TVCC uses a dedicated video server to stream video.  If you have a video you need to stream on your Blackboard page, you're in luck. The following instructions will help you create a professional looking video for your students to view.

Step 1:  Create Video File

To post a video file on Black Board, you’ll need to start with the right kind of video file. Our streaming server serves many formats but only in the H.264 codec.  We recommend QuickTime's .mov format with the H.264 codec because it works with the greatest number of platforms.  Those platforms include:

• Windows (PC)
• OS X Snow Leopard (Apple Mac and Notebook)
• iOS (iPod, iPhone, and iPad)
• Linux (rare - PC)
• More

Free Conversion Utility: 

Key Features Convert all popular video formats, including HD video. Rip audio from video. Convert video to animated GIF. Optimized profiles for many digital devices. Adjust format parameters. Merge video. Trim video. Crop video. Add watermark on video. Support .srt subtitle. And many more...

iWisoft Free Video Converter is a powerful, high-quality freeware video converter. It can easily convert video/audio between all popular formats. It can convert video/audio from one format to another, rip audio from video, convert video to image series, animated gif. The free video converter provides you optimized output profiles, you can easily convert video/audio for iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune and many other digital devices. You can adjust codec, bit rate, frame rate, video size, audio channel, sample rate, audio volume etc. for an output format. And the video converter provides many useful video editing functions, like cropping, trimming, merging, adding watermark, subtitle etc.

Whether you are creating video files from Camtasia or converting existing files from another format, it will be important for you to use settings compliant with our server.  Here's what your settings should be:

Video   Format .mp4 Codec h.264 Size 352x288 Rate 15 fps Bitrate 384 kbps Ratio Auto		Audio   Codec aac Bitrate 384 kbps Channel Mono or 2 Channel Stereo Sample 44100 Hz Volume 100%

Step 2:  Upload Video

Each instructor will have their own folder on our media server.  To get yours, just email helpdesk@tvcc.edu and request it.  Once you have access to your folder, it will be in the format of \\wowza\CardinalID.  You'll be able to simply open this folder on your computer and paste your video file into it.

Step 3: Build Your Player

First, you’ll need to edit the Quicktime-Player.html. Here is the entire file in code:

Just copy the above code and paste it into Notepad. On the 15th line down, change CardinalID to your CardinalID (the part of your email before the @).  Then change your-video-file.mp4 to your video’s filename.  On the 19th line down,  repeat the process.  Then save the Notepad file to the filename your-video-file.html where your-video-file is the name of your video (with no spaces in the filename).  This new .html file is the player for this specific video.

Once you have the player file saved, follow these instructions to get them on your Blackboard page:

• Log onto Blackboard and click on the courses tab..
• Click on Content in the left navigation.
• In the main section of the Screen, click or just hover over Build Content and choose > Item.
• Name your Item and scroll down to Attachments.
• Click Browse My Computer and navigate to your-video-file.html
  Choose viewing and tracking options and click Submit..
• You may be asked for your-video-file.mp4. Since your video file is located on our video streaming server, you may leave this file blank and click Submit.

iPhone / iPad / iPod

To create compatibility for iPads, iPhones, and iPods, simply create a hyperlink directed at iPad users.  Use the link below, but change CardinalID to your CardinalID and your-file-name.mov to your video's file name.

http://broadcast.tvcc.edu/CardinalID/mp4:your-file-name.mov/playlist.m3u8