All The Lovely Ladies

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If you have never seen a pollera, I suggest you do because they are such a beautiful cultural item for Panama. They primarily consist of a white dress adorned with gold jewelry and an accent of a color of the woman’s choice. Two polleras are never the same, as each woman decorates hers differently. Typically, the hair is pulled up, parted down the middle, and held together tightly by beaded, pearl hair pins. I don’t remember a lot from the portrait session I had in Panama, when I was 6 years old, but I do remember how sore my scalp was afterwards!

For this assignment I used iMovie and KeepVid only. I used KeepVid to download my videos as usual. I used these three videos (1, 2, 3) to piece together my video and imported them into iMovie.

I cut all the clips from that video that I wanted and I put them in this order. I copied each one and pasted it directly next to it as a identical clip. Then, every other identical clip, I selected the Reverse feature so that it would play backwards. Using the small toggle bar over the reversed clip and dragging it towards the left hand side, I sped up the reversed clip so it wouldn’t be too long of a video in total.

Next, I chose a song that I had from iTunes to play over the clips. I muted each clip’s audio so that you would only hear the music. The song is “All in Forms” by the artist Bonobo.

Then, I was sure to add a opening title: “Daydreaming of Panama” and a closing title giving myself credit for the video. I used the font “A Gentle Touch” which I downloaded from the site: dafont.

I hope you enjoyed my video, I enjoyed revising the beauty of Panamanian culture and the dresses that make it so unique and special. The Panamanian dancing is so magical that I find myself watching my own video over and over, but that’s just me!

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Instant Replay Tutorial

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This is the tutorial for an assignment I created earlier this semester. While one already exists, I used Movie Maker to do my video, and so this tutorial covers how to make it there.

The first thing you will need to do is find a clip (or film one) to use for the assignment. If you’re pulling from YouTube, go to fastest free youtube down loader to download it. It’s fast and pain free, so I use it for all of my video work in this course. Once it was saved to my computer, upload it to Windows movie maker and get to work! All you need to do is select the add videos option on the home screen to get started.

The first thing you will need to do is edit down the clip if there are parts you do not want to include. To do this, use the split feature in the “edit” section, pictured below. You will hit split and the start and finish of the section you want to remove. You then select file – remove, and bam, that part of the clip is gone.

You can then move around the order of the clips if you need to by dragging and dropping the clips. After they’re in order, you’ll need to copy and paste a second clip after the first. This will be the one you slow down, or the instant replay section of the assignment. I recommend only slowing it down by .5, other speeds make it feel very awkward. The tool to do this is also in the edit section next to the split tool.

Once that was done, add in an opening title and credit page as specified in the rules for this assignment. Save the project and then hit file again and select save movie in order to save the final piece in a format that can be uploaded to YouTube.

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How To Make Replay Video In 15 Steps Using Sony Vegas Pro 13

Hey guys! Andrew is here to help you create your very own replay video in 15 steps using Sony Vegas Pro.

Step 1. Find A Video

What you need to do first is go to a site like YouTube and find the one video that you think would be hilarious if it was slowed down like a replay. I chose the one of the many Pie Pranking videos. If you already have a video or your own video that you want to use, skip to step 4.

Step 2. Copy The Link

Once you have your video, you want to copy the link address for the next step as it is important to continue.

Step 3. Use a Video Downloading Site

For this step, you want to take the link that you copied in the previous step and paste it under “Video URL to Download:”. You then want to chose the quality of the video and click on the “Start!” button near the bottom. A new screen will appear, allowing you to finally download the file. In order to use this file we need some sort of video editing software, so can you guess what I am going to show you next?

Step 4. Acquire Sony Vegas Pro

For this step, you want to go to the Sony Creative Software website and download the free trial for the Vegas Pro 13 video editing software.
Once you click the “Download Trial” button, you will be taken to a page where you can actually download the software. You will then be ask to create an account before downloading, so after you finish that, you will be able to finally install the Trial Version on your computer and it should look similar to the image below.

Step 5. Begin Editing

Once you open you file in Sony Vegas, you will be asked to set your project settings to match the media. You want to click Yes because it make the end game a whole lot easier for you, so make sure you don’t select No.

Now, you want to shorten your video to just the scene that you want to be replayed. Use the Split Tool once you find the where you want your clip to start and where you want it to end.

It should come out similar to the image of the Timeline above. Next, you want to want to delete what you aren’t going to use, so click on the sections that were Split from your clip and press the Delete or Back Space key.

Once you have successfully deleted everything besides the scene that has the clip you want to replay, you want to drag it to the beginning of the Timeline.

You may want to use the Mouse Wheel or Zoom to get a closer look at the frames of your clip. Once you know which part of the scene you want to replay, you want to once again use the Split Tool to isolate the clip that you want to replay, but DO NOT delete anything this time.

Select the isolated clip and either Right-Click and select Copy or just use CTRL and “C” keys to copy it and paste it at the end of the project.

Your project should look similar to the image above. Now here comes the best part.

Step 6. Replay Effect

You want to hover over the very edge of the copied clip and hold the Control key. If you wait a little bit a box similar to the one shown in the image above will appear with the word “Time Stretch” shown. Now you want to click and drag as far as you can in order to stretch the video to give ti the slow motion replay-like effect. Now your video is finished! However, there is one last thing to do…

Step 7. Render The Project

The final step is to render your video project. You want to click the “Render as” icon as shown between two red arrows in the image above. Once you do, another window will appear with a large list of Output Formats. What you want to do is either select the Output with a “=” or just simply use Internet HD 720p or 1080p depending on the quality and resolution of the video you decided to use. Finally, you can click Render at the bottom of the window and wait patiently as the video exports for you to view and share with others online.

I hope this tutorial was able to help you figure out how to create your very own replay video! If you have any question feel free to ask by leaving me a comment. See you around.

Instant Replay

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This assignment was worth three and a half points in the assignment bank. I thought this assignment would be fun because it is something different to do and something that could be pretty funny. This is a video I took the other day of my cousin that I put in slow motion and it actually turned out pretty well.

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Instant Replay!

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Submitted by: Nora Forknall

Choose a video or clip of an action, and then pick a part of the original clip and slow it down to create an instant replay. Show both the original action as well as the slow-mo instant replay! Video editing software, like iMovie can come in really handy for an assignment like this!