Tools

This page is a collection of all of the worksheets, templates, and downloads available elsewhere in this toolkit.

Audience and goal-setting worksheets

Audience Worksheet

Goal-setting Worksheet

icon Distribution Budget Worksheet (20.5 kB)

Discussion guide template

Examples of discussion guides online:

http://itvs.org/outreach/newamericans/guide/

http://eslpartyland.com/teachers/nov/film.htm

http://teachwithmovies.net/standard-questions.htm

http://pbs.org/inthemix/educators/lessons/

http://concentric.org/outreach/discuss.html

http://goodcharacter.com/

http://kwfdn.org/press_room/press_releases/press_release.asp?prID=109

DVD package templates

PS Print provides templates and guides for making DVD sleeves in different applications:

http://www.psprint.com/creative/downloads/templates/cd_dvd_case_cover_printing_templates.asp

Disk Makers offers DVD replication and dublication services, as well as templates for DVD packaging:

http://www.discmakers.com

Pro Action Media offers DVD replication and duplication services including "Retail Ready" packages:

http://www.proactionmedia.com

Web compression guide

In order to post your video online, you will need to compress your
large video file into a small size that can be streamed or downloaded
over the Web. Compression is a process where video files are reduced in
size with the removal of unnecessary and redundant audio and video
data. This process will affect the quality of the final video.

Always start compression (encoding) with the highest quality video file
you have. You can compress your video by either: applying a codec to
both audio and video; or adjusting the video frame size, video frame
rate, audio sample rate, or audio frequency rate.

Codec stands for COmpressor/DECompressor. Codecs are used to encode and
decode (compress and decompress) video and audio files. The types of
codecs to use will depend on your final delivery format.

Encoders: Windows Media Encoder (output format is .WMV), Quicktime Pro
(output format is.MOV), Flash8 Encoder (output format is .FLV), Real
Producer (output format is .RV), Divx/Xvid (output format is .MPEG)

For more information and detailed descriptions about video compression and different Codecs, check out these links: