• Introduction
• Overview
• How to Use the Open Video Workbook
• Subtitling
• Terms & Techniques: Subtitling
• Case Study: Into the Fire
• Hands-On: Creating Subtitles with Amara
• Resources: Subtitling
• Online Distribution
• Terms & Techniques: Online Video Distribution
• Case Study: Engage Media
• Hands-On: Uploading a Video with Plumi
• Resources: Online Video Distribution
• Creating an Open Video File
• Terms & Techniques: Open Video Files
• Hands-On: Creating Open Video Files with FireFogg
• Hands-On: Creating Open Video Files with Miro Converter
• Resources: Open Video Files
• Enhancing Web Video
• Terms & Techniques: Enhancing Web Video
• Case Study: Popcorn Maker
• Hands-On: Using Popcorn Maker
• Case Study: Popcorn.js
• Hands on: Using Popcorn.js
• Resources: Taking Popcorn Further
• Editing Video
• Terms and Techniques: Video Editing
• Case Study: Video Editing for The Record
• Hands-On: Editing an Interview with Kdenlive
• Resources: Video Production
• Creating a DVD
• Terms & Techniques: DVD Authoring
• Case Study: Straight-to-DVD Distribution
• Hands-On: DVD Authoring
• Resources: More on DVDs
• Projection
• Terms & Techniques: Video Projection
• Case Study: SDNA
• Hands-On: Video Projection Mapping with LPMT
• Resources: Projection
• Transcoding and Video Codecs
• Case Study Preparing Mobile Video for Editing
• Hands-On: Transcoding Files with FFmpeg
• Hands-On: Using a Graphical User Interface vs Command Line
• Resources: Using Command Line
• Streaming
• Hands-On: Streaming Video with VLC
• Resources: Streaming
• Appendix
• Outlook: The Politics of Code
• About the Authors

Terms & Techniques: Enhancing Web Video

By the end of this module you will

• be able to add additions to online video files including a
• be familiar with the concept of enhancing web video
• be able to use the online tool Popcorn Maker
• have an understanding of the Popcorn.js tool

Tools you will need for this module:

• Internet Connection
• An up-to-date Browser

Web Video:  Web video are videos that are already online. They may be hosted at a video sharing site like YouTube or Vimeo. They may also be a simple video file uploaded to the internet.

Hosted Video File: A 'hosted' video file refers to a file that has been uploaded to web-server. To use this in a context of Popcorn tool you will need to have a direct link to the online video file. 

Javascript libraries: Technically speacking, Popcorn.js is a whole bunch of java script code called a javascript library. One of the advatanges to tools like Popcorn Maker and Popcorn.js is that you don't need to understand what is going on the background with this code to take advantage of what it can do. 

Enhanced Web Video: There are many terms for the concept of adding extra related information to videos displayed in the web browser. These include augmented web video, extended web video, expanded web video. Popcorn Maker is just one tool and approach to creating enhanced web video. This is a rapidly growing area in open video and we can look forward to lots of innovation.