# Overview

- The video node type allows a content creator to upload videos to the CNMAT website and to tag the video example with the CNMAT taxonomy. Properly tagged nodes are referenced from elsewhere in the site.

- It is forbidden to post any videos whose distributional rights are not controlled by the content creator. Copyright releases are required for material that is not your own work. These should be scanned and attached to the video node.

# Creating a Video Node

- To create a new video node, log in and navigate from the home page menu under the user name to Create content/video (contact the Administrative Director at CNMAT if you discover you need permission for content creation).

- Tag the video node with all appropriate terms so that it can be referenced and navigated to from elsewhere in the website.

# Video Formatting

- video must be properly formatted before uploading to the site.
The format is H.264 with 640x480 videos and AAC, 44.1kHz encoded audio.

- IMPORTANT: Pay close attention to the formatting of the video to avoid any uploading and transcoding issues. if the video is not properly formatted before being uploaded to the website it may take a long time to transcode and the transcoding may fail.

- The maximum file size for video is 1Gig, limiting the length of videos you can upload.

- Please break large videos into small videos with a single coherent theme or topic. If you need to thread them together into a coherent whole you can bind them with a common tag or "outline" them into a drupal book.

- Using QuickTime, you can quickly see what the formatting of any video file is. Simply select "window" -> "show movie inspector" or COMMAND + i on a macintosh.

#Transcoding tools

- In order of increasing complexity and sophistication here are some viable tools for slicing, dicing and transcoding video:

* [http://handbrake.fr/|Handbrake] is a fast and easy (and free) tool for transcoding video into h264. This makes especially short work of transcoding large files.
* Quicktime
* Quicktime Pro
* Mpeg Stream Clip http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html
* iMovie (the older one is easier and faster than the latest)
* Final Cut Pro

#ScreenCapture

For ScreenCasting we have used SnapZPro to good effect.
Here are some others to explore:

# Recommendations

- Consider other content types (blogs for example) that allow an attached video and allow more information to be associated with the video than the baseline video content type.

- Consider panning commentary to the left and sound output to the right. This way you replace the commentary with your own live commentary during presentations of the video.