Well, it is hard to believe but we are almost done with the M116 course. This is really my favorite project in the whole course. I so enjoy seeing the creativity that you that you have as students, putting together sound files with the movie trailers that you are supplied in the course. Some of them are so humorous, some of them are very poignant, and some are amazingly creative. I am looking for that creativity. Let your imaginations go and create something wonderful for this course. This is your capstone experience in the course.

Here we are using Movie Maker. This is a Microsoft Windows product so this means that you are using a PC to use this software.

First off, of course we should save our project first. I have done some other work before. I am going to save this as a different project. I am going to call this “MovieMakerDemo3.” There is something I want you to notice here. Notice that this is a “wlmp” file. This is a project file. This project contains no sound, no audio, no video, anything like that. A project file is simply a file that links to other files and draws them altogether. So if you share this file with anyone in the course, we will not be able to see anything! It will be a blank file with just some markers looking for video or audio content. So I am going ahead and save this project file.

Now I begin by adding my video. I have saved that in the same directory that I have my file. This is the “Attack of the 50 foot Woman.” Notice that this is what we call the timeline. It starts here and it moves down to the bottom. This can zoom in or out. Here it is zooming out, here it is zooming in so that you can do more detail.

OK, very good. Now I want to add my music to the file. I know that this is my project final. I saved it as a .wav file. You can look at other formats that can come into here, but I find that .wav works very well with Movie Maker. You can see that the audio file is underneath. You can see the little audio waves here. We go all the way to the end. I know that it lines up because I worked in Reaper with the video in Reaper. I lined up the sound perfectly.

If you need to align the file, you can drag…left click and drag the (sound) file over to realign it a little bit. But I want it to go all the way to the beginning because that is where it was supposed to begin. OK. I hope I have this all aligned correctly. Let’s take a look here. It is looking OK. Alright.

So let me just spot test this. Somewhere in the middle here will be OK.

[video with music]

OK, yes! Everything appears to be lined up just fine in this wonderful cinematic creation of mine.

OK, now we are ready to … again I want to save again the project. I have made some good changes here I am going to now call this number “4.” I am just going to continue to increase my numbers. Now I know that all of my work along the line has been saved.

Now we are ready to export or publish the movie. Here are some options for you. When publishing the movie you could use YouTube or Vimeo. Either of these would be great ways to share this video with me for the course, or you can use the “save movie” option.

Now, please, please, please save a small version of this video for me. If you want to save a large version—fine. You can pick high-def, for your computer, or something like that. These are pretty large files. “Email” is a smaller file. Why don’t you try this setting? Try “Android Phone (medium).” That will set up a file that is an .mp4 file of a good size. I want to save that in the same directory that I had it before. (I am looking through a whole bunch of videos for the course in Spring 2016.) So this is it right here—MovieMakerDemo. OK, now is the time to properly label your file. The proper label for my file is “EwellTerry_FinalProject.mp4.”  Then I can go ahead and save that. It is now saving me movie.

OK, I paused that and now we are close to finishing saving this movie. That took a minute or two for it to save. OK, you can play now or open the folder. I will close it now. I like to double check it by using an entirely different software. Here is the VLC player. Remember that I encouraged you to use VLC Player (actually required it) when you open the files you saved from Reaper so you made sure there was audio. Now I am going to go here and open a file. I need to find the directory. Here it is, “EwellTerry_FinalProject.mp4.”  Let’s open it.

[Video starts]

Oh yes, I am getting sound and video there. Very good!

Of course if you want to “spruce” this up a little bit inside of Movie Maker, you can add some opening credits, title, captions, something like that. Unfortunately this program is not great for editing video. It is very simplistic. For instance, you are not able to layer a couple of lines here for audio or over dub some different things. This is a very basic movie making, video software.

The software I use in the course is Pinnacle and I also make use of Camtasia. Those are the two that I use for all of my videos that I produce.

So I am looking forward to your final project. It will be fun for me to hear this from you. Thank you very much.