Video Software
Well sticking with my January theme about useful software titles, I've come across a title that I'm all geeked out about. It's called Auto Gordian Knot (or AutoGK).
The background story goes like this: I have recently been asked to do a memorial website for a young lady that was murdered. The family had a nice DVD that was made for the funeral, but as you may know there are not a lot of programs out there that will let you copy a DVD to your computer in a usable format, at least not with good quality and good price… Specifically I was trying to convert from DVD to AVI and as I'm donating a bunch of the work, I didn't want to pay much for a good tool. Searched Google, and finally came upon this little tool. It was free. It was easy to install, and it did a flawless job in relatively good time.
Once I had the AVI file, I could edit it to my heart's content (and my heart IS now content with a flash version, Windows Media version and Quicktime version of the video).