Video Oral History in 360°: The Ricoh Theta S Video Camera
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Video Oral History in 360°: The Ricoh Theta S Video Camera

First, to experience this post to the fullest extent, switch your browser to Chrome (for now), or watch the YouTube clip below on your smartphone using the YouTube mobile app.  Trust me, it is cool. We talk a lot in oral history about “shared authority” and about co-creation.  Oral history, by definition, involves, at minimum, an…

A Stitch in Time: Guide to Stitching Video Files

A Stitch in Time: Guide to Stitching Video Files

It is common now for a single oral history interview that was recorded on video to span multiple video data files. While I advocate maintaining these individual parts as the “master” files in your archival system, delivery of this interview, in those same component parts, will prove to be a very frustrating user experience. At…

Stripping Audio from Video Interviews
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Stripping Audio from Video Interviews

So why would you possibly want to strip the audio from a beautiful video interview?  We do it at the Nunn Center, mainly, for transcription.  When we transcribe an interview (which means sending it out to a transcriptionist), we have found it more efficient in our workflow to transfer audio files rather than video files.  While…

Using a Shotgun Microphone for Video Interviewing
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Using a Shotgun Microphone for Video Interviewing

For my video interviews I have always preferred lapel microphones for capturing the audio.  In my short article “Microphone Strategies for Recording Video for Oral Histories” published on Oral History in the Digital Age my bias for the lapel microphones is clear.  In fact, I did not own a shotgun microphone at the time, so I did not…