This video attempts to define the problem in my CE, that grad students are often busy and have limited time in their schedules to learn something new, but they have to confront the huge task of formatting a large document to precise specifications. I don't think that this video follows any research based guidelines, accept in that I tried my best to keep it simple and not introduce more information than is needed.
Credits in the final video will roll with the following:
- Photos of a mock training used with permission by the student employees and the STC coordinator.
- Stock photos of the family and the traffic are from Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
- Music used was a segment of the song "And Then We Take Them Down Again" by DoKashiteru, Creative Commons license (Digg CC Mixter)
My question to everyone is, if you recorded your voice, have you tried to remove background hums and white noise? I used Audacity to do this and it did wonders! If anyone is interested I'll make a screencast about getting and using the software.
I'm interested, Dave. I definitely want to know how to limit the white noise. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping to use Audacity to remove the audio track from downloaded video so I don't just have to mute it, but I can actually remove it completely. Do you know if Audacity will do this, too?
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ReplyDeleteGreat I'll throw a screencast up soon.
@Scott,
Audacity won't help you do that since it only edits audio formats. You'll need a more feature rich video editor to split the audio from the video. HOWEVER, I did find a very simple solution to swapping the video with with images while your audio continued. Again, if you'd like I can do a screencast to show you.
Basically what you do is split the video at the point the pictures start and then at the point where the video resumes. Then, drag that video to the audio 2 track and place the images in your timeline between the two points. Then adjust their length so that they take up the same time as the audio 2 track that you just added.
I think its a great intro Dave. I too would be interested in Audacity info - I will be doing audio recordings for my next video.
ReplyDeleteExcellent. Particularly well done was integrating the music and narrative so that there was no cognitive overload. The music created interest at the beginning, stopped, and the narrative became the audio focus of attention with supporting images to reinforce and not overtake the focus of attention.
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