DeakinAir

DeakinAir is made available to Deakin staff and enrolled students for educational use only and not for personal or commercial use.

You must not use DeakinAir for any purpose or upload any content to DeakinAir that is illegal, unlawful, confidential or in breach of Deakin University's legislation, policies and procedures–, including, but not limited to, Deakin's various Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy.

You must comply with all applicable international, Commonwealth, State and local laws and regulations. The videos stored in DeakinAir will be stored by Kaltura on servers in the United States.

You must comply with the DeakinAir copyright and privacy statement.

Deakin reserves the right to investigate suspected violations of these conditions. Deakin may, in it’s sole discretion, remove infringing content from DeakinAir, provide warnings to you, or suspend or terminate your access to DeakinAir.

Limitation of liability

Deakin is not responsible for the accuracy, usefulness, or intellectual property rights of, or relating to, content posted to DeakinAir.

To the extent permitted by law, Deakin University is not responsible for any loss or damage of any nature whatsoever arising as a direct or indirect result of accessing DeakinAir, it’s content or the uploading or downloading of any content to or from DeakinAir. Where Deakin University is unable to exclude liability, it shall not be liable for any special, indirect or consequential loss.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify Deakin from any claims, losses, or damages, including legal fees, resulting from your violation of these conditions or your posting of any content to DeakinAir and to fully cooperate with Deakin University in defending such claims. Without limitation, you agree to indemnify Deakin from and against any and all claims, losses, actions or demands brought by or against Deakin alleging with respect to:

• breach of intellectual property rights
• interference with privacy
• defamation, libel, slander, obscenity, pornography
• offensive, harassing or illegal conduct.

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1. Copyright

Note: It is your responsibility to be familiar with your obligations respecting copyright and to use material owned by someone else only in accordance with Australian copyright law.

• Deakin University retains copyright in all lecture and teaching materials posted on DeakinAir.
• You may download or copy content only for individual use directly related to your study at Deakin.
• Unless you are expressly permitted to do so, you are not permitted to download, copy, link or embed content that appears on DeakinAir into any other media.
• You are not permitted to use, reproduce, copy, distribute, sell, or otherwise exploit content on or posted to DeakinAir for any commercial purpose.
• You are solely responsible for ensuring that your contribution to DeakinAir is an original work and does not infringe the rights of anyone. You must obtain all necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorise Deakin to use content you post to DeakinAir. This includes any background music or copyrighted material included in the content you post.
• If you legitimately use materials in which copyright is owned by a third party, you must ensure that you comply with the terms on which the materials are licensed and that appropriate referencing conventions are used.
• Other than teaching material, Deakin does not claim ownership of any content you post to DeakinAir. You grant to Deakin a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, perform and communicate your content.

2. Privacy

You must take responsibility for personal information that you post to DeakinAir. You must remember that personal information that identifies you or another individual will be viewed by other users and may be collected and used by other users of the site. Please exercise caution in posting your personal information.

You must not post personal information about another person (including addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses or photographs of individuals) without their consent.

Deakin University manages personal information in accordance with the Information Privacy Act 2000 (Vic).

When you access and use DeakinAir to post content, you may be providing written or audio-visual information that allows you or other people to be identified.

Personal information posted to DeakinAir becomes part of Deakin University's records. Deakin will use this personal information in managing your academic progress and in providing content on DeakinAir to its authorised users. It may also use or disclose it for internal research, quality assurance, to promote the activities of the University and otherwise as required or authorised by law. It may disclose personal information to its contracted service providers for these purposes.

Personal information that you include in content posted to DeakinAir will be visible to other users of DeakinAir. If you have successfully applied to make content you have posted available to the general public, Deakin will disclose this personal information in the course of providing public access to DeakinAir.

You can also read more about Deakin's privacy policy which includes the use and disclosure of personal information.

Before you start creating a video:

• If recording with a phone, please hold the phone sideways.
• Record your video in mp4 (H264) format if possible and at max 720p (720p because of final file size).
• Use Windows Movie Maker (Windows Live Movie Maker) or iMovie if possible, to edit the video.
• Export/Save your edited movie in mp4 (H264) format if possible. Windows Live Movie Maker will export as WMV.
• Always use as many default settings as possible. Changing video settings can easily result in corrupted videos.

Before uploading to DeakinAir:

• Ensure that you check your internet speed which will determine how long it takes to upload your video. For example, at 1.5Mbps it takes about 9 minutes to upload 100 MB, about 52 minutes at 256Kbps to upload 100MB file.
• If your Internet speed is slow, try:
  • a different (faster) internet connection/network e.g. Deakin on-campus or local library
  • reducing the size (dimensions) of the video and re-encode (export/save/convert) the video.

Note: If your upload speed is below 1Mbps, we recommend that you only upload up to 200Mb per video.

Software to convert your video:

If your video did not process/convert after successfully uploading to DeakinAir, use the following software to convert your video.

• Download Macroplant Adapter, a free to download software.
• Use Macroplant Adapter to re-encode the video in mp4 format.

1. Go to DeakinAir web site.
2. The home page will load. You should be automatically logged in via Deakin’s single sign-on system. If not, navigate and select the Login link under the Guest icon in the top tight-hand corner of the Home page. Once logged in use the same drop-down menu to access My Media.  Note: Displayed content is tagged as 'public' and is accessible to all users of the site.
3. Click on the thumbnail image of the relevant video. Select play.

All content that you contribute to DeakinAir will appear as private by default. These videos are not searchable or discoverable, until you choose to share the URL or embed code of your video content.

1. Go to DeakinAir web site.
2. Select the Login link located at the top right hand corner. Click Add New, Media Upload.
3. You must agree to the Conditions of Use by selecting the I agree to these Conditions of Use button in order to be authenticated in the system.

   Note: The Conditions of Use agreement leverages cookie functionality whereby a cookie is installed on your computer, enabling cookies will prevent this agreement page being displayed again, until such time as the cookie expires (currently to 120 days), if cookies are not enabled on your browser, this page will display every time you attempt to login to DeakinAir.

   
4. Click on the Choose a file to upload icon. Media Upload allows you to browse to a file on either your device or a network share, by selecting the file.
5. Browse to the file you'd like to upload, select it and click Open.

   Note: If you're uploading a huge file, please ensure that you've a good Internet connection. Best end-user experience will be on-campus via wired network or off-campus via ADSL.

6. A progress bar will indicate your file being uploaded and confirm when it is finished.Note: The file upload limit is 2GB. For optimal end-user experience you might like to consider a maximum of 20 min videos. If necessary, playlists can easily be created to segment longer video sequences or group similar subject matter.DeakinAir accepts all common video, audio and image formats in all resolutions. For best results with video, we recommend preparing videos in 1280x720 pixels and using the H.264 video codec at about 4000 kb/s.  File properties (metadata) - it is important to give your video file a logical, meaningful name, who created it, a brief description and very importantly, some logical, meaningful tags (separated by comma). DeakinAir's in-built search tool hunts for the keywords used in the video asset's tag field.
7. Fill in the metadata required for each video.
8. When metadata has been added select the Save icon at the bottom of the page. You can view your video by using the Go to Media icon or go to a list of your videos by using the Go to My Media icon.
9. Alternatively you have the option of saving the file and uploading another file.
10. DeakinAir confirms the action and also generates a unique URL to this file. (for PC: CTRL + C , for Mac: CMD + C) and paste this into a website, your DeakinSync, ePortfolio or a dedicated Assignments folder setup for your video assignment (you may require to submit a file).

Note: The embed code is 'context sensitive' i.e. depending on the type and size of player that you select, the embed code will automatically adjust accordingly. There are 3 types of media player available:

• basic streamed format with no download option (default
• basic streamed player with download option
• basic streamed player with Copyright 'bumper video' that is automatically added to your video in the event that you have included any 3rd party or broadcast content.

Please take direction from your tutor/lecturer as to their preference for receiving your video content.

Note: If you're sharing your video via your ePortfolio, use the following steps:

1. Click on Tools then select ePortfolio from the navigation bar.
2. Click on My Items.
3. Click Add then select Web Document.
4. Click on the Insert Stuff button then select Enter Embed Code.
5. Paste (for PC: CTRL + V , for Mac: CMD + V) in the embed code of your video in the field.

If you have a camera built into your computer, or as a peripheral to your desktop PC/MAC, or even your iPad, you'll have the ability to create a very short, introductory video 'on the fly'.

1. Go to DeakinAir web site.
2. Login to DeakinAir using your normal Deakin credentials.
3. At the top right-hand side of the screen click on Add New and select Kaltura Capture.

*Kaltura Capture has recently replaced CaptureSpace in DeakinAir.* If uninstalling CaptureSpace from your machine, you will receive a prompt asking if you would like to delete all your videos and settings. If you select Yes, all videos will be removed, even if they have not been uploaded to DeakinAir. If you select No, all videos will remain on your machine.

If you have recordings that you created in CaptureSpace that you have not yet uploaded to DeakinAir, you can access these recordings on your machine via your C: Drive (PC) or via your Users folder (Mac).

First time users:

1. The first time you use Kaltura Capture you will need to download some software. Choose the software to suit either Windows or Mac
2. You will be asked whether you would like to save the file. Choose Save File.
3. If the software doesn't run automatically, open your Downloads area and open the file.
4. In the Open File dialogue box select Run.
5. Once the software has finished installing you are ready to use Kaltura Capture.
Go to the Add New drop down box at the top of the screen and select Kaltura Capture.
6. In the Launch Application box click on OK.
7. Choose whether you wish to record your camera, screen, audio or a combination. Recording will start automatically in 3 seconds.

Note: If you decided to record your camera, screen and audio, only the screen and audio are available to download if you share the video. If you record two screens and audio, only the primary screen will be available to download if you share the video.

6. Use the recording timer to keep track of how long the recording has been going. When you have finished select Stop Recording. Then, select Yes, Stop it to confirm.
7. You will be given a preview of your recording. Click Save and Upload.
8. You can then view your video in the My Media section of DeakinAir.
9. In My Media you can edit your video.
10. Fill in the relevant metadata for the video. Use a descriptive file name. Enter a description of the video, tags which will be helpful for searching and grouping like videos together.