Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Audition

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Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Audition Audacity

• Ilkka Juuso
• Mikko Järvenoja
• Dept. of English

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For Video Windows Movie Maker

• Bundled with Windows
• A simple program to get started with
• A cheap alternative to Adobe Premier which works
  in much the same way, but offers much much much
  more control
• Key concepts
• Timeline and Tracks

Workflow- Import clips, images, etc- Drag item
on the timeline- Cut and reorder items -
Drag the borders with the mouse -
Cut at current point using the playback
panel- Save the clip
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For Audio Adobe Audition

• The latest version of Syntrilliums Cool Edit
• A versatile audio editing program with everything
  you need
• For beginners and professionals alike
• 30-day free trial
• Key concepts
• Timeline and Waveform
• Tracks

Workflow- Open a clip- Clip it, filter it and
save it
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For Audio Audacity

• Free alternative to Audition
• http//audacity.sourceforge.net
• Works like Audition, but more limited in
  functionality
• Normalize, change the speed, fade, etc.

Workflow- Open a clip- Clip it, filter it and
save it
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• Where would you go to find more information?
• Manufacturers web site
• Tutorials in both paper and video form
• FAQs
• Google search
• Discussion boards
• Blogs
• Articles
• Books
• In most cases there are a number of good
  teach-yourself-books on the subject

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Resources

• Windows Movie Maker
• http//www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemake
  r/default.mspx
• http//virtuaaliyliopisto.jyu.fi/etusivu/tyopakki/
  oppimateriaalintuottaminen/videoaani/videoedit/Att
  achment00099100/editohje_moviemaker2.pdf
• Adobe Audition
• http//www.adobe.com/cfusion/designcenter/search.c
  fm?productAuditiongoGo
• http//www.adobe.com/products/audition/
• http//www.tagnet.org/aim/adobe-audition-tutorial.
  html
• Audacity
• http//audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutoria
  ls.html

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Time to Choose

• Three programs, two types of media
• What do you want to do?
• Create a video clip
• Get video clips, still images and/or audio clips
  online and compose your own video
• Tip Remember that you can use Photoshop to edit
  the images
• Create an audio clip
• Get audio clips online and play around with it
  (e.g. normalize, clip and fade)
• You might have time to work with both )

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Material

• Images
• http//www.freefoto.com
• http//www.google.fi
• Tip do a search for wallpaper or high res to
  get higher quality images
• Video and audio
• http//www.archive.org/details/movies
• Music
• http//www.mp3.com/free-music/

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project

• No mandatory project this time, but for extra
  credit create a short video clip highlighting one
  or more of the following topics
• Oulu
• Finland
• Digital Humanities

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ilkka.juuso_at_ee.oulu.fi
www.ee.oulu.fi/ijuuso/teaching