[IAEP] My videos are on Sugar Labs video site

[Dennis Daniels]

Hello James!
That video link is intriguing however it doesn't allow viewing for
normal mortals. How do we see what's in there? Is there any good
training stuff?

As a workaround for Linux's lack of non-linear editing (NLE) tools
perhaps post the vids to a central place i.e. your google apps video
link and then users/editors can dnld the vids from there and edit in
the many different NLE (free) tools avail on Mac and Win*?

Dennis


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> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 09:46:02 -0500
> From: Jim Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com>
> Subject: [IAEP] My videos are on Sugar Labs video site
> To: "It's An Education Project List" <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> Cc: Dave C <davewebproductions at yahoo.com>
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> David Farning gave me an account on video.sugarlabs.org and I've
> posted my videos there, both raw and edited.
>
> I was looking at Kino this morning, at the DV files it creates and the
> mencoder script it uses to encode them and I think I have some insight
> into why the text in my edited videos is distorted.  My original OGV
> file is at 800 x 600.  Kino converts this file to a DV at 720x480, and
> in that DV the text is not distorted.  It is in the mencoder script
> that it converts the video to 640x480.  I should be able to modify
> that script so it doesn't resize the video again and perhaps this will
> give me the quality I'm looking for.
>
> I also tried to compile Cinelerra on Fedora 11.  It depends on every
> patent encumbered thing in the world, so I'll either have to compile
> all those things by hand or find a repository for Fedora 11 that has
> them.  The Cinelerra website has instructions for installing for
> Fedora 9 and below only.
>
> When I was a kid I made student films on Super 8.  I would have killed
> for the editing tools we have now.  Also for actors that show up when
> they're supposed to.
>
> James Simmons
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