The Adobe Media Encoder's Use Maximum Render Quality checkbox can noticeably increase frame clarity and overall output quality. It can also increase rendering time significantly, though GPU-acceleration via an NVIDIA CUDA card and Adobe's Mercury Playback Engine can... [More >>]

There are two techniques you can use to make sure that your audio loud, clear and robust. Normalization increases volume as much as possible without introducing distortion into the file, while compression makes the signal as robust as possible. In this tutorial, you'll... [More >>]

For video encoding on a tight budget, Jan Ozer looked at four free or cheap tools for converting video to H.264: Miro Video Converter, HandBreak, MPEG Streamclip, and Apple Compressor 4. Watch the video, because one is clearly a winner.