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Thursday, September 11th, 2008There 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 [...]
Canon PowerShot SD1000 Video Capabilities
Thursday, September 11th, 2008The 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 [...]
Casio Announces Youtube Ready Camera
Thursday, September 11th, 2008One 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
Thursday, September 11th, 2008DVD 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 [...]
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 import DVD Video_TS and VOB into Windows Movie Maker
Sunday, August 10th, 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 [...]
Creating high quality video on YouTube
Tuesday, August 5th, 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 [...]
How to convert 3GP and 3G2 Files For Windows Movie Maker
Sunday, July 20th, 2008Most 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, 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, [...]
Automatic Feed Photo Scanners
Saturday, August 4th, 2007If 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 [...]