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The latest B&H Photo and Video Newsletter includes some very helpful tutorials. If you’ve been experimenting with using video on the web, through services such as YouTube, take a look at this tutorial on optimizing video for online viewing. It explains codecs and compression, and it looks at 3 different software packages. The discussion of [...]

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TechSmith, the makers of Camtasia and Snag It, is offering 30 tutorials again. You may have caught the original 30 Tips in 30 Days that was used to launch Camtasia 4. Oddly, nothing so ambitious greeted the launch of Camtasia 5 – but TechSmith is making up for the pre-launch blahs by scattering tutorials throughout [...]

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One of the most knowledgeable product developers and marketers on the internet is Bill Myers. His Site Bill Myers Online is an endless wealth of information. He also has a series of DVDs explaining different aspects of product development. If you are still looking for a late Christmas present, any of these would make great [...]

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The previews for the Video Webinar 4 Disk set are now available on You Tube Don’t forget – until Christmas, this great series includes a 5th Bonus CD – and there is a Christmas Bundle which includes all 4 CDs from the Seminar plus the Bonus plus the best selling DVD, Adding Video to Your [...]

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The entire 4 Part Internet Workshop – Using Video on eBay – that was presented in September by Ghost Leg Media and the Online Success Institute is now available for order as a 5 CD set. The set also includes a fifth Bonus CD, which includes audio and iPod versions of the entire series plus [...]

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As you probably know, the speed with which 35 mm movie film passes through the camera’s gate is measured in Frames Per Second. With film, this is a literal measurement. Every properly calibrated movie camera and projector moves the film at precisely this speed, and any movie can be played on any projector – as [...]

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Do you want to add video to your blog, eBay listings, web site – even iPhones and iPods? Ghost Leg Media has produced a series of CDs and DVDs that will show you how to do just that. They are easy to follow, step by step How To videos, aimed at sellers, not at computer [...]

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The speed with which data is transmitted is measured in bits, and is known as the bit rate. In general, the higher the bit rate, the higher the quality. Video can be encoded in two ways – with a constant bit rate (CBR) or with a variable bit rate (VBR). Constant Bit Rate is frequently [...]

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Video uses some uncommon words to describe common practices, some common words to describe uncommon practices, and some just plain indecipherable jargon. Let’s start defining some of these terms. Once the jargon is demystified, video becomes a much friendlier medium. CODEC Codec is a contraction of compress/decompress Video files are very large. A 30 minute [...]

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We had a question at the final Monday night webinar about saving finished Photo Story movies to your PC. The actual “Save” process isn’t very intuitive. In fact, Microsoft seems to have thrown out the familiar steps and user interface for no good reason. But you can save both the project and the finished Photo [...]

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