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How to convert 3GP and 3G2 Files For Windows Movie Maker

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Most of the tine you just can’t open 3G2 or 3GP in windows movie maker. The best thing to do is conver the 3G2 or 3GP files to something WMM does understand. I use Super to convert the files to WMV so Windows Movie Makercan understand it. If your going to be […]

How to play RAR video files

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Sometimes video files are sent having the RAR extension. RAR is not video format. It is a compression technology to shrink and archive files. If the file is very large it is sometimes broken up into multiple files which make up a multi-volume archive.
A multi-volume archive will come with extensions like .rar, .r00, […]

Automatic Feed Photo Scanners

Saturday, August 4th, 2007

If your like most people you probably have boxes or albums with photos laying around that you have been meaning to scan into your computer someday. You quickly realize that it is a major pain in the ass and push off the project for some other time.
I did a little research and found that […]

Canon PowerShot SD1000 Video Capabilities

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

The Canon PowerShot SD1000 in one of the most popular digital cameras right now. The SD1000 looks and feels like a piece of art, takes 7MP pictures and is priced just over $200.
Although the SD1000 may not be the best digital camera to take videos with it has some compelling modes not usually found […]

Sanyo VPC-CG65 Camcorder

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

There is a new breed of device gather steam. Devices that can take decent photos and videos. There are two ways of making a hybrid device.

Camcorders that that still photos
Cameras that can take videos

The Sanyo CG65 Camcorder is the former, and reports are that it does it quite well.
As it stands these hybrid […]

Casio Announces Youtube Ready Camera

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

One of the hottest market segments in digital cameras right now is video. The quality keeps getting better and better for using a digital camera to also take videos.
Casio just announced two new cameras with a YouTube capture mode. The Exilim EX-Z77 and the slimmer Exilim EX-S880 These cameras feature settings and bundled […]

Creating DVD Menu Systems

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

DVD authoring refers to the process of creating the menu and navigation system for a DVD. It also includes adding chapter points and other fun things like background music.
In the editing section I mentioned that I save my edited movies in the AVI format and then bring them into Ulead DVDMovieFactory to author the DVD’s.
I […]

Video Cards For Editing

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

The choice of video cards for home movie editing is not important at all. You will be able to capture movies from your camera via firewire, edit and play AVI and MPGEG movies with just a basic video card or your on board graphics.
But what if you do your editing on a machine where you […]

Choosing A PC For Home Video Editing

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

My first machine that was capable to perform video editing was a Dell Pentium 2.4Ghz and worked perfectly fine. My current machine is an HP with an Athlon 64 3700+ 2.2 GHz, 1G Ram, 200GB primary drive, 160GB drive slave and a 250GB external drive.
The good news is that you can get a pretty decent […]

Codec Hell

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

I was converting a VHS tape to a DVD that was close to two hours in length. Therefore I was not going to be able to encode at much higher than 5300 Kbs. At VideoHelp I once read that noise in the video can waste bitrate trying to recreate the noise, instead of improving the […]

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