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Why was this question removed?

This is a question I posted about video editing software, could someone tell me why it was removed??

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Question: I need to edit, publish, and make DVD with AVCHD Video (.MTS) Files, WHAT Open Source Software Can I Use?

Question Details: I have many files from my Canon Vixia HF S10 but I need some software to edit them and then make a dvd with the edited files.. DO you know of some open source software that handles HD files?? I am knew at HD files, could someone share with me their process of taking HD files that may be over 5gigs editing them and then buring them to a dvd.. How do i convert the file to fit on a dvd and keep best quality? My camcorder has 32gigs and it shoots for 2.5 hrs on highest setting and i am puzzled about how to take large files like that and put them on a disk.. Please help me out, thanks.. BTW my email is (I left this out for privacy) if you would like to email me further… THANKS

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Or do you think someone was being a jerk and flagged this question?

Let me know if this violates anything
And the whole reason for the email was because after i have selected best answer we can keep in touch.. and if someone were to post a “how to” on editing and burning hd file they would never be able to fit it in the space that YA allows for, so email would be necessary

Copyright, Civil Liberties, Emigration, and Computer Science?

I am an undergraduate student at a major American four-year university, where I study Computer Science in my Senior year. I am preparing to graduate on-time and with a GPA of approximately 3.4. I am highly involved in academia and extra-curricular research. I have a genuine passion for the subject matter, which is not reflected in my still-respectable grades. I am particularly interested in the fields of cryptography and data security, and intend to do research with my professors my senior year, and hopefully publish, which is not something every undergraduate student can say.

I have no intentions of leaving the academic environment yet. I am simply learning too much and “having too much fun”, if you will (and I don’t mean partying, either). I have no desire to leave this environment for a stagnant middle-class work-force employment, and thus am preparing to apply to various institutions in pursuit of my Masters.

This is the largest crossroads I have reached in my life, and I intend to utilize it to the fullest.

Looking around me, I am extremely disillusioned with the current American lifestyle. I can look out my window every morning in the middle of rush-hour and see grid-locked cars for as far as the eye can see in every direction, all at a dead stop, and no reasonable public transportation alternatives, thanks to the big oil corporations that seem to run our country. Driving is terrible, dangerous, stressful, and I do not enjoy it. I wish I didn’t even have to own a car, let alone drive it every day, but it seems this society has evolved in such a way that you cannot be perceived as a successful, well-rounded individual without owning a giant gas-guzzler.

I’m watching the giant corporations that have built this country out-source all their labor overseas, leaving our citizens bereft of gainful employment. Then these same businesses declare bankruptcy, abandoning what employees they have left, while their CEO’s pleasantly depart with multi-million dollar personal severances.

I’m watching the average intelligence of the American citizen steadily decline, fed by the constant stream of fear-mongering, FUD, and mindlessly stupid “entertainment” that’s spoon-fed to them by American media.

I’m watching the government slowly and inexorably violate every one of our civil liberties and constitutional freedoms in the name of keeping us safe. I’m watching laws get proposed and passed without objection that would treat us like criminals, criminals that are guilty until proven innocent.

More relevantly, I’m watching my peers, those who are genuinely passionate about things like free and open-source software, freedom of information, and effective transparent security, muscled out of the industry by the posturing and threats of the MPAA and the RIAA. I’m watching copyright law and the DMCA slowly strangulate the innovation and freely-discussed invention that has carried technology this far.

I don’t want to live in, or raise children in, this environment.

I’m done. This game sucks. I want out.

I am looking to utilize this opportunity to apply to earn a Masters degree overseas in another country, and hopefully find a way to stay. I will admit to not being as worldly as I would like, and am seeking guidance as to where to begin my search.

I am seeking a country with a flourishing and prosperous technological industry, with major academic institutions that are very active in Computer Science research and development, and are adequately funded.

I am seeking a country with a robust public transportation system and, I would imagine, the relatively low percentage of car ownership that comes along with that.

I am seeking a country with the copyright law and civil liberties protections that will become more and more relevant to my personal prosperity as I continue in the field of cryptography and mathematics.

I am seeking a country with an accessible and reasonable process by which I may one day hope to become a citizen.

I have previously taken classes in Latin, Spanish, and Japanese, and have found myself with a natural aptitude for learning other languages, although I never persisted in any of them long enough to develop an extensive vocabulary. I am prepared now, however, to seriously learn a second language, whatever language that is.

I am seeking guidance on countries to consider, languages to begin learning, schools to apply to, the process that is necessary to study abroad, skills to acquire that will prove useful, any American or foreign legal processes that are best initiated as soon as possible, and any other relevant recommendations to what is going to be the largest decision of my life.

What is the best software to use for batch processing large photo files to produce web friendly file sizes?

I have a large collection of photos that I want to make smaller so that I can publish them on the web.

Is there software available that will easily reduce the file size of these photos without having to process each photo individually?

The collection is more than 10Gb and each photo is several Mb.

As a bonus I would really like to add a small piece of text to show on each photo (the same text on each photo) – if the recommended software can also do that as a batch process it would be very useful.

I prefer to use open source shareware or freeware but right now I will be happy just to find the right tool and methods.
I should have explained about the text – I am hoping to superimpose text along one edge of the photo, so not a caption but text that will appear as part of the image.