techtrickz» Audio&video

Vox Is a Pure Audio Player For Mac OS X

Kannan — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 13:45:16 +0000

Here is another addition to our free Mac software collection. Vox is a simple and pure audio player for Mac OSX that supports many audio formats and offers various audio effects. You can play MP3, WAV, FLAC, ACC, Apple Lossless, AIFF, Musepack, Monkey’s Audio, OGG Vorbis, IT, MOD, XM, Games Music, etc with Vox Player.

With various audio effects like Equalizer, Reverb, Time Stretch, Pitch Shift, and Echo, Vox will enhance your listening experience a lot.

Moreover, with Vox all supported audio files can be exported to AAC+, Apple Lossless, WAV and other formats with enabled effects. You can download Vox at source here.

The Popular Video Editing Software Lightworks Now Available For Free Download

Kannan — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 03:30:14 +0000

Lightworks, the Academy and Emmy award-winning most advanced non-linear video editing powerhouse now available for free download. Lightworks Open Source will be available (via – downloadsquad) on November 29, 2010 at EditShare (the company who acquired Lightworks recently).

Used by editors such as Chris Gill and multi Oscar-winning Thelma Schoonmaker, Lightworks offers intuitive controls, advanced real time effects, 2K native support with DPX or RED, and multi-camera editing features that remain unmatched.

With wide support for codecs, including EditShare’s Universal Media Files, Lightworks achieves a level of unmatched interoperability by offering seamless media sharing with other popular editing software such as Avid and Final Cut Pro.

More details available here

VirtualDJ Home Now Available For Free

Kannan — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:27:04 +0000

VirtualDJ is the high-tech software in music and video mixing for DJs. It is a very easy to use application and includes all the professional features a real DJ needs. With VirtualDJ’s breakthrough BeatLock engine, songs will always stay in beat, and the DJ works their mixes incredibly faster than they ever could.

VirtualDJ Home is now available completely free for non-commercial use. Home version includes nearly all the features of VirtualDJ Pro, with only a few limitations (see comparison here)

Interested readers can download VirtualDJ Home for free (Windows and Mac) at source

Encode any video for use on mobile devices

Kannan — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:22:39 +0000

If you’re looking a simple to use application for encoding any video files to use on your mobile devices (iPhone, iPod, Nokia N900 or on X-Box 360, YouTube HD, PSP, etc), EncodeHD might be the one you’re looking for.

It is a portable tool (no installation needed) with very simple interface, offers the best possible speed without compromising on quality.

To re-encode a video, it doesn’t requires complicated settings, just select a video, and select an output device from the list and then click start button to convert files.

Following are some of the output device types it supports: Apple TV, BlackBerry iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Nexus One, Nokia E71, Nokia N900, Playstation 3, PSP, X-Box 360, Youtube HD, ZuneHD.

You can download EncodeHD at the source.

Now you can watch original 4k video (4096 x 3072 pixel) at YouTube

Kannan — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:33:55 +0000

Do you just bought a Full HD LED TV? You can throw it away because YouTube just announced support for videos shot at 4K resolution (4096 x 3072 pixel definition). The ideal screen size for a 4K video is 25 feet.

That’s four times bigger than the current maximum resolution of consumer television and Blu-Ray movies, something really huge!

However, to play a YouTube video at 4K resolution, we require a very fast computer with ultra-fast high-speed broadband connections. Just try this 4k videos [Via]

Watch YouTube video directly in VLC Media Player

Kannan — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 03:00:00 +0000

VLC Media Player is a universal player that can playback just about any kind of video, including YouTube videos (flv video) thrown at it.

The latest release of VLC (1.1) can play YouTube videos directly from a YouTube video URL, no need to download the video to your computer. Here is how to play YouTube video directly from VLC.

Download and install the latest release of VLC Media player. Run the player and from the file menu select “Open Network Stream” [see screen shots below].

Paste the main YouTube URL (shown on your browser’s address bar) in to the ‘Please Enter a Network URL’ box [see screen shots below] and click play button.

By clicking the ‘Show more option’ [see screen shots below] you can increase the cache size of the stream, if the video freezes every few seconds.

The main advantage of this is that you can use VLC’s video and audio control (sharpness, brightness, color, contrast, etc) for the YouTube video. [via]

Create beautiful video tutorials with Cute Screen Recorder

Kannan — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:32:58 +0000

Want to make your own how-to videos or video tutorials? The free screencasting software Cute Screen Recorder lets you do it very easily.

This simple-to-use screen recorder can record all screen activity on your computer (in full screen mode or region mode) and create video in mp4, flv, swf and wmv formats.

Cute Screen Recorder free version includes all encoders and decoders; there is no need to install any other codec.

This application is quite easy to use: just choose full screen or region mode, video output format, sound and output directory, then click ‘Start’ button. That’s all.

Cute Screen Recorder free version can be downloaded at source.