Streaming Video at
Woodruff Reserves
We now offer video streaming for instructors
in the College and the Graduate School who wish to use
video excerpts in their courses. We will digitize video
for you, convert it to a streaming format, and make
the video clips available to students through ReservesDirect.
If you are interested in using streaming video for your
class, please contact the Reserves Staff.
Who may request video :: What
we will digitize :: What we provide :How much we will digitize
Purpose:
The Woodruff Reserves Streaming Video service provides
digitization and web-based delivery of video intended
for educational use.
Who, What, and Where:
Who may request streaming video
Woodruff Reserves honors requests to digitize video from either an instructor or teaching assistant of a class listed in OPUS for the current semester or next immediate semester. Requests may be submitted using web forms available in EUCLID or by using our paper form. Paper forms should be accompanied by the material to be digitized and delivered in hand to the Woodruff Circulation Desk on Level 3.
Please keep in mind that all streaming media requests require at least a 10-14 day turnaround due to the steps required for transferring media and post work devoted to the creation and uploading of streaming media formats to your course.
What we will digitize
We have the ability to digitize various formats of motion media, and will do so in accordance with Copyright Law and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Materials to be digitized must be owned either by the library or by the person requesting it for a course-related purpose. We are not permitted to recreate any third-party copies, recordings, or transfers, including rentals or personal recordings of television broadcasts owned by you for streaming purposes. If you would like to digitize material that is not owned either by yourself or the library please contact us and we will attempt to purchase it for the library’s collection. Please contact us at least one month before the date needed for your course.
We do not digitize unfinished materials, or unedited visual projects. As long as your request includes, finished video with a clear start and end point, if applicable, a finished audio soundtrack of broadcast quality, the material is ready for digitization. If your materials require that need to edit your footage or requires fine tuning, please finish all post-work before delivering the material to us for streaming.
Please note that in order to digitize original footage created by students we will need to have written permission from the person who created it before allowing the item to be transferred and processed.
What we provide
We will digitize video and compress it into a streaming
video format that is accessible via a link posted in
ReservesDirect for the duration of the semester. Our
current streaming formats are Real
and QuickTime.
(Real and QuickTime video players may be downloaded
freely from the web. Links to free downloads are also
provided in ReservesDirect on the course materials page
for each class.) We will optimize the stream for a reasonably
wide viewing audience.
Because the video is compressed and classroom presentation
displays vary, there will invariably be a loss in image
quality and color correctness. Therefore, we recommend
using streaming video for personal computer use rather
than in-class presentation.
As with other materials that are digitized for ReservesDirect,
we will place a copyright notice at the beginning of
all video we digitize. All digitized materials will
be retained and archived solely by us. We will return
source formats to the requestor but do not provide copies
of the digitized material to instructors or teaching
assistants.
How much we digitize
For commercially produced video or film, we digitize in accordance with fair use, which must be analyzed on a case-by-case basis. For more information about fair use, please see our reserves copyright policy.
For personal footage (video created by the requestor
or by students in the requestor’s class) we will
digitize any amount of contiguous, pre-edited footage
that is requested. Please do any necessary editing before
submitting video for digitization. For student work,
we must receive notice of permission from the student.
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