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Tired of seeing notifications when you're watching a movie on your Xbox 360? It's great to be notified about your friends and achievements when playing a game, but most people don't want to be bothered while watching a DVD. Buried in the system is an option to turn off notifications - but only while you're watching a video.
Having an iPhone ringtone from a song is all well and good, but what if you want to make a ringtone from a video? Perhaps you want some music or the theme from a TV show, or a memorable clip of a film to use as an alarm on your iPhone. With the free software already on your computer, you can cut out part of a video's audio and make it a ringtone!
You need to take a screencap of something on your Xbox360 - or any gaming console for that matter. It's actually not too hard as long as you have the right software. Because the Xbox 360doesn't have a built in screen shot feature, the only way to do so is through video capture software. Not only will this tutorial show you how to take screenshots of your Xbox360, it'll inadvertently show you how to capture video as well.
Sometimes you'll download or rip a video and notice scan lines running horizontally through the picture. These scanlines aren't always fully visible, but may show up in certain scenes and disrupt parts of the pictures. If you've seen lines running across your video, you can correct them by deinterlacing the file. De-interlacing a video is actually fairly simple. Grab a copy of the free handbreak software and let's get started.
Often when you download a film online it'll come split into two parts. This is convenient if you're going to burn each part to a separate disc, but as we move into an age of digital distribution the need for that physical media is dissipating. Instead of having a bunch of folders with several files for each film, you can combine these two halves of the film together into one video file.
Amazon is one of the biggest plays in digital distribution. With their Video on Demand service (previously known as Unbox) you can buy or rent a movie and watch it immediately on your computer. What many people don't know is that you can now watch (and browse!) those movies on right on your TV.
When you watch a digital film on your computer, you may find a subtitle file included alongside the movie file. The subtitle may have the extention .srt, .sub or .idx. This method of subtitling a film leaves the text in a separate file outside of the actual movie. If you want to watch the movie on a device that doesn't support this kind of file (standard Quicktime, iPod, iPhone, AppleTV, Xbox, etc) you need to hardcode the subtitle so it's imbedded in the movie file. If none of that made any sense to you, that's ok too - this article will show you how to permanently slap that subtitle onto your movie file.
You ever have a digital video file you wish you could remove the beginning or end of? Maybe you have a TV show you want to cut the credits out of, or maybe you need a quick way to edit some video of your own. This article will show you how to cut down a video using only quicktime. You won't even have to re-encode!
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