Scheduled Classes

General Information

Classes are free to BVCC members; you may become a member of BVCC on-line. 

You must pre-register for each training session separately listed below by signing up at a preceding General Meeting; or by contacting Education Chair Jill Doll at bvccedu@bvcomputerclub.org or texting her at 320-828-3413.  Supply class title, your name, phone number, and email contact information.  If by email or text, you should follow-up if a confirmation response is not received within 24 hours.  Contact information is used to send a class reminder, or to advise should it be necessary to cancel or reschedule the class.

January Classes

Recordings, Movies and More, Part 1 has been scheduled for Tuesday, January 6, 9am - 11am.  With recording and streaming becoming necessary and popular in today’s computer world, video recording and editing programs have become very expensive.  This class introduces a powerful FREE opensource recording-streaming program for all your needs.  You will learn to:  download, install and configure the OBS Studio program to run or stop with a single keystroke; create Scenes (jobs) for different recording scenarios; link all input sources to Scenes; save recorded output file automatically to a folder of your choice.  Instructor Pete Opland.

Recordings, Movies and More, Part 2 has been scheduled for Tuesday, January 20, 9am - 11am.  Once you start making your own video recordings, you will find a need to edit videos.  This class shows how to use the free opensource, multi-platform program Shotcut for video editing.  Included topics: combining video files, trimming videos, using the timeline, detaching audio, adding text, keyframes, filters, and various special effects (FX).  Instructor Pete Opland.