OK Aquasweetypiehunkybabe...

Pretend you are as stupid as me and do tell...in layman's terms...just how one goes about "zipping" these vids with WinZip!!!!!??????

Do I purchase this thingy? Do I beg, borrow, steal this thingy? WTF is this thingy? I've opened some vids without a purchase...but I am sure my days are numbered...YES???? Wouldn't you just love to PM me so you can spank my ass and tell me all about this thingy? I ain't stupid...just puter dumb (till I'm taught).

****Try and remember...we are not all geeks and "thingy's" is about all we can call "IT" till we actually know the poop...the whole poop...and nothing but the poop about these "thingy's****

Um...I'm hoping I can get some help before this Vid Forum is launched, so I can play too!

*bats eyelashes atcha*

As far as I know you can use the evaluation version of winzip virtually forever... *shhhh* don't tell anyone, but even our corporate version that I use 3-10 times daily is evaluation version too.

As far as using winzip, it might look scary with the funny little icons but like most windows based programs is fairly user friendly.
-Click on the "New" icon
-give the file a name and save it in your desired location
-find your multimedia file
-make sure the compression is set to maximum
-then click add

and if you don't already have winzip, you can get it at www.winzip.com

LixyChick, ya gotta be very careful zipping near thingys. I was very careless once, and damned near maimed myself for life! :blink:

Maddy...TY! That sounds easy enough. Least till I actually try it that is...lol!

thereIam...Yikes! Didn't mean THAT thingy...though I know a few guys who've had a similar accident...OUCH!

I don't have a videao camera...but I do have my Kodak Easy Share Digital and it can take "mini-movies". Can I zip them? *Do I even know what I am talking about?* LOL!

Yes Lixy you can upload them to your puter then use WinZip to zip them up.

How's this for a newbie's first post. Har.

After you install winzip, zipping something up is very easy. Simply right click on the item in your windows explorer and one of the options that will be presented to you will be "add to XXX.zip" where XXX is the name of the file. Simply click on that, winzip will *automatically* open, create a zipped version of your file, save it right next to your original file (so you don't have to go looking), then close and get out of the way. Honestly, couldn't be simpler. Well, it could, I suppose.....

p.s. I think a separate category for multimedia would be a great idea.