[IAEP] Read Etexts Videos available

[Jim Simmons]

Dave,

I believe you have access to my edited video on google video.  If you
are so inclined, download it, add some audio (just music, I think) and
post the revised version back to google videos for us to check out.
If it looks like an improvement we can put it on Daily Motion,
hopefully as Official Content.

Thanks,

James Simmons

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Dave C<davewebproductions at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hey all:
> I could add music and voice overs to the video if you'd like.  let me know
> what you need done. I could also add annotations and/or subtitles, and could
> host any youtube videos.
> Dave C.
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> ________________________________
> From: Caroline Meeks <caroline at solutiongrove.com>
> To: Jim Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com>
> Cc: David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>; Dave C
> <davewebproductions at yahoo.com>; Bastien <bastienguerry at googlemail.com>; It's
> An Education Project List <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 6:30:57 PM
> Subject: Re: Read Etexts Videos available
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> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Jim Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Caroline,
>>
>> I could probably add music with Cinelerra.  I printed off the 200+
>> pages of the manual and put it in a binder but haven't read it yet.
>> I'm in the middle of coding improvements to my Activities now and that
>> is my first priority.  Apparently thousands of people are downloading
>> my Activities, but my Read Etexts video has only been played 8 times
>> (4 of which were probably just me).
>>
>> Dave C could probably add music to my videos if he's so inclined.  I'm
>> partial to "Les Preludes" by Franz Listz (AKA the Flash Gorden theme.
>> Buster Crabbe version, not the later atrocity with music by Queen).  I
>> seem to recall you liked the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies, so maybe
>> that one for the other video about Get Internet Archive Books and
>> Read.
>>
>> Another thing I've noticed is that most Sugar videos on Daily Motion
>> are Official Content, which apparently means someone is paying money
>> so the videos can be shown without commercials popping up at the
>> bottom.  It would be nice if my videos or some version thereof could
>> be adopted as Official Content.
>>
>> Not sure what you mean by annotations.  My videos certainly have title
>> cards.  What else is needed, besides some thrilling music?
>
> I'm exploring YouTube as we go here.
> They have yet another cool feature.  Captions/subtitles
> http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=100079
> Apparently rather then adding text like you did in your video, you could
> create a file and have the text show up on the screen.  The advantage seems
> to be that it will get automatically translated for viewers in other
> languages.
> An annoying feature is that on the test video I added music to there is now
> an ad to buy that music. :(
> So I wonder how we get the cool features without the ads and flash
> requirement?
>>
>> James Simmons
>>
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>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Caroline
>> Meeks<caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
>> > Hi James,
>> > This is good! But it would be better with music and annotations.
>> > I know we want to be using daily motion because it doesn't use Flash.
>> > But YouTube looks like it has tools that makes what we want to do much
>> > easier.  Adds music with guaranteed usage rights and annotations.  I
>> > wonder
>> > if we can add those things on YouTube, then download it as MP4 and
>> > upload to
>> > dailymotion?
>> > http://screencast.com/t/9uiIVx9ikAf
>> >
>> > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Jim Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Dave and David,
>> >>
>> >> Yesterday I did a screen capture of Read Etexts in action, then fired
>> >> up Kino to edit it and add title cards.  The results are not awful,
>> >> but perhaps could be improved with better editing software.  I have
>> >> posted the original capture in Ogg Video format, plus my finished
>> >> product which is an AVI using Xvid and Mp3 for video and audio
>> >> encoding.  The URL is:
>> >>
>> >> http://people.sugarlabs.org/jdsimmons/
>> >>
>> >> My original capture was of Sugar running at 800x600.  I had originally
>> >> tried capturing at 1000x600, but when Kino imports the Ogg Video it
>> >> resizes everything to 640x480 (I think) and does not preserve the
>> >> aspect ratio.  As a result the Activity ring becomes an ellipse
>> >> instead of a circle.  I had to modify Read Etexts to work better in
>> >> 800x600 than it did originally.  Unfortunately, when Kino resizes the
>> >> capture it makes the text on the captured screens hard to read.  We
>> >> could probably live with this if we had to, but I'm hoping that Dave's
>> >> Final Cut Pro might do a better job resizing the video.
>> >>
>> >> I think my editing job is reasonably good.  I had originally had a
>> >> "The End" title card on this that got lost somehow.
>> >>
>> >> If Kino would support it I would have liked to have added a musical
>> >> background.  Ever since I saw Flash Gordon serials as a child I've
>> >> been partial to Listz's "Les Preludes".  The music is in the public
>> >> domain, but I doubt I could find a performance of it that is.  I could
>> >> get around this by recording myself playing it on a kazoo.  I think
>> >> you'd need more than one kazoo to really do it justice, though.
>> >>
>> >> Anyway, have a look at the two videos and see what you think.
>> >>
>> >> James Simmons
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> > Caroline Meeks
>> > Solution Grove
>> > Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
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> Caroline Meeks
> Solution Grove
> Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
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