[ale] easy, simple TV ad campaign assembly?

[aaron]

iMovie (with the exception of iMovie 2008) is your
friend.  Even an aging PowerPC Mac OSX machine
will be up to the task if it is 800mhz G3 or better.

Open Source media production tools are not there yet.
The announcement of Mozilla and WC3 integration of
Ogg and Theora should be changing that situation soon.
:-)

peace
aaron


On Friday 29 August 2008 16:02, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> Hey folks--
> 
> one of my clients is a high school that has a two-week-long schoolwide
> project focussed on the political cycle coming up soon.  A group of
> students (and a few teachers) will be studying TV advertisements, and
> would like to create their own as a project.
> 
> We have aging Mac OS X machines (powerpc) and much more modern
> hardware running Ubuntu (Hardy).  I'd like to support them in terms of
> making simple pseudo TV ads, targetting a 30-second duration.  These
> users won't have the time to learn an really powerful or complicated
> tool, but i'd like to give them a simple one to make simple ads as
> they learn their way around the political process.  Does anyone have
> suggestions for software (preferably free software) that i should
> focus on to help them do this?
> 
> I'd be fine with something as basic as, say, OpenOffice Impress, if it
> had the ability to do well-timed audio/visual transitions, but a more
> video-focused tool might be preferable, if a simple and functional one
> exists.
> 
> Any experience with this kind of project?  Any suggestions on tools?
> 
>     --dkg
>