MEDIASITE. Uploading Video. Mediasite Instructional Guide Series V

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1 MEDIASITE Uploading Video V Mediasite Instructional Guide Series

2 Getting Started System Requirements Minimum system requirements must met. Your smartphone will likely be compliant, but a laptop should have Windows 7, 8, 8., or 0;.4 GHz Core Duo CPU or equivalent 4 GB RAM, and at least GB of free disk space, and a built-in or external camera and microphone. Although professional recording assistance is available, your smartphone, tablet, or computer possess the microphone, camera, and recording software to create a video component. Microphones Microphone placement is critical to the quality of sound. Lapel mics must be placed away from moving articles of clothing such as jacket lapels or collars and jewelry such as large necklaces, bracelets, or multiple loop earrings. Headset mics can be used with the mic placed optimally just below the corner of the mouth. Holding the microphone out and away from your mouth can reduce the popping sounds when pronouncing words beginning with the letter P. External speakers must be turned down to avoid feedback noise. Physical Environment External noises, such as ringing phones, squeaking doors/chairs, people walking in a hall, fans, lawnmowers, jewelry, or traffic; can create distractions. Poor lighting can reduce visibility. Open blinds, curtains, flickering fluorescents, and poorly placed desk lamps can reduce image clarity. Background images can create environments of reinforcement or distraction. Properly placed charts, maps, or diagrams can add to a concept. However, calendars, personal artwork, or charts from other courses can easily distract and prevent future repurposing. Attire Certain clothing choices will be more visually appealing on video. Clothing with close, high-contrast pin stripes, like white shirts with closely placed black or navy stripes, herringbone or corduroy, or busy plaids can be visually distracting. White shirts are acceptable, but must be worn under a darker jacket. Anything orange or reddish-orange can become too luminous. Maroon, blues, greens, grays and earth tones all work great for video. Structure Creating a bulleted list of key concepts is usually better than a written script. This allows you greater fluency and flexibility while presenting your concepts in a natural, conversational tone. This also assures that all topics are adequately addressed. Testing all of the hardware components and conducting a dry run of your lecture prior to the recording, especially a live presentation, will increase the probability of seamless success. Less is often more. Segmenting or chunking your topic into easily consumable three to seven minute segments can dramatically increase learner retention. Increase this with interactive polls or questions to drive even higher levels of retention and engagement. Everything Else If you realize that something, whatever that may be, is missing or you would like to try something new, or something simply does not work; feel free to contact us at coe.mediasite-helpdesk@tamu.edu. We would be pleased to provide assistance!

3 Index Just receive a video of new discoveries about your topic from an industry partner? Did you find a YouTube video that summarizes key points? Or do you have pertinent procedures captured on your smartphone? Now, with Mediasite, you can include them in your course. Over 00 different formats can easily be uploaded. Even better, all of your video files can be searched, secured, and interactive! Share them with a research community, Blackboard courses, itunesu, or even a Youtube channel. The choice belongs to you!. Getting Started. Locate Course Semester Folder 3. Create Presentation 4. Record Desktop & Upload Media 5. Uploading Existing Video 6. Edit Video Settings 7. Delivery Options

4 Logging into MyMediasite Getting Started Go to: mediasite.engr.tamu.edu/ Mediasite/MyMediasite Log in with your NetID: If it is your first time logging into the system you will be asked to fill out some information before you can proceed. Uploading Video Locate Course Semester Folder Find your course semester folder at the bottom left and select it.

5 Uploading Video Create Presentation To upload or create a new video, click Create Presentation. Record Desktop and Upload Media Record Desktop: used to make a new video only if you have the Mediasite Desktop Recorder software installed. Upload Media: used when you have a video that you want to add to your course. Videos can be created using Camtasia, Real Media, etc. or from sources like YouTube, Echo, etc. Note: Camtasia by default records in its own proprietary format, either.camrec or.trec. These formats are not ingestible by the Mediasite system. They would either need to be processed into another format or the default recording format can be changed.

6 Uploading Video Uploading Existing Video Please choose a name for the video You may choose to write a detailed description. 3 4 Please choose the semester folder for the related course. This will default to the course semester folder you chose earlier. Click Select Video. 3 4

7 Uploading Video Edit Video Settings Now click the Edit tab to change the title and set visibility of the video. By default the system marks all uploads as private so that you can choose when to make the video available to the students. To make it visible choose Viewable from the dropdown menu at the right. 3 3 You are also able to set a specific date and time for the video. This allows you to set the order in which they will show up in the catalog. (This is not a necessary step.) If you would like to create a Download please continue. If not, you can close this window but please keep the computer running for a bit to make sure the file successfully uploads.

8 Setting up Downloads Delivery Options Audio Transcripts: Used for closed captioning. Please contact the remote learning team for information. Podcast: Used to provide only the audio to the student, no video. Please choose FM radio quality from the dropdown menu. 5 3 Video Podcast (Composite): Provides both audio and video to the student. Please choose the.5 Content Only for uploads from other sources (Camtasia, Real Producer, Windows media, etc.) 4 Publish To Go: Provides a streaming like experience with audio and video to the student. Please be aware that this is the largest download and may be difficult for some students to download Once you are finished please click Save.

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