Lab 6 – Editing Video

Objectives:
1. Download the video “Hitchcock Loves Bikinis” from YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCAE0t6KwJY NOTE! Normally this would probably be a copyright violation issue but this is for a school project and is for educational purposes.

2. Use the website “ www.flickr.com/search/advanced/ ” to find and download 2-3 images / pictures for the project. The images must have Creative Commons licenses .

3. Use the website ” https://www.jamendo.com/ ” to find and download 1-2 music tracks for the project. NOTE! The jamendo.com website states that you must get a license to use any of the music in a video or other forms of multimedia. Again, this is for a school project and is for educational purposes.

4. Use video editing software / app to change what Hitchcock appears to be looking at in the Hitchcock Loves Bikinis video. We have to use the 2-3 images that we got from flickr.com and the 1-2 tracks that we got from jamendo.com in the edited video. It’s optional to use additional content if desired.

5. Research the Creative Commons licenses https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ and determine which licenses I could use for this video project and why. Also determine which licenses that I wouldn’t be able to use and why. I need to also determine which licenses would allow me to use the content only if I let others use my video as well using a Creative Commons license.

6. Upload / publish the edited video onto YouTube.

Equipment list: Desktop computer, CyberLink PowerDirector 15 (video editing software),

Hitchcock Loves Bikinis video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCAE0t6KwJY , deturl.com and Videovor (used to download the video),

Squirrel image https://www.flickr.com/photos/philfiddyment/28585765490/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/philfiddyment/ ,

American Robin image https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_t_in_dc/6991449163/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_t_in_dc/ ,

Duck image https://www.flickr.com/photos/vixenrose/3396021588/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/vixenrose/ ,

Morning Sonate (2019) – CHRISTIAN PETERMANN https://www.jamendo.com/track/1694054/morning_sonate

Notes and Observations: I’ve worked on several video projects before in the past so the portion of putting everything together and editing the content was easy for me. The hardest parts was looking through images and listening to music to decide on what to use for the project and typing out this report. I was slightly surprised to see how many images were available on flickr.com with just the Creative Commons license, I really didn’t think there would be that many. I couldn’t find exactly what I was looking for on jamendo.com . I would have liked to use a soundtrack that was just background noise from a park or maybe a forest, but I did find a music track that should work for the mood that I was aiming for.

I looked at the Creative Commons licences and this is what I gathered. There is 6 different Creative Commons licenses.

Attribution
CC BY
This license lets you distribute, remix, adapt, and build on the content as long as you give the original creator credit.

Attribution-ShareAlike
CC BY-SA
This license lets you remix, adapt, and build on the content as long as you give credit to the original creator and use this same Creative Commons licence for your content. For example, if you used an image that has this license in your own content, your content that uses that image needs to use this same license as well.

Attribution-NoDerivs
CC BY-ND
This license lets you use the content as long as you give credit to the original creator and do not alter or change it.

Attribution-NonCommercial
CC BY-NC
This license lets you remix, adapt, and build upon the content as long as you give credit to the original creator and don’t use it for commercial purposes. You don’t need to use the same Creative Commons license if you create and use a derivative of the original content, but you still need to give credit to the original creator.

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
CC BY-NC-SA
This license lets you remix, adapt, and build upon the content as long as you give credit to the original creator, don’t use it for commercial purposes, and use this same Creative Commons license for your content. For example, if you used an image that has this license in your own content, your content that uses that image needs to use this same license as well.

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
CC BY-NC-ND
This license lets you use the content as long as you give credit to the original creator, don’t alter or change the content, and don’t use it for commercial purposes.

Regarding the question of what content could I use that uses Creative Commons licenses. Keep in mind that the Alfred Hitchcock video is not factored in on this question. I’ll focus on the images that I’ll be using for the edited video. I will have to cut off a portion of the music track and will have the volume fade in and fade out. The music track doesn’t appear to have a Creative Commons license though. Therefore I should be able to any of the images that I’ve selected without issue regarding the Creative Commons licenses.

Attribution
CC BY
I will be giving credit to the original creators of the images.

Attribution-ShareAlike
CC BY-SA
I will be giving credit to the original creators of the images and would apply the same license to my video if YouTube allowed me to.

Attribution-NoDerivs
CC BY-ND
I will be giving credit to the original creators of the images and I won’t be altering or changing the images.

Attribution-NonCommercial
CC BY-NC
I will be giving credit to the original creators of the images and will not be using this video for commercial purposes.

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
CC BY-NC-SA
I will be giving credit to the original creators of the images, will not be using this video for commercial purposes, and would apply the same license to my video if YouTube allowed me to.

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
CC BY-NC-ND
I will be giving credit to the original creators of the images, I won’t be altering or changing the images, and I won’t be using the video for commercial purposes.

Content that uses the following licenses are what I would use if I needed to create content that had to be used or shared under the same Creative Commons licenses.

Attribution-ShareAlike
CC BY-SA
and
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
CC BY-NC-SA

Diagrams, flowcharts, and figures:

References: Assignment instructions for Lab 6.

Conclusions: This is the first time that I’ve worked on a video project where I had to be aware about the Creative Commons licenses. Having to factor that in when trying to make a video project does change the process a little bit. Knowing about the Creative Commons licenses and how to find content that uses them could be very useful for anyone who makes any form of multimedia content. It’s nice to see that there is a copyright standard out there that makes it easy and user friendly to know what you can do with the content without going through the hurdles and time process of asking if you can use something. That process in itself can get very frustrating.

Here’s a link to the finished video.