Windows Movie Maker is a basic video editing software included in Microsoft Windows that allows users to add effects, transitions, titles, audio tracks, and create movies. It also functions as a basic audio editing program. WinRAR is a file compression utility that can create and extract various archive file formats like RAR, ZIP, and 7z. It includes features like encryption, file recovery, and support for modern file systems. Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program and industry standard for image manipulation that allows complex photo editing and compositing.
More details: http://www.leawo.org/tutorial/convert-and-burn-avchd-to-dvd.html
How to convert AVCHD to playable DVD? – I have a Canon Vixia 100 which records in AVCHD and am looking for a program that will enable me to burn onto DVD-RW.Something that won’t cost hundreds. My OS is Vista premium 64 bit." Nowadays, most families get a HD camera, like Sony, Panasonic, Canon, JVC, Nicon, etc. Shooting HD videos during journey with these HD cameras has been a major way to record happy moments. However, AVCHD videos, recorded with these HD cameras, are not widely accepted by either computer’s players or portable media players. No native players and editors of Mac and Windows computers recognize AVCHD files. Burning AVCHD to DVD requires additional 3rd-party AVCHD to DVD converter apps. This post guides you to know more about AVCHD files and AVCHD to DVD burning.
Multimedia data and information must be stored in a disk file using formats similar to image file formats. Multimedia formats, however, are much more complex than most other file formats because of the wide variety of data they must store. Such data includes text, image data, audio and video data, computer animations, and other forms of binary data, such as Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI), control information, and graphical fonts. (See the "MIDI Standard" section later in this chapter.) Typical multimedia formats do not define new methods for storing these types of data. Instead, they offer the ability to store data in one or more existing data formats that are already in general use.
For example, a multimedia format may allow text to be stored as PostScript or Rich Text Format (RTF) data rather than in conventional ASCII plain-text format. Still-image bitmap data may be stored as BMP or TIFF files rather than as raw bitmaps. Similarly, audio, video, and animation data can be stored using industry-recognized formats specified as being supported by that multimedia file format.
More details: http://www.leawo.org/tutorial/convert-and-burn-avchd-to-dvd.html
How to convert AVCHD to playable DVD? – I have a Canon Vixia 100 which records in AVCHD and am looking for a program that will enable me to burn onto DVD-RW.Something that won’t cost hundreds. My OS is Vista premium 64 bit." Nowadays, most families get a HD camera, like Sony, Panasonic, Canon, JVC, Nicon, etc. Shooting HD videos during journey with these HD cameras has been a major way to record happy moments. However, AVCHD videos, recorded with these HD cameras, are not widely accepted by either computer’s players or portable media players. No native players and editors of Mac and Windows computers recognize AVCHD files. Burning AVCHD to DVD requires additional 3rd-party AVCHD to DVD converter apps. This post guides you to know more about AVCHD files and AVCHD to DVD burning.
Multimedia data and information must be stored in a disk file using formats similar to image file formats. Multimedia formats, however, are much more complex than most other file formats because of the wide variety of data they must store. Such data includes text, image data, audio and video data, computer animations, and other forms of binary data, such as Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI), control information, and graphical fonts. (See the "MIDI Standard" section later in this chapter.) Typical multimedia formats do not define new methods for storing these types of data. Instead, they offer the ability to store data in one or more existing data formats that are already in general use.
For example, a multimedia format may allow text to be stored as PostScript or Rich Text Format (RTF) data rather than in conventional ASCII plain-text format. Still-image bitmap data may be stored as BMP or TIFF files rather than as raw bitmaps. Similarly, audio, video, and animation data can be stored using industry-recognized formats specified as being supported by that multimedia file format.
Codec stands for enCOder/DECoder or COmpressor/DECompressor. It is a software or hardware that compresses and decompresses audio and video data streams.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
2. Windows Movie Maker is a basic video
creating/editing software included in
Microsoft Windows. It contains features such
as effects, transitions, titles/credits, audio
track, timeline narration, and Auto Movie. New
effects and transitions can be made and
existing ones can be modified using XML code.
Windows Movie Maker is also a basic audio
track editing program. It can apply basic effects
to audio tracks such as fade in or fade out. The
audio tracks can then be exported in the form
of a sound file instead of a video file.
3. WinRAR is a shareware file archiver and data
compression utility developed by Eugene
Roshal, and first released around 1995.[1] It is
one of the few applications that is able to create
RAR archives natively, because the encoding
method is held to be proprietary.
Complete support for RAR and ZIP archives,
and unpacking of ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE,
UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, EXE, 7z, and Z archives.
Future versions of WinRAR are planned to
include 7z creation.
4. WinRAR supports the following features:
Complete support for RAR and ZIP archives, and
unpacking of ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2,
JAR, ISO, EXE, 7z, and Z archives. Future versions of
WinRAR are planned to include 7z creation.[3]
The ability to create self-extracting and multi-volume
(split) archives.
Data redundancy is provided via recovery records and
recovery volumes, allowing reconstruction of damaged
archives.
Support for advanced NTFS file system options and
Unicode in file names.
Optional archive encryption using AES (Advanced
Encryption Standard) with a 128-bit key.
5. Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a
graphics editing program (also known as a
DPP, Desktop Publishing Program) developed
and published by Adobe Systems. It is the
current market leader for commercial bitmap
and image manipulation software, and is the
flagship product of Adobe Systems. It has been
described as "an industry standard for graphics
professionals"[1] and was one of the early "killer
applications" on the PC.[2]
6. Photoshop CS3 is marketed with three main components of
improvement over previous versions: "Work more
productively, edit with unrivalled power, and composite
with breakthrough tools."[7] New features propagating
productivity include streamlined interface, improved
Camera Raw, better control over print options, enhanced
PDF support, and better management with Adobe Bridge.
Editing tools new to CS3 are the Clone Source palette and
nondestructive Smart Filters, and other features such as the
Brightness/Contrast adjustment and Vanishing Point
module were enhanced. The Black and White adjustment
option improves users control over manual grayscale
conversions with a dialog box similar to that of Channel
Mixer. Compositing is assisted with Photoshop's new Quick
Selection and Refine Edge tools and improved.. image
stitching technology.[7]
7. Photoshop CS4 features additions such as the ability to paint
directly on 3D models, wrap 2D images around 3D shapes,
convert gradient maps to 3D objects, add depth to layers
and text, get print-quality output with the new ray-tracing
rendering engine, and enjoy exporting to supported
common 3D formats; the new Adjustment and Mask Panels;
Content-aware scaling (also known as seam carving[9]);
Fluid Canvas Rotation and File display options.[10] On 30
April, Adobe released Photoshop CS4 Extended, which
includes all the same features of Adobe Photoshop CS4 with
the addition of capabilities for scientific imaging, 3D, and
high end film and video users. The successor to Photoshop
CS3, Photoshop CS4, is the first 64-bit Photoshop on
consumer computers. (only Windows. The OS-X version is
still 32-bit only)
8. QuickTime is a multimedia framework
developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling
various formats of digital video, media clips,
sound, text, animation, music, and interactive
panoramic images. It is available for Mac OS
(Mac OS 9, 8, 7, etc.), Mac OS X and Microsoft
Windows operating systems. The latest version
is 7.6.
9. The included QuickTime Player is limited to only the most basic playback operations
unless the user purchases a QuickTime Pro license key, which Apple sells for US$29.95.
Apple's "ProApplications" (e.g. Final Cut Studio, Logic Studio) come with a free
QuickTime Pro license. Pro keys are specific to the major version of QuickTime for
which they are purchased. The Pro key unlocks additional features of the QuickTime
Player application on Mac OS X or Windows (although most of these can be accessed
simply by using players, video editors or miscellaneous utilities from other sources).[3]
Use of the Pro key does not entail any additional downloads.
Features enabled by the Pro license include, but are not limited to:
Editing clips through the Cut, Copy and Paste functions, merging separate audio and
video tracks, and freely placing the video tracks on a virtual canvas with the options of
cropping and rotation.
Saving and exporting (encoding) to any of the codecs supported by QuickTime.
QuickTime 7 includes presets for exporting video to a video-capable iPod, Apple TV,
and the iPhone.
Saving existing QuickTime Movies from the web directly to a hard disk drive. This is
often, but not always, either hidden or intentionally blocked in the standard mode. It
should be noted that two options exist for saving movies from a web browser:
Save As Source - This option will save the embedded video in its original format. (i.e., not limited
to *.mov files.)
Save As QuickTime Movie - This option will save the embedded video in a *.mov file format no
matter what the original encoding is/was.
10. Windows Media Player (abbreviated WMP) is
a digital media player and media library
application developed by Microsoft that is used
for playing audio, video and viewing images
on personal computers running the Microsoft
Windows operating system, as well as on
Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices.
Editions of Windows Media Player were also
released for Mac OS, Mac OS X and Solaris but
development of these has since been
discontinued.
11. Allows the user to connect, share and sync data with portable handheld
devices and game consoles. Media can be optionally transcoded to a
format better suited for the target device, automatically, when
synchronizing.
Playback of audio, video and pictures, along with fast forward, reverse,
seek and time compression and dilation.
Supports local playback, streaming playback and progressive downloads.
Support for any media codec and container format using specific
DirectShow filters.
Full media management, via the integrated media library, which offers
cataloguing and searching of media. Media can be arranged according to
album, artist, genre, date et al..
Video Smoothing which upscales frame-rate by interpolating added
frames, in effect giving a smoother playback on low-framerate videos.
Includes a 10-band graphic equalizer and SRS WOW audio post-
processing system. Windows Media Player can also have attached plug-
ins which process the output audio or video data.
12. Features a taskbar-mounted Mini mode in which the most common media control buttons
are presented as a toolbar on the Windows taskbar. Flyout windows can display media
information, the active visualization or the video being played back.
Can use video overlays or VMR surfaces, if the video card supports them. In Windows
XP, it uses VMR7 by default, but can also be made to use the more advanced YUV
mixing mode by enabling the "Use high quality mode" option in Advanced Performance
settings. This turns on deinterlacing, scaling and improved color accuracy. [8]
Version 11 introduced improved support for DirectX accelerated decoding of WMV
video (DXVA decoding)
Features integrated CD-burning support for audio as well as data CDs. Data CDs can
have any of the media formats supported by the player. While burning Data CDs, the
media can, optionally, be transcoded into WMA format.
Audio CDs can be ripped as WMA or WMA 10 Pro at 48, 64, 96, 128, 160 and 192 kbit/s,
WMA lossless (470 to 940 kbit/s), WMA variable bitrate (from 40-75 kbit/s up to 240-355
kbit/s), MP3 at 128, 192, 256 and 320 kbit/s, or uncompressed WAV. 24 bit high-
resolution CDs are also supported, if capable audio hardware is present.
Information on CDs such as album name, artist and track listings can optionally be
automatically downloaded from the Microsoft Windows Media Database when the CD
is inserted.
13. Includes intrinsic support for Windows Media codecs which
support multichannel audio at up to 24-bit 192 kHz resolution.
Can play files in WMA, WAV or MP3 media formats. However, it
will not play MP3 files that contain compressed ID3 headers
("tags"); trying to do so results in a "The input media file is
invalid" error message.
Supports subtitles and closed-captioning, if present in the media.
Features "Synchronized Lyrics", by which different lines of lyrics
can be time-stamped, so that they display only at those times.
Windows Explorer shell integration to add files and playlist to the
Now Playing and other playlists can be controlled from the
Windows Explorer shell itself, via right-click menu.
Provides an embeddedable ActiveX control for Internet Explorer
so that developers can play Windows Media on web pages.
A fully featured tag editor was featured in versions 8-11 of WMP,
called the Advanced Tag Editor. However, the feature was not
present in the latest preview version of Windows Media Player 12.