Documentation:DIY Media Old Toolkits/Annotated Presentations/Edit

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CHECKLIST:
  • Ensure your audio is clear and balanced throughout your presentation.
  • Check that you move at a steady pace: not too fast or too slow.
  • Ensure all graphics, sounds and effects are necessary.
  • Eliminate any extraneous information.
  • Review against Mayer's principles for multimedia design.
  • Get feedback on a rough cut of your presentation from learners.

This is where you will be assembling your presentation, and adding title slides and acknowledgements (including references to any source material, images, music or video clips you have included).

Editing

  • French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery said that 'perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away', and that certainly applies to video. Ask yourself if you can remove content and still communicate your point. Anything unnecessary will probably serve as a distraction.
    • If you can't cut anything, but feel like your video is too long, consider splitting it in two.
  • Including a title slide with a brief overview of the material you plan on covering can help set a learner's expectations up. Branded title slides are available from UBC. Click here for more information.

Software

Professional editing software tends towards the complex, and can scare a lot of people away, but the developers typically create amazing documentation for their software. Have a look below for some suggestions and tutorials.

  • Final Cut Pro X is a powerful video editing program widely used by professional videographers and filmmakers. It is available for use at various Mac Workstations in UBC Vancouver Library locations. You can have a look at these basic tutorials for iMovie and Final Cut Pro.
  • Camtasia is a great editing tool which doubles as screen-capture software. Camtasia is available for PC and Mac, with campus-wide licenses for both versions.
  • Auadacity is a free, powerful program to help with audio editing.
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TIPS:
  • Don't use too many transitions! Flashy ones are especially bad. The focus should be on the content.
  • Use the 'remove noise' filter. Most editing suites have options to remove background noise, like whirring or static.
  • Pick one set of editing software and stick to it. It'll make your life much simpler.
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