Adrian's Journal

A new version of CloneCD has been released. Here the list of fixes and improvements: CloneCD 5.3.0.0 2006-12-20 - New: Added full support for Windows Vista, including 64-bit versions - New: All drivers are now signed - New: Installation program is now signed The update is free for all registered customers, of course. Just install the new version on top of your current version, regardless which version you have installed: Download CloneCD

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Now on to the next installation. I bought Sony Cinescore with Vegas7 . Will it be better than Smart Sound? Let me find out by playing around. Insert Sony Cinescore Installation CD and Click "INSTALL CINESCORE SOFTWARE". The process takes less than 2 minutes. Run Vegas7 and drop into the timeline a video clip for testing. Right click on the audio track and select "Insert Generated Music...". Type in serial number for Sony Cinescore. Register online. Play around with some settings... themes and variations. Install the 2 theme packs bundled with the purchase of Cinescore... High Tech World and The Ideal Vacation. Themes installation takes slightly more than 5 minutes per CD. Test in Vegas7. Everything is OK! How is Smart Sound compared with Cinescore? When it comes to variations, Cinescore has more. However if I want a music track done quickly , I will choose Smart Sound for its simplicity.

Bought Sony Vegas 7 + DVD , BUT let it sit on the shelf. After 2 weeks of work and family, I finally have time for myself. Installed the software on the Acer Aspire 9500 Laptop. This is a live update of the process till I stop. Insert Installation CD and Click "INSTALL VEGAS 7 SOFTWARE". First prompt is to install Microsoft .NET Framework. Then install Sony Vegas 7. Next install Sony DVD Architect 4. Run Sony Vegas 7 and type in the serial number. Inserting video clips of current project into time line. Test basic function. Cut, drag and drop, audio channel select... Run Sony DVD Architect 4 and type in the serial number. Will test this on another day. Bonus Softwares to be installed later: Boris Graffiti , Magic Bullet Movie Looks HD and Sony Loop Reference Library. Stop... Back to work... pay bills... edit outstanding projects... find new office space... find magic school for Cheryl...

Filmed an Appreciation Dinner at The Grand Copthorne. 500 guests, 30 VIPs, 1 Minister and waitresses about 11. Thing happen quickly. Got to be on my toes. I love every minute of shooting great videos. 10 Tips To Capture A Great Video Of An Appreciation Dinner. By Adrian Lee, http://VideoLane.com Get the program sheet from the organizer and familiarize yourself with the flow of events. Arrive two hours earlier to set up your tripod and camcorder at the best position but keep in mind to minimize obstruction, especially the VIP's view of the stage. Plug in the audio feed from the main sound system into your camcorder and do a SOUND CHECK. This is to capture good quality speeches. For speeches and performances, fix camcorder to the tripod but remember to zoom in and close-up on the action or emotion. For off-stage happenings, like reception and mingling, get the camcorder off the tripod and go mobile. Remember to unplug the audio feed. Capture more of the VIP mingling with the guests. ...

Right click on the link to the MPG movie. Click "Save Target As..." and save it on your PC. Then burn the MPG file onto a CD. Convert to DVD? I recommend MovieFactory.

I wonder why some video houses still produce videos on analog Betacam-SP. They should stop wasting clients money and make videos in High Definition or HD. We all know clients cannot play and watch a video recorded in Betacam-SP. We do know all of us can easily play DVD, mini-DV and the up-and-coming HDV. In today's tutorial, I will go through the process of transfering Betacam-SP to mini-DV. I do this frequently for clients, so that they can watch their videos while preserving high quality. Betacam SP to MiniDV using Sony Betacam SP Player and Sony MiniDV CamCorder Connect the Betacam Player XLR audio outputs to the MiniDV Camcorder Line audio inputs using the cable provided with the camcorder and a pair of XLR adaptors. Connect the Betacam Player s-video output to the MiniDV Camcorder s-video input using an s-video cable. Power up the units. Set the MiniDV Camcorder to VTR mode, AV in. Insert a blank MniDV tape into the MiniDV Camcorder. Insert the Betacam SP tape into the Bet...

Fondled A Sony Ericsson W800 Phone Today. It has mostly everything I want except a TV and a PDA. I like the way it feels like a still camera. As well as the radio, memory stick and body colour. The best part is the built-in flash and light. This is a must for taking great quality pictures at night. Though the phone can produce great photos, it is disappointing when it comes to recording videos.

A night of Loud Music and Dance Party. Can you believe? It is an Esplanade Concert really. Shankar Ehsaan and Loy, the famous trio from Bollywood. They make cinematic Indian music today sound so good. More from Shankar Ehsaan Loy... The audience screamed, danced and cheered. I could feel that the performance was much revered. Although Indian music is not my daily cup of tea. I can't help but to tap my toes while doing the videography. More from Shankar Ehsaan Loy...

Todays video shoot is rather exhausting. Got to dart here and there to catch the happening. The competition is held simultaneously at seven stations. Got to film the participants and audience reactions. Wide shots, close-ups and freestyle angles. Got to be quick and creative among these little boys and girls. There is plenty of noise and commotion. Well, this is the "Crazy Cups" Competition.

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Ordered the upgrade to Sony Vegas 7. Also ordered the promo item Cinescore. Will be collecting the items this afternoon. In the mean time, here in the studio, I am preparing the new Dual Core PC for the upgrade. This is going to be exciting! What? Did you just say why I'm not using Premiere? Premiere is Passe. Get Your Sony Vegas 7 + DVD Production Suite Now...

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Found a quick and FREE way to convert M4A files to MP3 files. This software is so useful I have too keep a copy safe for myself. I am sharing this only with my eNewsletter subscribers. Download Free Software To Convert M4A to MP3 . Just sign up if you are not a member yet.

After shooting so many seminars, it is time I attend seminars. So today, professional videographers from all over Singapore gather at the Hilton Hotel for the launch of the Sony V1 High Definition Camcorder. Things are really getting better. Professional equipment are getting smaller, lighter and yet more powerful. Also launching together is the the very portable hard disk recorder. THIS is what I have been waiting for! Clients can now enjoy faster delivery of their edited event video. Equipment and technology aside, the seminar was a great time to meet up with old friends and make new ones.

Filmed a fashion show this morning and the client needs the VCD by 3pm. With my trusty video production laptop, the VCDs were delivered at 1pm. Now I only wish Sony created a light-weight "desktop power" notebook with long stamina battery. That way I may complete the production on the spot.

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Client: Can You Duplicate 7 DVDs within 20 Minutes? VideoLane: Yes we can, provided you do not need any customised labels. So... client and I had a good chat while waiting for the DVDs to bake. We talked about internet marketing, blogging and the recent Adam Khoo's Seminar hosted by Stuart Tan. We exchanged our blog URLs and agreed to increase each others website traffic. http://happystressfreeliving.blogspot.com/ http://hazehazzards.blogspot.com/ http://bullbear.videolane.net/ The URLs are cleverly named to reflect the Blogs' Topics. Ok... I'm off to visit the sites now....

The FREE Compaq Laptop PC has arrived. Came free with the subscription of Starhub Business Broadband. I am now logging the process of setting it up and trasferring data from existing Admin PC. It will be used for email communications, invoicing, quotations, fax, CD DVD printing and label designing. Here goes... Connect to broadband internet. Install Zone Alarm free firewall. Deactivate Norton Antivirus. Transfer Outlook Express data. Search google for "How to Backup Outlook Express" Install Invoiceit and Transfer data. Install printer. Download latest drivers. Download and install latest LabelPrint. Transfer clients cd dvd label folders.

This question is thrown at me again today. My immediate reply is of course "SONY"! Then I will follow that by saying Sony is not the cheapest though, but there will be no regrets. I strongly recommend Sony because I have used other brands in the professional arena like P........, J.. and C.... . I can tell you they are inferior in terms of speed, accuracy and details. Would you like to press the record button then wait one second or more for the tape to start rolling? No you cannot afford to lose one second in event videography. Sony's record button is immediate. Would you like your auto focus lens to take one second or more to adjust itself? Again sony has a better response. Would you like to see the LCD screen at low resolution and changing color when you shift you head just a little? Sony's LCD screens are as good as their TV. Would you like to download the videos from the camcorder to your PC and find that there is a black margin on the edges? Sony's picture ...

What is the most efficient way to showcase our works? Put it on YouTube of course. We have two requests today to view our video portfolio. One request is for a industrial corporate video and the other is for a wedding animated cartoon video. Instead of travelling to each other to view the samples, or even send a portfolio DVD to the clients, all we have to do is upload the works onto YouTube and that's it. Technology! Click here to view VideoLane.com past works. Work of Art. :)

The real question is... Do you know the difference between the video CDs that you burn yourself with your PC and the video CDs that you buy from video shops? The answer is... a world of diference! In this article, I will attempt to answer in layman terms so that non-technical people might understand. First, they are manufactured differently. One is BURNED and the other is STAMPED. CD Burning is also known as CD Writing. This is what you do on your PC if you have a CD writer. You use blank medias called the CDR where R stands for Recordable. The process of burning or writing takes a few minutes as the video data is burned onto the CD track by track. Your PC can only burn one CD at a time. If you need to make more copies of the same CD quickly, you will need to use a CD Duplicator. A CD Duplicator machine is about the size of a desktop PC or bigger and can burn seven or more CDs at a time in a few minutes. CD Duplication is suitable for creation of small quantities of two to 500 CDs. CD ...

I am honoured to be part of the grand opening of Singapore's first luxury airport, JetQuay . Yes, my task is to document on video the whole event sequence. Guests arrived in limos, wines and champagnes were served. Mr Raymond Lim, Minister for Transport, graced the occasion. Speeches, ribbon cutting, toasting and a party. Of course I had my share of wines, champagnes and choc mousse. (If you don't have these, don't ask me to shoot your event... just kidding... but treat me well, I will treat your video even better). Adrian Lee http://www.videolane.com/?Videography_Service

I am in the process of documenting our work procedures here, so that we can achieve consistency and quality in every job we undertake. I had a hard time deciding where I can write down all my knowledge. Should it be on a word document format, in a blog format or website format? I want it to be easily accessible anywhere by our production crew. It must be readable and editable from a PC as well as from a PDA. I have not decided yet but the website format seems to be a good place to start. So here are some new pages created today. The webpage name is self-explanatory. http://www.videolane.com/?How_To:Convert_DVD_to_MP3 http://www.videolane.com/?How_To:Transfer_Files_to_a_CD http://www.videolane.com/?How_To:Extract_Video_from_a_VCD More free tips to come. They will not be free forever. When the documentation is fully complete, it will be taken off the website and compiled else where. Only our VideoLane.com Newsletter subscribers will have access to the information as long as they remain a...

In the last post I said there was a difference between your PC and our PC. Our PC is configured and optimised to do high level stuff like video capturing and DVD burning at the highest quality. DVDs we produce must be crisp, sharp and play smoothly on any DVD player. There is a long checklist to configure and optimise our PC. I will be revealing only 2 items for you. 1. Remove Adwares and Spywares Daily. Adwares and Spywares enter our PC when connected to the web. Some are friendly some are not. But all of them hinders the speed we need to process videos optimally. Scan and remove them daily. I recommend installing the free Yahoo Toolbar on IE. It comes with a spyware remover. All free. Don't be tricked into buying a spyware remover. It is free on Yahoo Toolbar . Go download and install it now! 2. Remove unused and temporary files. This is also free. I found a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It combines a system cleaner that removes unused and temporary files from y...

Here's the trade secret leak. We don't use expensive hardware or software . All we need is just a S$2000 miniDV camcorder, a $3000 PC and a $200 software . You can even do it yourself at home, but I am sure you will come back to me begging for help. Otherwise just face it, our $3000 PC is not the same as yours. Ours is specially configured. The real trade secret I am not going to reveal. As for the mini DV camcorder, you can get a cheaper one and it still works. The software no one will believe, but even the most fussy corporate client have been very satisfied with the crisp quality of our DVD conversions. It costs less than S$200. This secret I will reveal. Go download this DVD conversion software and try it on your PC. Click here.

A client wants to convert her betacam tape to DVD. We gladly accepted the job. When the tape arrived we found it was not a betacam but a DIGITAL betacam tape. The price for conversion will be 3 times more! All we can explain in layman terms is that Digital betacam is a very high end broadcast format and the players cost five figures and more. Anyway here is how wikipedia explains: What is Betacam SP The original Betacam format launched in 1982 . It is an analog component format. Provides a crisp, true broadcast quality product with 300 lines of horizontal resolution. In 1986 Betacam SP was developed, which increased horizontal resolution to 340 lines. While the quality improvement of the format itself was minor, the improvement to the VTRs was enormous, in quality, features, and particularly, the new larger cassette with 90 minutes of recording time. Beta SP (for "Superior Performance") became the industry standard for most TV stations and high-end production houses until...

Today, 22nd September 2006, marks the end of 2 SOLID MONTHS of Hungry Ghost Festival. Very unusual. Many friends and associates showed concern for my business, as we all know that there are no weddings during this festival. No wedding shoots . No business. NOT TRUE. The two months fared better than any other months. We were busy with overlapping assignments of corporate videography (marketing videos, award ceremonies, industrial construction and my favourite... seminars ). I had to hire freelance to help me out. Some of the jobs got so me so stressed up that I had to fall ill. But one thing I enjoyed best... My weekends were free! Yes, free weekends means outings with the kids. The kids are growing up really fast. Better enjoy cherish their sweet innocence before they become teenagers. This is the life I missed. You know what? I may not be keen to go back into wedding videography again. Life happen only once. Kids will be kids only once. Here is a typical weekend for a wedding vide...

That's right. If you did not notice, I have disappeared from this blog since June 2006. But I have not disappeared from the face of the earth. I joined a nice little community at MyOpera and decided to put my life's journal there. My personal thoughts will continue to be blogged at MyOpera while this blog will reflect my day as a videographer. Join me as I stumble along to catch up with the everchanging digital video landscape. Subscribe to my feed . I would be so honoured if you do so. Adrian Lee www.VideoLane.com

Why are there so many phone enquiries looking for photography service? I thought the company name clearly states "Video" as in " Adrian Video Image ". Even the website is called " Video Lane.com ". Most people assume that videographers also know photography. Yes most videographers do photography as well. BUT NOT ME. I would rather be the specialist than the general practioner. I would rather be the master of one trade than a jack of all. I would rather my clients enjoy full satisfaction for a service. Anyway we still entertain calls for photography politely. If you ask the right questions, we may even recommend you the perfect photographer for your requirement, be it wedding or product shots. (I've worked with too many photographers to know which is real and which is fake). For a start here's a list of wedding photogrphers I recommend. Ok. For those seriously looking for video graphers, would you like us to to a corporate shoot or a wedding shoot...

A new version of AnyDVD has been released. Here the list of fixes and improvements: AnyDVD 6.0.4.2 Update. Unprotects DVD-Movies Automatically. Download Now. 6.0.4.2, 2006 07 28 - New: Added option to set the transparency of Video DVD subtitles! This is very useful for people with large projection systems, as bright subtitles can reduce the contrast of the image or can be distracting. Making the subtitles transparent can greatly enhance the viewing experience. - Fix: AnyDVD could display "Arccos/Puppetlock" protection on copies. - Fix: Setting the drive speed with AnyDVD could cause read errors with some DVD drives, e.g. NEC DVD Writers. - Some minor fixes and improvements - Updated languages Just install the new version on top of your current version, regardless which version you have installed: AnyDVD 6.0.4.2 Update. Unprotects DVD-Movies Automatically. Download Now.

Just like in the real world, it is a refreshing experience to move in to a new place. I found such a place. It is a cozy little community. Simple yet sufficient. Continue reading my blog from here. http://my.opera.com/videolane/blog/ Like a vacation, I will not be there for long.

What is an Effective Leader? Skilled in group dynamics Can inspire others Relates well to a wide variety of people Able to communicate well Able to lead groups in problem solving Able to structure goals and objectives for a group Able to evaluate group progress in achieving its goals Induces a group to pursue a goal So how do you go about teaching children leadership skills? Here are some Great Resources: Developing leadership skills in young gifted students. http://www.highbeam.com/library/docfree.asp?DOCID=1G1:113183945 Leadership For Kids - Blend But Don’t Bend. http://www.leadership-tools.com/leadership-for-kids.html How to Teach Leadership Skills http://www.heartlandfamilyservice.org/tips/tips/Parenting/teachingleadership.asp Teaching Children Leadership Skills http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/2003_37_mon_02.shtml Enjoy! Adrian Lee http://videolane.com/ http://instantviralvideo.com/ http://youtube.com/videolane http://adriansjournal.blogspot.com/ PS: "Do you know ...

The party went smooth or at least it looks well planned... Arrived at the restaurant 1 hour earlier... asked for a dvd player... bought a S$30 10m av cable... hooked the cable from the dvd player to the larger tv screen near the vip table... now we have great sound and big video... invited mother out to greet guests so we can test our surprise video montage... Guests trickled in... relatives, in-laws, neighbors... videography starts... that is I am the event videographer for the night... everyone invited turned up... actually only 4 tables... Dinner begins with an thank you announcement by second sis and an invitation to watch mum' surprise video... The audience watched with joy as the video showed mum's younger days photos progressing to the present day... some video speeches and song by her daughters and grandkids... the show ended with a loud applause... 10-course Dinner begins... peach buns, sharks fins, cold dish, steamed fish, braised duck, sea cucumber mushrooms, drun...

Sunday SWF to DVD 16:9 looped... Sunday morning and back to work. Not the usual routine but when a client needs help, here I am. For the first time AVI created a widescreen 16:9 DVD. The SWF flash file was also made in that same aspect ratio. The conversion from SWF to DVD went smooth except for client's last minute content changes. Making of Surprise Video Broadcast... Being the Professional Videographer in the family, I am tasked to do a surprise birthday montage video for Mum-in-law's 70th Birthday Celebration. Interviewed siblings and grand kids. Collected old photos. Got the song and the script. BUT WAIT... I am overwhelmed with backlog editing work in the office. Where do I find the time to edit this non-profit video! This is the time to train my 8 year old kid to Edit Videos. She was really excited when I told her that. What software is she going to use? Ulead VideoStudio of course. http://www.videolane.com/?Digital_Video_Tips:Recommends:Ulead_VideoStudio New Blog for th...

Video Footages and Music Clips by VideoLane Have been neglecting this biz for a long time. Will be revived soon.

It's Friday, time to clear all accumulated paperwork for the week. Open letters, tally cheques and invoices, pay bills... This is the day when creative videography work will be interrupted. Solution? SODA. Simplfy Organize Delegate Automate. So much for being self-employed! You have to do everything yourself. So I am calling for help. Have anyone seen my ads in the papers and on the internet? http://www.videolane.com/?Jobs If you know anyone interested to join me, please refer them to the link above. Then there is a last minute job to convert a flash SWF file into DVD Wide Screen. Yes DVD Wide Screen (16:9) for plasma TV playback. We can do that. http://www.videolane.com/?Tape_to_VCD_DVD Want to do it yourself? It's easy, just buy Ulead VideoStudio from here... http://www.videolane.com/?Digital_Video_Tips:Recommends:Ulead_VideoStudio

A new version of CloneDVD mobile has been released. Here the list of fixes and improvements: Version 1.1.0.5: 2006 06 12 - New: Changed MP4 and GP3 encoding from ffmpeg to mencoder. Requires changes to all profiles, make sure to check the new devices.ini file. - New: Added support for the Nintendo "Play-Yan" cartridge for the Nintendo GameBoy Advance - New: Added subtitle support for all MP4 and GP3 profiles, including Apple iPod and Sony PSP - New: Improved picture quality - New: Added profile for the Arcos AV320 (untested!) - New: AVI files can now be created with libavformat (Archos AV320) - New: The profile for the Sony PSP has been split into two - one for PSP firmware version 2.6 or better supporting better playback of progressive scan NTSC movies, and one for older firmware versions. - New: Added "Please wait..." dialog while Apple iPod postprocessing is done - Change: iPod postprocessing is now done, even if encoding is aborted. Handy if you want to check ou...

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Back to work... Feeling dazed... Holiday hang-over... Piles of backlog editing to be completed... Then a last minute request for a shoot. I had the honour to preview the final rehearsal of "Play on Earth". The transcontinental world premiere of Station House Opera’s major new work, opening across the globe tomorrow, a work that in every literal sense transcends time and space. This first time, three-continent work is a collaboration between Station House Opera (UK), TheatreWorks (Singapore) and Philarmonia Brasileira (Brazil). This is a MUST SEE production. I was captivated by how the actors interact and perform live with each other from 3 far-away continents. Thanks to internet broadband videoconferencing technology, this play is made possible. I was more impressed by the fine work and steady hands of the live video camera man, which I think play a very important role. He is the one that control what the audience see. The cameraman is always visible on the stage too. I have ...

3 solid days of cool crisp mountain air. That's the school holiday family vacation. The kids had unlimited rides at the theme park. The adults made money at the casino. Refreshed? Yes. Time away from videography work. But not totally. There is a videocam on my O2 PDA phone. I cannot help but video the kids enjoying the rides. For the small one. Most of the rides was her first experience. For the elder one, at 8, sadly she is too tall for some kiddy rides and too short for most adult rides. And yes there were wild monkeys in this cold climate. When the kids go to sleep at night with their Grandma, the parents sneak to the casino. Haven't been here for more than 2 years. The whole place have changed. My favourite winning Horse Racing Derby Machines are all gone. The whole floor are mostly Jackpots and Roulettes. That's boring. I hate Roulettes. But the next time you go up, read up and learn how to win Roulettes... Bruno Roulette Secrets Learn the Simple Method that will win y...

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SlySoft does it again. A new version of AnyDVDhas been released. Download AnyDVD Here the list of fixes and improvements:6.0.0.4, 2006 06 05 - New User Interface, easier to navigate through various settings - Information window is now integrated into the settings dialog - Option to set DVD Navigation and drive speed, if a Video DVD is inserted - Option to set copy protection removal and drive speed, if an Audio CD is inserted - Many minor fixes and improvements - Updated languages The update is free for all registered customers. Just install the new version on top of your current version,regardless which version you have installed. Download AnyDVD Have fun with AnyDVD! VideoLane.com - AnyDVD : "AnyDVD is a driver, which unprotects DVD-Movies automatically in the background. This DVD appears unprotected and region code free for all applications and the Windows operating system as well. With AnyDVD's help copy tools like CloneDVD, Pinnacle Instant Copy, InterVideo DVD-Copy, etc...

"Hindi is a language. Hinduism is a religion, and its believers are called “Hindus.” Not all Hindus speak Hindi, and many Hindi-speakers are not Hindus." - Hindi/Hindu Anyway, a Traditional Hindu Wedding Video is added to our private online wedding showcase. http://www.videolane.com/?Wedding_Video:Demo Please take a look. A short Hindu wedding ceremony

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While rushing for a client to compile 15 animated SWF flash files with sound to a DVD, I discovered that software encoders were way too slow. Spent the whole afternoon figuring out the fastest way to do it. Then it hit me. It was just a near impossible thought, but I experimented anyway. It worked! The requirement was to convert each SWF file to MPG, then edit them to fit the TV screen safety margin and finally rearrange the sequence before putting them on DVD. Using traditional methods, this will take a few hours! Manually editing and rendering. So I thought... why not play the SWF file full screen, output it via the S-video out from the PC into the DV camcorder (at the same time connect the PC audio line out to the camcorder line in), then from the same camcorder firewire out back to the PC. Finally at the PC end, capture straight to DVD. It's a LOOP. Screen capture out from PC then back again. Impossible? No. It worked! The sound was great too. Further, there were no dropouts. A...

Here's another freeware to convert AVI to MPG... AVItips.VideoLane.net - Downloads: AVI2VCD This is a continuation to the PPT to AVI article... http://avitips.videolane.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2 Avi2vcd is an mpeg encoder with only one purpose: Encoding VideoCD 2.0 compliant mpeg streams. Avi2vcd can create all 3 valid VideoCD streams: FILM (23.976 fps), PAL (25 fps), and NTSC (29.97 fps). The horizontal resolution must be 768 pixels or less, the vertical resolution must be 576 pixels or less. Audio need not even be present, and if it is, can be stereo or mono, 8 or 16 bit, and any of the following sample rates: 8, 11.025, 12, 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1, or 48 KHz. (as long as the audio is NOT compressed, if it is, use the utility "decompress.exe" included to convert to uncompressed audio first). If your source video is longer than can fit on one CD, than avi2vcd can split it into multiple .mpg's during encode. It can also shut your PC ...

These are abstract shots of the Grand Venue which I will be doing video recording of an event. Can you guess the name of this place?

Yes, that's the subject for today's videography work. Don't you envy my job, my business, as a videographer? Visit my client's website for more... Celebrate Breastfeeding & Babywearing with Moms in Mind!

It's high time to build a separate website for the CD DVD Duplication part of the videography service. Though CD DVD Duplication is the final phase of the whole video production process, it is the most important. It is the TANGIBLE part of the business where clients get to touch their final edited videos... and make copies for distribution. It is the part of the business that has nothing to do with video production, like getting the right media, designing and printing the label, designing and printing the cover inserts, choosing the right casing, wrapping and packaging. A whole separate business by itself. To keep up with the ever changing duplication technology, I am opening up my research notes to the public at http://DUPLICATION.videolane.net/ .

Unlike the usual wedding banquets in hotel ballrooms, this party was held outside a bungalow next to the beach. You see huge ships passing by. Planes flying low. Waves lashing against the shore. Coconut trees standing tall. Best part of all... the drinks. Sampled all of them! Red wine, white wine, rasberry vodka and lemonade.

..in my dream last night. I was in a live online competition where participants compete to design the best web site within a time limit. I won, but did not know the prize was so big. Doubtfully, I questioned the organizer whether I should purchase anything from them in order to claim my prize. They said I don't have to, it's mine. Upon claiming, it wasn't a $42million cash prize, but $42million worth of software. Just one software. They gave me a container load of the same software. They come in shiny brown boxes. I couldn't make out the title. I thought to myself. Hmmm... how am I going to sell them all? ...a night in the dreams of a Videographer. P.S.: Anyway, the dream was a follow-through to what I was doing last night. Creating a website to catch a current hot topic. http://FOOTBALL.videolane.net/worldcup/ Football or soccer? Whatever. Catch the fever. Be part of the game. Make big money. View the world's top sites and searches for football, FIFA and the World ...

It's all in a day's work. From 9am to 5pm, videography of cooking instructional DVDs for Prima Food . 6pm till late, videography for for the launch event of Absolut Apeach , a new flavour by my favourite vodka. At Prima, we filmed the process of preparing 8 local dishes. I get to savour all of them after shooting each dish. Yummy! Absolut vodka? Irresistable. Gulped a few shots. Vodka shots not video shots. I love my business. That's what you get in a day in the life of a Videgrapher.

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6am. Started queing for ferry ticket at harbourfront. 7am. Boarded ferry Penguin 16. 730am. Penguin 16 departs harbourfront. 1 hour journey. A cool ride with can playing on tv. 830am. Arrival at Sekupang Batam. A man at the landing platform was holding a sign board with my name. He helped me cleared customs while I waited at the platform where I could see the speed boat waiting for me. This is by far the fastest speed boat I have ever experienced. Look at the double engines. It is practically flying... With plenty of air pockets. It was a bumpy ride. I was told this will be a 2-hour journey. Indeed it was a 2-hour bumpy ride on a flying speed boat. I hear only the engine roar and smell diesel. Passed by about 10 other islands before arriving at the 1st coconut island, Pulau Burung. 1030am. Like in james bond movies. You are greeted by security that don’t speak english and waits for you to speak first. This coconut plantation is humongus. Bigger than the size of 2 Singapores. Another bo...

Have a last minute videography assignment for tomorrow. Got to leave the country by boat. Upon reaching the destination, I will be whisked off in a speed boat to the first coconut island where the shoot will take place for 3 or more hours. Then the speed boat will take me to the 2nd coconut island. This is going to be exciting.

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The final version of Noise Singapore 2006 television commercial is ready. You can view it online here... http://www.videolane.com/?Videography_Service:Noise_2006_TVC The Launch of this National Arts Council event is tomorrow evening at the Rierwalk. See you there. http://www.noisesingapore.com

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Finally they found me on Google, though I have been in top 10 ranking for over three years for search term "seminar video Singapore". They hired me to video tape their weekend internet marketing seminar, The Internet Goldmine. Participants paid thousands to attend the seminar. I get paid to shoot it. Did I learn anything new from the course? No. It is more a refresher for me. Little did they know that I am on their subscriber list for than 3 years. Anyway it was a pleasure meeting Johan and Ewen.

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I am drained, after 10 continuous days of "passive" video shooting during the day and overnight editing. Passive because it is a recording of a training seminar event without much moving around. (I love the tea breaks and lunches though.) This coming Monday being the May Day holiday, I will be taking a long week end off. Will spend time with my family and play some computer games. In the picture above is my new setup used during the 10 day shoot. On top of the cam is the sennheiser wireless receiver and at the bottom is the beachtec xlr box. Perfect combination!

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