Magic with Multimedia

Videotape your daughter’s birthday party, wave a wand, and,

presto, stream it from your Website. Or, safely store the tracks from your

grand-dad’s favorite gramophone records on to your hard disk. The needs are

limitless, and it’s all very much possible. You can transform any audio format

into just about any other audio format you can think of. The same goes for video–you

can convert video tapes to VCDs and even DVDs, or work back from DVDs to VCDs.

If you feel like a magician already, slow your pace. You need

to know the spells to use with your magic wand before you can actually do magic

with multimedia.

• Let’s Talk Music
  
  
  
  Some popular audio formats, and how they differ

• Let’s Make Movies
  
  
  
  The technology behind video on your PC

• Sound, the Way you Want it
  
  
  
  How to convert one audio format to another 

• Make your Movies, your Way
  
  
  
  How to convert your videos to the format you need

Ashish Sharma