Hi James,<div><br></div><div>This is good! But it would be better with music and annotations.</div><div><br></div><div>I know we want to be using daily motion because it doesn't use Flash.</div><div><br></div><div>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?</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://screencast.com/t/9uiIVx9ikAf">http://screencast.com/t/9uiIVx9ikAf</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Jim Simmons <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nicestep@gmail.com">nicestep@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Dave and David,<br>
<br>
Yesterday I did a screen capture of Read Etexts in action, then fired<br>
up Kino to edit it and add title cards. The results are not awful,<br>
but perhaps could be improved with better editing software. I have<br>
posted the original capture in Ogg Video format, plus my finished<br>
product which is an AVI using Xvid and Mp3 for video and audio<br>
encoding. The URL is:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://people.sugarlabs.org/jdsimmons/" target="_blank">http://people.sugarlabs.org/jdsimmons/</a><br>
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My original capture was of Sugar running at 800x600. I had originally<br>
tried capturing at 1000x600, but when Kino imports the Ogg Video it<br>
resizes everything to 640x480 (I think) and does not preserve the<br>
aspect ratio. As a result the Activity ring becomes an ellipse<br>
instead of a circle. I had to modify Read Etexts to work better in<br>
800x600 than it did originally. Unfortunately, when Kino resizes the<br>
capture it makes the text on the captured screens hard to read. We<br>
could probably live with this if we had to, but I'm hoping that Dave's<br>
Final Cut Pro might do a better job resizing the video.<br>
<br>
I think my editing job is reasonably good. I had originally had a<br>
"The End" title card on this that got lost somehow.<br>
<br>
If Kino would support it I would have liked to have added a musical<br>
background. Ever since I saw Flash Gordon serials as a child I've<br>
been partial to Listz's "Les Preludes". The music is in the public<br>
domain, but I doubt I could find a performance of it that is. I could<br>
get around this by recording myself playing it on a kazoo. I think<br>
you'd need more than one kazoo to really do it justice, though.<br>
<br>
Anyway, have a look at the two videos and see what you think.<br>
<br>
James Simmons<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Caroline Meeks<br>Solution Grove<br>Caroline@SolutionGrove.com<br><br>617-500-3488 - Office<br>505-213-3268 - Fax<br>
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