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Cheap-o-Scope is a small utility that will convert Quicktime movies into Adobe Filmstrip files and also convert Adobe Filmstrip files back into Quicktime movies. Adobe Filmstrip files are recognized by Photoshop and probably other image editing files (its just a sequence of raw RGB image data).
Adobe Premiere will also import them, but if youre using iMovie, youll need to convert. Filmstrip is a good format for doing rotoscoping and animation work if you dont have the money for a separate rotoscoping product.
Using Cheap-o-Scope really couldnt be easier - simply drop a Quicktime movie on it, or select the movie from the "Open..." dialog and a Filmstrip file will be created that can be edited or modified in Photoshop or another image editing program. When you are done editing the file, simply drop the filmstrip (.flm) file on the Cheap-o-Scope icon or select the file from the "Open..." dialog, and it will output it to a Quicktime movie (Note: if Cheap-o-Scope wasnt in the Applications folder when you started OS X, dragging files onto its icon may not work).
Filmstrip files are very large and I wouldnt recommend doing more than a few seconds of footage at a time unless you have a very high powered machine with lots of speed and plenty of RAM. Filmstrip files also do not support a sound track, so you should keep the original movie so that you have the original sound - you can merge the new movie with the old sound in iMovie without any great difficulty.
Enhancements:
- Adds ability to select compression for final movie
- Rebuilt with debug symbols and zerolink turned off.

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Enhancements:
- Changed where file is hosted.

MacSAC 1.52 comes to users as a friendly and useful freeware application which tracks deals on the Steep and Cheap (SAC), Tram Dock, Chain Love, and Whiskey Militia websites from Backcountry.com. These websites offer killer deals on outdoor gear, ski gear, biking gear, and apparel all day long, one deal after the other, with discounts from 50-80%.

MacSAC is a universal app that runs on Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5. It pops a small alert panel onscreen every time a new deal is announced. If you spot a killer deal, just click in the alert panel to quickly go to the website and check it out.

In addition to tracking the current deals, MacSAC displays a history of recent deals and the "Deal of the Day" from BackcountryOutlet.com. BackcountryOutlet.com purchases made through MacSAC will benefit from a 40% discount applied when items are added to the shopping cart!

Steep and Cheap Widget is a small tool that monitors the Steep and Cheap website and helps you to buy smart, displaying their latest offer.

Enhancements
- Improved Growl notification handling.

So what is The Levelator? Its software that runs on Windows or OS X (universal binary) that adjusts the audio levels within your podcast or other audio file for variations from one speaker to the next, for example.

Its not a compressor, normalizer or limiter although it contains all three. Its much more than those tools, and its much simpler to use.

The UI is dirt-simple: Drag-and-drop any WAV or AIFF file onto The Levelers application window, and a few moments later youll find a new version which just sounds better.

Have you ever recorded an interview in which you and your guest ended up at different volumes? How about a panel discussion where some people were close to microphones and others were not?

These are the problems the post-production engineers of Team ITC solve every day, and it used to sometimes take them hours of painstaking work with expensive and complex tools like SoundTrack Pro, Audacity, Sound Forge or Audition to solve them. Now it takes mere seconds. Seriously. The Levelator is unlike any other audio tool youve ever seen, heard or used. Its magic. And its free.

When we developed the IT Conversations component-based show-assembly system (the first generation of GigaVox Audio Lite, see below), we realized all the components had to be of the same loudness or the results would sound awful. We limped along for many months using the RMS normalization functions in various applications, but the results werent satisfactory and it required tools and skillsets that some of our post-production audio engineers didnt have.

One of our best engineers, Bruce Sharpe, offered to write a standalone software RMS normalization utility, which weve been using as part of our production system GVUploader for nearly a year.

The GVUploaders normalizer acts similar to an intelligent RMS-based compressor/limiter combination, and it therefore affects primarily the short-term (transient) sounds and the long-term overall loudness of the file. It doesnt make the kind of adjustments that a skilled audio engineer can perform in software or at a mixing console, riding the levels up and down to compensate for medium-term variations.

There are some hardware devices such as various AGC (automatic-gain control) components that can do moderate leveling, but since they have to operate in real time (i.e., without look-ahead), they cant do much. And they arent cheap, let alone free.

Even a skilled human can only react to changes unless s/he is lucky enough to be present during a recording session and can use visual cues to anticipate coming variations. Software can do better by performing multiple passes over the audio, generating a loudness map of where the volume changes. (Its not actually that simple, but the metaphor can help.)