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Even though the BBC’s planned iPhone apps have been postponed for a review, it’s still possible to get full-screen iPlayer video on your iPad, thanks to a neat web app workaround by the BBC. Here’s how to do so.

At the moment, there aren’t any [tag]Intel[/tag]-native [tag]Real[/tag] [tag]Media[/tag] encoders for Mac. This means that Universal Binary applications running on an Intel Mac can’t [tag]encode[/tag] to .[tag]rm[/tag] files. The main “batch encode” application for Mac – [tag]Sorenson[/tag] [tag]Squeeze[/tag] Compression Suite 4.5 – has this problem. But as ever, there is a solution.

I’ve just received (and nearly read cover-to-cover) a very good book about Shooting Digital, by Marcus van Bamel of DVFilm. The book is a must-read useful thing for anyone shooting on digital video, especially if you’re using the DV format, and want to convert between PAL / NTSC, and or print to film [...]