AGENDA, Aug 12, 2004

• Preserving 8mm film

• How to Begin: Creating a home movie on DVD, VCD, or tape

• Advanced: Pinnacle Liquid Edition

Preserving old 8mm movies:

• Do it yourself– Use your old Brownie projector, play 8mm

onto screen/wall/paper; record using your camcorder

• Record to tape• capture directly on PC• view example of “flicker”

• Outsource• Discussion of Options

MY PROJECT: CREATE a GREAT HOME MOVIE from these SOURCES

• Mini-DV tape (~2 hours)

• Commercial DVD- Norwegian Cruise Line

• Commercial DVD- White Pass Railroad

• Video CD – “Magic”

• Numerous digital photos

• Many postcards

CREATE GREAT HOME MOVIESCAMCORDER

DIGITAL CAMERA

• Cannon ZR60 mini-dv ($190)

• Many (up to $1200)

CREATE GREAT HOME MOVIES SOFTWARE

BEGINNING• Pinnacle Studio 9 (www .pinnaclesys.com; $99.99), • Roxio Easy Media Creator 7' (www.roxio.com; $99.95),• Screenblast Movie Studio 3 (http:// mediasoftware. sonypictures. com;

$99.95) • Ulead VideoStudio 8 (www.ulead.com; $99.95).• Mac: Apple iMovie 4 $49 as part of the iLife suite

ADVANCED• Adobe Premier Pro $300 (full)

• Pinnacle Liquid Edition $300 (upgrade) COMPOSING

• Macromedia Director $440 Academic; $1000 stand-alone

CREATE GREAT HOME MOVIES MULTIMEDIA HARDWARE

• P4 or AMD Athlon > 1.5GHZ; 500MB memory min (1GB preferred); >80GB drive space (separate drive is preferred-

• DV input: IEEE 1394 (also called Fire Wire or iLink)• MAC PLATFORM: G3 600 MHZ (G4 preferred) with at least 512MB

memory• (See Consumer Reports, Sept, 2004 • www.dell.com Precision 370 • www.magicmicro.com Barebones• Turnkey ProEdit Workstation (with Liquid Edition) $3200  CAPTURE CARD <$200, (needed only for analog sources)• Some high-end graphics cards have built-in capture cards• Adaptec (www.adaptec.com), • ADS Technologies (www.adstech.com)• Dazzle (www.pinnaciesys.com)

Overall Ratings- Desktop

Source: Consumer Reports, Sept, 2004; other ratings: tech support; repair history

Overall Ratings- Laptop

Source: Consumer Reports, Sept, 2004 ; other ratings: tech support; repair history

INTEL Naming Conventions

• 7xx P4 with HT “Professional Enthusiast”-cutting-edge, ultra-high end to handle the most demanding 2D &3D applications. Q42004– Up to 3.73GHZ, EM64T; 2MB cache; DDR667 with

1066MHZ FSB and DDR2-667 memory

• 5xx P4 with HT “Performance Mainstream”– 520 2.8GHZ, 1MB cache; 800MHZ FSB– 530 3.0GHZ, 1MB cache; 800MHZ FSB– 550 3.4GHZ, 1MB cache; 800MHZ FSB

• 3xx Celeron D “Value” – to handle everyday tasks; avail September, 2004

CREATE GREAT HOME MOVIES PROCESS

PLAN MY CREATION– View footage on television– Conceptualize the finished project– Note scenes to keep or trash

CLEANUP AND DEFRAGMENT DISKCAPTURE VIDEO

– SW automatically detects scene changes– Organizes video into different sections

LAYOUT TIMELINE– Use several audio/video tracks– Move scenes to suit

ADD SPECIAL EFFECTS– Titles and Transitions between scenes– Add music and voice-over

PRODUCTION MANTRA– Create once, and publish anywhere (VHS, VideoCD, DVD, and web site)– Keep file names same: low res web version and high res CD/DVD version