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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Video Editing in Ann Arbor! Keynote next?

It seems that I do a lot of driving lately. Perhaps it's because this is the start of a new school year and I'm still adjusting to my new surroundings. Whatever the case, I came back to Ann Arbor. I promised to help my g/f Rachel to work on her video presentation.

I was planning on doing it on Final Cut Pro (since I taught it in the past and pretty good at it) but she was using iMovie 09. It was tricky to learn at first but after a few guided tours on Apple's website and playing around with the advance settings on the program, I was able to tweak the edits pretty darn close to what I want. I have to admit iMovie 09 tried to incorporate the editing style of Final Cut but into a more user-friendly/visual interface way. Where was the time code? Clip mark numbers? etc? It was more visual editing rather than precise number editing. Nonetheless we got the 12 min video done and I was pretty impressed of myself in editing this all in iMovie 09 (with help of Audacity, iTunes, Photoshop, etc).

Overall this got me thinking of my upcoming project for Cyberpedagogy class: Who R U? Keynote presentation. This should be pretty easy at first since I worked a lot with Keynote during my first freelance projects after my undergraduate years. But about me in 10 slides or less? That's pretty challenging since I tend to go overboard. I do have a few highlights about myself (just browse on Facebook and see my profile) but there are a few tiny things about me that people don't know (I can teleport? You're just imagining things...). This should be a fun and creative project and will be great to see how everyone else in class presents themselves. I'm curious if costumes are allowed...