Technology Tips

Contents

1. Accessing Calawah

2. iMovie

3. Dreamweaver

4. PowerPoint

Accessing your Calawah folder

Note: this is the hard drive space you have been assigned that you can access from anywhere on campus and use to store your work in progress (however, since you have only 100 megabytes of space, your Calawah folder cannot be used to store your iMovie until you create a small Quicktime version of it).

You need to know your Evergreen password and login in order to access your Calawah folder. If you are having trouble with this, contact John McGee in the Computer Center.

From a PC: if you log into the computer using your Evergreen name and password, you will see your Calawah folder either on the desktop or inside My Computer.

From a Mac:

• From the Finder/Desktop use the Go menu to select Connect to Server
• Type in "calawah" as the server address in the dialog box
• Type in your Evergreen login name and password
• Select your folder (the first letter of your last name)
• Your folder in now available on the desktop

Using iMovie

Opening iMovie

• Find the iMovie icon on the desktop and double click.
• From the File menu and choose Create a New Project.
• Name the Project with your name, and be sure to save it in the Documents folder.

Importing video into iMovie

• Put your tape in the camera and turn the camera on to VCR or video.
• Connect the camera to the computer with the firewire cable (ask for help if you have trouble finding the places to plug in the cable).
• You can now run the camera directly from iMovie using the controls.
• When you see a section of the video you want to import, click the import button to start the import and click it a second time to stop the import process. The video footage you imported will be placed in the clips pane.

Creating a still image

• Import a section of video containing the still frame you want to capture (see above).
• Click on the clip that contains the still frame you want to capture to select it (it will be highlighted in blue when connected).
• Move to or near to the frame you want to capture by dragging the small triangle just below the image; then you can use the arrow keys to move frame by frame backwards or forwards to get just the frame you want.
• Select Save Frame under the File menu – you can save the file into your Calawah folder now or save it temporarily into the documents folder and move it later. Be sure not to use any spaces in your filename since you will be using this file on your webpage.

Isolating a video clip from your imported video

(There are a couple of different ways to do this, but here is the one I find easiest)

• Click on the video clip you want to work with.
• Move to the frame you want to start with – note: if you have important audio at this point, go back 2-3 seconds to make room for a transition.
• Use the Edit menu to select Split Video Clip at Playhead.
• You will now have two clips, one of which starts at the point you selected – click on that clip to select it.
• Move the clip to your desired ending point.
• Again, use the Edit menu to select Split Video Clip at Playhead
• Move your edited clip to the clip viewer, just below the iMovie monitor.

Creating Titles

• Just below the clips pane you will see a small menu that includes a Titles button.
• Click on the Titles button.
• Select the type of title you want –for this project the Centered Multiple title works well.
• Type in your title on the lines provided – if you selected a multiple title type, you can add more lines by pressing the + key.
• You can (and should) increase the size of the title by dragging the size bar to the right.
• You should also increase the time the title remains on the screen by dragging the speed bar to the right.
• Now drag the title to the clip viewer starting from the title in the title list (e.g., Centered Multiple) to the point in the video where you want the title to be displayed.
• If you need to make adjustments to the title after viewing it, click on the title, make the changes, and click update.

Creating Transitions

• Click on the Trans button in the small menu below the clips pane.
• Select a type of transition – cross dissolve is a good choice.
• Adjust the transition time by dragging the speed bar – 3 seconds is a good choice for this project.
• Drag the transition icon (e.g., cross dissolve) from the list and place it between the two clips you want to transition between.

Creating a Quicktime Version of Your Movie

Note: In order to show your movie in PowerPoint or on the web, you need to save it in a form that is smaller and more universally usable – in this case, as a Quicktime file.

• From the File menu select Share.
• Click the Quicktime button and then use the Compress Movie for menu to select CD-ROM.
• Click the Share button.
• In the dialog box name the file and save it to your Calawah folder or temporarily into the documents folder.
• It will take a couple of minutes for the file to be created.
• If you want to create a smaller file for putting on your webpage, repeat this process but select web streaming as the type and save with a slightly different name.

Dreamweaver

Getting Ready to Begin a Dreamweaver Session

Before you begin working in Dreamweaver, you need to set up a local site – a folder where Dreamweaver expects you to do your work. We strongly recommend that everyone create a folder within their personal folder in Calawah to use as their local site. So, whenever you begin a Dreamweaver session, you need to log-into Calawah to access your local site. If for some reason you do not already have a local site stored on Calawah, create a new folder within Calawah now and name it with your name and "web site", such as "Sams web site". Once you get into Dreamweaver you can "put" the files in your remote site into your local site.

Setting up a New Site

• Open Dreamweaver and from the Site menu select New Site.
• Provide the requested information: Name your site with your name (or anything else you want).
• The website for your site will be academic.evergreen.edu/first letter of your last name/your user name (e.g., http://academic.evergreen.edu/s/smisue24).
• On the next screen choose to not use server technology.
• On the next screen choose to edit local copies on my machine, …. And then click the small folder icon and navigate to your local folder.
• On the screen that asks you how you want to connect to your remote server,
• you want to connect with FTP
• your FTP host: academic.evergreen.edu
• your host directory will be the first letter of your last name/Evergreen user name, for example, s/smisue24
• your ftp login will be your Evergreen user name, for example, smisue24
• your ftp password is your Evergreen password
• Click until you get to the Done button.
• You have now set up your site and are ready to edit and add to your web site!!

Getting all your files from the Remote Site into your Local Site

• In the file list window at the right of your screen make sure you see local view (not remote view).
• To bring over your files from the remote server, click the down arrow to get the entire site.

Modifying an existing file

• First open the file from the file list, being sure that you are working with the local site (not the remote site).
• Make your edits.
• Before you go any further, you can test your changes by going to the File menu and choosing Preview in Browser.
• When you are done editing, choose to PUT your edited file to the remote site, by clicking the up and down icon and then choosing Put.

Adding an image

• Working outside of Dreamweaver, copy the image files you want to use on your web site into your local folder if it is not already there.
• Open the file where you want the image to be placed.
• Place your cursor where you want the picture to go and then, from the Insert menu, select Image and then select the image file you want to insert.
• PUT both the image file and the file you are working on to the remote site by clicking on the up arrow icon or selecting PUT when the files are selected

Adding a Video Clip

• Working outside of Dreamweaver, copy the Quicktime file you want to use on your web site into your local folder if it is not already there.
• Open the file where you want to create a link to the video clip.
• Type a few words to label the video clip (such as “video of my teaching”).
• Select the words you just typed, then click the folder icon in the property inspector.

• Use the dialog box to navigate to your local folder where you placed the Quicktime video clip.

• PUT both the video file and the file you are working on to the remote site by clicking on the up arrow icon or selecting PUT when the files are selected

Power Point Presentation BASICS

Select New Presentation from the File menu.

From the New Slide Menu, choose the slide layout you want. For our power point project, your first slide will include your name and the still frame image taken from your video, so choose the picture slide layout (fourth line, far right), then click OK. You can also create your own by using the blank slide and the Insert options.

Power Point gives you cues what to do, so type in your name for the title, then double click to insert the image. Select the image from the folder in the dialog box and click Insert.

You can change the image size by clicking on one of the small white boxes around the image and moving it to the size you want.

SAVE your presentation, and remember to save often as you are working.

To add new slides, select new slide from the Insert menu or click on the new slide icon from the tool bar.

Choose the slide layout you would like for the new slide and continue on.

You do not have to insert slides chronologically. You can insert new slides between existing ones by placing the cursor where you want the new slide to go on the left side of the screen in the normal view mode, or you can move slides around in the slide sorter when you are finished creating the slides.

(located at the bottom left hand corner)

normal view slide sorter slide show

To insert your QuickTime video, select one of the media clip slides from the slide layout if you want to include text, or select a blank slide and go to the Insert menu. Select Movies and Sounds and then Movie from File. It will ask you if you want the movie to play automatically in the slide show, say yes.

The QuickTime movie file is separate from the movie within your Powerpoint presentation. In order to view the movie in the Powerpoint presentation, the QuickTime movie file also needs to be on the computer. So if you move the Powerpoint presentation to another computer, you also need to move the QuickTime movie file.

To view your presentation, click on the slide show icon, or select slide show from the View menu.

There is much more you can do with Powerpoint, but these are the basics you need for your presentation.