On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 27.01.2010 um 17:59 schrieb Nicolas Roard: > >> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> After almost a year I finally finished editing the recordings from last >>> years GNUstep developers room. >>> >>> At first I wanted to upload the videos to some video portal (youtube, >>> vimeo >>> or something else) myself. Then I realized that youtube is not an option >>> since it limits the length of uploaded video to 10 minutes for average >>> users >>> (there are longer videos on youtube - I just don't how they did this). >>> And >>> vimeo is also not an option: here a file size limit kicks in, you get >>> only >>> 500MB per week as a free user - this is less than the size of a single >>> video >>> I've got. >>> >>> >>> Fortunately the FOSDEM people offered help here (thanks go especially to >>> Christophe Vandeplas). They have a youtube account where they will upload >>> my >>> videos. The videos will also be available at video.fosdem.org >>> >>> >>> My problem now is: >>> >>> How do I get those files to the FOSDEM people in a timely manner (e.g. >>> asap). FOSDEM doesn't have machines that support ftp. They prefer to >>> download it themselves from some ftp or http site. >>> >>> Does GNUstep maintain a ftp site where I can put the videos just for the >>> download by the FOSDEM people (after the videos are downloaded they can >>> be >>> removed again)? >>> >>> I've got 10 videos, about 40 to 60 minutes each. That results in file >>> sizes >>> ranging from 670MB to 1,39GB (all videos together amount to 9,04GB and >>> are >>> in H.264 format in a .mov container). >> >> Maybe if you generate smaller resolution videos ? > > That would be difficult. The quality of the source material is very poor > (changing exposure and white balance, oversaturated colors, low audio level, > noisy) so it doesn't compress very good. I tried my very best to improve the > quality at least a bit (this is part of the reason the editing took so long) > and if I increase the compression the already visible artifacts would become > really disturbing.
ok. > The poor quality of my footage is the reason why I asked if somebody can > bring a dedicated DV-Cam with FireWire cable to FOSDEM. The digital pocket > camera I used last year is not very well suited for such a task. Did anybody propose a camera? I think I may be able to borrow one if not. > p.s.: Meanwhile Christophe Vandeplas of FOSDEM provided me with some of his > private ftp space and I already have started uploading the videos. Many > thanks to him! great :) -- Nicolas Roard "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -- Douglas Adams _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
