AGENDA, Aug 12, 2004 Preserving 8mm film How to Begin: Creating a home movie on DVD, VCD, or tape Advanced: Pinnacle Liquid Edition

Preserving old 8mm movies: Do it yourself –Use your old Brownie projector, play 8mm onto screen/wall/paper; record using your camcorder Record to tape capture directly on PC view example of “flicker” Outsource Discussion of OptionsOptions

MY PROJECT: CREATE a GREAT HOME MOVIE from these SOURCES Mini-DV tape (~2 hours) Commercial DVD- Norwegian Cruise Line Commercial DVD- White Pass Railroad Video CD – “Magic” Numerous digital photos Many postcards

CREATE GREAT HOME MOVIES CAMCORDER DIGITAL CAMERA Cannon ZR60 mini-dv ($190) Many (up to $1200)

CREATE GREAT HOME MOVIES SOFTWARE BEGINNING Pinnacle Studio 9 ( $99.99), Roxio Easy Media Creator 7' ( $99.95), Screenblast Movie Studio 3 ( mediasoftware. sonypictures. com; $99.95) Ulead VideoStudio 8 ( $99.95). Mac: Apple iMovie 4 $49 as part of the iLife suite ADVANCED Adobe Premier Pro $300 (full) Pinnacle Liquid Edition $300 (upgrade) COMPOSING Macromedia Director $440 Academic; $1000 stand-alone

CREATE GREAT HOME MOVIES MULTIMEDIA HARDWARE P4 or AMD Athlon > 1.5GHZ; 500MB memory min (1GB preferred); >80GB drive space (separate drive is preferred- DV input: IEEE 1394 (also called Fire Wire or iLink) MAC PLATFORM: G3 600 MHZ (G4 preferred) with at least 512MB memory (See Consumer Reports, Sept, Precision 370www.dell.com Bareboneswww.magicmicro.com Turnkey ProEdit Workstation (with Liquid Edition) $3200Workstation CAPTURE CARD <$200, (needed only for analog sources) Some high-end graphics cards have built-in capture cards Adaptec ( ADS Technologies ( Dazzle (

Overall Ratings- Desktop Source: Consumer Reports, Sept, 2004; other ratings: tech support; repair history

Overall Ratings- Laptop Source: Consumer Reports, Sept, 2004 ; other ratings: tech support; repair history

INTEL Naming Conventions 7xx P4 with HT “Professional Enthusiast”-cutting- edge, ultra-high end to handle the most demanding 2D &3D applications. Q42004 –Up to 3.73GHZ, EM64T; 2MB cache; DDR667 with 1066MHZ FSB and DDR2-667 memory 5xx P4 with HT “Performance Mainstream” – GHZ, 1MB cache; 800MHZ FSB – GHZ, 1MB cache; 800MHZ FSB – GHZ, 1MB cache; 800MHZ FSB 3xx Celeron D “Value” – to handle everyday tasks; avail September, 2004

CREATE GREAT HOME MOVIES PROCESS PLAN MY CREATION –View footage on television –Conceptualize the finished project –Note scenes to keep or trash CLEANUP AND DEFRAGMENT DISK CAPTURE VIDEO –SW automatically detects scene changes –Organizes video into different sections LAYOUT TIMELINE –Use several audio/video tracks –Move scenes to suit ADD SPECIAL EFFECTS –Titles and Transitions between scenes –Add music and voice-over PRODUCTION MANTRA –Create once, and publish anywhere (VHS, VideoCD, DVD, and web site) –Keep file names same: low res web version and high res CD/DVD version