Testing free video editing tools (and techniques)
The 3rd post in a series focused on free tools for recording, editing, and publishing video tutorials.
I’ve been working this month to find a set of free tools that can enable me to produce and distribute video tutorials. Picking up where I left off last week, this weekend I pursued the idea of using Windows Movie Maker as a free editing tool to pair with a free video capture tool like Debut Lite.
There’s so many good free apps available on the web these days (that’s the right price for me as a blogger, and a great price for many cash-strapped Ed Tech budgets too!). I started out on a good track with this effort by trialing tools like Jing and Debut Lite, that make it easy to capture screen video and audio to create video content. The next step is to get the video editing capabilities I need for effective and efficient production.
Why do I need editing software?
If I’m going to try to create a number of tutorials, I’ll really need to be able to do some simple editing, like combining clips, trimming them, adjusting audio, maybe use some fade-out and fade-in effects. Otherwise, the tutorials I can create will be limited to the one best continuous video clip I can record, and I will often have to record repeatedly in order to get a complete, acceptable quality “performance”. It’s just so much easier to produce an audio and video recording if you can create smaller clips and assemble them, and have some control over flow from one video clip to the next.
[Please click here to read the complete post at EmergingEdTech.com, where I blog regularly about the use of Internet tools in education, and other instructional technologies. Thanks!]
I’ve been working this month to find a set of free tools that can enable me to produce and distribute video tutorials. Picking up where I left off last week, this weekend I pursued the idea of using Windows Movie Maker as a free editing tool to pair with a free video capture tool like Debut Lite.
There’s so many good free apps available on the web these days (that’s the right price for me as a blogger, and a great price for many cash-strapped Ed Tech budgets too!). I started out on a good track with this effort by trialing tools like Jing and Debut Lite, that make it easy to capture screen video and audio to create video content. The next step is to get the video editing capabilities I need for effective and efficient production.
Why do I need editing software?
If I’m going to try to create a number of tutorials, I’ll really need to be able to do some simple editing, like combining clips, trimming them, adjusting audio, maybe use some fade-out and fade-in effects. Otherwise, the tutorials I can create will be limited to the one best continuous video clip I can record, and I will often have to record repeatedly in order to get a complete, acceptable quality “performance”. It’s just so much easier to produce an audio and video recording if you can create smaller clips and assemble them, and have some control over flow from one video clip to the next.
[Please click here to read the complete post at EmergingEdTech.com, where I blog regularly about the use of Internet tools in education, and other instructional technologies. Thanks!]
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Comment by Cindy Stephenson on October 22, 2010 at 5:06am
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Thanks, I will be checking in to monitor and add- I am looking for ways to edit class videos. So far, have used JayCut, but with a small screen on our Netbooks, it is difficult to manuever. Suggestions?
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Comment by Kelly Walsh on October 22, 2010 at 7:57am
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If your Netbook happens to be running Windows XP or Vista, you probably have Windows Movie Maker available. After working through the posts above earlier this year, Windows Movie Maker was the best I found for free (of course, if you're not running Windows, it won't do you any good). In the end, to get the more sophisticated editing capabilities I was after, I purchased Camtasia Studio (cost under $300 on Amazon).
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Wow - this is a hoard of cool tools to check out! Thanks so much "cprofitt". I'll be taking a closer look at these tools soon.
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Yes! Thanks! I will check these cool tools out!
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