tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82354082011-04-21T12:40:04.100-07:00A weblog for using digital video in an educational setting by Johnny Blakeborough ETC Multimedia Technicain, Vancouver Island University.Johnnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15145205701454245746noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235408.post-1141370667192972162006-03-02T23:03:00.000-08:002006-12-02T03:37:46.030-08:00

One issue that I ran into in the new video editing suites is that I had no way to switch audio sources for the powered speakers that we purchased. If I connected them to the computer the video sound would be out of sync with the NTSC monitor and if I connected them to the VHS output you would not be able to hear audio from computer applications such as iTunes or the sound effects from iMovie.

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After years of planning and months of work we have finished building 3 digital video editing suites. I say finished but there will always be room for improvement.Not all the equipment is rack mounted yet (the G5 for instance, because the DVI cable is too short) and it could use some more signs and labels but I think it is way better than the system we had before.

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Now that I've researched the necessary hardware for recording digital audio I can turn to studio hardware and software. Not having much experience with audio I turned to my good friend Kam Abbott (audio engineer for CIB Radio), he gave me advice for building the following system. I started with software, which had to be easy to use and Mac compatible. My colleague Scott Watts (Media Specialist at

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Sometimes I can't go to the video editing stations to troubleshoot problems that students are having. Often the students will come to me asking for assistance and I have trouble understanding the problem or I can't help them without going to the editing suite. I would like some software that allows me to view and control an OS X workstation.One solution that I'm looking at is a 10 client copy of

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Poroject Omega, a great French OSX developers site, has a easy to follow how to PDF for playing and fixing compressed DivX video files on your Mac OS X computer. For Creating DivX movies on Mac OS X you can use the $19.99 DivX Pro™ 5.2.1

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When furnishing something as complicated as a video editing suite functionality, ergonomics and room for growth are essential elements that must be considered.Standard computer desks and workstations, available at most department stores, are based on typical computer components: monitor, keyboard, printer, mouse and perhaps a scanner. You will not likely need a printer or scanner with your

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Currently at Malaspina video projects are stored on the hard drives locally, if students or employees want to work at a different editing station they can't access their projects unless we move them manually using an external Firewire drive. Often the suite a project was started on will not be available when the group is. I hope to create a system of storing projects in a central location where

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Instructors and students have been asking for the equipment to let them record and edit audio digitally for years at Malaspina. Students need to conduct interviews, create radio ads and create audio clips for class assignments. Faculty have long wanted simple ways to record, edit and upload their lectures in digital audio format for their students. Currently we have a very simplistic system in

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We are planning on rack mounting all of our video editing equipment in our 3 or 4 new video editing suites this Spring. I like the security, cooling and professional look of rack mounted equipment. Most of the equipment we are going to be using is rack-mountable but the actual computer is the biggest issue.I could buy a rack-mountable Apple Xserve but it doesn't come with a graphics card or a

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Currently we are using 1 Apple G4 PowerMac computer with an internal DVD-R drive and Apple's iDVD to author DVD's. It takes the complexity of DVD authoring and simplifies it. Unfortunately for those that want to create or duplicate DVD's quickly, we don't currently have a solution.Our current system requires you to capture your entire video to the Hard Drive of the computer, set it up with menus

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In order to accommodate imputing and outputting to multiple media I have setup the Macintosh Video Editing Suites with a Kramer firewire switcher. This set-up allows users to input and output video from VHS, DV (standard and Mini) and 8 mm (8, Hi8 and Digital8.) To streamline the system I have also added a Canopus A/D converter.Here is a PDF schematic of our current iMovie based video editing

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Whenever you create a new account in Mac OS X the default settings of the account come from a template file stored on the computer. It is possible to alter this template so that all new accounts will have default settings that are better suited to your needs.For example I have set the template so that it it has the following settings:Auto start iMovie on log inMaximize iMovie to full screenAlter

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At Malaspina we are running a Windows 2000 network using Active Directory. Students log into the computers using individual Windows accounts. I have set the Mac OS X computers up so that when students try to log in using their Windows student account a temporary local version of that account is created on the Mac. This means that I don't have to manually create local accounts on the Mac computers

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