Often when you download a film online it'll come split into two parts. This is convenient if you're going to burn each part to a separate disc, but as we move into an age of digital distribution the need for that physical media is dissipating. Instead of having a bunch of folders with several files for each film, you can combine these two halves of the film together into one video file.
The format of a podcast lends itself really well to chapters. Using some simple software for your computer, you can place bookmarks inside each episode of your podcast so that people can skip to different points in the show. This same technique can be used to create an audiobook. This tutorial takes an already recorded show (using any software) and shows you how to insert chapters using Apple's Garageband.
When you watch a digital film on your computer, you may find a subtitle file included alongside the movie file. The subtitle may have the extention .srt, .sub or .idx. This method of subtitling a film leaves the text in a separate file outside of the actual movie. If you want to watch the movie on a device that doesn't support this kind of file (standard Quicktime, iPod, iPhone, AppleTV, Xbox, etc) you need to hardcode the subtitle so it's imbedded in the movie file. If none of that made any sense to you, that's ok too - this article will show you how to permanently slap that subtitle onto your movie file.
You ever have a digital video file you wish you could remove the beginning or end of? Maybe you have a TV show you want to cut the credits out of, or maybe you need a quick way to edit some video of your own. This article will show you how to cut down a video using only quicktime. You won't even have to re-encode!
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