MacVoices #8117 [12:38m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

On the show floor at New Media Expo, Deborah Kornfilt, Content Developer for Mogulus, profiles their web site that lets you create your own online streaming video presence. What makes Mogulus different is their browser-based video switcher, complete with multi-cam support, titling, branding, bugs and more. Deborah discusses connectivity requirements, supported video formats and resolutions, recording options, and even a playlist feature for when you’re not broadcasting live.
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 MacVoices #8116 [14:54m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

From the show floor at New Media Expo, Daniel Rudd, the Founder and Creative Director of Stock20, discusses why their stock music doesn’t sound like stock music. With an extremely flexible license structure and affordable price points, Stock20’s extensive library makes it easy to add music to any audio or video project. When you purchase, you don’t just get a single track, but variations on the track in both length and composition. Daniel explains how the variations work, how they are delivered, and why you get a complete-satisfaction guarantee from Stock20. Daniel’s sense of humor comes through as he decides to offer MacVoices’ listeners a discount to help them get started with using Stock20’s many offerings.
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 MacVoices #8115 [10:48m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

On the show floor at New Media Expo, Andrew Welch, el Presidente of Ambrosia Software, talks about their new sound utility, Wiretap Anywhere. Not just a podcast took, Wiretap Anywhere allows the user to gather and manage virtually any audio source, internal or external, with ease, mixing them together, controlling how they interact, and more. Andrew describes WireTap Anywhere as a software patch board, letting the user export their work in as many channels as needed to GarageBand, or mixed down to mono or stereo. Andrew also gives us a sneak-peak at another beta project, Soundboard, and how it emulates a radio sound cart for users who need to easily trigger sound effects and pre-recorded segments a specific points in a live project.

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 MacVoices #8114 [9:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

On the show floor at New Media Expo, Rishi Mallik, Business Development and Product Marketing Manager for Qik talks about their service that lets you stream video from your phone straight to the web. Qik has just released the iPhone 3G of their software, and Richi talks about why they decided to be one of the first to release software that requires a jailbroken iPhone, since Apple isn’t allowing this kind of streaming video software in the App Store. What can you do by taping the power of Qik? Rishi talks about some of the options, from personal shopping all the way up to participation in the democratic process.
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 MacVoices #8113 [7:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

From the show floor at New Media Expo, David Chmura, the Chief Instigator of humbledaisy, discusses ProfCast, their software that takes your Keynote or even PowerPoint presentations and converts them into a video podcast suitable for online distribution. David talks about how this option delivers a file that can scale back to full resolution, how you can edit the results in GarageBand and why ProfCast was conceived as a live-capture tool, but has evolved beyond that. Read the rest of this entry »

 

 MacVoices #8106 [35:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The Final Cut Pro User Group SuperMeet brand is going global. Event organizer Michael Horton talks about the upcoming SuperMeet that will be held in Amsterdam, in conjunction with the IAB Conference. Mike discusses why he decided to expand the event beyond the two wildly successful iterations at Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco and the NAB Show in Las Vegas and how he is making it a destination event for filmmakers and video enthusiasts from Europe, the Middle East and beyond. Mike discusses some of the challenges associated with bringing the event up to speed, how he’s addressed some, why some won’t be addressed, and how long-time sponsors are stepping up to help make this event possible.

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 MacVoices #890 [34:29m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

John Grzeskowiak of RadTech and independent Mac developer Boris Klaydman, host of CocoaCast, are in San Francisco for Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, and report in after a day that included attending Steve Jobs’ keynote and interacting with peers and Apple representatives. While much of what goes on at WWDC is conducted under NDA, John and Boris share what they can, including their reactions to the iPhone 2.0 and MobileMe announcements.

The gap between iPhone 1.0 and 2.0, Apple’s elegant solution to the “one app at a time” problem, the first steps into cloud computing with the MobileMe enhancements, how they fit into a Microsoft Exchange world and what is known about Mac OS X Snow Leopard are all reviewed before John and Boris disappear into the WWDC party scene.
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 MacVoices #877 [33:34m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Jeff Gamet is spending the week in Las Vegas, covering the NAB Show for The Mac Observer (at least that’s what he’s telling them), and joins us to talk about his impressions of the show from a Mac perspective. Jeff discusses how Apple’s lack of a formal appearance at the show is being offset by their informal presence, some of the hot products for both professionals and consumers, and what he would have taken home if it had been shipping. Jeff also covers the Adobe presence at NAB, why hulu was one of the hot topics, and offers his perspective on the ubiquitous presence of Macs at the show.
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 MacVoices #872 [39:50m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Michael Horton of the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro Users Group is back to talk about the next iteration of the the Final Cut Pro User Group SuperMeet, this one at the upcoming NAB show in Las Vegas. Mike discusses why neither Aople nor Avid will exhibit, and why he and his fellow-organizers decided to go ahead with the SuperMeet anyway. There is no agenda set for the event; Mike explains why representative of how they are approaching this year’s event, how Apple is integral to this event in spite of their lack of show floor presence and why the prices of SuperMeet sponsorship went down (and no, it wasn’t due to desperation).
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 MacVoices #828 [47:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The Adobe Professional Association and User Group Breakfast wraps up with demo-meister Terry White showing off the latest Mac offering from Adobe, Photoshop Elements 6. Terry demonstrates some of the new features, including capabilities that are Mac-specific, and not available in the Windows version.
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