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Grabbing Media Off the Web

Page history last edited by Miguel Guhlin 14 years, 8 months ago

Grabbing Video and Images Off the Web

 

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Objectives for Today's Session

  1. Identify what your needs are for today's session.
  2. Become familiar with the various media formats on the Web, including:
    • Video
      • FLV - Flash video format used in most video-sharing web sites, including YouTube, Edublogs.tv, TeacherTube.com, SchoolTube.com, and many others.
      • SWF - Another Flash video format. This format is created by free programs like Jing.com.
      • MP4 - A universally accepted video format. This format is great to convert videos to IF you want people to edit them.
      • OGM - A new video, open source standard that will probably be used by Wikipedia.org and many others to share content.
      • MOV - Quicktime
      • AVI - Windows format
      • WMV - Windows video format, usually created by programs like PhotoStory and/or Moviemaker
    • Audio
      • MP3 - The most used, standard audio format.
      • OGG - A commonly used free open source audio format
      • WMA - A Windows Audio file format used by many digital audio recorders.
  3. Learn which offline and online tools you can use to convert the various video/audio formats.
  4. Get a quick overview of Creative Commons Copyright when using videos, as well as discuss citation standards:

 

Process

  1. Identify the Media you want
  2. Make note of citation information for the Media Selected
  3. Get the Media in whatever format you can (e.g. mov, flv, wma, whatever you can). Use one of these sites:
  4. Convert the Media to the format you need using the web-based tools available or Format Factory (Windows only). This usually needs to be something you can use or play in Powerpoint (WMV/AVI) or Keynote (FLV/MOV/MP4) or share on your SAISD Blog (MP4).
  5. Remix the Media and Share It with a Wider Audience (citing the original you adapted appropriately). Some web sites you can share media on:

 

Tutorial(s) - Print and Video

 

 

Relevant Links

Everyone is always asking how to pull videos from YouTube, etc. Here’s my list of tools for accomplishing that, as well as some desktop utilities. If you know of others, please feel free to add them.

Converting Video using VLC Media Player

VLC Media Player is an awesome program that is just under-utilized because folks don’t realize it’s power. Not only can VLC Media Player play almost any video/audio format, it can also convert from one format to another. You can also use it to stream content. While VLC Media Player is cross-platform, if you're on Windows, Format Factory is THE conversion program to use for video and audio.

Below are a series of tutorials to help you better understand how VLC Media Player can make a difference. They essentially describe how I’ve used VLC Media Player in my work…I hope they are useful to you.

 

 

Desktop Tools for FLV files

After you download an FLV file, you decide you want to play the file as is, what do you use to do that?

Cross-Platform (Linux/Mac/Windows)

  • VLC Media Player- An awesome tool to use that lets you play a wide variety of movie/audio formats.
  • Democracy Player - On Mac/Windows/Linux, you can play that FLV file.

Macintosh

  • iSquint - On a Mac, you can use iSquint to convert this FLV file to whatever format you want. No longer supported but still available for download in some places.
  • Visual Hub - On a Mac, you can use Visual Hub to convert a wide variety of files. No longer supported but still available for download in some places.

Windows

 

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