Extending or freezing a frame allows you to pace your video better. More importantly, since freeze frames are applied on a per track basis, it buys you more time for something like a voiceover or an annotation. Freezing the frame Move the play head to the frame you want to extend. Right-Click on the track you […]
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Sometimes you may want to take a screenshot from a Camtasia Studio project. For example, to use as a YouTube custom thumbnail. You don’t need to export the video first and then use a video player with screenshot support. Export frame option is available from within Camtasia. First, go to the frame you want to
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Sometimes the audio volume of media files is so low that it is barely audible. When faced with such files, you may want to boost the volume above the maximum level. Media players like VLC and mpv allow you to do this very easily. Boosting or normalizing audio is a little less convenient in Media
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By default, the volume slider in VLC allows you to increase the volume up to 125%. If you have a file with really low, inaudible audio, you may want to boost the volume above 125%. Increasing audio volume above 100% percent causes audio distortion; it may harm your audio equipment; extremely loud sounds could even cause
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By default, VirtualDub shows only the current time in its status bar. Please note that by current time or current-frame, I mean the current-time and current-frame as determined by the position of VirtualDub’s play head VirtualDub’s status bar can be configured using a format string. You can set it to show the end time of the
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Caching in chrome can be disabled temporarily using chrome developer tools. Open developer tools by pressing CONTROL+SHIFT+I in Windows or COMMAND+OPTION+I on a Mac. This shortcut opens whichever developer tools panel was last open. In the network panel, enable the Disable cache option. An important thing to remember is this option would be in effect only as long
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Anti-Twin is a Windows application which is one of the best tools for identifying and removing duplicate files. It is free for personal use. The duplicate removal step is very tedious in most duplicate file finders but this is not the case in Anti-Twin. The features available in Anti-Twin are not exactly unique but the
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Regjump is a small command line tool from Sysinternals which lets you jump directly to a registry key when supplied with a registry path. Sysinternals is currently owned by Microsoft and all their tools are reliable. Regjump works with normal paths and paths which include abbreviations like HKLM, HKCU, etc. This is a very useful
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For what is essentially an image viewing application Faststone image viewer has a surprising number of useful editing features. One of it’s most powerful features is the batch convert feature. Batch convert gives you a lot of options like resize, crop, compress, rotate, color adjustments, add watermark etc. Let’s take a look at the resize
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The font matching service of www.fontsquirrel.com can be used to identify fonts from images. While there are many websites offering this service I find Fontsquirrel’s service easiest to use. If you are a Photoshop user you already have a match font option built into Photoshop. Select the font in the image and then choose Type
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