The Productive Scholar: Barbara McLaughlin on video editing and clipping.

Posted on April 12, 2012 by John LeMasney

Pow­er­point slid­edeck: 20120412_mclaughlin
In this ses­sion on edit­ing and clip­ping video files, Princeton’s Bar­bara McLaugh­lin showed the audi­ence a few options. She dis­cussed the pow­er­ful but rel­a­tively expen­sive Final Cut, iMovie, iSkySoft, Pow­er­Point, and other prod­ucts. She led a dis­cus­sion on issues of legal­ity, ease of use, and the dif­fer­ences in codecs (audio video coders and decoders for use in work­ing with video and audio). She gave demon­stra­tions of each tool where appro­pri­ate. Watch the video now to learn about how you can begin to use clip­ping and edit­ing tools to make the per­fect bit of video to illus­trate a point.
Thurs­day, April 12, 12:00 noon
Frist Mul­ti­pur­pose Room A
Video Edit­ing Tools and Cre­at­ing Video Clips
Bar­bara McLaughlin
Video can be used to pro­vide exam­ples of a spe­cific sub­ject being taught or to make a pre­sen­ta­tion more inter­est­ing. Have you ever wanted to insert a video clip into a Pow­er­Point pre­sen­ta­tion but you were not sure how to do it?  Did you ever want to show just a short seg­ment of a video in class and not the entire movie? Cre­at­ing clips allows instruc­tors to locate and present short, tar­geted clips of sev­eral min­utes in length enabling the instruc­tor to go directly to the main point of the film they want to dis­cuss.  Cre­at­ing and insert­ing video clips is easy to do, but there are some impor­tant points and options that must be considered.
I will be dis­cussing the tools needed to cre­ate and import video clips into a pre­sen­ta­tion, what file for­mats Pow­er­Point will accept and how to cre­ate video clips for show­ing in class.
Instruc­tors who incor­po­rate video in their course mate­r­ial report that their stu­dents retain more infor­ma­tion, under­stand con­cepts more rapidly and are more enthu­si­as­tic about what they are learn­ing.  With the use of video, stu­dents often make new con­nec­tions between cur­ricu­lum top­ics and dis­cover links between these top­ics and the world out­side the classroom.
About the speaker:
Bar­bara McLaugh­lin is a Dig­i­tal and Tech­ni­cal Sup­port Spe­cial­ist for the ETC Human­i­ties Resource Cen­ter.   She works exten­sively with dig­i­tiz­ing audio and video and in the past 10 years has dig­i­tized over 6,000 films for the Video on Demand ser­vice at Prince­ton.   Bar­bara works with fac­ulty to assist them in incor­po­rat­ing video into their course mate­r­ial.   She is also mem­ber of the SCAD com­put­ing orga­ni­za­tion on cam­pus and sup­ports the com­put­ers through­out the HRC lab and classroom.
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