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. Video Lab Instruction Sheet

OVERVIEWCreating a video is not much more difficult than creating a Word or PowerPoint document. It is simply a matter of (1) using a digital video camcorder to record and create a digital video file of a lesson, class session, or assignment, (2) capturing and transferring the video, along with other digital media files (such as photos, PowerPoint slides, music, or other video) to a computer, using a video editing program, (3) editing the various digital media with the editing software, by placing them in proper sequence along a timeline, and (4), rendering and saving the finished video in a standard digital file format, which can then be burned onto a DVD disc or uploaded to a Web site.

The Video Lab Instruction Sheets will guide you through the four steps of the process. Please read over each sheet carefully prior to beginning your project.

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1 Video Lab Instruction Sheet

SHOOT VIDEO (Canon Digital Camera)

1. For filming short sessions (less than 30 minutes), you do not need to connect the camera to AC power (so long as the battery is charged). Use the AC power adaptor for longer sessions.

2. It is highly recommended that you use a tripod for all filming sessions. Screw the attachment onto the camera, then attach it to the tripod.

3. Turn on the camera: press the POWER button. To record press the start/stop button.

4. Use the LCD viewfinder to check the lighting and also frame your shot before you begin to record. The LCD viewfinder will give you a good idea of what your final product will look like on the tape. Be


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sure the frame of the shot is level (adjust the tripod legs if necessary). If the shot looks grainy, you may need to add additional lighting, or move to another location. Avoid back lighting (e.g., shooting with your subject in front of a window in a darker room).

5. Consider whether you want a static shot (that is, whether you are happy with the shot as it is), or want to zoom in and out on your subject using the W/T (Wide/Tight) controls on the top right of the camera. For example, you may want to start with a knees-up shot of your subject, then zoom in to a waist-up or tighter shot. Avoid fast zooms. Practice zooming several times before recording your shot.

6. As a general rule, when filming lessons or interviews, tighter shots are better than faraway shots. If you are taping one person on camera, sitting behind an office desk or the desk in the video lab, frame your shot so that the speaker’s elbows are at the bottom of the shot; leave some “air” between the top of the speaker’s head and the frame of the shot (similar to how an anchorman appears on the 6:00 news).

7. You don’t need to make your entire video in one long shot (unless you are just recording a live class session). You can break it up into segments of a few seconds to five or more minutes. Have your subject WAIT THREE SECONDS before he/she begins to talk at the beginning of each new segment—and keep shooting for an additional three seconds at the end of each segment. (This will make editing easier.) To avoid “jump cuts” when editing, you may consider shooting different segments at different

angles—20 degrees or greater from the original. You can also mask over jump cuts during editing.

8. Don’t worry too much about the order of your segments. You can easily reorder the segments in the editing process. You will be able to select only your good takes and skip over your bad ones during the editing process.


SHOOT VIDEO (SONY Hi8 Camera)1. Load a new Hi8 digital cassette tape into camera (push slider on bottom to open). (If camera is on

tripod, you will need to unscrew the tripod attachment before loading tape.) Be sure to label your tape with the name of your project.

2. For filming short sessions (less than 15 minutes), you do not need to connect the camera to AC power (so long as the battery is charged). Use the AC power adaptor for longer sessions.

3. It is highly recommended that you use a tripod for all filming sessions. Screw the attachment onto the camera, then attach it to the tripod.

4. Turn on the camera: push in the blue button and turn POWER button to CAMERA (not VCR).

5. Use the LCD viewfinder to check the lighting and also frame your shot before you begin to record. The LCD viewfinder will give you a good idea of what your final product will look like on the tape. Be sure the frame of the shot is level (adjust the tripod legs if necessary). If the shot looks fuzzy, you may need to add additional lighting, or move to another location. Avoid back lighting (e.g., shooting with your subject in front of a window in a darker room).

6. Consider whether you want a static shot (that is, whether you are happy with the shot as it is), or want to zoom in and out on your subject using the W/T (Wide/Tight) controls on the top right of the camera. For example, you may want to start with a knees-up shot of your subject, then zoom in to a waist-up or tighter shot. Avoid fast zooms. Practice zooming several times before recording your shot.

7. As a general rule, when filming lessons or interviews, tighter shots are better than faraway shots. If you are taping one person on camera, sitting behind an office desk or the desk in the video lab, frame your shot so that the speaker’s elbows are at the bottom of the shot; leave some “air” between the top of the speaker’s head and the frame of the shot (similar to how an anchorman appears on the 6:00 news).

8. Push RED BUTTON to record, and red button again to stop scene.

9. You don’t need to make your entire video in one long shot (unless you are just recording a live class session). You can break it up into segments of a few seconds to five or more minutes. Have your subject WAIT THREE SECONDS before he/she begins to talk at the beginning of each new segment—and keep shooting for an additional three seconds at the end of each segment. (This will make editing easier.) To avoid “jump cuts” when editing, you may consider shooting different segments at different angles—20 degrees or greater from the original. You can also mask over jump cuts during editing.


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10. Don’t worry too much about the order of your segments. You can easily reorder the segments in the editing process. If you make a mistake, you can rewind back to your starting point for that segment and redo the segment—OR leave it on the tape and just redo it. You will be able to select only your good takes and skip over your bad ones during the editing process.


TRANSFER & CAPTURE VIDEO(Sony Hi8 Camera)

1. Turn on the computer (get password from lab director or Mrs. Hess).

2. Turn on camera: push in blue button and turn POWER button to VCR (not CAMERA). (It may be easier to detach the camera from the tripod and place it on the desk.) Rewind tape.

3. Click the COREL ULEAD VIDEO STUDIO icon on the desktop. Select VIDEO STUDIO EDITOR.

4. Connect the camera to the COMPUTER using the ORANGE FireWire cable (small v-shaped end goes into the side of the camera).

5. Click the CAPTURE tab in the Corel Ulead Video Studio program. The computer should recognize the camera and the transfer program should automatically start.

6. You now need to select which segments you want to include in the final edit. Hit the PLAY > button on top of the camera (or you can use the VCR controls in the software program, which will control the camera). The video segments you shot should now begin to appear in the small window in the program. All you need to do is hit the CAPTURE VIDEO button/icon at the beginning of each segment you want to include in your final edit, and the STOP CAPTURE button/icon at the end of each segment.

7. You do not need to be precise when capturing. You should, in fact, include a few seconds of tape on both ends of your segment—before and after the part you want to make the editing easier. The front and tail parts of each clip can be trimmed off during the editing process.

8. Do not capture segments you redid, or long pauses and dead time.

9. If you only have two or three segments on the tape, you can capture it all at once and segregate the segments you want during the editing process.

10. If you have more than three segments, it is best to capture your segments one at a time, then snip the ends off of each segment as you go along. After capturing a segment, change the program tab to EDIT, select VIDEO on the pull-down menu, then click the thumbnail image of the clip you want to edit. Play back the piece and click the pause (||) or CLIP icon to mark the front part that you don’t want, then click the SCISSORS icon. (You can also use the slider to mark the stop point, which is useful to pinpoint the exact frame of the tape.) Three thumbnails will appear in the left side of the screen in the VIDEO LIBRARY—the entire segment, the front clipped part, and the shortened last part. Delete the entire segment and the front clipped part (by right clicking on the thumbnails) from the library, then move the slider (this is much faster than replaying the entire piece) to the end of the segment you want to clip off, click SCISSORS, then delete the entire segment and the end piece. Rename the remaining segment (put cursor on name and type over).

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11. SAVE YOUR PROJECT by giving it a distinctive name, using the SAVE AS command. IT IS ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL that you save your captured segments and all other files (which you will create during the editing process) under the SAME FILE FOLDER so that the program can find all the various links to your video segments, titles, photos, PowerPoint slides, music, etc., which the program needs in order to render your finished video product. YOU MUST USE THE FOLDER assigned to you by the lab director. (It will be on the C: drive under MLL VIDEO PROJECTS, and will begin with a number. If you must start a new project and do not have an assigned file, use any of the numbered MLL files without a specific project name attached to it.)

12. Repeat (and continue to save, to be sure that you do not lose any work) capturing the segments you want as noted above.

13. When done capturing, disconnect the orange cable, rewind the tape in the camera, remove it, label both the tape and the plastic case (including the date), and give it to the director for placement in the department’s video archives. Should for some reason your edited version become corrupted or lost, your original raw video will be available (it may be useful for a future project or as B-roll).

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In addition to video from the digital Hi8 camera, you can also capture .mov, .avi and most other standard video file formats into your video library—including video clips taken with digital photo cameras that have a video function. See Sheet 2a for instructions.


TRANSFER VIDEO (Canon Digital Camera)

1. Turn on the computer (get password from lab director or Mrs. Hess).

2. Plug in the power adapter to the camcorder. (This must be done)

3. Connect USB cable to the camcorder and the computer. (2) USB port is underneath hand strap.

4. Turn on camera and open LCD screen.

5. Then press the playback mode button on the LCD screen (bottom right).

6. Use the control stick that says “set” (on the LCD) by pushing it towards the right to highlight computer/printer. Then push in the set button to select it.


7. Click on “open folder to view files using Windows Explorer” on the automatic popup that shows up. And if nothing shows up open “My Computer” and select the “Canon” drive.

8. Navigate to (AVCHD -> BDMV -> STREAM) and then copy the clips to YOUR ASSIGNED VIDEO PROJECT FILE that you will be using to store all your clips and media in. MAKE SURE YOU CREATE THIS FOLDER ON THE C: DRIVE OF THE COMPUTER AND NOT ON THE CANON DRIVE.

9. When you are done copying files, use the “safely remove hardware” in the bottom right of the screen. Then unplug the USB cable and turn off the camcorder. (You must press safely remove hardware and select the drive).

10. Click the COREL ULEAD VIDEO STUDIO icon on the desktop. Select VIDEO STUDIO EDITOR. And then import the clips you just transferred from the folder that should be on the computer.

2a Video Lab Instruction Sheet

TRANSFER & CAPTURE DIGITAL PHOTOS, POWERPOINT SLIDES, INTERNET GRAPHICS & OTHER VIDEO

In addition to video taken with the SONY Hi8 digital camera, OR, the CANON digital camera, you can also import digital photos from your personal camera, royalty-free photos and graphics available on the Internet (which you can locate with a Yahoo or Google images search, or by using an online stock photo service such as iStockphoto.com), as well as PowerPoint slides, other video and even music—in short, any media file that is in a common format.

To do so, all you need to do is bring the storage device that contains your media to the lab—it could be on a thumbnail drive, memory card from your camera (you don’t need to connect the entire camera), CD-ROM, DVD, or floppy disk.

1. For PowerPoint presentations, simply save your presentation (under Save as Type) as JPEG File Interchange Format. This will save each slide in your presentation as an individual image, which you can then place anywhere you want in your edited video. If you are taping yourself or a person speaking, during the editing process you simply insert the image of the slide on the overlay track (as explained in STEP 3). The slide will block out the speaker on the screen, or it can be sized to take up a portion of the screen (like the graphic over the shoulder of a news anchorman), but the speaker’s voice and audio track will be heard. The amount of time the slide is displayed is easily controlled in the editing process.

While the video editing software has a title/text function, if you have a number of word slides, or complex graphics, it is much easier to do them in a PowerPoint format than to use the title function, which is more limited. You can prepare the text and graphics segment of your video at your convenience away from the video lab. Just keep your text slides as simple as possible—comparable to what you see on television in a news program.

To import the slides, first click the large EDIT tab in the program, then FILE, and select INSERT MEDIA FILE TO LIBRARY. Select INSERT IMAGE then locate the folder on your storage device that contains the image (as you would with a Word document). Select the files you want to transfer (you can transfer more than one at the same time), select OPEN, and they will be moved to your IMAGE library (not VIDEO). SAVE YOUR PROJECT UNDER THE PROPER FOLDER (see Sheet 1) AFTER YOU IMPORT THE IMAGES.

2. To transfer and capture photos from your digital camera, take the memory card out of your camera and insert in into the small rectangular card reader connected to the computer (it can read any standard photo memory card). Follow the instructions above for inserting IMAGES to the IMAGE library. Be sure your photos are saved under the same folder as the rest of your project.

IMPORTANT: If you are doing your final editing in one session, it is best to leave your thumb drive, camera memory card, etc., in the computer so that the program will find the files when the various


pieces of your project are “fused” together during the RENDERING process (the last step). Rather than saving actual copies of each file to the library, to conserve space and memory, the program simply creates links to these files, then accesses them for the final rendering. As an option, you can open up your project folder, using Windows Manager, and actually copy the files from your camera memory card or thumb drive to the folder. If you do not do this, you may need to re-insert your storage media into the computer for your next editing session.

3. To capture and insert photos and images from the Internet (perhaps those located by doing a Google or Yahoo image search), first you need to be sure that your usage of the photo complies with academic policies on fair usage, or that the photo is royalty free and in the public domain. If so, to use the photo, if you see a thumbnail version, you must first expand it to its maximum size, and note the pixel size of the image. Ideally, the image should be about 500 pixels on a side, or at least 50 KB. Images in the 100 pixel, 10 KB range are unusable since they will appear very blurry. If the photo is usable, right click it and then select SAVE AS. Save the photo in your designated project folder (you may want to rename it so you can easily locate it later).

4. Musical clips and other audio files are transferred in the same manner, but INSERT AUDIO file (not Video or Image) must be selected.

5. Other video: In addition to video from the digital Hi8 camera, you can also capture .mov, .avi and most other standard video file formats into your video library—including video clips taken with digital photo cameras that have a video function. Under FILE select INSERT MEDIA FILE TO LIBRARY. Then select INSERT VIDEO and find the video clip on your storage device (i.e., your camera memory card, flash drive or DVD). Click OPEN and the video file will be transferred to the library.


EDIT VIDEO

Note: While the Corel Ulead Video Studio software program is fairly intuitive, it is recommended that you schedule a training session with the lab’s director prior to editing your video. The following guidelines offer general instructions, which may suffice for editing simple projects. You are also encouraged to read through the user’s manual, and consult it if you have any questions.

1. Click on the Ulead Video Studio icon on the computer desktop.

2. Select VIDEO STUDIO EDITOR.

3. Select the large EDIT tab.

4. CLICK on the second icon below the preview screen on the left side (the one between the film strip icon and the speaker icon). This will give you a view of the various tracks of your project.

5. Note the four basic segments of the screen:

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Preview Screen with VCR controls

Note that your video, titles, and images will appear at a lower resolution (quality) than your final edited video.

Library—select Video, Image, Audio, Color, etc., from the pull-down menu

Options for the various library modes (e.g., pan and zooms, playback speed, etc.)

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The project timeline with the five various tracks of your project:

Video—Your primary or raw video, most likely what you captured with the digital Hi8 camera.

Overlays—Photos, PowerPoint slides, other videos, etc., that you will “lay over” the video.

Titles—When in TITLE mode (the tab or pull-down menu), you can add titles to this track by double clicking in the preview window (you can select size and font as with a Word.doc). (It is recommended that you use PowerPoint if you plan to incorporate a lot of text.)

Voice—You only need to use this track if you are adding comments or an additional voice track to your final edit (see manual for guidelines). Your voice, or your subject’s voice, will be automatically captured in the raw video when you shoot with the digital camera.

Audio—If you want to add music, drag it onto this track from the audio library.

Editing the video is primarily a matter of dragging video clips, images, and audio files from the LIBRARY to the various tracks, placing them in the proper order, and matching the timing and duration of the OVERLAYS, TITLES, VOICE and AUDIO tracks with the proper points in your video narration. Once you have them in the proper place, you can then add different transitions and effects.

6. IT IS CRITICAL THAT YOU SAVE YOUR PROJECT IN THE ASSIGNED FOLDER OR THE C: DRIVE OF THE COMPUTER, AND THAT YOU SAVE YOUR PROJECT FREQUENTLY AS YOU EDIT.

7. Title & introduction (and some basic editing points)—The software includes a number of ready-to-use title and introduction backgrounds in the VIDEO section of the library, and also still photos under IMAGES. Simply drag the introduction video or image you want to use into the top left corner of the first track. (Be sure you are in the EDIT mode, not CAPTURE.)

Next select TITLE in the top tab. This will activate the TITLE TRACK. You can select one of the sample title templates, or just type the title you want in the PREVIEW SCREEN by double clicking on the words on the screen. (You can change the font face, size, color and position.) Your title will appear in the TITLE TRACK. It will appear as an overlay over whatever video or image is above it on the top line of the timeline tracks. You can stretch the title (or any image, but not video), that appears in the TITLE or OVERLAY track simply by left clicking and dragging the yellow bar on either end of the title segment—so that it will appear in your finished video exactly as long as you want it to.

NOTE: If you do not want to use video art in your introduction, and simply want words to appear on a plain background—as the initial title, or anywhere else in your video—you still must have something for the title or subtitle to overlay in the top track. Instead of a video or image, simply select COLOR from the pull down menu, select the color that you want, then adjust the duration of the color background by grabbing and stretching the color bar in the top track.

8. Adding music to the introduction—If you want to add music to your introduction, you can select from a wide range of ready-to-use music files that appear under the AUDIO function, or you can import music from a CD or other storage device. It is, however, somewhat difficult to match the duration of a musical piece to the duration of your introduction or specific video segment. (You can use the AUDIO VIEW feature under the AUDIO function to fade in and fade out a piece of music by clicking on and adjusting the height of the RED LINE on the audio track.) The software program, however, includes a unique feature called AUTO MUSIC that automatically adjusts one of the pieces available in the program’s library to the exact length of your title or segment (you cannot do this with your own music) —so that the music ends where your segment ends. Select the AUDIO tab, then AUTO MUSIC. Scroll through and sample the various options under MUSIC and VARIATION (use the VCR controls under the PREVIEW SCREEN to play the music). Then click ADD TO TIMELINE in the options section. (If ADD TO TIMELINE is not lit up, move your mouse cursor and click over the MUSIC TRACK in the timeline.) You can then stretch the music segment in your timeline to the desired length. (Putting music under a spoken narration is not recommended.)

9. To preview your project at any time. Simply use the VCR controls under the PREVIEW SCREEN.

10. Editing main video segments. Linking your various video segments together is as simple as dragging them from the library and placing them in sequential order. Be sure not to leave any dead space between your segments. If you are linking different segments from the same session (e.g., a “talking head” in front of a desk), if you just link them together you will get what are known as “jump cuts.” There is nothing wrong with these, and they may not be a problem if your tape is being used for teaching purposes. But they can be annoying to the viewer. There are several solutions around them: (1) When

you do your original taping, you can shoot your subject from different angles of 20 degrees or greater, so that the shift to a new angle looks intentional. (2) You can insert a simple title or subtitle slide (e.g., “Part Two,” or “The Past Tense,” etc.), and overlay the title over the seam between the two segments (so that it appears before the end of the first segment and after the beginning of the second) in the TITLE TRACK. The viewer will still hear the voice and audio from the primary video. (3) Or, you can overlay a photo, graphic or other video segment over the seam in the OVERLAY track.

11. Adding PowerPoint slides, photos, and other videos. Once you have “laid down” your introduction, title, and main video segments, you can then add individual PowerPoint slides (only if you have captured them as individual JPEG files—see SHEET 2a), photos, and other videos that you have captured into the LIBRARY simply by dragging them onto the timeline in the OVERLAY (second) track. You can stretch or squeeze together either end of the overlayed photo or graphic so it coincides with the appropriate start and stop points in the spoken narrative in the primary video by clicking and dragging the yellow bar at either end of the image. (You cannot change the length of a video by stretching or squeezing it. ) If you want the overlayed video to be shorter, you need to select the thumbnail image of the video, be sure that the EDIT and VIDEO modes are selected, and recut the piece to size (and rename it).

Depending on the original size of your photo or slide, it may appear as a small square in the preview window. To make it fill the entire screen, simply RIGHT CLICK on the image and select FIT TO SCREEN. (Be sure you are in the OVERLAY mode; little yellow squares should appear in the window.)

12. Removing sound from a video segment in the overlay track. A second video that is laid over a primary video segment is known as B-roll (for background footage, which you see all the time in news broadcasts). If your primary video has audio at the point you want to overlay B-roll, you probably do not want any sound on the second video to interfere with the first. You can easily remove the sound by selecting the overlaid video (after it is placed in the timeline/overlay track), and then click AUDIO VIEW. RIGHT CLICK the overlaid segment in the track, then select SPLIT AUDIO. This will remove the sound from the track and move it to the AUDIO (VOICE) TRACK. Click on the audio segment that was moved to that track, right click it and select DELETE.

13. Keeping some sound on a second track. If you want to retain some sound, instead of deleting the sound, select the video image on the track, then click the AUDIO tab, then AUDIO VIEW. Click the segment on the track and a red line will appear. You can click and drag any part of the red line to lower the sound, or have it fade in and fade out at designated points.

14. Inserting additional original video segments, photos, titles, etc., --and making changes to your timeline. Click the five small icons (the brackets and the chain links) on the extreme left side of the timeline (they should be yellow or orange after you have selected them. This will put the program in RIPPLE EDITING mode. You can now insert video segments or images between already edited pieces by dragging them into position. Overlaid images, music, titles, and other elements will remain synchronized with the primary video track that follows the inserted element.

15. Adding transition effects. You may be satisfied with your video with straight or abrupt transitions between segments. To add a more professional touch, you can select from the dozens of transition effects. Select the EFFECT tab, then use the pull-down menu to browse the available types of transitions. (CROSSFADE, under My Favorites, is usually a safe choice, as is PAGE TURN.) Then drag the desired A/B icon over the seam of the two sections. You can only add transition effects to the top video track.

16. Adding movement to photos and images. You can give photos movement such as zooming in or out, or panning from one side to another, etc. Select the image in the OVERLAY track you want to add movement to. Be sure that the EDIT tab in the options section is selected. Check the box APPLY PAN & ZOOM then use the pull-down menu to select the desired motion. (There are many other advanced options available under ATTRIBUTE.)

There are many other features and capabilities of the video editing program. Consult the user manual if you have questions, or would like to add advanced effects (such as masking or framing photos, adding Flash animation, changing the colors of videos to sepia or black and white, adding filters, etc.).

Here are a few additional tips:

Use the VCR controls beneath the preview screen to preview your video as you go along. Watch for small breaks between sections (resulting from not having the adjoining sections butted against each other.)

SAVE FREQUENTLY (even if AUTO SAVE is set).

Avoid gimmicky transitions and effects.

If the program freezes, you will need to close and reopen it. It will ask you if you want to recover the previous project. Do so. (If you save frequently, you should not lose much of your project.)

Use the slider with the two magnifying glass icons (-) and (+) to change the scale of the timeline. (It is often useful to see all the elements of your video in a single screen—while at other times you may need to change the scale so that you can see tenths or hundredths of a second if you are trying to match a spoken syllable with a word on the screen, for example.)

Use the RELINK function under FILE if you accidentally put a video segment or image in the wrong folder or if, for any other reason, the link is broken (if you see a video or image thumbnail in the LIBRARY with a small yellow rectangle in the corner, that means the link is broken). Be sure that your original storage device is inserted into the computer.

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FINISH, SAVE & SHARE Once you have completed the editing process, the final step is to RENDER your project. This step pulls all the pieces of your video together from the various tracks and converts them into one continuous video file.

1. Click on the SHARE tab.

2. Select CREATE VIDEO FILE, then DV, then 4:3.

3. Give your project a name and save it under your assigned folder (you may need to change the folder location, as you would with a Word.doc).

4. The program will begin the RENDERING process, which may take several minutes or more, depending upon the length of your video.

5. Click PROJECT PLAYBACK, then FINISH, to preview your final video (the video, images, words, and graphics should be of a higher and sharper resolution than what you saw in the preview screen during the editing process).

6. Select CREATE DISC to burn your video to a DVD disc. Follow the instructions on the screen. (You can also add a title and menu to the DVD, which will show up first, before the video, when you play the DVD in a computer or DVD player.)

7. To convert your video to a .wmv file (for uploading to a Web site, for example), select SHARE VIDEO ONLINE, then select MEDIUM or GOOD quality. The program will then save it as a .wmv file. Be sure to save it in the right folder.

8. You can also use the BATCH CONVERT function under TOOLS to convert a ULEAD Video Studio file (or a rendered video) to a .wmv file (for Windows Media Player), or an .avi file.

Note: Give your finished video to the lab director on a DVD if you want it uploaded to the Department’s Web site.

There are many additional saving and sharing options that are discussed in the user manual.

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