Given the TV setup at the hotel this year, can anyone tell me what cables I need to acquire to make my laptop PC communicate with the TV? I'm a bit of a techno-boob, so if you could walk me through exactly what I need to buy, that would be a huge help.

This isn't going to be useful for many people but it could be very important for anyone compiling vids for conventions. Like me and sockkpuppett are ( Read more... )

Do you have the encoding blues? Always worried about whether you are using the correct settings? Don't know what to do if your video is PAL or if it's 24fps?

Worry no longer!

LlamaEnc is designed as an almost-one-click program for creating the m2v and wav files that we at Vividcon prefer for video submissions. It accepts most major video formats ( Read more... )

I'm wondering if there are going to be any tech-oriented presentations this year? I can't find the list of Vividcon panels, but I don't seem to recall seeing anything labeled "tech" as such. Or do people break off into their own rooms to confab? I ask because I was thinking of bringing my laptop in the hopes of getting some tips on working with ( Read more... )