The School of Pharmacy at Purdue has been doing streaming audio/video for several years. About 2 years ago, mp3 podcasting was offered university wide. This year, the School of Pharmacy has added video podcasts.
With the School of Pharmacy we have seen some drop in attendance, but the attendance drop is usually associated with a big test in some other class. Early on, some professors opted not to podcast their lectures because of this, but now most of them are using the service. Some faculty members aren't concerned about attendance dropping as long as the students are learning, and some faculty members are concerned because they see it as a professionalism issue. The faculty members that are concerned have opted to either have pop quizzes in their classes, or podcast only audio instead of audio and PowerPoint/Document camera video.
As far as when to post the lectures, I use an automated system to get them online as soon as possible. When we were just doing streaming, lectures would be online about 10 minutes after class. Now that we're doing mp4, there is a delay because of the transcoding. Lectures will be online usually within 2 hours of class being over.
If you think about it, there's no reason to do a tape backup as long as you keep your master tape. If you get a tape backup drive, then copy your dv files to it, you've just made a copy of what came out of your camera.
Sadly enough, if this video is something you want to be sure you have years down the road, your best bet will be to find a good quality analog tape in a format you like and backup raw footage to that. Sure, you'll lose quality with analog, but it can withstand aging and oxidation better than digital tape. With analog, you just get short dropouts in your video, with digital, you may get huge chunks of video that just go away.
Keep all your master tapes, stripe them with timecode, then when you're done editing your project, dub it out to whatever tape format you're using, save the masters, and save the project edit file. If you need to recreate the project, you can just batch digitize everything from tape again.
The last I knew, xvid and divx codecs don't automatically download and install from microsoft, so while good for non windows people, it may not be very good for inexperienced users.
I'll probably get flamed for this, but consider something like real, or even look into using flash to create the movie.
I currently am using the Mozilla 1.7 package, but it looks to me like they may be trying to push everyone towards firefox and thunderbird.
I sort of like having everything combined in one package, but don't want to get left behind. It seems that firefox and mozilla are getting far enough apart that even some of the extensions don't work for both anymore.
Can anyone convince me to switch?
Back when I was in high school, I had a friend who always left his old 1970's Mercury Capri parked at his place of work unlocked with the keys in it. He had just installed a new stereo, but didn't complete the job, so there were all sorts of loose wires hanging from under his dash board. One day when I drove past his place of work, I saw his car there and remembered I had an old ahoooooogah horn sitting in my trunk. I decide to stop by and see what kind of evil things I could do to him.
I worked for about 20 minutes sticking the horn under the drivers seat, grounding it to a seat bolt, and connecting the positive lead to a switched terminal on his fuse box.
When he got out of work that night and started his car, things got pretty amusing. At first he couldn't figure out what was going on, then once he realized what was happening, he started banging around on the horn to shut it off. He finally managed to get the horn to shut off by knocking the ground wire loose, unfortunately, since power was still running to it, it went off everytime he hit a bump. He drove about 5 miles home with that horn going off under his seat, needless to say, he didn't think it was nearly as funny as I did.
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The School of Pharmacy at Purdue has been doing streaming audio/video for several years. About 2 years ago, mp3 podcasting was offered university wide. This year, the School of Pharmacy has added video podcasts. With the School of Pharmacy we have seen some drop in attendance, but the attendance drop is usually associated with a big test in some other class. Early on, some professors opted not to podcast their lectures because of this, but now most of them are using the service. Some faculty members aren't concerned about attendance dropping as long as the students are learning, and some faculty members are concerned because they see it as a professionalism issue. The faculty members that are concerned have opted to either have pop quizzes in their classes, or podcast only audio instead of audio and PowerPoint/Document camera video. As far as when to post the lectures, I use an automated system to get them online as soon as possible. When we were just doing streaming, lectures would be online about 10 minutes after class. Now that we're doing mp4, there is a delay because of the transcoding. Lectures will be online usually within 2 hours of class being over.
If you think about it, there's no reason to do a tape backup as long as you keep your master tape. If you get a tape backup drive, then copy your dv files to it, you've just made a copy of what came out of your camera. Sadly enough, if this video is something you want to be sure you have years down the road, your best bet will be to find a good quality analog tape in a format you like and backup raw footage to that. Sure, you'll lose quality with analog, but it can withstand aging and oxidation better than digital tape. With analog, you just get short dropouts in your video, with digital, you may get huge chunks of video that just go away. Keep all your master tapes, stripe them with timecode, then when you're done editing your project, dub it out to whatever tape format you're using, save the masters, and save the project edit file. If you need to recreate the project, you can just batch digitize everything from tape again.
The last I knew, xvid and divx codecs don't automatically download and install from microsoft, so while good for non windows people, it may not be very good for inexperienced users. I'll probably get flamed for this, but consider something like real, or even look into using flash to create the movie.
I currently am using the Mozilla 1.7 package, but it looks to me like they may be trying to push everyone towards firefox and thunderbird. I sort of like having everything combined in one package, but don't want to get left behind. It seems that firefox and mozilla are getting far enough apart that even some of the extensions don't work for both anymore. Can anyone convince me to switch?
Back when I was in high school, I had a friend who always left his old 1970's Mercury Capri parked at his place of work unlocked with the keys in it. He had just installed a new stereo, but didn't complete the job, so there were all sorts of loose wires hanging from under his dash board. One day when I drove past his place of work, I saw his car there and remembered I had an old ahoooooogah horn sitting in my trunk. I decide to stop by and see what kind of evil things I could do to him. I worked for about 20 minutes sticking the horn under the drivers seat, grounding it to a seat bolt, and connecting the positive lead to a switched terminal on his fuse box. When he got out of work that night and started his car, things got pretty amusing. At first he couldn't figure out what was going on, then once he realized what was happening, he started banging around on the horn to shut it off. He finally managed to get the horn to shut off by knocking the ground wire loose, unfortunately, since power was still running to it, it went off everytime he hit a bump. He drove about 5 miles home with that horn going off under his seat, needless to say, he didn't think it was nearly as funny as I did.