Two parts:
a) my comment on it being a no brainer
b) linky to discussion of Beta
A) I will give my personal example as of...yesterday!
The college wants the profs to make a "welcome video" and "get into "the fast lane" with the students.
I posted elsewhere about making a video of my SCUBA stuff for a welcome video as an intro to the class and the "problems" with "video conversion, etc.
Well, one always has to "raise the bar" lol
So, I had a WILD HAIR moment and decided to have a "pre-class" video for when the students are entering THE FIRST CLASS MEETING IN PHYSICS....about my SCUBA experiences because............"people" REALLY DO......want teachers who have a "personality" and go to the "trouble" to "personalize" things as opposed to what "used to be the paradigm" of the ...........aloof.........professor living in an ivory tower.
Annnnnnndddd I was going to do that YESTERDAY..........and classes start ummm..........today......
What I had:
a) pictures of me diving both underwater and on a dive boat.
b) a very long video that I shot while in Nassau using a GoPro Black
c) a song in my head........
IT IS PERFECTLY LEGAL............no matter WHAT any smarter than thou says........to use a "copyrighted" video for a "one time educational inspiration use".......... YES....... if one decides to use it the SECOND time than one has to get permission or pay the liscence, but for the first day of class for my two sections it is perfectly legal, under U.S. law to so use......
Several people here have recommended OpenShot so I downloaded it from the repos, this is not the new Beta.
I) Ummmmmmmmmm basically............no brainer.......
II) I downloaded the song and converted it to an mp3 using another app.
III) I put the dive video, the song and the pics that I wanted to use in a folder so that OpenShot would default to that for adding stuff.
IV) I opened the app and went to the video tab and searched for the video and it appeared in the video window.
V) I went to the "pictures" tab and uploaded, they uploaded all at once, I clicked all of them, into the image tab.
VI ) I went to the video tab again and uploaded the music.
NOTE...........both the video and music then went into just the "video" tab.
VII) I dragged the video onto the timeline and a yellow bar appeared with the first "frame" of the video and a couple of little symbols next to the "picture of the frame".
VIII) I added another "timeline" and it appeared below the first and dragged the music into it.
IX) I clicked play and voila! The thing worked! In other words, the video played and the music played also.
NOTE: I tested using a proprietary video WITH music and the music was replaced with MY music.
X) I added the pictures and put them into various places on video timeline and went to properties to change a) "length", the default was 7 seconds, and b) "fade" to "fade in out slow".
XI) voila, IT WORKED!!! video played, music played, pictures smoothly faded in and out.
XII) went to title and typed in a title and put it between the first image(me on a dive boat, the first twenty seconds) and the second image and, when played it appeared and disappeared with a shark swimming around below the words.
NOTE: if you put it on top of an image on the timeline it will overlay on the image.
XIII) Save goes to the format that can be edited, one must EXPORT for use and I did mpeg4.
XiV) I went back and REMOVED the song and saved with a different title and next semester I will put in a different song to meet copyright restrictions.
TRUELY: OpenShot is a "no brainer".
NOTES:
The song and video did not match in length, there is a "clipper" tool, pair of sissors. If one clicks the clipper tool onto, for me..., the longer thing, the video and then "remove" it will remove the video or whatever to the right or left depending on where it is NEXT clicked. There is also an undo so no problems of messing things up.
B) There is now a Beta available. Here is a review.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/01/o...or-new-release
I'm sure that others have comments, please pop in and post them!
woodthinksitisaniceprogramsmoke
a) my comment on it being a no brainer
b) linky to discussion of Beta
A) I will give my personal example as of...yesterday!
The college wants the profs to make a "welcome video" and "get into "the fast lane" with the students.
I posted elsewhere about making a video of my SCUBA stuff for a welcome video as an intro to the class and the "problems" with "video conversion, etc.
Well, one always has to "raise the bar" lol
So, I had a WILD HAIR moment and decided to have a "pre-class" video for when the students are entering THE FIRST CLASS MEETING IN PHYSICS....about my SCUBA experiences because............"people" REALLY DO......want teachers who have a "personality" and go to the "trouble" to "personalize" things as opposed to what "used to be the paradigm" of the ...........aloof.........professor living in an ivory tower.
Annnnnnndddd I was going to do that YESTERDAY..........and classes start ummm..........today......
What I had:
a) pictures of me diving both underwater and on a dive boat.
b) a very long video that I shot while in Nassau using a GoPro Black
c) a song in my head........
IT IS PERFECTLY LEGAL............no matter WHAT any smarter than thou says........to use a "copyrighted" video for a "one time educational inspiration use".......... YES....... if one decides to use it the SECOND time than one has to get permission or pay the liscence, but for the first day of class for my two sections it is perfectly legal, under U.S. law to so use......
Several people here have recommended OpenShot so I downloaded it from the repos, this is not the new Beta.
I) Ummmmmmmmmm basically............no brainer.......
II) I downloaded the song and converted it to an mp3 using another app.
III) I put the dive video, the song and the pics that I wanted to use in a folder so that OpenShot would default to that for adding stuff.
IV) I opened the app and went to the video tab and searched for the video and it appeared in the video window.
V) I went to the "pictures" tab and uploaded, they uploaded all at once, I clicked all of them, into the image tab.
VI ) I went to the video tab again and uploaded the music.
NOTE...........both the video and music then went into just the "video" tab.
VII) I dragged the video onto the timeline and a yellow bar appeared with the first "frame" of the video and a couple of little symbols next to the "picture of the frame".
VIII) I added another "timeline" and it appeared below the first and dragged the music into it.
IX) I clicked play and voila! The thing worked! In other words, the video played and the music played also.
NOTE: I tested using a proprietary video WITH music and the music was replaced with MY music.
X) I added the pictures and put them into various places on video timeline and went to properties to change a) "length", the default was 7 seconds, and b) "fade" to "fade in out slow".
XI) voila, IT WORKED!!! video played, music played, pictures smoothly faded in and out.
XII) went to title and typed in a title and put it between the first image(me on a dive boat, the first twenty seconds) and the second image and, when played it appeared and disappeared with a shark swimming around below the words.
NOTE: if you put it on top of an image on the timeline it will overlay on the image.
XIII) Save goes to the format that can be edited, one must EXPORT for use and I did mpeg4.
XiV) I went back and REMOVED the song and saved with a different title and next semester I will put in a different song to meet copyright restrictions.
TRUELY: OpenShot is a "no brainer".
NOTES:
The song and video did not match in length, there is a "clipper" tool, pair of sissors. If one clicks the clipper tool onto, for me..., the longer thing, the video and then "remove" it will remove the video or whatever to the right or left depending on where it is NEXT clicked. There is also an undo so no problems of messing things up.
B) There is now a Beta available. Here is a review.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/01/o...or-new-release
I'm sure that others have comments, please pop in and post them!
woodthinksitisaniceprogramsmoke
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