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Good tutorial articles on extracting still images from videos

If you are presenting videos on web pages for people to download it might be a good idea to give an overview of the video by displaying some screenshots from the video. This way your site visitors do not have to download videos they are really not interested in saving your network bandwidth and your visitors’ time.

Here is the list of articles I looked at and learned how to use these free available softwares to extract still images for my videos. By the way, it’s time consuming to go through so many articles online since some of them really don’t help you much.

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June 16, 2008 Posted by ikool | How Tos, Video | , , , , , , , | No Comments Yet

How to make A 3GP Mobile Video

My recent post “Tips on how to import videos that taped in Sony HandyCam DCR-HC40” helps me lots, and I don’t have to have a huge pile of tapes to store all my recordings instead I import all of them to my computer so that I can edit and upload some of them to Youtube so that my folks can view them from there.

Now there are more problems, with these videos available on my computer, what do you do with them? How to edit them? What kind of quality I need to use for internet access? And even a simple question like “How can I play my videos on my TV instead on my computer’s monitor?”. So I am planning to write a series of articles on how I am doing that, I hope this helps others too. So please come back and check my site for the new updates, you will find out that my site is valuable. All of my information posted here are original!

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June 16, 2008 Posted by ikool | Technology, Video | , , , , | 2 Comments

How to make ringtones from my CDs

In my previous article, I mentioned how to convert your music collections to MP3, MP4 and AV ringtones using Wavepad. Someone may ask: I have some CDs which I love so much, how can I use my CDs to create my own ringtones?. Well, that’s this post will do, sit straight and keep reading.

First, start Wavepad up. You can download and install it from Wavepad.

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June 16, 2008 Posted by ikool | How Tos, Ringtones | , , , , , | No Comments Yet