Introduction to Windows Movie Maker.ppt

* hope you guys all had a wonderful spring break. Maybe you spend most of your time Finishing off some home works and projects like I did, for me this spring break I didn’t go anywhere else. This section we will be learning windows movie maker for windows XP (In making your own movie clip), although there is other kind of Film editing software such as power director, Adobe Premiere. Etc. but they cost some money and isn’t That easy to get a hand on. The best thing about movie production is that once you understand the Construct and process in making and editing a movie clip, you may apply this kind of technique into other Programs. They are pretty much the same except for the different transactions and interfaces. * Always turn off the power before hooking to your HD or CD-Roms. Introduction to Windows Movie Maker Stanley Chiang Mother Board Figure 1: A = CPU slot, B = north bridge chip (covered by a cooling fan), C = south bridge chip D = Memory slot, E = IDE and power slot, F = PCI slots Figure 2: Intel 845PE chipset with 82801DB south bridge chip (Bottom) D E F Preparation: Fire Wire 4-pin to 4-pin M-M 6-pin to 4-pin M-M 6-pin to 6-pin M-M IEE1394 Interface Video Formats AVI (Audio Video Interleave ) Computer graphics animation format used in Microsoft. The format interleaves digitized video frames (or computer-generated frames) and synchronized audio in one file. MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Groups) MPEG represents digital video and audio signals for consumer distribution. Video Formats Mpeg-1: The quality at standard VCD resolution and bit-rate is near the quality and performance of a VHS tape. Mpeg-2: MPEG2 multichannel audio is one of the digital surround sound system available on DVD discs, another option for Dolby? Digital. MPEG-4: compression type, DivX, XviD are both MPEG4 codecs. Ex. WMV MPEG-4 was aimed primarily at low bit-rate video communications; however, its scope was later expanded to be much more of a multimedia codi