Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Thing 8
I can honestly say that in the previous 23 things class as well as this 13 more things class I have never been as frustrated as I was with Jing. Loading it was a bit of a hassle, first my trend antivirus program didn't want to accept it, then I had to load some Microsoft software..but once I got it loaded I thought I was home free. I began to capture images on with the video only to find that once you started recording, you couldn't change the video capture window size. Then I went to plan B wherein I got everything the same size and did the video capture. Then I realized that you had to narrate as you were going along, not after like you can do with photostory...ok, start again. This time I couldn't get all of the pictures the same size and you can often see computer background that I didn't want there...you can redo narration like when I said "nest" instead of "next" and fumbled over my words a little. It's just not something that I am very proud and like the third attempt at a project...my first was singing accapella to some beautiful sunset photos...scrapped that idea...my next was narrating some old family photos...not all the same size so scrap that idea...my final attempt was a story from Project Read" teaching young children the sounds of the digraphs ch, sh, th, and wh.
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You get better with practice. It's kind of like improvising in music. You make a lot of mistakes at first, but then you get pretty good at it. I used to script my videos, but now I can "wing" short videos pretty well. The teacher (and musician) in us makes us have high standards for a finished product. And like any other software, there is a learning curve with Jing. I especially like that the video is automatically uploaded to Screencast and the embed code is automatically generated, not to mention you get TWO GIGABYTES of free storage for your videos.
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