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[music video] Cleveland Democratic Primary Debate Spin Room


I went all out on this – teaching myself how to manage audio and everything. I had to cut some cropped clips that I couldn’t figure out how to keep from looking jerky (frame by frame problem) but otherwise, not bad. PS No messages are encrypted – I used what I got and am embarrassed to admit that the best clip I had, of Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher talking about Obama’s NEOhio meeting with Jewish leaders? I had the camera on “pause” the whole time.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:30 pm March 9th, 2008 in 'Roots News, Barack Obama, Blogging, Debates, Hillary Clinton, Ohio, Politics, Primary, WH2008 

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6 Responses to “[music video] Cleveland Democratic Primary Debate Spin Room”

  1. 1 Joel Libava on March 11th, 2008 6:18 am

    Jill, Nice job. So just HOW did you put a music bed underneath that vid?
    Joel Libava

  2. 2 Jill Miller Zimon on March 11th, 2008 7:03 am

    Aw – come on – you are just trying to flatter me, Joel. :) You know how to change volume levels etc.

  3. 3 Joel Libava on March 11th, 2008 7:11 am

    Actually..
    I have not embedded music on my videos yet. In the 80s, I was a Radio DJ. I used to produce commercials, so I am sure I will figure it out.
    You should be flattered.
    Joel

  4. 4 Jill Miller Zimon on March 11th, 2008 7:28 am

    Well, I AM flattered – I was serious.

    Ok – well – I used iMovies. I first had to take the Flip video and run it through iSquint. Then I opened up a “new project” in iMovie and dragged and dropped the .mpg that I got from the iSquint process into one of those iMovie frames in the new project.

    THEN – you have to go to the icons to the far left below the main screen your clip goes into.

    The icons are a clock thingy on the right and a film strip thingy on the left.

    If you use the clock thingy, you will get three sets of timelines on the bottom of the iMovie work area.

    Now – you have to go to “media” back over where you play with your clips, on the righthand side of the screen.

    Click media and then audio and you should get a menu that lets you see all your iTunes. Click on a tune you want and then I think I just dragged it into that timeline bar.

    Now – to change the length of the tune to fit your clip, you have deselect “show volume levels” or something like that under the “View” option from the top of the screen toolbar. Then use the slider bar thingy next to your audio clip down in the timeline and that will change the length.

    To change the audio level, a-ha, you must re-select “show clip volume level” and you will see a line going through everything. You can raise and lower that line with your mouse. You will also see an icon with a 100% at the bottom left. You can manually change the audio level there.

    What I did was make the music lower and the person’s audio louder so we could hear him over the music.

    :)

  5. 5 Joel Libava on March 11th, 2008 7:37 am

    Thanx, Jill
    I knew that.
    Joel

  6. 6 Jill Miller Zimon on March 11th, 2008 7:41 am

    I hope you don’t think that was funny. Seriously.

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