Marco November 18th, 2007

Did you know it is possible to manage and or create/mix videos using ACDSee pro2?

As a parent who loves taking pictures and videos of my kid at soccer or hockey games, now that digital cameras are able to produce better quality videos, I found ACDSee has made it more fun to record a game and post to a video hosting site for my parents to enjoy overseas.

One of the challenges I faced with out ACDSee was that although it was very easy to create a single video with all my many shots from a game, I had a really hard time deciding which ones to keep and which ones made it to the final cut.

Sure, you can use the tools your Operating system provides for creating videos, but I was already very comfortable and used to working with ACDSee.

This is my very first post to a blog, so bare with me and I hope it helps you with your own workflow to make and manage your own videos.

Preparing ACDSee Pro 2 for action:

If you installed ACDSee Pro 2 with the standard default settings, you will already have ACDSee associated with multimedia files and whenever you select a multimedia file your preview pane in the ACDSee’s browser will display your video ready for playback.

I found this takes away from performance for what I needed to do, so I disabled the preview and added more details to my file list pane.

Then I opted for creating an entirely new workspace that allowed me to only see what I wanted my layout to display for dealing with videos. You are able to save as many layouts as you want with ACDSee and go back to the original layout using the workspace feature from the View menu.

Once you create the workspace, you can select what details are shown in the file list pane. I chose Filename, Size, modified date and length as the main items to keep in my file list pane as these are important to the final file size on my video. Some sites allow files more than 10 minutes in length and 100 MB In size, but others limit your choices.

That is where the length and size columns really came handy.

Working with QuickTime to make your videos

If you have QuickTime Pro, it is really easy to then decide what videos to piece together as you are able to drag and drop from ACDSee to QuickTime Pro and save these files as a single .mov file or export it to a different video format ready to upload to a video hosting site.

Here you can see the duration of the video and decide how long you want the video to be. If you want to add another video, all you have to do is drag and drop from the ACDSee file list pane to the last video in your sequence.

Working with the ACDSee feature: Create Video or VCD

If you don’t have QuickTime, no need to worry. ACDSee also comes with the tools you need to get your videos ready for the web.

you can read more about the Create Video or VCD feature on the ACDSee help file, but here are a couple of steps to get you started:

• Select your videos from the file list and click on the Create menu; there you will see the Create Video or VCD feature.

From here you select the Video option.

• Now you will see the length of time that your selected videos will include. You can always add or remove videos from your list using the Edit show feature. Notice how mine is only just over 4 minutes.

• The Create Video feature in ACDSee will also help you resize your video so that it is optimal for distribution on the web (320×240 at Frame rate of 30fps). You can choose these and your preferred encoding format once you choose the next button.

You are now ready to prepare your camera made videos of your kids favourite activities using ACDSee Pro 2.

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