Monday June 11

I dove into the video file format research again. I had more success. I found freeware programs such as Super and TMPEG. Super converted the .avi file into .mov, but Cinelerra didn't seem to like it. TMPEG converted it to an mpeg1 file and neither program liked it. I went to my resource bag and contacted Greg Francom of the Instructional Technology department. I remembered he is very good with video and might know. He gave me the URL http://media-convert.com/converter/.
This site allows you to upload your file and convert it to whatever file type you want. They literally have every kind of format there is and it is free. After the file is converted, you can download it again and also having access to it on the internet for 24 hours. You can upload file sizes of up to 125 MB which is perfect for what we need. I took a small .avi clip and converted it to .mov and tried it in Cinelerra and it worked! That should take care of what we need. The students or teachers wouldn't need to download any program, it is right there on the web and it has a translated page in Portugal Portuguese, which is close enough. This made me grateful for contacts and using outside resources.
I also met with Professor Aires and another student, Natasha. We reviewed the flash video module that I have been working on. Aires gave me some suggestions to improve the presentation of the text and asked me to make the changes. Coray McClellan had created a video as an introduction and they felt it was useful to have, so Natasha suggested that we create one using a Brazilian student. I thought that was a great idea. I now have to get the text and translate it. Aires also decided to push the course back to maybe a week long, more intensive course. He also wanted more time dedicated to making it an online cars.