Today we were taught how to the edit the videos we recorded in week 2 (“Someone Like You” performance). As we were on Mac Desktops in class we used ‘ScreenFlow‘ (the trial version with the watermark) but there are more popular softwares such as ‘Final Cut Pro’ and ‘Adobe Premier’. On a Mac ‘iMovie’ is free and pre-installed but mostly used for more simple editing. ‘Camtasia’ is also now available on Mac but has a longer history in Windows. There are certain steps in video editing.
- Naming the videos – Take no. & Angle (i.e. Take 1/Fixed) – Note: Vertical angle are not useful as display screens are horizontal and only phone screens are vertical
- Add Audio
- Sync videos – cut on the director’s cut (clap in our videos) then line up the videos and audio – The audios play at the same time but only the top video is displayed on screen
- This is where I learnt the extremely important role that the ‘cut’ plays. Without it, it would be incredibly hard to sync the recordings.
- Editing – changing angle in editing video – rather than cutting the video and putting it in place, you change the opacity of the top video then you can see the video underneath playing (Video tool -> + Action -> opacity 0%). Then you change the opacity to 100% of the top one to see it again. This prevents the videos from becoming out of sync.
- Inserting image
- Insert chord
- Animation – Action ->
Resource making is crucial to any teachers and ‘iBooks Author‘ is a great tool to use to create enjoyable and educational resources. The formula to a fun music resource is:
Text + Graphics + Audio + Video + Interactivity!
COPYRIGHT is always and issue when creating resources, especially to music teachers if you are using content that is not bought or have permission to use. What is acceptable? What is not?
Most things on the internet have copyright and we have to be careful with the content we use from online. Fortunately, in Australia we have exceptions called “Fair Dealings (Fair use in the USA)” which allow us to use a small portion of the works but only for non-profit use (i.e. education, research, news reporting and criticism). But if you don’t feel safe, make sure to ‘attribute (acknowledge)’ the source.
On google, there is a way to filter which content is available to use without copyright issues:
Or there are free content available by generous people such as ‘Pixabay’ which provides free picture that does not need attributions .
Note on copyright:
- It is fine if the content is for your own use but not when you share it
- Embedded videos do not go against copyright
- Normally, if there is a copyright issue with something you have posted online, you will be given a warning and you just need to take it down.
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