The ROAP Video Exam; Better Late Than Never, I guess
Finally I hear we are going to get to take the review test for the video portion of the ROAP exam. The whole thing has been nonsense from the beginning. Still, I am not placing blame on anybody. The course is still taught largely bro-bono by experts in the various areas of racing, so;
a) The people who know how to watch a video are also the people that made the video.
b) These people know how to watch a video, but not how to make one.
SO, for their sake I am going to explain how to do this.
Making a Video of 8 Races:
1) Make sure all of your footage is in the same video format; if you are a video idio(t), you just get out your trust-y file conversion software (AVS4YOU is a good one, and only about $50 for more functions than you will ever need). Follow the simple instructions. It's easier than bakin' a cake.
2) Once you have all your converted files (properly labeled, of course. You know how to label a file). For our purposes, let's say you have them in Windows format. That's a popular format (WMA, WMV)
3) Place the clip you plan to use first in your trust-y movie-making software (such as the popular Windows Movie Maker).
4) Add text to your movie clip: Let's assume you have three views of each race; the Pan, the Head on, and Mountaineer would be the 3/8 Pole. SO you put the cursor at the beginning and click on "add text", And when the application pops up, Put your text in; "Race #1; Pan Shot. Then, at the junction between the Pan and the Head on, place your cursor and click Add text. At this point, you want to see if you can let maybe twenty or thirty seconds to pass, and that's easy enough, although I can't tell you exactly how to do it. But it's all in english and it's intuitive design; it'll be right there.
Then, once you're done with that, do the same thing for the 3/8 Shot.
And that wraps up video # 1.
5) do this will all 8 or 12 clips, making sure to label and run some blank time in between each view.
6) Place them all together in the same folder, and make sure that you have them labeled so that they fall naturally in order whenever you open it. To do so , you might have to label them so: 0001, 0002, or you might not. Just make sure they are in the order you want them so that they fall in the same order as your programs on the paper portion of the test.
7) take that folder and put it on a CD. If there is too much data, put it on a memory stick with sufficient memory to store all the videos.
8) be smart: make sure you have a copy of the program on the same storage module.
9) Now, check it out; when you place it on your computer, all you have to do is highlight all ofthe video files and load them into your media player (presumably Windows). You should, if you have the information viewable (on the right side) see each race; race #1, Race#2 and so on, queued in order. You can watch each video separately, one at a time. That way, if the person viewing needs to back up, they will not accidentally back past the point they want to see, which in the original video form has meant as far as a race or two prior.
That's the complaint; you can't review, because it's what I would call a Jumbalaya. Everything' s in there, but none of it is identifiable for what it is. It's a single hour-long video. One can't slide a slider that infinitesimal distance to find a review point, causing people to run over time and fail the exam.
10) be proud of your students because now they can all pass the freakin' test.
a) The people who know how to watch a video are also the people that made the video.
b) These people know how to watch a video, but not how to make one.
SO, for their sake I am going to explain how to do this.
Making a Video of 8 Races:
1) Make sure all of your footage is in the same video format; if you are a video idio(t), you just get out your trust-y file conversion software (AVS4YOU is a good one, and only about $50 for more functions than you will ever need). Follow the simple instructions. It's easier than bakin' a cake.
2) Once you have all your converted files (properly labeled, of course. You know how to label a file). For our purposes, let's say you have them in Windows format. That's a popular format (WMA, WMV)
3) Place the clip you plan to use first in your trust-y movie-making software (such as the popular Windows Movie Maker).
4) Add text to your movie clip: Let's assume you have three views of each race; the Pan, the Head on, and Mountaineer would be the 3/8 Pole. SO you put the cursor at the beginning and click on "add text", And when the application pops up, Put your text in; "Race #1; Pan Shot. Then, at the junction between the Pan and the Head on, place your cursor and click Add text. At this point, you want to see if you can let maybe twenty or thirty seconds to pass, and that's easy enough, although I can't tell you exactly how to do it. But it's all in english and it's intuitive design; it'll be right there.
Then, once you're done with that, do the same thing for the 3/8 Shot.
And that wraps up video # 1.
5) do this will all 8 or 12 clips, making sure to label and run some blank time in between each view.
6) Place them all together in the same folder, and make sure that you have them labeled so that they fall naturally in order whenever you open it. To do so , you might have to label them so: 0001, 0002, or you might not. Just make sure they are in the order you want them so that they fall in the same order as your programs on the paper portion of the test.
7) take that folder and put it on a CD. If there is too much data, put it on a memory stick with sufficient memory to store all the videos.
8) be smart: make sure you have a copy of the program on the same storage module.
9) Now, check it out; when you place it on your computer, all you have to do is highlight all ofthe video files and load them into your media player (presumably Windows). You should, if you have the information viewable (on the right side) see each race; race #1, Race#2 and so on, queued in order. You can watch each video separately, one at a time. That way, if the person viewing needs to back up, they will not accidentally back past the point they want to see, which in the original video form has meant as far as a race or two prior.
That's the complaint; you can't review, because it's what I would call a Jumbalaya. Everything' s in there, but none of it is identifiable for what it is. It's a single hour-long video. One can't slide a slider that infinitesimal distance to find a review point, causing people to run over time and fail the exam.
10) be proud of your students because now they can all pass the freakin' test.
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