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 Posted - May 29 2009 : 05:57:11
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Question: What's involved with transferring my videos to DVD?
Answer: The first thing to worry about is getting your videos from where they are into your computer. To get the videos into the computer, you have several options. One is a firewire or USB 2.0 port which will work with a video camera. Or if you need to connect to several different video sources, you can look into any of Dazzle's products. They even make one that allows you to connect your camcorder, VCR, TiVO, or whatever directly into your iPod or computer. Then you can fairly automatically capture your videos. The big drawback is time. If you have an hour's worth of video to capture, it takes an hour to capture. To help with this, many video cameras now record directly to removable media like an SD card. That way, you can just put the memory card into the computer and just copy the video files onto your hard drive. Once there, you can burn them as a DVD movie by using a DVD authoring program. Windows Vista has one such program built-in. XP doesn't but you should be able to get one either with your DVD drive, your computer, your digital camcorder, or at pinnaclesys.com. We'll have links to this stuff in the show notes.
Cool Site: Christian Classics Ethereal Library: CCEL.org is the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. If you're looking for classic Christian writings, you'll find them here. There's a search feature, or you can browse the available works by Author, Title, Subject, Language, Format, or Tag. Subject classifications include Bibles & Commentaries, Classics, Creeds, Early Church, Fiction, History, Hymns, Mysticism, Reference, and Sermons. Spurgeon's "All of Grace" can be found there among many, many others. If you have a website, they've got tools to allow you to embed things like a daily devotional from "Morning and Evening", a Bible Dictionary Lookup, or a Scripture Search. Now, this one is really cool because it returns all the relevant works in CCEL's library that reference a particular verse. Just check out the site at www.ccel.org.
Cool Gadget: DriverMax: This is a free software gadget that lets you back up, restore, and update the drivers for your Windows XP or Vista computer. You can use Windows Update to update your drivers, but this only works after you’ve installed Windows. What if you reinstall Windows? You'll have to find your CDs and reinstall all the drivers, or at least enough to get to Windows Update, manually. You'll be swapping CDs and rebooting often. Well, with DriverMax, if you ever need to reinstall Windows, you can reinstall all your drivers at once and only reboot once at the end of the process. Now, this relies on exporting your drivers to either a folder or a compressed file while it was working right, but after you download DriverMax, you'll probably do that first, anyway.
It's All "Geek" To Me: Multi-touch: This week's word is "multi-touch" which you may see written hyphenated. Most computer devices that respond to your touch only see one point that you touch. If you press it with two fingers, it will pick one of those and respond accordingly. With a multi-touch device, you can touch several places on the device at once and the computer will respond appropriately to all those touches. You may have seen this on TV, where someone will touch two corners of a window, drag them apart, and the window will enlarge. This type of touch technology is becoming much more common.
Links
Pinnacle Systems:
http://www.pinnaclesys.com
Dazzle:
http://www.dazzle.com
Christian Classics Ethereal Library:
http://www.ccel.org
DriverMax:
http://www.innovative-sol.com/drivermax/
Multi-Touch on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-touch |
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