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How to shoot movies with the Canon Vixia–files sizes and limitations
2013/10/27
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Vixia 4:
Vixia5:
Full overview:
Categories: documentation, e-infrastructure, learning-materials
cameras, canon-vixia, hfm4, hfm5
How to shoot movies with the Canon Eos Rebel T2i– and “movie recording has been stopped automatically”
2013/10/26
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If the camera stops recording after a short while with the error “movie recording has been stopped automatically”, you most likely have an internal memory buffer overrun (there is a bar chart visible warning you off that shortly before the camera stops). This may be due to you not using a Class (6) or faster SDHC card. Try first a low level format inside the camera, or get a faster memory card. (Per the manual below, a lowering to standard HD should not help!).
Note also: The camera stops the recording when the file size has reached 4GB (3.99 in Windows – FAT32 limit). It is left as an exercise for the reader when that point in time is. May be related to the fact that this camera is primarily meant for photos, not video. I felt I had to use the lowest HD setting with my untested SD card (the one that buffer overran slightly later with the earlier SD card: 1280*720, 60fps – which produces 1GB/3 minute).
Note finally: camera might stop also due to overheating.
How-to for the new Vixia HF M500 camera
2013/10/26
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Here it is, and available for checkout per instructions here. Also see the video size considerations.
Step-by-step for Basic Recording:
The Parts and Controls of the Camera:
How to upload a folder with many files in Moodle 2–the ultimate training
2013/10/22
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- …using animated .gifs. Different speed? 0.25sec,0.5sec, 0.75sec, 1sec, , 2sec, 3sec, 4sec, 5sec, 6sec, 7sec, 8sec, 9sec, 10sec. 1.5sec
- And the answer is: You now can simply drag-and-drop a zip file (provided you are using a recent web browser). Start with “Turn editing on”, “Add resource”, “Folder”, and then proceed like so:
- Easy enough, but you can still save time: If your folder is reusable not only between terms, but also teachers (sections etc.), I suggest doing this in our Moodle metacourses (once).
- If you want to use an existing instead of adding a new folder, a slightly different way to manage your multiple files upload in Moodle 2 is described here.
Categories: animated-GIFs, audience-is-teachers, e-learning, lms, training
files, folders, moodle
How teachers can include a link to their metacourse content in their Moodle course
2013/10/21
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- How teachers get the metacourse link:
- Find your metacourse and expand (1).
- find your resource (the textbook is actually “Voilà”, but we want to make extra sure there are no non-ASCII compatibility issues) and right-click (2).
- Click “copy link location” (3).
- How to use the metacourse link in your actual course:
- You can e.g. start a new topic (0).
- Add title (1).
- Add text (2).
- Add link to text (3).
- Paste link from clipboard. (4)
- I you choose open in new window (5), following the link will not navigate the student away from your actual course in the main web browser window.
- Result:
Caveats: - FireFox opens in a new tab, even if you in Moodle request to open in a new window.
- You can only link to the root folder of a Moodle Metacourse. If there are multiple content sets within your textbook folder, please advise your student of the name.
Categories: audience-is-teachers, documentation, learning-materials, lms, textbooks
audio, metacourses, moodle
Audacity on startup automatically selects the "microphone" as recording device…
2013/10/18
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- Which is a problem if we do not use the front microphone jack, but rather the rear input:
- Seems to be still an issue on the Group computers….
- Solution is the same as found and documented for the listening stations in relation to problems students had with how Saba Centra handles audio hardware, disable the front jack in mmsys.cpl of Windows7:
How a teacher can use NanoGong’s plugin for the HTML editor to easily send their own audio to students
2013/10/17
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- The rich HTML editor recorder plug-in is supposed to make it easier for the teacher (than other recorders that require the teacher to save to file and upload the file to a Moodle activity). Here is how it can work:
- Add an activity which includes the rich HTML editor plugin, e.g. a page.
- Click on the loudspeaker icon denotes NanoGong among the editor tools.
- A window will open that includes the recorder JAVA applet (you may have to bypass Java warnings):
- Click the red record button and speak.
- When done, click insert.
- Result:
- Note, however, that so far I have run into issues actually displaying this teacher-added NanoGong recorder content.
Categories: audience-is-teachers, documentation, e-languages, Listening, lms, multimedia-recording, recording-software
audio, moodle, nanogong
Troubleshooting NanoGong recorder assignments for students and rich HTML editor content creation by teachers
2013/10/17
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- Once, when submitting, I got this error? But other teachers managed to test the NanoGong recording assignment application successfully when working as a “permitted student”? That may be related to using a project site.
- If you try to use NanoGong in a browser not fully supportive of Java, you can get easily stuck:
- Firefox which has not been explicitly configured to allow JAVA applets – you will get stuck w/o the option to bypass warning dialogues.
- Chrome is not very forgiving either (here for the HTML editor plug-in):
, but you can get past it: 
. - I am running into more problems using the rich HTML editor recorder plug-in which I supposed to make it easier for the teacher to provide their own audio to their students:
- IE8 does not display the content at all.
- Chrome 30 spits out raw code, and when you locate and click on the loudspeaker icon, I only get this :
. - IE8, on the other hand, draws a blank:
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