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When editing video you get to view individual frames that when just running by at 24 frame per second look fine but when stopped reveal far more sinister situations. You can see from my reaction to him in this shot from the up coming Mac Developer Network Core Data video course that Mr Zarra can [...]

Today I was able to  announce the release of The Mac Developer Networks (MDN) latest video training course “The Wonderful World of Webkit“.   WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that’s used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and [...]

At  The Mac Developer Network we produce training videos for Mac, iPhone and iPad developers. These videos can often be quite long and their file size quite large (Anything from a few hundred MB to 6GB). When a new video is released it generates peak demand with a reasonable number of people trying to grab [...]

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On The Mac Developer Network website I need to display promo videos and sample chapters of our video training courses. Up until today I was doing this by just using an <object> tag and embedding the quicktime player into the page. The main problem with this method is the video was being downloaded each time [...]

Video production needs two things, Disk Space and Speed. At The Mac Developer Network we currently use an early 2008 Mac Pro with about 10GB of memory and all four drive bays loaded with the largest hard drives we can get our hands on. The Mac Pro stores all the current “In Progress” projects as [...]

When I first joined the Mac developer community I remember coming across the MacTech 25 for 2007 list and seeing the names of developers like Aaron Hillegass , Allan Odgaard, Brent Simmons, Daniel Jalkut, Dave Nanian, Gus Mueller, John Gruber , Johnatahn “Wolf” Rentzsch, Paul Kafasis , Scott Stevenson and Wil Shipley on it. I [...]