To Make an Alias to get to your folder in the server

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1 Pages of this handout If you click on the thumbnail tab on the left you will see all of these pages. For speed you can click on the exact page that you want, or scroll through for all of them. You can print certain pages, or all or none of them. Or you can simply save them for when you might need some of the information. If you would rather have the info on a CD, me. The purpose of these documents is so that you have a handy reference on the following subjects. Page: 2.- make an alias to your folder on the server, for speed. 3.- make a PDF, & some comments on AppleWorks 6 Draw 4.- menu options in AppleWorks 6 Draw older version 5. menu options in AppleWorks 6 Draw newer version 6. how to change color of text, import QuickTime movies, & replacing pages 7. making multi-page documents & linking pages 8. major changes to existing PDF s that were originally made in Illustrator how to work in imovie

2 To Make an Alias to get to your folder in the server This is for the purpose of not having to wait while the computer goes through the whole list of folders to get to yours. These folders are taking the place of the grant shared system we used last year. (Don t ask me why!!) To make the alias you have to: 1. log into the server by going to the chooser, selecting Appleshare and typing in the IP address-web.msd.k12.wi.us, and connect. 2. Type in your user name and password and connect. 3. You want to select only User, but don t check the box (if you do it will come up every time you boot up your computer) and say OK. 4. Close the chooser. 5. Don t open the Users volume that appears on your desktop. Instead go to the finder (Apple F ), check only the box User, (deselect the other volumes), type in your user name and click find. 6. When it finds your user name click on it and holding the Apple and Option keys, drag it to the desk top, then close Sherlock. To USE this Alias of your folder name, you still have to repeat steps 1-4, and then double click on the Users volume that appears on your desktop. Having clicked on it you immediately double click on your Alias and it should take you right to your folder. What is in your folder? Many other places to select where you may want to put your stuff. Jeremy recommends the Public folder inside your personal folder. This can be seen by others, but not altered or removed. Within that folder is a Drop Box where other people can Drop things in but can neither see nor remove anything. Only you can do that. So depending on your need for privacy, take your pick. This is a good place for your back up stuff. This isn t nearly as convenient as last year, but it is better than nothing for back up. Also remember that you will have to change your Chooser back to your printer before you can print anything.

3 To Make a PDF In Illustrator, you simply Save AS a PDF and it does it. You might want to save it as an Illustrator document first, however, in case you want to make major changes. In PDF form you can make text changes. From AppleWorks or Microsoft Word there are more steps. First save file as you usually do, then Go to Chooser and select AdobePS. A printer (that you don t have) will come up in the box next to the printer icons--ignore it, and close the window. 2. Go to Page Set Up and select orientation. 3. Go to Print --You will get a window that starts out: Printer: Create Adobe PDF --this is OK, but if you don t see that, click the arrow to choose it. Go to Job Options: ebook and change this to Job Options: print. Go down to save and do so. 4. After you have saved, as in previous step, you will get a window that wants to know where you want your PDF file put. After you have selected a location, it will take a little while for the actual PDF file to appear there. 5. Remember that you will have to change your Chooser back to your printer if you actually want to print something. And every time you want to make a PDF you will have to repeat the above steps. 6. To save yourself time you might want to collect several pages and convert them at the same time, so you don t have to keep changing your printer. AppleWorks 6 Draw Some things that I have discovered about AppleWorks 6 in Draw Mode. How many of these apply to AW. 5 I don t know, since I don t have it. 1. If you want to bring text into your document: a. If you use Copy & Paste, it will come, but you can only change the shape, not the size of the text box. The text will be editable, but the format might change, ie words moved. b. If you drag text in, it is completely editable, and format stays the same. c. You can go to the File menu and Insert the text. It will be completely editable. d. If you have used the Return key to end your lines, those ends are not changeable. 2. Holding the shift key while changing the size of an image doesn t necessarily keep the proportions the same, as in other programs. 3. To unlock the background color squares, Select Arrange and drag down to Unlock. If you want to change the color of background, Go To Window and drag down to Show Accents. Once there, Click on Fill while the area you want to change is selected and click on new color. (These locations are shown in the colorful handout Some Menu Options in AppleWorks 6...)

4 Some Menu Options in AppleWorks 6 Draw Mode Show Accents Lock Menu to lock or unlock objects such as text, pictures or background color shapes To change text or objects: 1. You must have something selected that you want to change (text or object) in your document. 2. You need to click on the FILL, PEN or TEXT to choose the one you want to change. 3. For Fill, select the kind of change using tabs at the bottom of Accents menu. If you should want to actually draw something that the squiggly line in the Tools Menu won t do, you will need the painting tools. To get to them click on the left icon at the bottom of the Tools Menu (next to the tool box icon. Click on the icon then make a box on your document with the paintbrush that appears when the cursor is moved back to the page. The paint tools will then work within that box when you have clicked back on the red tool box Menu to get Tools Palette if it says Show Tools or to get Show Accents to change background colors, textures, patterns, or line thichness. Colors Patterns Gradient Textures Pen is the outline color for objects or for kinds of lines & arrows. Text color can be changed in Format Menu also (top bar of computer window). the Palette setting, if you scroll down, will give you many different color palettes, (also different Texture palettes and Gradient palettes. Line thickness icon. Remember that the colors you select will be made as FILL, not Pen so Fill must be selected in Accents Menu. Double click on a tool to get more possibilities. If you go back to the box and you don t get your tools to show even when you select (has handles) the box, try double clicking on the box.

5 Menu Options in AppleWorks 6 Draw Mode (v.2) Show Accents Menu to lock or unlock objects such as text, pictures or background color shapes To change text or objects: 1. You must have something selected that you want to change (text or object) in your document. 2. You need to click on the FILL, PEN or TEXT to choose the one you want to change. 3. For Fill, select the kind of change using tabs at the bottom of Accents menu. If you should want to actually draw something that the squiggly line in the Tools Menu won t do, you will need the painting tools. To get to them click on the icon and drag it to your document. It will make a box. Click on the box and the draw tools will then work within that box, which, because it has handles, is changeable. Remember that the colors you select will be made as FILL, not Pen so Fill must be selected in Accents or in the solid box in the left Menu. Double clicking on some tools will get you more possibilities. Lock Colors Menu to get Tools Palette if it says Show Tools or to get Show Accents to change background colors, textures, patterns, or line thichness. Pen is the outline color for objects or for kinds of lines & arrows. Text color can be changed in Format Menu also (top bar of computer window). the Palette setting, if you scroll down, will give you many different color palettes, (also different Texture palettes and Gradient palettes. Patterns Gradients Textures Line thickness, arrows To border a box or picture select it and click the outline in lower left menu (below solid color box) or use Accents menu. Select line width and color from either menu also, but in Accents remember that outlines are Pen not fill.

6 Questions That Have Arisen About PDF s To change the color of text in a PDF, go to the T (bottom right of Menu bar), scroll to Touch up Text and select the text that you want to change. Go to Tools, (mid point of top Menu bar), scroll down to Touch up Text and over to Text Attributes. A window will appear and at the bottom left corner is an icon like this. Click on the black square and it will allow you to select from a list of colors. Click back on the hand then on the document to navigate again. Yes you can import QuickTime movies. You add them to a page using the Movie Tool (looks like film, next to the Link tool) on the 2 nd line of Acrobat 5 menus. (It will be easier if you put the Q-Time movies you are selecting into the folder with your pages since it will need to be there when you burn your CD.) After clicking on the Movie Tool use the crosshairs to define where you want the movie to be placed on your page. You will need to select some things in the window that comes up. By clicking the Choose you will need to locate your movie. Other choices are cosmetic, such as if you want a border around your movie (which will stay on the page even when the movie isn t playing), play? times, and do you want to use a poster for the movie. Like the border, it would show when the movie isn t playing. This page and movie can be placed into an existing document, but if you try to use the page to replace an existing page in that document, the movie will not come with the page. You can easily replace the movie on the page by repeating the original steps from above. Replacing Pages is done in Acrobat 5 by going to Document (on top menu bar) and dragging down to Replace Pages, then telling what page you want to use as the replacement page. It will ask if you are sure that you want to replace page 3 (or whichever) with your new selection. It is that easy. Now how about any existing links on the old page? If the new page has the same format the links will stay and work. If you have a different layout then no they won t stay but if you replace that new page with the same format as the old page, then they are still there. If the format is basically the same, but things are in a different position you may have to correct the links. To do this click on the Link Tool then the page to make the link buttons show up. This might be as easy as dragging the edges of link button (after you have clicked on the button) to a new place or size. If you have to change where the link goes then double click on the link button that you want to change and it will bring up the window that you used originally to make the link. Go to edit destination near the bottom, and change that to Fit to View, then double click on the page to which you want to link. Click Set Link. This is the process anytime you want to CHANGE a Link.

7 Starting a multi page PDF document To get your PDF pages into a multi page document, open Acrobat 5. Under File drag down to Open and select the file you want open. If your file is a PDF already, or if it is an Illustrator file, it will open as a PDF automatically if it is text. If it contains pictures, only the text will open, even though the pictures appear in the thumbnails. To get the pictures too, make it a PDF first. If your file is still in Word or AppleWorks it won t open until you have made it a PDF. Or you can start your document by opening one of your PDF s and you are ready to go from there. To put more pages into your document, Go To Document and Drag down to insert pages. In the window that comes up, select the file that you want by clicking through to its location and opening or double clicking on its name. In this window, in the lower left corner it will say show: Adobe PDF files. If what you want is an Illustrator or JPEG file scroll to Show All Files to get those files to appear. After selecting a file, the window that comes up then is just about the order of the pages, and you can set it there, or reorder them in the thumbnails if they are wrong. If you don t have Thumbnails showing on the left side of your pages, Click on the Thumbnail tab at the far left. You can reorder pages by dragging them into the order you want them. You can click on a Thumbnail page to bring that one up, or you can scroll to it. To Link Pages To link pages click once on the Link tool icon (looks like 2 chain links) on 2nd row of Acrobat 5 icons. It changes the hand to crosshairs. Draw a rectangle over the area that you want to be the BUTTON. It will have handles if you want to change the size of the button. A window called Link Properties will appear and you will have choices: Appearance: visible or invisible rectangle around the button None, inset, or invert the button when you click on it Action: You want Go to View Magnification: You want Fit Width or Fit in Window In the lower lefthand corner will list the page # that you are on. DOUBLE CLICK ON THE PAGE (IN THE THUMBNAILS) THAT YOU WANT TO LINK TO. The page # and the page itself will change to the one you select to link to. Then click Set Link. Try the link. You will need to click back on the hand, to try the link. If it still doesn t work try clicking once on the Graphics Select Tool (2nd row left side) that looks like this then clicking on the page. To try the link again, click back on the hand.

8 To Replace Graphics in an Existing PDF, or Make Other Major Changes (If the Graphics were Originally made in Illustrator) 1. Open your multi page PDF document from Illustrator. ("Open" and locate your Acrobat document) 2. You will need to select the page that you want to change from the window that appears. 3. After you have selected the page you want to modify, you will get a window that tells your the document has been modified outside Illustrator, then asks you how you want to proceed. You want to KEEP CHANGES (even though it reduces editing capabilities) 4. If you are adding or replacing graphics, use "Place" (under File menu) and find the new image you want. 5. While the new image is "Placed" and "selected," (it should have Handles) go to the "Links" window and click on the right arrow then to scroll to "Embed Image". Text changes don t need to be "selected," or "Embedded," just saved as in next step. 6. Do a "Save" file (not "save as") 7. You can (and should) now open your Illustrator Document From Acrobat because it was saved as an Acrobat document even though you were making your changes in Illustrator. Sometimes the Acrobat icon for the multi-page PDF document stays, and sometimes it becomes an Illustrator icon again, If it tries to open as an Illustrator file and gives you the same window as in Step 2, go to Acrobat and do an "open" and select the file that way. Even if you make no changes, save it again while in Acrobat. 8. At this point you might want to do a "save as" (changing its name or number) in Acrobat (as a PDF). This is not the same as doing a "Save As an Adobe PDF" when you were in Step 6. At that point it would have eliminated all of the other pages except the one you were changing. You can make minor text changes when in Acrobat (such as changing or inserting words (if they don't make the line too long since it won't wrap to the next line), or spelling corrections, or color of text without doing the above steps. This is just for Graphics and major changes to a page if you don't want to go to the original page (or it no longer exists) in Illustrator, make changes, saving it as an Illustrator document, then renaming it and saving as a PDF, then doing a "Replace Pages" from Acrobat document.

9 Working with imovie 1. Connect camera to computer. 2. Make sure that the camera is connected to the plugged in power pack so it isn t running on battery. 3. Boot up imovie and at the beginning window select New Movie (or Open Project if you have already downloaded your video and saved it) 4. Name your video (or the default name is My Great Movie ) something you will recognize and tell it where to save it, then click Create. 5. Make sure the camera is connected (and at the starting point of what you want). The screen will tell you if it is connected or not. If it isn t connected check: a. That the camera is turned to VTR as if you were video taping b. That blue button beside the DV (on computer screen) is to the left (i.e. the diagram) 6. You can view the tape without importing by clicking the bigger arrow below picture (the little arrow will make the picture full screen and if you want to change it back, just click anywhere on the screen). 7. If you are ready to work on editing then click on the Import button and each clip will appear on the shelf to the right, with an indication of its length above it. Usually this is a seconds and tenths of seconds, (i.e. 34:07). If longer, then minutes come first, (i.e. 2:12:35). Tip When actually video taping students try to video only 1 student in each clip. It will make editing easier lat More about this if you have videoed more than 1 student in a class session. Editing Your Video 1. Click and Drag 1 or more clips from the shelf to the space at the bottom as shown here. (The second clip was dragged down to the editing area.) 2. You can view any clip in either place by clicking on it, then clicking the arrow, as before. The length of selected clips (1 or more at 1 time) will be shown on the blue slider bar. 3. The white arrow above the blue bar can be dragged to any part of the selected clips to view from that point. If the video was playing when you dragged the white arrow, it will continue to play from the new point. To stop the video, click on the black arrow again. 4. If you want more than 1 clip below selected, hold the shift key while clicking on them. To deselect click somewhere not on a selected clip. 5. Now for the tricky part How to edit out parts of a clip. a. Remember that there is no way of recovering the clips from the trash except Undo in the reverse order that you did things, last to first, or Quit without saving. Also remember it is still on the tape b. Select clip in the editing area that you want to edit. c. Bring the cursor up toward the bottom line of the blue slider bar (don t actually touch it) and click and drag the right half of the white arrow that should appear faintly. Drag that half arrow to the end point of what you want to delete. The yellow bar can be adjusted at either end by dragging the half arrows. d. Don t be dismayed if the faint white arrow doesn t appear because this is the tricky part. Keep trying, moving the cursor slightly until

10 it does appear. Always approach the slider bar from the below. Having chosen the part to edit, you have a choice about what you want to do. i. Use the Delete key segment can be recovered with an undo if you don t like the new clip. I the deleted segment was mid clip, the second part of the original clip becomes renumbered Cl 01/1. To delete whole or parts of clips you can draw them to the trash, but cannot drag the out. Be patient, we ll get to transitions! Or ii. Copy and paste the selected part (in case your not sure) but it is still on the tape so you migh want to just go for it, as above, and hopefully save time. But if you are really cautious 1. Select the clip that you want to edit and copy and paste it. Drag the copy to the she 2. Use the delete process above for selecting the segment that you want to delete and it. View the edited version of the original clip and decide if that is what you want. a. If yes, then delete the copy on the shelf. b. If no, then you can replace the shortened clips with the copy from the shelf (after deleting the edited clips), or do an Undo to re-edit. iii. Use Cut from the Edit menu bar. This works the same as the delete key. e. The numbers on the clips can be confusing. Whenever you cut (or delete) something out of a clip th second (or remaining) part of the clip has the same first number as the original clip but the second number is the number of clips made from the original clip, in the sequence that it was edited, and ha nothing to do with its actual placement in the original clip. Therefore you could have a sequence su as Clip 01, Clip 01/3, Clip 01/1 and be right according to events taped, just not necessarily in consecutive numerical order but it is the sequence in which you edited it. This is not a problem unles you put some edited clips on the shelf and want to reuse them, and can t remember where they go. you think that you have messed things up because the numbers don t look right. 6. Now for the fun part! Transitions from one clip to another. a. Under the gallery of clips there are several choices. You have been using the one labeled Clips but now you want the one labeled Transitions. This brings up a list of possible ways to transition either between slides or at the beginning and/or end of the movie. b. You can preview what the transition does in the small window above the list. c. Click and drag the specific transition to the place between two clips (or in front of the first, or afte the last) and the clips will move to make room for it. Be patient because it takes time for the actua transition to load. There is a thin red line below the inserted transition that shows the loading tim When that line disappears, the transition is loaded and you can use it. NOTE- the clips that the transitions join must be long enough to allow a transition, and if you delete a clip touching a transition it will also delete that transition. d. To view clips and transitions you must select all that you want to view (it doesn t read your mind) then click the black arrow. e. To delete a transition just select it and use delete. 7. Titles a. Choices i. You will have 2 lines (in a box) in which to type your title. If you select Centered Multiple from the choices that you have, you can get more lines, but anything beyond the original 2 w only work in that choice. That means only the first 2 lines will Bounce to Center as select in diagram. But you could have 4 or 6 lines if you chose Centered Multiple, and they will scroll up with pauses to read. ii. You can adjust the direction the words enter by clicking on the arrows in the round knob the left of your choices.

11 iii. Times is the default font. You can make your own choice by clicking on the arrow and scrolling. iv. The Size of the font is controlled by the slider bar (small A to big A) at right of font selection. v. Click on Color box to get palette for font color. vi. If you select Over Black that is where the title will appear. If you don t click Over Black the title will appear directly over the movie. vii. Just below the Preview window you can use the slider bars to adjust the Speed for flying Words (etc) and length of Pause for readability. Again, times are given in Seconds and Tenths of seconds. viii. Another choice is Scrolling Block and is for long text (i.e. explanation of what viewer is seeing). It slowly scrolls upward, and can be however long you want to type. b. Insertion of Titles By the way, I hope that you have been saving what you have done!!!! i. Having made your selection the small preview box will show you briefly what it will look li and will do so every time you click on your style choice. If you want to see it in real time, cl on the Preview button. ii. To insert the completed title, click and drag your choice of style to the editing line in front o the first clip. iii. In the case of a Scrolling Block, click and drag the style to between 2 clips (or at the beginning of the video in place of a title). 8. Effects This allows you to Sharpen, make Black and White, Sepia, Brighten, or Ripple your video. 9. Audio Allows you to insert Prerecorded sounds (Barking, Clapping, Breaking Glass, etc), Your Voice, or tracks from CD s. a. Click on the Clock icon so you get timelines for sound. To go back to clips, click on the Eye icon b. To insert a prerecorded sound (it becomes a small blue square as in diagram), click and drag the selected sound to the sound bar, judging its placement according to the clips on the top line. It can always be moved (or deleted) by selecting and dragging to a new place. c. To insert music, select the track you want and slide white arrow to the insertion point. If a track i selected, click Record Music. Click Stop for ending recording. The recorded sound is the purple band in the diagram and can be moved by dragging. You can Fade In and/or Fade Out by dou clicking on the selected sound (purple bar) or by using the slider bar in the lower right corner of you screen. Advantage of double clicking is if you want to adjust the length of the Fade In/Out. Now that you have edited, titled and everything you intend to do to your movie, make sure that you save it. Once you have exported to QuickTime it is no longer editable. So if you are in doubt, and feel you might want to edit further, keep your imovie file too.

12 Exporting, Saving single frames, and Making a separate video of a student when 2 or 3 were recorded in a single session From Tip on Page 1 If you filmed more than 1 student in a single session (class period) and you imported all of the clips from the camer you might want to list, on a piece of paper, the numbers of the clips for each of the other students separately. Because you do not have a Save As component to this program you can t just edit the second student s clips and give the file a new name. What you have to do is open a New File and import clips from the original file. You can import all of them if you want to, then sort them out later, but that takes time and space on your computer. Now you see the sense of not including a second student within any 1 clip. You would have pieces everywhere. To Export your video- -QuickTime movies take less space than imovie files, but are not editable. 1. Go to File menu and select Export 2. In window: a. Scroll to: Export - to QuickTime b. Scroll to: Format - and select the size that you want. For space on our CD I chose CD Rom Medium (and later compressed it in a different program which didn t change the size of the visual image the way going to a smaller format in imovie does). Since you won t have a space problem on individual student CD s you might want to go larger. Just remember the bigger the more room the video takes on your computer. 3. Click Export 4. Give your video a destination and new name (remember My Great Movie is the default name.) To save a single frame for use elsewhere- - These frames are useful for photos on a student s project page. Open them from Photoshop 5 or 6 application and resize, crop or whatever, and save as a Jpeg file and insert. 1. After stopping the video on the frame that you want, go to File and select Save Frame As. (This is not the same as Create Still Clip under the Edit menu, which puts a still clip on the shelf in imovie file.) 2. Select from window, and Save a. Destination b. Name c. Format probably Jpeg To make separate videos for different students from a single session- 1. Either boot up your original file, or imovie itself and go to New Project 2. Give your new file the name of 2 nd student and project (if student is likely to have another video) for clarity and click Create. 3. Go to File menu and select Import File 4. Locate your original file and click on media and Open 5. If you know which clips you want, select them by holding the Shift key down while selecting. If you don t know which ones you want, see Blue Notes at top of this page. 6. After importing the clips that you need, edit as you did with original file. Repeat for each student. 7. For the purpose of space on your hard drive, when you are through editing all of the students from that video session, you might want to go to the original file named (do you still remember??) and delete the clips that you imported to the other student s files.