For this week's assignment, you should create a short video on any topic of your choice, either related to your final semester project or on another topic. The completed video should be at least 60 seconds long and include at least 5 different video clips edited together. You may use video clips that you shot with a camcorder, downloaded from the web, created with a software program, in any combination.
We used Premiere Elements 7 in class and you may download a free 30-day trial version of this program for Windows at:
http://www.adobe.com/products/premiereel/
Or if you prefer, you may use another video editing program to complete the assignment. When you have completed the video,post a comment in which you discuss your experience creating the video.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please upload your completed video to a location online where I can view it (such as Google Video, YouTube, Blogger, or other location) and include the URL in your post. Or, if this is not possible, please be sure to bring a copy of your video with you to the next class.
8 comments:
I actually downloaded the CS4 Pro version of Premiere from the Adobe website (which took several hours to download on my computer) and after several attempts have not been able to combine some Adbusters clips I found on YouTube (I could not get the clips to show up on the lower panel for editing). It seemed much easier in class to add video clips for editing, so I will use Premiere Elements instead tonight when I have access to the Cite Lab computers as the lab was closed last weekend and part of last week. I am confident that the film will not take long to put together once I have access to Elements, but CS4 may be a bit too complex for my uses at this point. I see now that I will probably have to do my entire final project at the Cite Lab.
I used both Premiere Elements and Movie Maker to piece together a condensed version of my pop-up video. I got frustrated when I was trying to do simple things, so I went back to my old friend, Movie Maker. All in all, I like Premiere but I need to work with it more to get more comfortable and be able to use it to all of it's features.
I also had great visual ideas (split 4 screen, transitions) that I was not able to figure out how to create in either program, so I'm sure that is something that I'll have to look into After Effects for. With that being said, I chose to experiment with Animoto, a free flash-based Web 2.0 tool that is similar to PhotoStory. I imported 10 still images, selected a music track from their extensive library, and then in about 15 minutes the service had mixed it all together to create an awesome video. The free version of Animoto allows you to upload to YouTube, Blogger, and other online spaces with ease. This is an awesome way to add a little spice to a digital story or video. I plan on using something like this for the introduction to my final project.
Both of my videos can be viewed on my video blog:
http://shaunna-cuin7346.blogspot.com/
Although I've succesfully done some editing with Premiere Elements, almost every time I try, I quickly get an error message saying the program has had a problem and will now shut down and I lose everything and have to start over. I'm afraid m,y computers have inadequate resources for the task. I also have a program called Sony Vegas which I am hoping will be less of a drain on resources and perhaps will work better. If not then I'll need to confine my editing to CITE machines, which is a drag.
I am using iMovie on a mac and Adobe Master Collection, which includes Premier and various other useful tools.
I am bringing my assignment for this week to class because I am having trouble uploading it to blogger. I will try to upload it to youtube or somewhere else and re-post on here with a url.
I'm certainly enjoying the task of creating a video and editing it. The only issues I am having is with uploading the video files to sites online. Perhaps I am experiencing issues with the file sizes (~100mb) or maybe I'm just having mac issues (which seem prevalent, unfortunately).
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8412489730519537046
Here is the link to what I have so far. I need to add in some transitions and do some after effects. I'm also planning to add much more to this and edit the final project.
I had fun filming and putting the clips together. I used Windows Media Player to put the clips together. I did have problems posting my video on blogger but I think that may just have been because of a slow internet connection. I will retry posting my video.
I used Movie Maker to create my video as I already have this on my computer and am familiar with this program. I downloaded 5 videos that my students enjoy watching in class and created a video of their top 5 favorites. I used Movie Maker to obtain the segments from each video that I wanted and then put them together using Movie Maker's timeline. The only editing I did at this point was to obtain the parts of the video that I wanted and put them together. You can view it at http://msposterickam08.blogspot.com/.
Hi y’all, this assignment had me stumped. The video footage captured over Spring Break while installing the sculpture Invitation had to be put aside for now and I needed a short topic for this assignment. I had an idea or two about some sort of art lesson—maybe a demo on how to use plaster or something like that—but a quick check on YouTube made those ideas redundant. Gosh, there’s plenty of good “how to” videos already. I decided to play with a concept my candidacy paper addresses in order to loosen up my thinking about the subject. Part of the paper addresses the metaphor, “Art is a coyote.” So I started with finding YouTube videos about coyotes. Most of the video posted was hunting and killing coyotes, but I found something to work with amid the gore and violence. Using Adobe Premiere Elements 7 is a new experience. It took me a while to understand the first basic steps but the demonstration and hands-on trials in class kept me from freaking out when trying it on my own. I only froze the computer a couple of times during the first attempts at moving some titles around, and learned to keep saving the changes to the file while working on it. I think I could get to like PE7.
Since I brushed aside academics over the break and did not get this assignment completed on time I was able to use information from Class Eight to add titles and transitions. The link to the video will be posted in the discussion for Class Eight. See y’all Wednesday.
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