Video

The UM Student Video Team

The UM Student Video team consists of experienced, highly skilled students who offer their services to produce videos, from filming and editing to the end product. The team is part of the UM Marketing & Communications department, which provides equipment and support. By hiring the UM Student Video Team, you grant us permission to share the final video on our website and social media platforms, as well as to use the footage for future videos.

Click here to request a video production by our team. You will receive a cost estimation in return.

The costs cover preproduction, filming and editing, post production, subtitling and the links and embed codes necessary to share the video. 

Indication Costs:

 Video message (without autocue) no b-roll: €300,- (€350,- with autocue) (Click here for an example)

 Short video (1-2 minutes) with one interview and b-roll: €800,-  (Click here for an example)

 Long video (3-8 minutes) with multiple interviews and b-roll: €1200,-  (Click here for an example)

The costs of subtitling are calculated per minute, and we expect the client to double-check them themselves.

If you have any specific questions or need further assistance regarding the Video Production Brief, feel free to ask!

videoteam@maastrichtuniversity.nl
+31 43 388 5206

Please keep in mind that the UM Student Video Team is not a professional production company: students work under your supervision and in cooperation with you, but you assume the risks of any delays that may occur as a result of errors or delays that result from the collaboration. Students sometimes need extra guidance or clearer instructions than a professional company does. You can also hire a professional video production company. A list of preferred suppliers is provided below. If you have any questions about this, please contact the manager of the video team:

Annabel Reker (Video Producer and Editor)
annabel.reker@maastrichtuniversity.nl
+31 43 388 52224

Only videos with English subtitles are eligible for placement on the UM website or social media channels. With subtitles, your video might be easier to find in search engines (in case of open captions) and deaf people and people with a hearing impairment can also understand your video. Videos on social media often start playing without sound, so with subtitles you also support your social media followers. You can choose between open and closed captioning. Open captions always are in view and cannot be turned off, whereas closed captions can be turned on and off by the viewer and eventually switched to another language. We recommend closed captions since they provide a better user experience.

If you need captions you can fill in the video production brief. 

Videos that are relevant and interesting for the Maastricht University community can be submitted to the UM Video Team for distribution on Maastricht University video channels and Youtube. Simply go to the online video form on the right, fill out and submit the form.

Contact: videoteam@maastrichtuniversity.nl

You may send your video - either by email or, for larger files, WeTransfer - to the UM video team. The submissions will be reviewed and, upon approval, uploaded to our video channels, after which the videos will be available for viewing online or for embedding into your own web pages and websites.

The UM Video Team maintains all video content with a Video Management System (VMS) Blue Billywig. The system allows for the uploading, encoding, categorising, tagging, playlisting, and dissemination of videos to multiple channels from a single location. Videos can then be embedded from either the VMS or from one of its channels. The VMS also enables live steaming and analyticis oversight.

The Maastricht University YouTube channel is the main resource for viewing UM videos outside of the university's own web pages. Video submissions that include the tag “_youtube” will, after review, be included on the UM YouTube channel.

Video content is organised thematically:

• lectures
• research
• information for prospective students
• events
• students life
• institutes
• UM campus tours.

Once your video submissions have been processed, the UM video team will send, via email, the VMS and YouTube URLs for your submissions, along embed code which you can use to place the video in your own web content. Simply copy and paste the embed code into the back end of your own web pages and see the video.

UM podcasts are published on this page. 

Did you make a podcasts and do you want to publish it in Blue Billywig and/or on the UM website, but you don't know how? These manuals can help you: 

 Publishing a podcast in Blue Billywig
 Publishing a Blue Billywig podcast in Drupal