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Raw Bytes Computer News KPBX FM 91.1 Radio National Public Radio Network Frank Delaney Producer Broadcast on Wednesday Morning 7:35 AM During Morning Edition Support Public Radio ! The Theater Of the Mind |
In computer news
this week 08/19/2009 With those Summer
vacation photos you’ve taken, you need to make some good movies ... The
internet has opened up a whole new way of communicating with friends and
relatives, and now when you take
lots of pictures on your vacation, there’s new ways to share your
photos with everyone you know. How
did we do this in the past? Let’s
see, first we’d take the pictures on our film cameras, come home and
take the film to a film developer service, wait for it to be done, and then go pick up the pictures. Then
we’d go through all the pictures we’d taken, and then we’d
pick out the ones we liked the best, and then we’d take those pictures back to the film developer service to
have multiple prints made, and pick them up again. Then we’d mail them
to uncle Arthel and aunt Nellie and of course grandpa and grandma, and hope
that they didn’t get lost in the mail. Today
digital cameras have eliminated all that. You take the pictures –
they’re already developed, and you decide what you want to keep and
share with others. It’s easy to put your pictures in a slide show or
movie, title them, add a music sound track even, and share them through the
internet. There’s
2 great programs to let you do this, they’re both free; and
they’re both from Microsoft – meaning these programs are white
bread – whatever you create
with them is going to be instantly viewable on all windows-based computers in
the world, and even apples that can emulate windows. This is an important point to realize,
because there is other slide show or movie making software, but sometimes the
person trying to view the movie has to have the same software as you. Windows
moviemaker – available in windows Xp, Vista and the coming Windows 7
operating system has the capability of creating easy-to-do slide shows
or movie, titling capability,
fancy transition capability so
that you can do fancy fadeouts or wipes or page turns between scenes, special
video effects like shooting in that old time sepia color, other graphics
tricks, and sound capability so that you can add a soundtrack to your slide
show or movie. In other words, it has the whole enchilada. Another
free program is photostory3
for windows - but you won’t find it on your computer. You do have to go to the Microsoft
site on the internet – www.microsoft.com
– and do a search for it, or read my transcript online and go right to
the download page. Microsoft requires you to validate that you have a
legitimate copy of windows – which is easy to do – and then you
can download it. Here
I want to make my point again of how you don’t want to be an internet
road hog……. All
internet provider services – from AOL down to your tiny local ISP
– give you your own personal website space – so that you can put
your pictures and movies online on the internet – and then you send
people you think would be interested in viewing them an email with a link to
your pictures, so that they have the option of viewing them or not !!! You
DO NOT ATTACH YOUR 80 MB MOVIE TO AN EMAIL AND SEND IT TO YOUR MASS MAILING
LIST OF FRENDS AND RELATIVES !!!! Uncle
Arthel with his 56K Dialup connection is going to be very unhappy when he has
to spend the next 2 weeks downloading your video ………. And
you may think Junior is cute in that picture, but Aunt Nellie might be
repulsed by what she sees as a leering gargoyle … More
how to do all this next week. |
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MTA Micro Technology Associates http://www.mtamicro.com/kpbx.html PO Box
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