AV Workshop 2009/10

14th December 2009
Eliz, Maureen and myself went along to the December meeting of Dioparama.  They were having an internal competition and there were about 10 av’s shown.  The winner was a documentary style show about a Greenock Tugboat which sank a couple of years ago.  Great photography with a narration over the top – a different style of av to what we have seen before.  Well worth going along.

9th November 2009
I went along to the monthly meeting of Dioparama to see how the experts do it.  The first half was a tutorial about Audacity – used for editing and sequencing audio together.  Second half was Hugh Kerr showing off 4 of his recent AV’s.  Really inspiring – and good use of music and sound effects.

26th November 2009

Bill, Eliz, Jack and myself met last night at my house to have our first AV Group meeting.  Bill brought round his projector and we went through some of the options available, techniques and Bill showed us some av presentations he has produced.

Bill's opinion is that the program Pictures to Exe is the best.  It is simple and powerful, easily customisable and produces the crispest and best quality shows.  Bill took us through the process of putting together a short sequence of sound effects which will come in handy when putting our av's together.

I was thinking that we could all have an attempt at an individual, short av (1-2 mins) to get the basics together before the next group meeting.  I am sure that once we try and put something together there will be a lot of questions that we can help one another with.

 

Links from the night.

PicturesToExe, – AV software

The DOM - Pictures to EXE resources

Audacity – Audio Edition 

SoundDogs – Sound Effects website (remember -> right click on the mp3 icon and click "save target as" to get them for free)