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Surfing on a Monday

By Suzie Cheel
Monday, April 28th, 2008

Sunday Surfing

Catching up on a bloated reader has highlighted some new and some inspiring happenings around the blogosphere.

Liz Strauss is test driving One Big Planet, a new online world of ecommerce. Liz thinks this is a great find:

You’ll find it as part of your social network, and it will make the way you buy things online easier, faster, and more intelligent…..it leverages the power of the Internet, an intelligent algorithm, Web 2.0 and your personal preferences. read more…………. and Liz has seen it in action! You can tune in and take a test drive April 29th.

The Anti Hype, my colleague, aka Mark Wilson looks at How to find your voice as a blogger, something every blogger has to do. Mark asks: ” How do you stand out from the crowd? There are Who songs to illustrate this point.

Aaron Abber from FullTiltBlogging has a great feature on his blog, the daily blog summary. This saves me time, I can check out Fulltilt Blogging and find some good reads. Aaron is running a free mentoring program. This program started last week with a 2 hour online class – I was impressed. Yes I said free, and you have to do the homework. I have done the homework and have seen a couple of my readers and fellow forum members join too. I think that is exciting. I also am enjoying being accountable. There may still be a couple of places, check this page. Maybe see you on the inside?

On the Entrecard Front I see John Chow has 10,000 Entrecard Credits for one lucky EC member this week. has another contest running where there are prizes.

Then there is $7,000 Entrecard Party the Marcus Hochstadt‘s Internet Business Guide. Both contests will be drawn on May 1st.

Entrecad Contest

Photo of Surfing at Rainbow Bay © Suzie Cheel.

Categories : Blogging, Business, Marketing
Tags : Aaron Abber, Entrecard, Free mentoring, Guru-fodder, John Chow, Liz Strauss, surfing

Convert a Video File for Editing and Uploading

By Des Walsh
Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Talk about starting the week with a challenge! I hope by sharing how I spent a large slab of Monday morning dealing with the mysteries of video file formats and video editing I can help someone who might be facing similar challenges.

Probably nothing to see here for video editing experts.

The background is that yesterday I took a video of champion surfer Taj Burrow, competing in the Quiksilver Pro championships at nearby Snapper Rocks. I used a Samsung Digimax L85 digital camera, which saved the file in .avi format.

This morning, wanting to do a little editing, basically just trimming a bit off the end of the clip, I tried using Windows Movie Maker, Sony Vegas 7.0 and even, as supplied with the camera, Samsung’s Digimax Master. No success with any of these. I could run the video but not edit it.

A Google search turned up a neat online tool, MediaConverter.

This uses a simple five step process.

  1. file selection
  2. new file type
  3. additional options
  4. conversion
  5. download

Helpfully, there are three options for the file selection:

  • Convert a video directly from various portals
  • Convert a video or music by url (http, ftp, mms, mmst, mmsh and rtsp)
  • Upload a video, audio or office file from your local hard disk

I converted the .avi file to Windows Media Format (.wmf) and was able then to edit it with Sony Vegas 7.0.

I saved the edited file as a Sony Vegas file (.veg) and then went to render the file for publishing. Seeing a huge array of file format options, I did an online search to discover what would be the most suitable format for uploading to YouTube.

I found the amusing video below:


Taking the advice offered in the video, I then chose for my surfing video the option Sony AVC/AAC(.mp4), which is identified as having the following properties:

Audio: 128 Kbps, 48,000 Hz, AAC.
Video: 512 Kbps, 29.970 fps, 320×240

Close enough to the specifications in the instructional video.

My first surfing video has now been completed and uploaded.

Categories : General, Resources, Video
Tags : media converter, Quiksilver Pro, surfing, Taj Burrow, Video, video file conversion
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