Christopher's Corner(?)

This is my introduction to my blog week. I will be covering student groups on campus. The subject will range from fraternities, to CAB, to everything else. I look forward to completing the rest of my blogs and I look forward to hearing yours as well. Editing the video was tricky. I've seen (not done) video editing done only four times before. The last three were done in my Broadcast Journalism class, which I ended up not liking at all. The first was during a job shadowing of Dawn Jones. I had remembered enough of the basics to give it a shot.

First I'd tried using Movie Maker. It's part of a series of editing software for PCs. It automatically comes with the PC out the box as far as I can tell so I thought I would give it a shot. It was pretty awful. Every video editing system out there (except for Movie Maker) has the timeline in the bottom middle. You know, the place where you put the content you have. From there you arrange and modify the content until you have the edited series of content that you want. There can be timelines for visual and audio content, for texts, and other pictures and effects. All the timelines are independent of each other until the user arranges them in a way that will make sense.
Movie Maker doesn't have that. Movie Maker has only ONE timeline. Video and audio content is together. That means, as far as I can tell, no voiceovers and no narrating. And for a class where I have to put sound to  photos that I take, that makes the program useless.
AVS was better. I downloaded it mostly out of frustration. The importing was easy. There were different timelines for visual content, audio, and text. As you can see the video is mostly me talking in the first half, and then photos I took in the second half. The only real "eureka!" moment I had was trimming up the visual content while leaving the audio intact for said photographs. Overall, it was an interesting and fun experience. I liked being able to edit my own video content rather than watching somebody else do it.
The same can't be said for converting the project file to something Youtube could use however. I downloaded AVS converter only to find out later that all I had to do was press the "Produce" button in the regular editor. Thank God for FAQ forums.

Clarkston blog

Here is the introduction for my blog about Clarkston. I used Windows Power Director to edit the video. I found trimming the audio to be a bit of a challenge when editing this video. It was difficult to get the audio and picture to line up exactly the way I wanted them to. All in all, it was a great way for me to get more practice with editing and uploading videos.

Do it Yourself Happily Ever After Wedding Blog

This is my introduction to my blog Here.I used Windows Live Movie Maker. First I wrote the welcome page, the I created and inserted my video. That was a lot easier than I expected, it was nice being able to edit the video right there. I ran into some trouble adding the music and figuring out starting points and ending points. Then I added some photos and the last of the music. The part I liked most was choosing the effects. I did run into some trouble uploading to YouTube since they do not accept Windows Live Movie Maker files, but thankfully there was a button to post to YouTube and that turned out to be pretty easy. What I learned is that I like talking on camera better than in front of people and its easier for me then recording my voice. I also learned that I can do videos, it might take some exploring and a lot of saving but I can do it. I should branch out and try using other video software.

Marty Dow "I believe" an essay about digital journalism

My audio essay is about digital journalism. I discuss the changes it has made to news reporting. My focus is on citizen journalism. I discuss how discretion is an important part of that.

This I Believe: Journalism Classes

This is essay concerns my experiences and opinions on the journalism classes of UM-Flint.

This I Believe - Elise Shire

This is what I believe about digital journalism. I believe digital journalism is proof that journalism is anything but dead. It is simply changing.

This I believe about Digital Journalism

This is what I believe about Digital Journalism. You can read my full essay below the audio clip.