EXPORTING YOUR FILE

Make sure to save your project. (File > Save)

After saving your project go to the file section and select Export > Quicktime Movie.

You will now be prompted to save your new exported Quicktime Movie, making a new exported file. Make sure to select Make Movie Self-Contained. Select Include Audio and Video if you want to include the audio in your movie, and just video if you want to just include the video. Make sure to save the movie under your Work Files or personal file locations.

The file will be saved in the location designated and look like this.

Not like this !!! (This is your saved project, not a Quicktime document).
Congratulations, you are now a video editor. Hollywood awaits!

Now that you can manipulate your segments along the timeline you may feel the desire to add transitions or effects to your footage. If you look in your bin, click on the folder titled effects.

With in the effects folder click on Video Transitions. Drag and drop your selected transition at the intersection of two segments on the timeline.

Click on the Video Filters option with in the selections in the bin. Drag and drop the video filter onto the segment that you would like to add the effect to.

TIMELINE

After you have imported your files, your files will appear in the bin. As a segment, similar to the segment “message in a bottle” below. The “sequence 1″ envelopes and entire timeline, and is the sum of many segments. At this point in time you may still change the names/descriptions of sequences and segments, by clicking on them.

In order to begin making your movie, drag and drop the segment into the timeline. Your segment will appear with a blue bar, and two green bars. The two green bars represent the two channels of audio. The blue bar represents your one channel of video.

The viewer correlates to your timeline and the segments on the timeline.

The options at the bottom of the viewer controls the playhead within the time line. Clicking play or space bar will begin playing your movie. The controls for fast forward and skipping ahead to the end of the movie are to the right of the play button or “L”. The controls for rewind or and skipping to the end of the movie are to the left of the play button or “J”.

The canvas correlates to individual segments. Double clicking an individual segment will make it appear within the canvas. This allows you to manipulate a segment with in the canvas instead of along the timeline.

After the segment is on the timeline, you may manipulate the segment that is within the sequence with the attributes found in the tool box. The most commonly used attributes are the arrow pointer that selects your desired objects or positions the play head along the timeline.

And the razor tool which cuts your segment along the timeline.

Select the razor, and cut a portion of your segment. Creating two cuts will create a new segment with in your original segment.

Now you can use your arrow tool to drag and drop the segments into the spaces that you would like them to occupy.

If you have a red bar at the time of the timeline, the sequence needs to be rendered. Apple + R will render your sequence, or you can go to the top of your file bar and select Sequence > Render All > Both.

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Ctrl + Click in the open space will provide you with the option to move the two segments together.

Apple + Z will undo any changes that you have made during your edit.

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Plug in your camera to the computer’s firewire input, with the special camera to computer connector firewire cable. (note:for class cameras the input is behind the battery). Turn Camera On, and set camera to VCR setting. Plug in Lacie External harddrive with fire wire cord to computer.

Open Final Cut Express

Set up Scratch disk settings by going to Final Cut HD >Go to System Settings

Select Set > Allocate the settings to your Lacie External Hard drive…then click OK

Go to File > Open Log and Capture or Quick Key (Apple +

Set Titles for individual clips under clip settings. For example Description: Bob Falls Off the Chair. Scene: Bob’s Spill Shot/Take: 1

***note*** for the sake of organization, choose titles that are closely correlated to the footage you are viewing.

Go To VTR setting on Capture Screen and Play Footage or use your camera as a video deck and press play in the VCR setting of the camera. Press Capture Now to save the footage being viewed on screen.(A new screen that is recording the footage will appear displaying your images at a slower frame rate!!!)

Press Capture Now to save the footage being viewed on screen.(A new screen that is recording the footage will appear displaying your images at a slower frame rate!!!)

Press Esc to exit capture screen or press stop on the VTR of your camera.  Continue with this process to capture the remaining clips that you would like to edit with. After your clips are captured, go to the bin where your files will now appear as segments.

and drag and drop the segments/clips that you just saved onto the timeline…

and enjoy editing the movies

Anthony McCann reading I Was Alive, an erasure poem based on the text of Frankenstein.

• position exercise 1
• position exercise 2
• position exercise 3
• position exercise 4

And oh yeah! — Colorzilla for Firefox

Open/Import

To open audio files, you have to use the File Browser.

The file browser shows the entire network. To find your home directory, click on the little house icon. Make sure you save files in the network (Windows) version of your directory — not “Music” but “My Music”

Saving/Exporting

Soundtrack project files save with the extention: .loop

The “open” command will only open soundtrack projects. To open audio files (AIFs or WAVs), you have to use the Media Manager.

To save an standard audio file: File > Export Mix
This saves the mix as a stereo AIF

Editing

To add a track: Project > Add Track

Drag audio files from the Media Manager into the track.

Rather than cutting and pasting, Soundtrack works by splitting and moving the segments.

To split a track at the cursor, use the S key.

Editing is non-destructive – splits and don’t erase or alter the file

The bracket cursor stretches the audible part of the track. If you keep stretching beyond the length of the original file, it repeats.

The arrow cursor moves the files and split segments.

Effects — click the little asterisk to get the effects menu

Tips

The grid lines based on BPM and time signature.

If you tap the left-right cursor keys, the editing line jumps to the next grid line

Unlike Audacity, tracks are unified stereo files. You can only split them both at once.

The ends of the scrollbar allow zooming in and out.

Let’s start with our source image, our beloved friend Jason Brown. Go ahead and drag this image to your desktop, if you haven’t already done so.

We’ll be focusing on two basic tools for this job, the lasso selection tool and the quick mask tool.

The Lasso tool allows us to select a any shape we want in an image. It comes in three flavors – the Lasso tool, the geometric lasso tool and the magnetic lasso tool.

The basic Lasso tool is used to select an area free hand by dragging with the mouse. Click on the image and (while holding down the mouse key) drag the mouse to select a particular area freely. You have to meet the starting and ending point to close the selection. The selection is visible in the form of dotted lines. Once this area is selected you can cut, paste, or modify this area however you like. However, with great freedom, comes great responsibility to not have a shaky hand. Unless you have zen master mouse control, you may find it difficult to get the lasso tool to give you exactly the selection that you want.

The Magnetic Lasso tool works like the Lasso tool except it attempts to determine the edges of the object on it’s own. Magic! It’s best for forms that are both complicated and against a high contrast background. Some people really love the Magnetic Lasso tool, and we recommend you spend some time with it and see if you like how it works.

The Polygon Lasso tool is the most useful (in our opinion) tool for your day to day selection tasks. To draw a straight edged selection, click on the starting point and click again on the end point .To draw a free hand segment, hold down Alt and drag. Like the Lasso tool, you have to close the starting and ending point of the selection.

Ok, so to proceed, use the Polygon Lasso tool to select around Jason. Be as accurate as you can, but don’t freak out if you miss some details, we’ll fix that next using the Quickmask tool.

The Quickmask tool allows us to modify our selected area with whatever tool we like. While Quickmask is activated, drawing with the pencil tool or brush will add the area you draw to the selection. Erasing an area will remove it from your selection.

To Activate the Quickmask tool, click on it on the tool palette, it’s near the bottom

Once quickmask is selected, the areas in red represent the unselected part of your image.

Go ahead and clean up any areas you may have missed when you cut Jason out. Once you’re done you can go back the selection mode by clicking the Edit in Standard Mode button right next to the Quickmask button.

Then find a new place for a friend to fly..

we have four main kinds of paper we’re printing currently.

* Ink Jet 17×22 – thin yet big. good for seeing what stuff looks like or making posters.
* Ink Jet 13x 19 (Super B/A3). thin yet large-ish. good for seeing what stuff looks like or making posters.
* Velvet Fine Art Paper 13×19 (Super B/A3). Thick and arty. Nice for finished pieces. Matte – not great for photos
* Velvet Fine Art Paper 17×22. Thick and arty. Finished pieces that can use the larger scale of 17×22. also Matte.

loading thin papers into the paper tray

Both thin Ink Jet papers are loaded into the printer via the paper tray

To load the tray follow these steps.

Step 1. Lift up the tray cover
Step 2. Flip up the roller guide and load the sheets
Step 3. Adjust the paper guide to the size of your stock
Step 4. Replace the cover and extend the tray

loading heavyweight paper manually

In order to print on the heavier Velvet Fine Art paper choose Manual Feed and follow these steps for manually loading the heavyweight paper into the printer

Step 1. the heavyweight paper has a smooth side and a textured side before loading the paper determine which side is smooth
Step 2. select the paper icon with the “paper source” button, release the paper lever and open the top cover.
Step 3. Insert and align the paper with the smoother printing surface facing up.
Step 4. pull the paper lever back down and extend the paper tray

• Find your My Documents folder
• Inside My Documents, go to My Webs
• Anything that goes in My Webs is live on the web.

To get to your files on the web, go to http://pages.pomona.edu/~YouUserId/

For example, Jason’s files are at: http://pages.pomona.edu/~jb004747/

You can’t see a listing of files, so to get to a specific file, you must enter it’s exact name. For example:
http://pages.pomona.edu/~jb004747/images/capybera.jpg