CSC 186 Digital Meda

 Introduction to video editing

Objectives

The practice part of this assignment is to be done individually.  No consultations are allowed.

Video editing can be done with a number of software package depending upon what operating system you are using.  Here are my recommendations:
All of these packages are fairly easy to use except for the maddening issue of dealing with incompatible video formats...

In and out of class:
  1. For this assignment, you will work with the movie file Class_1_11_11.
    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5353207/Class_1_11_11.m4v    ,
    or \\academic\Academic\Mathematics & Computer Science\PearceJ\Resources\Class_1_11_11.m4v
  2. You are going to be making shorter clips and then combine them in order to keep nothing except the Tupelo, MS story.
    1. For how to do this with iMovie http://www.apple.com/support/imovie/
    2. For how to do this with Windows Movie Maker, see http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/getstarted/clips.mspx
    3. For how to do this with Windows Live Movie Maker, see http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-trim-a-video-clip-in-windows-live-movie-mak.navId-323836.html
  3. Add an approriate title screem, good transitions, a screen with credits (you are editor) and other optional niceties.
  4. Save this in a movie file format with a meaningful name.  Use Dropbox.com to save files and to transition to other computers.
  5. You will not be able to upload this in Moodle because it will be too dang big.  Instead bring the edited video to class on Tuesday.
  6. By Thursday put the completely edited video in your public dropbox folder and upload a link to this video in Moodle.
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