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Posted September 27, 2010 10:30 PM

=**Week 2. Video Editing a Movie with License Free Assets**=

//Venice de Milo Works of Art// – A video of a portrait drawing of the famous statue in the Louvre. A multimedia creation from various creative commons license free video, music and photography for Educational Technology Leadership graduate work at Lamar University, EDLD Multimedia and Video Technology, 2010.

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=**Engaging Students with Movie Maker and iMovie**=

“Film has proven its power to engage us for over 100 years; radio for over 70 years, television for 50, and computer media, the new kid on the block, is proliferating faster than its predecessors. Students watch it all. Integrating media production in your curriculum can help you find new access to students and help them find new access to the material.” (Garrison, A. 2007. Retrieved from [].)

Media easy to learn and to use allows the student greater access to a new learning opportunity. Media free or inexpensive to download makes the integration of the new technology into the classroom or home more likely. Media easy to edit and to share video work, and media high enough in quality output allows students to create meaningful work for others to learn from them.

Windows Movie Maker® and Apple iMovie®

Edit and share video with the near professional media production programs, //Movie Maker// or //iMovie//. Both engage students in capturing, editing and premiering movies easily, inexpensively, and meaningfully.

Whether the student or classroom uses Windows or Macintosh computers, either computer platform can be supported by one these media. //Movie Maker// is supported by the Windows operating system, //iMovie// by the Macintosh. Each come loaded free on new computers or the //__iMovie__// can be purchased at $79 retail as part of the iLife suite of work programs. Compared to professional video editing software, the two are near professional in capabilities and they are both affordable to most budgets.

Both the interface of //Movie Maker// and //iMovie// are quite similar to other editing tools in their class. Largely based around the ability to capture, edit, and make movies, these editing media keep their interface straightforward for novices. Each software display iconic buttons with rollover labels to ease the learning how to load, arrange, edit, and save movies. Both easily capture clips from a video camcorder or camera device or both easily import images or audio files from any directory to an open organizer for the files to be seen and used easily. Basic window formats for frame display and timeline arrangement give clear visible pictures of the video clips or picture pieces that students choose and reconstruct in //Movie Maker// or //iMovie//. A context window with file format options guides the decisions the student makes to export and share movies. Both //Movie Maker// and //iMovie// export Quicktime movie formats that fit a variety of popular viewer or presentation formats.

Still frame with written instructions in pdf formats or video tutorials (some with printable scripts) are available online at About.com, Adobe, and Microsoft for the respective media software. Not only do these official sites provide teachers or students introductory to intermediate levels of training at no cost except access to the Internet, also YouTube can offer unique unofficial style training. With care to preview acceptable YouTube video training, teachers and parents are able to provide almost any level of tips and techniques for video editing and sharing for the young student. Affordable publications and training books are found online at Amazon.com or discounted educational software sites such as Journeyed.com, Academicsuperstore.com, or Studica.com.

Educational multimedia production with either Windows //Movie Maker// or Apple’s //iMovie// can excite and engage students with real world learning opportunities. Whenever students readily capture, edit and share unique meaningful messages created from their audio, pictures, text and video to target any audience they wish, then unique learning experiences happen for all.

Garrison, A. (1999, Winter). Video Basics and Production Projects for the Classroom. //Center for Media Literacy//. Retrieved April 6, 2009, from [].

Siegchrist, G. (n.d.). Before you buy video editing software. //About//. Retrieved on April 12, 2009, from []. Go to the link below to Walker Wellborn's //Flickr// site to listen to the podcast. http://www.flickr.com/photos/28223373@N05/4962722996/
 * Part 2**. **Audio podcast for iMovie Overview**

=**Audio podcast for iMovie Overview**=

Go to the link below to Walker Wellborn's //Flickr// site to listen to the podcast. []