Page created Tuesday,
January 20, 2004
Revised Saturday, February 06, 2010
Cajun Clickers Computer Club Of Louisiana
Digital Video Special Interest Group
(Now in our 6th year! The SIG was started in January,
2004)
http://tinyurl.com/ccccvideo
The CCCC Digital Video SIG has been
producing videos for the club since 2004. These videos are presented here for
download as high quality Windows Media Video (wmv) files. These work best if
they are downloaded then played, rather than streamed. Please use these videos
in any Cajun Clickers workshop, presentation or promotion. All videos copyright
© by Cajun Clickers Computer Club, Baton Rouge, LA. (Right click and select
‘save as.’ Problems or comments: Contact Walter (email)
Videos about
the Cajun Clickers Computer Club
|
Video File |
Description |
Length, Size |
|
How
the CCCC was formed |
5
min, 40 MB |
|
|
All
about our club |
5
min, 40 MB |
|
|
A
short tour of our facilities |
1
min, 7 MB |
|
|
Christmas
2009 festivities |
1
min, 6 MB |
Instructional
Videos
|
Video File |
Description |
Length, Size |
|
How
to build a computer |
1
hr, 145 MB |
|
|
Views
of computer hardware |
3
min, 12 MB |
|
|
What
is inside of a computer |
4
min, 30 MB |
Recently, we
have been experimenting with software to create on line tutorials for the club.
Go here for details
The CCCC DV SIG
meets the first Saturday of the month at 10 AM for two hours in Lecture Room 1
at the CCCC Office in Baton Rouge. The purpose of the SIG is to discuss
information and topics related to digital video. Topics include shooting video,
capturing video to your PC, editing and processing video and audio, and
creating DVDs.
The SIG is lead
by Walter Scott (email)
Upcoming SIG Topics
March – Begin 2 or 3
workshops series on how to shoot video.
- Hands On Videography presentation in March
- Getting steady video with modern (lightweight)
cameras in April. Please bring your cameras and be ready to shoot! If there
are enough questions generated, we will do a follow-up workshop in May
Other topics
- Critique others' video – with demonstration of
using Video LAN
- Video editing with Sony Vegas
- Video editing with Windows Movie Maker by Phil Chenevert
- How to get good audio with your video
Let me know
what other topics you would like to see covered in up coming SIG meetings. For
more information on the Digital Video SIG, contact Walter (email)
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/Scott_Morton_Video
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Video SIG Projects
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Video Information (documents in PDF format)
An Excellent Low
Cost DVD Player!
My New Year's Video
Resolution: A new way to archive VHS tapes!
Over in the Amateur Video Editing Yahoo group (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amateurvideoediting/
) we had a couple of group members who purchased hard drive based High
Definition camcorders without doing a lot of background research. They
immediately found that they had major problems editing, and in one case, even
viewing the native files from their cameras. CCCC Video SIG and AVE group
member Jack Giammerse, Jr. took the lead in helping these guys out by
researching different software solutions for them. This article
is a summery of what Jack found out during his investigation. It is a bit rough around the edges, and not
totally complete, but if you are planning to purchase a High Definition
camcorder, this article can save you a LOT of time and effort. Jack Giammerese,
who holds the copyright to it, wrote it and it was edited by Walter Scott.
And here is
another excellent article on HD Cameras and
Formats
Know Your Connectors! Don’t be confused!
(Click the jpeg to download the full size version)
Some video SIG members have become involved with High Definition video,
using the Aiptek GO-HD High Definition 720p Camcorder
Format and Quality Issues
This inexpensive, SD card based camera
records high definition video in mov format.
These files appear to be very high quality. However, mov files require some version of Apple QuickTime, and
to edit them requires QuickTime Pro. As we wanted to avoid these programs, we
attempted to convert the files to wmv format, and then to edit them in Sony
Vegas 6. To convert from mov to wmv format, we used SUPER C, a free video
converter. (More on SUPER C below.) It
appears that we did lose some quality in the conversion. On the other hand, it
looks like we did not lose any quality in the editing.
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The
Care and Feeding of SUPER ©
SUPER C is an excellent
free multiformat audio/video converter that does not require you to install any
CODECs. However, they have really hidden SUPER C, making it almost impossible
to find. Here is the trick: Go to this page: http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html
Scroll down to the link at the bottom of the page "start downloading SUPER
© right now." Click that link. At the page that comes up, scroll about 1/3
down until you see the phrase "SUPER © is a FREE Multimedia software to
download and use." Click on "download and use." At the page that
comes up, scroll to the very bottom and click on the link "download SUPER
© setup file."
To use SUPER C, You have
to set your screen resolution to at least 1024 x 768 or SUPER C will not
display properly. Here are a couple of screen grabs of what it should
look like
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Some members of the SIG
were involved in a short video political satire created by one of the SIG
members. Here is the completed project: mosquito-small.wmv (Warning, not for kids!)
Right click and select ‘save as’)
The program we used for the Chroma key effect is ZS4,
a free video editor. You can find out about this program and download it at
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If you are in the Baton Rouge area, and would like to join Walter and
Karen in creating original, G- rated videos, go here:
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/Scott_Morton_Video
Walter and
Karen's Video Production Page:
http://smengineers.net/video/smvideo.html
Need help with
your video projects? Go here:
http://beam.to/video-convert
Links to other
useful groups and sites
Amateur Video Editing group on yahoo
Useful Information on Digital Video
Go To Walter's Home Theater
Page
Go to the
Cajun Clickers Main Page