Other free programs include Miro, Real RealPlayer, Orbit Downloader, and DownThemAll (an add-on for the Mozilla Firefox browser). An excellent freeware program that allows you to download and save web videos as they load and play is Freecorder 4. You may find some videos on the internet that you would like to use for your outreach but not know how to download them (sites like make it difficult). I don’t know which software to recommend for this. A relatively cheap alternative which I have yet to try but which seems to get decent ratings at Amazon would be to use a device like the Mygica EZGrabber2 or Geniatech iGrabber One Touch Video Grabber to connect your computer and a VHS player and digitize the VHS tapes. You can do the same with a computer if it has a Firewire (IEEE 1394) port, a cord to attach your video player and the Firewire port, and specialized software. If you can play your VHS tape on a VHS machine that has its video out cables attached to the video in ports on your video recorder, you can record the video into digital format as it plays. Converting VHS Videos- Here is where having a miniDV tape-based digital video recorder with A/V “in” ports can help.You can use the Windows Sound Recorder program (which comes pre-installed in Windows PCs) to record the audio to a file or try Audacity, a freeware download with more capabilities for editing audio. An MP3 player with audio recording function or a specialized digital audio recorder may be even better.

Converting Cassette Tapes- You need some hardware to do this (at a minimum a tape player and a cable with two-male ends in order to connect your tape player’s earphone jack to your computer’s microphone in-jack.

In order for you to get A/V media onto your phone it must first be in a digital format, rather than tape format Converting materials from analog to digital format

You may need special tools to access and alter existing audio/video media in order to be able to use it in mobile media outreach including tools that allow for:ġ. Often times there are good A/V outreach materials available for use among a people you work with but getting those materials into an appropriate format for sharing via your mobile phone requires some amount of technology and knowledge. Hardware/Software For Gathering and “Mobile-izing” Existing Audio/Video (A/V) Materials

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