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1) The camera issue has already been resolved. FYI, most of the past media collected for the site was shot on older model Hi-8 Analog camcorders, and were not digital video quality. We have since corrected that this year, and have purchased 2 new miniDV camcorders for our own 2 camera operators, and we have recruited 2 additional people who use miniDV too, so all the latest footage (7hrs shot in the last 2 months) will be at a much higher resolution. The latest footage has not been edited yet. It is being shipped to me and I will edit the new clips over the next 2-3 months. Therefore, you will definitely see a BIG improvement in video quality once I start uploading the new 2007 footage shot by 4 different camera people all using miniDV camcorders.

2) The preview picture quality is not so easy to resolve. As anybody who makes preview caps knows, the best way to make them is "by hand"...i.e. manually queueing up the frames using the raw footage AVI files (uncompressed video) in your editing system....and then spending a lot of extra time to enhance each frame via Photoshop etc.  That all requires a huge amount of manual labor time, and thats not something I have the time to do any more. With 27 websites to manage, I just have no time to make pics manually or by hand  any more. Therefore, we have to resort to using an automated time-lapse vidcapper. This is a program developed in Hungary, and the same program we installed on the wambank and wamtec gold etc....and it merely reads online media files and generates random caps at time lapse intervals. It's not the best way to do things...but it's the only choice we have...cos we do not have lots of staff to do manual tasks, so we have to use automated methods.

We will definitely be improving things.... as we can do feasibly.

regards

MK