Scientific Sessions: Wednesday, April 26

Attention ACS Spring Meeting Registrants!
You will be allowed to register for this SAGES course for their course fee only!

Surgeon in the Digital Age: Advanced Video Acquisition and Editing Skills for Surgeons
Wednesday, April 26, 2006, 1:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Course Chair: Steven Schwaitzberg, MD 

Registration Information:

The course fee is $325 for an ACS Spring Meeting Registrant. To register for this course, please go to the SAGES website http://www.sages.org/ and download the meeting registration form and return it with payment to the SAGES office (online registration is not available for this special offer). Indicate on the registration form that you are an ACS meeting attendee in order to quality for the $325 rate (your ACS meeting registration will be verified with ACS).  The deadline for registration is April 10, 2006. Space is limited.  

Description: 

By popular demand, SAGES is once more offering the award-winning "Surgeon in the Digital Age: Digital Video Editing Course." As a benefit provided to ACS Spring Meeting Registrants, you will be allowed to register for this SAGES course for their course fee only! This course is a hands-on (2 to a station) Windows based course and workshop using the latest software designed to take users of at least modest computer facility through the nuts and bolts of digital video editing. Led in real time by an experienced surgeon facilitator, participants will import clips, edit them, create transitions and add sound tracks. Final products will be transcoded for a variety of purposes. A CD with the course files is included for latter practice. Once this course is completed, users should be able to have the skills necessary to create edited digital videos for medical meetings, education or personal use. 

Objectives:

At the completion of this course the surgeon (or other participant) will be able to: 

Demonstrate a working knowledge as to how the video signal used to perform laparoscopic surgical procedures is transferred to a variety of digital formats (e.g. CD, DVD, digital tape) for the purposes of creating materials that could be used for:

  • electronic medical records
  • formal presentation at medical meeting
  • patient education
  • website presentation for patient or physician education
  • archival needs 

Manipulate the acquired digitized video material for the purposes above by methods utilizing the following skills in order to create effective medical educational materials:

  • Editing
  • Titling
  • Transitions
  • Annotation with audio
  • Addition of still photography
  • Selected special effects
  • Produce output of the acquired and manipulated digital material for specific needs in the medical educational arena including
  • Videotape
  • CD ROM
  • Web based media files
  • DVD 

Program:

  • Task 1: Importing video into editing programs
  • Task 2: Trimming and Editing Video Clips
  • Task 3: Creating Titles
  • Task 4: Creating Video Transitions
  • Task 5: Adding Sound to Video
  • Task 6: Compression and Transcoding of Video 

Bonus Tasks:

  • Special Effects
    Demo 1: Capturing Video from tape source
    Demo 2: Capturing Video to CDs and DVDs 

SAGES gratefully acknowledge educational grants from Karl Storz Endoscopy & Stryker Endoscopy in support of this course.

 
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