New Technologies Used

This post describes how I overcame a technological barrier when uploading and editing videos on Windows Live Movie Maker and videoing myself using a camera.


CAMERA

 

The camera I used was a Panasonic, digital camcorder which I borrowed from school. I had used one previously for our AS piece, but not since so I had to reacquaint myself with it. I had to set it up in an appropriate place and ensure the majority of my face was in shot and I initially tried to talk about my evaluation question offhand, but it confused me and is just as scary as standing in front of peers to tell them the answer to my evaluation question. So, I wrote some points down and put them behind the camera, then answered them as best I could when recording, then editing them with Windows Live Movie Maker.

 

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WINDOWS LIVE MOVIE MAKER

Initially, I had no idea of how to use Windows Live Movie Maker, as I had only used iMovie on the Apple Mac computers to edit videos before. at school. However, when it came to create my evaluation question, I had to use it as it was pre-installed editing software on my home computer.

Finding out how to edit each piece of video was quite hard as it wasn't as precise as iMovie. You have to use the clipping tool, which can be temperamental, as it doesn't cut to exactly what you want to hear. IMovie, on the other hand allows you to crop a clip whilst listening to it and allowing you to press the space bar to stop the cursor so that you can crop to that exact point. A positive with Windows Live Movie Maker is that if you copy a cropped section of video, it will allow it to be copied, but you can "un-crop" it, when editing where you want to crop it to and from. I then had to upload it to YouTube which took forever as you have t convert it to a movie file before uploading it via the easy-to-follow upload steps, on the website itself.