Video Editing Tools and
Creating Video Clips
presented by Barbara McLaughlin
Humanities Resource Center
Edi$ng Tools VIDI Mac iMovie Mac MPEG STREAMCLIP Mac & Windows Any Video Converter Mac & Windows Windows Movie Maker Windows iSkyso6 Video Converter Mac & Windows WHY SHOULD I USE VIDEO IN CLASS? •  Instructors who incorporate video in their course material report that their students retain more informa$on, understand concepts more rapidly and are more enthusias$c about what they are learning. •  Students expect the use of web resources to be incorporated into their educa$on, YouTube exceeded 2 Billion views per day! Video and Higher EducaHon Project -­‐ 2009 BENEFITS OF USING VIDEO IN CLASS Helps in understanding and comprehension of materials taught Ability to create video clips Media (DVD, CD, Blue-­‐Ray, VHS tapes) damage easily 3 Basic Steps to CreaHng a Video Clip Import Edit Publish Windows Movie Maker Windows Only – Free -­‐ Installed with Win XP & Vista Free Download for Win 7 (Windows Live: Movie Maker) Windows XP & Vista Windows 7 Step 1: Import Windows Movie Maker Accepted Formats: Video files: asf, .avi, .dvr-­‐
ms, .m1v, .mp2, .mp2v, .mpe, .mpeg, .mpg, .mpv2, .wm, .wmv, (Windows 7 includes .mp4) ImporHng From DV Camera: via IEEE 1394 (firewire) or USB depending on the camera Step 2: Edit From Video Tools Edit Tab: set Start and End points fade in – fade out Step 3: Publish Video can be published several ways: 1. Directly to the computer 2. Burn to a DVD or CD 3. Email 4. Sent to YouTube or Facebook iMovie Included in MAC OS iMovie 11 – Whats new? •  Create Trailers •  Improved Audio Edi$ng: Sound effects, voiceover, and music •  New themes and more effects added Import movie into iMovie from camera or file Imports MPEG-­‐2, DV-­‐Standard, HDV (High Defini$on Video), .mov and mpeg-­‐4 Import Video broken down by frames Video window Clips appear Select Import from the File drop down menu and select the source Edit CreaHng the clip: Drag the curser from the beginning of the clip to the end to form a yellow box From the File menu select “ Trim to Selec$on” Publish You can also add Transi$ons, at the end I’ve added a “closed circle” transi$on From the Share menu select how you want to save your clip iSkySo6 Video Converter For Mac & Windows $35 • Used primarily for conver$ng files from one format to another • Extract audio from video, movies and TV to play on MP3 players • Customize presets to fit iPad, iPod, iPhone, PSP, iMovie, YouTube, etc • Drag and drop file from desktop or import from camera • Trim
• Rotate
• Capture
• Crop
• Merge
iSkySo6 Video Converter iSkysof supports the following video formats Import video: • Drag & drop video or go to "File" menu, choose "Add Video/
Audio files” • Mac version supports batch conversion. It allows you to import several mul$media files at one $me and convert them Edit Create the clip : • From the Edit menu select Trimming. On the lef side is your original film, right side is the working copy we are going to split • Drag the blue play head to the part where you want to trim the film and click on the scissors. Click "Done“ save the seings •  The clip is then appears at under the original file MPEG STREAMCLIP Windows & MAC Free download from h^p://www.squared5.com Supported input formats: MPEG, VOB, M2P, MOV, DV, AVI, MP4, MPV, AIFF, MP4 + more File menu > “Open Files” or drag and drop file to center square. Drag the indicator on the $me line to where you want the clip to start and hit the “I” (for in) on your keyboard.
MPEG STREAMCLIP Con$nue dragging the indicator on the $me line to where you want the clip to end and hit the “O” (out) on your keyboard File > Save or Export Vidi for Mac Free download from h^p://download.cnet.com/Vidi/3000-­‐2170_4-­‐34977.html
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Only imports directly from firewire device (camera), cannot open or import an exis$ng file from the desktop •
Connect your camera to the Mac FireWire port. From the Video Menu select File > Record As > name file > click the record bumon. When finished recording click the red record dot to stop •
The file appears a .dv. To convert it to .mp4 drop the file into MPEG StreamClip and select “export to MPEG4”. Embedding and EdiHng Video in a Power Point PresentaHon Import video into a slide Trim video and add effects Two op$ons for the display of your video clip. 1. Stand alone 2. Bumon that will launch your video player and show the movie. Adding Video to a PowerPoint PresentaHon from a File • Click the Insert tab on the Ribbon . • Click the Movie bumon. • Select the Movie that is already downloaded to your computer CreaHng a Video Clip Within PowerPoint 64 bit PowerPoint does not support QT (mov, .mp4) formats, suggested work around is to use WMVs. CreaHng a video clip: Click on the video and go to the Video Tools tab Right click on the video and you can trim the video, fade in or out and set playing op$ons Embedding Video to a PowerPoint PresentaHon If you want to show a video from YouTube, Hulu or another web site from within your presenta$on you need to embed the code into the slide From the Insert menu > Video > Video from Web Site On the web site, locate the video, and then locate and copy the Embed code Copy and paste the code into the Insert window (You cannot use the embed code to link to an online video using the 64-­‐bit version of PPT.) Embedding Video to a Power Point PresentaHon Note Most web sites that contain videos include an embed code, yet the loca$ons of embed codes will differ depending on each web site. And, some videos do not have an embed code, and therefore you cannot link to those. And, to be clear, even though they are called 'embed codes', you are actually linking to the video and not embedding it in your presenta$on. Linking Video to a PowerPoint PresentaHon Crea$ng a Hyperlink to video: Type the URL in the text box, highlight, select Hyperlink from tool bar hmp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yocja_N5s1I Agricultural Revolu$on Linking Video to a PowerPoint PresentaHon In the Text to display box type $tle of video Type the URL in the Address box Agricultural Revolu$on Any Video Converter Mac and Windows Free download from: http://download.cnet.com/Any-­‐Video-­‐Converter/3000-­‐2194_4-­‐10661456.html or http://www.any-­‐video-­‐converter.com/download/ • All-­‐in-­‐one free video converter YouTube video downloader • Converts video from multiple formats Download any video converter to computer • Create clips • With the program, you can download videos from Internet and then convert to MPEG-­‐4 format playable on your iPod, PSP or mobile phones. Choose File> Import Video to from Internet to begin downloading videos. Video EdiHng Tools and CreaHng Video Clips For more informaHon visit: Princeton on-­‐line training courses at lynda.princeton.edu If you are interested in having video content streamed through Blackboard for a course, feel free to contact me with any quesHons Special thanks to Erika Gilson for allowing me to use a clip from her Sevgili-­‐Murat series Contact InformaHon: Barbara McLaughlin, mclaugh@princeton.edu ETC/HumaniHes Resource Center 011 East Pyne www.princeton.edu/hrc