All advice documents, training courses and blog entries tagged 'software'
Training courses tagged
BTEC Professional Certificate in Digital Imaging: 3 days
The course would suit a candidate that requires a broad introduction to creating, editing using and managing a digital image collection. The skills covered could be used by anyone who is involved directly or indirectly in producing or managing a collection of digital images. The skills in the course can be used in education, cultural heritage and other roles, which requires image capture and delivery.
Read course description...Making and using Clinical and Healthcare Recordings for Learning and Teaching
Making and using Clinical and Healthcare Recordings for Learning and Teaching contains guidance material aimed primarily at students, teachers or doctors who wish to use a patient recording or patient data for learning and teaching. It will also be of interest and use to other clinical and healthcare workers as well as to university staff where patient recordings are made available for learning and teaching. Learn about the ethical principles that underpin the guidelines.
Read course description...Internet for Audio Resources
Internet Audio Resources is a free online tutorial to help you learn how to use the Internet to find audio resources for your work quickly and efficiently.
Read course description...Internet for Video and Moving Image Resources
Internet for Video and Moving Image Resources is a free online tutorial to help you learn how to use the Internet to find video resources for your work quickly and efficiently.
Read course description...Internet for Image Searching
Internet for Image Searching - would you like to learn how to use the Internet to find copyright cleared images for your work, quickly and efficiently?
Use this free, interactive tutorial to improve your image searching skills.
Read course description...Video Production: Lectures and Interviews 2-day course
This course is intended to instil basic competence in the many areas of knowledge that are needed to produce good video work. A hands-on approach is taken, such that during the two days of learning about video techniques the participants will actually produce two short videos. All equipment and facilities will be supplied.
Read course description...Introduction to Metadata
This course is designed specifically to help you consider how to effectively incorporate metadata into the fabric of your digital collections, through explanation, discussion and practical activities.
Read course description...Managing Digital Media Collections
This one day course will offer a model of digital collection management, based upon open source solutions. Attendees will gain hands-on experience of planning, building, managing and delivering a digital media collection.
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Blog entries tagged 'software'
Font identification on the iPhone
A free app for the iPhone allows you to identify any font that you come across.
Read blog entry...Microsoft Image Composite Editor
Microsoft have released what looks to be a interesting tool for creating panoramic images called the Image Composite Editor.
Read blog entry...ProTools opens up
Avid adds open standard compliance to their industry-standard audio software.
Read blog entry...Ardour 3: The new Open Source Digital Audio Workstation
It is widely felt that for creating audio resources in the education community Audacity is the standard go-to (and free!) software of choice.
Read blog entry...Open Source Content Management System gets Microsoft certification
Silver Stripe, an open source CMS developed by a New Zealand company, has become the first open source web application to receive Windows Server 2008 R2 certification.
Read blog entry...Lightworks to be released as open source: video editors take note!
There was a time when nonlinear editing systems were new and all the major studios used one of two systems, Avid or Lightworks.
Read blog entry...A directory of open source and free software
We've just published our latest advice document -- except it's not an advice document, but rather a guide to open source and free software.
Read blog entry...Guide to GIMP image editor
Following our recent guide to free online image editors, we have updated our Introduction to GIMP Image Editing Software.
Read blog entry...Photoshopping for alternatives
Photoshop was in the news last week - as the tool used by a BP photographer to alter images for use on its website.
Read blog entry...Open Source is not the same as free
Many people make the mistake of assuming that their open source software is free or that their free software is open source. Software can be both, but the two terms mean very different things. Here's a brief discussion of the differences and what they may mean to you and your institution. These descriptions have been newly added to our Glossary -- check it out for explanations of any terms related to digital media that you're not sure of.
Read blog entry...Free online image editing tools
We've just published our latest advice document on Free Online Image Editors.
Read blog entry...Cast your screen - new Screencasting Workflow advice
Screencasting Workflow gives a detailed overview of the workflow for creating screencasts - videos of computer screen activity with voice narration and additional content.
Read blog entry...You are listening to…
Our new advice document Creating an Audio Ident provides information on what an ident is, desiging an ident, and how-to create an ident using Audacity software.
Read blog entry...On the level - audio compression and dynamics
New advice document now online, introducing the mysterious art of dynamics processing, including compression, limiting and gating.
Read blog entry...A little (Myna) bird told me…
... that there's a new browser-based audio editing and mixing environment out from Aviary:
Myna - a free digital audio editor accessed entirely via the web.
Read blog entry...pd Bootcamp
Last week I attended the excellent Pure Data Bootcamp at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Read blog entry...The new Final Cut Studio has arrived
Apple has just announced the new release of Final Cut Studio, including Final Cut Pro 7, Motion 4, Soundtrack Pro 3, Color 1.5, Compressor 3.5 and DVD Studio Pro 4, for those of you who like version numbers.
Read blog entry...New digital restoration course among autumn training dates
The keen-eyed among you will have already noticed we have just released details of our new training programme for September to December.
Read blog entry...Hanging on the Telephone
With the rising popularity of Skype and other VOIP tools, recording calls is a great way of creating resources, for example, long distance interviews or even preparing assessment material for language courses.
Read blog entry...Helpdesk and training provide expert guidance
A new case study reveals how we have been of help to our FE colleagues.
Read blog entry...Demo - Apple Podcast Producer
Last week Rich Belson from Western Computer in Bristol came in to our offices to give us a demo of Apple Podcast Producer, with specific focus on its use in education. Its premise is to support the recording, uploading, file management and delivery of podcasts using audio, video and/or screen capture.
Read blog entry...Free loudness optimiser for spoken word
From the Conversations Network, a free and incredibly simple tool for maximising the perceived volume of your recordings, and compensating for differences in voice levels in a recorded seminar, workshop or interview.
Read blog entry...Audio blogging on the move
A new 'audio blogging' service has launched which might be worth keeping an eye on.
Read blog entry...Designing Sound - a new audio reference text
Designing Sound gives us a new reference text on the physical and psychological nature of sound itself, and the modelling of audio environments, instruments and effects for the entertainment industry, music and research. It also includes tutorials and guidance on almost every aspect of the open-source sound design software Puredata, on which its author, Andy Farnell is a recognised authority.
Read blog entry...HD webcam and webconferencing
Thanks to Steven Jack at the University of Glasgow for this heads up. Tandberg has just announced a 720p webcam and a company called Mirial has just come out with webconferencing software that supports 1080p at 30fps!
Read blog entry...Smush it up
The developers of a potentially useful new online tool for optimising images have hastily withdrawn one of the main ‘image crushing’ features it launched with.
Read blog entry...Photoshop CS4: is my 18 year wait over?
I have been using Photoshop since 1990 and have watched it grow from an application supplied on 4 floppy disks to multi DVD package.
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Training courses
- Managing Digital Media Collections 06 June 2013
- BTEC Professional Certificate in Digital Imaging: 3 days 17 June 2013
- Video Production: Lectures and Interviews 2-day course 24 June 2013
- Introduction to Metadata 17 July 2013
