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How to Convert AVCHD to other video formats

September 22nd, 2010 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | No Comments | Filed in Apps, How Tos

My Daily Tech RECOMMENDED APPLICATIONS!

If you are looking to convert an AVCHD movie to another  format so that you can use it in your project, then you should definitely check out a piece of software called TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress.

It accepts AVCHD and just about any video format as an input, so that you can convert it to the most popular video formats.  Unfortunately it doesn’t support AVCHD as an output.

There ARE free ways of doing this too, I should mention that a free program called Avidemux that can do this too, so if you are technically inclined (Avidemux is harder to use) you may want to go that way instead of spending money on TMPGEnc (but of course TMPGEnc supports more formats etc).

Also, if you are looking for video editing software that is simple and support AVCHD input and output, check out Sony Vegas 9.0.  It is excellent and it supports many plugins and addons that make it really expandable.  It also has an amazing feature that makes recompression not necessary on certain AVCHD files (ones that you don’t edit), and that really speeds up the time that it takes to render videos.

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Look Forward to the new Canadian DMCA

June 4th, 2010 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | 1 Comment | Filed in Online, Piracy

In Canada a few days ago, the third attempt to update the copyright law since our last big reform back in 1997 was introduced.  It was called Bill-32, and although many big issues people had with the last one were resolved, I believe that the digital lock issue (not being able to break digital locks without breaking the law) outweighs all of things that were fixed with the new bill.

Today, in Canada it is technically illegal to copy songs from your CDs to your iPod, even though many people do that!  Also, it is technically illegal to tape tv shows at the moment!  That also is a common practice, which is why these laws are overlooked.  These issues make it clear that the copyright law does need updating, but although the new copyright bill will fix these problems, and give the consumer more rights, the fact that any content creator will basically be able to “ixnay” any of these rights that were given to the consumer simply by adding a digital lock is unfair to consumers.

If a customer was sold something with a digital lock, then they basically can’t do anything with it except what the rights holder wants the customer to do with it!  This is ridiculous and must be changed!

See these articles for more info:

http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Copyright+bill+makes+easier+target+illegal+file+sharing/3103853/story.html

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1652537/canadian-copyright

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WordPress Category to Tag Converter

October 28th, 2009 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | No Comments | Filed in How Tos

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If you’ve imported your blog from Blogger and find that all of your Labels turn up as Categories, when you were using them as if they were tags back when you were using Blogger, here’s how to batch-convert (convert more than one at once) them to Tags.

In your wordpress admin, go to Tools and click Import.  Then in that list, click Categories and Tags Converter, which “Converts existing categories to tags or tags to categories, selectively”.  Then it will show you a list of all your Categories and allow you to convert them.

This tool was particularily helpful on this blog when moving it from our old site on blogger.

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Send Large Files with Podmailing

December 7th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | 2 Comments | Filed in How Tos, Online, Tech

Sure you can use my old solution “Transfer Files Easily with Bittorrent“, but the problem is, that solution isn’t really that simple.  Here’s a brand new solution that I really like: Podmailing.  It’s a reliable way to transfer files, and it’s super simple too.

Download Podmailing

Read the FAQs and soon you’ll be transferring tons of stuff. Podmailing uses P2P technology to send files.

You can even upload files to the Vipeers service, within the program, and that online service automatically generates multiple

The only downside with this service that I found was the fact that both clients need Podmailing, but it is so easy to install, so it’s not much of a problem. Another thing I found was that the program hung when you tried to connect to the servers the first time I ran the program, but after I restarted, it worked fine.

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Transfer Files Easily Using BitTorrent

April 29th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | 5 Comments | Filed in Uncategorized
BitTorrent is a wonderful protocol that makes transfer of big files simple. Have you ever wanted to send a huge file to your friend (such as the ISO image of that wedding DVD you can’t mail to your friend)? Well, here’s the answer. Download a program called uTorrent at www.utorrent.com and install it. Now, open it (it will probably open by itself once you’re done installing it). Then click on the file menu, and click on Create New Torrent (or press “Ctrl + N”). A window will pop up. In “Select Source” click either on Select File (if it’s only one file you’re making the torrent of), or click on Add Directory to add a whole folder of files to the torrent you’re going to distribute. Once you’re done that, click on the “trackers” field and paste this in:

http://www.torrent-downloads.to:2710/announce

http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce

udp://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce

http://www.sumotracker.com/announce

These servers track the downloading and uploading from the peers.
Type in a comment for your downloaders in the “comment” section.

Check the “start seeding” checkbox but leave the “private torrent” box alone.

Click on “Create and Save As”. Save that file in “My Documents”, and send that file to any people who want to download the file. Then leave uTorrent open for a long long time, and when you are leaving it open, you are sending the file to the people who are going to recieve it. Tell them to leave uTorrent open for a long time too, so everybody gets a chance to get the file. If you want to publicly share your torrent, go to http://www.mininova.org/upload and upload it for the whole world to see!

Hope this will help!

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