ReviewActivity



To see my video, click[| here]. ====For my review activity, I decided to create a slide show of my favorite weekend past time, outdoor cooking. I was going to smoke ribs for the family anyway, so I took photos of the steps I use when cooking ribs. Before I began, I created a storyboard and decided on the subject of each slide, the narration, and the photos to be used. This helped me decide quickly on the photos I needed. I needed a few pictures from the internet, so I installed Creative Commons search browser in Firefox. I searched for the photos, downloaded them, and created a document I used later for my credit roll That I created in Microsoft Movie Maker that included the citations for each photo. I found a really nice flame shot video for my intro through Creative Commons.====

I edited three photos in Photoshop. I removed the electric cord from my hot plate, Deuce’s leash, and cropped an image so you can only see the aluminum wrapped ribs.

 * = ==Before== ||= ==After== ||
 * = [[image:100_1055.JPG width="160" height="119"]] ||= [[image:greene603/Hot-Plate.jpg width="161" height="122" align="center"]] ||
 * = [[image:100_1066.JPG width="163" height="122"]] ||= [[image:Foil.jpg width="155" height="53" align="center"]] ||
 * = [[image:100_0361.JPG width="161" height="122"]] ||= [[image:Deuce1.jpg width="164" height="117"]] ||

====I love the blues, and it seemed to me that it would match perfectly with my subject matter. I had no real process of picking my audio. I listened to clips on ccDig until I found the one that felt right. I prefer using mp3 format because it holds its fidelity well and can be easily manipulated. I cropped the song to 3:15 in audacity and then imported it into Camtasia to continue working with it.====

====I began creating my video by making a rough guess as to the length of each image based on my narration notes. I imported all of my media to Camtasia and assigned each type of media to a different track. Since I did not think I would need to edit it very much, my music is on track one. Each layer higher contains media based on the need to edit, with elements needing little editing going on lower tracks.====

====After laying out my tracks, I them used the create narration utility in Camtasia to record my voice. I chose this as I could watch the video and record at the same time. It made matching my speech to the clip length easy, although I did have to edit length and transition on a few clips.====

====My last task was captioning the film. I tried using the speech –to-text feature in Camtasia, but it was so hilarious what it thought I was saying. I manually added the captioning, since I had the script already prepared. Camtasia has an upload assistant for YouTube, so after putting in my username and password, it allowed me to title and describe my project, add keywords, and choose viewing options. I pressed OK and it uploaded to YouTube.====

====I like mp4 format because it is very clear and is a widely accepted format. I used the upload feature and Camtasia uploaded the video as an mp4. I embedded the video on my wiki using the YouTube widget.====