Digital Video Production for the

Classroom

Getting Started

Goals for the Class

• Produce a two-minute video segment

• Insert it into a PowerPoint Presentation

• Publish it on a CD-ROM

• Consider how you would use Digital Video in the Classroom

What is Digital Video?

• Brings Production to the Desktop

• High Quality

• New ways of using video

What Will We Create?

• Water Quality Module

• A Lesson Example

• “A Tale of Two Teachers”

• Applying Knowledge

• “Why We Teach”

Course Materials

• ProjectVideo Website - http://www.projectvideo.org

• ProjectVideo CD

The Production Process

• Preproduction

• Production

• Postproduction

Preproduction

• Before You Shoot… - The Big Idea- Scripting- Planning the shoot

Production

• Acquiring Media - Borrow from

Others - Create Your Own

Video

Postproduction

• Capturing

• Editing

• Compression

• Delivering

Postproduction

QuickTime™ and aSorenson Video decompressorare needed to see this picture.

Postproduction

• Premiere Demo

Shooting Basics

Use a Tripod

Get wide and close

Think like an editor

Tape is Cheap - Use it!

Movies in PowerPoint

QuickTime™ and aCinepak decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

QuickTime™ and aCinepak decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Contact

www.umbc.edu/iptv

shewbrid@umbc.edu

Capturing Media

• Capture Cards

• FireWire (IEEE-1394)

• Analog/Digital Converters

Editing and Compression

• Digital editing - Adobe Premiere- FinalCut Pro- iMovie

• Terran Cleaner