By Steve Valentino

A movie sound clip could be a part of a song from a movie, a dialogue or any background music. With the advent of cellular phones, especially the new smart phones with capabilities to play music, movie sound clips have become increasingly popular.

Movie sound clips have become the most popular way of initiating a conversation, as they are often used as ring tones and message alerts on cell phones by many people. Apart from this, movie sound clips serve a number of other purposes as well. They can be used to provide short background music in presentations and are also used in advertisements, jingles and other audio visual communication.

Movie sound clips can be stored in a number of formats such as WAV, MP3 and MPEG. In case of cellular phones, these files can be stored in the WAV format. However, most of the phones these days also support the MP3 format. In case the phone does not support either of these formats, the clip can be stored in the AMR format. The memory occupied by these clips depends both on format and length of the clips.

Movie sound clips are easily available through several paid and free websites on the Internet. The latest sound clips are usually available at paid sites. The charges are usually nominal while the older clips are generally available free of charge.

In case of cellular phones, a number of service providers also provide the facility of downloading sound clips directly on the handsets. To download a clip, the consumer usually has to send a text message, mentioning the code of the clip to be downloaded and the desired clip is then sent to his phone by the service provider. A small charge is levied for the service. Internet enabled phones are able to download clips directly from web sites.

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By John Deprice

Your PC may contain hundreds of video files, all encoded differently – AVI, MPEG, RM, WMV, DVD, VCD, MOV, etc. If you are looking for video conveter tools, here are some suggestions.

WinAVI Video Converter

WinAVI Video Converter is a nice tool for converting video clips to an assortment of formats. The attractive, modern interface features large, clearly labeled icons, so you won’t have to dig through the menus very often. You can convert a variety of file types to WMV, AVI, MPEG, and RM. Other notable pluses include a built-in DVD-burning utility, a batch-conversion tool, and a preview pane. WinAVI Video Converter is easy to use and powerful enough for experts. Burning VCD/SVCD/DVD is supported. WinAVI Video Converter supports almost all video file formats, including AVI, MPEG1/2/4, VCD/SVCD/DVD, DivX, XVid, ASF, WMV, RM, QuickTime MOV, Flash SWF. The program also has a powerful video decompress/compress engine that convert whole AVI movie to DVD in 1 less than an hour.

More Information: http://www.deprice.com/winavivc.htm

Aare AVI to VCD DVD SVCD Converter

This tool is very basic, but also very inexpensive – less than eighteen dollars. This program is capable of converting an avi file or Merge some avi files to a VCD DVD SVCD format MPEG file. Plus it Supports avi to vcd dvd svcd conversion with NTSC/PAL setting option, processes avi with DivX/XviD avi format and works with MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4 video files and MPEG layer1, layer2, layer3 audio files. In addition to that there is the “Split feature” that splits big mpeg files into several smaller segment, so that it can be fit onto a CD. Other features include:

* Input/Output preview.

* Fill in / Customize options for cropping output video.

* Support output effect.

* Support Input/Output list and other options saving automatically, finishing it anytime.

The program is brainlessly simple to use:

Additional information: http://www.deprice.com/aareavitovcddvdsvcdconverter.htm

John Deprice is a multimedia professional. He shares his tips and tricks on working with video at http://www.deprice.com/multimedia.htm

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By Peter Emerson

3D digital art has certainly come a long way from its obscure beginnings. Nowadays, you find it everywhere – in print, web and television advertisements, in movies, etc. But what exactly is digital art?

The technology of 3D digital art

3D Digital art is a very young field, and more research and formal training is needed before schools can offer it as a viable study. So far, 3D digital art software has managed to create impressive 3D images, but more functionality needs to be incorporated. Software developers are continuously working to delve into the vast potential of 3D digital media.

Many digital 3D artists are involved improving the application of 3D digital software’s light and shadow effects on objects. Most 3D artists also create straight from their imagination ‘surreal’ or impossible objects. Their output is often times seen in movies and on the Internet.

3D digital imaging is a long process. When you create one 3D digital face, it can literally take months – even with the help of software such as Corel Bryce 3D, Adobe Photoshop, Curious Labs Poser, Jasc PSP and other painting programs. The technique of ‘modeling’ is particularly hard to master. It takes months and sometimes years for the best digital artists to achieve ‘broadcast quality’ looks.

Spline control is another particularly complicated area of 3D digital imaging. Before going into such advanced techniques, digital art students must be well versed in the fundamentals of LightWave 3D, as well as basic modeling skills. They should be very good at selecting and modifying points and polygons, determining framing and motion paths, basic surfacing and image mapping.