Our group used a video as the final product for our project. However, along the way we used several other programs as well. First, we used a PowerPoint slide show to organize our work. It gave us a great outline and foundation for our final video product. We also used Jing to make a screencast of a tutorial on how to create a Wikispaces account and how to get started with your first wiki. Then, an audio recording of our script was dubbed over the presentation and the Jing videos were added. Then the final product was posted to youtube, to be shared with all!
During the process of this project, I learned that many technical difficulties can happen. Jing worked well for the tutorial videos I originally created, but after converting them twice and putting them together in Movie Maker, the quality seemed to suffer. So, I decided to try and recreate them with CamStudio. The videos looked great, but every time I tried to do anything with them in Movie Maker, the program would crash. I was avoiding converting the files because of the quality issues from earlier, but after several days of attempting to edit the files, I gave up and tried to convert them with Prism video converter. At first, it worked very well. But half way through the videos, it started cutting things out and producing videos in black and white that were slanted. It was all so frustrating that I gave up and just used the original tutorial videos from Jing. They have a Moyea watermark on them and the sound changes, but in the end, Jing caused far fewer problems.
If I had to do this again, I would probably either try to find a tutorial made by someone else, or just buy the full version of Jing that can directly upload to Youtube. I would also learn to give up and try something else a lot sooner. Giving up is not always a bad thing. I wasted days worth of time trying to make a program work that obviously was not fit for the job I needed it to do. Overall, all of my group members were fantastic. They did their jobs well and as well as helped others when they could.
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