Working with the support of the Visual Learning Laboratory CETL, our goal was to enable easy access, simple capture of audio and video media to support teaching developments, originally for Masters courses within our School. 

Our requirements were straightforward

1. desktop/portable operation for easy use
   

2. seamless corporate styling of introductory and  trailing information for videos
   

3. Screen capture as video
   

4. input of externally generated materials (audio/video)
   

5. ease of use to the new user
   

6. choice of video recording devices - DV camera, webcam etc
   

We chose Apple’s Podcast Capture software, inbuilt into every Apple OS along with the Podcast Producer, the server component which manages the rendering of captured media into different formats, adds appropriate corporate identity and serves up the resultant final media.  This gives us a very integrated system which addresses all of our requirements.

This site has been produced to demonstrate some of the uses of Podcast capture, alongside descriptions of how the process works and more detail on the outputs possible.  Have a look at the example pages to see some of the possibilities.

Please note: At present I have only put examples using QUICKTIME movies - Your PC may need a recent version of quicktime installed to view the examples. It is a free download from Apple

Have a look around the site or email us for further information

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Jonathan Ball       Sally Chappell      Paddy Tighe