For movie lovers with a significant investment in VHS films, the switch to DVD has been a mixed blessing. Many movies haven’t been re-released on DVD, and videotapes lose much of their quality over time. Fortunately, the “fair-use” provisions in U.S. copyright law permit the creation of backup copies of your old tapes and conversion to DVD. With the addition of a few accessories, your computer provides you with everything you need to transfer most movies....

CorelDraw is a series of image-editing programs that utilizes its own file format, .CDR, to save files. However, this is not the only file format in which files opened in CorelDraw can be saved. The common .JPG file format is also supported in CorelDraw, so any file can be turned into a .JPG file.

RAL is a color space system that uses a series of numbers and letters to correspond with various collections of colors, using RAL before the number to denote a RAL color. FS is a similar system where you use FS before the number corresponding with the color. There are charts available that give approximations of the paint colors between the two systems, so you can use FS if RAL is not available....

M4A audio format is one commonly associated with the iTunes program. Songs that are in this format will open inside the iTunes program and are compatible with all iPods. The M4A audio format is not compatible with a variety of different audio software and the songs will not play on all portable MP3 players. Fortunately, you can use iTunes to convert M4A files to MP3 on either a Mac or a PC....

FFmpeg is an open-source command-line program for converting audio and video. FFmpeg is primarily designed for Linux-based operating systems and comes installed with most distributions. FFmpeg utilizes various video and audio codec libraries so it has support for a wide selection of video and audio file formats. FFmpeg has support for both Apple’s Quicktime (MOV) format and the Audio Video Interweave (AVI). Writer Bio

When you convert an image from Adobe Photoshop to Adobe Illustrator, the file extension will change from “.pds” to “.ai”. In addition to altering the file extension, converting a PDS file to the AI format will permit you to access the extensive tools available in Illustrator, many of which are especially useful if you are working on vector images. These images, which consist of line art and outlines of objects to be filled with colors or patterns, are easiest to work with in Illustrator....

PSD is default file format for files created in Adobe Photoshop. According to FileInfo.com, a PSD “may include image layers, adjustment layers, layer masks, annotation notes, file information, keywords, and other Photoshop-specific elements.” While you need a graphic design program like Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter or GIMP to edit PSD files, you can open them in the Preview application included in Mac OS X. Preview gives you the option of saving files in a variety of formats, including the PDF format....

If you have recorded TV programs on your Topfield DVR and transferred them to your computer, you may have noticed that they are in the REC file format. To use these files with other programs and devices, you must convert them to a more universal video file format, such as AVI. A converter program is all that is needed to do this. The MPEG Video Wizard DVD 5.0 is the only converter program available as of January 2010 that supports the REC-to-AVI file conversion....

VLC Media Player is an open source media-playback program released under a GNU public license. It has the capacity to play a wide variety of audio and video files. It can also be used to convert a file from one format to another. This method is handy if, for example, you want to MP3 audio from an AVI video. No plug-ins are needed to perform this conversion. Tips Writer Bio

It’s always a good idea to make a physical backup of any important data. With CD-burning devices coming standard in more and more computers, making CD backups of data is a readily available way to back up valuable data. Personal computers (PCs) often have a CD-R drive and either a DVD-ROM drive or a CD-ROM drive. Macintosh computers come standard with a DVD player built in. Regardless of what system you’re using, backing up data takes just a few steps....

Updated February 09, 2017 Insert your CD into the CD drive on your Mac computer. Insert the flash drive into the USB slot on your Mac computer. This slot is rectangular and is typically found with several other connection options. Click both the CD and flash drive icons that appear on your desktop. They will open with the contents appearing in the window. Press your “Command” key on your keyboard and the mouse button at the same time....

Designing a website can be difficult task when you are uncertain about what it will look like. Perusing different websites that you like can be a good idea when thinking about the look of your own website. However, there is a way to create a website similar to one that you admire. You can use the HTML source code of the webpage you like as a template for your own website....

A Catholic baptismal certificate is a meaningful symbol of a child’s new life in God. It can also be a thing of beauty to frame or keep in the baby’s scrapbook. Graphic design, desktop publishing and word processing programs provide templates for creating certificates, complete with fancy fonts and borders already selected. However, you can make your own Catholic baptismal certificate in Microsoft Word or another word processing program without a template by including these simple elements....

Facebook pages can be used for all sorts of purposes, such as providing a place where businesses can interact with their followers. Thanks to Facebook’s ability to create new administrators for each page, you can create a page for a client, then transfer complete ownership of the page to the client with little hassle. Writer Bio

By learning to hide text when a Word form’s checkbox is checked, you can let form users control large amounts of content in a document with a single click. The event function of Word’s Visual Basic programming language makes this project possible. Event functions are functions that Word executes whenever a user interacts with a form control linked to your program. For example, the event function “Checkbox1_Clicked” will run when a user clicks the checkbox named “CheckBox1....

Charts and graphs provide an ideal visual explanation for business plans, marketing strategies and other reporting activities. These aids may seem difficult to make, but technology has made it easier to create professional and elaborate charts. Most software programs provide many options regarding the number of columns, rows, sizes and other creative graphics from which to choose. Charts can be made with word processing software, such as Microsoft Word. Writer Bio

Telus provides telecommunications services to millions of Canadians all over the country. One of its more popular services includes high speed Internet with over 1.2 million Internet subscribers as of 2010. The Telus Internet service is bundled with a free email account and Web space. Users with their own HTML editing tool can create a website and easily upload it via Telus’ online file manager.

Floppy Disk Drives (FDD) aren’t as common today, which presents an obstacle when trying to work with a VMware image that needs to use one. Instead, you’ll need to create an FLP file. This is an image of an FDD that VMware can mount and use as if there were an actual floppy disk in the computer. You’ll need to download an application to create a virtual floppy disk containing the files you need....

Smart entrepreneurs on a budget know the value of marketing their product, service or brand by sending bulk emails to their subscribers, but might not want to spend the money to use a mass email program. Luckily, for all do-it-yourself marketers with a blog or website supported by a web host using the cPanel platform, it is possible to add a php-based email campaign managing program to your site, upload a list of email addresses and start sending bulk emails in cPanel within half an hour....

Sidebar Dimensions To fill the sidebar of your Twitter timeline, you need an image that measures 400 pixels wide by 700 pixels high at 72 pixels per inch. If you choose to add a sidebar image, it replaces any background image you previously created. To upload your graphic, click on the gear icon on the menu bar of your timeline and choose “Settings.” In the Design section of the Settings page, click on the “Change Background” button to access the File Upload dialog box....