David, I may make a wiki page on what I learn from this experience. It's not difficult to do a video like this, but there are a lot of little details you have to work past.
James Simmons On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:09 PM, David Farning<dfarn...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: > Thanks for pushing this forward! One steady person pushing things > forward makes it much easier for other to jump on board. > > This is pretty anecdotal.... I have been surprised at the number of > times I have seen comments saying that people chose a particular > software product because it had a good introductory video. While we > currently have few people _able_ or interested in make Sugar related > videos having them fills a great need in the project. > > thanks > david > > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Jim Simmons<nices...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Over the weekend I installed kino on one of my computers and I'm >> trying to learn how to use it to edit my videos. There are fancier >> programs for video editing on Linux but this one does what I think I >> need. It can convert my .ogv files from recordmydesktop to .dv, does >> simple non-destructive editing, allows me to create titles and >> transitions, encodes the edited file to XVid, and runs pretty well on >> a Pentium III. The one thing it won't do is add a music track to my >> video, but I couldn't legally use the music I'd like anyway. >> >> I should have a video for Read Etexts later this week. When I'm happy >> with that I'll look at making one for Get Internet Archive Books and >> Read. They won't be fancy, but they should do an OK job of >> demonstrating the use of these Activities. >> >> I haven't heard anything from Dave C so I'm going to assume he's lost >> interest. >> >> James Simmons >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep