Sunday, November 14, 2010

Assignment 5 - Video Toolbox, Be an Expert in Video!

Description of Assignment 5:
    This assignment should be created by Video Toolbox, merging videos clips and edit the clips.



As illustrated on its website, Video Toolbox is an advanced online video editor. It provides powerful functions of converting, cropping, mergeing or recording ... And it "analyses your video files and displays detailed information about the codec..." Converts your files between all of the popular video formats (3GP, AMV, ASF, AVI, FLV, MKV, MOV, M4V, MP4, MPEG, MPG, RM, VOB, WMV). And, also, Video Toolbox gains lots of features, which have been shown on its website:
  • In simple mode: all you have to do is select the output format.
  • In advanced mode: you can make changes to advanced settings such as:
        - video codec, resolution, bit rate, frame rate.
 - audio codec, bit rate, sample rate, channels.
  • Adds a text watermark to your video file.
  • Cuts video at start and end points that you determine.
  • Crop video with just few clicks
  • Merges multiple files for you into a single video track.
  • Extracts audio, video or subtitle text from a file -- a feature known as demux.
  • Records video from your webcam or another movie device.
  • Takes snapshots and creates thumbnails off your video clip.
  • Adds embedded subtitles to your video file.
Besides, on the website of Video Toolbox, there are many links to other converting software, which could be useful for the converstion between different formats, not only for video, also for audio. Always, the compatibility of videos for edition is a big problem for beginner. I have to download many software for converstion, because of my digital camera. With the links on Video Toolbox website, it becomes much easier for me to choose which one is much more proper for editing. A tip here is that, MP4 the format is usually prefered by uploading. So, if it is possible, try to convert your video file to MP4 when uploading for any edition.
As for me, this assignment to certain degree made me a little bit frustrated, compared with other assignment in IT644. It is a pity about this assignment for me, the topic I chosen for the assignment is not good to show combination of the two videos by Video Toolbox. Actually, the functional of Video Toolbox is very strong and powerful, not just combination of videoes. The problem I met happened for the last step of exporting file to youtube. This is a serious problem, which I did not realize before I had this assignment. For the previous work in this assignment, I chosen part of a movie for edition, (surely note where it is from). But the embeded code was not permitted to share the video. There is no other way to solve this problem, THE VIDEO MUST BE ORIGHINAL!!!

Video Toolbox also could also be an good and interesting for instruction. Instructors could use this software to create tutorial video, background introduction video, etc. As for English or language teaching class, I prefer to use Video Toolbox as an effective background introduction tool, combining and editing any relative videos togethor to share with learners.

1 comment:

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