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TREOdeJaneiro · 04-28-2007, 09:35 PM

As many of you know, to watch streaming videos, so far, Kinoma is the way to do that on your Smartphone. At least it's that way for me and my 700p.

When I bought the software, there was an option to buy Kinoma Producer 4.0 bundled with it. This is a program that resides on your PC and allows you to convert your videos to 3gp videos.

I have to say that I really like this program. I recently got married and had most of it videoed with a miniDV camcorder. Not only was I able to create a nice video for home with Windows Movie Maker, but with the Kinoma PROducer 4.0, I was able to convert it to a file that I can play on my Treo 700p Smartphone. Talk about handy! With my 2G SD smart card I am able to carry tons of wedding photos and now videos with me to bore the crap out of all my friends and associates who I couldn't invite to the wedding!

The quality is actually really good. The only draw back I see is that when the videos are played back there is no pause, fast forward nor rewind. (This is a drawback of the phone's playback capabilities.) It's all or nothing. (That's why I opted to make smaller video sections of my wedding too. So you can go, here's the ceremony, here's the cake cutting, here's the bouquet toss, here's the honeymoon... [oops...]).

[*Update 4/11/2008: There are pause, stop, play, fast forward and rewind buttons. You just five-way-button down while playing back your video and the progress bar and control buttons appear on your screen.]

Now I am going to talk about another product called River Past Video Cleaner. This product converts just about any type of video file (3gp, 3g2, asf, asx, avi, dat, divx, dv, flc, fli, flv, gif, ivf, mkv, mov, qt, m4v, mp4, mpg, mpeg, mp1, mp2, ogm, rm, mvb, rpx, smi, smil, vob, wmv, xvid) to WMV, AVI, AVI (quicktime Engine), AVI-DV, DivX, DV, DVPRO, OGM, WMV or XviD formats.

This is handy because, you can then add in video that you took with your phone to your existing video projects.

Both of the programs I have discussed here cost money to own, but in my opinion, if you want to play with creating videos, it is WELL worth it.

04-28-2007, 09:35 PM	#1 (permalink)
TREOdeJaneiro Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 My Treo: Treo 700p Posts: 89 Thanks: 2 Thanked 7 Times in 5 Posts	Convert Videos to phone (.3gp) and Visa Versa As many of you know, to watch streaming videos, so far, Kinoma is the way to do that on your Smartphone. At least it's that way for me and my 700p. When I bought the software, there was an option to buy Kinoma Producer 4.0 bundled with it. This is a program that resides on your PC and allows you to convert your videos to 3gp videos. I have to say that I really like this program. I recently got married and had most of it videoed with a miniDV camcorder. Not only was I able to create a nice video for home with Windows Movie Maker, but with the Kinoma PROducer 4.0, I was able to convert it to a file that I can play on my Treo 700p Smartphone. Talk about handy! With my 2G SD smart card I am able to carry tons of wedding photos and now videos with me to bore the crap out of all my friends and associates who I couldn't invite to the wedding! The quality is actually really good. The only draw back I see is that when the videos are played back there is no pause, fast forward nor rewind. (This is a drawback of the phone's playback capabilities.) It's all or nothing. (That's why I opted to make smaller video sections of my wedding too. So you can go, here's the ceremony, here's the cake cutting, here's the bouquet toss, here's the honeymoon... [oops...]). [Update 4/11/2008: There are pause, stop, play, fast forward and rewind buttons. You just five-way-button down while playing back your video and the progress bar and control buttons appear on your screen.] Now I am going to talk about another product called River Past Video Cleaner. This product converts just about any type of video file (3gp, 3g2, asf, asx, avi, dat, divx, dv, flc, fli, flv, gif, ivf, mkv, mov, qt, m4v, mp4, mpg, mpeg, mp1, mp2, ogm, rm, mvb, rpx, smi, smil, vob, wmv, xvid) to WMV, AVI, AVI (quicktime Engine), AVI-DV, DivX, DV, DVPRO, OGM, WMV or XviD formats. This is handy because, you can then add in video that you took with your phone to your existing video projects. Both of the programs I have discussed here cost money to own, but in my opinion, if you want to play with creating videos, it is WELL worth it. Last edited by TREOdeJaneiro; 04-11-2008 at 05:35 PM.*