Moving on to lighter matters. Preservation of your digital files.
If you think because your files are backed up to extra hard-drives and disks you’re good to go for the next hundred years, or even five, think again. …[continued]
video
I made some notes about this awhile back because I’ve seen people asking about it. What does “start sniffer” mean? This is an adjunct to the post Orbit Downloader. …[continued]
It was interesting to read the tweets coming back from the Southern California Genealogical Society’s 2010 Jamboree a few days ago. What a world we’ve come to live in where we can have up-to-the-minute happenings of regular people broadcast to us in our browsers. It’s not politicians, it’s not celebrities, it’s not the nut-cases running amuck shooting people, it’s just … us. …[continued]
Today’s subject is how to download videos from the Internet.
So far, I don’t recall much need to download videos while searching for ancestors but you never know. It could become a raging concern.
I’ll admit it. Video language scares me. And the phrase ‘video encoder’ only one of many. Bit-rates, frames-rates, DivX, HD, DV, MPEG1, 2, 3, 4 …
I’ve been waylaid learning about video encoders. Video what? Yep, that’s what I said.
If you, too, are not part of the YouTube generation, this might have gone right over your head.
I don’t know what you’ll use this for but I bet you’ll think of something.
Jing is a combination screen-shot and computer video-making program. After installation you’ll see a small sun image at the top of your screen. When you hold your cursor to it, out pop three smaller suns. This image is the entire main program interface.
Whatever the reason for turning on your camcorder, you’ll want to record footage that will be as easy to edit as possible. Follow these simple rules and you can’t go wrong …
