Desktop Video

Are you tired of watching movies from your computer?

Getting all of your media files in a playable format with your technology is not difficult, but it is a task that may require converting file formats. The iPod is an extremely popular digital...

One major misconception is that you need Google or YouTube to create a Web video. These services are used to broadcast Web video. Neither Google nor YouTube is used to create the Web videos you...

When a DVD is "ripped," its video is copied to a hard disk drive and exported to a specific format. DVD video can be transferred to a variety of codecs, but MP4 video compression is an option...

Format wars have divided the video worlds for years. VHS won out over Betamax. Blu-ray won a hotly contested war against HDDVD, due in part to its much cooler name. Flash video, with its small...

Over the past few years inexpensive digital video, from high definition cameras to webcams, have flooded the consumer market. While burning copies of home-produced videos to DVD or uploading them...

If you happen to have a unique video in which something significant happens at some point in time, adding a countdown timer to it can help build suspense and draw attention to that certain...

Capturing a unique event on video is a simple way to create a compelling piece of media. Today's digital technology makes this sort of activity available to thousands. To help separate your video...

If you've got a laptop, it is easy to set it up so your passengers can watch movies while you are riding in the car. It doesn't take anything more than standard software and computer hardware to...

When YouTube went HD I was thrilled. However, I could not figure out how to export a movie properly. Everything I tried looked horrible. After scouring the Internet I came up with the following...

One of the more popular encoding options available today, Xvid is a free codec library developed by volunteers for public use under the GNU General Public License. WMV refers to Windows Media...

Adobe Encore makes DVD and Blu-ray creation easy with all the tools you need to author, encode and burn compliant discs. DVDs and Blu-ray each have specific video sizes which must be adhered to....

It is easier than ever today for anyone to shoot, edit and produce their own videos. Many computers come equipped with web cameras and they are relatively inexpensive to purchase. Basic video...

A screen capture allows you to take a picture of what is happening on your computer screen with software. There is a way to take video of computer activity such as running a program, opening a...

Hate using a memory demanding media player to watch a movie? Are you not able to edit media because of the selected format? Look here on how to convert it.

Video context is offered in a wide range of formats, and probably no single software video player handles them all. If you have a video with a lesser known file extension, you can convert it into...

Many people believe that the videocassette was replaced by the DVD. It's not well known that there was a video format between the two called VCD. This used a CD disc that could play in a computer....

Flash is a streaming video format created by Adobe, which compresses video so that it can be watched over a broadband Internet connection. To make your video available for streaming over the...

Many MP3 players can now play videos as well. It's possible that the MP3 player you own may have this option without you even knowing about it. The player will likely need the video to be in a...

There are many music videos you can download from the Internet. Once you have such a video, you may want to share it with a friend. One way to do this is to "burn" your music video to a CD and...

This is just a short video to get you started exploring the wonderful world of Mac and what "spaces" has to offer you. Please take the time to watch it. I know that a lot of people are...

Converting videos from internet sites like youtube to put into WMV (Windows Media Player) to change video and cut and add to video.

There are several ways to create a video countdown timer on a Mac. Unfortunately, none are free. This tutorial will use Countdown Maker, the most flexible and visually appealing tool available,...

Converting a DVD movie into an MP4 used to be a very detailed and difficult process. You needed four or five different pieces of software and about a day to complete one movie. Now the process has...

There are many different video converters out there that say they are the best, fastest and output the best quality. You can go through all of them, getting terribly confused and waste a lot of...

JVC Enverio HDD video cameras record their videos in MOD format, which isn't compatible with most video editors. If you want to watch the video on your computer or burn it to a DVD, the MOD file...

The Sony Vaio series of PCs are a very popular moderately priced line of computers designed for home use. All current models of these computers come loaded with DVD-RW drives and copies of Windows...

The audio/video container format AVI (Audio Video Interleave) accommodates a wide variety of audio and video content, and better quality video can produce amazing still pictures. Using the right...

With the help of powerful video editing tools available free online, editing your AVI (Audio Video Interleave) files is simple. Without the need to read through thick manuals, follow lengthy...

Working with digital video used to be restricted to the realm of professionals or high-end users who could afford expensive hardware and software. Advances in technology have made it affordable...

ASF is Microsoft's proprietary format for online streaming video files. Although the Windows Media Video (WMV) is becoming the popular choice for watching online videos, ASF can still be found on...

uSeesoft Video to WMV converter is a versatile yet easy to handle video converter, All most all popular Video files such as 3GP, 3GPP, 3G2, 3GP2, MJPEG, AVI, DivX, Xvid, MPG, MPEG(MPEG-1/2), DAT,...

You can compress video in a few different ways, depending on the video. You can compress it into an archive, a smaller codec, or if it happens to be a virtual CD image, you can compress it into a...

The following proceedure will allow you to save a youtube video to your computer in .flv format. You can then upload this file directly to your Blogger account, or play it in a media player that...

The AVI format is a popular way to store both audio and video files on multimedia computers. The format is relatively compact and playable on a number of media players on a variety of operating...

TS is a video file type that is recorded from TV in MPEG format. The file type TS isn't supported all that often with video players. Therefore, if you want to watch your TS video on your computer,...

An MPE file, or a file with the .mpe extension, is an incorrectly named MPEG-1 file. The MPEG-1 video format was pioneering in desktop video because, unlike the AVI format, it allowed large video...

MPEG and WMV files are media file formats used for storing digital media. Switching a file between formats may be desirable in some instances, because they may be able to play one format, but not...

FLV stands for flash video. It's a format that's often used in streaming video sites such as YouTube. The file type AVC stands for advanced video codec, and it's also known as H.264. The actual...

Microsoft PowerPoint is a productivity tool that allows the user to create presentations that contain audio, video and images. PowerPoint natively supports many formats of video including video...

QuickTime is a multimedia player developed by Apple. It is popular among web developers for providing streaming audio and video on websites. The Apple QuickTime video player can run on both Macs...

The MPG file format is used to designate video playback for the MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video codecs.

Video Hi8 was great back in its day, but that day has long come and gone. Now you're stuck with piles of Hi8 tapes sitting around and you're trying to figure out what to do with them. Putting...

There are times when a video looks better if it has been flipped. This includes shooting reflections where text is reversed, and when you want the action to play out not in the direction that it...

Audio Video Interleave, or AVI, is a format used by computers to handle video and audio files. It is a standard format for Windows Media Player.

Streaming video is compressed in size for transmitting through a network and onto a computer or mobile device. But because the video file has been made smaller and must be transmitted at high...

Most new computers come with a DVD burner installed. This burner will allow you to create your own DVD movies of videos you edited or videos you downloaded from the Internet. Whatever you are...

QuickTime is a free media player created by Apple Computer. It enables users to play back audio and video files. The software supports the playback of 12 types of audio formats, including MP3,...

MP3 players allow you to watch videos as well as listen to music. These players aren't usually large enough to accommodate a DVD disk though. This means that if you want to watch a DVD that you...

RealVideo is a proprietary video format that can't be easily used with the standard video programs found on a Mac computer or PC. It can only be played using its own desktop video player....