On my life path from New York City to Mystic, Connecticut... and now Kalamazoo, Michigan... my passions have always included pictures and video.
As personal computers developed, I was eager to move into them from the analog world where you waited for pictures, slides and little reels of film to come back from development labs, spliced movie film with a razor blade and scotch tape, and edited analog video by manually synching a camcorder plugged into a VCR. The digital world offered unlimited features and possibilities.
It took a while for personal computers and software to deliver the expectations... enough power and ease of use at reasonable prices. With Windows Movie Maker I was finally ready to jump into digital multimedia. Until then I used computers for email, word processing, databases and pictures.
As I explored the digital multimedia world, I shared all I learned. Internet newsgroups and forums have unending waves of users seeking help. Years of online and emailed questions became repetitive and were mostly about problem-solving, which can consume all availabe time. At the start of 2007 I flipped my support priorities upside down. It was time to focus on 'doing amazing things' with digital multimedia. Digital editing is now routine, and the Internet has grown to support online distribution of high quality images and videos.
Today's environment of personal computers, the Internet, and online services is where we had hoped to be, and it's time to focus on using it fully.
I believe in a toolbox of multimedia software, not focusing on specific apps. As you take your pictures, sounds and video clips through the various steps of editing and publishing, use the tools you are comfortable with. Some of the tools are already on your computer, having come with the operating system or added by the computer manufacturer. The rest are those you obtain and add.
That's where the articles at Bright Hub come in. I've been with them since their beginning, fully aligned with their philosophy of having truly independent writers call things as they see them... not driven or swayed by marketing or sales pitches.
As always, I enjoy exploring new computer software and sharing what I learn, and look forward to a long period of working with the video channel of Bright Hub.
I run a large website, write books (Movie Maker 2 - Zero to Hero, Movie Maker 2 - Do Amazing Things, Learning VirtualDub) and magazine articles (Maximum PC quarterly specials), and published weekly newsletter for 4 years before changing to articles at Bright Hub. My focus is multimedia and the Windows software used to create, edit, manage and publish pictures, videos and audio.
Since Microsoft first noticed my support efforts, they've given me 6 consecutive annual Most Valuable Professional (MVP) awards.
A lifetime of photography and video as hobbies, a master's degree in Civil Engineering, decades of big business experience, and now many articles on Bright Hub..