• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Video Library and Formatting

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I have allowed my video to pile up over the years and haven't set up any sort of organized system for storing my video. I got a new camera this year that stores the video on an internal hard drive so now I pretty much have to figure out the best way for preserving my original video for future use.
There are two things I'm trying to start doing. One is to upload my video onto the computer as soon as I get it and save it in whatever format is best for editing it in the future. Basically I want to set up my main bank of original video where I can pull from any time I am working on a project in my video editing software.

The other thing I need to do is to start uploading my video to youtube and I'm trying to figure out what is the best format to use for that. I searched through the youtube help and found a few recomended formats, but a few of them aren't options with my editing software and of the ones I do have I'm not sure which to go with. I started uploading different trial clips with different formats to youtube to try and compare the quality difference, but didn't get very far. Right now I am using a sony HD video camera. I have Adobe CS4 and Sony Vegas Movie Studio editing software. I am borderline retarded when it comes to using the Adobe software, so I'm pretty much using Vegas exclusively right now.
Any help or advice would be appreciated. I'd also really like to hear how you manage your video library.
 
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