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4 Good Reasons To Transfer Your Videotapes

If you have a collection of old videotapes gathering dust in a closet or basement, transferring them to disk or a digital format may be a wise decision. Here are four good reasons why: 1. One of the best reasons to transfer your videotapes is to preserve precious...

Handbrake Converts Video

Handbrake is a free and open-source video transcoder program that will convert video files from one format to another. It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Handbrake was first released in 2003 as a DVD ripping tool. It was originally developed by Eric Petit and...

A Chatbot With A Difference

You've probably heard about ChatGPT by now. It is all over the interweb and social media. I am bombarded with YouTube videos showing me how much money I can make using ChatGPT to start a variety of businesses. Beware! At least two such videos appeared to have the same...

Raising Prices

Time to raise your prices? One of the first considerations is to check the costs of running your business. Here are a few - outsourcing costs, electricity, internet, technology, accountant. For a longer list of costs see Video Business Tax Deductions. What is your...

Budget Video Editing and Gaming Laptop

Acer Nitro 5 AN515-45-R92M Gaming Laptop, AMD Ryzen 7 5800H (8-Core) | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU |15.6" FHD 144Hz IPS Display | 16GB DDR4 | 512GB NVMe SSD | WiFi 6 | RGB Backlit Keyboard The Nitro 5 is a great budget gaming laptop which would also be great...

Going To The Darkside

Going To The Darkside

The Unsinkable Boston Whaler I found on Craigslist My new boat Going To The Darkside is what sailors call it when one of their own buys a powerboat rather than a sailboat. I used to joke how I would never do that. Well, I did. A neighbor was the first to mention it in...

Adobe Rush Cross Platform Video Editing Software

Adobe Rush is cross platform including phones, Mac and PC desktops. Like any good editing program Rush allows multiple video layers. It supports a wide variety of file types and cameras. Adobe Rush can make titles and animated titles. Rush includes all the important...

How To Check Your Shutter Count on Mirrorless Cameras

How To Check Your Shutter Count on Mirrorless Cameras

Take a jpg file or a raw image file from your camera before you've done any editing to one of these websites. The first is tools.science.si Drag the image, for instance a jpg, and you can see right away your shutter count. It shows that one of my cameras has made...