Editing Digital Videos

Editing and publishing digital videos
Class Name

Web Videography

In recent times Personal Computers (PCs) have become a useful tool for digital video editing and viewing. Multimedia is the term that has been coined to encompass concepts of combining the audio with the video playback.

This course teaches the basic principles of storing and editing digital video files using PC technology computer video editing with audio integration capability. Although there are many tools available for accomplishing such a task, this course will introduce the video editing basics using a editing resource that in integrated in every Windows Operating System Software Suite - Window Movie Maker (WMM).

Although WMM is integrated with every Windows Operating Systems, it has evolved into a more versatile and enhanced video-editing and video/audio production tool than every in the Windows Vista OS.

Students will learn all of the basics from becoming familiar with WMM navigation, to basic video and audio editing to creating a file that can be saved to a CD, DVD or uploaded to website, such as YouTube.
Outline
Week 1: Introduction & Understanding Project Asset Management
  • Taking a Tour of Movie Maker
    • Menu/Toolbar
    • Work Area
    • Collection
    • Timeline vs Storyboard
  • Managing the Work Area and Project Options
    • General Options
    • Advanced Options
    • Compatibility Options (if applicable)
    • Supported File Types
      • Video Files
      • Still Images
      • Audio Files
    • DV Capture & Import
Week 2: Working with Your Clips Deleting, Splitting, & Renaming
  • Dragging to Storyboard and Between Clips
  • Trimming and Splitting
  • Inserting and Reorganizing Pictures
  • Creating a Finished Slide Show
  • Adjust Picture Duration
Week 3: Transitions
  • Transition Overview
  • Dissolve
  • Preview and Edit Transitions
  • Change Duration
  • Video to black
  • Fade In/Out
  • Repeat Transition
Week 4: Overview of Special Effects and Titles
  • The Ins and Outs of Special Effects
  • Adding Image Motion
  • Changing Playback Speed
  • Create Opening Title
  • Editing the Title Overlay
  • Title, Text and Animation Management
  • Enhancing New Scenes with Titles
  • Font Control and Manipulation
Week 5: Audio, Automovie and Wrap
  • Adding a Music Backdrop
  • Tweaking the Audio
  • Trimming and Fading Sound
  • How About Some Narration
  • Now its Time to Create an Automovie
  • Saving
    • To Computer
    • To CD
    • To DVD
  • Sending via e-mail
  • Uploading to the Internet
Week 6: FINAL PROJECT
  • Open Video Image
  • Edit Clips
  • Add Transitions
  • Add Special Effects and Titles
  • Embed Auto
  • Save and Make Automovie
  • Let's See the Fully Functional Deliverable Baby!
Prerequisites
  • Ability to utilize a web browser as well as to access and utilize the internet.
Requirements
  • Supported Operating Systems:
    • Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional
    • Windows Vista Home Basic; Windows Vista Home Premium
    • Windows Vista Starter; Windows Vista Ultimate
    • Windows Vista Business; Windows Vista Enterprise
  • Minimum Computer Requirements
    • 600 megahertz (MHz) processor, such as an Intel Pentium III, AMD Athlon, or equivalent processor
    • 128 megabytes (MB) of RAM
    • 2 Gigabytes (GB) of free hard disk space
  • Recommended Computer Requirements
  • In order to optimize your experience and the performance of Windows Movie Maker, we recommend the following:
    • 1.5 gigahertz (GHz) processor, such as an Intel Pentium 4, an AMD Athlon XP 1500+, or equivalent processor
    • 512 megabytes (MB) of RAM
    • 2 Gigabytes (GB) of free hard disk space
  • Optional for this Class (required for Real World Transfers)
    • An audio capture device (to capture audio from external sources)
    • A DV or analog video capture device (to capture video from external sources)
Class Books
No book is required.
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Course Price
  • Member Price: $120.00 US
  • Non-Member Price: $220.00 US
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This online course is limited to 100 participants. Your place in the course is confirmed by your payment. Introductory courses are intended for students with no experience in the subject matter and are seeking beginner level training.

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  • Member Price: $120.00 US
  • Non-Member Price: $220.00 US
  • Course Duration: 6 weeks
  • CEUs: 3.0
  • Web Course No: A241
  • Course Instructor: Michael Crawley
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Instructor: Michael Crawley
Michael CrawleyMichael L. Crawley has over 25 years of information technology experience. In addition, Michael has been engaged in internet, digital multimedia production, training and e-Commerce project delivery since the inception of PC-based digital media technology. He has served on the internet team that initiated one of the first U.S.-based, Online News Media presence, COX owned and ABC affiliate WSOC TV, Channel 9 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Charlotte affiliate came online just days before its Atlanta counterpart, WSB-TV. Michael has created and delivered hundreds of hours of multimedia/web-based training and information products. He has deployed projects for companies such as: Pearson Education, ITT Technical Institute, AT&T, Motient Wireless Communications, Grainger, NSConline, Intelligent Environments Financial Software Services and Support, Unimed Pharmaceuticals, Vanstar Corporation, and Financial Services Groups to name a few organizations. He manages the delivery of worldwide product training materials including: PPT; web training for Internet, Intranet, Extranet platforms; marketing and technical video delivered via CD; as well as interactive case studies for marketing / sales / VAR. Michael is currently involved in video and animation-based multimedia projects for business, community and spiritual entities. He helps direct and produce as well as to conduct story research, shoots, storyboarding, videography and video editing of multimedia packages. Michael Crawley specializes in e-commerce and online instructional design and training delivery modalities with an emphasis on streaming multimedia, e-Business, e-Learning as well as mobile integration, learning and business solutions.

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