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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Crash Course

4

Chapter 2: iTunes

6

Chapter 3: PSP

8

Chapter 4: DV

11

Chapter 5: DVD

14

Chapter 6: AVI

17

Chapter 7: MP4

19

Chapter 8: WMV

21

Chapter 9: MPEG

23

Chapter 10: Flash

26

Chapter 11: Advanced

28

Chapter 12: Xgrid

30

Chapter 13: Tidbits

33

Chapter 14: Troubleshooting

35

Chapter 15: Appendix

37

Appendix A: Cheat Codes

39

Appendix B: Supported Codecs/Formats

41

Appendix C: Credits and Other Info

43

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Page 1: ...VisualHub Users Guide By Tyler Loch Fearless Leader Techspansion LLC Release 1 22 2 26 07...

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Page 3: ...Chapter 6 AVI 17 Chapter 7 MP4 19 Chapter 8 WMV 21 Chapter 9 MPEG 23 Chapter 10 Flash 26 Chapter 11 Advanced 28 Chapter 12 Xgrid 30 Chapter 13 Tidbits 33 Chapter 14 Troubleshooting 35 Chapter 15 Appen...

Page 4: ...Chapter 1 Crash Course This readout tells you where you re going this one tells you where you are this one tells you where you were Dr Emmett L Brown 4...

Page 5: ...and don t need to be changed There is a chapter on each video format that explains every setting in detail VisualHub is as easy or complex as you want it to be You want more control Start changing th...

Page 6: ...ter 2 iTunes You know our next big step is we want it to make toast I want to brown my bagels when I m listening to my music And we re toying with refrigeration too Steve Jobs on video iPods April 200...

Page 7: ...with the iPod Quality If visual quality isn t as important as just getting the message across you can set the quality slider to Low or Tiny If the video demands the absolute best quality possible choo...

Page 8: ...pter 3 PSP This is the design that we came up with There may be people that complain about its usability but that s something which users and game software developers will have to adapt to Ken Kutarag...

Page 9: ...y has its advantages and disadvantages Personally I prefer black bars on the sides so the video doesn t look squished Widescreen aspects such as 16 9 high definition TV shows nearly all movies can be...

Page 10: ...mory stick will show up in Finder 2 If a folder named MP_ROOT does not exist on your memory stick create one 3 Open the MP_ROOT folder If folders named 100MNV01 and 100ANV01 do not exist in this folde...

Page 11: ...Chapter 4 DV and it s indestructible WHAM WHAM WHAM aww I broke some of the shielding Apple Spokesperson on FireWire at MUG meeting 1997 11...

Page 12: ...ase Alternating Line and as expected from the title tells you absolutely nothing helpful leaving you lost and confused It s the format used in the rest of the world including Europe Asia Africa Austra...

Page 13: ...completed videos from VisualHub can be dropped in the Media folder seen inside your iMovie project s folder 4 5 Open iMovie again You will be warned about a foreign video in the iMovie trash View Tras...

Page 14: ...was films Jack Valenti May 2003 I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone Jack Valenti 1982 In the digital...

Page 15: ...and northwest South America PAL stands for Phase Alternating Line and as expected from the title tells you absolutely nothing helpful leaving you lost and confused It s the format used in the rest of...

Page 16: ...ation based on video duration and encode at the full DVD resolution no matter how low the quality may be Dual Layer This changes all the quality equations to use nearly double the bitrate in order to...

Page 17: ...Chapter 6 AVI Please spell DivX correctly Capital D lower case iv capital X and do not forget the eye blinking smiley Gej 17...

Page 18: ...original video By checking this box VisualHub will constrain the video to 320 pixels across scaling proportionally 320x240 is a standard video resolution for medium quality Internet distribution Qual...

Page 19: ...Chapter 7 MP4 In this world of my codec is better than yours this codec is better Frank Casanova 2004 19...

Page 20: ...he codec This setting may take over 5 times as much space as Standard but will look nominally better The 56K setting will create a file that can stream in realtime over a 56K modem H 264 Encoding H 26...

Page 21: ...Chapter 8 WMV I ve got my kids brainwashed You don t use Google and you don t use an iPod Steve Ballmer April 2006 21...

Page 22: ...to Low If the video demands the best quality possible choose High or Go Nuts Go Nuts sets a data rate near the maximum attainable quality of the codec This setting may take over 5 times as much space...

Page 23: ...data or the difference between this block and the close match are quantized which means that you divide them by some value to drop bits off the bottom end Hopefully many of the coefficients will then...

Page 24: ...elpful leaving you lost and confused It s the format used in the rest of the world including Europe Asia Africa Australia and most of South America People in Antarctica are too cold to watch TV Consul...

Page 25: ...rming to the specifications of the TiVo Series 2 DVR TiVos use an MPEG2 derived format Files created by a TiVo unit are encrypted to only work on specific devices Standard MPEG 2 videos formatted spec...

Page 26: ...Chapter 10 Flash People are all the time asking me Mike how do you do those stupid voices for your dumb animal characters and I say I m Mike Matt does the voices Mike Chapman 26...

Page 27: ...olution for medium quality Internet distribution Quality If visual quality isn t as important as just getting the message across you can set the quality slider to Low If the video demands the absolute...

Page 28: ...Chapter 11 Advanced We knock them into little pockets with sticks and we got higher numbers too The Tick on The Infinity Ball 28...

Page 29: ...culate a Bitrate constrained to n megabytes based on the reported running time of each video Useful with the Two Pass option Two Pass Will take a quick overview pass at a video to determine which part...

Page 30: ...Chapter 12 Xgrid The Xgrid Console has an intuitive Aqua interface that makes it easy to execute UNIX commands Xgrid Technology Preview PR January 2004 30...

Page 31: ...ect the use of that computer Xgrid processes always run at very low priority A Controller can also be an Agent to itself You ll see later how that can be a very good thing When you start an Xgrid enab...

Page 32: ...ocessing power will be left over for video conversion Network Throughput It s strongly recommended that the Controller and all Agents be connected via a wired network Each Agent must receive the entir...

Page 33: ...Chapter 13 Tidbits But the most important rule the rule you can never forget no matter how much he cries or how much he begs never never feed him after midnight Got it Gremlins 1984 33...

Page 34: ...ents of the folder listed in the Save To field If blank this will open the folder containing the last converted file Quit VisualHub Self explanatory Set Computer to Sleep Will put the computer into Sl...

Page 35: ...Chapter 14 Troubleshooting Son you tried your hardest and failed miserably The lesson is Never try Homer J Simpson 35...

Page 36: ...a DV camera or certain DVD footage may demonstrate interlacing If your video has these lines Click the Deinterlace checkbox on the Advanced panel How can I speed up VisualHub 1 Hide the VisualHub wind...

Page 37: ...Chapter 15 Appendix But what I d really like to do is drive a flaming bus through a wall of TVs with a stick of dynamite strapped to my head Pinky Rocko s Modern Life 37...

Page 38: ...vermiform appendix 38...

Page 39: ...Cheat Codes The arcade version of Gradius is really difficult right I never played it that much and there was no way I could finish the game so I inserted the so called Konami code laughs Kazuhisa Ha...

Page 40: ...actor 0 71428572 deblockalpha 1 deblockbeta 1 Encode only a specific duration in seconds t n Start encoding n seconds into the video file ss n Make a mp4 file compatible with both the iPod AND PSP For...

Page 41: ...always match so there are several cases where the above table shows encoder only or decoder only entries even though both encoding and decoding are supported for example the h263 decoder corresponds...

Page 42: ...2 MPEG 4 DivX XviD etc MSMPEG4 WMV7 WMV8 partial WMV9 H 263 H 264 Flash Video 6 7 Sorenson Spark Flash Video 8 VP62 MotionJPEG DV HDV Cinepak Legacy RealVideo RV20 Ogg Theora Snow Indeo 2 3 Many other...

Page 43: ...Appendix C Credits and Other Info 43...

Page 44: ...the terms of this license you must uninstall and delete the software from your computer All rights and privileges are reserved except as explicitly defined in this document VisualHub s license allows...

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