Today in class we learned about video editing and audio recording.

Rich McCue lead this class. He posted instructions and links on how to use a couple different platforms for video editing  and audio recording on his blog which can be found here:  https://richmccue.com/

We discussed a couple ways that humans have historically used video for learning:

  • slowing down to see things we can’t see with the human eye.
  • speeding things up (taking multiple frames) to see a long process in a short amount of time
  • Khan academy – videos of math problems for repetition and ease

 

Audio Editing

I recorded a small clip on Audacity, which is a free open-source cross-platform audio software. It, and more information about it, can be accessed on the website https://www.audacityteam.org/

Here is a small sample recording I made in class (the first 5 seconds are silent) :

 

 

Video editing

There are a couple options for video editing which are listed below.

Today was the first time I had ever used the program, imovie. I was able to successfully figure out how to make the following  video. I used files provided to us by Rich Mccue. The first clip was of chickens in front of a green screen, the second was the fish swimming in the coral reef, and the third file was the audio file of the ocean sounds. I learned how to splice them together and add audio.  I found this platform fairly user-friendly and though not intuitive for me I was able to sort through the steps and make it work.