HOW TO EXPORT TO A MOVIE FILE

PREMIERE

I've made a web page describing the needed steps.

IMOVIE

To export a movie in iMovie, you go to the File Menu and select "Export Movie". On the next pulldown list, select "Expert". On the G4s in the lab, that's all you need to do (all the other settings are already set up). On your own machines, here's what you want:

Video: Sorenson Compression, Best Quality, 14.985 frames/sec, no Key Frames, limit data rate to 220K/sec.

Audio: IMA 4:1, 22khz, 16 bit mono.

Standard Web Server

NOTE: Some movies, espeically those with a lot of motion and complicated scenes, work better with slightly different settings. Try sliding the quality bar down to medium, and setting Key Frames at 49. See which settings you like better.

TIPS FOR USING PREMIERE (and iMOVIE) FOR NEXT PROJECT

Here are some ideas to make life a little bit easier for the next iVideo:

1) Dump all uneccesary files off your hard drive

2) Clear all files from your last iVideo project

3) Use Premiere's preferences to set capture, preview, and temp folders for your project

4) Divide and conquer - Complicated scenes in your movie can be rendered, and put back to tape, then recaptured. The result is one file (instead of many) and less space taken up. Also, this allows different people to work on different machines.

5) Only capture what you need. Sometimes, you capture a full minute of video, but only end up using 10 seconds of it. Delete the 1 mintute clip, and recapture the 10 seconds that you need.

6) Try dumping to tape every now and then to see that it's working

7) Check your volume settings. Some of the first iVideos suffered from distortion (volume too high in parts)

8) When dumping to tape, use the features to put black or color bars before your video (so it is separated on the tape from your other work).

 

QUESTIONS FOR DIRECTORS COMMENTS iV1

What is the intended emotional experience?

What is the intended intellectual experience?

Discuss the design of your iVideo. How were the various elements of your iVideo intended to come together create this experience?

Describe the several major decisions made in creating your iVideo and how the decisions relate to its intended experience.

How did the feedback you got from your peers influence your final design?

 

 

JERKY PLAYBACK IN PREMIERE

Adobe has a semi-useful document on how to debug jerky playback on a movie.

DOWNLOAD JANET'S TALK

Janet's Talk is here

ACROBAT PROBLEMS SOLVED!

To read the .pdf files for this class. Try the following.

0) Download Acrobat Reader 5 (see announcement below)

1) Find the link to the file you want to view (e.g. Perkins (1986))

2) Instead of clicking on it, (PC) right-click on the link (or click and hold for MAC).

3) Select "Save Target as:" [This will prompt you with the standard dialog box for saving a file]

4) Make sure to save it on your desktop folder

5) Close (or hide) explorer, and find the new .pdf file on your desktop.

6) Double click on the file you want to view, this should open acrobat directly (instead of using the acrobat plug-in).

This should solve your problems. Tell me (mkoehler@msu.edu) if it doesn't.