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Archive for December, 2008


Video Competition Notes

by Pete Fowler  One of the last steps when a person produces a video, (via a software video editing package such as Premiere, Quicktime, Premiere Elements, Pinnacle Studio, etc) is they go through a two step encoding selection process (some editing software minimize this ...

High Definition Video Notes

by Pete Fowler In a nut shell there are two supported modes that we have tried and both appeared to work reasonably well –   First a little background on the projector:...

ProShow Tips

by Bob Brace If you are using the ProShow software to create a show here is some helpful hints to make it easy to auto play the .exe: 1. After you have your show put together in Proshow, Click on 'Create' in the menu and then click 'Create Executable' from ...

VCD to DVD

by Garry McCarthy VCD (Video Compact Disc) is a CD which contains moving pictures and sound using a compression standard called MPEG1, outputting it to a resolution of 352x288. It can hold up to 74 minutes of full-motion video on a 650MB CD (80 minutes on a 700MB CD), ...

How to submit digital images to monthly competition

by Bob Brace For those of you who submit digital images, I would like to ask for you help in reducing the amount of effort that it takes for me to put the meeting together. For the competition photos, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE put your competition ...

Photographing Marine Mammals

 by Herb Gruenhagen When photographing marine mammals you need to be respectful of the Marine Mammal Protection Act. This act makes it illegal to harass a marine mammal. Harassment is interpreted as human activity that changes the behavior of the animals. Thus, the entering ...

COLOR/EXPOSURE CONTROL

by Herb Gruenhagen What is color? Color is the way we perceive differing energy wavelengths of light reflecting off an object. What we call white is the combination of all wavelengths at once; when white light hits an object, the object may absorb some of the wavelengths and reflect others. If ...

On Or In the Bottom

 by Herb Gruenhagen Sandy beaches and mudflats shift with the waves and currents along our coastlines. It takes practice to find and photograph these animals that call sand and mud their home. Large plants find the shifting sand difficult to cope with so you will find only a few plants. The ...

MAKING SLIDE SHOWS IN ADOBE PREMIERE

by Deeanne Edwards 04/26/03 This is not meant to teach you how to use Premiere. It is simply a collection of notes I have found to be important in making slide shows. Also, I use a Mac and Premiere 6.5. PC users made need to vary some things. SCANNING Images displayed on a ...