Sunday, January 9, 2011

Using and Evaluating a News 2.0 Tool - Kyle

I'm choosing to write an article on the editing program "Adobe Premier Elements." This is a very good program if you want to quickly put together a video. It has multiple methods of importing videos, so you can choose which way works best for you. This program really does make editing EASY. Theres different animations you can use, different transitions, ways to add text, still pictures, music, sound effects, and overall it's very easy to make a simple video look very nice.

I used this program a lot during my time in journalism. For the major volleyball assignment, I used it a couple times to put on videos to the blog. I also wrote the step by step manual on using this program, so I had lots of experience playing around with it. For the interview assignment, I must have used this ten times or more doing the same interview because of technical problems, but thats not this programs fault, it's because putting the video online was difficult. Overall I had tons of experience with this program and now I can edit videos easily whenever I want.

This tool will probably be useful for my major project, because we'll definatly have media that can be put in a video. This will be an effective program to use to put all our pictures and videos together in one video. The pros is how useful it is and how simple it is to use. There are tons of different effects and fonts and it's wonderful. There is just so much many minor details you can change to make your video look way better overall. There are some cons, however. It's a pain in the !@# to figure out how to render your video to your computer. Theres tons of different options and it's difficult to figure out which one you need. You may need trial and error, which involves lots of patience. Once you figure things out, you're good to go. It really is a very effective tool to make home videos look somewhat professional with just a little effort.

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