Capturing Courseware Tape Jobs

- Find course tape and take note of the class name and date it was recorded.

- Create a Sub-folder in the Spring 2010 Tapejobs Desktop

- Name the folder with the class name/number of tape and date (eg: NURS316_1-28-10_Tape-1-of-3)

- Insert video tape into tape deck.

- Rewind the tape to the beginning and double-check the date.

- Press "Play".

- Launch QuickTime Pro.

- Go to "File -> New Movie Record". The video should display momentarily. (NOTE: Do not click the red "record" button yet).

- After establishing the video signal, STOP the tape and rewind to the beginning.

- Hit "Play" on the tape and then click on "Record" on QuickTime (there may not be enough time to hit play and then run back to the computer to hit record so you may need to have someone hit the tape "Play" button for you).

- When the tape runs out, the recording should stop on its own. Since these tapes are reused the recording should stop at the end of the current video. However sometimes it does not. QuickTime will show an error pertaining to an "incorrect media selection".

- The movie file will appear on the desktop as "Movie.mov" If there is already a "Movie.mov," the filenames will become "Movie1.mov, Movie2.mov" and so on.

- Re-Name the file for the class without using any spaces, symbols or extra characters (eg. NURS316).

- Move this file to the "Spring 2010 Tape Job" folder and place it in the Subfolder named for the class in Step 1 (eg: NURS316_1-28-10_Tape-1-of-3).

- Open the movie file to test it for quality (sound, image quality, any glitches and if the movie plays to the end).

- "Drop" the correctly named MOV file to a watch folder on the desktop "watchfolders -> inbox -> mediavision -> video -> vbrick -> part#" There are multiple folders labeled part. Select one that does not have a file with the same name (two files named NURS316 cannot reside in the same "part").





Troubleshooting

- Is the deck connected to the computer via Firewire?
- Error: "incorrect media selection" usually means that there was either a "hit" in the tape (a break in the timecode) that causes the recording to stop. This will usually happen at the end of the class, causing the recording to stop at an appropriate place, but will occasionally happen earlier in the recording. If this happens anywhere except the end of a class, make a new recordings as necessary until the full class is captured.
-If the recording goes past the end of the current class, the extraneous video will need to be excised. This can be done using QuickTime's "IN and OUT" editing controls.
Scrub to the beginning of the unwanted section and hit the Key "I" to set the In.
Scrub to the end of the unwanted section and hit the Key "O" to set the Out.
Go to "Edit -> "Cut."
Go to "File -> "Save As"
Save to the "Semester Year Tape Jobs" (Spring 2010 Tape Jobs) on the Desktop in the subfolder created for the class in Step 1 of the process.
*Other Key Quicktime Controls are J=backwards, K=Pause, L=forwards and Space Bar=Play and Pause.