Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Free DVD Movie Downloads

The DVD player is one of the latest in internet technology gizmos that has revolutionized the concept of home entertainment. Millions of people depend on their DVD players to watch movies, pause and rewind live television or to listen to music online. In fact, you can download free DVD software from the net to make your player the ultimate experience in listening to music, watching movies or playing games. Because the DVD player can stream music from the internet, it is a feasible option for listening to music at work or watching movies in the comfort of your home.

For free DVD movie downloads, you need certain system configurations. These include 256 MB of RAM, plenty of hard drive space and a good video card. This allows you to store the movie on your hard disk. If you have a CD writer, you make a copy.

Another software program for audio content is the Winamp -- a standard Windows MP3 player that is a free download at www.winamp.com. The player has a great sound, and the volume, bass and treble can be adjusted to your liking.

You can also download QuickTime media player -- a product of Apple Inc. This too is available for free download. Cross-functional, QuickTime provides unmatchable viewing and audio qualities for various multimedia products.

By downloading VNC Remote PC access software, you can remote access movies. This software is available for free download from realvnc.com

For free DVD movie downloads, you need certain system configurations. These include 256 MB of RAM, plenty of hard drive space and a good video card. This allows you to store the movie on your hard disk. If you have a CD writer, you make a copy.

Another software program for audio content is the Winamp -- a standard Windows MP3 player that is a free download at www.winamp.com. The player has a great sound, and the volume, bass and treble can be adjusted to your liking.

You can also download QuickTime media player -- a product of Apple Inc. This too is available for free download. Cross- functional, QuickTime provides unmatchable viewing and audio qualities for various multimedia products. By downloading VNC Remote PC access software, you can remote access movies. This software is available for free download from realvnc.com

Free movie downloads require different software for making the experience of watching movies and recording TV shows a worthwhile experience. You need ample space on your PC. While 256 MB RAM seems like a good option, nothing beats having 512 MB of RAM. The more memory space the better.

A Multimedia Product Brochure

Does your company suffer from too much spending and additional costs of driving or flying when you can provide product training online? Now the network is becoming more popular, more and more customers can know your product from network, as many companies realize the big savings of training or presenting the product online. Why not hold an online meeting and present your products with the attractive multimedia brochures? Why not put the multimedia brochures online for your customers to browse or download? Even you can send the product brochures to your agents or customers on CD-ROM. A multimedia brochure that presents your product and service well will earn your customers' attentions in seconds at low cost!

How to create an attractive product brochure in minutes, especially as a non-technical designer? Everybody can do it, if he or she can use Microsoft PowerPoint. Microsoft PowerPoint is used as an effective and popular tool to create product presentation materials. You do not need to learn a new tool like Macromedia Flash and climb a high learning curve. Just reuse the skills which you have already had with PowerPoint.

However, have you encountered the following problems when you are using PowerPoint to create product brochures?

1. Have you ever been faced with the problems of lost audio or stuck video when playing your presentations? PowerPoint has two ways to deal with media objects, one to link, and another to embed. When the media object (e.g. audio or video file) is linked, you may have the audio or video lost if you move the file or copy the presentation to another machine.

2. As a presenter, did you feel embarrassed when the presentation file cannot be opened or many of the elements in your presentation are on the wrong place and out of control? Usually a PowerPoint can be shown differently with the different PowerPoint versions. So it is rather difficult for presenters to control the effects which will be played on the end users' computers.

3. Inserting a flash file to PowerPoint needs so many steps and you are forced to give up this idea sometimes.

4. If you want to put our product presentation online, you are afraid others modify it without your permission.

5. PowerPoint file is too big for transmission and your customers may not play it with all the texts, animations, buttons, links and pictures correctly.

It's very easy to solve these problems with some third-party tools which enhance the function of Microsoft PowerPoint and extends its usages. Some of them can convert the PowerPoint file to flash file with the original animation even with many enhancements. As you know that, flash is a web-friendly media format and is used widely to deliver information online and to create website content.

Now there are many third-party tools not only help you to convert the PowerPoint file to flash, and also help you to embed all multimedia content into the generated flash presentation. PPT2Flash Pro is one of these third-party tools. It not only provides security and overcomes the limitations of PowerPoint, and also offers many other enhancements as follows:

1. Keep original PowerPoint effects. It can keep the notes, pictures, animations, audios, videos of the original PowerPoint file. The following is a sample of a multimedia product brochure. It may take you a moment to load the flash movie. Your patience would be appreciated.

2. Rich multimedia enhancements. It enables you to import many videos, audios, attachments and quizzes to the slide without complex settings. It significantly enhances the usage and break limitations of PowerPoint.

3. It provides a template player which enables some branding materials for the presenter and navigation for viewers. With this template player, presenter can add presenter image/video to the brochure. Viewers will be easy to control the progress of reading.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Mobile and Multimedia

The Philosophy that drives Samsung Mobile Phone

Striving to develop the technological world standard every year, every Samsung mobile phone is equipped with technology that crosses mobile boundaries and interconnection not just between people but with other electronic inventions such as the TV and computer among others. Today, Samsung stands a powerhouse in electronics among other global companies. The philosophy which underlies each mobile phone manufacture is the devotion to human resources and technological skills and the creation of high quality products and services that eventually contributes to a society that continues to develop on a global scale.

Samsung and the Digital Age

The Samsung mobile phone witnesses the digital age with the eye of the experienced and incorporates digital features in its mobile phone. The revolutionary at heart, Samsung took their mobile phones into the intensity of the digital era and continues to upgrade structure and lend management perspective to its products in order to meet the digital global standards. With consistent effort, the Samsung Mobile Phone is a pioneer in digital technology. Samsung holds a high position in CDMA mobile phones. The brand of Samsung carries a value of over eight billion dollars and its mobile phones have claimed to the fastest growing global brand.

The Samsung Mobile Phone and the Community

Committed to a better global society, the goals of Samsung as a corporate citizen have taken the Samsung mobile phone into the heart of every man, woman and child. Some of the activities include volunteering, environmental and philanthropic to make the world a happier place.

Samsung – Mobile and Multimedia

The Phone is no longer a phone and the FUN CLUB of Samsung will deliver accessories that change your mobile phone into your music and video player or the games station master. Today with the invention of connectivity with the Bluetooth, the latest in Samsung mobiles incorporate the Bluetooth feature combined with its sleekest mobile design. Multimedia products that enhance the usability of the mobile phone are also part and parcel of a Samsung Mobile Phone. Compassion combines with technology to provide hearing aids in the wireless mobiles phones of Samsung.

Multimedia can help your promotion

Does your company suffer from too much spending and additional costs of driving or flying when you can provide product training online? Now the network is becoming more popular, more and more customers can know your product from network, as many companies realize the big savings of training or presenting the product online. Why not hold an online meeting and present your products with the attractive multimedia brochures? Why not put the multimedia brochures online for your customers to browse or download? Even you can send the product brochures to your agents or customers on CD-ROM. A multimedia brochure that presents your product and service well will earn your customers' attentions in seconds at low cost!

How to create an attractive product brochure in minutes, especially as a non-technical designer? Everybody can do it, if he or she can use Microsoft PowerPoint. Microsoft PowerPoint is used as an effective and popular tool to create product presentation materials. You do not need to learn a new tool like Macromedia Flash and climb a high learning curve. Just reuse the skills which you have already had with PowerPoint.

However, have you encountered the following problems when you are using PowerPoint to create product brochures?

1. Have you ever been faced with the problems of lost audio or stuck video when playing your presentations? PowerPoint has two ways to deal with media objects, one to link, and another to embed. When the media object (e.g. audio or video file) is linked, you may have the audio or video lost if you move the file or copy the presentation to another machine.

2. As a presenter, did you feel embarrassed when the presentation file cannot be opened or many of the elements in your presentation are on the wrong place and out of control? Usually a PowerPoint can be shown differently with the different PowerPoint versions. So it is rather difficult for presenters to control the effects which will be played on the end users' computers.

3. Inserting a flash file to PowerPoint needs so many steps and you are forced to give up this idea sometimes.

4. If you want to put our product presentation online, you are afraid others modify it without your permission.

5. PowerPoint file is too big for transmission and your customers may not play it with all the texts, animations, buttons, links and pictures correctly.

It's very easy to solve these problems with some third-party tools which enhance the function of Microsoft PowerPoint and extends its usages. Some of them can convert the PowerPoint file to flash file with the original animation even with many enhancements. As you know that, flash is a web-friendly media format and is used widely to deliver information online and to create website content.

Now there are many third-party tools not only help you to convert the PowerPoint file to flash, and also help you to embed all multimedia content into the generated flash presentation. PPT2Flash Pro is one of these third-party tools. It not only provides security and overcomes the limitations of PowerPoint, and also offers many other enhancements as follows:

1. Keep original PowerPoint effects. It can keep the notes, pictures, animations, audios, videos of the original PowerPoint file. The following is a sample of a multimedia product brochure. It may take you a moment to load the flash movie. Your patience would be appreciated.

2. Rich multimedia enhancements. It enables you to import many videos, audios, attachments and quizzes to the slide without complex settings. It significantly enhances the usage and break limitations of PowerPoint.

3. It provides a template player which enables some branding materials for the presenter and navigation for viewers. With this template player, presenter can add presenter image/video to the brochure. Viewers will be easy to control the progress of reading.

Monday, March 10, 2008

Professional Books Written On Multimedia

I do not immediately understand all poetry-yet the words speak to my heart and it responds. So, oftentimes, I read and reread a selection until the words flourish in my understanding. When I opened Adolfo's CD, I found that I went through it three times before I forced myself to stop. And now, as I write this review, I begin again...watching, reading, listening and enjoying!

This work is a delight! This is a magnificent array of sights and words that capture you from the introduction to the end.

My eyes were first drawn to his photography. Immediately it spoke to me as I relished someone else's interest in rock formation and its beauty. I thought of my own rock garden scenes and wanted to share and talk about the visions he had presented to us. I want to go to these places that have been captured; I want to walk near and touch the images--are they really so beautiful? I want to sit and study this beauty, see it from different angles than those that have been captured. . Each picture is intriguing, beautiful, and evocative-there is no choice but to immediately go now to read the words!

Adolfo and I briefly met many years ago in Chicago...then I grew to know him through his book, The Straw Obelisk, But, Adolfo's poetry and photography allowed me to come to know him, yes, as a true artist. His claim that he did not have the talent to become an artist is only partially true, for his talents have been demonstrated through words and camera. Come, let us review his words now:

Run:

Fulfill those Urges

That surge within your soul,

Kiss:

If you don't do it now

You will miss the bliss

That attracts the young.*

*Part of "Why Dream, " p.4.

Here they are; here they are,

The God-made couple

I brought my hand to her breast

And there beheld Paradise.*

*Part of "Evening in Spring," p.10

Whether the words are of love, man's flight into space, Kennedy's death, or the many other issues expressed, they solicit passion, wonder, and tears. We hear the music that he hears. We laugh or we cry with Adolfo; we empathize through his words. And it is good to share his thoughts. For those of you who know the language, the final selections are provided in both Italian and English and as he shares memories of Naples and Milan, it will be a special blessing for many of you.

During my third time through, I noticed a little mark above the directional arrows. Clicking in curiosity, I am amazed to find Adolfo, sitting at a little bistro table, an espresso before him...and he's talking to me! He tells me about why he writes, he shares intimate thoughts as we sit there. Other times, I click and a lovely female voice is reading along with me, articulating each word carefully, so that I may enjoy each word more fully.

I was impressed...no doubt about it! This book in macromedia form is something that will be held close and enjoyed over and over. Adolfo, I applaud your works, I embrace your words to my heart and I delight in the sights you have shared. There is no doubt whatsoever...get this CD!

*Adolfo Caso is owner/Publisher of BrandenBooks

G. A. Bixler is co-owner of an online review site of Independent Professional Book Reviewers. She has over 40 years experience in educational administration and publishing. New or well-known, self-published, or small press authors are all welcomed! Compare our prices to other professional book review sites!

Impact Of Multimedia On Television Programmes

From television programs and commercials to the Internet, multimedia and movies, animation adds a lasting impact on the production. Needless to say, if a design firm has the requisite skills and manpower to work on a host of animation subjects and software, it is sure to breathe new life to online business communications. From a simple logo animation to textual effects, character animations, digital walkthroughs and game development, 2D/3D animations have been employed in the most realistic ways, thereby capturing viewers’ interests like no other medium has ever been able to do.

Standard animation services include character development, visual effects, commercials architecture, product shots, corporate demos, walkthroughs, 2D animations, logo animations, illustrations, cartooning, among others.

CD-ROM Presentations/corporate presentations:

Corporate and marketing demos have come a long way from the days of insipid PowerPoint slide presentations and bland charts and graphs. High-end multimedia presentations, both online and offline, project the core competencies of a client company, along with effective, client-friendly lines of communication, deep understanding of the medium and highly creative approach. From corporate presentations to CBT Materials, product demos, touchscreen kiosks, 2D/3D animations and Curtain Raiser Movies, multimedia services cover a huge spectrum of client requirements, keeping in tandem with the advent of newer technologies.

Various features of these creative solutions:

--Intelligent combination of sound, videos and stills

--Capability of converting the exact client requirements to concise emphatic presentations

--Quick turn around time

Besides, with eye-catching animations, attractive screen and content structure, animation companies create touchscreen presentations that both educate and enthrall.

And when you’re speaking about e-catalogues/CD catalogues, they are most likely to beat printed brochures in the competition, as they can be updated in the lowest of time and highly cost effectively. Acting as a comprehensive digital brochure, they provide product specification complete with images, purchase details and other corporate information.

Cumulatively, these work as artistically crafted advertising designs/creative solutions for a huge spectrum of vertical markets across the globe, with sublime, eternal features that can only be compared to a finely crafted poem.

Lopa Bhattacharya is a content writer/developer working on websites for overseas/Indian clientele. Has worked for various corporate website projects, CD-Rom presentations, brochures, flyers and other communication materials on varied themes ranging from travel, hotel industry, photography, web design and software development to US-based clubs and network communities. Was previously an editorial associate for a news, culture and entertainment portal based on the life and times of Kolkata.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Movie Making With Multimedia Effects

Given that Hollywood hosts the most vibrant motion picture industry in the world, it can be expected that there is a high demand for television, video and film camera operators. There are bright career prospects for people in this field. However, there is also fierce competition among professionals in Hollywood, that can make the process of landing a job a bit challenging. Having a clear picture of what to expect can help aspirants land a job in Hollywood because such information can help a person prepare and gain more skills, making him stand out among other candidates.

General job description

Camera operators are the ones who are responsible for producing images that tell the story of the film, the TV show or the documentary. In addition to this, camera operators are also the ones who are responsible for recording important events, particularly those involved in broadcasting. In some instances, camera operators do their own editing, making them responsible for editing soundtracks, films, TV shows, and other videos. Camera operators need the appropriate technical skills and creativity to be able to handle all the responsibilities that have been mentioned.

Specific job descriptions

Camera operators who use the video format to record events and stories are called videographers. Usually they are the ones who are hired by independent television stations, local affiliate stations and other smaller media outlets. They are also the ones who usually record special events such as weddings, which many of them do on the side. On the other hand, studio camera operators are those who work in a broadcast studio. They usually videotape their subjects from a fixed position. News camera operators are usually the ones we see that go with reporters on location to catch and record live events.

In an industry where camera operators play an important role, Hollywood continues to be the best source of employment for aspiring camera operators. However, given the fierce competition among aspirants, people would do well to know what kind of work and working conditions they can expect in Hollywood. Doing so would allow them to prepare themselves and to gain the appropriate skills they need to land a job in Hollywood.

Style And Clarity Of Multimedia Presentations

Microsoft PowerPoint is familiar to millions for making presentations with style and clarity. However, If you know the secrets of enhancing multimedia presentations, you probably will work out the knockout show to accelerate your business.

Adding any texts, pictures, music, videos and animations to decorate your presentation is essential for everyone, but what about the success of better business presentation? In order to attract prospective customers at the critical first impression, appealing presentations is important to presenting your products in the best light possible. Therefore a multimedia presentation could be exceptional and friendly for the audience.

For both online or offline usages, Flash presentation takes the integrated approach by its benefits: greater accessibility, extensive compatibility, smaller file size, sound integration, Internet distribution, content security and Web browser friendly. Simply speaking, Flash player is widely installed, so Flash is generally supported. More, Flash can be easily embedded in Web pages with simple HTML codes; Flash-based presentation is blissfully displayed on projectors, digital signage systems and any computer. Sending Flash presentations instead of PowerPoint files within e-mail has advantages. Making Flash as the ultimate output, it's right to set up more engaging content to outstand the products.

Any expert in Flash would say that creating presentations in Flash is more difficult than in PowerPoint as Flash authoring requires a complex programming. Therefore making Flash presentations from PowerPoint will make the process alright. You probably have made some compelling presentations in PowerPoint with rich media before, so now Flashing is the last step to lively up your masterpiece. Flash presentation improves your presentation more friendly, generally because of its popularity and compatibility as show.

You must choose an excellent presentation tool to help you fire up niche business. MasterNewMedia has a PowerPoint to Flash Mini Guide at http://www.masternewmedia.org/2004/04/14/powerpoint_to_flash_conversion_tools.htm. But it's just a listing of applications. According to some references to presentation authoring tools,

Articulate Presenter at http://www.articulate.com is favored by some corporations with its fame, while Wondershare PPT2Flash Professional at http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash-pro.html is professional yet affordable choice for most businesses. Others competitors like authorGEN authorPOINT, FlashSpring Pro, PresentationPRO PowerCONVERTER also have their greats. As the most important part besides appealing content, you'd make a good decision to drive up your business smartly.

After all, you get the Flash presentations as you fancy with greater abilities. Ultimately that's really what any successful presentation is all about, whatever you're in the sphere of education, business or entertainment, etc.