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 * Week 2 of Multimedia Video Editing**

This week's assignment was to review free video editing software and to create a podcast tutorial of the software. I chose Movie Maker since I had never used it before and my students ask several questions about it since they use it for other courses. Since my evaluation is a little long, I have provided the link to it from google docs. []

For my podcast, the instructions were to create a 1 minute podcast. Since you can't really teach the software in one minute I decided to break it down into 5 parts and record module 2. The five parts were:

Part 1 – Installation and introduction to user interface

Part 2 – Importing Videos and Images

Part 3 – Splitting Clips, Reordering Videos and Removing Videos

Part 4 – Transitions and Effects

Part 5 – Exporting and Uploading your Videos

Here is my script:

Welcome to Technology CONEction podcast. Today we will discuss importing video into Movie Maker. Movie Maker is free software that is available with Windows XP or Windows 7 operating system or can be downloaded from the Microsoft website. Let’s begin…Open Movie Maker and create a New Project. The first step in editing a video is to bring your raw video footage into Movie Maker. Raw video footage is simply video that you have not edited yet. There are many ways to do this. The left side of the screen contains a monitor for viewing your video the right side is for importing videos. There is also a control panel at the top of the screen that contains menus for editing. If you want to use the control panel to import your videos click the home tab and then click the button labeled add videos and photos. This will open a dialog box for you to navigate to where your video or image files are located. The easier way is to click in the right half of the screen and the same dialog box will appear. You can also open Windows Explorer, navigate to your videos or images and drag and drop them into the right side panel. Once the videos are added you can arrange them in the order you would like them to play and edit them. We will discuss how to edit video in our next podcast. Thank you for listening and enjoy your video editing experience.

The actual recording ended up being 1:30, but I was able to record it correctly on the first try! :)

I uploaded the file on podbean and obtained a creative common license for it. Here is the link to my podbean page: []

Here is my podcast: