Some special friends and their favoriate broadway tunes: * Amazon.com: With a Song In My Heart (from the 1952 film)/ Pal Joey (with 1952 cast members): Music: Harold Arlen,Sammy Fain,George Gershwin,Peggy Lee,Matt/ Livingston, Fud Malneck,Alfred Newman,Richard Rodgers,Arthur Schwartz,Jule Styne,Various Composers,. With A Song from my Heart from the 1952 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical called Spring […]

With our Canon 100MC dying and eating tapes, its time to plumb the markets again. A quick A9/Google search for google””hd camcorder reviews” reveals that there are four big camcorder review sites listed below. What is clear is that right now, with CES just having happened, there is tremendous innovation. Basically, the DVD camcorder has […]

Sony Media Software – Downloads – Vegas Update. Sony is one of the few companies that make finding their updates easy. Here they are. The latest version is 6.0d. I’ve used the Video Explosion Deluxe for a long time and like it. Sony bought Sonic Foundry which OEMed to Video Explosion, so this is the […]

Free-Codecs.com :: Download DirectShow Filter Manager 0.5 : DirectShow Filter Manager helps you to list, sort, find, add or remove DirectShow filters. If you are like me, you install all kinds of video products, the problem is they can really screw up video output. For instance, I reinstalled Nova Development’s Video Explosion. It installs a […]

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Talk about an arcane topic. I can’t believe that Windows is so complicated when it comes to playback! Anyway, the new iPod expects its video in H.264 format. Videola produces this in a .MP4 file, but how do you play this back on the PC to check it. Well, the easy way is to use […]

Panning and Zooming on Photographs2. While you can create your own with a general purpose tool, About.com has some good advice about specific tools. These take a bunch of photos and does the Ken Burns thing, they then product video files that you can then stuff into a DVD. bq. The best way to achieve […]

Learn to Pan/Crop in Sony Vegas. There is also a nice guide in the product, but this is a quick lesson in how to create movement in a bunch of stills. Apparently there are products that do this automatically, so you don’t have to set a crop and path for every photo according to Bill.

VEGAS FAQ!. My latest problem. You can actually see the video which comes out as a .AVI, but Vegas (a.k.a. Video Explosion) can’t read it. Here’s the FAQ from a very useful Vegas site called vasst.com. Much more useful than the Sony site.. Why can’t Vegas see the video from a file captured by a […]

This is a super annoying problem that comes up with most applications that access CDs. Many programs use a programming layer called the Adaptec Systems Programming Interface or ASPI. About 5 years ago, Adaptec and Microsoft had a fight about licensing and Microsoft took it out of Windows. As a result many programs continue to […]