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Media Ripping Tools 1: Easy YouTube Video Downloader

October 26, 2012, 8:31 am • Posted by Matthew Williams
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Remixing video has become a popular cultural movement. We see it all over the internet where people re-purpose video to convey an alternative message. The Mister Rogers remix entitled Garden of Your Mind, produced by PBS Digital Studios takes hundreds of clips from dozens of episodes to create an inspirational song about learning. The audio of his voice is put through an auto-tuner to make it sound like he's singing.

This was made by professional producers, but remix culture is really a DIY movement and the tools are available for pretty much anyone who has a computer and internet connection. One relatively new tool that allows you to edit videos from YouTube is Easy YouTube Video Downloader, a free add-on from Mozilla that allows you to download videos from YouTube. It's an add-on which means that it creates an interactive button underneath the YouTube player to let a user download any video on YouTube. Once the video is downloaded, you can import it into a video editing program like iMovie or Windows Movie Maker to edit.

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Digital Portraits and Cindy Sherman

August 13, 2012, 12:13 pm • Posted by Kristin Farr
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KQED Arts Education and a group of local educators just completed our second annual "Digital Portraits" course for educators. Last year, we studied California artist Robert Arneson's approach portraiture and created short, autobiographical films (Check out last year's assignment and two of the films in the Edspace archive).

This summer, the artist we looked to for inspiration was none other than Cindy Sherman, who has a retrospective on view at SFMOMA through October 2012. Sherman has been called one of the most important artists of our time and was featured on Art:21. She is known for using herself as a model to create photographic portraits of women who do not represent the artist, but personas and characters she creates.
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Windows Movie Maker Educast Series

July 16, 2012, 2:00 pm • Posted by Matthew Williams
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The following videos are a 9 part series on how to use Windows Movie Maker. Movie Maker is a proprietary video editing software application which allows Windows operating system users to edit their own videos.

There are nine videos in this series although you can only see one player. The single player hosts all nine videos (thank you YouTube playlist). The series starts with Part 1: Basic Overview. To access the other eight videos, you must click on the text that says "Playlist" located at the bottom left of the player. You can then choose from the selection of other videos.

Note: This video educast series covers the first version of Movie Maker, not Windows Live Movie Maker.

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iMovie '11 Educast Series

April 2, 2012, 12:59 pm • Posted by Matthew Williams
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The following videos are a 9 part series on how to use iMovie '11. iMovie is a proprietary video editing software application which allows Mac, iPod Touch 4th generation, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, and iPad 2 users to edit their own videos.

There are nine videos in this series although you can only see one player. The single player hosts all nine videos (thank you YouTube playlist). The series starts with Part 1: Basic Overview. To access the other eight videos, you must click pause and then click on the monitor icon at the bottom of the player (it's located next to cc button). You can then choose from the selection of other videos.

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Using FlipShare

December 17, 2011, 4:10 pm • Posted by Matthew Williams
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Here is a four part video educast series on how to use FlipShare, the video editing program that comes with the Flip Camera. Each section will take you through a particular part of the process.

Part 1 is a general overview of the application's interface along with an explanation of how to download the software from the camera to your computer.

Part 2 covers how to save a video from the camera to your computer.

Part 3 explains how to make simple trims or edits to a single video.

Part 4 overviews how to compile more than one video to create a movie with text and music.

To navigate through the four videos, you have to click on the icon on the bottom of the frame that looks like a TV monitor -- it is located to the left of the plus sign (+).

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Teacher Tech Training Workshop 1.5: Teachers' Slideshows with Sound

July 21, 2011, 3:18 pm • Posted by Matthew Williams
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In our final Teacher Tech Training for the Summer, teachers learned how to create a slideshow with sound. They created Digital Postcards, similar to Audio Postcards, but now with images to accompany the soundtrack. They used the free web application JayCut to produce their projects. For many of the participants who came to our previous workshop were able to use their audio postcards as the foundation for their project. They only needed to then search for images that matched their narration and sequence them. For those who joined us for the first time had to write a narration script and record it into JayCut -- the application allows you to record audio directly from your computer. Pretty cool.

Here are the results of our teachers. Very awesome work!

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Teacher Tech Training Workshop 1.4: Slideshows with Sound

July 18, 2011, 11:56 am • Posted by Matthew Williams
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There are a ton of slideshow programs out there online. Some are better than others. Most are free, but be aware of those that claim they are free and then ask you to pay a fee once you've registered to use their site. Below, you can view a chart that lists a number of applications that are either software or hosted online. You can see if they incorporate sound and text, and whether they are free or there is a fee. (click on the table to see a larger version)

 

 

Today's workshop focuses on JayCut, an online video editing system that is great for audio slideshows. It's much like Windows Movie Maker and iMovie, but since it's online, it's great to teach. There is only one version and it doesn't matter if you use a Mac or a PC.

The only quirk is that you have to upload all of your media content (there actually is an option to use your computer's microphone to record audio and another option to record video from your computer's camera...but we won't talk about that now).  To do this, you will first have to collect all of your images and audio first. If you are taking images online through a Google image search, then you will have to first download the images, save them in a folder on your computer, then upload the images to your JayCut account. Here's a quick workflow for the process of creating an audio slideshow once you have recorded your audio in Audacity and have exported it as a WAV or AIFF file.

  1. Go to www.jaycut.com
  2. Register on the site.
  3. Create a movie
  4. Select a language
  5. Click "add media" on the upper right corner.
  6. Click on "my computer" and click "next."
  7. Click "browse"
  8. Find the media files from your computer, select them and click "open."
  9. Click "upload." (Note: sometimes there is a green check and other times there is a red x after uploading. Ignore it.)
  10. Click the little gray x on the upper right corner of that window.
  11. You should now be able to view your media in its proper tab -- (ex. -- if it's an image, it should be located in the image tab.)
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