Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Video Production - A Physical Assessment Instructional Video

In the past few months I have been working with an Excelsior College nursing faculty colleague to produce a video that helps students identify all the parts to a physical assessment video they must produce on their own. The video outlines all the skills and knowledge they must demonstrate within their submitted video. During this project I really ramped up my timeline for teaching myself some of the inner workings of Adobe Premiere which is their video editing software package. I was able to string together clips of video recorded in a different format than the eventual output format of flash video (.FLV), trim and adjust those clips, add sound files (edited in Garageband from Apple), create titles, and add still images for chapter headings. Although I know that Premiere is capable of much more, it was nice to explore those audio/video skills within such a nice application. I can say that I wish the interface was setup a little different as selecting various parts of video and moving them around was a bit clumsy. This could have also been my newness to the upgrade of the program as there might be some shortcuts or easier ways to do these things. I look forward to doing more like adding key-frames and transitions in the future. I should also say that I am a big fan of iMovie and Final Cut Studio from Apple as well. I can not share the video with you here, but if you have an interest in Nursing and are looking for a Nursing Degree program to take online, you can enroll at Excelsior College and take this NUR442 course.

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