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Friday, August 3rd, 2007The 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, 2007There 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 [...]
Casio Announces Youtube Ready Camera
Saturday, July 28th, 2007One 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 software [...]
Creating DVD Menu Systems
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007DVD 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 [...]
Video Cards For Editing
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007The 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 [...]
Choosing A PC For Home Video Editing
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007My 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 [...]
Codec Hell
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007I 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 [...]
DV Camcorders with pass-through
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007I have compiled a quick list of DV camcorders that have “pass through” capabilities. It is not a complete list since I did not include all brands or discontinued models. I will keep adding to this list and start to include older models. If you have any input send me an e-mail What I found [...]
Panasonic DV Codec
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007If are using VirtualDub to process DV you will need the Panasonic DV Codec. WARNING ! These instructions are intended for experienced computer users. Editing your registry can cripple your PC. If you are using XP I would do a System Restore Point. Install Instructions: * Download here * Unzip the files and right click [...]
Pinnacle Studio version 11 Is Released
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007It looks like Pinnacle Studio version 11 is available for purchase. In the past Pinnacle products were not my favorite. They were riddled with bugs and crashed all the time. However since Pinnacle was bought by Avid I have been keeping an eye on the product line. Version 10 seemed to be an improvement over [...]
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