193 weekly newsletters were published 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.
As newsletters and articles were published, links were added to the hundreds of pages of this website, but without a table of contents or index.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Reviews, tutorials and other articles about Movie Maker, Photo Story and other apps in your software toolbox. You can't have too many.
Video editing...
MM1 and MM2... I still use all versions of Movie Maker
Photo Story 3 and Movie Maker 2 Working Together... stories work better for still pix than movies, but Movie Maker is my usual tool for producing videos... users of Macs can't view story files but can see movies.
Editing Basics... discard most of what you have and enhance what's left
Windows SP2 and MM2.1. The 'compatibility tab' is introduced and using a DV camcorder to 'pass-thru' analog sources returns.
Visually Seamless... an exercise in getting a video to flow from one scene to the next without sharp cuts... morphing tools come in handy
What Frames Do You See? I'm intrigued by the fact that you can't see a digital video without a digital player... if there's an issue, is it the video or the player? Don't jump to conclusions.
Civil War Project Part I... first of a series of 4 newsletters showing the steps used to make a documentary-type video
