Adventures in recording and captioning
As part of a project to provide additional resources to our student workers about how to identify peer-reviewed resources (since EBSCO is a bit of a crap shoot), I decided to create a short tutorial about defining the terminology, show how search results may or may not identify peer-review-age, and how to navigate the peer-review identification authority, Ulrichs. With the help of our amazing Center for Information Technology (CIT), I got a rundown on Camtasia vs Captivate recording options, equipment, and systems. Thinking this would be on the shorter side (>10 minutes), I decided to test out Camtasia since I was already familiar with Jing. Plus, our Camtasia setup allowed submission of videos to a Relay server for automatic captioning instead of manually editing the captions in Captivate….or so I thought. Being the responsible person I am, I drafted up the script ahead of time (apart from some minor tweaks) and thought it would be great. However, here are some of the captions
My text: ”…about the types of resources students use for their research.”
Relay-suggested caption: “…every horse themed use for their research.”
My text: “In particular, professors are requiring students to use peer-reviewed articles for their research resources.”
Relay-suggested caption: “the killer perfect and I are requiring didn’t eat Peer Reviewed articles for their Easter treat”
And that’s just within the first 10 seconds. Other gems include
My text: “so use the dropdown box in QuickSearch to limit your search to Just Scholarly Articles”
Relay-suggested caption: “the is the goddamn boxing cricket to many a six contests scholarly article”
So for a >5 min video, I probably spent about another hour fixing the captions. To view the final product (at least of this round), go to JMUtube and check out “How to Identify Peer-Reviewed or Refereed Resources.”
