Libraries as Motion Video: Setting up an in-house studio, getting visual & extending skill-sets into new environments

“ Media do not simply portray places that already exist: they actually produce them.” Electronic Elsewheres: Media, Technology and the Experience of Social Space. Chris Berry, et. al. Libraries as motion video Setting up an in-house studio, getting visual & extending skill-sets into new environments Bernadette Daly Swanson and Meredith Saba, University of California Davis. CARL Conference, April 8-10, 2010, Holiday Inn Capitol Plaza, Sacramento California. People Make Libraries: Digging into Our Past and Polishing Our Present to Transform Our Future.

In-house Micro-content Video Production for the Health Sciences Libraries
Goal:
Create timely visual micro-content to meet the needs of faculty and students across a range of physical and digital environments.
Identify new ways to collaborate with students and faculty through media creation and sharing.
“ Skill to do comes of doing.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Should we be in the movie business?
Do we really need them?
“ Skill to do comes of doing.” Ralph Waldo Emerson make some movies!! YouTube Camtasia Captivate3 ... old? Video editors? Camera… iphone? Flip camera

We propose… Why? Goals? How and Where we will share these videos?

Sandbox! Start somewhere! Entering the realm of content creation & socially networked sharing Kaltura, Facebook, YouTube

Where do we start? Beginning to articulate our richness & expertise

In our YouTube Sandbox “ Skill to do comes of doing.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Goal: create visual micro-content for physical & virtual platforms & an array of devices “ The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.” Kahlil Gibran

Video Environments YouTube YouTubeEDU Facebook iTunesU Video Anywhere Blogs Websites CMSs Mobile phones Email Walk-by LCD Screens virtual environments (e.g.: Second Life) Video Destinations

24 hours of video every minute “ Skill to do comes of doing.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

YouTubeEDU 2 & 4 year colleges & universities Creative commons licensing No length limits branded look 3D options (all)

YouTubeEDU Partner accounts, no limits, branding, account must use the name of institution

Storytelling & Digital Stories

Techniques for visualizing story & the art of being brief “ Heredity is nothing but stored environment.” Luther Burbank

Storytelling conveying of events in words, images, sounds… often with improvisation and embellishment. Narrative is a story that describes a sequence of events (fiction or non-fiction) digital story   A short, first-person video-narrative combining recorded voice, still & moving images, music or other sounds.    digital storyteller   Anyone (including librarians) who documents life, experience, ideas, or feelings through the use of story and digital media. http://www.storycenter.org

Five Card Flickr
Flickr Poet
Online tools: “ Less is more.” Robert Browning, 1855 Getting Visual what do our words look like?

FlickrPoet
Enter 6 or more words
From your library’s web site
Refresh the page and try again
Research
Life
Library
Information
Digital
world
Stories In Flight and FlickrPoet are © Thomas Sturm Hands-on #1 http://www.storiesinflight.com/flickrpoet/index.php

The fine art of brevity from Latin brevitās: shortness Quick glimpses & micro-content: trailers, commercials, classifieds, tweets

Six Word Stories memorable, bite sized, mini scripts with a beginning, middle, end or not "For Sale. Baby Shoes. Never Worn." Ernest Hemingway

Tell me an Extremely Brief Story like a…. 6 word story What’s the point? Lou Rera: Digital Stories: Flash Fiction http://www.nmc.org/preso/7665

Write a 6 word story Hands-on #2 Topic: Researching a subject/topic in your library “library research” Audience: first year students Note: Use the 3x5 cards so we can share them with you later. Wikipedia. Google. Found everything. Used nothing. Shields Library, UC Davis

Media Commons / Library Studios
Penn State University: Copyright, Fair Use, Free Media, Creative Commons
NCSU Libraries Learning Commons
Digital Media Commons Univ. of Michigan
Interactive Media Center, University Libraries, SUNY
Duke University Center for Instructional Technology
Video Fellows Program ’
(Best practices for using video in student assignments)

Offering more than video editing software
Fondren Library: Rice University
The Digital Media (DMC)
Equipment loans
Lab in the library
In-house expertise
Creating or using digital media
Jones Media Center: Dartmouth College Library
Advertising for an intern (1 year program)
Lending media equipment (mini camcorders, professional HD cameras with 3 day loan periods)
Additional lending policies

Mixing Rich Media Platforms: Anywhere YouTube & YouTubeEDU Facebook iTunesU Blogs Websites CMSs (SmartSite) Mobile phones Email Walk-by LCD Screens virtual environments (e.g.: Second Life) Still images Video Screen Capture Mixed media video audio

Screen Capture & Video “ I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.” Elvis Presley Using screen capture products to record the screen & edit with bundled editing tools in (Camtasia, Captivate, ScreenFlow), free to mid-range video editors (Windows Media Maker, iMovie, Sony Vegas, etc., etc. OR non-linear video editors (NLEs: Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, etc.) +

Desktop or 3D Environment as Stage “ What is bought is cheaper than a gift.” Miguel de Cervantes, in Don Quixote (1605) Screen Capture Software (many options) + Environment/Stage: Moviestorm, iClone, Second Life ® or desktop image Katrina Brown ‘ Looking for a Better Thing”

Photos with Screen Capture of Library Studios Island, Second Life ®

Video resolution “ Thou shalt not carry moderation unto excess.” Arthur Koestler

Screen Resolutions YouTube Videos, iPhone, iPad, etc. iPhone 320x480 Video in Landscape: 480x320 iPad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_resolutions YouTube’s Video Toolbox: http://www.youtube.com/video_toolbox Aardvark and everything else: http://www.google.com/support/youtube/ YouTube default view 320p 480x320 YouTube 720p HD YouTube 480p YouTube 1080p HD

Software from Free to $$$$$

Storyboarding using free software
Storyboard Pro from Atomic Learning
http://www.atomiclearning.com
Atomic Learning has a presence in Second Life.
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Planning
Story / event/ interview / demo
Write it down or type it out
OR
Use online screenwriting software such as Plotbot www .plotbot.com
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How do I record video? Screen Capture
PCs:
FRAPS (US$37) = video format is AVI
Camtasia (US$299 – Camtasia Studio 6 now in HD)
Captivate
WeGame (Free!)
Game Cam (US$25)
Macs:
iShowU (US$20 - $59)
SnapzProX (US$69)
Jing (free)
Screenflow ($99)
Linux:
XvidCap (free), glc (free)
RecordMyDesktop (free)
For recording machinima:
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Movie_Recording
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/ Machinima

What’s Free for screen capture / machinima? Online and Free: Screen Toaster (Online) http://www.screentoaster.com/ Free on your desktop & upload to Jing Jing (PC or Mac ) http://www.jingproject.com need 14.95 year pro version to upload to YouTube Trial Versions: Camtasia (trial version): http://www.techsmith.com/download/camtasiatrial.asp Current FRAPS (trial version) records audio: http://www.fraps.com Other: FRAPS: no audio, older version http ://www.majorgeeks.com/download3934.html Taksi: http://taksi.sourceforge.net WeGame (PC): http://www.wegame.com/download May 11, 2010 Online and Free: Screen Toaster (Online) http://www.screentoaster.com/ Free on your desktop & upload to Jing Jing (PC or Mac ) http://www.jingproject.com need 14.95 year pro version to upload to YouTube Trial Versions: Camtasia (trial version): http://www.techsmith.com/download/camtasiatrial.asp Current FRAPS (trial version) records audio: http://www.fraps.com RAPS: no audio, older version http ://www.majorgeeks.com/download3934.html Taksi: http://taksi.sourceforge.net WeGame (PC): http://www.wegame.com/download

Recording Voice Well Mac PC Linux Wiretap Studio $69 mac (29 day trial) Übercaster mac $79 Soundtap $30 mac & PC Total Recorder PC $18 Rogue Omoeba Audio Hijack Pro mac $32 Audacity (PC, GNU Linux record/edit) audacity.sourceforge.net glc Linux (video/audio)

Transliteracy The ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks. The modern meaning of the term combines literacy with the prefix trans-, which means "across; through", so a transliterate person is one who is literate across multiple media. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transliteracy

Transliteracy Articles Transliteracy: Crossing Divides http://tinyurl.com/2k8oqj Thomas, S., Joseph, C., Laccetti, J., Mason, B., Mills, S., Perril, S., and Pullinger, K. ‘Transliteracy: Crossing divides’. First Monday, 12 (12), 3 December 2007. Available at: http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2060/1908 (Accessed: April 4, 2010). Transliteracy: Take a Walk on the Wild Side http://www.ifla.org/files/hq/papers/ifla75/94-andretta-en.pdf

In-house librarian peer training for use with Camtasia Studio software. Video instruction books available through UC and other libraries Online individual training through Lynda.com http://www.lynda.com for professional level software, ($24.95 monthly) BAVC, San Francisco http://www.bavc.org Adobe’s ‘Digital School Collection - Teacher Resources’ includes assessment matrix http://www.adobe.com/education/instruction/adsc/ BBC Academy: some free training in area of journalism http://www.bbctraining.com/index.asp Searching Google for free resources and watching videos on YouTube! Training Ideas

Adobe products (PC & Mac)
Educational discount
Volume licensing
Copy of software for home use
Adobe TV

The Books! My WorldCat.org list:

Center for Social Media http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org

What are the Rewards? Supporting librarians’ instruction & outreach at UC Davis Self-serve collection of video content Specialized skill-sets for new working Environments (distance learning, etc) Happy librarian videographers & editors

Getting to Work: Editing

Post-production Editing, effects, audio design
Video editing / audio editing software
Free software for PCs or Macs (Windows Movie Maker or iMovie)
Commercial video/audio editing software ($29 to $$$$$)
Comparison of Video Editing Software (Wikipedia):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_video_editing_software
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Post-production Great Tools for Quick Projects Virtual Dub (for compression & almost everything else) - $0 (free) http://www.virtualdub.org QuickTime Pro 7 ($29) http://www.apple.com/quicktime/ I couldn’t live without QuickTime Pro for quick encoding & slicing up long video footage into smaller clips. May 11, 2010

Online Editing & Hosting
Eyespot: www.eyespot.com
YouTube’s TestTube: www.youtube.com/testtube
Sites offer different features:
Create individual accounts for practicing (sandbox style)
Email video clips to your account
Edit online or add transitions, callouts, import audio or remix
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Hands-on Activities

Five Card Flickr
Flickr Poet
Online tools: “ Less is more.” Robert Browning, 1855 Getting Visual what do our words look like?

FlickrPoet
Enter 6 or more words
From your library’s web site
Refresh the page and try again
Research
Life
Library
Information
Digital
world
Stories In Flight and FlickrPoet are © Thomas Sturm Hands-on #1 http://www.storiesinflight.com/flickrpoet/index.php

Write a 6 word story Hands-on #2 Topic: Researching a subject/topic in your library “library research” Audience: first year students Use the 3x5 cards so we can share them with you later. Wikipedia. Google. Found everything. Used nothing.

Connecting Facebook & YouTube Hands-on #3 Click on Account Working on the important stuff: Overview (where any copyright infringement messages show up) Activity Sharing: We will use our Facbook login and password (see your accounts on the printouts) Now take 5 minutes to look around the other options (profile, picture, mail)

Customizing your YouTube Channel Working on tabs at top: Settings, themes & colors, modules, videos & playlists Hands-on #4 Click on My Channel Give your YouTube channel a name – it can be different from your login and URL Themes and Colors: click advanced link to change transparency & add an image to background (1024x1024 works well on large screens)

My Account: Playlists making playlists of other people’s videos and subscribing to channels Click on arrow next to your account name | on drop down menu select Playlists On left side: click on New to create a new playlist… name it Endnote Now click on the YouTube logo at top of page to go to main page… Now search for Endnote videos Hands-on #5

‘ Save to’ your Playlist To add the video to YOUR playlist , click on the Save to button at bottom of the YouTube player You can vote on the video too… Videos and Playlists tab: NOTE: Be sure to select Playlists and then set the playlist to show up on your YouTube channel Hands-on #6

Annotating your Video & Using AudioSwap Go to your login name at top right of window: Select: My Videos from drop down menu Select a video you want to annotate or swap audio… Try out the audioswap to replace your current audio… it takes a couple of hours for YouTube to change the audio. Hands-on #5

Group Annotations Share the link with students or friends to collaborate on annotating the video… Hands-on #5

Ideas on the horizon… “ Skill to do comes of doing.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Discussion Question: How can include faculty and students in the story writing and video planning and production? Thank you!

Meredith Saba [email_address] Feel free to contact us anytime about anything: CARL Conference, April 8-10, 2010, Holiday Inn Capitol Plaza, Sacramento California. People Make Libraries: Digging into Our Past and Polishing Our Present to Transform Our Future. Photos & screenshots: istockphoto, Second Life®, UC Davis, YouTube video clips, Wikipedia, Shields Library, Carlson Health Sciences Library, Penn State, Duke, NCSU, University Libraries SUNY, Dartmouth College Library Bernadette Daly Swanson [email_address] Library Video Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/libraryvideochannel Machinima from the very beautiful Second Life ® : http://www.youtube.com/user/HVXSilverstar

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Libraries as Motion Video: Setting up an in-house studio, getting visual & extending skill-sets into new environments

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