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• Selecting Videos to Contribute

NJVID - Selecting Videos to Contribute

• Choose a Compitable Video

  We accept videos in the following videotape formats: VHS, S-VHS, mini-DV, DVCAM, and digital formats including DVD, HDV, and other digital files lacking Digital Rights Management. We will announce support for additional tape formats when ready. If you want to contribute digital files, please refer to our NJVid Codec & Settings Spec Sheet, which details the technical settings at which we encode analog materials. If the files you wish to contribute are not up to our specifications, please realize that this will hinder our ability to optimally preserve your videos and will limit the picture and audio quality of any future derivations we will make from your videos’ archival source files for preservation and access purposes. DVD or original uncompressed source video files are preferred.

  We do not accept film materials. You must transfer all film materials to video or a digital format before submitting them to NJVid. There are many film transfer services available to choose from, one of which is Javanni Digital Video (www.perfectpopcorn.com), which William Paterson University in Wayne, NJ uses to conduct its film-to-tape transfers.

• Choose a Video that is Educational and Enlightening

  All videos contributed to NJVid must have educational and research value. They should expand the pool of knowledge on a certain topic or subject matter in support of pedagogy and scholarship.