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Generally, when there is an uploading file error with no other error message, there is an errantly placed string of bytes that break the upload.

This seems to be more common in WMV files does, Windows Movie Maker allow you to save as anything else? I have never had this problem with mpg or mov files but have seen it happen with WMVs.

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What type of file is it saved as? Do you get a particular error?

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"Will you be there" is the michael jackson song from free willy

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These are very interesting questions, and I hope I can clarify this for everybody.

Veena is introducing a new feature into her newsletter where she involves members and friends in the goings on of the StudioVeena.Com day to day. This is not a contest, nor is it an established event, nor is it a competition. There is no list on which to "get on". It is purely an effort to bring the community closer together by giving everyone insight into the lives and personalities of certain members who have arrived here, in the San Francisco Bay area, one way or another. Most importantly, it is fun for us.

If you are coming the San Francisco Bay area, email us. If we are able, we’d love to meet you while you are here. If there is time we’ll even do some video together.

We respectfully request that you refrain from questions of who paid for what in the forum or chat room. Public discussions of topics like this are tacky and in poor taste.

Thanks, we love you all, and wish we could meet each and every one of you.

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Please replace your videos and photos that are missing. We cannot recover them.

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Chat should now be working. Please everyone duck in and let me know if you are able to talk to others.

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Chat is a result of our issues last night. We will have everything resolved by tonight.

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Foxy could you retry that, I had to reset our PHP configuration.

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Here are some links to help you out. B&H photo is where I get most of my equipment, they are a huge supplier out of New York with great customer service.

The camcorder
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/539289-REG/Canon_2680B001_VIXIA_HV30_HDV_High.html

My favorite mic
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/201377-REG/Canon_3176A002_DM_50_Directional_Stereo_Microphone.html

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I’m a fan of the Canon HV30 you can pick it up for $750 if you look online and its got all kinds of neat features. Full HD at 1080p, selectable framerates to 30 frames per second. It has the Canon advanced hot-shoe that you can plug any number of devices into including several fancy microphones or even an adapter for professional microphones.

If you want to see some samples of work with the HV30 just go to youtube and search. Make sure to pick ones with HD because thats where you’ll see its true capabilities. We’re gonna start shooting StudioVeena videos with this camera once we get our new lighting.

Just to put the cherry on the sundae. I had a canon GL2 which is a $2800 camera, I prefer this one by far. It has better color seperation, it’s smaller, and much higher image quality. Canon uses a special prism to get the same quality as you do with a 3CCD setup out of a single CMOS sensor. In short its AWESOME!!!!

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VLC does somewhat acceptable transcoding and can be found at http://www.videolan.org/vlc/. It’s not perfect but it might work. I’ve had it drop frames, render things crooked etc… but generally it works fairly well and its FREE.

In general video still lacks any real good GUI based open source projects, if you were on Mac I would direct you to FFMpegX for transcoding but beyond that I have very little knowledge of open source/free projects. If you are willing to put a little money into it Adobe Premiere elements is a great little editing package that you can get for windows and it will import nearly any format.

Once you switch to Mac you’ll get iMovie for free which in combination with Quicktime will allow you to work with nearly anything. When you are ready to move up you can go to Final Cut Express and then to Final Cut pro for hollywood level editing (we are learning this package for StudioVeena.Com).

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Wow, it sounds like I’m at work. "How many hours would it take to {insert task here}?" https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif We’ll see what I can do.

Thanks for the suggestion.

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The site is designed to inhibit this type of behavior. Additionally it is prohibited by the terms of service and would be a violation of your registration on the site.

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You’ll notice the terms of use on the site specifically govern the use of all content on the site and prohibit the use of video without prior written permission. The specific line you refer to is for the legal protection of StudioVeena.Com.

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Vista is almost dead, as one of the shortest lived Windows versions they are replacing it with Windows 7 in a couple months, Vista is not an OS it is a virus. I have tried out Windows 7 and it is WAY better than Vista. Not better enough to get me away from Linux and Mac but hey…

My favorite version of Linux is Ubuntu. It is by far the easiest to use and most intuitive, I would absolutely not suggest any other version for a new user. It also makes it easiest to install new software as most of it is available for free through synaptic (the install manager for Ubuntu). Oh yeah, StudioVeena.Com runs off of an Ubuntu server. Remember Video is sorely lacking in Linux.