Chapter 9: Mastering Digital Video

I believe that everyone will record and make their own video at least once in their life. The reason being, there are so many ways to allow you to record any events that you would like to revisit later on. Most phones already come with cameras installed already. Video recorders are also sold through various marketers for those that take recording more seriously. Now you may be stuck... What do you do after you record a video? This chapter helps explain explain exactly what you can do by using a Windows Live application called Movie Maker. Movie maker allows you to import any and all of your recordings you have into one place. Here you can do many things. Maybe you recorded a part that you don't really like, you are able to trim that section out of the video. You can add pictures and visual effects to make your video pop out to others even more.There are many possibilities by using this application. More importantly, once you have finished you can export it to many different places. You can burn the video on a CD, export it to online sites such as YouTube, or just keep it saved as it's on file on your computer.

Chapter 8: Mastering Digital Pictures and Music

This chapter taught a lot about using the Windows Live applications, Photo Gallery and Media Player. It went into detail about all of the features these applications can use, as well as how they can be used with outside sources. Many people like myself will find good music or have pictures they would like to share with others. Over time, this may become a little cluttered and hard to find and locate exact pictures and videos. Photo Gallery makes it very easy to find those by tagging them. Then I can edit them by changing the colors, trimming and copping to the right size, and adding small effects to make the picture appear better. In Media Player, I can go through and listen to all my songs that I have downloaded. Not only that, but I can also stream online which makes it very convenient. The best feature in my opinion is the option to burn and rip songs and files off of CD's. Many times I was given a CD from a friend because it had music that I enjoyed, so being able to rip those off and saving them for my own is really nice. Sharing is caring when it comes to ripping/burning CD's.

Chapter 7: Advanced File Searching

This chapter focused on search functions and being able to search more broadly and more narrow. After using a computer for a long time, I've noticed that not all files I have created are in an easily accessible location. This makes it difficult for me to find older files that I need to revisit. Knowing correctly where and how to search allows these mistakes to be fixed with the proper search operations and filter use. Others that do not organize their files and folders definitely  need to learn these operations as well, because not knowing where you file is can basically be just as bad as not having the file at all. This picture below can show how hard it would be to navigate and find files. There's just too much clutter than it makes it difficult to remember where they all are.

Another amazing topic that was taught was searching by file types. If you download your music, capture your own pictures, record your own videos, etc, searching by file types makes it very easy to find what you want. Different files may contain the same name as well, so using its' file type narrow the search even further to exactly what you need.