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A file that will display in a video player such as Windows Media Player or other common media player.
It is most commonly a stand-alone, self-contained presentation. It can be used to supplement a live oral presentation.
S: versatility
you can put
other media into the video: voice, music, still images
In a live
presentation setting, you can stop the video any time. In that sense,
Powerpoint is a video with "stop" or "pause" as the default mode; you
can animate it.
W: it is linear, awkward to jump around in
NLE (non-linear editor)
On campus, you can find Apple's Final Cut Pro
in the lounge on the third floor of Main. It is a professional-level
editor; the recent movie Social Network was cut on it and it won an
Oscar for film editing. In Huber 216, you'll find Adobe Premiere Elements. It can handle almost all of the video editing projects you are likely to do in class or on the job.
In 310, as on all of the Windows 7 computers on campus, you'll find Windows
Live Movie Maker. If you have an older Windows on your PC or laptop, you will find the similarly named (and incompatible) Windows Movie Maker.
Unfortunately, Windows
Live Movie Maker is not compatible with earlier versions of Windows. Live Movie
Maker has fewer features than the earlier versions of Movie Maker
discussed below. It doesn't have a timeline, either. However, it's
free, and it may be all you need.
Microsoft's Windows Movie Maker
Where to find Movie Maker
Start |
Programs
C:\Program
Files\Movie Maker\MOVIEMK.EXE
download from
Microsoft
Structure of a generic video
Basically, you're going to add some features to video that you either made yourself or downloaded. In fact, your movie can have all of the features in the tutorial below: transitions, video effects, titles, credits, audio, narration, and, of course, music. Note that these topics are all on the right-hand side of the list of tutorials. On the left-hand side are the tutorials that deal with file management.
The steps below will work most smoothly if you already have all of your media assets, your text for titles and credits, your music, your narration, and your still images. To the extent that you have thought through how all those assets will be used -- many people use paper storyboarding for that purpose -- then the steps below will rapidly become mechanical.
However, if you're like most people, you'll use MovieMaker for brainstorming, for experimenting, and for creating something that you didn't expect to have when you sat down. Learning MovieMaker at the same time will feel a little too much, and it probably is. You may well make a mess. Frequently saving a projejct under a slightly different name can give you some insurance.
However, bear with it, and I think you'll be happy when you finish your first movie and can look back on the whole process. In other words, when you're lost in the trees it feels like you'll never get home. But once you get to the mountaintop and look back down, the climb will have been worth it.
Checklist of steps |
Then you can burn it to a CD with Windows Media Player.
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Note the difference between a .mswmm instructions file and a .wmv playable movie file. If you send me the instructions file, I can't use it because I don't have the media on my computer that it is providing the instructions for. In MovieMaker, select 3. Finish Movie > Save to my computer to make the playable .mwv file. |
Windows Live Movie Maker: Getting Started Tutorial - and note related tutorials on the right
Windows Live Movie Maker: Import photos and videos | Edit the video | Edit the audio
Microsoft's Add professional touches
Atomic Learning's Windows Movie Maker 2 tutorial
a selection of the More Useful
Tutorials
average two minutes each
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A. Getting Started |
E. Working with Clips
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CCMixter.org - "download, sample, cut-up, share" - “You already have permission…”.
browse the samples, download what you want to your project folder, import the file into Final Cut, edit as you would any other clip.
Remember to give credit to the composer!
CCMixter has a new function called "Dig" ccMixter Music Discovery
It has a section just for Instrumental Music for Film and Video. Click on "Advanced dig"
Google search results for free sound effects
web-based - Zamzar - free online file conversion
download softare to your computer: for your Mac: Miro
Firefox plug-in: Video DownloadHelper
capture video streams (sports sites, etc.) - CamStudio - free screen-recording software
others: Google search results for free online file conversion
types of graphics: raster graphics (aka bitmap) | vector graphics
Why are the downloads from YouTube fuzzy?
Because the video was originally a raster graphic that was converted to a Flash vector graphic by YouTube to save *lots* of server space. When you download it as a .mov or .mpg, it is converted back into raster. Every conversion between raster and vector results in lost information. The software does the best it can to fill in for the lost information with nearby colors. You perceive that as fuzzy.
Where we're going with this.
3D animation and the future - World Builder
NewTek's Lightwave 3D
If you think that world is likely to happen, you should advocate teaching visual design and the arts to every child as intensively as we teach reading and writing.
Make a video with MovieMaker to accompany an oral presentation that your boss would give to people important to him/her. It could precede the boss's report, or it could run in the middle.
The text content is about the same as you used for the PowerPoint presentation.
Summarize the main ideas in your report. Emphasize a couple of highlights.
Spread those words through the video, concentrating on the images and sounds.
Use effects and transitions sparingly and in a professional manner.
Use music in a professional manner.
Add a voice-over to the movie, which will let you use more words than you can fit into the video.
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