In the Desktop-Video Guide this week it said that creating a digital video is really simple if you break it down into five steps: Buying equipment, shooting, capturing, editing and sharing. I have to laugh at the fact that they think it is simple probably because they’ve done it a million times.
Buying equipment is probably the hardest thing I can think of. Even when I do the research, talk to the sales people and seek the advice of those who seem to know; I still I end up with something that I paid way too much for and doesn’t do what I expected it to do. And capturing? What’s capturing? Never even heard that phrase until this week!
I can now handle editing. With Movie Maker it’s pretty easy. Time consuming, but easy. I had an old film strip from 1975 that had the cassette tape that beeps to tell you when to change the slide. About 8 years ago, I took digital pictures of each slide and turned it into a PowerPoint show. Unfortunately, the beeps could still be heard at times and it created havoc in the classroom when I had to try to explain to the natives how filmstrips used to work. This week, I put the PowerPoint into Movie Maker and after a great deal of effort, and about 2 hours, I had a 14 minute Windows Media Video (.wmv) with no beeps. Unfortunately, a few important words are missing too. I suppose that means that step two will be to add those words back in.
I have several projects that I want to tackle now and can't wait to get started.
Desktop-Video-Guide. (n.d.). The various stages of creating a digital video. Retrieved on November 24, 2011, from http://www.desktop-video-guide.com/video-creation.html
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