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Next Gen. Computer Design Suggestion

Random Suggestion for Dell, when they are building their next generation Inspiron (or whatever the new computer is):

I wish you would arrange the sound to work like the I-Pods. The part where, when you plug your earphones in, the sound automatically readjusts to a normal sound level. I’m tired of playing something for other people, and then getting my ears blasted off when I forget to turn it back down with earphones.

Just a wish!

Tags: computer, Dell, Music, recommendation, Sound

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Categories Computer Issues

How to Overlap Sound Recordings on Windows Movie Maker

11 Mar

Learned this process yesterday when making my educational Youtube video:

I created this video by making a recording of my voice, adding pictures, and then adding a music sound track. Since the Movie Maker only works with one sound track at a time, it didn’t want to overlap my voice and the music at first. It took a while, but I finally figured it out. It’s surprisingly easy, but most of the instructions I found were outdated from the new Windows Movie Maker. Consequently, I had to make it up as I went! 🙂

Sound Recording 1

Create your project with just the first sound track. Add pictures, effects, etc. until it is complete.
Go to File in the upper left-hand corner of your screen. Click it.
Now find Save Movie. it should be the sixth option in the list.
Choose “Recommended for this project”
Now it’s going to bring up the pop-up page that walks you through saving the movie. Save the video. This compresses the sound and video into one file.
Let it finish processing; the program will tell you when your video is done.

Sound Recording 2

Close this project down.
Start a new project in Windows Movie Maker.
Under the “Home” tab, you’ll find “Add videos and photos.” Click it.
Find your video with the first sound recording on your computer and add it to the project. This will import the video and sound as one file. You cannot adjust the first sound recording now, but you can add another sound recording to it.
Now under the “Home” tab, you’ll find “Add music.” Click that and add your second sound recording.
Now you can play with the start times, end times, etc. to get it all perfect.
Go through the Save Movie process again, and voila! your video is finished with two sound recordings!

Sound Recording 3-~

Repeat the same process, compressing everything into one video file and then adding to it with each project.

Tags: Adding, Audio, Computer Issues, Movie, Sound, Windows, Windows 8

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Categories Computer Issues, Computer Shortcuts

Cool Google Chrome Change

23 Jan

Great news for Laurence the Laptop!

He might actually survive his stint as the lifeline for a professional writer/researcher/teacher. 😛

If you are anything like me, you threaten the poor darling’s life at least three times on any given day thanks to random unidentifiable voices streaming from the speakers. I mean seriously, how can 4 ads be running just slighting off so that they scream over each other and I be unable to locate even one to shut the stupid thing off? It drives me nuts! I usually just throw a temper tantrum, shut down all the tab, lose all of my research, and let Laurence have it for being such a stupid nitwit.

Fortunately, Google Chrome has come through finally! At long last they have added a way for you to tell which tabs have sounds playing. Check out the new little volume symbol on your tab at the top of the browser.

If you see it, then that means that something is playing sounds on that tab. The same is true regardless of whether it’s music, videos, random beeping noises, or advertisements–if it has some noise going on the symbol shows up.