Video+Activity+1

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Video Activity 1

I used Windows Movie Maker and felt it was very user friendly. I first chose the five pictures that I wanted to include in my video. Because these pictures were going to be too large, I re-sized them using Irfanview. I made every picture have either a height or a width of around 200 megapixels. When I uploaded these pictures to Movie Maker, I noticed the pictures were not sized to fit the entire slide. They were a bit smaller. I googled how to fix this problem and realized that I needed to make these pictures ratios be 4:3. I then went back to my re-sized pictures in Irfanview and found where to make the ratios become 4:3 (Edit <Create Maximized Selection< 4:3). I saved each of these images to my desktop. To import the selected pictures to Movie Maker, I opened up the application and clicked import on the main screen. I then went to my desktop and uploaded the five pictures. To create the order I wanted the slides to appear, I used the drag and drop method to place the slides in the storyboard at the bottom of the screen. To create effects for each of the slides, I went to the Edit<Effects tool on the main screen. From here I could view how the effects would look before I applied it to the actual picture. When I decided which effect I actually wanted to appear on the picture, I used the drag and drop tool again. I did this for all five of my pictures. To create my transitions from slide to slide, I went to the Edit<Transitions tool on the main screen. I then used the same steps to view and apply the transitions from slide to slide. I then downloaded a copyright free song from a website that had a water fill to it. This was imported to Movie Maker via Import<Audio. When it imported, I again used the drag and drop method to apply the music to the show. This changed the view from storyboard to timeline. My music was just about the same amount of time as my slides were, so all I had to do is move the beginning of the song to start at the beginning of my slides. To do this, all I did was click on the music bar and move it to overlay the video. Finally, to create my titles and credits I went back to the main screen<Edit<Title and Credits<Credits At The End. I typed what I wanted it to show, and changed the format and appearance of the credits. To apply my title on the first slide, from the same main menu screen<Edit<Title and Credits<Titles On The Selected Clip. Once I did that, I typed the words I wanted to appear on the slides and selected how I wanted it to appear. A problem I kept having here was making sure I selected the clip I wanted the title to appear on. To publish the video, under the Main Screen<Publish To<This Computer. I typed in my file name and saved. I have never used Movie Maker before so everything I did was a learning experience. I felt that having played around with Audacity and completing Audio Activity 2 really helped me move through this assignment with only a few set backs. Something I had to learn the hard way however was, once you save your wvm, do not delete the music/pictures you have included in the movie from your desktop (or where ever you have saved them). If you do, and you ever want to go back and change anything, Movie Maker will not have those files uploaded anymore.