Steve Jones

The Recommended Procedure Warning: NEW USERS are strongly advised to follow the Recommended Procedure (below) because it details steps that YOU should take to avoid several serious bugs in Video Studio. If you ignore this procedure, thinking that you can operate Video Studio intuitively, you will b...

Because this topic is spread out over several others, I have created this thread to keep them all in one place on the 'Back up Forum' in case the original threads get destroyed either by a hacker or due to an upgrade of the PHPBB software to a later version. The original links have been retained in...

PAL/NTSC Video Conversion. The purpose of this tutorial is to effect an acceptable conversion from PAL video format to NTSC video format. It can be used to convert NTSC to PAL by just reversing the properties mentioned below, however currently many (or most) PAL DVD players are capable of handling ...

Koolmoves Easy Flash Animation Program KoolMoves is a full-featured Flash authoring tool for creating rich interactive content for web sites. FlashyEffects FlashyEffects is an affordable wizard-driven Flash authoring tool focusing on text and image effects. From TV_News_Guy Bill sent me the followi...

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Problems burning a DVD From my own experience (I have a 16x burner and use 8x discs.) I have found that burning at speeds higher than 4x produces a DVD that is unreliable. The same disc will Play correctly in some standalone DVD players Play erratically in othrs Refuse to play in yet others. Never ...

Set up a multi-boot system There are of course other methods such as raid drives but those in my humble opinion are for the more advanced computer user. The following method is easily within the abilities of the majority of users. The following is an extract from a private email received. You may b...

The following is an extract from this post: http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=14057 I have 6 tapes (6 days) that overlaps with each other or so which I need to compile to one DVD. 2 hours of vacation video. Should I do one day project at a time limiting it by 30 minutes each and then at t...

agemoz Wow , you are very hard on yourself. 15hour vs. 8 minute film and then your still not satisfied ? Im usually think I'm doing pretty OK when I'm done. Offcourse I see things I would like to have in another way but mostly I'm satisfied. The thing is I'm still more satisfied when there has gone...

Following on from what Radioman has said about having a filming project to persue, similar in many respects to what he is doing take a look at my posts at the following link http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=8348 Here I converted my old Super 8 cine films and as you can see from my posts,...

Thanks :oops: @agemoz Wow , you are very hard on yourself. 15hour vs. 8 minute film and then your still not satisfied ? Im usually think I'm doing pretty OK when I'm done. Offcourse I see things I would like to have in another way but mostly I'm satisfied. The thing is I'm still more satisfied when...

Radioman, excellent write up plenty of good pointers there and just the sort of thing that should be in these forums ie. hints and tips rather than the usual moans and groans. The thing that consistently amazes me is how, after putting in a huge amount of effort and editing into a film, I finish and...

Good tips Radioman62 .... Im always interested in other peps techniques to try and build my own style.

Thanks,

DG

Hi Radioman62, Thank you, these are good tips. I think I follow many of these now, but one I definitely don't--I only have one camera. I've created the effect of several views, but I think I now have justification to get another camera! However, I have found that multiple cameras is a lot more inti...

Hello agemoz There are many "schools" on how to make movies which most people like to watch. I'm a real amateur myself but are beginning to get compliments on my short homevideos from family members. (of course they are nice so that I feel good :) ) Anyway, I have some recomendations for ...