360° Virtual Tours and Wide Panoramic Images
To create a 360° virtual tour, you’ll need a few things: 360° camera Insta360 One R Twin Edition The Insta360 One R Twin Edition camera seems like a good choice because it can double as an action cam. It’s currently on sale for $410. Pros: Modular and therefore can add modules that offer different / […]
Read MoreHow to Create an Automated Light Show in Sync with Music
Let’s say you have a bunch of songs and for each song, you want to have different colored lights come on and off and/or move around. In order to do this, you need a few things: Light fixtures DMX Interface DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) software / controller Light fixtures There are different types of light […]
Read MoreQuick Intro to SketchUp 3D Modeling
Here’s a quick intro to 3d modeling using SketchUp in the browser. Note: you can use SketchUp online or using the downloaded app. The free version of SketchUp doesn’t support creating Bezier curves. For that and other features, you’ll have to upgrade to SketchUp Pro. When we create a new SketchUp sketch, we see this […]
Read MoreEasily Download Entire YouTube Playlists
Have you ever needed to download a bunch of YouTube videos right before a long international flight for local playback? If so, one easy way is to add the videos to a playlist and use DL Now / YouTube DLG to download them all in one click. The software costs $19 but it saves a […]
Read MoreFix Out-of-Sync Audio When Rendering mp4 Videos
If you take an mp4 (mpeg-4) video and put it in a video editing program like Corel VideoStudio and then render the same video without any other assets (images, audio, other videos, etc), then you may find that the resulting video becomes out-of-sync with the audio. To fix this, you can use Avidemux as follows. […]
Read MoreImprove Performance When Working with Large Videos in Corel VideoStudio
Nowadays, videos can be recorded at 4K resolution which is great for visual quality but bad for editing performance. To fix this, you can enable some settings in Corel VideoStudio under Settings > Performance as follows. These settings will cause VideoStudio to generate a smaller version of a large video file so speedier editing. In […]
Read MoreMake a Music Video with Many Video Tracks in Corel VideoStudio
Making a music video often requires transitioning between multiple video clips. Many video editing programs have many effects for transitioning between video clips. The most common transition effect is the cross fade. In Corel VideoStudio, you can apply this transition by dragging it over the two video clips where they meet. Since this is a […]
Read MoreShow playlists a Google Play song is in
If you’ve got many songs in Google Play Music, it can be difficult to manage which songs are in which playlists. Google Play Music doesn’t show you a list of playlists a particular song is in, if any. To create such a list, here’s a solution that works. https://jsbin.com/wekumiseya/edit?html,output The result will be a JSON […]
Read MoreStable Video Recording and Action Cams
I’ve been playing around with taking videos and video editing. My main issues with taking videos are poor quality in low light conditions (e.g. indoors or night time) too much shaking / lack of image stabilization huge video files missing scenes / cut off subjects difficult to bring or to use suddenly while traveling Cameras […]
Read MoreScanSnap iX500 – Orange Light Error & Basic Use Instructions
The Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 document scanner is one of the best sub $500 scanners. Unfortunately, the documentation isn’t good. I tried scanning a document over wi-fi to my laptop, which normally works fine, but one day the blue light would keep changing to orange. I ended up having to uninstall and reinstall the installation software. […]
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