How to Make an Olympic Video & Win Big Prizes

Since London 2012 Olympic Games is coming closer, BlazeVideo has released a new giveaway activity for HDTV Player Professional, Video Magic Ultimate and VideoFlick. It’s very easy to attend and win big prizes. Nobody loses this time. Here is the guide for people how to attend the giveaway activity and win big prizes.

Before reading the below tutorial, please place your focus on the basic three required rules that every competition video must meet.

1. Your video must be edited by Video Magic or VideoFlick. (One of them must be used at least. Download Video Magic and VideoFlick directly now.)
2. Your video title must include: BlazeVideo 2012 Olympics Giveaway + (Your video name). Example: BlazeVideo 2012 Olympics Giveaway – I Love Olympics
3. After editing, you video must be uploaded to Youtube. And then you need to send your video link to us by marketing@blazevideo.com.

Now Follow the tutorial step by step:

STEP 1: VIDEO GATHERING OR CREATE A PERSONAL VIDEO

Since London 2012 Olympic Games is coming closer and closer, there are more and more little tidbits to appear on the internet, such as the following video. 

You can download the videos you like with Video Magic.

Or if you create your own video, you can skip this step.

STEP 2: EDIT VIDEOS

After downloading, you can edit them directly. Video Magic allows you to trim, crop, add subtitles & watermarks, etc. You can get the parts you like by cropping and edit their brightness, hue, saturation and contrast.

Note: If you only have one video to edit and upload, you can use VideoFlick directly. Although Video Magic has more editing functions, VideoFlick also supports video editing function.

STEP 3: MERGE VIDEOS INTO A SHORT MOVIE

If you have made several videos, you can merge them by using Video Magic or VideoFlick. Both of them support merging videos. When merging, you can add title and credits which will make your video more remarkable.

STEP 4: UPLOAD VIDEOS TO YOUTUBE AND SEND US LINKS

You have finished your video. Now you need to upload your videos to Youtube. You can upload your video to Youtube by using VideoFlick. Or you can have your own way. 

The History of DivX and the Latest Software Players That Can Play DivX

DivX is known to create a balance between file size and quality with its very effective compression capabilities. Due to these capabilities, it becomes one of the codecs used for extracting audio and video from a source to the hard disk of the PC for archiving and transcoding copies. And many software developers released their own styles of DivX players.

The commercial DivX in competition with Microsoft video for Windows in WMV, QuickTime from Apple in the MOV and Real Video in the RMM file formats. A version of open source Xvid is released by Xvid in 2001.

THE HISTORY OF DIVX

The history of DivX should be traced back to 1998. It was a hacked version of Microsoft’s MPEG-4 version 3. Two French hackers reverse-engineered the MPEG-4 format and came up with an MPEG format encapsulated in AVI instead of ASF it originally had. After that, DVD hacking community enhanced the format, and had the DivX version 3.0. From 2002, the DivX, Inc continued to enhance the DivX software and DivX 6.6 was released in 2007.

LATEST DIVX PLAYER

DivX became widely popular for ripping copy-protected DVD materials for bootleg replication and distribution. Numbers of DVD players are claiming to play DivX materials. The most attractive of the format is that it is free and easy to use. It is versatile and can be used with both Windows and Mac computers. You can play it with many software players.

DivX Plus is the latest DivX player and it is free for Windows, while a Mac version called DivX 7. Besides, there are many other DivX players, such as Windows Media Player 11, Media Player Classic, VLC Player, Songbird, DVD X Player, etc.

Among these latest DivX players, DVD X Player 5.5 is a multifunctional media player software which can play types of media contents like VCD, SVCD, DVD, audio, videos. It also has the ability to record DVD and convert movies to iPod, iPhone, etc. There are frequently free minor updates and free technical documents available on its offical website: dvd-x-player.com.

How to Make a Memorable Graduation Photo Slideshow?

If you are going to graduate from school, you must feel unwilling to part, but happy to see a glorious future. Graduation is both a hard and good time. It is hard because you have to say goodbye to your teachers, friends, also starting a new journey is good for celebrating.

At this contradictory moment, to make a memorable graduation photo slideshow and send it as gifts is a good choice to show your affections. For this purpose, you need a photo slideshow maker, like Aviosoft Video Converter, which will help you accomplish this task.

Aviosoft Video Converter Ultimate has a built-in slideshow maker, which would enable to combine photos, music, and text into slideshow and convert it into mobile formats (playable on Apple devices, HTC, BlackBerry, Nokia, Sony PSP, PS3, media players, etc). With it, you can add title, credits, background music, and transition effects to personalize the graduation photos.

GUIDE ON HOW TO MAKE GRADUATION SLIDESHOW

All you need to do is to import your photos and arrange the orders in the Slideshow window, in which you are all on your own to create a personalized graduation slideshow with 12 special effects. Following I will show you the details.

Step 1. Import Photos

After launching the program, click the “Slideshow” button to open the sideshow making window. Click the “Add” button to import your graduation photos into it.

Step 2. Add Background, Title, Credits, Effects

In addition, you can even add background music and subtitles to the photo slideshow to make your work much more expressive. Click the “Add background music” button to customize it. And you can include title and credits in the slideshow.

Rearrange the order of pictures by selecting the picture and moving left or right to make them well-organized. Choose one or multiple special effects to make it different.

Step 3. Create Slideshow & Convert

After all editing work finishes, directly “Create Slideshow” and save it as iPad / iPhone video. And you can also convert it to other format.