

Preproduction

Capturing

Basic Editing

Effects

Output

Terms & Tools
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Output is the stage where you finalize your movie into the form in
which you wish to display it, for example, for the Web, for videotape,
or for a presentation.
Note: As explained in Stage
1, output should be decided in preproduction.
Movie Maker's
"Export As..." command allows you to choose
new formats, compression schemes, frame rates, audio sample rates, and
more. To record the movie to a video tape, use the "Print to
Video" command. Both of these commands are in the File menu.
Sound Track's
"Export..." command also allows you to choose formats,
compression schemes, and other parameters for output.
Adding a movie to a Web page is as simple as dragging and dropping it
into WebMagic(tm).
To include a movie in a presentation, use Showcase.
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He chooses "Export
As..." in Movie
Maker and selects the Apple Compact Video (CinePak) compression scheme.
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He uses Movie Maker to export a
couple of his movie title frames as images, then saves one as a GIF
file (with ImgView),
and drops into his Web page in WebMagic.
This image represents the movie on the Web page.
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He selects the image of the movie
title on his Web page in WebMagic, then drops the movie file icon on
top of it to create the link. That's it!
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One way to conserve the amount of
disk space the audio takes up is to lower the sample rate
and/or the sample
width. To get the best quality-to-disk-space
ratio, it is better to compromise sample rate
than sample width.
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Because of limited network
bandwidth and disk space, movies displayed over the Web (as of this
writing) are typically composed of parameters that approximate:
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160 x 120 frame dimension
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5 to 15 frames per second
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Less than 5 megabytes file
size and less than 2 minutes long, unless you are serving them to a
high-bandwidth intranet of workstations, in which case you can get away
with making them somewhat bigger.
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QuickTime format with CinePak
(Apple Compact Video) compression.
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There is an all-purpose tool for
converting and compressing movie, audio, and image files: Media Convert.
Media Convert also enables you to resize or crop video, and to change a
number of other audio and video parameters, such as flicker filter.
the end!
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