Learn This Thing

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# Episodes
16 episodes
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Episodes of Learn This Thing

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  Organizing, saving, and deleting your Flip videos
  
  Organizing, saving, and deleting video from your Flip More Flip? You betcha. We've already showed you how to use The Flip and install the software. Now it's time to take a closer look.In this episode, we'll show you how to navigate your way around the software, rename clips, save videos to your computer, and delete them off you Flip so you can shoot more video. Yup, that's a lot so let's get to it.This episode is sponsored by This is Me • A Kid's First Keepsake Journal.
  - Release date
    
    Aug 6, 2008
  - Runtime
    
    04:13
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  Installing the Flip video camera software
  
  We've introduced you to The Flip and showed you how to start using it.Now it's time to get the software installed on your PC so we can start doing fun things with your video. This short video will show you just how easy it is to install the Flip software.This episode is sponsored by This is Me • A Kid's First Keepsake Journal.
  - Release date
    
    Jul 29, 2008
  - Runtime
    
    02:51
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  An Introduction to the Flip video camera
  
  Did you know that something like 14% of all camcorders sold today are The Flip? Yeah, we didn't either. But we're glad to know because it provided us with a dandy of an excuse to pick one up and show you. In this first of many videos on The Flip (specifically The Flip Video Mino), J gets you comfortable with using the camera and shows you how to make it dance.
  - Release date
    
    Jul 22, 2008
  - Runtime
    
    02:40
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  Basic Editing in Windows Movie Maker
  
  Why Windows Movie Maker? Because y'all have it already on your computers. Be sure and watch "Connecting Your DV Camera To Your Computer" and "Capturing Clips in Windows Movie Maker" first so you will be up to speed when you start this video. In this video Josh will show you how to place your clips in the time line, how to trim them down to just the good stuff, and how to add a simple transition. Please go easy on the crazy wipe transitions, they can become nauseating really quickly.
  - Release date
    
    Jul 16, 2008
  - Runtime
    
    04:17
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  Capturing Clips in Windows Movie Maker
  
  Josh gives a step by step example of how to capture clips into Windows Movie Maker using the video capture wizard that comes standard with Movie Maker. Be sure and watch "Connecting Your DV Camera To Your Computer" first. After watching this video you should be able to capture only the clips you want and not all of the other junk on your tapes.
  - Release date
    
    Jul 16, 2008
  - Runtime
    
    03:18
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  Take better & sharper digital photos with the ha...
  
  We hear from lots of people that their fancy new digital camera takes blurry photos. Can we let you in on a little secret? It's not the camera - it's you. By learning the secret of the mystical half push, you can too can take great sharp and in focus photos.
  - Release date
    
    Jul 16, 2008
  - Runtime
    
    01:59
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  5. Editing Your Photos In Picasa
  
  his time, we?ll look at how to use Picasa to make our photos better. We?ll use Picasa to crop photos, take the red eye out, adjust the color balance, and add fun effects to your photos.
  - Release date
    
    Jul 2, 2008
  - Runtime
    
    04:52
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  7. Emailing Your Photos From Picasa
  
  J will show you how to prepare your photos so they won?t be too big and clog up grandma?s in box when you email them. He?ll also look at how to email directly from Picasa.
  - Release date
    
    Jul 2, 2008
  - Runtime
    
    02:49
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  1. Installing Picasa
  
  Welcome to the first episode of LearnThisThing.com. In this episode, J takes a look at how to start organizing your photos. Come on, we all know you have tons of digital photos you don?t know what to do with. And you know what? That?s OK. Today we?ll go through the task of installing Picasa, a free organizing tool brought to us by the folks at Google. In upcoming episodes, we?ll do more with Picasa. But today, we?re just focusing on getting it on your machine.
  - Release date
    
    Jul 2, 2008
  - Runtime
    
    02:44
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  3. Getting your digital photos into Picasa
  
  J from LearnThisThing.com shows you how to connect your digital camera to your computer. Then he explains how to get your photos off your camera and onto your computer.
  - Release date
    
    Jul 2, 2008
  - Runtime
    
    03:46