Do More with Video - Blog Carnival November 5, 2012

To continue in the footsteps of the Do More with Audio blog carnival that we have been hosting for the last two years we have decided to add a Do More with Video blog carnival giving people the chance to share any video filming, recording, editing, production, projects, tips and more. To get things started I did some online to find some interesting posts to share in this first edition, and we hope you will submit your own video posts for the next edition.

So with our further ado here is the first edition of Do More with Video:

Teaching Video Storytelling. If a picture is worth a thousand words, what must a video be worth? Read about one professor's formula for video storytelling.

2012 CamcorderInfo Best of Year Awards. If you are looking for equipment here is what the professionals at camcorderinfo.com would recommend to family, friends and you.

Can I Edit Video from a DVD? An interesting post about the possible compression problems that can arise from extracting video from DVD and then compressing it again.

How to Create 3D Videos. A post about both converting 2D videos into 3D and filming with 3D in mind for better results.

10 Most Popular Types of Viral Videos. If you are hoping to make your own viral video it might help to know what the top are viral video categories.

Music and Video in Windows 8: a work in progress. Promising first steps, but latest offerings don't always play well with others.

What Filmmakers Need To Know About Video on Demand. Traditional theatrical and DVD film distribution models are being replaced by video on demand platforms which will forever alter the ways movies are seen and sold.

Optimizing Videos Embedded on Your Site for Search Engines. When you are putting a video online you want people to find it, and that is where SEO comes in to play to help make sure your video is found and viewed.

You might also be interested in:

• Video editing to the third dimension
• Bring a comic to life with video story telling
• A Movie Making Solution for the New Windows
• Video-sharing from software to site
• Record video from anywhere
• HD for the home
• Video editing is easier than you think
• Give a gift of video memories
• Don't just record video, use it!
• Video Software for your Webcam
• Flying high with first person video

That concludes the first edition of Do More with Video. If you have a video story to share from home movies to video production submit your video blog posts for the next edition.

Record Skype Calls - Easy Audio & Video Call Recording

We have posted before about recording phone calls through a TRX personal call recorder, recording multiple phone lines across a business network with VRS call recording software, or even saving conversations with the Express Talk softphone�s recording feature, but with the advent of internet technology like Skype, what if you want to record a phone conversation on your computer?

Record Skype Audio Calls

The solution to recording your voice-over-IP calls is our SoundTap streaming audio capture software. With SoundTap you can record any audio that is played on or through your PC or Mac, making it easy to record both sides of your conversation; instead of only your microphone input. It is akin to tapping your virtual phone and you can save the audio in .wav or .mp3 format.

Record Skype Video Calls

For video, we suggest you turn to Debut streaming video recording software. Debut is a powerful video capture program that can grab video from virtually any source, including your screen. Make sure your Debut options are enabled to record both video and audio, and then you can easily record your video calls, including Skype, to play back or edit later.

Where in the World is NCH Software?

NCH Software was founded back in 1993 in Canberra and is still headquartered in Australia today. Now there is also an office in Denver, Colorado, and these two main offices are where the majority of the software development and business happen. However, with customers worldwide you will also find a sprinkling of remote developers and support staff in other countries as well.

Back Up Files to Your Online Accounts

Backing up files regularly is an important fail safe to make sure you don't lose valuable information. There are plenty of different ways to back up and protect your documents, including copying files to an external hard drive or burning them on disc, but a more recent solution is storing files online in "the cloud." This means recent versions of your files are saved securely on a web server and an easy way to accomplish this added security is with our FileFort backup software. You can quickly save files to your online Google Drive, Amazon S3, or DropBox accounts, in addition to the standard places like an external hard drive, network folder, USB drive or FTP server. Choose whichever backup solutions work best for you locally or online, and let FileFort easily manage them for complete protection of your files.

Give Your Computer A New Voice

Do you ever have your computer talk to you? Not in the crazy �I'm hearing voices� way, but with software applications like Verbose text to speech software that you can use your computer as a screen reader or save text documents as MP3 files that you can listen to. If you do, you may be one of the people one of the people searching for better Verbose text to speech voices. The robotic sound of the default voices that come with most computer operating systems, like "Microsoft Anna," are one of the biggest complaints we see about text to speech software. So users may want to give their computer a new voice.

Verbose supports SAPI 4 and SAPI 5 compliant voices, so that is all you need to look for when searching for a more natural sounding voice for your machine. To help make your search even faster, if you are looking for an alternative text to speech voice, we recommend that you check out Cepstral who supplies many high quality, more natural sounding voices that you can choose from. All of the offered voices are SAPI 5 compliant. Once a new voice has been installed on your computer you can simply restart the program and the new voice will appear as an option.

U is for Utilities

NCH Software ABCs Series

Software utilities utilities might be less glamorous than our other software products, but this category includes all of the software titles that you need to get your computer working for you. We�ve got software that can help with anything, including all of the day-to-day and maintenance tasks that you might need accomplished. Our focus to bring you fast and easy-to-use software is even more important for programs that fit in this category, as you want these utilities to get the job done. Whether you are burning a disc, backing up files, or cleaning your windows registry, here is our complete list of utility software:

• Bolt PDF printer
  
• Classic FTP file transfer software
  
• Doxillion document and pdf converter
  
• Express Burn disc burning software
  
• Express Zip file compression software
  
• FastFox word expander software
  
• FileFort backup software
  
• Fling ftp syncronization software
  
• KeyBlaze typing tutor software
  
• Meo file encryption software
  
• Orion data and photo recovery
  
• Verbose text to speech screen reader
  
• Verity parental control software
  
• Warp PC registry cleaner
  

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Software for Radio

We already past 'R' in our A to Z software tour, but as a honorable mention after recording, here are a number of professional radio programs designed for specific tasks to help the small or start up radio station or podcaster. So if you are interested in creating or hosting your own audio content be sure to check out these radio applications to help you along the way:

BroadWave is an audio streaming software program designed to broadcast any audio connected to the sound input on the PC. It will also stream audio recordings and all BroadWave streams will play directly from the default web browser on any modern Windows or Mac computer.

VRS is a professional voice recording application that can be used radio station logging, recording multiple audio channels simultaneously with digital signal processing, automatic level control and a continuous recording mode to easily save a copy of all your broadcasts.

From recording to editing and mixing your audio, interviews, music and voiceovers you won't want to be without our favorite duo, WavePad audio editor and MixPad multitrack mixer both are available for your Windows PC or Mac, and for recording and editing on the go you can also download Pocket WavePad on your iPhone or iPad, perfect for those coffee shop interviews and more.

Want to share a snippit of audio from something else online with your listeners? Save streaming audio as an mp3 or wav file on you computer with the use of SoundTap streaming audio recorder to rip the audio you hear playing on your computer. And you can always visit our full arsenal of radio software for additional radio tools and applications.