Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Monday, April 6, 2009
PhotoStory 3
PhotoStory 3 Review
Overall Rating: 3/5
Features:
Transitions: transition options are unclear, however once you work out how the process works, it works quite effectively, allowing much changing and playing around with the settings, to make a creative and well presented video.
Editing : editing the videos is relatively effective, though the “how to” is yet again unclear. They have included extensive settings for creating music to accompany the imagery, and notes and captions, however it seems to be more of a slideshow creator than a video editing software device.
Positives & negatives
The main features which are good with this software program would have to be the level of editing they allow, and the extensive settings for music creating within your video creations. The negatives about using this program however, are the clarity of the navigation around the video. Unfortunately, it is quite hard to navigate around the program to find the settings you want, making PhotoStory 3 not always a pleasant experience to use.
Recommendation
Overall, I personally recommend Windows Movie Maker over Photo story 3 fundamentally because it has more options available, and is easier and more practical to use. Importing and saving, as well as editing the videos are very easy to do. It has a clear format and clear instructions to help create videos, whilst I personally found that PhotoStory 3 was complicated and the stages of editing videos aren’t very clear.
Overall Rating: 3/5
Features:
Transitions: transition options are unclear, however once you work out how the process works, it works quite effectively, allowing much changing and playing around with the settings, to make a creative and well presented video.
Editing : editing the videos is relatively effective, though the “how to” is yet again unclear. They have included extensive settings for creating music to accompany the imagery, and notes and captions, however it seems to be more of a slideshow creator than a video editing software device.
Positives & negatives
The main features which are good with this software program would have to be the level of editing they allow, and the extensive settings for music creating within your video creations. The negatives about using this program however, are the clarity of the navigation around the video. Unfortunately, it is quite hard to navigate around the program to find the settings you want, making PhotoStory 3 not always a pleasant experience to use.
Recommendation
Overall, I personally recommend Windows Movie Maker over Photo story 3 fundamentally because it has more options available, and is easier and more practical to use. Importing and saving, as well as editing the videos are very easy to do. It has a clear format and clear instructions to help create videos, whilst I personally found that PhotoStory 3 was complicated and the stages of editing videos aren’t very clear.
Windows Movie Maker
Windows Movie Maker Review
Overall Rating: 4/5
Features:
Transitions: The transitions are easy to use, and very effective in movie making. Windows movie maker gives you a timeline and shows where your slides change clearly, it is a very easy-to-operate feature.
Editing : editing is very straight forward in Windows movie maker, you can simply click and effectively, you can save the video in a format which allows you to go back and edit in new ideas and features, whilst you can save another copy which allows you to watch it as an active video.
Positives & negatives
Windows Movie Maker has definitely made a big effort to allow many user friendly settings, which results in the program being a very effective piece of movie making software, which is easy for almost anyone to use confidently and design good quality moving image film. There could be a bit of confusion when saving different versions of the file, because one file type allows the user to watch the film, and another has to be made in order for the user to edit their video. If the edited version was lost you would lose the ability to edit the video, but apart from that there are no other problems with the software.
Recommendation
Overall, I personally recommend Windows Movie Maker over Photo story 3 fundamentally because it has more options available, and is easier and more practical to use. Importing and saving, as well as editing the videos are very easy to do. It has a clear format and clear instructions to help create videos, whilst I personally found that PhotoStory 3 was complicated and the stages of editing videos aren’t very clear.
Overall Rating: 4/5
Features:
Transitions: The transitions are easy to use, and very effective in movie making. Windows movie maker gives you a timeline and shows where your slides change clearly, it is a very easy-to-operate feature.
Editing : editing is very straight forward in Windows movie maker, you can simply click and effectively, you can save the video in a format which allows you to go back and edit in new ideas and features, whilst you can save another copy which allows you to watch it as an active video.
Positives & negatives
Windows Movie Maker has definitely made a big effort to allow many user friendly settings, which results in the program being a very effective piece of movie making software, which is easy for almost anyone to use confidently and design good quality moving image film. There could be a bit of confusion when saving different versions of the file, because one file type allows the user to watch the film, and another has to be made in order for the user to edit their video. If the edited version was lost you would lose the ability to edit the video, but apart from that there are no other problems with the software.
Recommendation
Overall, I personally recommend Windows Movie Maker over Photo story 3 fundamentally because it has more options available, and is easier and more practical to use. Importing and saving, as well as editing the videos are very easy to do. It has a clear format and clear instructions to help create videos, whilst I personally found that PhotoStory 3 was complicated and the stages of editing videos aren’t very clear.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Codec Report
Codec Report
Codec is a technical name for "compression and decompression". It also stands for "compressor and decompressor" and "code and decode". All of these variations mean the same thing:
A codec is a computer program that both shrinks large movie files, and makes them playable on your computer. Codec programs are required for your media player to play your downloaded music and movies.
Codec's are necessary because video and music files are large, they become difficult to transfer across the Internet quickly. To help speed up downloads, mathematical "Codecs" were built to encode a signal for transmission and then decode it for viewing or editing. Without codec's, downloads would take three to five times longer than they do now.There are hundreds of codec's being used on the Internet, and you will need combinations that specifically play your files. For example there are codec's:
§ For audio and video compression
§ For streaming media over the Internet
§ Videoconferencing
§ Playing mp3's
§ Speech
§ Screen capture.
The most commonly used Codec's that people use are: MP3, WMA, RealVideo, RealAudio, DivX and XviD. There are many other more obscure codecs.The best ways to handle codec’s are to download "codec packs". Codec packs are collections of codecs gathered in single large files. The best examples are:
o XP Codec Pack: XP Codec Pack is a sleek, all-in-one, spyware / adware free codec collection that also offers a good, solid Media Player Classic. Currently just under 6MB in size, XP Codec Pack is truly one of the most complete assemblies of codecs needed to play all major audio and video formats.
o K-Lite Codec Pack: Very user-friendly and well tested, K-Lite Codec Pack is loaded with goodies. It will enable you to play all the popular movie formats. K-Lite comes in 4 flavors: Basic, Standard, Full and Mega. If all you need is to be able to play DivX and XviD formats, Basic will do just fine. Standard pack is probably the most popular - it has everything an average user needs to play the most common file formats. Full pack, designed for power users, has even more codecs plus encoding support.
o K-Lite Mega Codec Pack: Mega is a very comprehensive bundle...it has everything but a kitchen sink. Mega even contains QuickTime Alternative and Real Alternative.
Website:www.netforbeginners.about.com:
o Date Accessed: 30/3/2009
http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/multimedia/f/codec.htm
Codec is a technical name for "compression and decompression". It also stands for "compressor and decompressor" and "code and decode". All of these variations mean the same thing:
A codec is a computer program that both shrinks large movie files, and makes them playable on your computer. Codec programs are required for your media player to play your downloaded music and movies.
Codec's are necessary because video and music files are large, they become difficult to transfer across the Internet quickly. To help speed up downloads, mathematical "Codecs" were built to encode a signal for transmission and then decode it for viewing or editing. Without codec's, downloads would take three to five times longer than they do now.There are hundreds of codec's being used on the Internet, and you will need combinations that specifically play your files. For example there are codec's:
§ For audio and video compression
§ For streaming media over the Internet
§ Videoconferencing
§ Playing mp3's
§ Speech
§ Screen capture.
The most commonly used Codec's that people use are: MP3, WMA, RealVideo, RealAudio, DivX and XviD. There are many other more obscure codecs.The best ways to handle codec’s are to download "codec packs". Codec packs are collections of codecs gathered in single large files. The best examples are:
o XP Codec Pack: XP Codec Pack is a sleek, all-in-one, spyware / adware free codec collection that also offers a good, solid Media Player Classic. Currently just under 6MB in size, XP Codec Pack is truly one of the most complete assemblies of codecs needed to play all major audio and video formats.
o K-Lite Codec Pack: Very user-friendly and well tested, K-Lite Codec Pack is loaded with goodies. It will enable you to play all the popular movie formats. K-Lite comes in 4 flavors: Basic, Standard, Full and Mega. If all you need is to be able to play DivX and XviD formats, Basic will do just fine. Standard pack is probably the most popular - it has everything an average user needs to play the most common file formats. Full pack, designed for power users, has even more codecs plus encoding support.
o K-Lite Mega Codec Pack: Mega is a very comprehensive bundle...it has everything but a kitchen sink. Mega even contains QuickTime Alternative and Real Alternative.
Website:www.netforbeginners.about.com:
o Date Accessed: 30/3/2009
http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/multimedia/f/codec.htm
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