Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2011 Newsletter
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FlixTime is an application for producing videos of up
to 90 seconds with images, videos, music and text.
You upload personal photos, video clips and music,
and/or use the ones available on the site, and you
can easily create visually interesting videos without
the effort generally required by other slideshow
programs.
HISTORY
FlixTime went live on February 22nd 2010.
DIFFERENCES TO OTHER APPLICATIONS
FlixTime makes photo videos automatically and
easily. You choose images, videos, music and text,
and FlixTime generates the video with the selected
music and various transitions between slides. The
ease of use and automatic video generation is
unique.
You can choose the size and quality in the
parameters tab.
Then click OK.
Run the created file with QuickTime.
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FlixTime in a Flash
By Raluca Filip, Romania
I was first introduced to FlixTime by my colleague
and friend Daniela Arghir about three months ago,
and I like the tool very much. It is simple to use
and I have used it so far to present my projects to
the world – eTwinning and Comenius projects, and
other projects my students and I are involved in.
I will try to present this fine tool to you following a
scheme Daniela Arghir provided for me.
DOWNLOAD LINK: http://flixtime.com/
GETTING STARTED
After signing in to your FlixTime account, you need
to click on the "create a new video" button at the
top of the page. From this page, you can add
photos, video clips, music and text. Click on the
"Add Photos/Videos" button, and you will be
presented with two choices: Upload and Media
Lounge. You can upload images from your
computer to FlixtTme, or select photos from the
Media Lounge. You will also be presented with the
same choices for the "Add Music" — upload your
own music, or choose from the music collection
there. To create a text slide, simply click "Add Text
Slide", and enter your text in the "main text" and
"subtext" fields. You can create 15 or fewer slides.
To move and organize images, simply click then
drag and drop the image to the place in the timeline
that you would like it to appear. You can also move
images around by dragging and dropping them in
the "organize" view.
To rotate and duplicate images, click on the
checkmark in the top right hand corner of the
thumbnail image you wish to manipulate. Under the
image, you will see buttons to rotate, highlight, and
duplicate the image.
You can upload these kinds of files:
Video: avi, mpg, flv, wmv and mov files,
maximum file size and resolution: 75MB, a
maximum of 10 seconds per clip;
Audio: mp3 files, maximum file size: 15MB;
Photos: jpeg, gif and png files, maximum
file size: 7MB.
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