On 16:48 Tue 03 Jun , Jeff Squyres wrote: > - more importantly, however, the audience likes to take the slides > away and when they actually look at them 6 weeks after the lecture, > they might actually remember the content better because they received > the same information via two forms of sensory input (audio + visual).
I consider him as a authority on this subject: ;-) http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/html/icb.topic58703/winston1.html > Plus it *is* just the builtin microphone on my Mac, so it may not be > the greatest sound quality to begin with. :-) *gasp* ;-) > As for .mov, yes, this is definitely a compromise. I tried uploading > the videos to YouTube and Google Video and a few others, but a) most > have a time or file size restriction (e.g., 10 mins max) -- I was not > willing to spend the extra work to split up the videos into multiple > segments, and b) they down-res'ed the videos so much as to make the > slides look crappy and/or unreadable. So I had to go with the video > encoder that I could get for darn little money (Cisco's a big company, > but my budget is still tiny :-) ). That turned out to be a fun little > program called iShowU for OS X that does screen scraping + audio > capture. It outputs Quicktime movies, so that was really my only > choice. > > Is it a real hardship for people to install the QT player? Are there > easy-to-install convertors? I'm not opposed to hosting it in multiple > formats if it's easy and free to convert them. Well, it's not so hard to install QT, but then again: many people won't do it because it takes that two minutes extra. There are a lot of open source converters. I prefer transcode (www.transcoding.org) and would suggest MPEG output (MPEG 4, or MPEG 2 if you really must). But that's just what I prefer. Cheers -Andi -- ============================================ Andreas Schäfer Cluster and Metacomputing Working Group Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany PGP/GPG key via keyserver I'm a bright... http://www.the-brights.net ============================================ (\___/) (+'.'+) (")_(") This is Bunny. Copy and paste Bunny into your signature to help him gain world domination!
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