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Communicating Using Technology
Vol. 3 Issue 22 October 26, 2004
Published and Copyright by Dave Paradi
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In this issue:
1. Clip Art License
2. Capturing Video
3. Scanning Tips
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1. Clip Art License
In a presentation I was at earlier this year the presenter stated
that you cannot use Microsoft's clip art in your slides or
documents if you are charging money for them. This surprised me,
so went to the Microsoft clip art site and here is the relevant
part of what they say in their license:
"You may copy and modify the Media Elements, and license, display
and distribute them, along with your modifications as part of
your software products and services, including your web sites,
but you are not licensed to do any of the following:
You may not sell, license or distribute copies of the Media
Elements by themselves or as part of any collection, product or
service if the primary value of the product or service is in the
Media Elements." (you can read the whole text at
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tou.aspx)
So what does this mean for the average business presenter? It
means that you can indeed use the Microsoft clip art or other
media elements in your presentations, books and CDs as long as
what you are selling is not primarily those media elements. This
should not be a problem for most of us since as I have always
said, the graphics or multimedia should only be used to enhance
the message you deliver with your words, they should never be a
substitute for the words that you say.
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2. Capturing Video
Last weekend my wife and I ran the service at church. As part of
the announcements, we wanted to use two short (40 second) clips
from a video tape of a recent conference (the church has
permission to use the video this way). It was on a VHS tape, and
the question was: How do I get it onto my laptop? If you have a
traditional video capture card in a desktop PC, it is no problem,
but I don't have that. So what I ended up doing was recording
the two segments from our VCR onto our Sony digital camcorder
(side note: digital camcorders are great ways to get audio or
video from other sources into a digital format). Then, I hooked
up the camcorder to the Firewire port on my laptop and
transferred the video to my computer. And the application I
ended up using to capture the video was Windows Movie Maker,
which is installed as part of Windows XP (and may be in previous
versions of Windows or downloadable). It is a great little
program and worked much better than the fancy capture software
that came with my laptop. It will capture video from an attached
video device, which could be a camcorder or a webcam (which I
have done as well). It was really simple to edit the start and
end of the clip and save it in a very compressed WMV format. The
WMV format was easy to import into PowerPoint and played without
a hitch. If you need to capture some video clips for video
testimonials or other purposes, I suggest you check out this gem
of a piece of software built right into the operating system.
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3. Scanning Tips
Most of the time I talk about digital formats of information, but
what happens when you have photos that are traditionally printed?
How do you scan them in? Do you just accept the default settings
on your scanner and leave it at that? The answer is maybe.
There are many considerations when scanning, and to learn a lot
more about how to make yours scanned photos look much better, hop
on over to a web site called http://scantips.com. The author has
spent the time to research the topic and offers a lot of
information that will help you understand why certain settings
may be useful to you.
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Rochester, NY, Buffalo NY, Detroit, MI, Cleveland, OH,
Pittsburgh, PA or Toronto, ON. Just e-mail me at:
dave@communicateusingtechnology.com for more info.
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This newsletter is:
CUT Oct 26/04 [PPT Clip Art, Capturing Video]
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