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If your interested in making and sharing your home made movies, the guides on this site will help you. If you already have home movies on film or vhs tapes and would like to transfer them to VCD or DVD, there are guides here explaining how to achieve this.
DVD
Although DVD writers are now in-expensive, you might want to use your present equipment. A CD writer will make VCD's and your current DVD player should play them. Although you will need twice as many cdr blanks then DVD blanks, and more... especially now when we have dual layer DVD writers.
Sharing Your Movies
You may have made some interesting home movies and would like to share them with other movie enthusiasts. When you first transfer your home movies from film or tape, they are probably too large to be uploaded on the internet, so some of the guides will tell you how to compress them.
Once your home movies are compressed, you can upload them to an internet site, or use a person to person file transfer program, like Microsoft Messenger, or a more advanced program like KaZaa. If you wont something easy to use, then KaZaa Media Desktop is very simple to use.
Fixing home movies
Sometimes peoples home movies get corrupted, the person who made them might have had a problem on his/her local hard drive, some of the guides will tell you how to fix some of the problems that home movies get when sharing on the internet.
Copyright
Any home movie you make, you own the copyright. You don't need to register it with anyone, just add a notice to it, let others know if you don't want them to edit your work. Some of the guides here also explain how to make a backup copy of a DVD you bought, please make sure you are legally entitled to do this, in some counties it is legal to make one backup copy for yourself.
These guides are for the home movie hobbyist, they should only be used when working with your own home movies, or ones you have permission from the owner to work on.
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