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Do you want to know about video? Here are some frequently asked questions.

1. Video Card Questions?

They were telling you the truth. Laptops run mainly off of on-board video which is a chip IN the motherboard, a video chip. So you are stuck with what you have and there is no way to upgrade it

2. what david archuleta thing could i get my friend? (not the cd)?

Tough without online purchases. You could download large photos of David, put them on a disk and take them to a Rite-Aid or other drugstore that lets you input your own photos from a disk to a machine, and make her a 4x6 print of each. (I did that to make myself some pictures). You could get her a scarf like David or the girl wear in the A Little Too Not Over You video. Or any piece of clothing that is like something David wears.

3. What are fun things to do with your best friend?

Make your own music video and make up dance moves or do a dance interpretation. You guys can also sing a duet together and capture it on video. Make up a song. Make a scrap book. Go to the skating rink, go play at the park or watch movies at each other's house alternatingly. Whoever is coming over the house has to provide popcorn.Little things like that are fun and memorable at the same time

4. Where is this video from?

It's from an old episode of M!Countdown. Around SHINees debut based on their styles. If I am not mistaken.. it seems as if they are doing a 'skit' in order to introduce the/some of the guests who will be performing that week. I can not give you the exact air date, sorry, but it's definitely M!Countdown. (:

5. How can I control mind-rape ?

Do not watch those movies. Or watch "making of" video, where they show the dude who pull the doll's strings, or how they did the makeup and effects for the ring girl (I think they filmed her was walking backwards, and then reversed it)

6. Rat owners, any funny rat stories?

I have a fancy female hooded rat named Pooky. She is a doll, so loving and adorable. She was running free one day on the couch and my Dooney and Bourke purse (of course it was, could not have been a cheap one) was there also. I went to the kitchen and when i returned she was gone. Where to? My purse. I got her on video of taking everything out. She is a strong little thing. I mean she took out my wallet,keys, pens, everything. Then i say that she cut off my key holder that is attached to my purse and she decided to keep it. She jumped off the couch and rat to her cage, crawled up the bars and took it in her house. Every time I would try and get it back she would hang on her dear life. Finally I gave up and let her have it

7. Problems adding video to video timeline in Windows Movie Maker?

happens to me each and all the time! shop the action photograph In "shop as" then delete some sections in ur action photograph to make It shorter the save the action photograph record. Then, open up the a number of stored record And shrink it the. shop it. Then placed them on an identical time upload ur music and shop it!.

8. FFmpeg Upscaling Video

As you said your original video is raw, means its not compressed, when upscaled manually using your player, its still uncompressed but interpolated. means its still at highest quality. But -crf 24 is high compression, if you want your video look like the upscaled raw one, you can try -crf 19 or lower.

9. Why is the video blinking?

It's may be problem with your video card. Try booting in Recovery mode

10. When are External Microphones and Flash Units Needed?

I like having the flexibility to use something if needed. Mic connectivity first. There is no single "best mic" that will meet all your needs. Lets say you are doing a music video, recording the band. Under certain conditions, the audio you use is pre-recorded and the band is playing along "lip-synching". The camcorder's internal mics are good enough - and the audio recorded during that video capture will be muted after synch with the external pre-recorded audio. If you are capturing a video of a dramatic event that has the camcorder on one side of a street and the subject is speaking across the street and you want their audio - and you also want traffic passing through the video frame... The camcorder mics will be too far away to hear the dialog and it is likely the traffic noise will drown that, too. A wireless lavaliere would be ideal. If you are capturing dialog with someone who has nowhere to hide a clip-on mic and the camcorder is about 10 feet away form the subject... a shotgun mic (possibly at the end of a boom) would provide superior audio capture than the camcorder's built-in mics. There are lots of other scenarios where an external mic makes sense. If, however, you decide to get a camcorder without a mic jack, you can still do all these things using an Audio Field Recorder (like those from Zoom, Edirol, Tascam, Fostex, M-Audio and many others). When you import the video from the camcorder for editing on a computer, import the audio from the field recorder, use the audio captured by the camcorder to synch, then mute the audio from the camcorder. Many of these field recorders have internal mics and can attach external mics, too. The advantage to using an audio field recorder is that the mics are not mounted to the camera (unless you want them to be). In a stereo audio environment, this lets the camera move - but the audio does not... or lets the audio move spatially - which the camera remains put. The advantage is similar to using a cabled mic on a camcorder (again, not camcorder-mounted) assuming the camcorder has appropriate audio-in connectivity. Lighting: Video is very different from still image capture. I would not depend on a camcorder's still pictures - use a still camera for that - so do not worry about a camcorder's flash. But a video light is a very handy accessory, especially if the camcorder has smaller lenses an imaging chips as will be common in the camcorder price range you are looking at. Your price range puts us in the mid to high end of consumer camcorders. If you are working in daylight, generally, fill-in lighting is not required (but in the still image environment, fill-in flash is pretty common) - unless you shot/sequence really calls for it. Generally, video add-on lighting (either camera mounted or external) is used for indoor or low-light situations. In any case, learn to use the white balance feature...