Session1: Basics; Adding titles and logos

 It’s not great, but it’s the best compromise between features, price, ease of use  Other options: ◦ Adobe Premiere  Industry standard  Expensive, steep learning curve ◦ Final Cut Express/Pro  Industry standard  Mac only ◦ Windows Movie Maker  Easy and fun  Too basic ◦ Techsmith Camtasia  Designed with screen capture in mind, video editing secondary  If you already own it, it’s not bad…

 Think of it as Adobe Premiere Lite  $70 at RAMtech  HUGE resource hog ◦ Takes a full minute to load ◦ Kind of “buggy”: random crashes, vague error messages  Minimum System Requirements ◦ 2GHz or faster processor, Windows Vista or Windows 7 ◦ 2GB of RAM ◦ 12GB of available hard‐disk space to install ◦ 1024x768 display resolution ◦ Microsoft DirectX 9/10 compatible sound and display driver Microsoft DirectX ◦ Windows Media Player

 AVI ◦ Uncompressed, huge file sizes ◦ Very flexible, plays on anything ◦ Lossless, good working format, NOT suitable for web  MP4 ◦ Kodak Touchplay uses MP4 (we’ll use it as our working format) ◦ Compressed, file sizes still large ◦ Will play on most players (Windows, Quicktime, Real Player) ◦ Lossless, good working format, NOT suitable for web  WMV ◦ Windows media, compressed, needs Windows Media player (nearly universal) ◦ Good quality ◦ Good choice for final product (we’ll use this)  FLV, SWF ◦ Flash, compressed, needs Flash player (very common) ◦ Good choice for final product; compression sometimes shows ◦ Plays well with Connect  MOV ◦ Quicktime, compressed, needs Quicktime player

Preview pane Project pane Tasks pane

 Tasks pane>Organize>Get Media>PC files and folders>browse to images  Drag them into timeline (5 second preset)

 Go from Timeline to Sceneline view ◦ Only reason to use Sceneline view  Right-click the small box between the clips  Choose your transition ◦ Simple dissolve is effective ◦ Be consistent with transitions

 Titles>New Title>Choose type (still, roll, crawl)  Type in text, use tools at right to choose font style, size, color, alignment, etc.  CSU approved fonts: Minion, Swiss 721, Garamond, Ariel, Helvetica

 Choose titles in timeline  Right-click>Choose Fade In, Fade Out  Timing can be adjusted by click/drag of the little diamonds