We’ve pulled together a list of the best resources available for Duke’s video community below. Take a look!
Guidelines, Policies, Best Practices
- Duke video graphics package (NETID required) – Use these bumpers and graphics to brand and enhance your videos. Check out the Video Branding Resources on the Duke Brand Guide for more information on how to use these assets.
- How to create a YouTube channel and connect it to Duke’s YouTube channel
- Duke Health brand guidelines
- Higher ed video creation best practices
- Publicize your live webcast – Tips from the Duke Office of News & Communications.
- Scholarly communications toolkit – Includes a release form for recording video.
- YouTube Creator Academy – Valuable resource for learning best practices on running your YouTube channel.
- YouTube publishing checklist – The quick-and-dirty guide on what to do when you publish your video to YouTube.
Hardware & Software
- Adobe Creative Cloud license – For Duke faculty and staff, Creative Cloud accounts (includes Adobe Premiere) are available for purchase for $150 per year. (It’s free for students.)
- Final Cut Pro – Final Cut Pro is video editing software for Macs.
- Captioning services – Preferred providers of captioning services at Duke-specific rates.
- Multimedia Project Studio – Two multimedia production facilities for Duke students, faculty and staff. Labs feature high-end, integrated hardware and software to create graphics, audio and video, including Apple’s Final Cut Pro for video editing.
- Duke Digital Initiative – Resources for students and faculty to experiment with new technology.
- DukeCapture/Panopto – Automated lecture and event recording system at sites across Duke campus.
- Warpwire – Allows Duke community to distribute media files (like video) via streaming servers with control access by group and NetID.
- Duke Link – This teaching and learning center in Perkins Library has video equipment available for students and faculty to use.
- 2013 POV Documentary Equipment Survey – A list of the most common equipment and software used by documentarians. Good starting point when you’re shopping.
- 2014 Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Award Winners – Another equipment and software list.
Training
- HR Special Development Programs – Offers numerous professional development workshops, including ones on certain multimedia tools.
- Lynda online training tutorials – Duke students, faculty and staff can access the entire lynda.com online training library through a university-wide site license. Topics include graphics, video editing and training on specific video editing software like Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro.
- ProComm – Professional development program for communications professionals at Duke.
- OIT training – Both in-person and online training to support Duke students, staff and faculty.
- OIT Tech Tutors – Looking for dedicated help getting started or completing a multimedia (audio/video), graphics or web design project you are working on? OIT is here for you!
- Center for Documentary Studies – Offers continuing education courses on film/video and multimedia.
- YouTube help center – Getting started guide and searchable help index.
Peer-to-Peer Learning
- Duke Digital Media Community – Blog and mailing list for those involved in digital media at Duke.
- Videos in Teaching and Learning (ViTaL) interest group – For members of the Duke community who are interested in creating videos for educational purposes.
Consulting
- Center for Instructional Technology – Helps instructors and students find innovative ways to use technology.
- OIT Consultations – Expertise to assist with audio/video purchasing or integration projects, consultation on available audio/video rentals and resources in the area.
- Office of News and Communications – Works with the news media and others to highlight the activities of Duke’s faculty, students and staff.
- StoryHunter – Hire freelance journalists and videographers through Public Affairs and Government Relations’ subscription. Contact Laura Brinn for details.
Producing Video
- Production locations on campus
- Visual Storytelling – eBook from the Center for Documentary Studies.
- Video production process
- Filming guidance
- Conducting interviews
- What to wear on camera
Music Resources
- Free: freesound
- Free: YouTube Audio Library
- Free (CC): ccmister
- Free (OLD): Library of Congress National Jukebox
- Free (some): Incompetech
- Cheap: Sound of Picture
- Cheap: fresh music
- Cheap: JewelBeat
- Not cheap: Freeplay Music
- Not cheap: The Music Bakery
- Not cheap: audio network
- Another list of resources from Columbia
Footage Resources
- Free: Duke B-roll Library (NETID required)
- Free: “One Day at Duke” introductory video (Email video@duke.edu for the password.) – Administrators and communicators can use this video to introduce an audience to Duke University. There are Mac and PC versions available for download. You can also play the video from YouTube.
- Free: Videvo
- Free: Library of Congress National Film Preservation Board Public Moving Image Archives
- Free (OLD): Internet Archive
- Cheap: videoblocks
- Cheap: footagefarm
- Cheap: footagefarm (UK)
- Cheap: PublicDomainFootage.com
- Cheap: Anistock
- Cheap: iStock
- Cheap: pond5
- Cheap: BuyOutFootage.com
- Not cheap: Artbeats
- Not cheap: Wazee Digial
- Not cheap: gettyimages
- Not cheap: corbisMOTION
- Not cheap: FOTOSEARCH