Monday 17 February 2014

Understanding The InDesign Pages Panel

Here is a video I created for the 3240 media course I am taking. This video called Understanding The InDesign Pages Panel discusses how to use the pages panel in Adobe InDesign CS6 as well as demonstrating how master pages work. It was created on a mac, but could be easily related to using InDesign on a PC. I laughed when I heard the video, because I'm sure my voice sounds much deeper on the video than it did on my recordings. I guess that's just part of the conversion process!
It ended up being almost 15 minutes, which is quite a bit longer than it was supposed to be. I've had problems with my students understanding how to use this panel in the past, so I wanted to try to include as much information as possible.
Although I'm quite familiar with many types of software, this still was a difficult process. It was challenging to do because I began working in Keynote and had planned to build the whole presentation in that program. Part of the way through, I realized that it would be more clear if I had a video of the master page section. At that point, I changed my strategy and recorded the beginning and the end in Keynote. Then I recorded the middle part using a Quicktime screen recording. The trick to this was making sure that they were the same resolution size. Then I merged together my three videos into one, again using the Quicktime software.
Hope you enjoy this, it was a great learning experience for me.