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Friday, May 8th, 2009If you try to view a video in Windows media player you can run into a few common problems.
The video doesn’t play at all.
You can see the video but not hear any sound.
You can hear the video but not see it.
In most of the cases the problem is that you don’t have the correct codec [...]
How to use an MP3 file as a ringtone on the Verizon Envy or Alias
Monday, April 20th, 2009Here is how I am able to use a mp3 file as a ringtone on my Verizon Envy cell phone.
First you need to crop the mp3 file down to less than 200kb. You can use Audacity (free) to do this.
I won’t go into the gritty details but you will need to open the file [...]
Sony Vegas is 35% off the regular price
Friday, March 13th, 2009Sony has a great sale going until March 20, 2009. Save an additional 35% on anything you buy in the Sony Creative Software Online Store.
Now’s a great time to upgrade your current Sony software or give one of their products a try. All of the Sony software I use is rock solid. I [...]
Watch Youtube with Stereo Sound
Friday, September 19th, 2008I came across a little trick which lets you hear youtube videos is stereo. All you do is add &fmt=18 to the end of the url for the video.
So instead of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu2xW-CXz04
The url will look like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu2xW-CXz04&fmt=18
I’m not sure if this works for all videos or just newer ones that have been uploaded since [...]
How to import DVD Video_TS and VOB into Windows Movie Maker
Thursday, September 11th, 2008There isn’t a way to directly import a DVD into Windows Movie Maker. DVD usually contain two folders. AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS. Don’t worry about AUDIO_TS. All the files are in VIDEO_TS. Inside VIDEO_TS are VOB files. VOB files are essentially MPEG2 files. Sometimes you can just rename the extension [...]
How to convert DIVX to a DVD
Thursday, September 11th, 2008This quick guide is how to convert a DIVX file to a DVD. We will be using a simple but powerful tool called DVD Flick. DVD flick is is free and open source. I usually do this if I’m trying to catch up on a TV series and i want to atch it on [...]
How to convert 3GP and 3G2 Files For Windows Movie Maker
Thursday, September 11th, 2008Most of the time you just can’t open 3G2 or 3GP in windows movie maker. The best thing to do is convert the 3G2 or 3GP files to something WMM does understand. I use Super to convert the files to WMV so Windows Movie Maker can understand it. If your going to [...]
Creating high quality video on YouTube
Thursday, September 11th, 2008“High quality” and Youtube are an oxymoron. No matter how great your video looks on your computer Youtube will compress the snot out of it and convert your sound to mono.
YouTube accepts most common video formats including WMV, MPEG, MOV and AVI.
I created a test clip and then encoded in different formats and rates.
You [...]
Automatic Feed Photo Scanners
Thursday, September 11th, 2008If 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 [...]
How to play RAR video files
Thursday, September 11th, 2008Sometimes 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, [...]