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As stated earlier, most simple video editors allow for adding additional audio such as background music and sound effects. Important things to remember: With free video editing software such as Windows Movie Maker, you only have one additional audio track. If you choose to have music played throughout the entire presentation, that audio track is being used and...

A title slate is simply text on-screen and nothing else. Slates are using to introduce scenes into your video should they be necessary. Sometimes the only slates you need is at the beginning (such as stating the title of the video) and at the end (for credits). At other times you may need slates during the video to separate different chapters. For example, if...

A transition from one video clip to another means under most circumstances that an effect is being applied. For example, dissolving (sometimes known as fading) from one clip to another is a digital effect. [hidepost=1] Why Use Transitions? Transitions can be used to make a presentation seem less “harsh”. For example, when starting a presentation it may be...

In simple terms, the difference between video and audio is that video is for motion imagery and audio is for sound. However the way in which video and audio are edited are distinctively different. [hidepost=1] How Video Editing Works When using simple video editing software like Windows Movie Maker or iMovie you only have one primary video track at your...

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The timeline is a horizontal bar typically located at the bottom for any video editing software you may use. You use this bar to “jump” to specific points in your video to make edits, such as adding video, removing video, transitions and so on. Using the timeline in modern-day software is very easy because all you have to do is literally drag and drop...

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When working with video editing software it’s important to understand the file formats you will be working with. The most common formats will be files that end with the extensions AVI, MPG (or MPEG), MOV and WMV. [hidepost=1] AVI AVI means Audio Video Interleave, originally developed by Microsoft in 1992 as part of Video for Windows technology....

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Now that this course has provided the basics on hand-coding your HTML, we will delve into the world of WYSIWYG editors. Using an editor like this will allow you to create your web pages in a much quicker fashion and in a style much more similar to a word processor. You can accomplish much of what you need without doing any HTML coding by hand. [hidepost=1] Now,...

OK, it is now time to start actually creating a webpage. In this lesson, I am going to introduce you to HTML. In the following lessons, we will get into specific areas of HTML. HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. An HTML file is just a text file which contains small “markup tags”. A markup tag is a small little bunch of text which tells the...