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Mediaworks
Video: Combining Assets
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Mediaworks
Video: Combining Assets
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 Video group leader Paul Ver Wey has seen many "video revolutions" in his 15 years of production. But the one happening with DVD has him particularly thrilled, largely because of its potential benefits to classroom instruction."Before, we were limited to separate instructional media...video, slides, an overhead, maybe some audio on a cassette or CD," Ver Wey explains. "Now, we are able to take all these assets and put them onto one format. When designed correctly, we can branch to related material without being confined to the linear realm."  Any instructor who has struggled in the dark with jammed slide projectors and fumbled with overheads all in the same lecture will surely welcome this leap forward in instructional technology. Now they can assemble their sound, graphics, and video onto a single disc and then access them from the disc or server, or even upload them to the Web. In 1998, Professor Barbara Sellers-Young took advantage of an earlier technology when she worked with a production team of UC Davis media producers to create a set of video compact discs (VCD) for her Asian Theatre and Drama class. The producers combined still images, video clips, and music she had acquired from her travels in Asia onto compact discs and categorized them into sections like "court performance" and "ritual." Using the VCDs, she could easily access the appropriate material in class as the curriculum progressed. According to Ver Wey, that was just the beginning. "The marketplace for distributing video has really opened up in the last year or so," Ver Wey adds, referring to the recent developments in delivering video via DVD, the Web, and PowerPoint. While video streaming and digital compression will make up an increasing part of Mediaworks' expanded services, the video group will continue to offer its video and audio recording services, post-production editing, and popular classroom taping. |
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