Not at Ottawa? So you have to learn!!

Hello everyone. Our class today seems very odd because there are a few people missing. But I must say its not that much of a difference for our BTT class, but for the other classes, there are a lot of people missing! Anyways, today we are going to learn how to fix/create videos. This is just a cool way to increase your marks for summatives. This information that Mr.Case is teaching us today will not be on any sort of test, its just for out own knowledge!

When you capture a video, the program you have opened it with will save your file on the computer and then read it. But if you import them then it means that the program is bringing the video into the program to read it.
On your movie maker screen, you can see three things; a timeline that is at the bottom of your page, the stage that is on the right, and the well which is where you can see everything.
Scene is the number of times when you turn your camera on and off, to take different pictures.
Auto movie means that windows decide were the movies would best fit in.
You can make your video brighter, darker, look old, and many more.
When you want to edit your movies, its better to do it using the timeline because you can actually see your videos.
Transition means change between two scenes.
By changing the order, you can simply drag your video from the beginning to anywhere on the timeline that you want.
If you don't like a part, you can cut it out by shortening the frame.
You can put the same thing over and over again, by putting the same video in several times.
You can copy and past it anywhere for as many times as you want.
You can also trim anything that you don't want, that is in the video itself. Cutting is when you take the whole clip away, but trim is taking some part of a video out.
Here is where kids freak out all the time.
If you save it as an MSWMM then it will not work because what this file does is that it gives the computer instructions to go to the computer, get the pictures/videos and make changes and play it. So if you save it on a USB, it wont work!
If you save it as an email, it is going to save on a USB key. Just like a JPEG, because it is a lossy file. MWV is a small file. But if you save your work as a DVAVI file, it will take up lots of space.
You can also add titles on your screen, but because the title is inverted, it blanks out everything else.
The more things you have on your video, the more it will take for the video to export it. Like titles, clips and more.
Always save your files as AVI.
FLA is an flash file. SWIFF is a flash animation. FLV is a flash video.
Frame rate it the frames per second.
The standard size for the Internet is 360x240.
Frame rate is 15.
This information is just for your information, because Mr.Case wont test us on it.
*If you have Windows XP at home, then you automatically have it at home, because this program comes with windows XP. Or you can search Movie KP, on search and it will find it for you.*
Here comes the fancy stuff!! =]
Your going to need Flash CS3, and Dream Weaver.
Go to Insert-Media-Flash video and bring in the videos you want.
You can put a skin on a video, which is the over layer. It creates a basic video for you. You can chose different ones.
You can create your own skin. Go to Create-skin. And then chose the size and frame.
Only use progressive download. Then chose the skin you want, [you can chose the colour you want for your skin] press next and finish. Save it as ''name'' FLA.
Your taking a video and making an animation out of your video.
Go to publish settings[where you want to publish] and chose where you want. The HTML is important because you want to put it on the Internet. Press publish, and your done. *If you have the video open, it wont publish.*
Farzin has gladly volunteered to let us use his videos so that we can play around with them.
So use them well!! =]
That's all the learning I can take today!
Have a great Wednesday!! And people at Ottawa have fun!!
Bye.

- Peggy .