Additional Resources for Using Audio and Video in PowerPoint Presentations:
General Help:
- PowerPoint 2007 & 2010 Solution Center
- Solving common media problems in Power Point
- Adding sound & video
- Audio & video playback
- How to handle disappearing media links in PowerPoint
- Sharing PowerPoint presentations using media between PCs and Macs
- Working with common PowerPoint media compatibility issues
- PowerPoint and Video - GREAT article
- Recommended reading about copyright issues for film and television
- PfcPro - PowerPoint Add-in for more stable links
- PowerPoint presentation on working with widescreen
Audio Help and How-to:
- Adding sound to a PowerPoint Presentation
- Playing a CD track in PowerPoint 2007
- Recording narration for PowerPoint presentations
- Solving music and sound problems in PowerPoint 2007
- Linking vs. embedding sound files
- A list of ALL audio file types
- What are the differences between all those audio formats?
- Good article about lossy sound quality in mp3 files
Audio Software:
- Audacity - FREE audio editing software for Windows
- Intro to Audacity
- Printable Audacity Quick Reference Page
- Full Audacity documentation
- Audio Hijack (Mac)
- About capturing streaming audio for free
General Video Help and How-to:
- Using digital video in PowerPoint
- Adding video to PowerPoint
- More adding video to PowerPoint
- Run a full-screen movie
- Running full screen movies/video in PowerPoint 2003
- PowerPoint and QuickTime
- PowerPoint and Flash
- File format comparison (Virginia Tech)
- Wikipedia entry on video compression
- More about video compression
- Digital Video Primer by Adobe
- Online screen resolution checker
- About screen resolution: How many dots has it got?
- Video storage "rules"
- Saving PowerPoint to a CD or DVD
- A list of ALL different video file types
- Basic Movie Production Techniques (Free Google Webinar)
- Comparison of video editing software
- Video editing output format options
- Moviemaking Curriculum for Teaching pdf (Apple)
About Windows Movie Maker:
- Windows Live Movie Maker for Windows 7 - DOWNLOAD
- Windows Live Movie Maker Help Center
- Windows Live Movie Maker Keyboard Shortcuts
- Supported File Types in Windows Live Movie Maker
- Windows Live Movie Maker tutorial (pdf)
- Windows Movie Maker: Tutorials and Articles
- Some additional Windows Movie Maker downloads & Info
- Windows Movie Maker: A comparison of Versions 1 & 2
- About Windows Movie Maker for Vista
- About Windows Movie Maker for Windows XP
- Portable Windows Movie Maker: Includes some of the features that were dropped in the most recent version that comes bundled with Windows.
- Flip4Mac: View Windows Media files in Macs
Using YouTube videos in PowerPoint:
- YouTube
- Understanding Copyright on YouTube
- YouTube Handbook (Includes links on producing better videos, copyright issues, and more!)
- Sample YouTube video clip
- Capturing YouTube videos in FireFox
- KeepVid - Save streaming videos! (Works with YouTube) (Mac and PC)
- NEWBestVideo Downloader (still free - if KeepVid isn't working for you)
- Embedding YouTube into PowerPoint 07
- NEW RealPlayer SP (beta) Download and convert YouTube videos to multiple formats: works with IE, FireFox (not newest version 3.5), Safari and Google Chrome
- Dailymotion.com International YouTube-like website - lots of international video materials for language instruction!
- YouTube simple online video editor
Other Video Software (Either free, inexpensive or with a free trial period):
- Pinnacle Studio Video Editing Softwareinexpensive video editor for Windows
- Camtasia - Screen Capturefree trial
- Handbrake (Mac and PC): useful for creating film clips from DVDs
- KeepVid - Save streaming videos! (Works with YouTube) (Mac and PC)
- Picasa Photo Editor and image management
- Top 10 Web Tools for editing video images
- Need4 Video Converter: Convert different video formats
- About Apple QuickTime Pro
- Quick Time & QuickTime Pro Reference Guide
- Zamzar Free online file conversion
- VLC Media Player and converter
- FLV Media Player - free download
- About Ogg Vorbis - Open Source video format
- Xiph.org video codecs (OGG) - Enables OGV video playback in PowerPoint 2010
- Perian - (Mac) enables Quicktime playback of multiple audio/video formats, inc. OGG
Sources for copyright-free audio, video and image content:
- Project Gutenberg
- Creative Commons
- Wikimedia Commons
- Manybooks.net
- Internet Archive
- The Moving Image Archive
- MorgueFile.com
- NEW The Free Music Archive (beta)
- NEW Open ClipArt Library
- NEW Arkive.org Free downloadable nature videos in WMV & MOV formats
- Free Sound Effects
- Free ClipArt
- Royalty-free Music and sound effects - some free content
- Free Audio Files (WAV)
- Free Audio Clips
- U of Michigan Open Content Search (A great resource for scientific and medical images)
Video Cameras:
- About the Flip Video Camera
- Flip Video Camera Model Comparison
- Timelapse PlantCam: Create timelapse videos illustrating plant growth
Links regarding still images as well as links to additional design, clip art and font resources can be found on the Desktop Publishing page
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