Week_4_Final Video

Here is my last video for week 4

PE7_Flash and Vuvox

Below, I will first show you how far I got with Flash because I am really proud of myself. 

Next,  wanted to share two different things I have been learning this week. Mostly, my focus has been on Flash, but I became really bored with the voice of the trainer so I decided to take a break from Flash. I explored other software tutorials on Lynda. I had heard of Vuvox before, and decided to explore this 2.0 tool. I was really excited when I started watching the tutorials, but as I began to create my own collage, but the first problem I encountered was that I could only upload 3 images to the work area. I did try to upload more at first, but it would not let me save and didn’t tell me why. The directions didn’t tell me why it wouldn’t save either, so I experimented. It would only save if there were only 3 images. Later in the tutorials though, it looked like they used more. I'll have to work on that some more.

Next, I learned (again the hard way) that wherever you cutout to place the media, it must be level and you cannot tilt it until later.

The irritating part of using this program is that it takes FOREVER to upload even small media, then the processing time takes equally as long.

I also learned from the Vuvox tutorial that saving media in an online account such as Picasa, Smugmug, or Flickr can be very useful. I like that my media can be accessed anywhere by me to be used in my creations. These online accounts also link up with Vuvox instantly so the downloading problem isn’t there because media such as short video clips can be linked to easily.

It is nice that the tutorial says that only mp3 audio can be used, but I still don’t know what kind of videos can be added! I usually work with .mov type of video, but as far as I can tell, I can’t seem to be able to use it. Clips or videos from UTUBE will work, so maybe I need to upload to that first, them bring in my videos from UTUBE. 

The tutorials also showed many ways to use the collage feature like linking it to Ebay to sell things, and linking to collections of art or videos.

Below is my completion certificate for Vuvox.

I am still working on Flash.

PE6_Flash

Learning Flash has definitely been a challenge. The first part of the Flash tutorials have been just learning the tools and what they do in Flash. Now it is starting to get a little more interesting because we are moving into the animation portion. I took lots of notes, now I just hope I can remember where the information is in the notes when I need it. It is extremely time consuming because I repeat the tutorials sometimes several times before I "get it".
I had hoped to begin making objects to show and make move, but it is really more difficult than it sounds.
I wonder what it is we will have to do with Flash in our EMDT class.
Hopefully, in my last post I can show SOMETHING I can be proud that I created.


 

BP10_Link to Erica Adkin's blog

Clink here to follow my post on Erica Adkin's Blogspot. She discovered an awesome useful tool.

BP9_Link to Matthew Park's blog

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PE5_Adobe Flash

Progress is slow especially because I watch some training videos several times so I can work with the trainer and they really move fast. (Or I am really slow) Hopefully, next week I can show some work I have created with this software. Thus far, I have just copied the trainer.

PE4_Flash

The training I wanted to check out and learn is Adobe Flash. It has really been challenging but interesting. Huge learning curve here.

I know I have come a long way since I have started although you wouldn't know it by looking at my progress on this screenshot. The entire concept is so foreign to me that it is time intensive. Since we will be using it later in this course, I thought I had better get moving to learn it.