501 Multimedia in E-Books Media 6: Video Software and Camcorders p. 1 | Special Offers & Featured Items in Video Software & Digital Video Cameras | ||
| 501 Media 1 Home Media 2: Clips Media 3: Graphics Media 4: Photo p. 1 Photo p. 2 Media 5: Audio -->Media 6: Video p. 1 Video p. 2 502 Adding Multimedia to Your E-Book 503 Using Interactive Features in Your E-Book | See WP Media Catalog for video software | ||
E-book writers who wish to include video clips in their e-books may need: Course Outline (this format for Media 4 Photos)
Video Cameras/Camcorders A digital camera with video capabilities is adequate for e-books if you don't have a video camera. For example, flash object and video clips below were taken with the Nikon Coolpix 8800 digital camera to illustrate the types of multimedia that can be included in an e-book: View the panorama taken with Nikon CP 8800 and saved as html file with Arcsoft Panorama Maker for an interesting "fly around" feature of a 360 degree image. This would be quite useful and appealing in a variety of e-books, particularly multimedia travelogues and some how-to e-manuals. You may need to install the small Arcsoft VRML viewer plug-in here: www.arcsoft.com/downloadspanoramamaker.html
Video Edit Magic is a Windows video editing application that gives you high-end power at an entry-level price. Its drag-and-drop interface makes it easy to capture video footage onto the editing timeline and assemble a movie in mere minutes. Then add professional scene transitions, some background music, a couple of title effects, and get ready to show the world your finished masterpiece. You can even edit and combine popular file formats including AVI, WMV, ASF, MPEG, JPEG and many more, all on the same timeline. This really comes in handy and saves a lot of time, when you want to create something truly unique from multiple media sources. A unique benefit of Video Edit Magic is the volume track which is displayed as a volume graph allowing you to change the volume of audio clips at any point from 0% to 400%. You can create fade-ins, fade-outs, dopler effects, and almost any volume effect that may have required predefined effects. Video Edit Magic includes more than 150 built-in transitions, making it ideal for hobbyists and professionals to turn ordinary videos into works of art. Download Your Free Trial of Video Edit Magic
ArcSoft VideoImpression® 2 is your ticket to cool home movies and slide shows. You don't need to be a computer whiz to put together awesome videos anymore. If you know how to drag-and-drop with your mouse, you're all set! In no time you can combine still images, video clips, audio tracks, text, and special effects into you very own movie. Make a VCD and play your movie on your DVD player! Try VideoImpression Now!
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Flash Video Studio Convert video file into Macromedia Flash SWF and FLV file. Add text and image watermark from a static image, an animated GIF or a transparent image (PNG) file. Trim videos and apply effects such as emboss, motion blur, mosaic, twirl, sepia, etc. Select from list of cool controls, which are fully customizable by changing its color and turning on/off a specific button. Adjust compression settings with a real time preview and a detailed bandwidth analysis to make sure your movie play seamlessly. Add a secondary soundtrack and upload the published movie automatically with a built-in FTP client. Publish and upload hundreds of movies at once using batch publish feature. Support the following video format: AVI, DIVX, MPG, WMV, ASF, Quicktime MOV. Flash Video Studio Free Trial Animator from C Point Software gives you an easy way to create AVI videos for including in your e-books: import images, sort them, add sounds and your logos and create AVI's. You can also extract images from AVI's, merge AVI's and sound files, convert AVI's to MPEG, and perform morphing, for less than $20 Animator Professional is a more advanced version for about $50. You can use it to create animations, videos and sounds for use in your e-books. Supported file types include animated GIF, AVI, MPEG, WAV, MP2, MP3 and over 20 image formats. It includes a variety of special effects. Batch-processing and conversions of images, animations, videos and sound files are possible. In a single procedure you can process a set of images to change their size, color resolution, and file format. Merge animations with sound and extract images and sounds from video files. You can create musical slide shows and with one click you can create a slide show of all the images in one folder. There are over 20 filters and effects with preview, allowing you to quickly create drop shadows, buttons, embossed images, mosaic, blended images, and so forth. Screen and resource capturing functions allow the capture of any shape you see on screen. The program supports precision polygon and freehand capturing with zoom preview. You can also capture output from TWAIN-compatible devices such as scanners and digital cameras. Animator gives you control over frame and repetition rates, color depth, compression and other aspects of generating animations and videos. Animator Professional Free Trial
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ArcSoft Video Stabilizer is a "must have." Even though my digital video camera and my digital photo camera with video mode both have image stabilization, the video clips are not as smooth as I would like. No matter how small and light your video camera is, holding it steady while you walk or keeping it still over long stretches of time is no simple task. And even though many of today's camcorders are equipped with an auto stabilization feature, they don't "get" it all. With ArcSoft Video Stabilizer, there’s now a quick, simple way to repair digital video shaking on your computer.
