Hello my friends.
I haven’t updated my blog for a while I am afraid. We have had a beautiful little baby, and there have been many changes to our routine. I am a little tired, but very happy. Another problem I am having is with the Internet connection. I live in the country and have to use a satellite. The weather has been really bad lately and it is taking me a lot longer to get things done online like opening threads and blogs.
Well this week I have been continuing with my investigation of video editing. I have made and edited a video with a Flip camera and posted it on Youtube. My classmates suggested using Photo Booth for making short video presentations and I have done that, though the sound quality was not great. I am going to find an external microphone to improve my presentations. I was able to add the clip to iDVD. Another classmate suggested iMovie, and I found that on my Mac. iMovie is different from iDVD in that in iMovie you make a movie from images and music. You can add text to the images and use lots of transition effects. It is pretty cool. I am really interested in how to add text into movies. So far I haven’t figured out how to include documents in a movie, but I have learnt to use Grab to make an image file of a document and insert it in iMovie. The quality isn’t great, but it is okay. I also made a power point presentation in Keynote and recorded it as a movie and put it into iDVD. That worked just great. I tried it with Microsoft Powerpoint but the video format wasn’t compatible (I think it is in Quicktime), so I need to download a video converter. Both iDVD and iMovie are easy to use and I am comfortable with them now. I am thinking about how I will use iMovie in my Moodle course. Speaking of Moodle courses we finally got access to the Moodle server at ubc so we can start building. This is where the fun really starts. I am looking forward to this next section, though I know it is going to be challenging.
Talk to you soon.
Dilip