Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Making movies in SecondLife

I've been making videos of JK's adventures in SecondLife during class sessions using CamStudio (a free download that Tacoma Community College Information Commons has handily bundled together with the SecondLife software onto USB drives that faculty and students can check out. It's easy: just start SecondLife, run CamStudio, and then save it to a portable hard drive once you're finished. It creates an .avi file that is readable by not only CamStudio but also Windows Media, and Quicktime.

When I'm done, I often convert the .avi to an MP4 so that I can upload it to YouTube or my blog. I've been using a program called Final Cut, but conversion can also be done in Windows Moviemaker.

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