What is the soonest a usable app could be created?
I realize there are a few variables here: 1) what is considered usable, and 2)
how much funding is provided to 3) how many people are able to work.
For my purposes, usable is something I can use to edit raw video footage and
create 30 min youtube uploads - here are 13: http://youtube.com/pycon08
Figure funding between $1000 usd and... 5k?
Here is the scoop: I am the AV guy for the US PyCon. in 07 we spent 20k, (none
of that was for recording), in march 08 we spent 30-50k (depending on what is
included, like over 5k to provide power to all 1000 laptops.) pretty sure we
spent 12k for the video cameras, tapes, labor which resulted in about 150 hours
of raw footage. the capture was very inconsistent - the hope was 1 file per
talk, but the reality was a mix of 1 65gig file per day, a few 20gig files that
contain 3 or 4 talks, some 13g that are just one talk, and a few dirs of 1g
files made from 1 hour tapes and dvgrab's default settings.
Another hope was to get this stuff edited/published by now, but I only have
release forms from about 1/2 the speakers, and I still don't have a good backup
of the 3TB of .dv files. There are about 5 volunteers that are waiting for me to
ship them a 1TB drive of files, and then they will use their favorite video
editor to single out the footage for a single 30 min talk and render it into
something appropriate for youtube.
For March 09 I expect we will spend about 20k for video recording. I would also
like to encourage talk proposals to include a video of the talk being done at a
local user group meeting, or recorded privately. Right now I can't really
encourage, because I can't justify anyone investing in the current video editing
options. (iMovie is good enough, but that only covers 1/2 our population, asking
people to purchase is out of the question, Cin is just too unstable and if
Lumiera is going to be here soon, that seems to be the app to invest time
learning. Maybe one of the other FOSS apps would be acceptable, but I figure if
I am going to recommend something, it should be the best of breed, not something
with a ceiling.)
If the Lumiera devs would use raw PyCon footage to do 'real world usage testing'
that would also get the content up on youtube, that would help show that the
money was being spent on something that has direct value to PyCon.
So, if injecting some cash (or a laptop) into the Lumiera project will help the
PyCon video project, lets talk.
Carl K
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