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◦ 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

I made a .flv (Flash) of the 10 second clip we built today◦ Flash and Connect are both Adobe, so they are

built to play well together◦ Let’s take a look!

All materials will be linked from this page◦ Today’s graphics and PowerPoints are there now◦ We’ll add materials as they are introduced in the

Connect sessions

http://www.ext.colostate.edu/vid-pod/