AGENDA, Aug 12, 2004

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AGENDA, Aug 12, 2004

• Preserving 8mm film
• How to Begin Creating a home movie on DVD, VCD,
  or tape
• Advanced Pinnacle Liquid Edition

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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

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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

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CREATE GREAT HOME MOVIESCAMCORDER

• DIGITAL CAMERA
• Cannon ZR60 mini-dv (190)
• Many (up to 1200)

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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

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CREATE GREAT HOME MOVIES MULTIMEDIA HARDWARE

• P4 or AMD Athlon gt 1.5GHZ 500MB memory min (1GB
  preferred) gt80GB 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
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• CAPTURE CARD lt200, (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)

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Overall Ratings- Desktop
Source Consumer Reports, Sept, 2004 other
ratings tech support repair history
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Overall Ratings- Laptop
Source Consumer Reports, Sept, 2004 other
ratings tech support repair history
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INTEL Naming Conventions

• 7xx P4 with HT Professional Enthusiast-cutting-e
  dge, 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

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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 DISK
• CAPTURE 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