Video Composing Resources

Editing video:

• video tutorials for windows moviemaker (this program was standard  on older PCs; if you have windows 7, you may need to download moviemaker here)
• video tutorials for imovie
• Text-based documentation for iMovie (courtesy of folks at OSU)

Screen shots and Screen Recording:

• How to take still screenshots on a PC
• How to take still screenshots on a mac
• Screencastomatic: Free online site for video screen recording (you can upload straight to youtube or download a .mov to edit in iMovie or .avi to edit in windows moviemaker)
• Debut (free video-capture software that can be used to record video from a webcam; Windows Movie Maker users may find this useful since Movie Maker no longer offers an option to import video directly from a webcam.  Choose the “Get It Now” link for the free version. )

Creative Commons Images and Sounds:

• creativecommons.org search engine (multiple media)
• flickr.com/creativecommons(images)
• freeplaymusic.com(music)
• ccmixter (music)
• Freesound (free sound effects — requires registration)
• prelinger archive (hilarious old public domain video)
• 40-second excerpt from a Prelinger Archive film (“Are You Ready for Marriage?,” 1950)
• internet archive moving images (video)
• Google Images and Yahoo Images also have options on their Advanced Image Search screens to filter results so that only images licensed for reuse appear.  On Google Images, this is the “Usage Rights” menu; on Yahoo Images, it’s specifically called the “Creative Common License” option.
• Sample Public-Domain Video Clip in Mac Format (for editing practice in iMovie — control-click to save the file; then import it into iMovie)

Downloading video from youtube and google video to imovie and moviemaker::

• Zamzar (great source for downloading videos from youtube and others sites so that you can edit them. PC users should convert to .wmv while mac users should convert to .mov. The free version works well, but can take several hours. )
• RipYouTube.com (this site allows you to directly rip and download the mp4 version of a YouTube video for editing in iMovie. The site unfortunately has no good option for PC/Windows Movie Maker users — see Zamzar above for a PC option.)
• firefox media converter extension: If you have firefox (you can dowload it free), you can get the media converter extension which will download and convert on-line videos to .mov (for macs) or .wmv (for pcs). This is super fast and easy, but there is a limit to how often you can use it (and sometimes it doesn’t work).

For Instructors:

• A link to Dr. Jason Palmeri’s blog from a workshop at Iowa State University on video assignments (including guidelines for several different video project assignments, as well as samples of student work): http://palmerivideoworkshop.wordpress.com/