Since I have used MovieMaker before, I chose to try a new video editing software in order to fully experience what this assignment intended. I was excited to try something new, as in the past when using Movie Maker I have had repeated issues with the program freezing or the video being corrupted and un-viewable when finished. I found the program Video Spin, by Pinnacle and after reading reviews I chose to try this software. Once I got the program downloaded and started to explore, I found the program to be very user-friendly and it even reminded me of Movie Maker with its drag and drop features and easy to edit time-line. My biggest problem was finding video clips to use to edit for this assignment. Usually, when creating a video, I would be using photos or videos that had been taken using our school flip cam and would be importing them directly to the program to work with. Here at home I do not have a flip cam so I had to search the web to find clips to use and make sure I was following copyright. After searching for a while I found videos to download that were free and legal from PBS. Converting the file was extremely time-consuming and frustrating; I wanted to give up and use a different program but then realized that all video-editing softwares would require this step as well. When using this program in the schools, for the most part I feel we will be uploading directly from the video camera the students or teachers used to record so this frustrating step would not be a problem often. This problem I encountered will be helpful though in case another teacher or student encounters this problem as well, I will be able to help them solve the problem and save them the time consuming trial and error solution finding process. I tried numerous videos, converted them to numerous different file formats, tried numerous converting programs and was ready to drop out of school. After finally solving the conversion problem and getting videos into the program to work with, I watched the tutorial provided by the program to get myself familiar with the layout and components and was ready to start editing. Overall, I found the actual video editing process to be very simple with this program and feel it will be easy to teach to any teacher or student. I especially liked the “Make Movie” tab which offered extensive output options; I felt this made publishing the video to be a simple process. The movie can be output as a .avi file, windows media file, real media file, .mov file, and even a ipod compatible file format. Creating the recorded tutorial in Audacity was extremely easy as was uploading to Podbean and linking to my own blog.
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