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Final Mac Ripping Workflow

September 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

OK, so here is the best way to backup and rip your CD on the Mac:

iTunes-LAME. To rip. So you insert you CD and click on it. , Make sure that iTunes-LAME is set to —alt-preset fast extreme which is most folks think the best tradeoff between compression and CD quality. Now, you want to [...]

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Using Raw, DxO and Photomatix together

June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Digital Darkroom

Well, as I’ve been using various programs, it is pretty clear that you have to be pretty careful about using the different programs. Some things you want to do earlier and some later. For instance, you probably want to sharpen last as this really changes the bits. Larry Gerbrandt has some recommendations on workflow that [...]

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DVD Backup

June 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Movies

Well the world is moving on to Blu-ray and I’ll have to get one of these bad boys at some point (and replace my whole television too, the lovely 250kg monster that it is). In the meantime, backing up DVDs and so forth goes on. Here’s the workflow I use. Its a little old these [...]

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