Decisions, Decisions, Decisions…
When you load the application, you have two options: either import footage directly from your camcorder, or load a pre-existing video file found on your PC. All the video editors know how to deal with camcorder footage, but you may not be so lucky regarding support of random video files. Sometimes, it is possible to install a freeware utility called "FFDShow" on Windows, or "Perian" and "Flip4Mac" on the Mac side in order to allow your system to support more video formats.
Once your footage is loaded by your editor, you can start editing. On all editors, you will find either a "timeline" or a "storyboard". These are placeholders where you can drag-n-drop your clips in the order you wish -- as long as clips "touch" each other in the timeline without any gaps. While in the timeline, you can exercise a number of actions upon your clips. The most common action is "split”, where you can chop the clips into different clips and either re-arrange them or discard the parts that you don't like
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
By Eugenia Loli-Queru
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Video Editing Basics
Once upon a time, digital camcorder users wouldn't edit their footage but would keep their shot footage on tapes as is. Today, there are many video editors in the market that allow you to easily and inexpensively edit your footage and only keep the best memories. These days Windows comes with Movie Maker and Mac OS X comes with iMovie, installed by default. These two are very simple video editors but if more features are needed, one can purchase Sony Vegas, Ulead Videostudio, Pinnacle, Adobe Premiere or After Effects, Final Cut Express or Studio and many more. Despite the plethora of such software, the basics on how they work remain the same.
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Friday, February 15, 2008
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Google Calendar: Receive an Email of your Daily Agenda
Google Calendar: Receive an Email of your Daily Agenda
Trying to keep track of all your meetings and events can be a struggle. Fortunately, Google Calendar can make it easier by emailing you a daily agenda of all the events you have posted on your calendar. This gives you a simple listing of your appointments and such that you can print out or easily access.
1. Log in to your Google Calendar.
2. Go to the horizontal menu in the upper right and select Settings.
3. Under Calendar Settings, select the Calendars link.
4. Go to the desired calendar on the list of My Calendars. Select the Notifications link for that calendar.
5. Go to the Choose how you would like to be notified section. Check the Daily agenda checkbox.
Your Daily Agenda will be emailed to you daily at 5am in you current time zone.
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Mobile Phones : How to Make Good MP3 Ringers w/Nero Wave Editor (nero 6)
This is a quickie guide on how to make good mp3 ringers / ringtones using Nero Wave Editor (included in Nero 6). Included in this guide is video guide using Camstudio (freeware) showing how to do this in nero wave editor.
This recipe requires Nero 6 to be installed. Nero Wave Editor is part of the Nero 6 Ultimate Edition suite.
1. Open Nero Wave Editor.
2. Open the song you want to edit, in my example, my pals band Smakdab's A Perfect Time.
3. Find a good chorus or riff, i tend to use the chorus lines for most ringers and then trim the song by selecting the area to delete and then going to Edit > Delete or CTRL+DEL
4. Keep doing this until you get a good start and end; also try to keep songs below 30 secs to save on space and also since most phones don't ring past that time or loop the ringer after 20 secs or so.
5. Adding a fade in and out to the song to make it sound better smoother.
6. Save your file via File > Save As. I usually will make most ringers mono since its just a ringer but in my example i made it a lower rate 96kbps, 32khz, stereo mp3. the file size of the 23 sec clip = 278KB. Keep in mind that most internal memory storage on cell phones really dont' get above 48mb without including other files/videos.
Try to store you ringers on a memory card if you can. Your phone will run better w/more free space on it and you can put unlimited number of ringers on the card.
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OS X: Get Multiple Firewire and USB ASIO Devices Running Together
OS X controls music devices well--unless you want to run multiple ASIO devices at the same time. Luckily, there is a work around. Here is how I got my USB snowball and my Saffire firewall devices running together.
Apple tends to make music creation simple. However, if you try to get complex with it, OS X can be a little difficult to tweak. For example, if you have an ASIO device connected, it is difficult to use another ASIO device at the same time. Difficult, but not impossible.
Depending on what music software and devices you are running, you will get all kinds of ASIO errors. External of your software, you must tell OS X to let these devices play together.
In your Applications/Utilities folder, select Audio Midi Setup.
Under the Audio menu, select Open Aggregate Device Editor
Aggregate the devices you want to use together. In my case, it is the USB snowball mic and a firewire Saffire A to D device. You most likely will need to set one of them to serve as the clock as well.
After you have saved your device as an aggregate, you should see that aggregate as an input/output option in your software.
For example, using this method I can track from my USB snowball mic concurrently with my multiple inputs from my Saffire device.
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