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Contents

Introduction............................................................ 1Shooting Short Videos: A General View ........................................................1

Getting.Organized................................................. 5Before Recording Your Video ................................................................5

Preparing the “set” .........................................................................................5

Planning The Video ..........................................................................................6

Storyboarding – Planning Your Story Visually ................................................6

Shooting The Video .........................................................................................7

Fixing, Changing & Improving Your Video (Post production) ..................13

Microsoft.Windows.XP.Movie.Maker................. 15Let’s Get Started ..................................................................................15

Loading Video Clips ......................................................................................16

Editing Video Clips ........................................................................................17

Viewing The Properties ..................................................................................18

Trimming Your Video Clip .............................................................................19

Emailing Your Video ..............................................................................23

Sprucing Up the Video .........................................................................26

Effects ..............................................................................................................26

Transitions ........................................................................................................27

Make titles or credits ......................................................................................28

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Microsoft.Windows.Live.Movie.Maker............... 31Getting Started ......................................................................................31

Loading Video Clips..............................................................................31

Editing Video Clips ................................................................................34

Inserting A Still Image ............................................................................47

Muting The Audio ..................................................................................50

Emailing Your Video ..............................................................................51

Sprucing Up the Video .........................................................................54

Adding Titles and Captions ..........................................................................54

Creating.An.Audio.File........................................ 59Using Audacity To Modify An Audio File For Your Project ................61

Adding Audio to Your Video in Windows XP Movie Maker ..............63

Adding Audio To Your Video In Windows Live Movie Maker ...........66

Apple..iMovie...................................................... 69Creating Your Video .............................................................................69

Loading Video Clips..............................................................................71

Editing Video Clips ................................................................................74

Adding Audio Files, Music and Sounds .......................................................76

Share.Your.Video................................................. 79Share Your Video on YouTube™ ........................................................79

Share Your Video on Facebook™ ......................................................87

Share Your Video on Apple™ Mobile Devices — iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad ............................................................................................90

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Improving.Your.Video......................................... 95Use Pixorial To Add Features & More ..................................................95

Using vReveal To Improve Your Video .............................................100

YOU.On.The.Web............................................... 103Sharing Digital Videos in the Social Circles ......................................103

YouTube .......................................................................................................104

Facebook .....................................................................................................105

MySpace.......................................................................................................106

Friendster .......................................................................................................107

Bebo ..............................................................................................................108

Blogger ..........................................................................................................109

Flickr ..............................................................................................................110

Twitter ............................................................................................................111

Tagged..........................................................................................................112

Delicious ........................................................................................................112

LiveJournal ....................................................................................................113

Windows Live Spaces .................................................................................114

MotionBox .....................................................................................................115

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COOL.Things.To.Do..With.Video.On.The.Internet!.............................. 117

uStream TV ....................................................................................................117

Dailymotion ..................................................................................................118

Slide ...............................................................................................................119

Catooh ..........................................................................................................120

FootageFilm ..................................................................................................121

Digital Films ...................................................................................................122

Additional.Software.&.Website..Applications....................................................... 125

JingJing ........................................................................................................125

Handbrake ...................................................................................................126

DVD Fllick ......................................................................................................127

Bonus.Information..For.Droid™.and.iPhone™.Users........................ 129

Introduction

Shooting.Short.Videos:.A.General.ViewWelcome to the digital video age! Your point and shoot digital camera (even your cell phone!) has video capabilities that let you record and share what you see nearly instantly with others anywhere in the world. You can record family events, personal/special moments, and your local scenery or just make a special video message. Now you can take videos just as easily as you do ‘still’ photos; only now you can tell a much richer story.

Your digital camera can take videos cheaper, faster, easier and better than when your parents and grandparents took videos with their 8-mm or 16-mm film cameras. Just as 110-mm and 35-mm film cameras fall victim to the digital cameras, so too did the film movie cameras fall to the digital cameras of today. And, since no film is involved, you’re limited only by the amount of memory your camera has and the settings on the camera.

But with all these ‘features’ and capabilities, we’re now faced with what to do with it all! This guide is designed to help you focus on one very particular function; plan, shoot and distribute a 30 second video simply by using your point and shoot camera’s video recording capability.

The rapid improvement and popularity of mobile devices such as the iPhone, iPod Touch, the Apple iPad, the Droid mobile phone, netbooks and other gaming devices that can view video, it’s even more relevant to become more ‘video-proficient’!

30 Minute Guide to 30 Second Video is, as the title implies what can YOU show in just 30 seconds of video. Seems silly or nearly impossible to tell a short story or subject in 30 seconds? You can tell a story, show an event, or share a moment in one’s life. You may think that a 30 second video is too short? Not long enough to do anything? Think again! Television advertisements are 30 seconds long (or less) for a reason! Most people’s attention span is maxed at 30 seconds. And sometimes that’s even too long!

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We will show you how to can create a video and then share it with others. In our first example, we will be making a special video message to someone. Later, we show you how to edit your video and prepare it for viewing. Finally we’ll show you how to enhance the video with graphics, photos and sound. We want you to be able to learn how to plan, shoot and produce your own videos using your point and shoot camera. And for our time-crunched reader, learning to shoot 30 second videos will be fun!

One quick note that we really want to state up front, be sure that you are familiar with your particular digital camera/video recorder. Browse the manual; know the buttons and their purpose. You don’t have to learn all the ins and outs of your camera, you should know enough to use it properly.

Digital point and shoot video cameras can work in low light without a tripod or flash. A video camera can move to show more and capture a greater panorama.

Suggestions:

v Vary your shots for a more interesting video (look at movies and TV)

v Wide shots show areas around an object

v Subject full length, centered

v Subject cropped

v Details and points of interest areas (close-ups)

Before we embark on your video, we recommend shooting a few ‘practice’ videos using your digital camera. Keeping in mind the location, lighting and most importantly, the subject of your video. You’re going to need to be fairly familiar with your camera’s video features and usage (or your small digital video camera). Familiarize yourself with the control buttons and features unique to your digital video camera (or video device). And, you’ll soon find that testing your camera’s features and capabilities can be fun. You’ll want to consult the camera’s manual to figure out the buttons and features of video recording. Practice a few shots, and don’t worry! You WON’T run out of film.

The best way to do learn how to shoot videos is to, well, simply shoot the videos. Take out your digital camera and go for a walk around the house/apartment. Record a few seconds of video that includes stationary objects you’ll find.

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You should be familiar with the workings of your digital camera to be able to point and shoot. Test shooting a video in sunlight, indoors, and some place with low lighting. We can’t stress enough for you to be comfortable shooting a video. If you’d like to read more about lighting, subjects and preparing your video, we can help you out. When you’re familiar and comfortable using your camera in ‘video record’ mode, you should decide what video to create!

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Getting.Organized.

Before.Recording.Your.VideoBefore you record your video, organize your thoughts; what am I going to record? Do I want to share the video or just keep it for archive?

This is the scenario; your daughter-in-law and your son’s family simply LOVE the old family recipe cookies you bake at home. Your daughter-in-law would like to learn how to make them. BUT, you’re in Michigan and she’s in California. You COULD write the recipe down along with the instructions but why not show her? Much more personable and quite possibly more fun to do! For this example of using a digital camera to shoot a video, we want to create a video that features how to make cookies. We want to show someone how to make these cookies easily.

Preparing.the.“set”.For our example, we have enlisted the help of one more person. So, you’re going to need someone recording you or someone else making of the cookies. Before you begin, you’ll want to have your ingredients and measuring cups readily available. You’ll want the area to be well lit (in this case, fluorescent lighting in the kitchen). You will need all your ingredients ready to be put in the bowl so that you won’t waste any time on video (remember, we only have about 30 seconds!). And finally, you’ll want to have the oven pre-heated and the timer ready.

In this video we decided to record the video and then add our own audio recording of the recipe to the video. Items needed: your digital video recorder, large mixing bowl, large spoon, a cooking timer and the ingredients measured and ready to be added.

Special Note: Later in this guide you’re going to use that timer again, for your audio track you’re going to add to your video, if you so choose.


Planning.The.VideoWe know what our message is: how to prepare our family cookie recipe. In order to show how to create them we’ll need to break down the most basic units of this video. We want to show the recipe, the ingredients of the cookies, when to mix them together and how to bake them. For this video lesson, we aren’t worried about any sounds or voices (audio). Just video. If you’re interested in adding audio (including music) be sure to see the later sections of this guide for examples on how to add your audio file(s).

Storyboarding.–.Planning.Your.Story.VisuallyStoryboards are graphic organizers of a series of images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion. On a piece of paper, draw 4 boxes across it. Label each box one to four. Box one represents the first scene, box two is the second scene and so on. It’s like an outline of your video that you’re creating. This will help you visually see how your story line will work. If you have it in your mind how you want the video to go, WRITE IT DOWN. You’ll forget!

Let’s plan (create a storyboard) the presentation like this:

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Shooting.The.VideoThe list above provides us with a plan by listing all the elements of the video clips we want to shoot and later combine to become a 30 second video. In our experience we’ve found that if we shoot several short videos, as compared to one or two long videos, your post production time (editing the video) will be drastically reduced.

If you follow along with the storyboard provided and look at the scene’s shots next, you’ll get a very good idea of how to begin each of your video clips; showing step-by-step how to mix these cookies and how to cook them.

So, here’s opening scene of each video clip.

Scene 1 Record the hand written recipe. VERY important, and the ‘script’ to these wonderful cookies.


Scene 2 Pan all of the ingredients

After gathering the ingredients it would be nice to show how they look, measured out in their respective bowls.

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Scene 3 Record the mixing of the ingredients

All the ingredients need to go into the mix, but there’s a method to adding them together.


Scene 4 Record placing the cookie batter on the sheet and into the oven and showing the temperature and timer. VERY important to preheat the oven and how long to bake the cookies!

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Scene 5 In this scene, record taking out the cookies and plac-ing them on a cool tray.


Scene 6 (Optional) This scene is optional and isn’t shown with a video clip. We may use this if we have seconds to spare. We could use it to ‘sign off’ the video; that is, say goodbye.

OK, you’ve followed your script (or ours) and you have the video files on your camera. Now you will need to transfer them to your PC. Depending on your camera you will need to consult your owner’s manual. You’ll find instructions on how to copy pictures and videos.

In the next section, we need to assume that you have transferred your video clips from your camera and placed them in your ‘My Documents\My Videos’ folder on your Windows PC.

Once you transfer them to your PC we can show you how to edit and combine them into your Microsoft’s Windows Movie Maker. Depending on your camera you will need to consult your manual’s instructions to transfer your video clips. Once you’ve done that, you can now go to ‘post production’.

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Fixing,.Changing.&.Improving.Your.Video.(Post.production)We COULD HAVE recorded the process as one continuous video file. But, from experience, we’d end up with several minutes of video that’d take too long to watch and way too long to edit. You may have shot the video multiple times, or in segments as we did in the example. If you shot them as separate clips, great!

There are a large number of video editors available in software packages or from several web site services; from the simple to the complex, from expensive to free. We want to use a program that is included with Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista called Movie Maker and it’s free! Windows 7 users can get Windows Live Movie Maker for free as well as downloading and installing Windows Live from www.home.live.com.

If you are using Windows XP and do not have Movie Maker installed, it is available for download along with Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). You can download SP2, Movie Maker, and all future critical updates automatically by turning on the Automatic Updates feature in Windows XP. You can also download SP2 and Movie Maker 2.1 from Microsoft’s website by going to http://www.microsoft.com/.

You can use Movie Maker to import your video file(s), edit them and create a polished, finished video you can share with others. With Movie Maker you can add digital images (for example, we will be adding an image of the recipe) and audio (again, in our example we’re going to show you how to add sound) files to the videos to create amazing videos. You can build your movie with a few simple drag-and-drops, delete bad shots and keep only the best scenes. Editing the audio and video files in Movie Maker lets you to save your video to other applications (email, video viewers, and websites) share them with your friends and family. You can add sub titles, video transitions and effects to create an outstanding video; it’s a great program and the price is right; free.

Each version of Windows Movie Maker is slightly different. The Windows XP version and Windows Vista versions are very similar, enough so that we’ll cover the Windows CXP version and you should be able to follow along well enough in the Windows Vista version. The Windows 7 version is different enough to require a separate section.

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It’s not the intent of this guide to delve into Microsoft’s Movie Maker completely. We’ll use it to show you how to take the various video clips you have and create your own 30-second video quickly and easily. Later, you may want to experiment with the cool features of the program to create incredible videos.

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Let’s.Get.Started.A few quick notes about using Movie Maker to help us use it more efficiently. As their Help file states, Movie Maker has 3 main components;

Collections

which will be the videos you shot put in a folder. A collection can also contain audio clips or pictures that you will import into MM (Movie Maker) which we show you later.

Projects

which contain the arrangement of video files and info on the audio and video clips, video transitions, video effects, and titles you may want to do later.

Movies

which contains the final project you save by using Save Movie. You can save a movie to your computer or to a recordable CD or DVD, send it as an attachment in an e-mail message (which we show you), or save and send it to the Web.

The saved movie can be watched in a media player, most likely the Microsoft Windows Media® Player, or in Internet Explorer.

Go ahead and load Microsoft’s Movie Maker, noting that you must have at least SP2 installed on Windows XP. Once loaded, click ‘Import video’ on the left menu of ‘Movie Tasks’. Browse to the folder with the video clips and double-click the first one (normally numbered, so pick the lowest number video clip first).

Let’s use Microsoft’s Movie Maker and make this video outstanding AND 30 seconds long (or approximately that long).


The following image shows “work areas” of Movie Maker from Microsoft so you can see what each area does. We’ll be using the Help File “panes” and “storyboard” areas.

Microsoft’s Help View of the Menus in Movie Maker

Loading.Video.ClipsHere, we’re locating the first video clip, in this case the plate with the recipe laid on it so we can view it. For our 30 second video we need to reduce the time this clip is shown. In our example we clipped it off at 1 second.

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Locating and loading the first video clip

Editing.Video.Clips.After we’ve loaded the next video clip, we’ll place it into the Storyboard and click the small ‘+’ sign above the label ‘Video’ to enlarge the storyboard. This makes it MUCH EASIER to edit our video clips. As you can see from each of the screen shots that follow, we load each video clip into Movie Maker; click, drag and drop the clip on to the storyboard after the previous clip. We then adjust the length of this clip and subsequent clips so that at the end we’ll have approximately 30 to 35 seconds of video to preview.


Viewing.The.PropertiesWe can also view the ‘properties’ of each of the video clips if you want to know what the length of the clips are.


Trimming.Your.Video.Clip.Since we’re trying to trim this video down to just 30 seconds, we need to crop or ‘cut’ portions of each video clip. Microsoft’s Movie Maker makes it easy. Simply point and click on the small black arrow point (make sure you zoom in a bit so you can see it). Hold the arrow with your mouse pointer and drag either from the left (the beginning of our example) or select the right (ending of the video) to begin your edit. Note that if you make a mistake, you can recover by clicking the undo icon in the command line above.


Trimming the video clip (trimming the video clip.jpg)

You can follow along with the screen shots that follow to see that we 1 – located and loaded a video clip, 2 – dragged and dropped it onto the storyboard, 3 – ‘shortened’ the video clip as much as we could, and still know what the clip demonstrates.

The following screen shot shows the baking temperature and the time to bake them. This is obviously important!


The following screen shot shows the cookies coming out of the oven. We’re almost finished. We’ll need to reduce the video clip just enough to show them coming out.


The following screen shot shows the video clips, the audio track and the final clip we added and reduced. One final step to do before we “finish” this video is to “mute” the audio tracks that are associated it. Just a quick note, we’ll show you how to add audio to this file in a later section.


OK, we’ve done it! We’ve placed last video clip into WMM and cropped it to the minimum (just as the other clips), muted your audio and we have a video that is about 30 seconds long! The next step is to send it to a family member.

Emailing.Your.VideoUsing Windows Movie Maker to send the finished video to your family member is super easy. Normally you wouldn’t want to send a video as an attachment to an email, but because the size of the video, you’ll be able to send it.

Click File, Select Save Movie File…


Click ‘E-mail Save and send your….’ Click Next >…


After a bit of time, Movie Maker displays a window titled ‘Save Movie Wizard’ showing options under ‘Optional:’

The default email client (in this case Microsoft Outlook Express) will open a new email that needs the email address to send the video to. Once you’ve entered the email recipient, click ‘Send’ and the video is sent!


Sprucing.Up.the.VideoYou may want to ‘spruce-up’ your video a bit and make it a little more fun to watch. Maybe add a title page, or transitions between scenes, special video effects or even a scrolling ‘End’ to the video. Although these will add more time and thus a larger file size, it’d be cool to add a bit of ‘flair’ to your cookie recipe video.

There are three options you can do with Windows XP Movie Maker: Effects, ransitions and make titles or credits

EffectsThis collection of effects is used to add some additional movement to your scenes. Right-click on the video or image in the storyboard and choose Video Effects from the pop up menu.


TransitionsClick the “Transitions” under Movie Tasks.

This is a collection of effects that you can place between each of the video clips you’ve inserted. Remember that we mentioned earlier how it would be much easier to edit short video clips rather than one long one.

Click and drag one to the storyboard.


Make.titles.or.creditsThis gives you the option to add text screens with just text on them, or, you can also add text over your video. The ‘credits’ are for the end of your video (usually) that scroll like you see in the movies.

The text and title screen

You can either use the point and click to each of the options under the Edit Movie section of Movie Tasks, or, a more simpler way to add effects of any kind to each of the clips is by placing your mouse pointer over the top of the video clip and click your right mouse button, and select the effect you want. This is also the simplest way to delete any video effects you may want to do later.

So, let’s load Microsoft’s Movie Maker and load your video project that you saved. Click the small ‘+’ sign so you can see your storyboard a little better.


Title page, effects and text applied

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Getting.StartedGo ahead and load Windows Live Movie Maker by clicking the Windows icon (start menu) and choosing All Programs. Locate and click Windows Live, then click Windows Live Movie Maker.

Here’s what the opening screen will look like:

Loading.Video.ClipsClick the button on the toolbar labeled “Add Videos and Photos”, or click the text in the middle of the screen that reads “Drag videos and photos here or click to browse for them”. After clicking, you will be presented with an open dialog asking you to select your videos.


Our videos were stored in the Libraries\Videos\My Videos folder. We’ve selected and opened these folders in the image below and can see the video clips for our project.

To select the video clips, click on the first clip, then hold the shift key down and click on the last video clip. This will select the first one and all those in between.

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After clicking Open, we can see all the videos in Windows Live Movie Maker.

Windows Live Movie Maker has automatically combined our videos into a single movie. The image on the left is the preview of the movie and the clips on the right serve as a storyboard.


If you look closely at the bottom of the preview, you can see that the length of the video is displayed.

We can see here that with all clips combined we are at 47 seconds - a little too long. We’ll need to cut out about one third of the video to get it down to 30 seconds.

Editing.Video.ClipsYou have at least two ways to edit each clip:

1. Click and drag the black bar across the clips on the right side of the window and watch the preview. When you get to a point you want to stop the clip at, right-click the black line and choose Split. This will divide the clip into 2 sections. Click on the part to remove and delete it.


2. Double-click the clip to open the Edit menu and then select Trim Tool from the tool bar. This will open the clip in a window where the starting point and stopping point are set.

The advantage to the first method is that you can keep splitting the clips as many times as needed where as the second method, you are forced to keep everything in between. We’ll use method 1 for the first clip.

In watching the first clip, I see that the camera starts out on the main ingredients and then moves on to the rest of them and then holds on the last ingredients for a moment. We’re going to slide the black bar over until just before the camera starts to pan.

Now we’ll right-click on the black bar and choose Split from the pop-up menu.


This leaves us with 2 nearly identical clips. What happened is that Windows Live Movie Maker split the video into 2 sections. The first clip is now the very short opening we want to remove and the second is the rest of the clip.


Since we want to remove the first clip, right-click it and choose Remove from the pop-up menu.

Now we can repeat this process for the back part of the first clip. e’ll drag the black bar to the spot where we’ll want the clip to end, we’ll right-click the black bar and choose Split, then we’ll remove the left over.

The first time we split, we deleted the first part and kept the second part. Now we’ll keep the first part and delete the second part.



Now we have a shortened first clip. Notice the time below the preview now shows 46 seconds, where it showed 47 before. We didn’t loose much, but 1 seconds is better than nothing!

We’ll continue to use the first method except this time we’ll split the video on each action. Instead of watching the person pick up the container, add the ingredient, put the container down, pick up the other, we’ll cut out most of the picking up an putting down leaving just the adding of the ingredients. This will take several splits to accomplish.


After editing the second clip, we have increased the number of clips in the story to 13 but we’ve decreased the time to 41 seconds.

The next clip is the breaking and adding the egg. This time we’ll use method 2 to trim this clip.


We’ll double-click on the clip to access the Edit tab.

Clicking on the Trim Tool icon on the toolbar will change the preview to only show that clip. The slider at the bottom that normally tracks the progress now has bars at each end. These bars allow you set the starting point and ending point of the clip.


We’ll click and drag the left bar toward the right to set the start point and then click and drag the right bar toward the left to set the ending point.


This clip had part of the next step included, which was stopped and restarted as a separate clip. This allows us to take our 7-second clip down to 4 seconds. After setting the positions, click Save Trim at the top to trim the clip and place it back in the bin.

Now our clip is down to 38 seconds. The next clip includes adding multiple ingredients so we can chop that one up using method 1 again.

After editing the next few clips all using method 1, we are down to 30 seconds!


In watching the preview, the clip of the timer is very short, yet it is a very important part of the video and should be longer. To remedy this, we’ll right-click the timer clip and choose Copy.


Now we’ll right-click again before the clip of the timer and choose Paste.


Now we have two identical clips in the bin, but the time has stretched back out to 31 seconds.


Inserting.A.Still.ImageOne last thing we should add is a still shot of the cookie recipe. By clicking the Home button at the top, we’ll browse to the folder where the photo of the recipe is and select it to add it to the video.


After clicking Open, the image was inserted into the video, but not at the beginning.


No problem, we can just click and drag the picture to the beginning.

Now we have all the pieces in place, but our time has stretched to 36 seconds. The new image was set to display for 5 seconds by default so we’ll adjust that down to 2 seconds.

To do this, click on the image and click the Edit tab at the top, or double-click on the image. Change the Duration setting to 2.00. This will bring our time down to 33 seconds.


After adjusting the duration of the recipe image, we went ahead and trimmed of the remaining few seconds from a few other clips to get our time back down to 30 seconds.

That’s it - you’ve just made your first 30 second video! The final steps involve muting the audio (we’ll show you how to add audio later on) and then save the video to share with family and friends.

Muting.The.AudioTo mute the audio, first select all the video clips. You can do this by clicking on the first clip, then holding down the shift key and clicking the last clip, or click the first clip and press CTRL + A to select all.

Once all are selected, double-click the Video Volume button on the top left corner of the window.


Move the slider that appears below the button all the way to the left.

OK, we’re done! Our next step is to send it to our family member.

Emailing.Your.VideoUsing Windows Movie Maker to send the completed video to your family member is easy. Normally you wouldn’t want to send a video as an attachment to your email, but because the size of your video you’ll be able to send it.

Click the file icon on the upper left to open the drop down menu and select Save Movie and then choose how you want to save it. In this case we’ll choose “For e-mail or instant messaging”.


This will open a Save dialog allowing you to select the folder to save it in and the file name. We’ve entered 30SecondRecipeVideo.wmv.


After clicking Save, Windows Live Movie Maker will create the video.

Once the save is complete, click Open Folder to open the folder containing the file or click Play to watch the video.

Now attach that file to an e-mail with Windows Live Mail as your default email client. Then right-click the file and choose Send To, then select Mail Recipient.


Sprucing.Up.the.VideoYou may want to ‘spruce-up’ your video a bit and make it a little more fun to watch. Maybe add a title page, or transitions between scenes, special video effects or even a scrolling ‘End’ to the video. Although these will add more time and thus a larger file size, it’d be cool to add a bit of ‘flair’ to your cookie recipe video.

Adding.Titles.and.CaptionsThere are three options you can do with Windows Live Movie Maker;

Title, Caption and Credits – These options are on the Home tab and allow you to add text to the video. You can add a Title to the beginning, a Caption over the top of certain parts of the video and/or a credit screen at the end.

Animations – The Animations tab includes transitions to go between the video clips as well as pan and zoom effects to add to different clips. These allow you to zoom in on certain areas of the video and move or pan around within the video itself.

Visual Effect - The Visual Effects tab allows you to alter the appearance of the video clip. You can turn your clips black and white, make them brighter, turn it to a negative image, increase the contrast and so on.

We’ll have some fun and add a title to the beginning a transition or two into the mix. This will increase the length of our video to go beyond the 30 seconds, but we can keep it under 40 seconds for sure…


Start by adding a title screen. Click the Home tab and then click Title.

This will change the Preview Screen to a black screen ready for me to type text onto. We’ll enter Family Cookie Recipe. We’ll also use the Format tab at the top to adjust the color of the background to blue and the duration of the text duration screen to 3 seconds.


We’ll need to click on the Edit tab and set the Duration of the opening title screen to 3 seconds as well.

We’ll add a transition between the clip showing the ingredients themselves and the clip of them being added to the bowl.


We’ll click on the clip I want to transition too - this would be the clip of the first ingredient being added. Then we’ll click on the Animations tab and select the transition we want.

After selecting the transition, the clip will have a blue border around it. To test the transition, click the clip before the one you added the transition to and click the play button under the Preview screen.

Next we’ll add a transition between the clip of the last ingredient being added and placement of the cooking on the baking sheet. We’ll click the clip of the cooking being placed on the sheet and then click the Animations tab and select the transition.

We’ll also add transitions to between the cookies being added to the sheet and going into the oven, then another before the timers and another before the cookies coming out of the oven.

After previewing the video with all the transitions in place, it looks like there should be transitions between the title screen and the clip of the recipe and another between the recipe picture and the clip of the ingredients.


Something strange has happened… Without editing any of the clips, the time has dropped from 33 seconds (after adding the 3 second title screen) to 29 seconds. This apparently has to do with there being a smoother transition between the various clips.

Now we still have a 30 second video and have all the transitions and even a title screen in place. Next we can create and add some audio.

Creating.An.Audio.File

Until now we have only edited the video content; but not the audio. Let’s create an audio file and later we’ll edit the audio. For the example in this guide, we’ve recorded a young lady reading the recipe that the video demonstrates. The image below shows the “script” that she will be reading…

Our “script” (the recipe that we’ve recorded)

The easiest and the least expensive way to record your subject’s voice is to use Microsoft Windows built-in audio recorder called the “Sound Recorder.” The Sound Recorder is just about as basic as you can get and still be useful. You will need to pick up an inexpensive microphone, preferably a directional


one, as these are the least expensive. You can find them at most office supply stores and electronics outlets. So, we will be using Windows Sound Recorder to create the audio file and use Audacity to edit and “clean it up.”

On Windows XP, open Sound Recorder by clicking Start | All Programs | Accessories | Entertainment.

Note: Microsoft Vista and Microsoft Windows 7 are slightly different. And, these audio files are saved in the “WMA” audio file format. On Windows 7 and Vista, open the Sound Recorder by clicking Start (Windows logo)| Accessories

You should have someone read your script through a couple of times to familiarize themselves with it. Pay close attention to the time that it takes to read the script. This is important because we want the audio file to be no longer than the length of our video.

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Plug the microphone’s jack into your audio plug in the back of your PC (usually it is labeled “MIC”). Start the program Windows Sound Recorder. With your microphone in front of you (approximately 3 inches from your mouth), press the “Record” or “Start Recording” button and speak clearly into the mic.

Continue speaking into the mic as you read through the script. Keep a stopwatch or use your wristwatch to keep track of time. Be sure to leave a few seconds of “silence” before and after each ingredient is spoken, a few seconds at the beginning, and a few seconds of at the end so you have some “silence.” When we edit the audio file alter on, we’ll be able to cut and edit much easier.

Click the Stop button (the small black rectangle) and select File/Save. Name your file “cookie_recipe” and save it into the folder that has your audio files.

Using Audacity To Modify An Audio File For Your ProjectAudacity® is a free, open source software program for recording and editing sounds and voices. You can use Audacity (www.audacity.com) to record live music or voice; convert your old tapes and records to MP3 audio files; edit the most popular wave and sound files including MP3, Microsoft’s

http://www.audacity.com


WAV. Audacity lets you cut, copy and paste, stretch or shorten audios, even rearrange your music or audio file in a simple straight-forward window (see below). You can change the pitch or speed of the file and save it to be used in other programs that import audio files; such as Microsoft’s Movie Maker. This is the program that we’ll use to create an audio file for our video.

Once installed, load Audacity and click File / Open and locate and load your new audio file.

Press play to hear the complete file in Audacity keeping in mind clarity, quality of sound and the amount of time the file plays.

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Here Audacity is ready to cut out a section of silence in the audio file.

When your editing is complete, click File and choose Save. Save the file into your Video Project Folder.

Adding.Audio.to.Your.Video.in.Windows.XP.Movie.MakerAdding the audio wave file to your video that we just completed is very straightforward. If you recall the audio file that we created is slightly longer than the video. That’s OK, because when the video is finished, you will still hear the remaining portion of the audio file. We didn’t want to spend a lot


of time going through the intrincies of editing the audio file in this guide; after all, it’s a 30-minute guide! Instead here is simple step-by-step to add the audio file to your video.

Also we have muted the audio on our video clips by right-clicking each clip and selecting Mute from the pop-up menu.

Load Windows Movie Maker and select “Import audio or music.


Select the audio file and click Import.

Click on the audio file and drag and drop it into the storyboard’s “audio / music” bar.

You’ll notice that the audio file is approximately 20 seconds longer than the video. At this time, we’ll let you decide if you want to add more video, such as an image, and show it until the end of the audio file. Or, go back to Audacity and edit the audio file further.


Adding.Audio.To.Your.Video.In.Windows.Live.Movie.MakerAdding the audio wave file to the video that we just completed is very straightforward. If you recall the audio file that we created is slightly longer than the video. That’s OK, because we can add images, more video clips to your video, increase the duration of the title or credits screen and so on.

We didn’t want to spend a lot of time going through the intricacies of editing the audio file in this guide; after all, it’s a 30-minute guide! Instead here is simple step-by-step to add the audio file to your video.

To add audio or music to the video, simply click the Add Music icon on the Home tab at the top and choose Add Music from the menu that appears below it.


This will open a window where we can browse to and select the audio file.

We’ve selected the audio file edited in Audacity and click Open.


This will add a light green bar above the video clips.

That’s it. Now the video is complete with custom audio!

Apple..iMovie

Creating.Your.VideoThere are a large number of video editing software available on the market and several web site services; from the simple to the complex, from expensive to free. We want to use a program that’s included with Apple’s iLife package, called iMovie.

You can use iMovie to import your video file(s), edit them and create a polished, finished video you can share with others easily. With iMovie you can add digital images (for example, we will be adding an image of the recipe) and audio (again, in our example we’re going to show you how to add sound) files to the videos to create amazing videos.

You can create your movie with a few simple drag-and-drops, edit out bad shots and keep only the best scenes. Editing the audio and video files in iMovie saves your video so other applications (email, video viewers, and websites) can send them to your friends and family. You can add subtitles, video transitions and effects to create an outstanding video; it’s a great program and the price is right (free!).

It’s not the intent of this tutorial to go too deep into all the powerful features of iMovie. Instead, we’ll use iMovie to show how to take the various video clips and create your own 30-second video quickly and easily. Later, when you are more experienced using the program, you may want to experiment with the many cool features to create videos that can include more music, images and multiple scene transitions.


Load your Apple iMovie, located in the Applications folder.

After iMovie is loaded you will see the ‘New Project’ in the folder window. Click ‘File’ and select ‘New Project’, a small dialog box opens and name it Cookie Recipe.

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Loading.Video.ClipsLocate the folder that contains your video clips. Here, the video clips are in the MP4 file format, rather than the previous AVI format that we used for Microsoft Movie Maker.

Click the first video clip, clip_1.mp4 and drag it into the Project Window. Now, click the Edit command and select Trim. The video clip will be shown in a new window, ready to be trimmed. In our example we wanted to trim about a half second off the video clip to show you how to do it. Of course, our video clips were already trimmed down, but you may want to trim them a bit more on your own.


Holding your mouse pointer over the video clip you can select beginning either from the left (beginning) or the right (ending) of the clip and select only the portion you want to keep. The remaining portion will be cut (or trimmed) when you have selected the portion and clicked the Done button.

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Image of first clip

After you’ve loaded the next video clip, place it into the project window, after the previous one. You may use the slider, located below the project window to zoom in or out on the video clips. The slider is in increments of seconds, so that you can see the clips larger or smaller. This makes it MUCH EASIER to edit your video clips.


Editing.Video.Clips

As you can see from the following screen, we have loaded each video clip into the iMovie project window. We adjusted the length of each of these clips so that at the end, we’ll have approximately 30 to 33 seconds of video to preview.

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You can also view the ‘properties’ of each of the video clips if you want to know what the length of time for each of the clips are by selecting the clip and viewing the seconds under the project window, to the left of the sliding bar. The next screen shows the video clips in the project window complete.

Adding.Audio.Files,.Music.and.SoundsWith iMovie it is very easy to add an audio track to your video project. To begin, click the music symbol in the lower right window. You will see your directories. You’ll need to sort through these directories and locate the audio (or in this example a random music) file. Once you’ve located the audio file, click and drag it to your video project window and place it at the beginning of the video.

For our example the video is merely 30 seconds long, but the music file is much larger It is of no concern since iMovie will place the file into your video and automatically clip to fit. iMovie also will automatically use fade-in and fade-off at the beginning and the end of your video.

The only drawback is that the audio file will fade away at the end of the video even if there is more audio to be heard. You may want to add time to your video clips to match the audio file as needed. Or, use the iMovie utility (below) and edit the audio file.

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iMovie will also add fades at the beginning and the end of your video for you.


The following screen shows the video clips and the audio we added.

OK, you’ve almost done it. Our next step is to export it so we can share it with our family member.

While in iMovie, click the ‘Share’ command at the top. Select ‘Export Movie’ and select the size (and the compatible devices it will be viewed on) and click ‘Export’. You’ll see the animated slider showing the progress of your video. When it is finished you’ll be back at your iMovie window. Locate the file which you just exported, and double-click the title to play it to see how it looks.

Finally, load your email application and start a new message to your family member or friend. Type all pertinent information into the email. Locate and attach your new cookie recipe video and click send.

If you are interested in uploading your video to web sites other than YouTube, be sure to check out the next chapters that show you how.

Share.Your.Video

Share.Your.Video.on.YouTube™.Why would we want to use YouTube™, the world’s most popular video site? We want to use YouTube to share this recipe with other family members, without having to upload and/or email each person separately. Very time consuming. YouTube is the most popular video viewing website in the world. There are 2 billion videos viewed each day at YouTube. Today, you will want to add your cookie recipe video to your YouTube account.

Go to the youtube.com website. We’re assuming you do not already have an account with them. If you do, great! You can then jump past this section and go on to the Improving Your Video section. Let’s go through this and create an account so we can upload the video.


Click on the text in the top right corner that says “Create Account.” Type in your new Username, Location, Zip code, Date of Birth, Gender, Options of Service.

Click the “I Accept” button to continue.

Type in your email address you want to use. Type in a password and confirm the password and type in the “keyed” word below. Click the “Create New Account and Finish” button.

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This is your main screen for your new YouTube account.


Click on the button “Upload” at the top right of the screen.

Click the Upload Video button and a window will open to your PC files.

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Locate your video file (in our case it is in the My Videos folder under My Documents) and double-click the file.

While YouTube is uploading your video file take the time to fill in the Title, Description, and Category and select your Privacy, share with everyone or to just certain people. (See the following screen for more information.) Once your video has been uploaded to YouTube, click your login name and select the “My Videos” option.


You’ll see in the following screen that My Account \ My Videos will show “Video Project 1.WMV in the Uploaded Videos folder on YouTube.

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You can double-click the video graphic, and it will show you the standard YouTube video player with your video showing. Click the “flag” button to review the video if you like. Make a note of the text in the dialog box labeled “URL”; this is the internet location of your uploaded video. When you want someone to view your video on YouTube, simply give them this URL (internet address) so they can view it.

There are many other websites that are available to share and showcase your videos. Please see the later section “Sharing your digital video in the social circles

NOTE: As we were finishing our guide, YouTube unveiled their new format for your YouTube home page (see next image). It is still functionally the same as we show you earlier with there’s some cosmetic changes. There are minor changes that you’ll want to discover. Simply go to your YouTube “Videos” page and select the “Account” option and review your settings.


New YouTube “Front Page” Layout

One final note about YouTube. Many haven”t spent the time to find that YouTube features an outstanding video that takes you through the many steps of uploading your own videos to YouTube. We found that their directions were well done; though we”re still partial to our tutorial!

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Share.Your.Video.on.Facebook™Why use Facebook™, the world”s most popular social site? Facebook, as with YouTube, allows us to share our video with other friends and family members without having to upload and/or email each person separately. Facebook is the most popular social website in the world. There are over 100 million people signed up to Facebook!

If you have a Facebook account go to it and log in. When you”re logged in, make sure you are viewing your “Wall”.


Click the word “Profile” on the top right of the screen.

Click the “Video” tab the Publisher box.

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Click the “File Upload” button and click the “Choose File”.

Locate your video file and click it to select it.

Follow the on screen directions for your particular upload type. When you’re done, click “Post” to generate a story about your video and store the video permanently in My Videos.


Share.Your.Video.on.Apple™..Mobile.Devices.—.iPhone,.iPod.Touch,.iPadWe’re sure many of you have someone with one of Apple’s iPhone, iPod Touch or the new iPad. These versatile portable devices are great tools to share videos. You might possibly be reading this eBook on your own iPad!

You can share the video you’ve created (the video sample Cookie Recipe) with anyone with an Apple device. Using a program which we describe in a later section, AVS Video Converter, you can make quick work of your video in Microsoft’s Windows video media file format and convert it to iTunes for syncing to those devices. For this example we know that you’ve already created your video (for example video project 1.wmv) and want to have your (or someone else’s) iPhone view it.

iTunes movie folder empty

For this demonstration we downloaded and installed and registered the AVS Video Converter for this PC. Once installed, we can convert our WMV cookie recipe to an iTunes Movie format (mp4) to view on iPhone, iTouch or iPad.

Load AVS Video Converter and click ‘Browse’ to the right of the ‘Input File Name:’ window.

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Click the ‘Browse’ button located to the right of the window labeled ‘Output File Name:’ and give this file a name. Now click “Convert Now!” and you will see a progress bar until the conversion is complete.

Open Apple iTunes and select the “Movies” option on the left (see following screen).


Click “Add to library” and locate your video file (example: video project 1.m4v’).

Select the file we previously converted from WMV to M4V and click Open. You will see a thumbnail of your video in your iTunes Movie Library. Double-click it to play! You can now sync it to your Apple Mobile device or email it to someone to sync with theirs.

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Your video in iTunes Movie Library!

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Improving.Your.Video

Use.Pixorial.To.Add.Features.&.More.Pixorial® is another website that you can upload your video to. Pixorial says, “Making your own high-quality shows is fun and easy with Pixorial. If you can click, drag and drop, you can make a show that will amaze and amuse your friends and family. Add titles, credits, transitions and remix old footage with new ones.”

You can use many of their website features to access, organize, edit and archive all of your family movies on their site. You can remix and share online and easily create keepsakes, DVDs, downloads and more. You can use their services to create a DVD, or even send video eCards. You can also use Pixorial.com to post videos to your own accounts at Twitter, MySpace, YouTube and more.

Go to their website at www.pixorial.com and click the “Get Started Today” button.

http://www.pixorial.com


After signing up and confirming your email address with their automated responses, you will go to the site to “Upload Video”. Click “Choose File” button, and locate your 30-second video (our ‘video 30 seconds.wav) file.

After you have uploaded the video the website will send you another email, this time letting you know that the video you uploaded was successfully entered and will give you the URL to go to and edit.

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You can then click “Create” on the Pixorial Producer then simply start, pause and re-start your video. If you choose, you can modify the video more, later.


The click and drop areas to create/modify your video

You have 3 tabs to choose from with your uploaded video,

v Video Bin - which has the video you’ve chosen to edit

v Transitions - which lets you add transitions between scenes

v Titles - for placing title text over the video.

Here you can see the video clips from the video that we chose to use in this example.


When you have finished modifying your video Pixorial.com makes it SUPER EASY to post it to any of your “social” websites such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube and more.


Using.vReveal.To..Improve.Your.VideoAs we talked about earlier, the chances are good that your video may be shaky, dark, noisy, pixilated, or blurry. But those moments don’t have to be lost to common video problems any more. vReveal by MotionDSP has “one click” touch-up tools that make it easy to dramatically improve the quality of your videos.

Main Program Screen

vReveal features simple editing tools that let you put the final bit of polish on your enhanced videos. You can trim a video leaving only its best moments or rotate sideways videos. Is there a single, best instant in a video that you’d like to have as a digital photo, either to email or print out? With a single button click in vReveal, you can capture print-quality still images from enhanced videos.


vReveal has the advanced enhancement technology and “one click” touch-up tools that make it easy to dramatically improve the quality of flawed videos. With vReveal you can stabilize, clean, brighten, sharpen and improve details in low-resolution videos. One of the BEST video software tools you can have for enriching your video quality.

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YOU.On.The.Web

Sharing.Digital.Videos.in.the.Social.CirclesThere are over 200 popular “social” web sites you can use for free or for a very small fee that help you share your videos (as well as other digital information). These sites are the internet destination for millions of users worldwide. These “social” sites differ from the dedicated video websites mentioned later on. Here, on each of the respective websites you can create your own unique web pages AND share your videos with your friends and if you choose, the millions of web surfers out there.

So, before you upload that video, make sure you can make it private, or you simply don’t mind it being viewed by millions of strangers. Check each website BEFORE submitting any videos, especially personal ones. The list below is in no particular order and you should find helpful.


YouTube.Although not considered a true social website, YouTube is still the largest site to view videos.

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FacebookThe world’s largest social networking website made up of individuals’ photographs, videos, friends and correspondence.


MySpaceAlso one of the largest social networking websites on the internet.

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FriendsterWith more than 110 million members worldwide, Friendster is a leading global online social network. Friendster is focused on helping people stay in touch with friends and discover new people and things that are important to them.


BeboBebo is a popular social networking site that connects you to everyone and everything you care about.

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BloggerShare your thoughts, photos, and more with your friends and the world.


Flickr.The most popular online photo management and sharing application. Not dedicated to video, but a HUGE site to connect AND you can create videos using your pictures.

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TwitterA real-time short messaging service that works over multiple networks and devices.


TaggedTagged is the 3rd largest social network in the US, and has over 80 million members worldwide. Members use Tagged to keep in touch with friends and to make new ones

DeliciousA “social” bookmarking site on the web.

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LiveJournalYou can use LiveJournal in many ways: a private journal, a blog, a discussion forum or a social network.


Windows.Live.Spaces.From Microsoft, it’s your place on the web to express yourself operated by Microsoft. Add a blog, photos, videos, and any other modules and gadgets you want — it’s your space, after all. Choose from a variety of themes, or hand-select each color and font yourself — no special skills required. You control who can see your space, and who can’t.

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MotionBoxMotionBox is a website to share, edit and store your personal videos. It features 750 MB video storage, and online editing tools to use on your video file. Once you’ve uploaded your video you can also share it with others that can play it online, receive it in an email or download it. You and your family members can download it on to their Mac, PC or even iPhone. You can even have MotionBox create a DVD and send it out for you.

You can also add audio tracks and animations to your video that Movie Maker can’t do. The BASIC system is fine for changing your videos and adding some extras to them, but for advanced users of MotionBox, you’ll need to subscribe to the site. For the BASIC MotionBox, we would recommend testing this video editing web site out.

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COOL.Things.To.Do..With.Video.On.The.Internet!

As you know, the internet is a vast frontier for doing fun stuff! Digital videos of all types are growing by leaps and bounds. Besides the ‘social’ websites and the YouTube™s and other similar websites, you may want to check out these video websites. You won’t be able to use your own videos at these sites, but we think you’ll have as much fun as we did checking them out.

uStream.TVUstream.TV is the live interactive video broadcast platform that enables anyone with a camera and an Internet connection to quickly and easily broadcast to a global audience of unlimited size. In less than two minutes, anyone can become a broadcaster by creating their own channel on Ustream.


DailymotionDailymotion features new ways to see and share your videos through the use of their online video site. You can find - or upload - videos about your interests and hobbies, eyewitness accounts of recent news and distant places, and everything else in-between, from the strange to the spectacular.

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SlideSlide lets you use photos and other digital content to publish and discover the people and things that matter to you. With a super easy set-up, clean interface and multiple transition and theme options, Slide is among the most popular tools for self expression on the web today. Slide can be embedded onto any website, viewed on your desktop or shared with your friends or fans.


CatoohThis website features a media catalog to buy, sell, and download videos, music and more. Video footage to use as backgrounds or insert into your own video. Many of the videos include music or sound effects.


FootageFilmThis website features royalty-free (not free in buying the footage, but free of any royalties) stock footage and stock video from around the world. ‘Stock’ video is defined as videos that can be used for a particular subject and is available to everyone. They have looping backgrounds and sound effects to name a few. For video editing that you can include your own video that you can upload to the site.


Digital.FilmsThis website lets you make your digital film for free. They provide a background scene, characters, animated actions, dialog, introduction, and ending credits. Then to personalize it, you can put your name as the producer and email the movie to your family and friends.



Additional.Software.&.Website..Applications

JingJing.JingJing lets you capture anything on your screen as a movie, then save it or store it on TechSmith’s server for free. You can share movies quickly and easily while chatting or e-mailing, to help you get a point across. It’s great for tech support or working remotely.


HandbrakeGot a DVD that you want to turn into a friendly format so that you can store it on your hard disk, make a backup to disc, or play on a mobile device? Then you’ll want HandBrake.

It grabs video from a variety of sources, including a DVD, and a DVD image, and grabs audio from sources as well, including MPEG audio tracks. You’ll then be able to output a digital file in a variety of formats, including MPEG-4, AVI, OGM for video, or AAC, MP3, and Ogg Vorbis for audio.

There are some very nice extras in here, such as being able to select individual DVD chapters, grabbing subtitles, and more. You get plenty of control over your recording, including selecting the bit rate, maximum file size for video, and bit rate and sample rate for audio.--Preston Gralla

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DVD.FlickEver tried burning any old video file to a playable DVD? How much was the repair bill after you put your foot through your monitor? DVD Flick burns virtually any video file to a DVD you can drop in your DVD player and enjoy on the big screen.

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Bonus.Information..For.Droid™.and.iPhone™.Users

In addition to the methods mentioned earlier in this guide to convert videos to different formats, we also wanted to share with you a quick and effective way to convert your video files that you create with your Droid™ phone or Apple iPhone™.

If you are using Apple’s OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard™) the “full” version of QuickTime™ comes with it. This means that the files you transfer from iPhone (or a Droid phone) in the ‘3GP’ file format can be converted to MP4 and placed into Apple’s iMovie application and used to create more videos.

We’ve also used and highly recommend a free software package titled HandBrake. HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. We have used it (as well as other converters mentioned in earlier chapters) to convert the 3gp files from the Droid and the iPhone, quickly and easily.

The following image shows the main pages for Handbrake (www.handbrake.fr) for Microsoft Windows and for Apple.

http://www.harndbrake.fr


Handbrake Conversions (Microsoft Windows)

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Handbrake Conversions (Apple)

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IndexApple iMovie 69–78

Audio 76–78Creating your video 69–70Editing video clip 74–78Loading video clips 71–73

Apple mobile devices 90–93Audio 59–68

Apple iMovie 76–78Audacity 61–63Windows Live Movie Maker 66–68Windows XP Movie Maker 63

Bebo 108Blogger 109

Catooh 120

Dailymotion 118Digital Films 122Droid 129–130DVD Flick 127

Emailing videoMicrosoft Windows XP Movie Maker

23–25

Facebook 87–89, 105Flickr 110FootageFilm 121Friendster 107

Handbrake 126

Improving your video 95–102Pixorial 95–99vReveal 100–101

iPhone 129–130JingJing 125

LiveJournal 113

Microsoft Windows XP Movie Maker 15–30

Editing video clip 16–17Editing video clips 16–17Emailing video 23–25Loading video clip 19–16Loading video clips 19–16Sprucing up video 26–29Trimming video clip 17–26Trimming video clips 17–26Viewing properties 20–17, 20–29

MotionBox 115MySpace 106

Organization 5–14Organizing your video

Planning 6Postproduction 13–14Preparing the set 5Shooting 6–12Storyboarding 6

Pixorial 95–99Planning The Video 6–14Postproducton 13Preparing the “set” 5

Share videos 79–94Apple mobile devices 90Facebook 87–89Social websites 103–115YouTube 79–86

Shooting The Video 6Slide 119Storyboarding 6

Tagged 112Twitter 111

U

uStream TV 117

Index

V

Video and the Internet 117–124v Reveal 100–101

W

Windows Live Movie MakerAudio 66–68

Windows Live Spaces 114Windows XP Movie Maker

Audio 63–66

Y

YouTube 79–86, 104–112

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