[WEB4LIB] Video for Web

[Rachel Singer Gordon]

Well, we set our video digitizing system up about a year ago, so
might go with FireWire now (I haven't researched the pros and cons
more recently), but are currently using an ATI All-In-Wonder card for
video capture. It came with capture software that is sufficient for
our purposes, and we bought Terran Media Cleaner EZ software to do
the compression. 

Right now we're just posting short, low quality clips on our site,
since most of our audience is on dialup. (I'm going to soon start
posting alternatives for higher-bandwidth users, though.) We're also
burning some video to CD-ROM, and will likely invest in some video
editing software and possibly the pro version of Media Cleaner once
we purchase a DVD burner (next fiscal year?). 

- Rachel

---- Original Message ----
From: amutch at waterford.lib.mi.us
To: web4lib at webjunction.org, 
Subject: RE: [WEB4LIB] Video for Web
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 08:40:47 -0800 (PST)

>I remember asking this question a couple of years ago but I'm sure 
>the answer to
>this has changed since I first asked. Since we never pursued this 
>then, I still
>need to know how to do this.
>:-)
>
>I have a department that has training videos on VHS tape. They want 
>to convert
>these tapes to a format that can be made available on the web. What 
>hardware and
>software will they need to convert the tape into a format for web 
>use? I recall
>that you needed a special video card to take the signal from the VCR 
>into your
>PC.  If anyone has done this recently, I would appreciate hearing 
>your
>experiences. I'm sure I'll be back to ask about formats and the 
>benefits of
>streaming video, etc.
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Andrew Mutch
>Library Systems Technician
>Waterford Township Public Library
>Waterford, MI
>
>
>
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Rachel Singer Gordon / rsinger at linc.lib.il.us
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