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Super 8 conversion to DVD I am currently trying to convert my families Super 8 home movies to DVD and have had limited success. To begin with I thought I would just pay to have a professional do the work for me. I started by getting DVD Transfer in Adelaide city to do one, 3 minute tape first. I got it back and was very disappoint as he told me the film had degraded very badly and the footage was very purple. I decided to get my Super 8 projector working so I could see the quality of the rest before paying the $3,500 to convert the other 20 I had. After getting the projector fixed I played the tape and was surprised at how clear it was. Here is a side by side comparison of what DVD transfer gave me and a simple “Cam” job by me, against the wall. As you can see they are very different. For starters mine has more in the frame and is no where near as dark and purple. By the way, the picture that is projected on my home wall is much, much better that what I can show here. DVD Transfer is a...

Over the past few weeks I have been converting Super 8 videos to my computer as well as scanning old pictures. During the process I have had a few hiccups and have had to explain encoding and quality degradation to a few people without success. I decided to do a little experiment and blog my results. If I take a jpg picture and save it, without editing anything, 100 times will I lose any quality. Here is my starting picture. (640 * 480 @ 43.9kb) (please note this blog may change the size on upload) Here is the same picture after saving 10 times Here is the same picture after 20 saves. It's quite obvious we are losing quality somewhere (no need to do the 100). The reason for this is that jpg is a lossy compression format. Even when saving a JPG at the highest quality it is still compressed and has a slight quality loss. On the other hand TIFF and BMP are lossless formats saving each and every pixel of information. This is great but the file size can be cumbersome for the web.

In 2005 I decided to purchase a car I had been looking at for a few years. It seemed to have all the mod cones that you would expect in a luxury car. After purchasing it my friends asked why I would ever by a Mitsubishi. They are terrible, unreliable, poor quality and won't go the distance they would say. In 2011 I decided to purchase one of the most popular cars in the country. This one my friends would approve of and sing my praise for purchasing. The Mazda 3. Admittedly the Mazda is more attractive than the Verada but after driving it for a few months I decides to write the following comparison between this car and the old one. Here we go. Mazda Cons Speaker vibration No power (2L compared to 3.6) Changes to overdrive gear in low revs fault Slow gear change when slowing then accelerating No sensor in rear-view mirror for auto dim No trip computer Poorly designed cavities to catch debris in body work No boot release on keys No immobiliser No alarm Annoying unnec...

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The following with the the history from your Iphone as well as clear the auto complete on the url drop down and search box. 1) Go to Settings --> Safari 2) Change your search engine (switch from Google to Yahoo! or vice versa) 3) Tap Home button 4) Tap Safari 5) Go to Settings --> Safari 6) Tap the following sequentially: Clear History, Clear Cookies, Clear Cache 7) Change your search engine back to what it was originally 8) Tap Home button 9) Launch Safari and verify search history is gone

I recently succumbed to peer pressure and purchased an IPhone. I quickly became addicted to downloading free apps and games. I then started working out how to write IPhone apps and jailbroke, unlocked and installed my first app. This experience allowed me to start playing with other application settings and thats how I found some cheats for IPhone games. For the cheat today you will need to be able to access the file system of your IPhone. You can do this with a jail broken phone using IPhoneBrowser.exe and a windows box or by using the IFile application found in Cyder. There are two version of Tower Madness. In this example I will use TM Zero. IFile will give you the application path of TM Zero if you turn the "Application Names" on. On my IPhone it is /var/mobile/Applications/BF8776BD-ABB7-4094-932E-4EC08C8C6305 Once you find the application path go to the TM Zero .app folder and look for files ending in gamemode. These files hold all of ...

When I tried to get a VOB file from a DVD in to Sony Vegas the clip would only be a few seconds long even though the movie was 20 minutes. My solution was as follows Download Super from here http://www.erightsoft.org/GetFile.php?SUPERsetup.exe This is a totally free product for encoding video! In Super make sure you stream the Video so that it is not re encoded! Make the output container is MPG ( I could not get WMV, MP4 to work and AVI was blurry once in Vegas.. strange) Do whatever you want with the audio. All this is really doing is changing the container. No when you bring the clip in to Vegas it works correctly.