CP192 Movie Making for DVDs

Instructor

Donna Wolffe Ken Dale

Phone

714-349-9140 (DW-Cell)

Location

OLLI PC Lab (Room 20)

E-mail

dcwolffe@sbcglobal.net

Class Hours

Thursdays, 1:15-3:15 pm

Class Dates

Sept 18, 25, Oct 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Nov 6

Description:

Free Microsoft applications (Movie Maker and PhotoStory) are used to manipulate digital images, video footage, and music to produce a multimedia movie on DVD. We will provide predesigned class project files, or use your own source files.

Text (optional):

Microsoft Windows Movie Maker 2: Do Amazing Things! By John Buechler, Microsoft Press, 2004

Note, this text and most of our course is written for MM2 on Windows-XP -the current version is 2.1; PCs running Windows Vista may have MM6 installed, which may or may not work on a specific PC. If not then MM2.6 must be installed on your Vista PC.

For difficulties with Vista see http://www.scribd.com/doc/532/Using-Windows-Movie-Maker . For Vista issues regarding Vista MM6 vs. MM2.6
see http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d6ba5972-328e-4df7-8f9d-068fc0f80cfc&displaylang=en

Goals:

Learn to use the features of free programs to create high-quality movies you can view on your TV.

Learn to capture video from a camcorder and convert music into formats that work with the programs.

Learn to be a movie producer who can take your visions and turn them into one or a collection of DVD movies.

Tutorial Resources:

  1. Guide for Windows Movie Maker (GMM) online text-based tutorial at http://www.atschool.org/digidocs/printable/mm_full.pdf
    -print out or save for your own use.

  2. Papajohn (PJ) site http://www.papajohn.org/ offers an online companion to the text, but it has more in depth tutorials for MM2 and Photo Story, a very interesting 'Tips & Tricks' section and informative newsletters, and advice on good photo technique.
    This index to the tutorials     http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/Tutorials/ is the only site found to have separate tutorials for MM2 on XP vs. MM2.6 or MM6 on Vista.

  3. MM2 online video tutorials (VT) site http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/moviemaker2 - Excellent, clear, short (1-3min) video tutorials for MM2. Especially complete & in depth coverage (10 major sections from 'Getting Started' to 'Saving as a Movie', with 3-6 short videos for each major section).


Suggested Activities to obtain maximum benefit from the course:

Bring portable storage media (called flash drive or thumb drive), or work from your own laptop here in Room 20

Read the video tutorials and text (if purchased) before each class session. Work on your project at home & in PC-Lab

Course Schedule:


Week and Topic

Skills Covered

Suggested Reading or Viewing

1. Introduction to MM

Capture video and images

*Guide 1-4, 7; Bk-1; Papa-1, Atomic-A1-7,Atomic-C-1-7

2. Working with Clips

Edit, trim, use Storyboard & Timeline,

create still image from clip

*Guide 5, 8, 23-24; Bk-2; Papa-2, Atomic-D-1-16, Atomic-E-1-6

3. Creating video track

Add titles & credits, add video effects

& transitions

*Guide 11-12, 15-16; Bk-2; Papa-3, Atomic-F-1-3,
Atomic-G-1-4, Atomic-H-1-4

4. Creating audio track

Add Narration and music soundtrack

*Guide 6, 13-14; Bk-3; Papa-4, Atomic-I-1-3

5. Converting music from CD

Rip tunes from CD to mp3 format

Handout, Media Player Rip function

6. Managing collections

Create, delete, copy clips and collections

*Guide 25-27; Bk-4; Papa-4, Atomic-B-1-5

7. Finalizing movie project

Save movie file to PC (wmv format)

or CD (VCD movie)

*Guide 17-20; Bk-5; Papa-5, Atomic-J-1-6

8. Creating DVD

Build and burn DVD project(s)

Handout, Nero Vision procedure; Atomic-J-4


*Guide 1-4 = pgs 1-4 in Guide to MM

Bk-1 = Chapter 1 in Book 'Amazing Things';
Papa-1 = 1st major section of Papajohn’s MM2 text tutorials;

Atomic-A-1-7 = link to range of video tutorials on Atomic Learning site in Section A