How to add subtitles on movies

In the last days I needed to put subtitles on a movie.

I found a very nice freeware software (Subtitle Workshop that I will talk about in the next posts) and then I want to put the subtitles on the video itself, as one final product.

After a long search on the web, I finally found out how to do it! Here it goes:

Subtitle Burning (AVI)

Tutorial for Windows
Burning in subtitles means that we’ll put them directly into the video source. This has the advantage of being playable on every platform (even PSPs and iPhones), but the process takes a lot longer and you won’t be able to remove the subtitles afterwards.
Usually, subtitles are burned into AVI files. We’ll show you how to add subtitles to avi movie file in the tutorial below.

Files you’ll need:

• VirtualDub
• VobSub (not to be confused with DirectVobSub)
• Decent video codec, like Xvid

Step One: Installing Software

Let’s start out by installing the software.
VirtualDub doesn’t have an installer, so it can be unzipped right on your desktop or in another folder of your choice. No special options are required during the Xvid installation either.

During the VobSub installation, please make sure that you’ve selected both “VobSub for VirtualDub” and “TextSub for VirtualDub and AviSynth” under plugins.

You’ll also need to specify the directory where you’ve unzipped VirtualDub.

Step Two: Preparation

Start by opening the VirtualDub application – open the VirtualDub.exe file in the unzipped folder – and open your AVI file.

Next, we’re going to be enabling the TextSub filter. Navigate to Video -> Filters -> Add… and locate it in the list.
Select the TextSub filter, and press OK.

If you don't the filter "TextSub 2.23", then you should google it and download it. Afterwards you just need to load it in this menu.

In the pop-up window, press “Open” and browse to your subtitle file. This file must be in one of the supported subtitle formats (srt, sub, smi, psb, ssa, ass).
When You’re ready, press OK.

Back in the video dropdown menu, make sure you’ve got Full processing mode selected, and go to Compression.

Here you need to select one of the available codecs. Xvid does a great job for a free codec, and that’s the one I used. You can alter some settings, and tweak the quality of the video if you press Customize – however, if you don’t know what you’re doing, you’d best leave it be.
Accept everything when you’re done.

Also make sure that the program’s set up to do a Direct stream copy of the audio; this doesn’t need any processing.

Finally, save the video somewhere on your computer, and wait for the process to finish.

This can take quite a while and is quite memory extensive, so you might want to leave your computer alone for an hour or two, and do something else for the time being. If you’ve got big files to process, you can run the application at night.

I hope you found this guide helpful and you were able to learn something from it. ;)

keylogger SSPRO

Some times we would like to control what is being done on our computer. There is a type of software to do that: keylogger softwares (it records all the keyboards that are pressed on!

Some time ago, I decided to use one but my search was a kind of useless! However, finally I found the perfect stuff!

Once again, I found it on one of the best sites for software downloads: http://www.downloads.com/

System Surveillance Pro

Easy to install and to work with! 5 stars in my point of view! It is a free version that works only for 7 days but, either way, is time enough to evaluate the product and check if it really works or not!

And it works! ;) 

5 Fantastic Ways To Improve Your Blog Writing Skills … This Instant

This can be really useful!

CHECK IT OUT!

So one of the many things a lot of bloggers struggle with is their writing skills and making copy that is concise and easy to read.

Lots of people say the best way to success as a blogger is to just write quality content and lots of it.

However if you’ve tried this technique you’ve probably already figured out that just spamming your blog with tons of content is just not enough.

You need to keep a couple crucial points in mind when writing so that you make your blog easy to read and keep your readers coming back for more.

1. Keep Your Writing Short

You can take this two ways. You can keep your line lengths short which helps and you can from time to time keep your blog post short as well.

You need to get in to the post and give the message and quickly as possible in the easiest to read manor for your readers.

You want to write something that is interesting to your readers but also easy on the eyes so they can scan the computer screen quickly and get what information they want from the blog post.

You want to try and make plenty of breaks in your sentences and you want to keep your lines to around 100 characters if possible to your readers can get through the line easily.

2. Be Clear And Concise

You need to be concise and clear when writing your blog posts. This is something I struggle with a lot with my blog with my rambling paragraphs.

You want to keep your sentences short and easy to read instead of long and convoluted.

It is very likely if you write long, hard to read paragraphs you will lose your readers attention and they will leave your blog all together.

Try to learn to write things in a short manor so that you get out what you want to say quickly and efficient.  The reader will appreciate receiving the information more quickly.

3. Stick To 3

This is something not many people try to do when writing their blogs.

If you can stick to a structure of 3 you can be better off most of the time. 3 bullet points, 3 steps, 3 mini-paragraphs.

You can get to the point quickly and systematically and it will be easy for the reader to get what they want and keep moving forward.

4. Write About Sex, Food, and Danger

You should be writing about things that interest people and these are three topics that are usually on everybody’s mind.

People want to know about Food and Danger as well. Things that keep peoples attention are great and easy to read topics for the most part.

5. Break Up Your Posts

This is one of my biggest issues with some of my old blog posts (as well as my new ones).

You have to break up your blog posts with spaces, graphics, and bullet points. Whatever it takes to make the content more readable.

It is very difficult on the eyes to read large chunks of content at once. I usually give up myself when I see it so why would others read my blog content in that format?

Keep it simple with lots of space, subheadings, and very short paragraphs.

As you can see writing in the fashion I am writing in right now is a lot easier to read.

Summary

In summary you need to do the following to make your blog posts more readable and interesting.

Write about sex, food, and danger!

Break up your blog posts in to short easy to read lines, bullet points, and subheadings.

Be very clear and concise.

Stick to three’s.

Keep you writing short (lines and blog posts).

List of 30 blogs that make lots of money online!

I found out this list on the net and it is very curious to check so we can understand what really works!

Rank	Website	Owner	Monthly Earnings	Main Income
1	Techcrunch	Michael Arrington	$200,000	Advertising Banners
2	Mashable	Pete Cashmore	$180,000	Advertising Banners
3	Perez Hilton	Mario Lavandeira	$140,000	Advertising Banners
4	Gothamist	Jake Dobkin	$80,000	Pay Per Click
5	Timothy Sykes	Timothy Sykes	$80,000	Affiliate Sales
6	Venture Beat	Matt Marshall	$62,000	Pay Per Click
7	Life Hacker	Nick Denton	$60,000	Advertising Banners
8	Tuts Plus	Collis Taeed	$55,000	Advertising Banners
9	Smashing Magazine	Vitaly Friedman	$50,000	Advertising Banners
10	Steve Pavlina	Steve Pavlina	$45,000	Pay Per Click
11	TPM	Josh Marshall	$45,000	Pay Per Click
12	Car Advice	Alborz Fallah	$42,000	Advertising Banners
13	JohnChow	John Chow	$35,000	Affiliate Sales
14	Kotaku	Nick Denton	$32,000	Advertising Banners
15	Coolest Gadgets	Allan Carlton	$30,000	Advertising Banners
16	Problogger	Darren Rowse	$25,000	Advertising Banners
17	Joystiq	AOL	$18,000	CPM Advertising
18	PC Mech	David Risley	$16,000	Affiliate Sales
19	Shoemoney	Jeremy Schoemaker	$12,000	Private Advertising
20	Informasi Dan Tips	Mustofa Alaydrus	$9,500	Pay Per Click
21	Sizlopedia	Saad Hamid	$9,000	Pay Per Click
22	Retire at 21	Michael Dunlop	$5,000	Affiliate Sales
23	Noupe	Noupe	$4,930	Advertising Banners
24	Uber Affiliate	Paul Bourque	$4,500	Second Tear Affiliates
25	Abduzeedo	Fabio Sasso	$3,920	Advertising Banners
26	Click For Nick	Nick Skeba	$3,900	Pay Per Click
27	Tyler Cruz	Tyler Cruz	$3,200	Advertising Banners
28	Just Creative Design	Jacob Cass	$3,000	Services
29	Sizzled Core	Haris Nadeem	$3,000	Pay Per Click
30	Filmonic	Liam Goodwin	$2,200	CPM Advertisin

Top 10 Google Adsense Alternatives

No doubt Google Adsense is the at the top of the heap, when you want to make money online and is leading the online Advertising Industry. But for some getting approved in this program is difficult. Or maybe some publishers have had the misfortune of being banned from from Google Adsense due to some reasons.

This post may come to your rescue as it provides the best among the several Advertising options available on internet. I have listed some of the best Advertising options that you may use, though these are just some suggestions.

Bidvertiser.com : It is professional contextual advertising network. It is very similar to Google AdSense. One thing that I liked most about it is, Bidvertiser shows high paying ads first and then the rest. Giving opportunity to generate good amount of revenue.

Adbrite.com : Allows you to set up your Ad space price on weekly basis, monthly basis etc. With a large variety of Ad format you can choose one of the format that suits yourblog design.

Chitika.com : It is a CPC Ad network. For all publishers, Chitika is an easy-to-use platform for earning daily ad revenue. They also let you add advertising in your RSS feeds. With custom Paypal payment and Ads blending properly Chitka acts as one of the best Adsense alternatives.

Yahoo Publisher Network: Yahoo are currently playing catch up to Google and are trying to release their own context sensitive advertising service. This promises to be an excellent alternative to Google Adsense but in reality is likely to be a simple copy with the same restrictive terms and conditions as Google, including $100 minimums on payouts. Though I have never used YPN, but if you look all over the internet it’s  a big brand and has got some high reputation.

Kontera.com : It is a leading provider of In Text advertising for your website, delivering state of the art contextual ads. Kontera’s pay per click ad solutions are the best. There are over 140 million monthly unique users on the Kontera network. TWC uses Konterafor its in text advertising.

Infolinks.com : It is another In-line text ads programs, with PayPal payment option, free Pioneer MasterCard, relevant in-line text Ads it’s the among best option you can choose. For some blog Kontera may do well but for some Infolinks can do well, so it’s just a matter of choice what you opt and a matter of luck if that turns out to be lucky for you.

BuySellAds.com : It’s the best and the high paying Advertising media that you can opt in place of Google Adsense. It works on bidding, Advertiser bids for Ad space on your blog. As in here you decide the price for each banner you place, thus you can get a good opportunity to earn a lot from here. For getting an approval for BuySellAds , your site should have a decent Traffic. For me BSA works like a charm and has helped me to maximize my revenue.

Clicksor.com : It offers webmasters the opportunity to earn more income by simply underlining a selection of clickable text (inline text links) AND displaying targeted contextual ads of various sizes of banners, on their websites or blogs.

TribalFusion.com : It is yet another well-paying advertising network. However they require the website to have a minimum of 500,000 unique users per month, as a result of which it is out of reach of most bloggers.

LakeQuincy.com : Lake Quincy Media is a network of developer content sitesencompassing over one-hundred and ninety Microsoft technology-focused websites. It is a project of The Code Project is one of the largest development communities in the world, comprised of professional developers, development managers and architects; 7 million registered members and growing! There are a variety of advertisement choices to accommodate your advertising needs. Banners, newsletters, dog-ears, eblasts and much more!

To me these 10 are among the best AdSense Alternatives for monetizing your website! But I would love to hear about your experience and what you have to say about this.

 

Tell me about your experience!