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So tell me about video podcasting...
The difference between video and audio podcasting is simply the file format, because all the set up and planning is the same as the one in the Show me how to podcast section. Obviously for video podcasting takes more time, because editing video requires more time and additional considerations such file size and more complex software.
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| Planning | What do I need? | Using Movie Editing Software | Using PhotoStory 3 |
| Creating a Screencast | Converting it to Quicktime | Uploading to Blog |
Show me the process...
As I mentioned earlier the process of planning is a very important one to refresh your memory lets review briefly the planning details:
- Watch other video podcasts to get ideas.
- Determine the audience.
- Determine the type of podcast
- Class-produced
- Student-produced
- Teacher-produced
- or a combination of the previous
- Plan your video content
- How-to videos
- Interviews
- Digital Story Telling
- Many more...
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What do I need?
- Video software
- Depending on the type of video podcast you can select your software. You will have to decide based or the purpose and the audience, some of the possible types of podcasts are:
- Slideshow type of video.
- Video from a digital video camera or webcam.
- Screencast or video software that records the movement in your computer (This is a good one to demostrate software applications.
- Depending on the type of video podcast you can select your software. You will have to decide based or the purpose and the audience, some of the possible types of podcasts are:
- Video camera or web cam
- Good for video interviews or footage from an event.
- Digital camera
- If you like to create a slideshow as you podcast, you will need digital images or copyright free images from the web.
- Jingles or background music
- You must verify the copyright for any music you use in your movie.
- Video software
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Using Movie Editing Software
- Windows Movie Maker or iMovie will allow you to import video from a digital video camera or already made video clips to build you podcast. Visit the multimedia section from my website to find help for either one.
- Visit the podcasting software section to learn more about some of the choices available.
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Using PhotoStory 3
- Photo Story 3 from windows is a very simple program to use for creating movie slide shows. It even contains it own music creation tool that it really easy or you can import any music you like.
- You can not import movies into it, but you can import the movie you make into Windows Movie Maker.
- If you use a program like Snagit (Not Free, but affordable) to capture screenshots you can use it to create how-to videos, because you can record your own narration
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Creating a Screencast
- My definition of a screencast is when you use software to capture in video all the movements while you use an application or the computer desktop in general. For example if you like to create video on the steps to add a movie to PowerPoint you can record a screencast ant narrate the steps as the video is being created.
- Some of the software titles available are:
- Windows Media Encoder (PC) (Free)
- CamStudio (PC) (Free)
- Snag it (PC)(no sound)
- Camtasia (PC)
- iShowU (Mac)
- Snapz Pro X (Mac) ($69)
- Copernicus (Mac) (free)
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Converting it to Quicktime
- Quicktime format is the most commonly used format in podcasting, because you can play it in iTunes and transfer it to a video iPod. If you intend to add your podcast to the iTunes catalog your video files must be in Quicktime format.
- Software is available to convert your .avi or .wmv movie file to Quicktime (.mov):
- Jodix (PC) (Free)
- Videora (PC) (Free)
- Media-Convert (Mac or PC) (web based) (Free)
- iSquint (Mac)
- Quicktime Pro (Mac or PC)
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Uploading to Blog
- Uploading a movie file is not much different than uploading a audio file the only diference is the movie file will take longer, because it is a larger file.
- If you work for OCPS you can follow the same directions available for audio podcast in the How to Create a Podcast page.
- The process might be different depending on individual circunstances, but typically you have to upload to a webspace and then find its URL and use that URL in your blog to link your podcast.
- Another solution is to upload your video to "User Generated Video Websites" such as:
- TeacherTube
- Google Video
- YouTube
- All three of them give you HTML code to embed their player with your video in your blog after you uploaded to their website.
- Of the three TeacherTube is the safest, because is like YouTube for education and they don't allow innapropiate content. In addition in most schools Google Video and YouTube are blocked websites.
- If you don't have webspace and you don't want to use any of the websites I mentioned before OurMedia.org and Archive.org might the solution for you as long as you agree with their terms, some of those terms are:
- Content will be public and copyright it using Creative Commons Licensing. With a Creative Commons license, you keep your copyright but allow people to copy and distribute your work provided they give you credit — and only on the conditions you specify.
- Use OurMedia.org, the site provides a place where anyone can upload video, music, photos, audio clips and other personal media and store it for free on ourmedia’s servers forever. They have software for Mac or PC to help you upload larger files (You must have an Archive.org account and a Ourmedia.org account).
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