Exporting Epson Print CD labels to another format

Issue: We have a disc label that was created in the "Epson Print CD" program and we want to export the label to be used somewhere else such as the Mircoboards PF-Pro printer ("SureThing CD Labeller" program).  The Epson creates a proprietary file with a .ec3 extension.  This file cannot be ported into any other program directly.

Solution:

1. Open up ec3 file in the "Epson Print CD" program.
2. Click the <print> button which should open up the print dialogue window.
3. Click the <Manual Print> button located in the lower right of the window.
4. Now select the Adobe pdf "printer" and print
5. The resulting file will now be in pdf format and one can simply "save as" from Adobe PDF into a png, jpg, or whatever.

Once the file is in a more standard format, we can import the file into programs such as "SureThing CD Labeller" for printing on the PF-Pro.

High Quality Video for Web

A few weeks ago, a colleage of mine emailed me asking a few questions:

1. What export settings are best for iTunes podcast? High quality
2. What export settings are best for YouTube? High quality
3. If you are familiar with Vimeo, what settings for this? High quality.

And the following was my answer:

As far as the "best" quality settings for uploading to sites like YouTube, I don't have any technical rules - more just a rule of thumb that you want to throw more quality at it than it would stream at. For example, most sites stream at a max of 400 kbps, so I'll render my videos at 512 kbps and upload that. They transcode them for flash on their servers, and that becomes the final quality that people will stream. It doesn't matter what format really, but I generally use wmv and occasionally mov.