UP Video

11/03/2011

Nice "Mr. Hands" style video teaching the basics of the epub format. (Note that the new epub 3.0 spec, in beta now, supports video!)

Use .epub to create eBooks and load them on iPad. See the internal structure how the pieces fit. The .epub format is free/open. It allows reflowable and resizable text, CSS decorations, .jpegs, .gif, .png but no moving images or sound. More resources: Build an ePub Tutorial - http://katiebooks.c

27/01/2011

Passion for books + simple story + laughing baby = Priceless 30-second video!

The Finnish Library Association celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2010. On the occasion of the anniversary The Finnish Library Association wants to promote the important role of the libraries in transmitting cultural upbringing to the next generations. Script: Markku Rönkkö Production: Otto Tuo

07/12/2010

MIT Press has produced an app called "NONOBJECT." See the demo and its interesting nav, design, use of content, embedded video, interactivity, etc.

19/11/2010

Bookmark the Freesound Project web page—terrific sounds to improve your videos, all under a Creative Commons license.

Freesound: collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers. Have you freed your sound today?

18/11/2010

Some other cool sites besides YouTube to find your online video!

More and more sites are stepping up to help sift through the vast, expansive sea of online video. Here are five of our favorites.

08/10/2010

"George Orwell imagined a world where Big Brother was watching us. But we instead with our little cell phone cameras can be watching Big Brother every moment of the day!" New Media scholar Henry Jenkins puts the explosion of online video in perspective.

Henry Jenkins, MIT Professor and author of "Convergence Culture" talks about the new media landscape. Highest Common Denominator Media Group www.hcdmediagroup.com

05/10/2010

Howzabout filming your editors giving their favorite advice! Become a fun and helpful resource for the home university, your press community, and the world in general!

Definition of word from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games.

27/09/2010

Doing lab work on DIY video on the ApocaDocs YouTube Channel for Michael Jensen's and Jim Poyser's new book. So, I cut a book trailer using public domain animation of the world being hit by an asteroid, and then dupped it for promoting the apocadocs.com page; shot high-key-lit interview of Michael solo in the SLC hotel room on the fly, and then some more subtley lit footage of Michael with Jim on iChat. (Note the use of the master two-shot with intercut close up of Jim in the computer in the "Faster Than Expected" piece.) Of course, this is personal video, so it’ll never be the kind of polished thing you see on TV. But it gets the word out! More to come . . .

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16/09/2010

Who's the teacher? You are the teacher!

TED Talks TED's Chris Anderson says the rise of web video is driving a worldwide phenomenon he calls Crowd Accelerated Innovation -- a self-fueling cycle of learning that could be as significant as the invention of print. But to tap into its power, organizations will need to embrace radical openness...

08/09/2010

Little book trailer of Michael Jensen's and Jim Poyser's new book on environmental emergency (put together by yours truly . . . ;-) - Author interviews are being edited; PSA scripts are being written !

With wry humor the ApocaDocs—Jim Poyser and Michael Jensen—survey our converging environmental emergencies in their new book, "Humoring the Horror of the Converging Emergencies" -- the only book of its kind with fart jokes. See their website at http://www.apocadocs.com/ or read their book free onlin...

23/08/2010

Video-enhanced ebooks—get that footage ready for publication!

E-book readers are all the rage this year with probably dozens of new ones being unveiled by the end of the year. But e-books themselves have gone past the capabilities of even some of the most popular readers, they’re now incorporating video in enhanced versions.It’s an interesting use of video to ...

18/08/2010

Remember to watch those file sizes! Tried to import a 35 gig HD video clip into iMovie 08 and it wouldn't let me. So I opened the clip in Quicktime, trimmed to the first half of the video, and "Saved as" a new Part 1.mov clip at 17 gigs. Then repeated for the second half as a new Part 2.mov clip at 18 gigs. Voila! These two smaller clips imported fine.
P.S. I've imported up to a 27 gig clip.

12/08/2010

EXTRACTING AUDIO FROM A VIDEO CLIP
In iMovie 09, put your clip in the project timeline, then select the clip, control click, and select "Detach Audio" from the menu.That will separate the audio from the video. Then just delete the video and use the sound clip where you will.
In iMovie 08, select the clip in the events, press Shift+Control and drag the clip to the project timeline. It will drop in as an audio clip.

29/07/2010

If you missed it in Salt Lake City, here is Michael Jensen's session on Hyperabundance from the June 2010 AAUP meeting!

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29/07/2010

Here's a tutorial on how to create a YouTube "playlist," which enables your multi-part video to be played consecutively without having to re-queue each part. (Note: you can jump over the cutesy animation to the 1:30 mark where the how-to steps actually start.) Comment if you have questions or other tips!

What are playlists, and how do you create, organize and share them? This video reveals all. Made by http://www.youtube.com/rockyourwhirled

27/07/2010

NEWS FLASH: US Copyright Office has declared "fair use" of clips of copyright-protected works in documentaries. Since our videos, when exploring issues contained in our books, are essentially mini documentaries, this could have a huge impact on our ability to "punch up" our content with clips from relevant other cultural works.

Documentary filmmakers today gained access to previously "locked" DVD content for fair use in their productions under an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act granted to them by the US Copyright Office.

26/07/2010

AAUP member Urban Institute has given us an extremely compelling example of DIY video—great light and sound; excellent mixing of speakers, text cards, and visuals; wonderful articulation of the important elements of the subject; and outstanding establishment of a relationship to the people involved with the book! Kudos to Kathleen Courrier and her team. May your video go viral!

A conversation with editor Candace McCoy and police accountability experts.

23/07/2010

Google's working on machine-generated captions for YouTube videos and automatic timing for manually created caption tracks. Yowza!

Watch this short demo to learn about machine-generated captions in YouTube and automatic timing for manually created caption tracks. (As you can see ASR is still a work in progress - but we have manually fixed captions,too)

15/07/2010

Vimeo tutorial on how to upload. Just remember, the super-large, long-form video files may take several hours to post. Consider uploading before bed, so posting time occurs overnight.

This is a tutorial about our new Uploader. Enjoy!
Note- If you have problems uploading post a message here, http://www.vimeo.com/forum:known_issues under problems uploading and we'll help you.

14/07/2010

Just delightful!!!

More info: http://improveverywhere.com/2010/07/14/star-wars-subway-car/

For our latest mission, we staged a reenactment of the first Princess Leia / Darth Vader scene from Star Wars on a New York City subway car.

This is one of over 100 different missions Improv Everywhere has executed since 2...

13/07/2010

And let's not forget about Vimeo—500 megs of uploaded video each week for free with no time limit on your videos. Can post the long-form video here and then chop into "parts" for YouTube.

Vimeo is a respectful community of creative people who are passionate about sharing the videos they make. Use Vimeo if you want the best tools and highest quality video in the universe.

09/07/2010

Video production company, TurnHere, created BookVideos.tv as a central repository for videos they produced. You can browse by subject category, publisher, title, or author. Check it out to see what other publishers are doing!

07/07/2010

Terrific example of an "answer collage." Simply posit a question about one of your press's core disciplines, stand wide variety of individuals in front of a white screen, and cut together the responses for fun and prizes!

06/07/2010

Here's a video tutorial on the basic 3-light-shoot set-up, as well as the all-white background lighting set-up and the half-light "film noir" effect.

P.S. YouTube has great tutorials on all aspects of video production.

This video produced for us by the excellent Gavin Hoey shows how to use a 3 light setup in a coventional 3 point lighting setup he also shows how to light a white background. Although this is for video lighting this would still apply to still photography and these lights are strong enough for portr...

02/07/2010

Here's a terrific example of a CUP author showing kids how to draw an osprey. (Shot at the Amazon.com offices.)

David Allen Sibley, author of The Sibley Guide to Birds, shows a few budding young birdwatchers how to draw an osprey, at the Amazon.com offices in Seattle in October 2009.

02/07/2010

Speaking of B-roll . . . the Internet Archives has some terrific downloadable, creative-commons and public-domain stock footage. Great for B-roll to intercut cool visuals and punch up your video storytelling!

A collection of stock footage clips submitted by Internet Archive users. These clips are designed to be used in other videos. All clips in this collection must have one of the following Creative Commons Licenses: Public Domain Attribution (by) Attribution Share Alike (by-sa) Attribution...

01/07/2010

Helping viewers feel a real connection to the author is an important goal for our videos. Here's a wiki page with some starter questions to get authors talking about themselves. HINT: create a login for yourself and add your own example questions to this wiki—the more we have, the easier it gets!

-talk about parents, teachers, other influences, etc.; if you have a philosophy you developed say how you came to adopt it

30/06/2010

For those of you who may have missed it, here is the Duke Press video of the eloquent and debonair Ken Wissoker, teaching us about the role of the acquisitions editor. The bar has been set people.

A new series of conversations with the people behind the books at Duke Press, this first installment features the Editorial Director, Ken Wissoker, as he discusses the role of acquisition editors at a university press.

30/06/2010

Here are the magic YouTube optimization settings from the session captured on the AAUP Wiki.

Note: MP4a is the ffmpeg audio container and MP4v is the ffmpeg video container. Also, raw AVCHD file with the extension .mt2s, will probably fail.

29/06/2010

Excellent stuff here and lots to chew on for Video SEO - Part 2.

In this second installment on Video SEO we look at optimization and rankng factors. This is all part of our ongoing series on Universal Search. A must read!

29/06/2010

Interesting and informative series on Video Search Engine Optimization (VSEO) - Part 1.

SEOs by and large don't seem to 'get' Video and Universal search. In this installment in the series, we teach you how to make the most of it

29/06/2010

U.S. Internet users watched 31.2 billion videos in March 2010 according to comScore. "Join/Like" UP Video for community and knowledge-sharing on producing and posting video for scholarly, literary, and university-press publishing.

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released March 2010 data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that more than 180 million U.S. Internet users watched online video during the month. YouTube delivered video to more than 135 million viewers during ...