Most of us have been used to YouTube’s low quality videos. But lately, YouTube has been creating better quality versions of many(not all) videos. If available, the video page would display “Watch in high quality.” at the bottom right corner of the video. Simply click the link at the bottom right and watch the high quality (HQ)version of that video. If you don’t see a link, it means there’s no HQ version of the video.
Link to watch in high quality in YouTube
Many people have been asking me “Which video-editing software is better: Premiere or After Effects?” I never answered that question directly. Rather, I gave them to understand that Premiere and After Effects are not competing software, but tandem software. In other words, they work hand in hand.
Adobe After Effects takes footages and introduces effects into them (well, what were you expecting?), ranging from color correction like brightness, contrast, levels, balance, etc., to “full-blown” (for lack of a better word) animation effects like particles, fire, texture, morphing, whatever the artist’s imagination and skills can conk out.
Adobe After Effects interface
Unless you wish to give yourself a hard time, you don’t organize and finalize your video project in After Effects. Perhaps you can manage it with short films like commercials, but for something that goes to the average 30 minutes to one and a half hours, bad idea. True to its name, it’s got tons of effects, but it is not designed for organizing an entire video project.
That is the job for Adobe Premiere. It has basic color correction effects and other filters, but these pale in comparison to After Effects’ arsenal. Premiere’s specialty is organizing and finalizing your video project. Here is where you take your individual footages exported from After Effects, along with other footages, and audio files and put them together to form that final project. Here is where you get to do cool tricks (not effects) like synching the visuals with the audio, precisely timing transitions, etc.
Adobe Premiere interface
A codec is software that is used to compress or decompress a digital media file, such as a song or video. When you play a digital media file, Windows Media Player uses a codec to decompress the file. Codecs are used to create and play nearly all music or video files on your computer or on web sites.
In other words, you don’t need to install different players for different formats on your computer. But some people prefer a different player other than Windows Media Player for their interface features and functionalities. Whatever your player is, you can use that player to play any video and audio formats as long as you have to right codecs.
Do you know what BitComet is? It’s a torrent client that you use for downloading torrent files. Besides being a torrent client, BitComet has a stand-alone FLV player and it’s SO small. It’s only about 274kb (at the time of this writing). Top that! It’s the only player that I’ve seen that is so small and yet it has all the necessary features that you need for an FLV player.
You can get BitComet’s FLV player from this page.
BitComet's FLV Player
First of all, you’d probably ask what a torrent is. A torrent is a small file which contains information such as the files, location and size of what you are going to download. In short, a torrent file is a download information of the actual movie, mp3 or software that you will be downloading.
To download anything, you need a torrent client such as uTorrent, Azureus (now called Vuze) and many more. A torrent client is a software that is used for downloading and uploading torrent files.
So let’s get started and follow the steps:
uTorrent Speed Guide
Mininova sample page
Adding a torrent for download
Warning:
While P2P file sharing technology is completely legal, many of the files traded through P2P are copyrighted. Unless you live in Canada where citizens are shielded from P2P copyright lawsuits, downloading music, movie, and TV files will put you at risk for a civil lawsuit in any other country. These lawsuits usually take the form of class-action suits, filed against groups of users who are logged as blatantly copying and distributing copyrighted materials. Recently, the MPAA and RIAA, along with the governments of England and Australia, took several thousand users to court, demanding that they pay thousands of dollars in copyright infringement penalties. Please keep this lawsuit risk in mind when you install and use any BitTorrent software in the USA, Europe, or Asia.
