[ale] easy, simple TV ad campaign assembly?

[Jim Kinney]

Kino is pretty easy to work with. Feed it a dv file (or capture from a video
camera) , edit it up to suit and paste it all back together and export as an
mpeg or quicktime.

2008/8/29 Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net>

> Hey folks--
>
> one of my clients is a high school that has a two-week-long schoolwide
> project focussed on the political cycle coming up soon.  A group of
> students (and a few teachers) will be studying TV advertisements, and
> would like to create their own as a project.
>
> We have aging Mac OS X machines (powerpc) and much more modern
> hardware running Ubuntu (Hardy).  I'd like to support them in terms of
> making simple pseudo TV ads, targetting a 30-second duration.  These
> users won't have the time to learn an really powerful or complicated
> tool, but i'd like to give them a simple one to make simple ads as
> they learn their way around the political process.  Does anyone have
> suggestions for software (preferably free software) that i should
> focus on to help them do this?
>
> I'd be fine with something as basic as, say, OpenOffice Impress, if it
> had the ability to do well-timed audio/visual transitions, but a more
> video-focused tool might be preferable, if a simple and functional one
> exists.
>
> Any experience with this kind of project?  Any suggestions on tools?
>
>    --dkg
>
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