:

• Blue Box World  V 1.1.  For Bogart and Smart Edit. 
• Particle Magic  V 1.1  - Bogart and Smart Edit. 
• Photo Studio 2 V 2.2a - Bogart and Smart Edit. 
• Big Maps XXL
• FlagX 1 - Bogart Only. 
• Flag X America

Smart Edit OS customers are advised to read the notes for each program prior to updating. 

You can view these details on the MSUS Website here: http://macrosystem.us/index.php?pr=Add-Ons

And you can download the new ISO Image on the MSUS website here

Holiday Gift Ideas for Casablanca Enthusiasts!

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