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Video for Web – RapidWeaver, QuickTime

October 3, 2009 By Kevin Burns 21 Comments

QuickTimePlayerX-SC100x100.pngFREE Public Show

Most people don’t realise that their own Mac comes with a very powerful video application  in QuickTime or now QuickTime X now for Snow Leopard.

Using this for video (web formatted) exports and in combination with RapidWeaver has always been a quick way for publishing content.

Our show will cover what the web export does and then integrate it with a RapidWeaver stacks with our own commisioned stack by the team SymfoniP (yes they make the Flowbox Stack, and MP3 Stacks and now HTML 5 Video plugins and stacks).

Enjoy the show,

Grab your FREE RapidWeaver stack for QuickTimeX: CLICK HERE

The free stack has been discontinued and superseded by new Stacks and plugins that support HTML 5 media – symVideo5 Stack and the new plugin symMedia5…more detail here

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Unify Winners

September 18, 2009 By Kevin 4 Comments

Well we ran a short competition on unify and here are the winners.

David - dcpeterson[at]yahoo.com

Scott roundcubewebdesign.com

Yolanda Quintana yolanda-art.es

Fabio littleoak.net

Norman ntodman[at]mac.com

Unit Interactive will be in touch with the winners to setup their free copy of Unify and thanks to all who took part.

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Unify Give Away

August 27, 2009 By Kevin 30 Comments

Woohoo! Free Stuff!

We have 5 copies of Unify (single-domain) to hand out, give away, free stuff!

Don’t know what it is check out our stack and screencast or the Unify Homepage.

How can you get one of these freebies ? Well, just ask in a funny, groveling or creative way and we will pick the top five that tickle our funny bone.

Just use the Comments section below and give it your best shot!

A big thanks to the UnitInteractive Team for their support.

Give Away closes on Sept 14th 2009 – The editors decision will be final ;)


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Summer discount

August 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Hi all

To drift into more summer love at supportcasts, we are offering all new members an amazing 15USD off the ’12 month membership’ bringing the price down to $64.95

What do you get?
Well access to all the screencast content that we have online , past and the future 12 months – that sounds like a great deal :)

Discount code ‘summerweaving‘ all lower case, this offer only lasts till Sept 30th 2009.

To avoid any disappointment in not getting the discount , lets just explain the steps to discount success.
1. Click on Join Now
2. Ensure you enter this code in the signup page and proceed to signup with us
2. We will send you an email to verify your email address with us
3.The discount will then be applied when you get to the PayPal page.
4. Enter your PayPal details to pay
5. Enjoy 12 Months of SupportCasts at this great price.

All the best
SupportCasts.com Team

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RWThemeMiner – Promo July 2009

July 7, 2009 By admin 3 Comments

** Free Show and Discount Code **

Dabbling in RapidWeaver Theme modifications can be additive :)

Well you have come to the right place and we have produced a great and free show giving you an overview on a neat little application that just does that – RWThemeMiner.

RWThemeMiner from ToThePoint Software enables you to modify and control any aspect of a RapidWeaver Theme.

Watch our show. You know we just keep on giving, and we have secured a great discount of $3 off the regular price of $15

Coupon Code CPN8961679790

Happy Weaving and Enjoy the Show

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VideoMonkey videos wait & download before playing

April 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Since we started talking about and using VideoMonkey in some screencasts , we started to hear of problems of video playback in the player of your choice. Common scenario you have created the movie, encoded with VideoMokey to (h264) AppleTV or iPhone format but the whole video has trouble playing in the flash player or you have to wait to download before playing in the flash player.

This is due to a problem with the ‘moov’ atom at the end of the video file ,Renaun Erickson wrote this small AIR app that moves the atom to the start of the file so it can be played out as soon as the player has buffered enough data.http://renaun.com/air/QTIndexSwapper.air

We have notified the developers at VideoMonkey about this, as visualhub did not do this ;)
Hope this has been of help to you

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Flowplayer Overlay Stack released by symfonip

April 2, 2009 By 5 Comments

SymfoniP the team (editor: and one of the co-founders of supportcasts too ::chuckle::) behind the popular MP3 stack library have just released a new stack library that will make adding video with a lightbox super-simple in conjunction with the flash player from FlowPlayer and the RapidWeaver Stacks plug-in from YourHead.com.

Functionality:
- one-time configuration
- Adjustable Opacity and Colour of Overlay background
- Automatic Flash player for all mp4, m4v and FLV videos links, if that sounds to awesome just watch our video to learn more :)
- Autohide of Flash playback bar and full-screen option
- Commercial license key and logo for branding the player yourself

As a special offer to all supportcasts visitors for the next 7 days till April 9th 2009, SymfoniP are offering a ‘WePayTheTax‘ discount code giving you a nice little discount off the purchase of this stack library, if you want to pick up the MP3 Stack at the same time the discount will apply only bundled with the Flowplayer Stack so there’s a double saving.

Watch the video to learn more :) or also visit the demo site .

Add to Cart


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Easy MP4 files with VideoMonkey – free show

March 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Over at SupportCasts we are heavy users of VisualHub in generating the iPhone and AppleTV versions of our screencasts, so it was real shame that VisualHub (Techspansion) closed their doors some months ago.
However, a lone developer has now taken over the code from VisualHub and has released this snappy little app VideoMonkey.

Currently at a 0.1 release, it already provides very impressive results in generating H264 AppleTV or iPhone/iPod Touch mp4 files for your web pages. More formats will follow in the future – we hope .
I should add that MP4 files are supported by FlowPlayer and other Flash players too . But this is a great plug for our small and basic FlowPlayer Stack Library that is on our site also :) Watch out for new developments on that front too from Kevin and Ronan at SymfoniP.

I put VideoMonkey through its encoding paces and provide some benchmark examples against iMovie 09 exports too in our show today. I think you will find the results are worth the extra step in your video export workflow, I’m not going to spoil it now :D

Grab the VideoMonkey package over at SourceForge to give it a test drive to create MP4 encosed files without any fuss.
I hope you enjoy this free show from the team at SupportCasts

Remember you can go full-screen too on this video and get this in our free and public iTunes feed. Not to be confused with the private feeds we have for members ;)


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