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or VideoA How To
The old days: Static overheads, bad handwriting,
scribbles for drawings, students waiting impatiently
while you take forever to carefully thread the
projector.
Then the initial PowerPoint breakthrough- and the the
students waiting impatiently while you take forever to
minimize PPT and carefully open a separate program
to show a digital video.
Today: now it is more seemless; one click and the
video starts playingWHAT A RELIEF!
AND WE CAN MAKE OUR OWN ANIMATIONS to
replace static overheads or slides
WATCH OUT!!
In front of very famous people, or faculty-eating
students, you find that the talk you made on your
office desktop will not play the video when you use a
laptop in the lecture hall.
Animation/movie files are automatically linked to
your presentation but they are not embedded inside
it like pictures or drawings.
To embed animation files: Use Package for CD
under File menu to include all linked files. Also, a
PowerPoint Viewer is included by default on the CD
and will run the packaged presentations on another
computer even if PowerPoint is not installed.
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Examples
Dr. Donald Slish of State University of New
YorkPlattsburgh has discussed their use (Slish,
2000) and provides many useful examples
(http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/donald.slish/anima
tions.html).
In addition, Dr. Steve Berg of Winona State
University maintains a large number of gif
animations for cell biology
(http://bio.winona.msus.edu/berg/ANIMTNS/Dire
ctry.htm).
examples
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~bstith/cellcrawl
ing.swf
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~bstith/fert%20wave.swf;
1. Clutch
Model for
Cell Crawling
-tough for
students to
follow
2. Method:
Freeze Fracture
(what is E face and
P face? From
same cell?
http://faculty.washington.edu/rtmoon/movies/cell.
swf
Not perfect, but emphasizes that Wnt leads to
increased Beta Catenin
This is one FLASH animation that you can steal
and put on your hard drive (note the URL has a
.swf ending; this is a flash file that is not
embedded in a htm file; if the flash file IS
embedded, it is tough to steal it). Rt click on link
to save the animation.
Note that the FLASH file is small only 42kB.
4.
Apoptosis
too much in
one figure so
cover part
(use Draw
toolbar, alter
transparency)
Vocabulary
AVI- Windows AVI provides the capability to develop animation files that can be included in multimedia
presentations and as part of WWW pages. The files (which end with an .avi extension) require a special player.
compression- method for making file size smaller and therefore easier/quicker to transfer
GIF- (Graphics Interchange Format) developed by Compuserve. standard image format (along with JPEG) for the
WWW.Technically, a GIF uses the 2D raster data type, is encoded in binary, and uses LZW compression. There
are two versions of the format, 87a and 89a. Version 89a (July, 1989) allows for the possibility of an animated GIF,
which is a short sequence of images within a single GIF file. A GIF89a can also be specified for interlaced
presentation.
JPEG- is a graphic image created by choosing from a range of compression qualities. When you create a JPEG or
convert an image from another format to a JPEG, you are asked to specify the quality of image you want. Since
the highest quality results in the largest file, you can make a trade-off between image quality and file size.
Formally, the JPEG file format is ISO standard 10918.
Kb- kilobyte a measure of computer memory or storage, a kilobyte (KB or Kbyte*) is approximately a thousand
bytes (actually, 2 to the 10th power, or decimal 1,024 bytes).
Mb- megabyte as a measure of computer processor storage and real and virtual memory, a megabyte
(abbreviated MB) is 2 to the 20th power bytes, or 1,048,576 bytes in decimal notation.
morph- artificial animation by running a sequence of images together.
MPEG- (Moving Picture Experts Group) a movie format.MPEG (pronounced EHM-pehg), the Moving Picture
Experts Group, develops standards for digital video and digital audio compression. It operates under the auspices
of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The MPEG standards are an evolving series, each
designed for a different purpose. (Note that .mp3 file suffixes indicate MP3 (MPEG-1 audio layer-3) files, not
MPEG-3 standard files.) You can download shareware or commercial MPEG players from a number of sites on
the Web.For additional information, see About MPEG on the official MPEG Committee Web site. An illustrated
Overview of the MPEG-4 Version 1 Standard is available.
Plug-in- applications are programs that can easily be installed and used as part of your Web browser. A plug-in
application is recognized automatically by the browser and its function is integrated into the main HTML file that is
being presented.
PNG-A patent-free replacement for the GIF, the PNG format, has been developed by an Internet committee and
major browsers will soon be supporting it.
Quicktime- is a multimedia development, storage, and playback technology from Apple for all platforms that
combine sound, text, animation, and video in a single file. Using a Quicktime player that either comes with a
WWW browser or can be downloaded from Apple or the browser company, you can view and control brief
multimedia sequences. Quicktime files can be recognized by their file name extensions: qt, mov, and moov.
Shockwave- developed by Macromedia, is a family of multimedia players. WWW users can download the
Shockwave players (Windows and Mac) from the Macromedia site and use it to display and hear Shockwave files.
streaming- means that movies or sounds play as they arrive and you do not have to wait until the complete file
downloads to view of hear.
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