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flavors
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traditional video conferencing
- Coates Video conferencing
- Serge's Video conferencing tools
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lecture capture
- echo 360
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panopto course cast
- half-way setup in Coates
- Will Monroe, Hebert Law Center
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open cast Matterhorn
- in production
- open-source
- .5 pre-release due out any day
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Media Site
- proprietary
- in limited use around campus
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web conferencing/webinar
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CISCO Webex
- subscription service
- targeted at coprorate meeting-type use
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dimdim
- targets education
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Adobe Acrobat Connect
- stay tuned?
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video messaging
- Skype
- Google Talk
- MSN Yahoo
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campus resources
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CxC Video Lab
- 151 Coates
- for Students!!
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Classroom Technology
- Richard Billodeaux
- AV equipment available for checkout
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Hosting
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Moodle
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main venue for user uploaded video
- COMPRESS
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ITS Flash Server
- restricted to FTC mission
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Editing suites
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information commons
- Mac Pros loaded with Final Cut Studio software
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campus examples
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GROK video tutorials
- available in GROK
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FTC video tutorials
- available on the ITS/FTC website
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AgCenter
- hands-down leader
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Library resource
- Rebecca Miller
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within reach for Joe/Jane Faculty
- small-scall virtual class-sessions using dimdim or vyew
- include video in Moodle course
- require student video projects
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workflow
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destinations
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DVD
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Why
- portable and offline
- semi-archival
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method
- compress the original source material for DVD
- a standard DVD holds 4.3GB of data, which is not much video
- use MPEG-2 encoding
- don't forget to factor in the space your audio will take up
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the web
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available on-demand to an audience of your choosing
- Moodle
- personal web site
- university video repository
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middle steps
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editing and post-production
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use
- Quicktime Pro
- $30
- basic edit functions
- final cut express
- $100
- feature-rich
- semi-pro
- add filters
- custom crops
- keyframes to define edits
- a range of export options
- resource management
- Final Cut Studio
- suite of applications to handle every aspect of video production
- audio
- colr
- titles
- DVD authoring
- Mac specific
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Compression
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Baking the cake
- All ingredients in and in the right porportions
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Who are the tasters? Where is the celebration?
- internet users at-large
- Your students in Modle
- visitors at an exhibition
- Your relatives watching a DVD
- attendants at your 'virtual' conference
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transmission/distribution
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web conference/webinar
- need (usually subscription-based) service and accompanying clients and server applications
- examples
- dimdim
- webex
- vyew
- adobe acrobat connect
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traditional video conference
- need dedicated rooms/equipment/personaell at all participating sites
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traditional broadcast
- need a tv studio and professional crew
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hosted video on demand
- need a web-enabled server system
- examples
- youtube
- completely automated
- takes upload and prepares for consumtion
- re-encoding
- compression
- embedding in 'your' video repository
- tagging enables searching by users and search engines
- you have no real control over the final product
- Cloud-based
- Globally accessible
- Moodle
- not automated with respect to user-uploaded video
- Moodle is not YouTube, nor is it especially designed as a video sharing venue
- you encode
- and hope your format is readable by all of your users
- you compress
- and probably you think you'll leave you video at 'hghest quality'
- you should compress as much as possible without degrading the intent of the media
- use Handbrake unless you are already using another application you prefer (or have paid for)
- if you do not compress enough, you run the risk of subjecting your course to 'do not back up this enormous course' status
- you controll who can access the media
- you control most other aspects of the the site's context
- You can enhance you course with multi-media that (hopefully) helps engage your students more fully with the curriculum
- video files
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produced elsewhere
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found video
- youtube
- linked/embedded video
- just plain found
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digitized from analog original
- beware of copyright restrictions; check for digit-ized versions already available
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if there is no evident copyright restriction, you can have an analog source video digitized for web/computer viewing
- check AV services, Himes Hall
- Check DIVS, 141 Himes
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copyright restrictions MUST be taken into account
- get permission
- check applicable copyright guidelines
- fair-use is not carte-blanche
- link to, or embed within your HTML
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self-produced video
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personal video
- research footage
- ethnographic footage
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audio
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make it as rigid as you like
- every word spelled out
- rough outline from which to ad lib
- a bullet list of talking points
- no script, off-the-cuff informal conversation
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speak slowly
- while a conversational tone is perfect, you want you audience to get what you're saying
- pacing yourself can result in the added bonus that your visuals can take their time as well in the finished product
- just be natural...
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choose a narrator
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if not you, who has:
- time
- willingness
- while it may seem like an enjoyable diversion, it can be arduous
- a good speaking voice
- a pleasant voice
- good inflection
- a friendly tone
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pay attention to audio quality
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quiet please...
- don't record in a noisy environment, unless that enhances your message
- acoustics
- just like fluorescent lighting, the wrong room can destroy the audio
- if possible, isolate the presenter and her/his mic
- this will ensure minimal ambient noise, and will allso make room for focus and concentration
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equipment
- webcam mic/ integrated computer mic is only so-so
- dedicated microhphone is better
- Even better is high quality microphone + a means to control the audio input (A MIXER))
- best is to get as close to professional as you can
- pro equipment
- pro staffing
- pro post-production
- say your voice is anoyingly thin...
- perhaps you cursed in the middle of the best take...
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screen-capture
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how-to do something
- with naration
- with additional video feed (presenter talking head)
- additional audio
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applications
- Adobe Captivate(PC-only, so far?)
- Camtasia
- Screenflow(Mac-only)
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guidelines
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prepare a script
- are there other experts whose input you'd like to present???
- use a wiki
- brainstorm together
- prepare it for capture
- spoken language varies incredibly from written
- let you narrator review the script for speak-abilty
- retain and maintain the script for future use
- revise it to match the actual production, and you've got the source for a Closed-Captioning file
- if the facts change, you might want to search for descrepancies in text rather than by watching the thing again