Invisible Cloth, Digital Videos, Endless Possibilities for Windows Users

New England Day of DiscoveryXavarian Brothers High School

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010

Marybeth O’BrienGrade 4 Teacher

Brockton Public Schools

Session Description

“The world is but a canvas to the imagination.”  Have you dreamt of visiting the Taj Mahal or the Pyramids of Ancient Egypt? Walking on the moon or standing at the mouth of an erupting volcano?  Meeting JFK or Martin Luther King, Jr.?  Although this may seem impossible, with a leap of imagination anything can happen! Come experience the impossible with the help of Discovery Education Streaming Editable Video and Adobe Premier Pro to learn how “invisible cloth” can begin your journey towards endless possibilities! 

Materials/Technologies

• Digital Video Camera• Streaming Video (editable)• Storyboard• Adobe Premier Pro 7• Actor• Microphone if needed• Solid Color Cloth/Wall/Background etc.

A few things to remember

• Create a new folder on your desktop, my documents, etc.

• Place all content in the folder• Remember to save all video files or program projects

to this folder • Whenever you move or share the file prior to

rendering it as a finished video, you will need the entire folder and its contents to continue working on your project.

• Once you render it as a video, you can share it as a single file.

First we need to make a choice

• New Project• Edit an Existing Project• Capture Video from a

Camera

Creating a New Project

• Select a place to save your work - C: yada/ yada/yada

• Get some media to play with– DVD, Digital Camera, Mobile

Phone, Camcorder, Card Reader

– DV Camcorder, HDV Camcorder, Webcam

– Files and Folders

– Internet

– Stop Motion

Now that we have media, let’s look at the setup buckets

• Edit – Where we “make” the movie

• Create Menus – Great for DVDs

• Share – how other people will see your work (disk, online, pc, phone, tape, etc)

Note that we are now under the Project tab – if we want to add more media we have to click on the Get Media tab

Editing Bucket

• Media Click on this button to see & work w/the content that have pulled from various sources during your project

Media we’re using so far

Editing Bucket

• Themes You can choose to add different themes to incorporate into your movie (talk show…)

Editing Bucket

• fxClick on this button to add special effects like Chromakey, bluescreen, and green screen

Editing Bucket

• TransitionsClick on this button to differentiate one scene from another

Editing Bucket

• TitlesClick on this button to add a titles and credits to your work

Putting the pieces together• Change the Sceneline view

to Timeline view by clicking on the Timeline button

• Drag your media over to a Video Track (Video 1, Video 2, etc.)

• At this point you can manipulate the size of the video by clicking on it – once you see the white box you can resize and move it around

• You can repeat as many times as you would like--Applications--Create Background for News story, or have many pieces of media going at same time

A Little About Chroma Key

Chroma Keying or bluescreening is very easy to do and is very common. In fact, every time you watch the weather, a bluescreen or greenscreen is used in the background

Photo Credit: Glass Window. P1140594 – Green Weather. www.flikr.com

• Film your subject in front of a solid color– any color will do as long as it is solid– make sure that subject (s) are not wearing

that color!

• Import that video into Adobe Premier Elements 4

• Drag video that you don’t want Chroma Keyed onto Video Line 1

• Drag video that you do want Chrom Keyed onto Video Line 2

• Click on Effects button

• Type Chroma into search box

• Drag Chroma Key icon onto video line that you want keyed

• Click on the Edit Effects button

Chroma Key with Adobe Premier Elements 4

Chroma Key with Adobe Premier Elements 4• Click on the little eye

dropper icon and then click on the image that you want keyed

• You can fine tune your effect with the Chroma Key Slider Bars

Pretty Cool Right?

Adding Narration and Mixing SoundSimple!• Click on the Add Narration

Button • Click on Red Dot and record

– For best results use headphones and uncheck mute. To reduce feedback while recording lower input level volume slider

• Click on Audio Mixer button to overlay sounds and music

Removing sound

• Find the correct audio track• Right-click on the piece that you

want to delete• Select “Unlink Audio and Video”• Select “Delete Audio”

Note the right-click quick-trick is to host to many other options

Saving your work• Click on the Share tab• Click on your Share

option– Burn DVD

– Online

– Personal Computer

– Mobile Phone

– Tape

Choose your file format• Adobe Flash – typically

for Web pages• MPEG – typically for

PC or burning• DV AVI for further

editing• Title your Work and

choose to save it somewhere

• Click on the Save button

How to Bluescreen in MovieMaker

http://www.wikihow.com/Chroma-Key-in-Windows-Movie-Maker

It can be done. It seems to work best with blue. Other colors become problematic, even with some deep code playing with other colors.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hfntHg7MmA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhm2nC5EAvA&feature=related

How to Bluescreen in MovieMaker

1.Copy the code.

2. Paste into Notepad (Word in not your friend here)

3. From Notepad, Click File>Save As, and navigate to C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\Shared\AddOnTFX. You might have to create the AddOnTFX folder (right click then New>Folder). In the drop-down "File type" box, select "All types". Save the file as "bluescreen.xml"

4. Restart MovieMaker. BlueScreen will be in Transitions.

The Code

<!-- windowsmoviemakers.net/forums --><TransitionsAndEffects Version="1.0"><Transitions><TransitionDLL guid="{C5B19592-145E-11D3-9F04-006008039E37}" ><Transition name="Bluescreen" iconid="12" comment="Makes first clip show through blue areas of second clip"><Param name="KeyType" value="1"/><Param name="Similarity" value="100"/><Param name="Progress" value="0.0"/></Transition></TransitionDLL></Transitions></TransitionsAndEffects>

How to Bluescreen in MovieMaker

1. Bring in a curriculum video. 2.Bring in the blue screen to the right of the curriculum video.

3. Put the Bluescreen transition in between

How to Bluescreen in MovieMaker

Nudge the Bluescreen video to the left—a long blue line will come up. Don’t go too far!

You’ll have a rough bluescreen! Here the bluescreen from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hfntHg7MmA is behind a DNA video.

Find a blue background and get started! Construction paper, fabric,

or blue paint.

Note: Adobe Premiere Elements is much easier –worth buying a copy!