Short Video

Sharing Videos

things to share...how much research we went through to publish our video project via many hosts!

How to publish or “share” your Visual Communicator video??
1) Finish your video.
2) Publish as a Window Media Video (WMV) for internet and email use. Not a huge file, for Windows Media Player…(fast & dirty a compressed file)
3) Publish as an AVI uncompressed video, burn project to a DVD as an AVI file. Good quality.
4) You can publish to a blog as a WMV, MOV and many other formats.
5) Publish to an IPOD. First publish as AVI file, open AVI file in Quick Time (Apple) and save as a MOV file. Next, open MOV file in Itunes. File import into Itunes. Plug in your Ipod, and drag and drop into your playlist. Update Ipod. You now have a video podcast in your Ipod.

Project Issues

Today we were able to finish our Visual Communicator project for class. It was a challenge for me....trying a new program that requires video. I am used to shooting video footage to edit. This program works best while organizing your elements for the video first. Your record is shot in "real time" therefore...this leaves problems such as if you mess up you have to re record it. In my video world, you can mess up or edit a certain part out. This was a challenge for me to use video in a new way. I am also not to fond of the prerecorded video footage. This is great for students creating a quick video for a class...I can see how some of the prerecorded footage can get boring to use after a while.
Overall, I found this program fun.

Visual Communciator Project

Transitions

I learned today..how to add a transition to my video in Visual Communicator. A transition goes between video stills or moving video. A transition might be a fade up from black or a fade down to a scence. There are many different types to pick from the make a video more visually interesting to look at.

Using the Microphone

Today I am learning how to use an audio device (hand held microphone) to input sound into the computer for our presentation. This will be added to our final video (a vocie over). The trick is to set your levels and record our sript in for the correct amount of time. Timing is a crucial phase of creating any type of video. This will take awhile to adjust and get the voice over to be timed with our picture scenes that we created.

Using VC

Although I teach video graphics...we use a seperate editing station or computer that is not a pc or mac platform it is called an AVIO..used only for video production. I am learning how to use a pc based software for editing called Visual Communicator. Things are created differently in both programs....I do understand most of the concepts...but it is hard to learn a new program, I am figuring it out...and once I understand this new platform it should be easy to use. Visual Communicator seems very user friendly. Today I learned how to upload our digital photos that we will be using in our video into the program..it was pretty quick.

Video Podcast

Heather and I wanted to create a video podcast for our presentation. Since we do not have a mac platform here at the school we found that it was difficult to create a podcast. We also found out that it takes a few steps to create a video podcast and at time various authoring tools are used to create one. We picked visual communicator to create our video podcast. Visual communicator is an Adobe product this is what it does: " Adobe® Visual Communicator® software offers hundreds of customizable graphics, music clips, and special effects to create video presentations that look like a television newscast". We are hoping that this will be a good tool for us to create our podcast.