Chair Academy Videos
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Project Summary: The Chair Academy invites top speakers for leadership and education. Often the speakers are videotaped. This project is to transfer video taken of the speakers to DVD.
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Project Goals
Search through the tapes to find the speakers and then transfer those segments to DVD. The DVDs will be sent to the speakers as a courtesy and copies will be made for availability in Chair Academy courses.
Current Status
As of June 12, 2007 the project is complete.
Relation to CTL Department Plan Initiatives
This footage of high quality speakers is a good resource for the Chair Academy's leadership classes. That follows the Excellence in Teaching and Learning strategic goals. The speakers were Anthony Zeiss, Shane Lopez, Patricia Aburdene, and Mark Pogue.
Project Staff
- Ken Costello
- Gary Filan
Project Timeline
- The conference and videos were taken in March 2007. The video cameras used DVCam format.
- Gary contacted Media Services for assistance in copying the tapes and discovered that Media Services had no equipment capable of doing that. Gary then contacted Ken Costello in CTL. Ken said there were two tape sizes for DVCam tapes,and that he could play the mini-DV size tapes on the high definition camcorder.
- The tapes were the mini-DV size so Ken knew it was possible. There were 18 tapes used to videotape the speakers. That's about 12 hours of video.
- After graduation Ken started the process of finding speakers and transferring those segments to DVD. Their presentations lasted about one hour each and was shot with two different cameras at different angles. Some presentations spanned 5 different tapes. The DVD was set to "SP" mode which allows 2 hours of recording.
- In June Ken finished the transfer of videos from tape to DVDs. He then worked on making copies of the DVDs. He used Nero Express to do that. That involves copying the DVD to the hard drive as an "image" of that DVD. That "image" is then copied to a blank DVD. For some reason one of the DVD's would not work that way. Ken had to copy the DVD straight to a blank DVD, which had been causing errors during the verifying of the disk. Sometimes the computer has to be left to do the copying without any other activity. Eventually, Ken got it to work and made 2 copies of the original DVDs.
- One problem could have been that the Toshiba DVD recorder uses DVD-R discs and the Dell DVD burner only burns DVD+R discs.
- On June 14th, Ken designed cover labels for the DVDs. Those were printed and placed on the DVDs. Gary Filan came an picked them up. He said the keynote speakers were anxious to get their presentations on DVD.
Project Resources
- Sony High Definition HVR-Z1 camcorder.
- Toshiba DVD recorder
- Dell Dual Xeom Processor with Windows XP and DVD+R burner.
- Nero Express DVD/CD copying software.
