Media Capture 2 of 3: Setup & Configuration

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Walking You Through Our Process

This piece is pretty elementary.  but it explains in detail what we use and how we use these pieces to record a classroom lecture or activity.

Pre-Production

Right now we use a full-service model whereby either myself or our student staff will go to a classroom and capture the event.  We use a Web site with a form they fill out or call/email us directly.  We then use a shared calendar in Exchange where we schedule the event, contact the faculty member, and confirm that we’ll be there.  The students then will go to the classroom, record, and post-produce it in our video studios.

Post-Production

They either edit in iMovie ‘08 or Final Cut Pro.  We have several standard titles and slides they use to create custom intros and extros.  With Leopard Server integration and Podcast Producer configured to Active Directory, we are also using it to push video after creating some standard in/out movies for Quartz Composer to render in the workflows.  I’ll speak more to the workflow/uploading process in the next post.  Once the audio/video files are in iTunes U, the student contacts the faculty to let them know.  The faculty then creates a link in the Blackboard course to the media files.  We created video tutorials for faculty to use in order to understand the process as well.  This is still a work in progress.  Our workflow to Blackboard is explained in an earlier post as we were developing the infrastructure.  Feel free to post comments on how your process works.