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So You Want to Make a Video? So You Want to Make a Video? Maybe you’ve been assigned to make a video for a class, or it’s an option for an assignment. Maybe you belong to a student organization and would like to use video for advertising or recruitment, or you’d like to make a video for personal use. No matter, if you’re going to make a short video using resources at Miami University Regionals, this guide is for you! Videos of any length are made up of a few basic components: still image, video footage, narration and music. How you put these elements in order, and how you layer them, shapes the video you will make. Very effective videos can be made simply by putting still images in order and recording narration underneath. You might add live video footage or interviews for greater effect, and you might add music underneath or include text/title screens for clarity. You’ll use a software program like WeVideo, Microsoft’s MovieMaker or Apple’s iMovie to edit your images, videos and sound, and to compile (export) your edited video into a finished project that you can share with others via a YouTube link, or by saving your file to a USB drive, your M: drive or a CD/DVD. What Tools Might I Use, and Where Will I Get Them? Many of the tools used in video-making and editing are available free online, on your personal computer, in one of the many labs or classrooms on campus, or at the Gardner-Harvey Library. A list of what equipment they check out can be found here: http://www.mid.muohio.edu/library/technology.htm You might also use tools you already have, such as a cell phone, iPhone or a digital camera, or a digital voice recorder. If you have a laptop or desktop that runs Microsoft Windows, you have (free) access to Microsoft MovieMaker software. MovieMaker comes in different versions; the main difference between MovieMaker Live (which comes with Windows 7) and MovieMaker 2.6 (which comes with XP, Vista, and other previous versions of Windows) is that version 2.6 uses a timeline to construct videos, whereas the Live version constructs videos by putting different elements in order without a timeline. If you have a Macintosh laptop or desktop, you have access to iMovie. These are good choices, especially for beginning videographers. WeVideo (http://www.wevideo.com/) is an online, cloud-based video editor that works with any computer and any platform, stores your source files online, and allows for group editing. You use a timeline to edit video, and can post your finished projects directly to YouTube. Though there are for-pay versions, you can sign up for free, and if you sign up with your Miami credentials, WeVideo will use your Miami Google Drive to store your source files (which simplifies matters considerably). For most in-class video projects, WeVideo is the best choice; however, you will need access to the Internet to work with it. If you are working alone and expect to work on a computer not connected to the Internet, you should consider MovieMaker or iMovie for your project instead. Adobe’s video editing software Premiere Pro is the “industry standard;” if you would like to include video-editing skills on your resume, you might consider working with this product. Premiere is available in campus labs, and as a free 30-day trial download from http://www.adobe.com/downloads/. Adobe also offers Premiere Elements, which is an entry- level version, for about $100. What will be the Building Blocks of my Video? Still Images You can take images yourself with a digital camera, or you might use “creative commons” images gathered from a free-use Internet site such as http://www.creativecommons.org or http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ . Most images will import into the video software library; if not, you can use Adobe Photoshop (in Miami’s labs, or at http://www.adobe.com/downloads) or another image-editing software (see the list of resources at the end of this document) to convert images to a .jpg form. You can also take a still image shot of anything on your computer screen to use in your video; here are instructions for taking a screen shot on a Windows-based PC: http://www.wikihow.com/Take-a-Screenshot-in-Microsoft-Windows And here are instructions for taking a screen shot with a Mac: http://www.wikihow.com/Take-a-Screenshot-in-Mac-OS-X The instructions show you how to open the screenshot you take in MS Paint for editing and saving, but you can also open the screenshot in Photoshop (or any other image-editing software) by choosing “new” and then “paste.” Then, you can crop or edit the image before saving it as a .jpg file to import into your video editing software. Video Clips You can use a video camera or a cell phone to capture video to use; most devices use USB to connect to a computer so you can save the video files. Video cameras save video files in a variety of formats, and not all video formats work with all video software. However, it is relatively easy to convert video from one format to another, prior to importing it into your video editing software. If you have problems with file formats, you can use online conversion sites like http://www.zamzar.com/url/ to change the format so it will work with your software. You might also download video clips from YouTube by using http://keepvid.com, or, if you have Firefox, you can use the media converter extension which will download and convert online vides to .mov or .wmv formats (at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-converter/.) As you shoot video for your projects, try to be mindful of making many short clips, instead of one long video file. If you must shoot one long segment of video, say you are conducting an interview and don’t want to interrupt your speaker to press “stop” and “record” for every question, consider opening your long video file in your video-editing software and cutting/splicing out individual sections to use, say, the answers to individual questions. You’ll have to export each of your shorter videos so they each become a stand-alone video file, and then you’ll import those sections back into your video editing software for the editing of your final project, but this will save you time and headaches later on. Sound/Audio Most video projects will require some narration as an introduction or as transitions between segments. In fact, some videos are only your voice narrating underneath a series of still pictures or video clips. Although it is possible to record audio directly in some video editing software programs, you’ll likely want to manipulate your audio before importing it into your video projects. The standard editing software for sound files is the open-source program Audacity. Audacity is free to download to your own computer from http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ , and is available in campus labs and computer classrooms. You might very well create a video without using Audacity, but if you need to edit the audio in your video project, you’ll likely use Audacity to do so. What Process Should I Use to Make My Video? There are a variety of ways to conceptualize making a short video. Your instructor might direct you specifically in how to conceptualize and create your video, or, you may have a great deal of freedom in designing your project. Regardless, here are three distinct ways to conceptualize making a short video project: Essay + Words You can craft a very effective video by writing (or outlining) a short essay on a topic, recording that essay as an audio file, and then adding images or video clips to augment the argument made by the recorded essay. Some people like to write and revise the essay significantly before recording it, while other people like to make a general outline and then improvise, perhaps even making more than one recording and then using the best one. Either way, if you choose this option, you would record your narration, import that audio file into your video-editing software, place it on the audio track, and then arrange your images/video clips on the tracks above. Interview or Documentary If you intend to make a mini documentary or want to use extensive interview footage, you will not usually know exactly what your video will contain until after you have shot substantial footage. In this case, you should expect to initially gather much more video footage than will actually be in the finished project; your work in editing will be to select the parts of your footage that tell a compelling story or express a coherent idea. Often, using text/title screens can help shape your narrative for your audience. If you choose this option, the bulk of your editing time will likely be spent cutting out the specific scenes of your footage that relate to a story you want to tell about your subject and arranging them in order. You may or may not use pre-planned spoken narrative to introduce your video, as most of the sound will come from the video footage itself. Movie-making/creative work Though not a very common academic assignment, video projects that tell a fictionalized story, much like a feature-length Hollywood film, are another way to conceive of your video project.
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