Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Digital Video on WindowsXP
I have been using Windows Movie Maker now for the past few months and have found it to be an easy and well designed application for basic video editing. It's perfect for educators since there are just enough features for almost any project. It's no iMovie, but I'm happy to have it here at work.
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OK, I kinda take back what I said. I'm trying to run files I created with Movie Maker on an NT2000 machine with Windows Media Player 6.4 and it won't work! WMP tries to download new codecs, but it can't install them. Even when I download the packages I need to update WMP, the system has to restart and the machine restores to its original defaults, leaving the machine as it was before the updates. So no I have try different video formats and the only other format that Movie Maker supports is DV-AVI which makes huge files formatted for digital video. I guess I'll have to work with that format if I want to do the editing on my Mac.
My video source files are created using a screen capture program and I think I should just transport those files to my Mac, use iMovie to edit the files and then export them into a format that the laptops in KTC117 can handle.
My other option is to get the network administrator here at school to update the software, but I'm definitely not holding my breath on that one. There's always something else. I have one more day to research this before classes begin. I suppose I can also just play the videos on the LCD projector for the students rather than giving them video-on-demand access, but that sucks!
One step forward, three steps back.
Since my edited materials are on my laptop here at work and I'm not doing many of these types of videos, I've decided to lug my laptop home to transfer files back and forth. I'll save my video projects as DV-AVI files and then use my Mac to try to save them to a format that will be compatible with the school's laptops in KTC117. What a pain in the ass!
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