Finding and Clipping Video Content
This handout covers:
- Copyright issues for Clipping, Linking and Embedding Video
- Instructions on how to clip with Academic Video Online, EduTV and
YouTube.
Handout by david.litting@uts.edu.au / 95143390
Linking, Clipping and Copyright
Educational re-use provisions for copyright are quite generous. For the exact dimensions of this
you can consult the Screenrights information page which is available via this link.
https://www.screenrights.org/content-users/australian-services/educational-licence
(It’s also included in your in-class handout.)
The table below summarises some of the main rules regarding video reuse for education
Linking
Embedding
Clipping
Linking should be
acceptable for all
material found
online, whether for
educational or
‘commercial use’.
The Screenrights handout deals mostly
with recorded material from TV and
also podcasts and vodcasts from
broadcasters.
For material uploaded (say to
YouTube) by people who are not
broadcasters like the ABC, BBC, etc
copying and even embedding of the
content may require the permission of
the uploader or content provider:
‘Many broadcasters have their own
YouTube channels and you may download
broadcasts that they have uploaded to
these channels. Other YouTube material is
not covered by the Screenrights licence
and you may wish to seek advice if you
want to stream or embed this material in
course notes.’ - Screenrights
All video content licensed for
educational use can be
clipped. Additionally any
YouTube video licensed as a
creative commons video can
be clipped and republished to
your YouTube account.
For material on YouTube that
is not creative commons, you
can link. You can also create
links that begin part the way
through a video, which is a
sort of ‘soft clipping’ if you
will.
If you have your own editing
software you should be able
to make clips from noneducational video and
distribute them, so long as
they are via email or behind a
password wall on UTS Online,
etc.
Finding Video Databases
The Find databases page on the Library website has a category for Video. Within that category
there are individual lists called catalogues, multidisciplinary, other and ALL.
‘Catalogues’ refers to services that contain videos that you can browse and order via the library.
The other three headings are lists of the databases we subscribe to for a fee. The databases in
the multidisciplinary list are the ones we demonstrate in class.
How to Clip: Academic Video Online
Academic Video Online (aka VAST) is published by Alexander St Press. It contains: “newsreels,
award-winning documentaries, field recordings, interviews, lectures, training videos, and
exclusive primary footage.”
Academic Video Online has a powerful advanced search feature, offering you more control over
your search than the other video databases in this session.
Within the videos are transcripts you can use to navigate to parts of the video.
Some videos also have clips that are prebuilt into the video that you can link to.
Note: If you’d like to make your own clips you will need to register and sign in.
To Make a Clip from a Video
Step 1: Use the little scisscors icon on the control panel.
Step 2: Then set some times for the start and finish of your clip. You can enter times manually
or drag the green and red flags for this. (You’ll need to give the clip a title too).
Step 3: After creating and saving your clip it will appear under a ‘Clips’ heading on the right of
screen. There is a little link icon next to it that allows sharing - <>.
YouTube
YouTube’s content is not all licensed for educational reuse but there are ways to get at all of it
for teaching:
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You can link. You can even create a link to a particular start point within a video:
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You can also create an embed code for a video… however you can’t embed a video that
starts at a certain time. (Embedding should work ok in UTS Online and in Google
Presentations, however you will not need the embed code to do this, instead you’ll need
the name or url of the video). Bear in mind that some videos aren’t okay to embed
without the uploaders permission. When in doubt, ask our copyright officer Matthew
Noble – matthew.noble@uts.edu.au / 95143133
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If you have video editing software like IMovie or Camtasia then you can use that to make
a clip and then share it on UTS Online, or via email.
A final option is to use YouTube to make clips from material licensed for educational
reuse. You can do this by filtering your search by ‘creative commons’. This should enable
a mode called ‘remix this video’. Remixing allows you to use YouTube’s in house editing
suite to clip a video, which you can then repost to YouTube. Steps to do this are seen
below:
Step 1: Filter by Creative Commons license:
The videos you can access should now have this ‘remix this video’ button visible (provided you
are logged in – you will need a login to clip).
Step 2: Click the ‘remix this video’ button
Step 3: Now make your clip. There are two ways to do this:
The first way is to click on the little video icon on the drag bar. Doing this will bring up a blue
border around the icon. You can use these blue drag bars to set your start and end points.
Alternatively you can use the scissors icon to chop the video into two where ever the red line is
set to. You can chop more than once. If you need to you can zoom in on this video icon to give
yourself more control.
Within this screen you can create a mashup by searching for other creative commons videos to
splice in, or splice in videos you’ve created under your logon. You can even substitute your own
sound file on top of your clip by dragging a file over the audio track
Step 4: Once you are finished you can set all your parameters and press publish.
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If you upload videos to YouTube or other platforms like Vimeo you can set your videos
to public, unlisted or private. Public is the default option. Unlisted means that you
cannot find the video via searching, instead you need the url to view the video. Private
means that only people specified by the uploader can view the video.
EduTV
EduTV is an online streaming resource containing television documentaries, current affairs/
news programs (occasionally complemented with study guides) and popular TV series from the
ABC and SBS.
Shows include Q&A, Big Ideas, Redfern Now, Message Stick, Four Corners and more.
Note: You will need to create a logon to make clips.
To make a clip click the create clip playlist icon on the control bar.
Then follow these four steps (see overleaf):
Step 1: Give your clip a name.
Step 2: Set in and out points for the clip with the ‘set start’ and ‘set end’ buttons. Give your clip
a title and press save.
Step 3: Upload notes – this allows you to attach text to the clip to provide instruction or
background. You can skip this step if you want to.
Step 4: Press Finish. This completes the process and enables sharing.
If you don’t want to use the email, Facebook or Twitter share options you can cut and paste the
url of the page after saving and use that as a link to share.
TV News.
TV News has no edit function but a lot of the content is in the form of individual news stories
and as such aren’t too long. If you would like to make clips of the content you can, using your
own editing software. You would then have to distribute the clip via UTS Online or via email.
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FINALLY!
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If you find a title out there that you would like to make available in a streaming form,
please contact the library.
The library is currently devising a class to complement this one, which will show you
how use screencast software to capture video playing on a computer and also software
that you can use to edit the video into clips.
The Learning2014 page on the library website has links to more online educational resources in
your subject area as well as case studies, staff contacts and cases studies of how the library is
integrating Learning2014 practices into its training.
https://www.lib.uts.edu.au/learning -> Learning2014
Copyright and Video for Education
(text from screenrights)
Screenrights licenses schools, TAFEs and universities to copy from television and radio, and to put
copied progams on an intranet, email them and manage them using a digital sytem such as Clickview.
Our licences cover most schools, all universities and many TAFEs.
With a Screenrights licence you can copy:
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Any program – movies, current affairs, documentaries, news
Any amount – copy five minutes or an entire drama, make one copy or 20, it’s up to you
Anywhere – make copies at home or in your library
From any channel – copy from free to air TV, pay TV or radio
Podcasts and vodcasts – copy broadcast material made available online by the broadcaster
In any format – copy onto VHS, DVD or store digital copies on a hard drive or other device
From old copies – update your VHS copies by putting them in digital format
And make the following uses of your copies:
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Show them in class
Keep them in the library as an ongoing resource
Store them on a network for staff and students
Email them to staff and students
Show them on an electronic whiteboard
Remember to label all copies
Made for [institution’s] educational purposes under Part VA, Copyright Act 1968
Date of broadcast…………………
Date this copy made …………….
And include a warning notice on copies that are communicated online
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
Copyright Regulations 1969
WARNING
This material has been copied and communicated to you by or on behalf of [insert name of institution] pursuant to
Part VA of the Copyright Act 1968 (the Act).
The material in this communication may be subject to copyright under the Act. Any further copying or
communication of this material by you may be the subject of copyright or performers protection under the Act.
Do not remove this notice.
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