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1. What Are the Best Budget Tripods? | Wex Photo Video

We offer our picks for the best tripods available for less than 150 What are the Best Budget Tripods? The most compact model in the Befree line, this hand-luggage-friendly option can collapse down to just 32cm but still manages a very respectable height of 130cm at its full extension. With the further advantage of a new aluminium ballhead, sturdy aluminium leg locks and a 2.5kg payload, it will happily support an array of camera and lens combinations, while black and grey options are also available for those not keen on the red finish featured here. This lightweight and affordable table-top tripod is ideal as a support for compacts and compact system cameras, but with a payload of 1kg you may also want to use it with lightweight DSLRs. Its rubber feet guarantee stability across a range of surfaces, and as a further advantage you can fold the legs into the body and use the setup as a handle when recording video. As if that was not enough, the clever push-button mechanism allows you to adjust and lock the ballhead in a single movement. Click here to buy the Manfrotto PIXI Mini Tripod - Black When you need a tripod that is not a tripod, you get yourself a Gorillapod! Joby's famous grippy camera support attaches to practically any surface, eliminating the need for flat ground, while its attached ball head features 360 panning and 90 tilt, with an adjustment knob to lock it into place. It also incorporates a spirit level to keep your horizons straight and can support up to 3kg of kit. 64.95 Click here to buy the Joby Gorillapod SLR Zoom Tripod plus Ball and Socket Head The lightest tripod in the Manfrotto range, with a light price to match, the Compact Light Tripod can manage a maximum payload of 1.5kg and packs down to 38.8cm when transported. It's perfect for your compact camera or CSC, and its built-in ball head with a single adjustment knob is perfect for quick positioning to ensure you do not miss those fleeting moments. 39 Click here to buy the Manfrotto Compact Light Tripod - Black What are the Best Tripods for Travel Photography How to Travel Safely as a Photographer The 10 Best Photographic Accessories of 2016

2. My father has cassette tapes filled with his favorite music. How can I bring those into the digital world?

Since you have a PC, that's all you need. Connect line out from a tape deck to your PC and capture the audio in wav format. You can then burn CDs on your PC. For video, either buy a(USB) video capture dongle for your PC or a DVD recorder.

3. Is a flash drive floppy disk or hard disk?

The three serve the same purpose, they store data. The main distinction is the capacity and performance. Hard Drives generally tend to have larger capacity and can be bulky, the floppy disk is smaller, and is often fixed to a computer. The USB is the in-between, it is small, portable and has a larger storage than a floppy disk. You can store more or less the same data format on all three, but music, video on a floppy is a no.. no...

4. which sony ericsson unit should i buy? K510i or Z520i?

Hi well I have a sony Z500 and it works great. I can take pictures,video tape, text pictures,or even text the video taping i record.Example when my friends get really drunk i video tape them on my phone so then the next morning i text it to them. Ha Ha

5. Overlay video with video time and/or combining images to video

ffmpeg will do this:The above code contains special characters and should be escaped as your shell requires,Alter the r=25 to the value of your video framerate.5 is 50% opaque. See the docs for more details and options. Alter the CRF value for quality/size tradeoff - lower is better quality.

6. What devices do you need for a audio boom?

Go search youtube for 'boom microphone'. there are lots of videos on how to make a microphone boom pole on the cheap. Have Fun making one. Now if you have the pole, the next item is a microphone, the next problem is the wiring. You would need at a camcorder with MIC port on it and a wire with the proper connectors to go from the Mic to the camcorder. This presents many problems, the biggest being trip hazard. If you have a camcorder with a MIC port, the next logical thing to do is get a wireless mic system, put the transmitter on the oppisite end of the boom pole, tape the receiver to a tripod leg and run a wire from it to your MIC port. The complete other option, whether or not you have a MIC port on your camcorder, is to use a Digital Audio Recorder, depending on it's size, taped onto the end of the boom pole or strapped to the boom pole operator or set on a nearby table if no movement of the boom pole is needed. If doing it this way, SYNC your audio and video so you can SYNC it up when you get to your editing NLE. A good way to SYNC your audio and video is to be close to the microphone, in front of the recording camcorder, with the Digital Audio Recorder recording, CLAP LOUDLY. That clap is the same as a clapper board used by the pros. Use that clap as your sync point when editing the flick you have shot. Have Fun