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Better Video for Educators

Better Video for Educators. Aaron Cook Multimedia Specialist Heartland AEA 11. October 12, 2015, ITEC. Main goals: Aimed at helping school staff use better tools or techniques with their own gear to record better video.

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Better Video for Educators

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  1. Better Video for Educators Aaron Cook Multimedia Specialist Heartland AEA 11 October 12, 2015, ITEC

  2. Main goals: • Aimed at helping school staff use better tools or techniques with their own gear to record better video. • Goal: Explore video production techniques and some specific to classroom capture and self recording situations.

  3. What class environment recordings serve • Flipped Classroom • Student Presentations • Professional Development • Performance Based Assessment (Reflecting) • Small Group Learning and collaborating • Remote Broadcast Streaming • Promoting better accessibility of production techniques and sharing out.

  4. Some Non-traditional methods to create video • Swivl PTZ Robot Unit • Educational Gaming applications, And consumer gaming applications • Audio Recording annotative devices (on computer or tablet) • White Board annotative devices (on computer or tablet) • Screen Recording Applications and Apps

  5. Graphical applications that can render out video files: • Power Point, saving as movie timing. • Adobe Acrobat Presenter • Methods for iPad or other mobile devices various movie capture-edit features • Example Ipad Movie Mount (Makayama Movie Mount) • Zoom conferencing apps • Swivl Capture and other capture softwares….. • Streaming type media that stores video file as backup or archive of live stream (streaming is its own topic) • ZOOM, GoTo Meeting, Webex, Polycom

  6. Swivl addtribues • Swivl Unit Explored and demonstrated • What it does, can do • Setup Features • Example: live demo • Feeding out to services or a cloud setup

  7. Sharing Explored: UPDATE • Show Swivl Cloud features with online setup and capture if possible. If not. The show test video. • Sharing out of basic editors : You Tube, Swivl ect… • Online video editiors and hosting: Top ten online video editors: • http://filmora.wondershare.com/video-editor/free-online-video-editor.html • https://www.youtube.com/editor • TOP TEN VIDEO SHARING SITES: • VIDEO SHARE

  8. Automatic “sharing”, methods and exporting…. Ease of use. • Transcoding Codecs: • http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/all-you-need-to-know-about-video-codecs-containers-and-compression/ • iMovie and editor power, of the syncs and export features. • Adobe Creative Cloud : Syncing • Photo and video organizational tools combined, cross featured.

  9. Conventional Video production considerations and steps:

  10. Pre produced video process: • In a standard environment what are you doing with video? • Pre produced with a lesson plan or showing live : • Some basic processes with a video production • Pre planning concepts, Scripting, visualizing • Story boarding and placing visual ideas • Production procedures and adding talent • Recording sessions and doing follow up sessoins • Post production and final output • Sharing and broadcast or duplication • Many times the steps are blended, but depends on need and structure of producer, that’s you!

  11. Trim the process: Keeping the message concise and delivering within a decent paced amount of time.

  12. Pre planning and Scripting • Message/Need • Consider your audience. Decide on the type of presentation that your audience would be most receptive to: technical, general, or somewhere in between. What will they want to see? • Outline the key points of the topic. Make a list of the most important points to be covered and arrange them in the order they should be presented. As a rule, any presentation should open with a very strong point because this is when the viewer is most receptive. Close the script with a point that has similar impact because it is the closing moments of a presentation that are most remembered by the viewer.

  13. Story boarding Allows you to apply your ideas to some visuals to layout closer shot to shot fundamentals. It does not have to make sense right away but help you lay it out. Then you can change and manipulate these ideas. Sometimes scripting has to change to accommodate and make sense of main idea. Use templates or graphic organizers to lay it out. • Power Point is great for this as it remains electronic • Story board templates are also well used, and can be found many places.

  14. Location needs • For certain things you may want to do A location to do this all at (logistics) (Maybe your in the school environment and it is a given) • Environmental audio issues. Noise from HVAC and other out door activities. Outdoor shoots involve other elements but same principles. (for lighting, think of shading people, record in shadows of buildings. Environment considerations (Class room space and loud voice group settings) Simple elements in background, microphone for speaker. POWER ? Location audio visual: It might have your audio under control!

  15. Production procedures and gear • Can take longer to set up a shot than to record some times. • Cameras systems • Lighting • Audio • Recording practices. One shot takes or multiple takes of the subject.

  16. Various camera methods to record.

  17. CAMERA UNITS: PRO $ 5000 + • Singular purpose. • Heavy, dependable and rugged. Full color video 4:2:2 to 4:4:4 sensors. High tonal range • Mid level Prosumer units, hard to tell from the more expensive cameras. $1000 - $5000 • Well into the pro range performance. Tonal ranges, color ranges for full out color saturations. • DSLR and the new CMOS units. • Larger sensor cameras going the distance and going dark really well! $600 - $3000 • Handy cams, do not underestimate these. • They are full featured and have great optics. $ 120 - $400 •  Flip cameras and the new ultra durables. • $ 38 - $300 Dedicated adventure cameras from Go Pro to Pentax styled shock proof units. To the small handy rectangles with pinhole lenses.

  18.  Single or Multiple camera • There are ways to do it if you have a in depth subject • Can be very effective to make interview more interesting • Event Coverage with multiple cameras • Keeping shots varied and allows for better product in the end. • Syncing cameras not as important due to editing software. However trying to match camera systems helps due to timing issues.

  19. Audio gear and methods Use an outboard mic if possible. Adaptors and I/O’s DEMO and or explain some methods What is on Market? Ipad or iOS oriented devives Small camera rig devices. iRIG, Art Dual Pre, small mixing boards

  20. Lighting • Many items on market • LED lighting, focused or panels, blending lights (dual color temps) • CFL kits • Tungsten halogen • HDMI • White Balance considerations on cameras. (when applicable) • Explain principles of some basic 3 point lighting. • Mind the background. • Demo

  21. Example of some basic three point lighting.

  22. Three point lighting used in a two person setup.

  23. Three point lighting used in a two person setup. Yet another alternate setup.

  24. AIW Videos (lighting) Use existing light and enhance the video image. Less setup.

  25. Green Screen? • There are great ways to do this now • More inexpensive kits available • The main idea is to key out a certain color and allow a alternate back ground, video or graphical (mainly these days virtual sets) • Many Ways to do this now: Even on tablet video devices

  26. Green screen with ample lighting on the background.

  27. Other video recording considerations • Does a on camera person need a text prompter? • Online Teleprompter. Cue Prompter: http://www.cueprompter.com/ • Recording practices. Do not do one shot takes but rather multiple takes of the subject. • Have longer pauses on deliveries before and after takes • Use simple clothing, and simple backgrounds if possible. (even if you Green Screen) • Record with lead time, start recording before you tell everyone your recording. • Watch eye direction of video. Keep either direct address or • Always use a tripod for everything if possible. Just do it. • Get your lights close if you can. • If you can set a camera to more manual then do it.

  28. Post production considerations • Softwarebuild and use of multiple cameras • You can have multicamera clips and sync right in an editior now • iMovie, Windows Movie Maker, Avid Studio, Adobe Premier Pro, • iOS or other mobile device apps • Other elements to add in editing: • Music • Photos • Motion backgrounds or animations

  29. Sharing and Final output • Study your destination • What file type? • Do you need to encode to video • Video encoding and transcoding • Now is mainly automatic amongst some various platforms .mov files Quicktime encoders Adobe Flash Encoder Windows based encoder Camera Codecs (ie.. AVCHD, .AVI, WMV, .MOV, M4V, MPEG4) BIT RATES, resolutions? Advanced Video Codec High Definition Audio Video Interleave (multimedia container) Windows Media Video

  30. Questions or personal experiences? • Thank you for your time. • Please give me your contact info for sharing links or sources of applicable info • Aaron Cook: acook@heartlandaea.org • GET TO THIS PRESENTATION AND MORE AT: • LINK HERE:

  31. Update to Gear Resources • AEA Purchasing.org • http://www.aeapurchasing.orgAV COOP • B&H Photo/Video • http://www.bhphotovideo.com • DISCOUNT B&H GROUP • B&H EDU Advantage • A Free Discount Program for Students and Educators • Adorama Camera • http://www.adorama.com/ • Sweetwater Music and Pro Audio • http://www.sweetwater.com • Padcaster iPAD Video Mount • http://thepadcaster.com • AVID Studio for iPad (alternative to Imovie) • http://www.imore.com/imovie-avid • Green Screen Kit Loadstone Studio 3pcs 10 x 10 ft Backdrop Set • http://www.loadstonestudio.com/ • http://www.cowboystudio.com • TUBE TAPE! Great Background and lighting gear, http://www.tubetape.net/servlet/the-62/Reversible--fdsh--Flex--dsh-/Detail • IK Multimedia, Device Video and Audio products • http://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/irigpre/

  32. Update to Gear Resources • Lighting article from Video Maker • http://www.videomaker.com/article/14521 • Online Teleprompter. Cue Prompter • http://www.cueprompter.com/ • Good Article about iPad audio • http://www.theusbsoundcard.com/usb-audio-hardware/usb-microphones/ipad-plugging-xlr/ • Differences of Camera sensors http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/cameras-photography/digital/question362.htm Link to good online Magazines Studio Daily, www.studiodaily.com/ Video Maker, www.videomaker.com/

  33. Update to Gear Resources Materials to add in and enhance videos • iClip Art (AEAs and State purchased this for YOU!) • http://www.iclipart.com/ • Sounds Abound (Music) • http://www.soundzabound.com/ • Video Blocks http://www.videoblocks.com/ • Contact Susan Schrader AEA 11 about your passwords • Or your local AEA for access to these great assets • sschrader@aea11.k12.ia.us

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