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Step 5: Post

See below for Staff Tutorials.

Public Tutorials

Now your videos are ready:

1. Post your files to the test directory so that you can test them and share it with other staff to review (do NOT publicly link to your video here since this is not a permanent location).
2. Once you have a final version, you MUST put your working files on the R: directory so we have backups and also so we can reproduce the video in a format that can be posted to TechTV.
3. Once your tutorial is ready to be made live, send email to tutorials-lib@mit.edu for posting to the live directory. If you do NOT want your video put onto TechTV, please let us know in this email.

1. Post your files to the test directory:

• Create an appropriately named folder for your tutorial here: www/tutorials-test/video/. If you are making multiple tutorials on the same subject, feel free to make a folder that holds all of them and then put each one in a sub-folder. There is a folder within "video" called "classes" - put any tutorials specifically for a class inside that folder.
  
  
• Into your folder, upload all the production files - these are the files Camtasia creates in a subfolder when you "produce" the videos (see: Camtasia Tips: Saving the Recording for an explanation of Camtasia file types). Here is an example of the files in the "standards" folder:
  
  
• You can view your tutorial by pointing to the .html file that was produced by Camtasia. In this example, the link would be http://libraries.mit.edu/tutorials-test/video/standards/standards.html (not a live example).
• Remember, do not link to this version! This is only a temporary holding spot that you may share with staff to get feedback.

2. Upload the working files into R:/Online Tutorials (all .camproj, .camrec, and .wav files - include any scripts or PowerPoint slides you have created) - keep the same file names and organization as you did for putting the files in the test directory (so we can match them up later!). If you have trouble getting to this folder on the R: drive you can also go to your Start menu > Run... and then type "\\libsmb\sanshare\Online Tutorials" (no quotes) and that should get you to the same place.

3. Email tutorials-lib when ready to go live. If you do NOT want your video put onto TechTV, please let us know in this email.

When we get your email, we (Darcy and Marion) will:

• add code to the .html page for Google Analytics statistics and add the title tag
• move the files to the final location
• reformat your video for posting to TechTV
• remove the files from the test directory (they are big, so this is necessary)
• and finally, we will email you with the final URLs for posting and linking

DIRECTIONS FOR ADDING STATS CODE FOR MARION AND DARCY (YOU CAN IGNORE THIS PART):

We will add the necessary code that will add our library footer to the page and track statistics. However, it's easiest for us to document how to do that here, on these pages, so please feel free to ignore this!

1. Change the title tag of the page to "[Name of tutorial]: Video Tutorials: MIT Libraries"

2. Add the code for the MIT Libraries footer and Google analytics

Right above the </body> tag in the .html file created by Camtasia, enter this code:

<!--#include virtual="../ssi.txt" -->
<!--#include virtual="../../../googleanalytics.txt" -->

Note:

• The first line links to the SSI that puts the MIT Libraries footer in the page
• The second line links to the SSI that provides the code for using Google Analytics for statistics
• You may need to adjust the number of ../ if you have put the tutorials in a subfolder. The code above works if your .html file is in a folder one level down (like the standards example above). You need to add another ../ for each subfolder level down. FYI, you are trying to link to these files (but you MUST use a relative link, not an absolute link):
  http://libraries.mit.edu/tutorials/video/ssi.txt
  http://libraries.mit.edu/googleanalytics.txt
• There is also a file called <!--#include virtual="../ssi-noindexlink.txt" --> that can be used to create a footer that does not have a link back to the main Video Tutorials page. This might be appropriate for a video for a specific class, or for videos that are not really "tutorials" but are just brief demos of software, etc. (probably 30 seconds or less)

Staff Tutorials

It is advisable to follow the file structure suggested above for public tutorials and to post the working files in a shared location so that others can edit the tutorials at a later date.

Page last modified: August 20, 2008