February 8, 2012

President, Mike Salter, lead us in another entertaining and informative meeting.  The focus was on Movie Maker and how we can easily turn our photos into a movie with background music, scrolling credits, smooth transitions, etc.  Mike demonstrated how fun a movie can be by creating a presentation which included the photos club members had emailed him during the week.  Now that we know how easy the program can be, we are challenged to create a show for next week's meeting.

Here is the recent message from Mike:

"How about a few movies?

If you make a movie with Windows Live Movie Maker, save it as a computer file (windows media).  Send it to me at msalter@cyg.net or bring the file on a "jump drive".  We can show them off!!!  If you have trouble - send me an email - together we'll solve the problem.  If your Windows Media file (that's the one you make when you're done) is over 10 Meg - it may not successfully go through the email to me, so ..............

When you're done, call 7338 or email msalter@cyg.net and I'll come round and copy it onto a flash drive.  Or bring it to class next week."

After Movie Maker, we learned about all the different kinds of storage devices for our electronic data and how to safely backup our programs and computer data.

See meeting notes at Mike's website:  www.homeiswhereweparkit.net 
and click on "Computer Club". 

Hope to see you next Wednesday!  Bring your laptop, keyboard and mouse.  We're having a "cleaning" session.