- Open Windows movie maker
- Click Capture Video > Import video and navigate to the Flip
- Find your clips in the DCIM > 100MOVIE folder
- ctrl-click on all the clips you want to import and click “Import”
- You can switch between storyboard and timeline view using the “show timeline/show storyboard” button.
- Drag the clips onto the timeline or storyboard in the order you want. You can change the order later.
- If you want, add transitions between the videos, by finding transitions under:
- Edit Movie > View Video Transitions
- and dragging them into the small boxes between the clips
- When you are happy, click Finish Movie > Save to my Computer
- Enter a file name and choose where to save the file (Save it to your desktop or a memory stick), then click Next
- Under “Best quality for playback…” click “Show more choices”
- Select “Other settings”, and then “Video for Broadband (340Kbps)”. Click “Next” again and the file will save.
- If you don’t have a YouTube (or Vimeo) account, make one.
- Upload the video file you saved a moment ago to one of these services
Just a quick suggestion for all students taking the online journalism labs:
If possible, best to bring a memory stick and headphones to each lab. I’m seeing students frequently run out of space on their desktops to save video/audio files, and without headphones, it makes listening to your video and audio footage a tad difficult (i.e. impossible).
Following is a list of the Apple iPhone apps I use for mobile reporting. Obviously only a partial list of what is possible so if there are other apps you find useful leave a comment on this post.
Also the list is just iPhone as that is the only smart phone OS I have used in any depth so if you are an Android, Blackberry, Windows or Symbian smart phone user please add your list as a comment. Don’t want to offer an iPhone bias but it is the only toolkit I can speak to in any depth. Would be great if this was as comprehensive as possible for any students who are just starting out with mobile reporting or haven’t experimented with it yet.
General
Evernote – Create ‘notebooks’ on any topic including voice memos, images and text. One really great feature is text in images is processed and accessible through search.
Awesome Note – Great way to keep your thoughts organised on the fly. Replaces the OS Notes app for me.
Quick Office – Don’t use it as often as I thought but great for editing excel or word documents on the move.
Reeder – My RSS app of choice
Tweetie 2 – My Twitter app of choice
Wordpress – update your blog from anywhere
PicPosterous – They will probably be coming out with a fuller mobile app in the near future. But Posterous in general is a great way to share your videos, audio, and images from the field in an instant. Very easy CMS working through email. Can also upload to your Wordpress site. We will be convering this in greater detail in Lab #9.
Skype – Lots of the functionality is lost by the ability to only run one app at a time so when Skype is on, nothing else is running. But still good for free telephony in the field.
Maps and Google – Use the Google digital app to access all their mobile apps including Earth. High literacy in Maps is a must to include GPS in content.
FTPontheGO – Best FTP program for editing files live on web servers.
Safari/Layar – Traditional and Augmented Reality web browser
London Tube Deluxe and London Bus – Be super efficient in your travel planning as you move around London. Tube Deluxe is incredibly useful as you can see exact schedules of tubes on all lines.
Video
Reel Director – Currently best-in-class video editing app
Slowmo – speed up or slow down frame rate with this basic video app
ReelMoments – Time-lapse photography app
Qik – Send a live video feed to your channel online or embed it in a webpage. Great for covering live events but still lots of bandwidth issues.
Storyboard Composer – Super powerful storyboarding app for video. Am using it for creative projects but would be interested to see if there is any application for broadcasters. Certainly documentary makers would benefit.
Audio
FiRE – Great audio recorder. Just shares through Soundcloud so not always a stand-alone solution. But best for capturing broadcast quality audio in the field.
AudioBoo – There are tons of sharing sites emerging for audio and this is just one of them. Record audio through the app and upload to your account for immediate access online. Embed in webpage is easy.
Voice Memos – Still my most used audio app even though it is weak on features. Just offers the basic functionality to record audio and upoload/share.
Images
Snapture – Adds zoom to iPhone camera functionality.
ShakeitPhoto – Digital Polaroids
Autostitch – Creat panoramas. If you shoot in reasonable light it is very good at automatically stitching the images together.
PS Mobile – Basic Photoshop on your mobile.
TiltShiftGen – Bit quaint but buying a lens that does this for an SLR costs upwards of $1000. Particularly effective when photographing from perspective (high or low). Creates miniatures.
Hipstamatic – Same functionality as hipstamatic cameras. Great for magazine photography.
Accessing News
Al Jazeera – Live TV news and offers relatively unique functionality of working across network, not just WiFi. Served up by our friends at LiveStation.
Guardian/Telegraph/NY Times – These are the trio I use but this is obviously down to personal preference. But each of these offers strong usability.
NewsFuse UK – Just basically a bookmarking service but I use it all the time to see what is happening in the tabloids and BBC.
The concept of ‘content management’, at least in one respect, is easily unraveled:No prizes for guessing it must be the process or activity by which you ‘manage’ your ‘content’.
Tongue in cheek as that may seem, as somebody who works with a content management system or CMS almost every day, I have sincerely come to think of it this way. This article will help you to understand what it means journalistically as well as semantically, whilst explaining why the simple, and playfully tautological definition of it above is the most useful one.
We’re discussing the fine art of tagging and using widgets this week. Below are a few helpful resources:
One definition of tags and how and why we use them.
What exactly are widgets? One definition is here. Widgets are comprised of HTML. Remember HTML?
One slideshow on how to use your internal WordPress widgets.
Cover It Live is one example of an external widget that you can download.
And, further proof of why to make your content as easy to find as possible.
Since we’ll be unable to offer any further domain setup sessions, I thought I’d put up this brief guide for students who have bought domain names via Gandi.net and would like to use them.
Other domain registrars will vary, but carefully following these steps will ensure that your domain is properly set up. » Read the rest of the entry..
In Lab 4, we’re discussing how people read online content, and effective ways to write for the online audience. Here’s a few resources we’re covering in the labs:
Eye-tracking visualizations: See how online readers read.
More on how people tend to scan online data, from MediaBistro.
25 tips for better online writing, from the Poynter Institute.
A quick run-down on online writing from the online magazine Orato.
Winners of the 2009 Webby Awards for best news websites.
“Engage with your readers,” and other good online writing tips.
The handout for lab 2 on HTML and CSS can be downloaded from here.
By now most of you in my online journalism labs seem to be comfortable with the basic functions of your WordPress blogs, but if you need some additional guidance, these WordPress tutorials might come in handy. » Read the rest of the entry..
Many of you have expressed a desire to use your own domain name with your online portfolios. This is not problem, though if you haven’t already done so, you’ll need to purchase a domain first. Please refer to my earlier post (from last year) about this.
However, due to the popularity of this option we’ve had a lot of individual e-mail requests for the set up at our server. To effectively manage this and be sure that everybody who wants to use their own domain is accomodated, we are going to hold a domain special day.
This will be held on Monday October 26th, 2009 from 12:45pm-1:30pm. The location and any changes or other information will be announced via our Twitter, @cutlines.
