Video

Hard to Distinguish Multiple Interfaces, or HDMI for short, is quite possibly one of the most difficult to understand standards in the High Defenition era. Ok, ok so HDMI doesn’t stand for “Hard to Distinguish Multiple Interfaces” but it’s still confusing. Thankfully the smart folks at CEPro have put together an article explaining just what […]

Google Video, iFilm, MySpace, Current TV, YouTube and all the hundreds of similar video sites all have one thing in common - making it difficult for you to archive the movies they host on your local machine for later playback. In some cases this is by design, but mostly it’s the nature of using Flash […]

Related to my previous post on creating custom titles for home movies, CamcorderInfo found an awesome tool for auto generating your own church marquee. It saves all the time I took cleaning up a sign and creating a custom logo, although the downside is you don’t get the personalization of using a sign associated with […]

Adding titles to your home movies is among the most underrated components of visual storytelling. I’ve endured many home movies that could have easily used titles in place of a bad transition where the camera shakes as the videographer moved between rooms during a scene change from the family dinner preparation in the kitchen to […]

Once upon a time downloading video with a BitTorrent client meant you needed DivX, XviD or one of the other AVI wrapper codec combinations installed on your system for video playback to function properly. While DivX is still wildly popular for HD file sharing, particularly in the television show swapping space, a couple of unlikely […]

I watch a lot of TV. An obscene amount. I probably need therapy. I recently got a Slingbox, which affords me the ability to stream live and recorded video content to anywhere I have my laptop and a high-speed connection. But that wasn’t enough. Like any addiction, you constantly have to feed it. So my […]

Recently, somebody asked me to make them a copy of a home movie that they had stored on DVD. I thought this to be simple enough, though. To my suprise it was not what I had expected. First round, I realised that in order for a DVD to play in a DVD player, you need […]

In an earlier post, I’d mentioned my recent acquisition of a Slingbox from Sling Media. As promised, here is a more detailed account of my experience with this device.
I picked up the device at a nearby Circuit City. A $50 instant rebate promotion was about to run out, which was what prompted me to take […]

ZTV beta has free and Pay ‘n’ Play download options for video lovers with ZVUEs; ZTV will expand in mid-2006 to include a video subscription service called ZVISION.
HandHeld Entertainment has announced the beta launch of ZTV, an online video download store designed specifically for users of the company’s ZVUE portable media players.
The beta version of […]

Breakthrough 3-D Technology Looks to Revolutionize Gaming and Digital Entertainment Industries.
TDVision Systems, Inc., an emerging leader in the design and development of 3-D digital infrastructure and visualization systems, has unveiled the first-of-its-kind true 3-D technology that is fully compatible with current digital broadcast infrastructures.
TDVision developed the sophisticated 3-D technology to change the way we view […]

I’m starting to see more instances of RMVB format files in places where DivX and XviD long dominated the download distribution space. Particularly among Anime and Chinese language movie sites, RMVB is replacing DivX as a low-bitrate small file size alternative to DivX, because it looks better and because the file sizes are smaller. Considering […]

While the vast majority of video recording is now digital, there are still plenty of recordings stored in analog formats and I know a handful of people who refuse to give up their Hi8 camcorder in favor of DV. If you still record in analog, or simply want to transfer your analog recordings to a […]

I recently spent some time testing one of Sony’s Handycam DVD models to see what the recording and editing experience is like from a user perspective. Recording isn’t much different than recording with a MiniDV camcorder. The editing experience leaves much to be desired. The Handycam units store video in a VOB file format, ready […]

If you’ve ever downloaded a video from the Internet and gotten a great video picture but no audio the obvious solutions are quickly exhausted. Yes, my speakers are plugged into the correct port on the computer. Yes, my speakers are turned on with the volume above zero. Yes, the sound on my computer is on, […]

If you’re interested in video blogging, you probably already know about Rocketboom. You might not know there’s someone besides the show’s host, Amanda Congdon, making those daily episodes happen. Andrew Baron is Rocketboom’s producer and key influencer in decisions about distribution formats and the various other behind-the-scenes aspects of producing a daily show. We talked […]

I’ve written several articles recently about embedding MOV files and launching an external player from embedded MOV files to make viewing your movies easier. In general, I find the MOV format to be somewhat imperfect for sharing movies with all viewers because the format relies on your Web visitors to have QuickTime installed. iTunes effectively […]

With video blogging increasing in popularity, people are looking for ways to easily post videos on Web pages. Couple that with millions of people trying to connect home movies of their kids with relatives spread across the globe and there’s a sizeable need for easy solutions for online video publishing. Sure it’s important to add […]

If your current DVD burner won’t support dual layer disks or if you still haven’t gone the route of upgrading from CD burning to DVD burning, you might have another option available for high capacity file backup. Instead of backing up to 4.7GB DVD media or the even smaller 800MB and less CD alternative, use […]

When you’re trying to make home movies look compelling, one of the most important components has nothing to do with image motion. It’s the audio track that ties everything together creating a seamless experience, leading the viewer through the story while letting their imagination fill in the gaps. One slick trick for piecing together movie […]

Sometimes it’s the little things with a simple solution causing the biggest headache. If you use the official DivX codec when playing back DivX AVI video, a little watermark appears at the bottom of the movie for the first few seconds. Normally, this is no big deal, but it’s occasionally known to get in the […]