The first episode of Backpack Mac, a joint podcast with Mac Filmmaking and The Big Apples! We discuss Mac OS X Leopard, the iTunes WiFi Store, the Trojan found aimed at Macs, the yet to be released Adium and many other things!

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More in depth reviews and screencasts coming soon.

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Elliott shows off an easy way of organizing video projects.

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Ryan took a look at Motion 3. If you have any questions about this screencast, please leave comments below.

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Elliott takes a look at the LaCie D2 Hard Drive. Check out the D2 at LaCie.com.Correction: I believe that the LaCie Extreme is the most prone to crashes, not the D2.

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A discussion about EEFX, setting up a studio, Insomnia Film Festival, and Uploading. Don’t forget to leave a comment for a chance to get some free hosting.

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Sorry about the late posting. This show we talk about Logic Studio, Filming a wedding, making your video look like film, and the LaCie Golden Disk.

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The Mac Filmmaking Podcast is sponsored by FxFactory. This week we discuss the new iPods, LiveRail Beta, and the future of film.

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Ryan gives a tip on why you should use an external mic and what kind of external mics you should invest in.

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LiveRail is a new multifaceted Web 2.0 company looking to change the face of social video advertising. LiveRail believes that advertising content must rely upon the original content on interest. An example of this is in LiveRail???s new flash player. While you can watch the content of the video that you found of interest, [...]

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This episode is pretty short, but we did get to talk about some important products. Ryan talks about Mogulus, (a live web broadcasting outlet), and Elliott talks about FxFactory, which we have been covering this week. Don’t forget to head over to MacFilmmaking.com to find more news, reviews, and interviews.

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Elliott takes a look at FxFactory from Noise Industries, in Motion 2. Also, don’t forget to read the FxFactory Review.

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Ryan takes a look at Mogulus.com, a live broadcasting studio on the internet. Plus, its free! Enjoy.

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We are back with another podcast episode! This week we discuss, iMovie ‘08, Shan’s internship, and VisualHub.

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FxFactory from Noise Industries is an amazing Final Cut Pro/Motion FX plugin database app. In this review I will be covering some of the ways of using FXFactory to store, edit, and purchase FCP/Motion ready plug-ins. FxFactory seamlessly integrates production quality effects right into your FCP or Motions workflow. The first part and most important part [...]

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Ryan reviews Techspansion’s VisualHub application. Correction: The program encodes all videos much faster than real time, but it encodes H.264 in real time. H.264 usually has very long encode times in other programs. Sorry about that

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When shopping for audio equipment, many people get the impression that they need to spend large amounts of money just to get good quality recordings! This is not always true. If you’re in the market for a lapel (or lavalier) microphone there is an inexpensive solution which will give you great sounding audio. The name [...]

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Elliott reviews the Steadicam Merlin. Find out more about the Steadicam Merlin here.

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Ryan looks at using DV Matte Blast for chroma keying. Find out more about DV Matte Blast here.

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Discussion about scripting with Pages, box office movies, filming conversations, Spout.com, and different kinds of microphones.

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A look at Peter Jackson’s Crossing the Line and Vimeo. Music by Spoon.

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Discussion about NAB. Apple released a Final Cut Server, cleaner Motion integration with Final Cut Pro, a new Motion app, a new Soundtrack app (surround-sound integration), Compressor 3 (hope it works + it supports WMV conversion), and Color.

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Tutorials on FCP compression and Motion integration with FCP.

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Discussion about HD, Zodiac the movie, a tutorial on FCP fullscreen and Justin TV.

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Discussion about Quicktime VR and NASA space footage. Also, short video piece of San Francisco.

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An interview with Brian Andrews, creator of HungryFlix.com Update: A big thanks to HungryFlix for posting a blog entry on the interview. Also, thanks to Brian Andrews for coming on the show. Check out the blog entry here.

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Hosting your filmmaking website website online and speculations for NAB

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Lighting a green screen and using the chroma key filter in Final Cut Pro

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Learn about Green Screening on the Mac

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Review of the Steadicam Merlin.

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Photoshop Integration with Motion and FCP Files and Senduit

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Red Camera and Great Camera Equipment

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iPhone, Apple TV, New Airport, and MacWorld

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Archive Interview

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Media Devices, iPod, Zune, Creative, PSP and iFilm

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