Blog Post #7
I can't say that I've had too much experience in making and editing videos before a recent assignment in class. In preparation to make my video I needed to figure out what I wanted to do, so I did a few things to help me figure out what I wanted to focus on. I reviewed some of my physics equations and wondered which one I could make into a video and create something fun.
So, once I decided on focusing on kinematics of moving particles I moved onto trying to figure how I wanted to demonstrate the principle. After a walk around campus I had decided on focusing my kinematics demonstration on the grand staircase of Saint Martin's University. We were given an opportunity to checkout cameras from the O'Grady Library on campus, but decided to utilize my own Samsung Gear 360 camera and record myself working through some problems on a white board.
Once I found a limitation within the kinematic equations I had to go out and figure out necessary data to use within another part of the video. I recorded myself dropping a water bottle and recording the times while making commentary to the camera as well, but ended up removing a majority of it in the editing portion. After determining my missing data I was able to use another white board and figure out the remaining information and complete my example video that I would want to show students.
I ran into a few snags in editing my video such as, using a Chromebook (which lacked resources to properly view the video while editing, school PC (lacked video editing software that could recognize .MP4 format), and I didn't have any editing software on my computer so I researched a few different programs until I settled on Cyberlink's Gear 360 ActionDirector software. It turned out to be not as an editing tool as I had hoped, but for being a free program I was happy with it. I certainly learned a few things from going through the process of creating and editing this video and I think next time I will hopefully use software that will allow me to edit segments of sound within clips.
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| Saint Martin's University Grand Staircase Lacey, WA |
Once I found a limitation within the kinematic equations I had to go out and figure out necessary data to use within another part of the video. I recorded myself dropping a water bottle and recording the times while making commentary to the camera as well, but ended up removing a majority of it in the editing portion. After determining my missing data I was able to use another white board and figure out the remaining information and complete my example video that I would want to show students.
I ran into a few snags in editing my video such as, using a Chromebook (which lacked resources to properly view the video while editing, school PC (lacked video editing software that could recognize .MP4 format), and I didn't have any editing software on my computer so I researched a few different programs until I settled on Cyberlink's Gear 360 ActionDirector software. It turned out to be not as an editing tool as I had hoped, but for being a free program I was happy with it. I certainly learned a few things from going through the process of creating and editing this video and I think next time I will hopefully use software that will allow me to edit segments of sound within clips.
I really liked the idea of students showing the steps to their lab or experiment using video. Sometimes figuring out what to use and what works best is the most time consuming part of an assignment.
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