Who The Players Are

greg mgm · Post by **greg mgm** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 2:49 am

Being new to this board, I have no idea who is employed by Ulead, and who is a regular citizen editer, like me. (LOL) I see some names pop up regularly answering questions, and I'm wondering what the background is on some of you. The locations for some of the senior members are vastly spread out, which I think is great. Thanks!

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 2:51 am

As far as I know, there are no Ulead employees who participate on this forum on a regular basis, if at all.

Post by **Ron P.** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 2:52 am

I'm just a regular ol' citizen, located out in the middle of nowhere. I started using Ulead products after becoming frustrated with a competitor's. I needed some help with it, and found this board. Since the people here were so helpful, I decided to start giving back what was given to me...

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:06 am

Absolutely ditto!!

I used to be an Australian diplomat, but am now mostly retired. Have never worked for Ulead, though have lots of their products, which I find great. I have also been lucky in that I don't seem to have had any significant problems with any of them -- unlike other users -- since I started with VS7 over 5 years ago. Now I am hooked and a regular contributor.

If you want to check out the backgrounds of the regular posters, by the way, press our Profile button under one of out posts.

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:06 am

I second Ron's comments whole heartedly. I started to edit my videos on a PC around 7 years ago. Needed tons of help which I found on a different board initially but by the same guy who pops in here every now and then, our very own Mr. Terry Stettler. He, by the way, is no employee of Ulead either and neither am I

There used to be a Ulead employee who regularly participated, HT. He no longer works for Ulead though.

You might find that, with very few exceptions, all the regular participants and moderators are users like yourself. We only return to this great community what we took from it in the past when we needed it. All that is of course enhanced by our own experiences in using the programs

Most importantly, even while I'm here trying to help others, I will keep finding out things and learning different aspects of the software we all use. So, in a sense, I still take from this community while I'm in the process of returning to it what I took in the past.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:08 am

... And I know that Heinz knows that I know...!

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:23 am

Hi Ken

I knew it was gone by the time I post again

htchien · Post by **htchien** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:14 am

heinz-oz wrote:There used to be a Ulead employee who regularly participated, HT. He no longer works for Ulead though.

Suddenly saw my name mentioned here.

Well, I'm still here, as a user BTW.

H.T.

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:53 am

Sorry, should have made that clearer

I was talking about the Ulead employee in the past tense, not the member

htchien · Post by **htchien** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:00 am

That's fine, Heinz. I think people can understand.

To make it more clear:

I'm not working for either Ulead or InterVideo anymore. I'm here only as a user who loves Ulead products.

H.T.

greg mgm · Post by **greg mgm** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:32 pm

WOW! What great responses...which I didn't expect. I visit and post on various forums from off road buggys to campers/ RV's and camcorder sites, and this one is one of the most helpful and friendly site I've found. I'm a retired phone tech and have been re- vitalizing my interest in photography and video. I was convinced that the help here was from Ulead employees...(to help sell the product) Thanks for sharing your backgrounds! Keep 'em coming!

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:00 pm

Actually, it might be helpful if Ulead employees would chime in once in a while, but it doesn't seem to happen anymore since H.T. left the company (not the forum!).

BrianCee · Post by **BrianCee** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:38 pm

I have never been a Ulead employee - in fact I'm pleased to say that these days I am not an employee of anyone - but as you can see from our locations we are indeed spread right around the world.

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etech6355 · Post by **etech6355** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 2:23 am

Bump....For now

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 2:32 am

I am not a Ulead employee either. In fact I work for the Police.
A retired Police Officer who now works in a civilian capacity in a highly computerised call centre.

I had my first computer about a quarter of a century ago - a simple Dragon 32. The 32 stood for 32 Kilobytes!! It was a similar computer to the Tandy color computer. I later upgraded to a Commodore 64 which had at massive 64 Kilobytes of RAM.

No disc drives at that time, and to use tape you had to attach a cassette tape recorder - one you use for recording your voice or music.
No Internet either so you were on your own when it came to problems
unless a computer magazine considered your letter of sufficient interest to others that you managed to get a published response.

Using my Dragon32 and also my Commodore 64 I found the BASIC computer language was just that - basic and so taught myself Assembly Language (1 up from machine code)

The Police Force soon picked up on my interest in computers and I was given a variety of tasks involving at that time mainly spreadsheets. I know found myself working on Apple Mac computers with a visicalc spreadsheet and also a database the name of which I cannot know remember. Later I progressed to 286, 386 and of course 486 machines.
I soon found myself learning how to create macros using the built in progamming languages of these products.

later we upgraded to Microsoft Office and I began to learn Visual basic for applications and later the full version of Visual basic.

As I kept upgrading my own computer I eventually realised I had enough spare parts to build one and since then I have found that I build my computers rather than purchase them ready made. This led to lots of friends relatives and workmates giving me their broken computers for repair.

Hand in hand with all this I have always had an interest in photography and whilst quite young purchased a cine camera - Super 8 of course.
The cassettes at the time were for me very expensive and a cassette would only hold 3 minutes worth of film and so you had to learn how to 'not film everything' but be choosy.

Lots of small 3 minute tapes were cumbersome to watch and so I bought a splicing kit and starting glueing them together - this is the equivalant of our modern day crossfade transitions.

Obvioulsy my interest in photography and computers merged and upon purchasing my first camcorder it came with a copy of Ulead MovieFactory 2.

If you look at my signature below this post you will see how things then developed with the wide range of Ulead products I now possess.