It was good being off for nearly two weeks. Over the break I made a lot of progress in learning how to rip a DVD and end up with a MPEG4 file to use in iTunes U podcasts. It took a lot of trial and error and involved: using HandBreak to convert the DVD to an AVI file that I could open in QuickTime Pro and export to a QT movie. Then I opened the QT movie in iMovie. Because I had to select particular sections of those videos and delete other parts, it was a tedious process. But once I found where iMovie placed the final version I could open that movie in QT and export it to MPEG4 with H.264 compression.
What I've been able to add are six video tracks to Through Our Parents' Eyes podcast in iTunes U. Pima Community College is capturing lectures given as part of its Community Education Lecture Series and send me DVDs. As a result, we have added some excellent content to Through Our Parents' Eyes. There are videos from January 2008's Promise of Gold Mountain lectures about the experiences of three Chinese American families in Tucson in the video section of our own Promise of Gold Mountain website and also digital story version in the Digital Stories section. The LTC's media services unit converted those and I constructed the digital stories from audio extracted from the videos and keyed that edited audio to pictures from the PowerPoint presentations.
Here are the new tracks added to Through Our Parents' Eyes on iTunes U.
- Buck Ryberg of the Desert Sons performing Cool Water and Man Walks Among Us
- Bill Kalt and Richard Dick's histories of the railroad in Tucson
- Diana Hadley's lecture on 300 years of ranching in Southern Arizona
- Casey Dennis lecture about the Riggs family and its involvement in cattle Ranching in Southern Arizona
Using HandBrake I ripped a DVD from Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs of eleven videos from GIDP's open forum with Provost Hay and added those to the GIDP iTunes U site.
Almost forgot that I also got an email from David Salafsky in Campus Health Service with a dozen new SexTalk MP3 audio files. I brought each into GarageBand, added the branding image and metadata, and uploaded each to the Campus Health Service SexTalk iTunes U site.
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