Chapter 4. Video
This chapter will be dedicated to creating and editing videos for our course, from grabbing excerpts of video DVDs and making screencasts that record our screen actions, to proper video editing and stop motion animation. We will also learn how to download videos from online video sharing services and convert these to other formats.
By the end of this chapter you will be able to:
Use a set of software tools for common procedures in video creation, editing, and broadcasting
Publish and download videos from online video sharing services
Convert a video format into several others and vice versa
Create an online TV station
Integrate video in Moodle
Finding free videos online
We should always keep in mind that we can use Wikimedia Commons and the Internet Archive (for example, http://www.archive.org/details/moviesandfilms) for downloading and using videos in our video projects. Although these are very useful, they are not the only services available; we can find many others, with particular...