'Bring On The Night'
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When we strike Halloween there just might be a little bit of that available Sean.
I think I have some in my trunk from last Halloween. Not necessarily enough to run my new surround system, but some.
Actually, my main problem with using 16 gauge zip line is having thick black wires running all over my walls. Of course, since it's an aparment, and I don't really want to run my speaker wire behind the walls anyway, I'd be stuck with visible wires no matter what I did.
I'm tempted to change my tagline to "Look upon my expensive wires ye mighty and despair."
I think you should, Jon. It's an awesome tag line.
Alrighty then!
Sean, you can get white lamp chord too. IJS.
Is there an easy/free way to resave digital video files at a lower quality. I'm trying to put a video on youtube, taken from my brother's camera, and it's a little too big. Ideas? I suck at this stuff, and I'm trying to help my brother figure it out before I leave.
Windows XP and Vista both come standard with Windows Movie Maker, and I'll assume that Macs have some basic video editor as well.
You can try opening the video file up in the editor and simply publish/render it, and that should automatically compress it some.
WMM also has an "import from video camera function".
Huh. It won't open. Apparenlty, .mov is not supported by Windows Movie Maker.
Odd question: I think my current old-style TV is 19". Would that seem about the same size as a 26" wide-screen TV?
I'm kind of looking at this one [link] In what seems to be a pattern for me, I had the impression that the flat-screen TVs were like $1000, but of course my current TV isn't so big to begin with, so it's not like I need to replace it with something enormous.
vw bug, since I've never imported from a video camera, I can only speculate. Either there could be a plug-in or codec out there the WMM needs (check out the online help function for WMM), or you could try visiting videohelp.com and searching for a freeware converter.
This is a list of software that I got when I searched "mov to wmv": [link]
I swear WMM always has some backwards bug.
I think my current old-style TV is 19". Would that seem about the same size as a 26" wide-screen TV?
Using our friend the Pythagorean Theorem, a 26" widescreen TV has a size of about 22.7" x 12.7", while a 19" regular TV has a size of about 15.2" x 11.4".
In other words, the screen is bigger because it's wider (duh). But if you were going to show a regular 4x3 picture on your widesreen TV with black sidebars, the picture would still be a little bit bigger than your old TV.