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193 weekly newsletters were published to subscribers from May 2004 to March 2008, and starting in 2007 other articles were written for Bright Hub. This page is a table of contents with links to all of them.

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Newsletters and Bright Hub Articles

For ease of finding one, or reading all of them about a particular item, I'll sort them by topic. Hopefully, it'll save you having to use the Google search feature.

Knowledge and Skills

Digital video editing can be fun, easy, challenging, frustrating, or impossible... with the only thing different being your knowledge, skills and motivation.

Hardware and software changes. Get your basic knowledge and skills down and you can easily keep up with the changes.

Welcome... to the video channel of Bright Hub. Parts of this March 08 article are already obsolete as I'm not managing the video channel of Bright Hub... but writing articles for it. Read it for the parts about you.
Assess Yourself... the same comment applies to this article
Welcome to Digital Video
Welcome to the Digital Video Channel... of Bright Hub
You... and Your Computer Skills... an article at Bright Hub that includes a short self-assessment quiz
Basic Computer Skills... Dec 05 newsletter that goes into more depth about skills
2 Journeys from Analog to Digital... Jan 06 newsletter about 'digital PapaJohn' and 'analog Chuck'
Calibrate Your Video Expectations... video visual quality is often less than still pictures or slide shows... think 1/3 of a megapixel versus your digital camera
File Formats start with file extensions such as .avi, .wmv, and mov... a July 04 newsletter
Pixels... the visual building blocks
High Definition... this mid-May 2004 newsletter was the first one issued. Much about the topic has happened since.
Interlacing happens when you use half-frames instead of full ones, and mix them together to get the whole picture.
Interlaced versus Progressive... video streaming into TV sets is interlaced... while big screen movies are progressive. The little p in 720p means'progressive' while the little i in 1080i means interlaced.
The Bright Side of Digital Video... is all about you, and what you want to do with your digital videos.
Gather Content - it's all around you... images, video clips, sounds... build a library or get it as needed.
a Mass of Vacation Videos and Pictures... what to do with over 9,000 still pictures and 20 hours of video footage from a vacation.
Scanning 35mm Slides. Digital scanners have been developed to support this once-in-a-lifetime conversion process from your boxes and trays of slides.
Organizing Still Pictures Before Importing... suggestions by Yves Alaire.
Prepping Still Pix for Import... no matter how good a still picture is, it can usually be enhanced by other software before importing to a story or movie project.
Managing Files with Total Commander... evolved from Norton Commander in the days of DOS to Vista, it's still my favorite file management tool
Taking Video - Summer Sports... this newsletter happens to be about baseball
Editing Wedding Videos... a 'traditional' wedding
Taking Video - Focus on the Subject... when videoing sports
Travel Videos and Trip Advisor... where such videos are more appreciated by the target audience than they are are on broad-based hosts such as YouTube. Viewing stats bear it out.
Vacationing and Videos of Hotels... as long as you're there anyway, use your camcorder to help hotels you like get more visibility.
Europe 301... making a website to display pictures and videos of our 3rd trip to Europe.

Documentaries... Civil War re-enactment... close enough to a documentary for my digital camcorder.

Video Files and Viewers... digital files can't be viewed without a digital viewer, not like the days of using a magnifying glass with a little reel of film.
Copy a Digital Video File... or Render a New One - What's the Difference?
Copyrights and Permissions... laws are often difficult to understand and adhere to
Enter a Video Contest... win or lose, it'll help you fine tune your knowledge and skills
Adding Complexity to a Project, and Tweaking Virtual Memory... as your movie project gets more complex, your computer's needs for memory goes up
Adware and Spyware... constant challenges... this Jan 05 newsletter walks you through the process I use to clean house
Can't Save a Movie... or Story. An often heard issue, for many possible reasons