Video Blog Reflection

While I enjoyed making the welcome video, the process definitely presented some difficulties along the way. I used my camera to take the video for the welcome address and used screenshots of my Twitter and Facebook pages for inserts in the video. I also used power point to make the initial slide. It was difficult for me to use the screenshots because I did not know how to save them as images. After foraging through little used programs on my laptop, I found Microsoft Office OneNote and used a program on it to save the screenshots as JPEG images. There has to be an easier way than using OneNote, but, in the end, the program was sufficient.

The other major issue I ran into was using editing software to piece the video together. I read online that Jumpcut.com was the best free program to use on a PC, but I was unable to access the program at all. Whenever I typed in the web address, the browser automatically directed me to the Yahoo! homepage. I know Professor Machniak mentioned that Jumpcut was recently bought out by Yahoo!, so I assume that is why I was redirected to their homepage. However, even after scouring the Yahoo! homepage I was unable to access the program. There were other programs available online but they were taking much too long to download on to my computer. I had recently bought a Canon camera and was looking through the software that came with the camera when I found an editing application. I ended up using this software to complete the video. It definitely is not an advanced video but at least it meets specifications.