Monthly Archives: June 2012

AT&T's Samsung Galaxy Exhilarate is LTE, budget, 'eco'

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First announced at CES, the Earth-friendly Samsung Galaxy Exhilarate goes on sale June 10 for about $50.

The Samsung Galaxy Exhilarate is eco-conscious.

AT&T typically isn't the carrier you think of to promote its handsets in an eco-light, but that's about to change with the Samsung Galaxy Exhilarate, a 4G LTE Android 2.3 smartphone we first saw at CES.

The $49.99 phone (with a new two-year contract) has components made from 80 percent post-consumer waste material and comes with a more efficient charger, AT&T says. It will go on sale June 10.

In addition to 4G LTE, the affordable phone features a 4-inch Super AMOLED screen, a dual-core 1.2GHz Qualcomm Scorpion processor (based on ARM Cortex-A8 architecture), a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera with 720pHD video capture, and a 1.3-megapixel lens up front.

AT&T and Samsung will also add their own apps, including AT&T's subscription-based U-verse Live TV.

The Exhilarate is the first of a string of phones that AT&T plans to certify in its new eco-rating system launching this summer.

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Rousey vs. Cyborg in January? 'She Wants My Arm, I Want Her Head': Fan's Look

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Strikeforce CEO, Scott Coker, announcing his intention to schedule current champion, Ronda "Rowdy" Rousey vs. Cris "Cyborg" Santos at 135 generated a lot of interest and excitement with fans. In an interview following her second gold medal performance at the IBJJF Worlds event, Cyborg spoke to Marcus Kowal, from StudioMMA. Cyborg discussed her success at the competition, her suspension for using banned substances and her next opponent, Ronda Rousey.

Cris 'Cyborg' Santos: "Ronda Wants my Arm. I Want Her Head" video

Cyborg: "I think my next fight may be January. I talked to Strikeforce and they think January. I hope I fight Honda and I'm very excited for this fight. She wants my arm. I want her head."

Marcus: "What's the difference between stepping in with Miesha Tate vs. Cris Cyborg?"

Cyborg: "I think R(H)onda talks too much...She don't like punch in face...She's happy with judo and arm bar. I think I have more things for show MMA. I have more 'martial' arts and I like punching face."

Marcus: "Do guys get intimidated by you? How do guys...date Cris Cyborg?"

Cyborg: "It's too soon." (referencing her divorce from husband, Evangelista Santos).

Marcus: "Do girls get more nervous when they have to face you to fight jiu jitsu?"

Cyborg: "I think so, yes. But no possible punch, yeah? I like more punches, but jiu jitsu--for me now--I like more too."

Cris, age 26, says that after fighting she wants to train students, but she intends to keep competing until age 45, like Randy Couture.

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Battle of the beaches?

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CRYSTAL LAKE Local officials say its not a battle of the beaches, but some residents are drawing a line in the sand.

Some prefer Crystal Lake Park Districts Main Beach, while others are decamping for the city of Crystal Lakes newer Three Oaks Recreation Area. Both the park district and the city plan to enhance their facilities this summer, but leaders insist there wont be a recreational war fought with taxpayer dollars.

I dont see it as a competition, Crystal Lake Mayor Aaron Shepley said.

Neither facility is dependent on admission revenue, so there is little incentive to compete, he said.

He also dismissed the notion that the two governmental entities duplicate services.

Both Three Oaks and Main Beach add to the character of this community, Shepley said. And there are enough people here to support them.

Main Beach has been at the citys namesake lake since 1923.

For decades, it was the only beach in Crystal Lake.

But summertime crowds have decreased at Main Beach since the city of Crystal Lake opened Three Oaks Recreation Area for its first full summer season in 2011. The city spent $14.37 million to convert the former Vulcan Materials gravel pits into a park with a beach, marina, hiking trails and other features.

Both the city of Crystal Lake and the Crystal Lake Park District are working to upgrade their facilities.

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CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley – Transit of Venus used as astronomical yardstick – Video

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04-06-2012 18:59 In the 18th century, astronomers believed that they could use the transit of Venus to answer one of the most pressing questions of the age: What is the size of the solar system? Elaine Quijano reports on the perilous quest hundreds of scientists took across the globe to record this rare occurrence.

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More astronomy events happening in 2012

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Check out all your favorite female celebrities.

Take a look at pictures of people, places and events taken on this day from all over the globe.

A look at how England's capital and the world is preparing for the event that begins on July 27th.

The monarch's 60th anniversary on the throne is being marked with celebrations both in the United Kingdom and all over the world.

A look at major astronomy events that can be seen in the sky throughout the rest of this year.

The Los Angeles Kings and the New Jersey Devils battle it out with the goal of ending their season by hoisting the Stanley Cup.

A look at some of the latest items recalled by companies, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the FDA.

Check out all your favorite male celebrities.

Check out the latest pics of Hollywood couples.

Highlights of Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

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Venus Transit LIVE | Bad Astronomy

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The last Venus Transit for 105 years is happening in a few minutes as I write this it goes from roughly 22:00 June 5 to 05:00 June 6 UTC (check your local listings).

Fraser Cain, Nicole Gugliucci, Pamela Gay, and I are hosting a live video chat of the transit with many amateur astronomers across the world! I am embedding it below:

If you want to participate in the chat room, you need to 1) be signed up for Google+, b) circle Fraser Cain, and ) go to the live video chat post.

[UPDATE (21:55 UTC): First view of Venus silhouetted against the Sun's corona are coming in!

This shot is in the far-ultraviolet, where the Sun's thin atmosphere, called the corona, glows. You can see the Sun on the right, and Venus -- which is dark in the UV -- is the dark circle on the left. Amazing. Credit: NASA/SDO]

For more info, you can read my lengthy post with a ton of info, or watch my interview with Cara Santa Maria on the Huffington Post. I also have a nifty video made up of images taken of the 1882 transit, too!

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Venus Has Crossed the Sun For the Last Time Until 2117 [Astronomy]

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For those of us in the US and Europe, Venus has completed its transit across the sun. If you missed it, too bad: it won't happen again for another 115 years.

The transit has huge historical importance, as in the past it's what enabled us to calculate our distance from the sun. This image, courtesy of NASA, shows the planet completing its transit last night, just before it moved far enough to stop casting a silhouette. Goodbye, Venus!

If you missed it, don't worry too much: thousands of talented photographers around the world have been recording the event, and we'll bring you some of the best images before too long. [NASA]

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Transit of Venus: What to expect

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Venus will cross the face of the sun for the last time until 2117. Here's what it will look like.

Today's historic Venus transit is a marathon event lasting nearly seven hours, but skywatchers who don't have that kind of time can break it down into a handful of key milestones.

Venus treks across the sun's face from Earth's perspective today (June 5; June 6 in much of the Eastern Hemisphere), marking the last suchVenus transituntil 2117. Few people alive today will be around to see the next transit, which makes the rare celestial sight a premier event in the astronomical and skywatching communities.

The Venus-sun show will begin around 6 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT) and end at roughly 12:50 a.m. EDT (0450 GMT) Wednesday, with the exact timing varying by a few minutes from point to point around the globe.

Before you even attempt to observe the transit of Venus, a warning:NEVERstare at the sun through binoculars orsmall telescopesor with the unaided eye without the proper safety equipment. Doing so can result in serious and permanent eye damage, including blindness.

Astronomers use special solar filters on telescopes to view the sun safely, while No. 14 welder's glass and eclipse glasses can be used to observe the sun directly. [How to Safely Photograph the Venus Transit]

With that warning stated, here's a look at the first major stage of thetransit of Venus.

The transit officially commences when the leading edge ofVenusfirst touches the solar disk, an event astronomers call "Contact I" or "ingress exterior." This milestone occurs at 6:03 p.m. EDT (2203 GMT) for observers in eastern North America, while skywatchers on the other side of the continent will see it a few minutes later, at 3:06 p.m. PDT.

Next up is "Contact II," or "ingress interior" the moment when Venus moves fully onto the sun's face. This will happen 18 minutes after Contact I. [Venus Transit of 2004: 51 Amazing Photos]

If you're viewing the transit through a good telescope, you may see a dark teardrop form, briefly joining Venus' trailing edge and the solar disk just before Contact II. This so-called "black-drop effect" bedeviled efforts in 1761 and 1769 tomeasure the Earth-sun distanceby precisely timing Venus transits from many spots around the globe.

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Transit of Venus: What to expect (+video)

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Venus will cross the face of the sun for the last time until 2117. Here's what it will look like.

Today's historic Venus transit is a marathon event lasting nearly seven hours, but skywatchers who don't have that kind of time can break it down into a handful of key milestones.

Venus treks across the sun's face from Earth's perspective today (June 5; June 6 in much of the Eastern Hemisphere), marking the last suchVenus transituntil 2117. Few people alive today will be around to see the next transit, which makes the rare celestial sight a premier event in the astronomical and skywatching communities.

The Venus-sun show will begin around 6 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT) and end at roughly 12:50 a.m. EDT (0450 GMT) Wednesday, with the exact timing varying by a few minutes from point to point around the globe.

Before you even attempt to observe the transit of Venus, a warning:NEVERstare at the sun through binoculars orsmall telescopesor with the unaided eye without the proper safety equipment. Doing so can result in serious and permanent eye damage, including blindness.

Astronomers use special solar filters on telescopes to view the sun safely, while No. 14 welder's glass and eclipse glasses can be used to observe the sun directly. [How to Safely Photograph the Venus Transit]

With that warning stated, here's a look at the first major stage of thetransit of Venus.

The transit officially commences when the leading edge ofVenusfirst touches the solar disk, an event astronomers call "Contact I" or "ingress exterior." This milestone occurs at 6:03 p.m. EDT (2203 GMT) for observers in eastern North America, while skywatchers on the other side of the continent will see it a few minutes later, at 3:06 p.m. PDT.

Next up is "Contact II," or "ingress interior" the moment when Venus moves fully onto the sun's face. This will happen 18 minutes after Contact I. [Venus Transit of 2004: 51 Amazing Photos]

If you're viewing the transit through a good telescope, you may see a dark teardrop form, briefly joining Venus' trailing edge and the solar disk just before Contact II. This so-called "black-drop effect" bedeviled efforts in 1761 and 1769 tomeasure the Earth-sun distanceby precisely timing Venus transits from many spots around the globe.

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Aerospace Forum Sweden 2012 / Försvarsmaktens Flygdag – SwAFHF AJS 37 Viggen 1080p – Video

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04-06-2012 13:33 Location: Malmen Air Base Linkoping, Sweden. Date: June 3 2012 Event: Aerospace Forum Sweden 2012 / Försvarsmaktens Flygdag Swedish Airforce Historic Flight AJS 37 Viggen 37098, SE-DXN. Please visit for more information about SwAFHF. Hope you enjoy the video! HiFlyer41ZER0 Filmed with JVC Everio Camcorder. © 2012 HiFlyer41ZER0

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Oklahoma Aerospace Summit connects industry, military, teachers

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NORMAN The potential impact of sequestration under the Budget Control Act of 2011, which is set to automatically slash billions of dollars from the Department of Defense budget next year, set an ominous tone Tuesday for much of the 2012 Oklahoma Aerospace and Defense Summit & Expo.

Frank Kendall, the acting under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics speaks during the 2012 Oklahoma Aerospace and Defense Summit & Expo. STEVE SISNEY - THE OKLAHOMAN

Keynote speaker Frank Kendall, the acting undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, said if Congress doesn't do anything to stop the act from going into effect on Jan. 1, jobs will be lost and contracts will have to be renegotiated.

Sequestration has a devastating outcome. We really need to avoid it, he said. The industry hasn't done any planning for sequestration, he said, because it is so unacceptable that they are focusing on rallying against it.

Marion Blakey, president and chief executive officer of the Aerospace Industries Association, called sequestration a time bomb and wore a pin that counts down the minutes until the act goes into effect.

If it blows, we're going to feel the shock wave in all 50 states, including this one, she said.

Kendall talked about ways the Defense Department is cutting costs already, by canceling unaffordable programs and using competition to negotiate the best price on contracts. He said he planned to meet with the CEOs of aerospace companies on Wednesday while in the state.

Monday was expected to be the busiest day for FedEx, which said it...

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Global Biotechnology Reagents Industry

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NEW YORK, June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:

Global Biotechnology Reagents Industry

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This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Biotechnology Reagents in US$ Million by the following Product Segments: Cell/Tissue Culture Reagents, DNA Sequencing/Synthesis Reagents, Electrophoresis Reagents, Flow Cytometry Reagents, Immunoassay Reagents, Liquid Chromatography Reagents, Polymerase Chain Reaction Reagents, and Protein Synthesis Reagents. The report provides separate comprehensive analytics for the US, Canada, Japan, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. Annual estimates and forecasts are provided for the period 2009 through 2017. Also, a six-year historic analysis is provided for these markets. The report profiles 267 companies including many key and niche players such as Abbott Diagnostics, Beckman Coulter, Inc., Becton Dickinson and Company, BioMrieux SA, EMD Biosciences, Inc., EMD Millipore Corporation, Fitzgerald Industries International, GE Healthcare, Life Technologies Corporation, Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, PerkinElmer, Inc., Promega Corporation, Roche Diagnostics Ltd., Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Inc., and Sigma - Aldrich. Market data and analytics are derived from primary and secondary research. Company profiles are primarily based upon search engine sources in the public domain.

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Global Marine Biotechnology Industry

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NEW YORK, June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:

Global Marine Biotechnology Industry

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This report analyzes the Global markets for Marine Biotechnology in US$ Million by the following Product Segments: Marine Biomaterials, Marine Bioactive Substances, and Others. The major End-Use Applications analyzed are Industrial Products, Health Care/Biotechnology, Consumer Products, Public Services & Infrastructure, and Others. Annual estimates and forecasts are provided for the period 2009 through 2017. Also, a six-year historic analysis is provided for this market. The report profiles 87 companies including many key and niche players such as Aker BioMarine ASA, Ashland Inc., CP Kelco US, Inc., Cyanotech Corp., Elan Corp, FMC Corp., FMC Biopolymers AS, GlycoMar Ltd., Lonza Group Ltd., MariCal, Marinova, Mera Pharmaceuticals Inc., New England Biolabs Inc., PharmaMar S.A, PML Applications Ltd., Prolume Ltd., Royal DSM N.V, Sea Run Holdings Inc., and Tequesta Marine Biosciences. Market data and analytics are derived from primary and secondary research. Company profiles are primarily based upon search engine sources in the public domain.

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Stanford professor wins $500K MIT invention prize

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BOSTON (AP) A Stanford University professor has won a $500,000 award from a Massachusetts Institute of Technology program in recognition of his inventions.

In awarding the 2012 Lemelson-MIT Prize, university officials on Monday called Stephen Quake "a prolific inventor with a fearless ability to explore and work across disciplines."

Quake invented a chip, similar to those in electronic devices, that lets scientists take nearly 10,000 different measurements at once. Through his work, called microfluidic large-scale integration, companies and research organizations are able to use the rubber chip technology in developing cancer drugs.

MIT officials said on the school's website that Quake's research has led to the creation of four companies and 82 patents.

The 43-year-old professor of bioengineering and applied physics also created a noninvasive prenatal testing method for detecting Down syndrome.

Stanford University officials said in a prepared statement that Quake is using a similar approach to provide tests that can show earlier and more easily whether an organ transplant recipient is rejecting an organ donation.

Quake said Monday he was "incredibly excited and humbled" by the prize.

"Hopefully, it will give me a little more credibility with the investment community as we try to commercialize our inventions," the professor told The Associated Press.

Inventor Jerome H. Lemelson and his wife founded the Lemelson-MIT Program at the university in 1994. MIT said the award Quake won is known as the "Oscar for inventors" and recognizes people who translate ideas into innovations that improve the world.

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Wishbone Taps Power of the Net to Help At-Risk Kids

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A non-profit startup called Wishbone is using the Internet to connect donors with underprivileged and at-risk kids hoping to participate in summer instructional programs in areas like computer science, bioengineering, art, and fashion.

Wishbone was founded in 2008 by former Teach for America high school English teacher Beth Schmidt but only recently launched Wishbone.org, a digital meeting ground for students needing assistance to attend summer programs and potential sponsors.

Profiles of students participating in the program indicate the areas of summer study they'd like to pursue, the idea being that would-be sponsors can more easily find a student whose interests match their own, according to Reed Matheny, outreach coordinator for Wishbone.org.

"We've had some good momentum since we've launched. We've been able to fully fund 12 of our students now," Matheny told PCMag recently. "They're ready to go to their summer programs. More than 50 percent of the rest are pretty close to being fully funded as well."

Wishbone is currently open to 9th through 12th graders from low-income families at a dozen schools located in New York and San Francisco, but hopes to expand to other schools and cities, Matheny said. The non-profit may also expand its mission to sponsor students for programs offered during the school year in addition to its summer program activities.

The initial online effort has already turned up some interesting data. Matheny said most sponsored students have received a steady stream of small donations rather than big lump sums, for example.

"So far it's been a big collection of smaller donations. A huge number of people are coming in and donating like $25 or even just $10. We do have some bigger donors who'll find a student they really like and donate $250 or something really sizable," he said.

For safety and propriety reasons, students and sponsors don't directly communicate. But Wishbone.org does post "success stories" about students who've secured funding for a summer program. Profiles include video messages from the students themselves and donors can also read about a sponsored student's experiences at an instructional program like the UC Davis Cosmos Camp, which one Wishbone student interested in bioengineering will attend this year.

Other Wishbone kids are headed for fashion design and technology camps in New York this summer, and a couple of Bay Area kids will attend an art program at San Francisco's Academy of Art, Matheny said.

Several students still need funding for their summer camp dreams, he noted. The good news is that those programs don't start until late June and July, so there's plenty of time for interested PCMag readers to head over to Wishbone.org and contribute to a deserving student's cause.

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Stover honored with MERIT award for folate research

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June 5, 2012

Stover honored with MERIT award for folate research

For his long-running research on the molecular genetics and biochemistry of the vitamins folate and vitamin B-12, and their link to colon cancer, cardiovascular disease and human birth defects, Patrick Stover, professor of nutritional biochemistry and director of Cornell's Division of Nutritional Sciences, has received a prestigious MERIT (Method to Extend Research in Time) award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).

In the award letter from NIDDK, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Stover is cited for his "consistent and excellence contributions to scientific knowledge" on the subject. Among his breakthrough findings: the identification of a gene that increases the risk for colon cancer in laboratory mice when their diets lack folate; the genetic underpinnings of mitochondrial depletion syndrome in humans; and, in mice, the discovery of a gene that causes neural tube defects.

MERIT awards provide recipients with stable, long-term research funding, freeing them from the administrative burden of submitting their work for regular renewals and reviews. With the award, Stover will receive 10 years of uninterrupted support for his research on folate (vitamin B-9) and vitamin B-12.

"I am grateful to NIH-NIDDK for their continuous support of my research program since I arrived at Cornell as an assistant professor in 1994, and for giving me the security and opportunity to undertake high-risk/high-reward fundamental research through this MERIT award," Stover said. "I value my continuing relationship with this important NIH institute, which has played such a pivotal role in advancing our understanding of fundamental metabolism and nutrition and the molecular basis of human chronic disease."

Stover had previously received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and the E.L.R. Stokstad Award in Nutritional Biochemistry from the American Society for Nutrition.

Ted Boscia is assistant director of communications for the College of Human Ecology.

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Anatomy of a video file

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Youre shopping for a camcorder, and youre swamped by a sea of letters, numbers, and indecipherable acronymsAVCHD, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-2. What do they all mean and which ones should you care about? Here's the lowdown.

Each of the above labels describes a video format. Fortunately, most people have a simple choice: MPEG-4 or AVCHD. You decide between convenience (MPEG-4) and a wider variety of features (AVCHD). However, as camcorders, computers, video players, and editors grow more powerful, AVCHD format is gradually becoming as convenient to shoot, edit, and preview as MPEG-4, making it the clear choice for a growing number of video enthusiasts.

MPEG-4 is a standard format from the Moving Picture Experts Group and has been around for more than 20 years. The current version is officially called H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, but it's usually shortened to a snappy MPEG-4 (pronounced M-Peg-4). Social networking sites, video editors, and video playersincluding QuickTimeall work with MPEG-4 files. Thus, the MPEG-4 standard is popular on pocket point-and-shoot models, and with people who want to quickly shoot video and pop it onto YouTube or Facebook, which folks can view on their computers, tablets, and smartphones.

AVCHD (pronounced by its initials) stands for Advanced Video Coding High Definition. It arrived on the scene in 2006, is more fully featured than MPEG-4 and is rapidly gaining broad acceptance. Think of AVCHD as a kind of MPEG-4 "Plus. Thats because AVCHD is a container format that includes the MPEG-4 format, but tosses a lot of other stuff into the mix, like coding for audio, writing to different media including DVD and Blu-Ray discs, and Digital Rights Management, such as copy protection. AVCHD even gives you media presentation tools so you can add menu items, make slides, and add subtitles directly from your camcorder. With AVCHD format, you dont need to export your video file to an editor to perform simple editing tasks. Unfortunately, AVCHD is an all-or-nothing format. You cant buy an AVCHD camcorder and decide to shoot using just its MPEG-4 part. If the camcorder offers only AVCHD, you have to shoot in AVCHD format.

AVCHD has other downsides. You need more computing oomph for the video editors and players to crank through AVCHD files, even if they can do it natively. You need a minimum dual-core processor and 2GB of RAM, but it would be better if you had a quad-core with 4GB of RAM. And you need relatively new software if you want to run and edit AVCHD files natively. Final Cut Pro X can process AVCHD files natively, but with the previous version, Final Cut Pro 7, you first have to transcode the file (translate the file bit-by-bit) into ProRes, a set of video compression formats developed by Apple for use in post production. The ProRes family of intermediate codecs are used for editing, but not as a final format for publishing video. Transcoding slows down file imports.

In 2009, Apple introduced the iFrame video format. You can transfer iFrame files directly into iMovie, no transcoding needed. However, few consumer camcorders offer the option to shoot video in iFrame. iFrame video is only 960-by-540 resolution, yielding only a half a megapixel per frame, only one quarter the resolution of Full HD.

You'll likely find AVCHD on more traditional camcorders that have larger lenses and higher end features than pocket camcorders, such as powerful optical zooms and a wider range of focus. However, were starting to see traditional models that let you switch between AVCHD and standalone MPEG-4, including Canons Vixia HF M50 and R30 series.

For each video format, your camcorder usually offers several profiles of four settings: resolution, frame rate, scan method (interlaced or progressive), and bit rate (in megabits per second, or mbps). These offer a trade-off between video quality and file size. You can increase video quality by raising the resolution, frame rate, and bit-rate, but you generate a larger, more unwieldy file.

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