Short lecture by Brian Sather at Eastern Oregon University on 4-12-09.

Describes the basic steps for working with video from start to finish. Read more »

This guide highlights the main steps of the process for transferring video from a digital video camera to a computer and editing the video.  This guide uses Windows Movie Maker because of its popularity and freeness for use in Windows. The process and concepts are similar for other video editing programs like iMovie, Corel Pinnacle, Adobe Premiere, VirtualDub, and Sony Vegas. Read more »

This guide outlines how to use MediaCoder to compress or convert audio or video files. You may want to do this if your file is very large or you need to convert it to a different format to more easily share with others. If your file is already in a standard format with good compression, then the process described here is not necessary. This guide does not address how to import the video from a camera, which should be performed with video editing software. Even though MediaCoder is specifically used here, similar principles can be applied to other media converters and encoders. Read more »