THL Toolbox > Audio-Video > Overview Contributor(s): David
Germano, James Graves, Chelsea Hall, Eric Woelfel. New
developments in digital technology and the Web offer exciting
new possibilities for the incorporation of audio-video into new
areas of research, publication and teaching. They also allow us
for the first time to use and explore audio-video creatively in
ways previously only possible with texts, such as providing for
powerful ways to search media files and giving users tools to
creatively alter audio-video files to incorporate into their own
work. However, working with audio-video can also be very
frustrating, and thus THL has expended considerable energies in
developing tools and documentation to provide a systematic
framework for the creation, delivery and use of audio-video in
research, publication and teaching. For a beginner's lesson on
how to use the AV Database website, please see: Using the THL AV
Database. The overall process from start to finish can be
divided into five distinct phases: -