Creating videos quickly and cheaply

With so many digital cameras in the market, and the prices of storage going down, the tools to create and edit video are now more accessible to everyone. We will have a look at some techniques in the following sections, namely:

• Grabbing video selections from DVDs with VLC

• Editing video using Windows Movie Maker

• Creating photo stories (videos made of photos) with Windows Photo Story

• Creating screencasts (screen recordings) with Jing

• Creating an online TV with Mogulus

• Creating a stop motion movie with Animator DV Simple+

Let's begin by using the work of others in our creations, and extracting video selections from DVDs.

Grabbing video selections from DVDs

Extracting video selections from a DVD can be really useful, for example, if we want to edit a video that we have created with a digital camera that records onto DVD discs, or extract a selection from a regular DVD. In our course, in Module 3-Music and Media, students are asked to create a movie trailer for the...