Publishing Video and Audio

Publishing Video, Audio, Textbooks

General Tips

 * If you're uploading videos from the Open.Michigan office, use the Comcast network. It's much faster.
 * Video is published to Blip.TV, YouTube, Internet Archive, Roku, Boxee
 * Audio is published to Internet Archive.
 * Neither YouTube nor Blip.tv accept .SWF files.
 * Blip.TV, YouTube, and Roku, Boxee present the videos in online streaming only.
 * Internet Archive allows streaming and downloadable versions of both video and audio.
 * Internet Archive automatically creates derivatives of some files (see full list at http://www.archive.org/help/derivatives.php)
 * When you upload a video to YouTube, it generates a compressed, lower-res MP4 which is downloadable only by the creator. You can access it by going to http://www.youtube.com/my_videos, clicking the down arrow to right of Insight underneath desired video, and selecting Download MP4. YouTube seems to limit the number of MP4s that you can download in a given time, so it may temporarily lock you out from downloading after 2-3 videos.
 * For textbooks, look through to make sure no gaps in page numbers; even page number on the left, odd numbers must be on the page.
 * To preserve table of contents and links when converting from a word document to a PDF; open the word document with IWorks Pages, then export as PDF.

Captions
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Blip.TV
View Open.Michigan Blip.tv channel.

This is our main place to upload video since it pushes videos to YouTube (for streaming), Archive.org (which offers download and streaming) and Roku and Boxee (for TVs). It's great b/c you only have to upload the video once (the time consuming part) and then it pushes it to other outlets (see full list at http://blip.tv/faq#distribution). To address this, in the description field, be sure to include a one-sentence summary of the resource, a link back to the course or resource homepage on open.umich.edu/education, the name of the authors, the name of the copyright owner, the name of the Creative Commons license, and a link to the Creative Commons license. Here is an example: "This short animation introduces the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) procedure. This resource was developed by Yaw Adu-Sarkodie of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and Cary Engleberg of the University of Michigan. It is part of a larger learning module about laboratory methods for clinical microbiology (available at https://open.umich.edu/education/med/oernetwork/basic-sci/clinical-microbio-lab/2009). (C) 2009-2010, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and Cary Engleberg. This is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/." You may still have to clean up the metadata (e.g. keywords) at the other outlets though.

To upload videos:


 * 1) Download and install UpperBlip from http://www.blip.tv/tools/
 * 2) Open the software. Select the desired videos and enter the metadata.
 * 3) Once all of the videos have been uploaded, you must select the distribution channels. Go to http://blip.tv/dashboard/episodes.
 * 4) For each video uploaded


 * Click on the video title
 * Click the Edit button
 * Click the Distribution tab
 * Select the appropriate checkboxes (Internet Archive, You Tube [This is a new episodes &gt; Education&gt; Deselect Make this episode private when it is sent to YouTube], Roku, Boxee)
 * Click Save All Changes

YouTube
View the Open.Michigan YouTube Channel.

Blip.tv should automatically publish videos to YouTube. If you want to upload directly to YouTube, use Google Chrome and upload at http://upload.youtube.com/my_videos_upload. Be sure to include the same metadata in the description as mentioned in the Blip.tv section above.

If you want to limit access to certain videos, you can make it a private or unlisted video.

Whether you add videos to YouTube directly or via Blip, if you have a lot of videos for a particular course/resource, create a playlist:


 * 1) Go to http://www.youtube.com/my_videos?feature=mhum
 * 2) In the left nav, click the + New Button next to playlist
 * 3) Enter the title, description, and tags.
 * 4) Click Create Playlist.
 * 5) Select the Checkboxes next to all of the videos that you would like to add to the playlist
 * 6) Click the Add to Button at the top
 * 7) Select the desired playlist(s)
 * 8) Click Add Videos
 * 9) Go to http://www.youtube.com/user/openmichigan?feature=mhsn
 * 10) Select the Videos and Playlists tab
 * 11) Make sure your playlist is selected in the list at the right under "Which of your playlists would you like to display?"
 * 12) Click Save Changes
 * 13) Click to the Playlists button directly above the video (to the right of the Subscribe button)
 * 14) Click More Info under the desired playlist to see the videos for the playlist
 * 15) Click More Info again
 * 16) Copy the URL shown on the resulting playlist page (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/user/openmichigan#grid/user/3760F7B5D1B6409D). This is the public URL for the playlist.

Internet Archive
View Open.Michigan videos, audio, and textbooks on Internet Archive

(Note: Internet Archive doesn't have a channel view for all authors. If you want to access your videos, search by uploader's email address, e.g. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=uploader%3A%28open.michigan%40umich.edu%29&amp;sort=-downloads)

For individual file uploads: 


 * 1) Open Google Chrome (it's faster than other browsers)
 * 2) Go to http://www.archive.org/index.php
 * 3) Sign in (upper right)
 * 4) Click the Upload button
 * 5) Click the Share button in the upper right
 * 6) Select the file(s) that you wish to upload. Note that any files that you select will all be uploaded to a single URL, so if you select multiple files they should all be associated with a particular course or resource.
 * 7) Enter the metadata, following the example description above under Blip.Tv.
 * 8) Confirm that you allow auto-generated deriatives (http://www.archive.org/help/derivatives.php)
 * 9) Once the file is complete, it may take a few minutes - hours to generate the derivatives.

To bulk upload materials using a Perl script:


 * Generic instructions at https://wiki.archive.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IAS3BulkUploader. Open.Michigan-specific instructions are on Confluence wiki under Tips and Guides.

To view your batch process queue (for derivatives, bulk uploads, etc):


 * http://www.archive.org/catalog.php?&amp;justme=1

To edit metadata for a file


 * 1) View all uploads at http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=uploader:%28open.michigan@umich.edu%29
 * 2) Click on the item you wish to edit
 * 3) In the left nav under Resources, click Edit Item. (Alternatively, you may click Edit Item! next to the username in the header.)
 * 4) Click I want to change the information
 * 5) Edit the metadata
 * 6) Click Submit at the bottom

To add, remove, or modify files: 


 * 1) View all uploads at http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=uploader:%28open.michigan@umich.edu%29
 * 2) Click on the item you wish to edit
 * 3) In the left nav under Resources, click Edit Item. (Alternatively, you may click Edit Item! next to the username in the header.)
 * 4) Click I want to change the files in my item.
 * 5) Make the necessary changes. Click Update Item!.
 * 6) Regenerate the derivatives (see below)

To delete an identifier/resource/course


 * Post a request at http://www.archive.org/post/191348/delete-items. You cannot delete the identifier yourself.

regenerate derivatives:

If you modify or add new files, you'll need to re-derive alternate formats (http://www.archive.org/help/derivatives.php)


 * 1) View all uploads at http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=uploader:%28open.michigan@umich.edu%29
 * 2) Click on the item you wish to edit
 * 3) In the left nav under Resources, click Edit Item. (Alternatively, you may click Edit Item! next to the username in the header.)
 * 4) Click I want to change the information
 * 5) Click Item Manager, near the top of the page
 * 6) Under Edit Operations, Click the derive button

Roku
Distribution is done through Blip.Tv.

See example screenshots of Open.Michigan channel on Roku:


 * 1) http://www.flickr.com/photos/openmichigan/5180218467/
 * 2) http://www.flickr.com/photos/openmichigan/5180818638/in/photostream/
 * 3) http://www.flickr.com/photos/openmichigan/5180219917/in/photostream/
 * 4) http://www.flickr.com/photos/openmichigan/5180220681/in/photostream/

Boxee
Distribution is done through Blip.Tv.

See example screenshot of Open.Michigan channel on Boxee http://www.flickr.com/photos/openmichigan/5180859612/

Create OER Videos from MediaSite Recordings
MediaSite is an enterprise webcasting, lecture capture, and hybrid event platform in use by one or several of the Schools and Colleges at the University. Learn more.

CARMA (campus automated rich media archiving) is a service available to all units of the University that captures, preserves and distributes presentations over the World Wide Web. Learn more.

Use MediaSite Editor to remove/replace copyrighted content from a MediaSite recording


 * 1) Launch MediaSite Editor
 * 2) Navigate to File &gt; Open from Server...
 * 3) Locate the lecture on the server and open
 * 4) Immediately copy files to the desktop (File &gt; Save Project As) before editing
 * 5) Make appropriate edits within the timeline using the "Insert" "Replace" and "Remove" functions.

Export updated jpegs, slide timing file, and video for processing by CARMA


 * 1) Upload edited timeline to the server: File &gt; Commit Changes to New, then select "Create a new presentation on the server" Be sure to add "-OER" to the end of the filename.
 * 2) Log in to: https://recording.umms.med.umich.edu/rossmedia/manage
 * 3) Locate new "-OER" presentation and move it to the "OER" folder
 * 4) Click on the lecture's title and then click "Download" to export updated jpegs, slide timing file, and video

Convert slide timing file into CARMA readable format


 * 1) Use this script (run xfm.sh) to process the "MediasitePresentation_60.xml" file located within the MediaSite publish to go package previously downloaded.
 * 2) Open the .csv file with a spreadsheet application. Insert a new top row and add "Start" and "Marker Name" to A1 and B1 respectively
 * 3) Save file as a .txt file

Upload files to CARMA services for final processing


 * 1) From a Mac, under the Go command in the Finder, enter smb://lecb.physics.lsa.umich.edu (You'll have to be on campus, or have a VPN open if you're connecting from home).
 * 2) Drop files in U-M_OER &gt; To Be Processed folder
 * 3) CARMA will process the files and then contact Open.Michigan when they're finished.