Also from the BBC: DV Usage Guides: Camera Handling for DV Operators, How to Shoot Widescreen on Small Cameras, Shooting Computer Monitors, Cables and Connections for DV, DV Tape Formats, Timecode, Transfers & Logging.
iMovie: The Missing Manual: we have a couple copies of this manual (for different versions of iMovie. The first couple of chapters are a quick read on how to use a camcorder and much more interesting than the camcorder manuals.
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Video/Screen Capture and Editing
Video capture (or screen capture) and video editing capabilities are available on the shared machine caber. It sits in x660 and is for everyone in Imager to use.
The BlackMagic Intensity card installed in caber allows you to capture exactly what you see on your laptop at the same frame rate. This works for laptops that have HDMI output. You connect your laptop to caber using the HDMI to HDMI cable provided (usually sitting on the desk that caber is on).
The Adobe Premiere Pro software installed on caber allows you to edit the videos, including one you captured using the BlackMagic capture card.