2004,
13 March (The New Paper)
Review V One Multimedia's Snazzi* VideoMaker
Compress video files with this gadget
THE locally-designed Snazzi VideoMaker is a remarkable feat of engineering.
Not much bigger than a wallet, it looks so plain you could be forgiven for thinking it is a paperweight.
The only giveaways are the USB 2.0 socket and two other sockets for audio and video cables.
No one would guess at the sheer amount of computer horsepower contained within the brushed silver casing.
Plug any video source into it (camcorders, DVD players or televisions) and it will instantly convert the video into various types of media files.
It can save the source video in formats like VCD, DVD and the latest DiVX MPEG-4, which offers near-DVD quality at smaller file sizes.
That sort of video compression effort usually requires a high-end video card or a Pentium 2.4Ghz computer to do the number crunching.
So what, you ask.
The VideoMaker is a boon for laptop users and people who hate the hassle of conventional video-editing.
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