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Tips and Tricks in Microsoft Expression Encoder 2

As I wrote this series of articles I asked myself some questions. Some answers came easily and others took days of head scratching. I’ll share them with you in Q and A format.

"An interface has too many methods to fire events from" Error

An embedded Google search feature on each page of my personal website helps you find things and lets me know what users are looking for. The most searched for term is 'An interface has too many methods to fire events from', beating 2nd place 'codec'...

Windows 7 - Editing with XP's Movie Maker 2.1... but in Windows 7

Movie Maker was introduced in late 2000 as a very basic video editing app, just good enough to nudge me from the analog world to digital, where I've been ever since. Now I see it being dropped from Windows 7. It'll be missed by the communities...

Windows Movie Maker in Windows 7

Windows Movie Maker has been in every version of Windows since Me... XP and Vista... but it's not in Windows 7. What does that mean to the community of Movie Maker users? They can download and install Window Live Movie Maker...

Windows Live Movie Maker - Editing

You've gathered your pictures, video clips, and tunes. The editing phase is where you put them together in the sequence you want, and add audience pleasing visual transitions and effects.

Logo Design Studio Pro - Marketing Begins with a Custom Logo

It's just human nature to judge a book by its cover. Not only that, we judge the cover by the logo. In today's marketing oriented world, a great logo can sell average products but an average logo can't sell anything. Let us see whether Logo...

Microsoft Expression Encoder 2 - Introduction

5-1/2 years since the last release of Microsoft's Media Encoder 9 package, evolving file types and codecs make file conversions increasingly more important to those working with digital video. This series of articles will focus on Expression Encoder...

5 Versions of Windows Movie Maker Running On Windows 7

My first article about making movies in Windows 7 said you could add Microsoft's Windows Live Movie Maker, Movie Maker 2.6 and Photo Story 3 to the clean slate. Since the article I tried MM1, MM2.1 and MM6, and they all work to some extent...

Presto VideoWorks 6 Platinum - More Oldie Than Goodie

Presto! VideoWorks 6 Platinum seemed dated when I set it up. But so am I, along with some of my favorite software apps. I was hoping the four year lapse in updates meant that it was rock-solid, performed its designated tasks well, and that it ran...

Fun Morph - Shows Promise, But Doesn't Follow Through

Morphing is about fun, but it shouldn't be mistaken for a more serious art form. I love the dynamic real-time previewing environment when making a morph. A well-done morphing clip in the middle of a movie project can do wonders for it. Fun Morph,...