Finding and Clipping Video Content
This handout covers:
- Copyright issues for Clipping, Linking and Embedding Video
- Instructions on how to clip with EduTV and YouTube.
- Information about TV News and Lynda.com
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Linking, Clipping and Copyright
Educational re-use provisions for copyright are quite generous. For the exact dimensions of this you can consult the Screenrights information page which is available via this link.
https://www.screenrights.org/content-users/australian-services/educational-licence
The table below summarises some of the main rules regarding video reuse for education
Linking should be acceptable for all material found online, whether for educational or ‘commercial use’
provided it’s not to illegal/infringing material, eg some peer-to-peer sharing sites or video sharing sites. / The Screenrights handout deals mostly with recorded material from TV and also podcasts and vodcasts from broadcasters.
For material uploaded (say to YouTube) by people who are not broadcasting their own content copying and even possibly embedding of the content may require the permission of the uploader or content provider:
‘Many broadcasters have their own YouTube channels and you may download broadcasts that they have uploaded to these channels. Other YouTube material is not covered by the Screenrights licence and you may wish to seek advice if you want to stream or embed this material in course notes.’ – Screenrights
You should also endeavour not to embed material you feel has been posted in contravention of copyright. / All video content licensed for educational use (eg: UTS Library video databases) can be clipped. Additionally any YouTube video licensed as a Creative Commons video can be downloaded, clipped and republished to your YouTube account.
For material on YouTube that is not creative commons, you can link. You can even create a link that starts at a certain time, which is a sort of ‘soft’ clipping if you will
There are also third party databases, like TubeChop, that can create clips from YouTube videos.
YouTube
YouTube’s content is not generally licensed for educational reuse but there are ways to get at all of it for teaching:
· You can link. You can even create a link to a particular start point within a video:
· You can also create an embed code for a video… however you can’t get an embed code for a video that starts at a certain time.
· To embed a YouTube into UTS Online, use the ‘add mashup button’
And then select YouTube. You will be able to then select YouTube and search for a video to embed.
· If you don’t see the add mashup button you should be able to restore it to your toolbar by using this method:
Customisation>Tool Availability> YouTube video in text editor
· If you want to embed a Youtube video into Powerpoint there is an option for insert>video in Powerpoint 2013 which will allow you to insert a video by the url.
· If you have Powerpoint for Mac or Powerpoint 2010 for PC you will need to convert the YouTube file to mp4 and upload it to a slide. Various web and downloadable resources can help you with this, including Youtubeinmp4.com. Whilst this may technically contravene copyright, it can be classed as a very low risk contravention.
· If you upload videos to YouTube (or other platforms like Vimeo) you can set viewing restrictions on your videos. In YouTube the options are public, unlisted or private. Public is the default.
· Unlisted means that you cannot find the video via searching, instead you need the url to view. Private means that only people specified by the uploader can view the video.
Creating an unlisted video is a plausible way of dealing with potentially thorny copyright issues when creating a video for your students to use as a part of their studies.
Clipping YouTube
· If you want to clip YouTube videos in YouTube you will have to use a piece of third party software like TubeChop
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· This will create a link you can then paste and hyperlink in UTS Online, or elsewhere. Hyperlinking in UTS Online involves using the little chain link hyperlink icon on the wisywig toolbar. If you just paste the link into the page it won’t send you anywhere when you click on it.
Using Embed Codes
· If you want to embed a TubeChop into UTS Online, or anything else that offers only an ‘embed code’ – you will need to know how to place them in there.
Embed codes are in HTML and look a bit like this:
When you see an embed code, first cut and paste the text.
Then, log into UTS Online and when you edit page choose the html link from the wisywig (See pic below)
Then, paste the code in between the < brackets between two p’s on the page. The p’s mean paragraph breaks and roughly translate to a new line on the page
If I paste the embed code seen above where the arrow is pointing it now looks like this. Notice all that new text in there. You need to be in HTML mode when you paste in the embed code or it won’t work. Instead it will just appear as writing on your page.
When you submit your changes to UTS online the page should look like this… (see overleaf)
If it doesn’t look like that it may be due to the trust settings on your web browser – indicated in Chrome here by this little shield icon in the url bar
If you click that shield (or equivalent in other browsers) and ‘allow scripts’ it should work.
However if all of that seems too confusing you can cheat a little bit…
Cheating with Embed Codes
To avoid some of the hassles involved with embedding you can create a workaround by taking a screen snap of a video and then turning that screen snap into a link. The way that works is:
* First take a screen shot of the viewing window of the video you want to embed (like the picture seen above) – you can do that with a variety of softwares, one of which probably lives on your computer already. The one on my computer is called ‘snipping tool’ and lives in applications.
* Using snipping tool you can draw a border around a part of the screen and ‘snap’ a picture of it. Then you can save the picture to your computer.
* Then, in UTS Online, use this picture icon to upload the saved picture file:
* Once uploaded the photo will appear on your UTS Online page. If you are still in edit mode you should be able to click on the image and turn it blue (see below)
* Now you should be able to click on the ‘link’ icon and then link the url of the video to that image. When you do this you will be given the option to open the link in a new page – choose that option.
* What this is doing is launching the video you want the viewer to see when they click on an image that looks like an embedded video. The only downside is that instead of playing inside the window, it launches a new page and the viewer has to press play again to view. But that might be more convenient than having to instruct your students on how to ‘run scripts’.
UTS Library Video Databases
The Find databases page on the Library website has a category for Video. Within that category there are individual lists called catalogues, multidisciplinary, other and ALL.
‘Catalogues’ refers to services that contain videos that you can browse and order via the library. The other three headings are lists of the databases we subscribe to. The databases in the multidisciplinary list are the ones we demonstrate in class.
EduTV
EduTV is an online streaming resource containing television programs from all the major public channels and also paytv. EduTV has been taping since 2009 or so but only taped SBS and ABC up until about 2015.
Note: You will need to create a logon to make clips.
To make a clip click the create clip icon on the control bar.
Then follow give your clip a title, set in and out points for the clip with the ‘begin’ and ‘end’ buttons.
Then give your clips a description if you want, assign the clip to folder (you have to complete this step) and press save.
You will now find the clip in your favourites.
Once you select a clip you can use the clipboard or email option to create a url link for the clip.
* There is an embed code for the clip too, but this seems to send the viewer back to the original video. So if you want to embed the clip, experiment with the workaround/cheat described above.
TV News
TV News has no edit function but a lot of the content is in the form of individual news stories and as such aren’t too long. The videos have links, but if you would like to make clips of the content you would have to use a piece of editing software.
LYNDA.Com
Lynda.com is a database of instructional videos, mostly to do with software applications. Once you’ve found Lynda in the catalogue you will need to sign on twice, both times with the same username and password combination you normally would use.
Once there you’ll find packages of videos on various applications that take you through a course in small chunks. As well as providing how to videos there are exercise files where you can test your learning.
FINALLY!
· The Learning.Futures page on the library website has links to more online educational resources in your subject area as well as case studies, staff contacts and cases studies of how the library is integrating Learning2014 practices into its training.
http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/learning/learningfutures
· There is also a database called Kanopy available via the library that has movies and documentaries and allows clipping.
· If you find a title out there that you would like to make available in a streaming form, please contact the library.
Copyright and Video for Education
(text from screenrights)
Screenrights licenses schools, TAFEs and universities to copy from television and radio, and to put copied progams on an intranet, email them and manage them using a digital system such as EduTV and ClickView. Our licences cover most schools, all universities and many TAFEs.
With a Screenrights licence you can copy:
· Any program – movies, current affairs, documentaries, news
· Any amount – copy five minutes or an entire drama, make one copy or 20, it’s up to you
· Anywhere – make copies at home or in your library
· From any channel – copy from free to air TV, pay TV or radio
· Podcasts and vodcasts – copy broadcast material made available online by the broadcaster
· In any format – copy onto VHS, DVD or store digital copies on a hard drive or other device
· From old copies – update your VHS copies by putting them in digital format
And make the following uses of your copies:
· Show them in class
· Keep them in the library as an ongoing resource
· Store them on a network for staff and students
· Email them to staff and students
· Show them on an electronic whiteboard
Remember to label all copies
Made for [institution’s] educational purposes under Part VA, Copyright Act 1968
Date of broadcast…………………
Date this copy made …………….
And include a warning notice on copies that are communicated online
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
Copyright Regulations 1969
WARNING
This material has been copied and communicated to you by or on behalf of [insert name of institution] pursuant to Part VA of the Copyright Act 1968 (the Act).
The material in this communication may be subject to copyright under the Act. Any further copying or communication of this material by you may be the subject of copyright or performers protection under the Act.
Do not remove this notice.