Faculty Development: Video Tools

"Turn your photos, video clips, and music into stunning video masterpieces to share with everyone. Fast, free, and shockingly easy!"-- (site)

Animoto allows you to create 30 second videos for free. To create longer videos you should register for a free Animoto for Education classroom account: http://animoto.com/education/classroom

"Magisto turns your everyday videos and photos into exciting, memorable movies you'll want to watch again and again."--(site) Offers templates and royalty free background music.

"Simply invite others to upload their videos and pictures, put them together with Memplai’s easy-to-use video editing tools, then send it out to view and share! Create with music and effects, for free!"--(site) Collaborators don't need a memplai account, just an invitation.

App. Record up to 16 seconds of video on your mobile device and mix it up collaboratively online into a feature film of up to an hour in length.

Basic account is free. Very intuitive. Upload pictures or any videos you have, organize it into a sequence, can choose audio files, or upload your own, etc.

Create animated videos and Common Craft-style videos online.

"Wideo is an online animation platform that allows you to create, edit, and share videos for free. The platform allows you to choose (or upload) the images, fonts, animations, and videos you want to use in order to create your own online video and then share."--(site)

"Create interactive quizzes based on YouTube clips. Viewers watch a short clip then answer a multiple choice question about the clip. Viewers know right away if they chose the correct answer or not.

Start by entering a topic for your quiz. After entering your topic enter a search for a video about that topic. Blubbr will generate a list of videos that you can select from to use in your quiz. When you find a video that works for you,trim the clip to a length that you like then write out your question and answer choices. Repeat the process for as many video clips as you like."--Richard Byrne http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

Clip Converter-- can easily download YouTube videos. Free, requires no additional software to run and can quickly download videos from YouTube, Dailymotion, IMDB, Metacafe, etc.

There may be times you need a series of videos and they would be better off watched one right after another.

Insert the videos via their YouTube URL. You can trim to the sections you want, add another video and another and another, creating your own personal mixed video that you can then post via a link or embed.

Add your own voice and questions to educational videos. See How-to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFMsM6LEB7g

EDpuzzle's Chrome extension enables you to save YouTube videos directly to your EDpuzzle account. This means that instead of having to search within EDpuzzle for videos you can simply browse YouTube like you normally do then just click the EDpuzzle extension to save the video. Once a video is saved you build your questions around it.

" handy tool for editing and annotating videos that you find on YouTube. Embed Plus allows you to start a video at any point you specify. You can also use Embed Plus to skip scenes in a video, play it in slow motion, zoom into an area of a video, and annotate a video.The annotation feature of Embed Plus is a nice complement to the real-time reactions feature offered by Embed Plus. Real-time reactions pulls in Twitter and YouTube comments about your chosen video. The annotation feature lets you comment on specific parts of a video. Your annotations can include links that you insert."--(http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/02/5-ways-to-add-interactive-elements-to.html#.UTYQhle86f0)


EmbedPlus is not hosting any video content, as it does not alter it. The content is streamed from the original video host (e.g. YouTube).

Choose the option you want, Video Editor or Audio Editor. Once you selected it will ask you to install its plugin for the first time.

Free plan lets you have 5 videos.

Can put clickable links in video, quizzes, create video chapters, draw on the video, and you can measure activity on your video.

Easily download videos from YouTube or Vimeo, etc. Just enter the url.

Doesn't have all the function of WeVideo, but it's easier to use. Upload video clips, audio clips, and images to your Loopster account. It even has a small sound library you can use. After everything you want is uploaded, simply drag and drop its track editor. There you can rearrange elements and adjust their play lengths.

ThingLink for videos; makes your videos interactive. Take a video that is hosted on YouTube and insert interactive tags. Tags can link to websites, images, or other video clips. People can see your tags when they place their cursors over the video.

"Metta allows you to combine videos from YouTube, pictures from the web or from your desktop, text, and voice recordings to create a presentation. Metta also allows you to insert a quiz into your projects. This means that people viewing your projects can watch a short video clip then answer questions about it before moving onto the next part of the presentation."--(http://www.freetech4teachers.com/)

When you are on a video you want to watch, you click and it strips away all the content on the page except for the video. No annoying comments. No inappropriate suggested videos after. Just the video you want to show.

Add interactive elements to your video.
You record a short video then overlay it with widgets that can contain webpages, live Twitter streams, photos, maps, other videos, and even ask questions to your live audience.

Can select from a variety of themes to help you get started, such as chalkboard, whiteboard, or even a glass board. Even provide a teleprompter for you to read your notes. It even includes a green screen feature!

There are some videos where all you need is a small portion.

Take the URL of the video you want to chop and trim both the beginning and end to what you need. You can then share it via a link or embed the chopped video on your site or page.

OVGet is a Web Application that helps you download videos from several streaming sites: YouTube, PutLocker, SockShare, Dailymotion, Metacafe, Veoh, Vimeo, VideoWeed, NovaMov, MovShare, NowVideo, GorillaVid, VidBux, DaClips, StageVu, VeeHD, Facebook and many others.

"free tool for collaboratively annotating videos. anyone can add annotations to any publicly accessible YouTube video. To do this copy the URL of a video and paste it into the VideoANT annotation tool. Then as the video plays click the "add annotation" button when you want to add an annotation. To have others annotate the video with you, send them the VideoANT link. You are the only person that has to have a VideoANT account. Your collaborators do not need to have a VideoANT account to participate in the annotation process with you."--(http://www.freetech4teachers.com/)

Fix Dark, Shaky, Noisy, Blurry, Low-Resolution Videos, edit and share your videos. For free!

If you are using the free plan, then you can upload files up to 1 GB and get an inbox with size of 1 GB where you can store your edited files.

With the free version you will get a watermark on your exported video; to remove those watermarks you need to go for premium plans.

Offers two creation and editing modes.

1. The "storyboard" mode: designed for beginners who don't have any experience editing videos. The "storyboard" mode features a collection of video themes that users customize by dragging and dropping media into a theme template.

2. The "timeline" mode: for users who have some experience editing video and would like to have a little more control over the timing and transitions in their videos.

For video tutorials: http://wideo.co/html/learn

"Build interactive tags into your videos. Each tag that you add to your video can have another video from YouTube or Vimeo or an image from Facebook, Flickr, or Instagram. A tag can also include an audio track from SoundCloud or a reference article from Qwiki.

What makes using wireWax different from using the YouTube annotations tool is that clicking on your tags (what YouTube calls annotations) does not send you outside of the video you're currently watching. This means that you can watch a video within a video or view a picture or listen to a different audio track within the original video. When you click a tag in the original video the video pauses and the tagged item is displayed."-- (http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/02/wirewax-create-interactive-videos-and.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+freetech4teachers%2FcGEY+%28Free+Technology+for+Teachers%29#.UStsdlee4zI)

Private video sharing. Free.

Share your videos online, privately. Free.

Sometimes watching a video as a group is just what you need. You create your own, private screening room.

You then share the room via a link with your group. They enter and you can watch the video, synced together. There is an option to create playlists and the chat feature works great for collaboration.

Collections of images, books, essays, audio recordings, and films that are in the public domain. Choose any of the collections to search for materials according to date, style, genre, and rights.

Public Domain videos. Search by building, monument, park, or person. All can be downloaded.