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This is the software you will need for this lesson. Download the version for your operating system. If your in the lab it should already be installed. Ubuntu users just use Add/Remove from the Applications menu.

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Software Setup

Watch the screencast below for a quick introduction or skip to the text and image based instructions.

Videoblog Software Screencast

VLC Media Player Configuration

First we need to configure VLC Media Player by following these quick steps.

  1. So start it up, it will look like this. (Screenshot)
  2. Select File > Open Capture Device or hold down Ctrl key and press A. (Screenshot)
  3. Tick the Stream output box and click on settings. (Screenshot)
  4. Now in the output setting tick the play locally box and the file box and browse to where you want to save your file.
  5. In the encapsulation method tick the Ogg circle and tick the Video codec box and select theora and tick the Audiio codec and select vorbis alternatively tick the mp4 circle and choose mp4v for the Video codec and mpga for the Audio codec then click ok. (Screenshot)

Now as soon as you hit OK you should be up and running. From now on just press the play button to record and stop button to stop. Review your video after recording, if you want to keep it rename it by placing a version number at the end otherwise next time you press play it will be overwritten.

Video Editing Basics with Avidemux

After we have recorded our video lets do some editing, we will use Avidemux for cutting, joining and applying some filters.

  1. Open your video with Avidemux. (Screenshot)
  2. First lets select the section of video we want by using the selection start and selection end buttons. (Screenshot)
  3. After doing that we need to rebuild the VBR time map by selecting the Audio tab and clicking on Build VBR Time Map. (Screenshot)
  4. Now we'll apply some filters, my webcam is cheap and looks like it has speckles so change the video setting from copy to Mpeg4 or Xvid then click on Filters. (Screenshot)
  5. Now you'll see a video filters screen thats empty so click add then from the Denoise tab select Mplayer hqdn3d and accept the defaults. (Screenshot)
  6. Browse through and experiment with the other filters e.g resizing, adding borders,cropping and deinterlacing then click OK.
  7. Click on the save button or File > Save and your done.

To join your video together open the first video and then select file > append. (Screenshot)

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