LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION: THE NEXT STEP IN YOUR FUTURE PRESENTATIONS

OLGA SCRIVNER OBSCRIVN@INDIANA.EDU

1. B EAMER The name is taken from the German word Beamer, a pseudo-anglicism for video projector. 1. Beamer presentation is in pdf format. PdF format is almost universal. Adobes Full screen mode displays your presentation live on a labtop or workstation. 2. Acrobat Reader is available on almost all computers 3. The output in Adobe produces high quality images, graphics and texts 4. Free and Interactive Beamer is created as a LaTex document. Professor Donald E. Knuth, at Stanford University, was planning to publish a series of books on computing. He discovered that the classical process of typesetting books was no longer viable and its various replacements were rapidly declining in quality and so he decided to take a year off to rectify that omission. He got hooked and the year turned into ten. The centerpiece of his nal solution was the program TEX. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ (Waud 2003:164)
Donald Knuth

For Windows: MikTex http://www.miktex.org/ It is very easy to install MiKTeX. The MiKTeX Setup Wizard guides you through the installation process. You dont have to be a computer expert. For Mac: TexLive http://www.tug.org/texlive/ Beamer presentation package http://sourceforge.net/projects/ latex-beamer/ To view your presentation: Open .pdf le of your presentation (located in the same directory as your beamer le) Open your pdf le with your PDF viewer (Adobe Reader)
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 Click on View and choose Full Screen Mode

2. G ETTING STARTED WITH B EAMER First we must provide key information about our presentation. At the beginning of our document (preamble) we specify our class (Beamer), title (Name of presentation), author (Your name), date. Our presentation is in the body of the document in between begin document and end document. Our le has an extension .tex.

Each Beamer project is made up of a series of frames. Each frame produces one slide. The Title Page Frame simply displays a title page.

Presentations can be divided into Sections that appear in the navigation bar on slides. Also Sections appear in pdf le as bookmarks.

You can use the following commands to change the way your text is displayed
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Beamers has three methods for representing lists: (1) itemize - displays a list of items (2) enumerate - displays a list of numbered items (3) description - displays a list with labels Each new item is indicated by the\item command.

To include pictures we have to use the graphics package by adding \usepackage{graphics} to the preamble of our LATEX le. The graphics package supports the most common graphic formats .pdf, .jpg, .jpeg, .png. To insert a picture, use a command \includegraphics[width=5.5cm]{title of picture.jpg}. You can adjust a size of picture.

Themes can change the entire look and feel of your presentation. In the preamble of your document, choose and type (name of the theme):

http://deic.uab.es/iblanes/beamer_gallery/index_by_theme.html 3. W ORKING WITH AUDIO E DITOR For this session we need: Audacity (free audio editor) http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/ Music le - Go to Web page: http://jones.ling.indiana.edu/obscrivn/ AFC/AFC.html. Click on Audacity and download Mozart Music Useful guide to Audacity http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audacity_ for_Teachers_-_Installation_and_Basic_Editing Why Audacity? Audacity is a free Audio Editor that allow recording, editing, converting. It can also change pitch or speed of recording

Task 1. Recording: Make sure your sound is turned on! (1) Click Record red round button (2) Start saying: You are looking at stock exchanges at different time periods and locations. Describe differences between past and present (3) Click Stop yellow square button (4) Click Play green button

Task 2. Saving Project: Click le, choose Save Project. A dialogue will inform you that you save the le as an Audacity project. Click yes Task 3. Editing: (1) Locate the unwanted sound (coughing, long pause etc) (2) Highlight the unwanted sound (click with your mouse at the beginning and drag it to the end of this sound). (3) Click the icon with scissors (or press delete)
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Task 4. Adjusting Timing: (1) In the editing tools click on the Time Shift tool (2) Place your cursor on the track with your introduction (3) Move the track to the right

Task 5. Adjusting Volume - Fading: (1) In the editing tools click on the Envelope - icon with Hourglass (2) Place your cursor at the beginning of your sound track (blue top line). The cursor should turn into a double triangle. (3) Click it (4) Place a cursor at the portion of the music track where your introduction stops. (5) Click it (6) To decrease the volume, grab the rst point on the top of the music track (7) Press and drag down until the blue line almost meets in the middle.

Task 6. Exporting Click on le, click on export as WAV, name it narration. Save it on your Desktop in a new folder AFC.
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4. W ORKING WITH M OVIE E DITOR For Movie Project we need:

(1) Download pictures (from Wikimedia source) http://jones.ling.indiana.edu/obscrivn/AFC/AFC.html (2) Right click on le (3) Choose save link as or save le as (4) Place les on Desktop in your AFC folder (5) download a video clip (from you tube)

To launch Video Editor PC: Open Start Menu (bottom left corner of the screen). In search type - Windows Movie Maker; Open Mac: Open Applications and Click on iMovie icon

Currently there are many different formats used in video and cameras. Window Maker (version 2.6) accepts only AVI - camera clips, WMV, MPEG, MP2. WMV is the most common format for Windows, however it is not compatible with some Mac application.
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From: Grahn Alexander. 2009. The movie15 Package If you need to convert video, audio, pictures to different format, you may use a free on-line converter: http://www.convertfiles.com/ Task 1 Importing: In Task panel: (1) Click on Import Pictures, locate pictures in your new folder on Desktop AFC and select them (2) Click on Import Video, locate a video le (3) Click on Import Audio, import your narration sound le

Task 2. Make Title (1) In the movie Task panel (on the left side of the screen) click on Make Titles or Credits (2) Click Title at the beginning. Type: Stock Exchange: Past and Present (3) As you enter text, you will be able to see how it will play in the Preview monitor
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(4) Click Change the text font and color. You can adjust background color and make your text bold

Task 3. Draging To add pictures, clip and sound to your movie, Press and Drag each le from your Collection to your Storyboard on the bottom.

Task 4.Transitions and Special Effects In the Movie Task pane, choose View video transitions To preview transition, double click on any transition icon To add a transition to our movie, Press and Drag the icon to the small box between the movie clips choose View video effects Press and Drag any effect icon to the star in the bottom left corner of the video clip

Task 5. Credits In the movie Task panel (on the left side of the screen) click on Make Titles or Credits Select Credits at the end
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 Type: Future? Click Change the title animation Click on an animation to preview it and select the animation you like Click Add Title Task 6. Saving To preview your movie, at the bottom of the Preview Monitor (on the right), click Play button To save your movie as a project (in case if you need to edit more details): In File menu, click Save project in your AFC folder in Desktop To publish you movie: in the movie task panel, choose publish this computer In the dialog box, specify the name. Specify where the publish movie will be located.

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MERCI!
REFERENCES

Audacity: The Basics. 2011. ITT Training and Education:STEPS training materials. Beamer User Guide: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamer/doc/ Digital Video: Basic Editing Using Windows Movie Maker v0.2.0. 2011. ITT Training and Education:STEPS training materials. Grahn Alexander. 2009. The movie15 Package. Waud, Douglas. 2003. What is TEX? TUGboat, 24, 2: 163-164