<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:29 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;"> Caroline,<br> <br> I could probably add music with Cinelerra. I printed off the 200+<br> pages of the manual and put it in a binder but haven't read it yet.<br> I'm in the middle of coding improvements to my Activities now and that<br> is my first priority. Apparently thousands of people are downloading<br> my Activities, but my Read Etexts video has only been played 8 times<br> (4 of which were probably just me).<br> <br> Dave C could probably add music to my videos if he's so inclined. I'm<br> partial to "Les Preludes" by Franz Listz (AKA the Flash Gorden theme.<br> Buster Crabbe version, not the later atrocity with music by Queen). I<br> seem to recall you liked the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies, so maybe<br> that one for the other video about Get Internet Archive Books and<br> Read.<br> <br> Another thing I've noticed is that most Sugar videos on Daily Motion<br> are Official Content, which apparently means someone is paying money<br> so the videos can be shown without commercials popping up at the<br> bottom. It would be nice if my videos or some version thereof could<br> be adopted as Official Content.<br> <br> Not sure what you mean by annotations. My videos certainly have title<br> cards. What else is needed, besides some thrilling music?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm exploring YouTube as we go here.</div><div><br></div><div>They have yet another cool feature. Captions/subtitles</div><div> <br></div><div><a href="http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=100079">http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=100079</a></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div> <div><br></div><div>An annoying feature is that on the test video I added music to there is now an ad to buy that music. :(</div><div><br></div><div>So I wonder how we get the cool features without the ads and flash requirement? </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><br> <br> James Simmons<br> <div><div></div><div class="h5"><br> <br> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Caroline<br> Meeks<<a href="mailto:caroline@solutiongrove.com">caroline@solutiongrove.com</a>> wrote:<br> > Hi James,<br> > This is good! But it would be better with music and annotations.<br> > I know we want to be using daily motion because it doesn't use Flash.<br> > But YouTube looks like it has tools that makes what we want to do much<br> > easier. Adds music with guaranteed usage rights and annotations. I wonder<br> > if we can add those things on YouTube, then download it as MP4 and upload to<br> > dailymotion?<br> > <a href="http://screencast.com/t/9uiIVx9ikAf" target="_blank">http://screencast.com/t/9uiIVx9ikAf</a><br> ><br> > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Jim Simmons <<a href="mailto:nicestep@gmail.com">nicestep@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> >><br> >> 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> >><br> >> 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> ><br> ><br> ><br> > --<br> > Caroline Meeks<br> > Solution Grove<br> > Caroline@SolutionGrove.com<br> ><br> > 617-500-3488 - Office<br> > 505-213-3268 - Fax<br> ><br> </div></div></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>