Stanford Video on the Web Workshop March 30, 2009

Adding video to your site, blog, or podcast no longer requires expensive equipment or studio time. With today’s powerful desktop tools and a little new media know-how, your editorial team can produce compelling, short videos inexpensively and quickly.

In this workshop, you’ll produce a 3- to 5-minute video, ready to post on your site.

As part of the workshop, you'll receive a dual-platform 40G hard drive on which to edit and save your project. You may keep this drive for future use.

And you'll learn...

• Shooting Tips & Tricks
- choosing the right gear: camera, microphone, accessories
- finding on-camera "talent" within your organization
- lighting your subjects naturally and capturing clean audio
- creating captivating interviews & focused service pieces

• Editing Basics
- editing your video on the desktop using basic FinalCut Pro tools
- adding B-roll, music, overlays, graphics
- compressing your final product for Web distribution

• Distribution Techniques
- posting video to your site
- distributing across the Web: YouTube, iTunes, syndications, RSS and other social media networks
- measuring the impact of your video

Only 18 places available. Open to Web publishing professionals throughout the Bay Area and beyond.

Official Website: http://publishingcourses.stanford.edu/videoworkshop/