Preserve the special moments of Christmas 2008

Video Formats: Transferring from DVD to YouTube
DVD files (such as .VOB, .IFO and .BUP files) can’t be uploaded to YouTube. These are not actual video files but files used as part of the DVD container format. Our recommended file format is MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid, or SVQ3 rather than h.264) at 640×480 resolution with MP3 audio (64k mono).
You can learn more about uploading videos here.

Before uploading a video, you may want to go through our Terms of Use and Copyright FAQ. This may give you a better understanding of the type of videos you can upload.

YouTube accepts a wide range of video file formats such as .WMV, .AVI, .MOV, and .MPG transferred from most digital cameras, camcorders, and cell phones.

If you don’t think your current video file format is recognized by YouTube, you may get the best results from converting your file to MPEG4 video with MP3 audio.

All you need to do is continue uploading the highest quality video you have available. The quality of the uploaded video combined with individual viewers’ bandwidth will determine if the video is displayed at “Higher Quality.”

Not satisfied with that answer? Still need specific information? YouTube accepts a wide range of video file formats such as .WMV, .AVI, .MOV, and .MPG. Here are a few things that may work well for you:

MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid) format
MP3 audio
Video resolution: 480×360 or higher
Frame Rate: 24fps or higher

What video file formats can I upload? youtube accepts video files from most digital cameras, camcorders, and cell phones in the .WMV, .AVI, .MOV, and .MPG file formats.

We’ve found that files converted from .wmv to one of the other formats our webpage accepts generally have a lower playback quality than other file formats. If you have your source video in a format other than a .wmv file, I’d recommend encoding directly to MPEG4 (DivX, Xvid, SQV3) at 320×240, with 64k Mono MP3 Audio. If you have a source .wmv in high bitrate and larger resolution I’d recommend converting to MPEG4 at full resolution and then resizing to 320×240 using a high quality resizing algorithm - this can help reduce the number of artifacts you end up with.
Editing and Exporting Videos: Transferring from camera to computer
If you already have a digital camcorder (one that captures in Digital8, MiniDV, HDV, or any of the DVD formats), then you’re ready to start shooting your masterpiece. Your camcorder will need some kind of direct connection to your computer, either to the USB or FireWire ports or by inserting the DVD you’ve recorded. Once you’ve downloaded the video from the camera, you can upload it to YouTube or bring it into an editing program to play with it some more.
If you have an analog camcorder (one that uses VHS, VHS-C, SVHS-C, 8mm, or Hi8 tape), you can still get your videos onto YouTube. It will require an extra step and some additional equipment, though, since these camcorders are not usually equipped with computer connections. You’ll need to digitize the video with a converter box, which will convert the analog signal from the camcorder to a digital signal that the computer can understand. After the video has been digitized, you can manipulate it further or upload it.

You don’t need to burn a specially formatted disc but just a regular data DVD full of digital photos if you own a DVD player with built-in slide-show features for viewing JPEG images. Lots of new type DVD players have the features such as Sony DVP-NS57P, Pioneer DV-490V-S, LG DN788, Panasonic DVD-S53S/K, Philips DVP5982 and etc. Different types of players with different play menu, photo quantity limitation and so on. So, DVDs display in this style via my Sony player but that on my friend’s Panasonic.

If your DVD player doesn’t have such features, creating DVD photo slide shows via apps will be help and it is a much more stunning and professional way for storage and share. Bellows are kinds of apps.

1. Free apps that can create photo slideshows.

Google’s Picasa, is a free software download from Google. Picasa can make photo slideshows with simple clicks and copy files to DVD media using both the “Backup” and “Gift CD” features, but DVDs create by Picasa can not be played on all types of DVD players.

Windows Movie Maker , included free in XP and Vista, helps to create AVI or WMA slideshows. Although it doesn’t natively burn DVDs playable by many DVD players, Windows Movie Maker has many powerful features (say exquisite effects) to magnetize users and adding DVD writing capabilities to Windows Movie Maker with inexpensive applications will figure it out.

2. Commercial apps wholly make for creating DVD slide shows.

Nero PhotoShow Deluxe 5 ($39.99) is famous and powerful software which includes a massive amount of slide-show-authoring options for photo DVDs. Nero has a 15-day trial for PhotoShow Deluxe, while the free PhotoDVD trial lets you create slide shows with up to 100 images. As a sub-product from Nero, it has highly stability on its writing capability.

DVD Slideshow Builder 4 ($49.95), another professional and popular app that can create DVD photo slideshows with photos, video clips and music in high-resolution HD DVD video format and burn directly. It provides a free trial version with Watermark on output, 30-day trial limitation. What it attract me is its plenty 2D/3D transitions and Ken-Burns effects.

Sep 28, 2008 – Wondershare Software Inc. announced today the launch of Wondershare Movie Story, the new DVD movie maker help Windows users turn digital photos & video clips into movie DVD and enables customers to upgrade to the latest version for getting the best user experience. 

“Wondershare Movie Story is a easy-to-use yet creative movie making software to turn photos and video clips to DVD movie story,” said Tan, director of Movie Story at Wondershare, ” It offers a streamlined workflow that enables consumers to complete media editing and creation more efficiently ,so people can easily enjoy home movie making and share life memories treasure with friends and family on TV with DVD player or upload to video websites, such as YouTube.” 

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The famous digital camera reviews & photography tips website Dphotojournal.com wrote a review for one of our flagship programs Photo Story Platinum.

Here is a part of the review:

Have you ever found that digital photos cost more and more space on hard drives since you got a digital camera? However, most of these photos are unseen after being stored. We introduce an application Wondershare Photo Story Platinum, which can help you make photo movies to play on any DVD player.
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Iconic Britain is a photographic competition that aims to find 100 images that define Britain. Powered by Microsoft Live Search, a new image sourcing network, you can win prizes both by submitting a photo and voting on other people’s entries, with Nikon Coolpix and D60 DSLR cameras on offer.
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Whether you’re tired of watching Olympic events broadcast several hours after they’ve actually taken place or if you just want to catch the latest action from your cubicle at work, NBC and your favorite Web browser can help. To watch live footage from Beijing, visit NBC’s official Olympics site and look for any sports with a red and white LIVE indicator next to their name in the left menu pane. First click on that name and then look for the Watch Live link. The only things you’ll need to access the video streams are your browser, Microsoft’s Silverlight plug-in, and an active Internet connection. Enjoy!

1. Free iPhone 3G Phrasebook

Forget charades - this Mandarin Mobile Phrasebook has over 600 spoken (and phonetically written) Mandarin Chinese phrases so you can chat, shop and live it up like a local.

To celebrate the launch of iPhone 3G and the Beijing Olympics, Lonely Planet is offering free downloads of the Mandarin Mobile Phrasebook in the Apple App Store for a limited time only.
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Today we prepare some tips for you to preserve and relive your summer fun memories. There’re some photography tips teaching you how to take better photos and how to make good use of these wonderful photos.
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We have just prepared a summer holiday newsletter for our users. In this newsletter, some tips of making a photo slideshow and user stories are introduced. Lots of people have their plan of summer vacation.
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GiveAwayOfTheDay is a website that offer licensed software you’d have to buy otherwise, for free! It gives away one software per day. What you need to do is to download and active this software as introduced on GiveAwayOfTheDay website.
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