While I'm new to videoblogging I'm keen to quickly explore my options. The recommendations for publishing online carried in BlipTV http://blip.tv/learning/export/ seem to parallel those promoted by other sources such as Dedman, etc.
I've got a low RAM pc such that many video editing programs are ponderous on it. So, after exploring my options I thought I'd simply stick with Movie Maker -- although it presents a few SAVE AS issues. MM has all I need in way of bells and whistles but it has an extremely annoying cut tool which I find very difficult to deploy the way I want. So I'm learning to use VirtualDub which slices and dices like the best kitchen helper tool. There's no comparison in the way Virtual Dub cuts the clips and its better than Ulead and Pinnacle, I think, in that regard. The ebook manual written for it is very comnprehensive: http://www.packtpub.com/virtualdub/book. On a good run you cat slice in a twice. I gather there are quite a few folk in the video universe who prefer to combine VirtualDub with Movie Maker so I was wandering what sort of capture to publish protocol they followed? I assume that finishing off would also involved QuickTime Pro prior to upload -- so that's three program tools for the one end result. I've got no issues with that. I just want precise control over my slices and dices... [The annoying thing is that it is complicated to go Movie Maker to VirtualDub as the audio on the DV-AVI files won't necessarily process in VirtualDub. So I assume you gotta go VirtualDub > Movie Maker > QuickTime Pro > Web upload. But what's the preferred SAVE AS en route for videoblogging? I sure folk have their preferences.) dave riley http://ratbaggy.blogspot.com/
