Final Project Description

After over a week of trial and error, I was finally able to embed the video with captions by utilizing about 10 different programs! I created the original presentation in Keynote and imported images that I created in Photoshop to build the template. I then captured the voiceovers with Pro-Tools recording software and mastered it with Adobe Sound Booth. Next I captured the video with Snapz X Pro once I had exported it in Quicktime format and scaled it to the final proportions that I needed. I found that I got a cleaner video by doing this, rather than having the program resize the video for me. I then synced the audio with the video in Final Cut Pro and exported it again, only to convert it to Flash with Adobe Flash Encoder. From here I added the captions, which was captured using Magpie (which gave me the most trouble) and combined the resulting xml file with the flash video within Flash. From here I published the video and uploaded it to a server so that I could embed it below within my blog. I ended up using Longtailvideo.com to embed the video, rather than just providing the link to the html file on the server created with Flash. Even then, it was a painstaking task. I had to try four different embed codes and swap swf player files and javascript out until I found a combination that worked. Thank God it’s over with! The video is cropped off on the right side because it exceeds the width of the column on this page, but you can enable the cationing that is barely visible on the lower right corner.