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DVD BASICS
- Introduction to DVD-Video
- Quick suggestions and concepts
- Video tips weblog  
- Blank DVD/CD/VHS media guide 

CAPTURING
- Introduction to video capturing
- Understanding your source
- Playback hardware suggestions
- Capture MPEG with ATI AIW cards 
- Capture AVI with ATI AIW cards 
- Audio sync and dropped frames

EDITING
- Removing commercials in MPEG
- Edit disc from DVD recorder 
- Edit with Adobe Premiere

RESTORING QUALITY

- Introduction to restoring video
- Hardware video filters
- TMPG software video filters
- Introduction to restoring audio 
- SoundForge software audio filters

ENCODING & CONVERTING
- Introduction to video conversion
- Encode MPEG with TMPGEnc
- Convert VCD to DVD
- Convert PAL/NTSC standards

AUTHORING/BURNING
- Introduction and authoring FAQ
- Make menus in Photoshop
- Blank DVD media quality guide 
- Author with Sonic DVDit! 
- Author with Ulead DVD Workshop
- Author with TMPGEnc DVD Author
- Burn DVD files: Nero

DVD COPYING
-
Introduction to copying discs
- Copy a DVD5 with DVD Decrypter 
- Copy a DVD9 with DVD Shrink
- Copy to VCD/SVCD/DVD by Sefy

BUYER'S GUIDE
- Introduction to buying video stuff
- DVD recorder reviews and tips
- Where to buy DVD cases/storage
- Where to buy DVD media

MISC VIDEO INFO
- Make DVD cases in Photoshop
- DVD player troubleshooting
- DVD burner troubleshooting
Future expansion section!!

- Introduction to web design
- Basic design theory
- Advanced design theory
- HTML with Microsoft FrontPage
- Advanced HTML technique
- GIF/JPEG with Adobe Photoshop
Future expansion section!!

- Digital photo vs. film photo
- Megapixels vs. resolution vs. dpi
- Camera buying advice
- Adobe Photoshop basics
- Advanced Photoshop technique













 

GUIDELINES -> Request or Submit New Guides

Making guides takes time, but we're willing to create new guides as time allows. It mainly depends on us knowing the programs and having time to test it. Click the CONTACT US button at the top of any page to make a suggestion. 

We also accept submitted guides, as long as they adhere to the guidelines.


RULES FOR REQUESTING GUIDES

1. No more capture guides.
As far as making a new guide for XYZ card, probably will not happen. I only make guides if I can test them out and get successful results. I don't have lots of different capture cards. What I can do is test certain any-card capture software, but it would merely be added to the current non-ATI capture guides. If you want to send me a capture card, I'll probably test it and make guides.

2. Anything else. Make a request, and I'll see what I can do. No promises, but you may be in luck. 


RULES FOR SUBMITTING GUIDES

1. Relevance. The site digitalFAQ.com was created for cartoon and television show collectors. Much of it is also relevant and useful for those that backup personal video libraries and home movies to the current DVD recordable formats. Any guide submitted must be useful to this end.

2. Clarity.
Anything I get must be written in clear English, free of slang and doublespeak. It must not ramble or be repetitive. It must make sense to the general idiot. Granted, I can edit a decent write-up, but I refuse to entirely re-write a submitted guide.

3. Concise yet detailed. Guides must be detailed yet as concise as possible. Being concise is normally taken care of by having clarity. Do not try to explain all of Adobe Premiere in one guide. That takes a book. But a guide for say, importing AVI and exporting to MPEG-2, would be fine. Also realize many users of this site are new to video, so try to not gloss over important facts that many experienced users would find common-sense or basic.

4. No updates. I will not replace my guides with new ones. I will update at most. The guides that exist here now are sound and tested with calculated precision.

5. Ownership. All guides submitted to digitalFAQ.com will become our property. This does NOT prevent you from publishing elsewhere. If we somehow "profit" from our presentation of this guide, you will not receive a cut. You are in forfeit of said claims. 

6. Editing. We will edit guides to fit our format as needed.



PLEASE NOTE! This site is NOT made for converting illegally downloaded movies or copying DVDs. It is also not about copying Playstation or XBOX games. This is a video site. It is mostly intended for helping you to convert analog formats to DVD format, so that your cherished videos will last longer than the source tapes would have allowed.


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