On Monday, March 25, 2013 7:47:51 AM UTC+2, Michael Klishin wrote: > > 2013/3/25 Cedric Greevey <cgre...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > >> A lot of computers are shipping with free no-frills video editing >> software these days that probably suffices for this. > > > Do those computers also ship with a person who has a lot of experience > editing video and audio? > > It takes more than a hour to edit a 40-45 minute long podcast even for > experienced people. Even more so with video because > you have to make sure video and audio are in sync and it's not trivial. If > you have two video inputs (one with the speaker, > one with the slides), I can imagine editing a 30 minute video can take > several hours. > > Now, how many talks were there at Clojure/West? Even if the number is 20, > you have two weeks worth of editing at ~ 8 hours a day. > > Sounds like something an amateur volunteer will do well? > >
To compare, PyCon videos are usually up in less than 1 week, see http://pyvideo.org/. Probably the production of those videos are supported by the PSF, but it might still be a good idea to see how they do it. I made some googling as to how they do it. Here is an interview with Carl Karsten, who owns the aptly named "NextDayVideo": http://us.pycon.org/2011/blog/2011/03/02/pycon-2011-interview-carl-karsten/ "After a half-hour setup, all of the talks, then a half-hour teardown, it’s an encoding and checking party after that." >From the company's website, it seems that the rate per day is around $4000, but they seem flexible: http://www.nextdayvideo.com/page/pricing.html The main difference with these videos with the ones on infoq is that there is only the video stream, there is no separate slide view. This makes it easier to produce since one doesn't need to sync the video with the slides. (which, by the way, is better for me personally, because watching InfoQ videos on iPad is always awkward since one only sees only the speaker.) One other alternative I can think of is to urge the speakers to record the talk themselves using QuickTime (or equivalent in other OSes). This is actually trivial, see http://zachholman.com/posts/how-to-screencast-your-talk/ for an example. If doing this at the time of the talk adds to the pressure of giving the talk, we could perhaps encourage the speakers to do it while rehearsing. Alex Miller, how would this affect the InfoQ deal in terms of copyright?This might indeed be the best of both worlds, the professional quality videos will be still shown on infoq, while the screencast versions will be immediately available. For live-coding sessions, which is not that uncommon, actually the screencast quality would be higher. Ustun -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
