Teach 'Em How to Fish » video http://ewarkentin.edublogs.org Lifelong learning, growing, and empowering others Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:18:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Zamzar and Handbrake http://ewarkentin.edublogs.org/2008/04/04/zamzar-and-handbrake/ http://ewarkentin.edublogs.org/2008/04/04/zamzar-and-handbrake/#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:29:29 +0000 Ed Warkentin http://ewarkentin.edublogs.org/2008/04/04/zamzar-and-handbrake/ This post is intended to be a companion to my presentation, “YouTube or DVD to your hard drive!” at the CVCUE conference on April 5, 2008.
I have blogged about Zamzar and Handbrake in the past, but here is a more detailed account of this particular conference session.

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Zamzar
http://zamzar.com

1. Select files (Choose File) or paste URL.
2. Choose the format to convert to:
(Image, Document, Music, Video, and more!)
3. Enter your email address to receive converted file.
4. Click “Convert”.
5. Wait for the email.
6. Click on the link in the email to download converted file.
7. Put video in iTunes for easy access during class.

•Wait time has increased since the paid account option appeared.
•YouTube or TeacherTube videos are now “harvestable” to your hard drive.
•Grab video that might be blocked on your campus, or otherwise not be accessible during class time.
•Put downloaded videos in a video editor like iMovie to crop, combine, etc.

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Handbrake

1. Download at http://handbrake.fr/
2. Put application in the proper place (Applications folder on Mac OS X) so it runs off the hard drive instead of the disk image.
3. Run program & insert DVD.
4. Wait. Program will take time to read the chapters on the DVD.
5. Choose the section of the DVD that you want to harvest to your hard drive (might be tricky; might have to guess).
6. Explore pop-up options.
7. Click Start.
8. Wait. Now it’s reading and harvesting the chapter from the DVD to your hard drive.
9. Locate file on your hard drive. If it’s too long, use a video editor such as iMovie to trim it down.
10. Put it in iTunes for easy access during class.

Click here to download a Word document version of this Zamzar and Handbrake How-To

Please comment below if you have additional tips on either of these two tools, or if you think something I’ve done here could be improved.

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Ever wish you could rip a certain scene from a DVD to your hard drive? (Maybe you want to have easy access to it; maybe you want to embed it in a PowerPoint presentation.) Handbrake will help you do just that.
1. Put in your DVD, and it will search the catalog of the DVD (ie where the scenes breaks are).
2. Select which one you want to rip (save to your hard drive).
3. Set Handbrake to work, and soon, you’ll have your file on your desktop, ready to use without your DVD.
Some applications for video might include the following:
Find scenes in movies that show features in literature that might be relevant to your curriculum. (have students search their own home DVD’s for these, and they’ll do more “homework” than you can imagine!) Find scenes in movies that relate to content in other subjects. Having the precise clip as a file on your computer is much more convenient than having to navigate your DVD menu every time you want to use a clip.
Handbrake describes itself as, “an open-source, GPL-licensed, multi-platform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.”
Be aware of copyright and fair use, though. This is not free license to copy and mass-distribute media we don’t own…but that’s a conversation for another time.
Find Handbrake at: http://handbrake.m0k.org/

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Have you ever had a Windows Media Player file (.wmv) and needed it in Quicktime (.mov) format, so you could edit it in iMovie? Or maybe just the opposite, if you’re on a Windows machine. Have you ever had an image that you need in a different format? How about a document?
Zamzar does this and more!
In fact, it recently added the capability to convert videos directly from sites such as YouTube and Google Video! Now you can take a video you’ve seen on YouTube, and save it to your hard drive, and avoid problems with your school’s network, or problems with students seeing inappropriate content.
It’s a very easy interface:
Step 1: Select the file or URL to convert (up to 100MG)
Step 2: Choose the format to convert it to.
Step 3: Provide an email address (You will get an email with a link to download your converted file.)
Step 4: Convert!
And lickety-split! Your file is converted. Free, versatile, and super-easy to use. Check it out!
Find Zamzar at: http://www.zamzar.com/

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