Session1: Basics; Adding titles and logos

Its not great, but its the best compromise between

features, price, ease of use
Other options:
Adobe Premiere

Industry standard
Expensive, steep learning curve

Final Cut Express/Pro

Industry standard
Mac only

Windows Movie Maker

Easy and fun
Too basic

Techsmith Camtasia

Designed with screen capture in mind, video editing secondary

If you already own it, its not bad

Think of it as Adobe Premiere Lite

$70 at RAMtech
HUGE resource hog

Takes a full minute to load

Kind of buggy: random crashes, vague error messages

Minimum System Requirements

2GHz or faster processor, Windows Vista or Windows 7

2GB of RAM
12GB of available harddisk space to install
1024x768 display resolution
Microsoft DirectX 9/10 compatible sound and display
driver
Windows Media Player

AVI
Uncompressed, huge file sizes
Very flexible, plays on anything
Lossless, good working format, NOT suitable for web

MP4

Kodak Touchplay uses MP4 (well use it as our working format)

Compressed, file sizes still large
Will play on most players (Windows, Quicktime, Real Player)
Lossless, good working format, NOT suitable for web

WMV
Windows media, compressed, needs Windows Media player (nearly universal)
Good quality
Good choice for final product (well use this)

FLV, SWF
Flash, compressed, needs Flash player (very common)
Good choice for final product; compression sometimes shows
Plays well with Connect

MOV
Quicktime, compressed, needs Quicktime player

Preview pane

Tasks pane

Project pane

Tasks pane>Organize>Get Media>PC files

and folders>browse to images
Drag them into timeline (5 second preset)

Go from Timeline to Sceneline view

Only reason to use Sceneline view

Right-click the small box between the clips

Choose your transition
Simple dissolve is effective
Be consistent with transitions

Titles>New Title>Choose type (still, roll,

crawl)
Type in text, use tools at right to choose font
style, size, color, alignment, etc.
CSU approved fonts: Minion, Swiss 721,
Garamond, Ariel, Helvetica

Choose titles in timeline

Right-click>Choose Fade In, Fade Out
Timing can be adjusted by click/drag of the
little diamonds

I made a .flv (Flash) of the 10 second clip we

built today
Flash and Connect are both Adobe, so they are built
to play well together
Lets take a look!

All materials will be linked from this page

Todays graphics and PowerPoints are there now
Well add materials as they are introduced in the
Connect sessions

http://www.ext.colostate.edu/vid-pod/