Re: [IAEP] Read Etexts Videos available

2009-08-23 Thread Bastien
Hi everyone, Caroline Meeks writes: > http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa8sat_read-etexts-sugar > > I think it could be better in a few ways. I can hardly watch screencast that are longer than 3 minutes. I think the everage is ~4.5 minutes. One way to improve this screencast might be to split

Re: [IAEP] Read Etexts Videos available

2009-08-22 Thread Caroline Meeks
Hi Sebastien, Thank you for your support with Daily Motion! We know that video is a powerful way to help users understand Sugar. We are coming up to speed on how to make useful and entertaining videos. Here is one of our latest videos: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa8sat_read-etexts-sugar I

Re: [IAEP] Read Etexts Videos available

2009-08-22 Thread Jim Simmons
Dave, I believe you have access to my edited video on google video. If you are so inclined, download it, add some audio (just music, I think) and post the revised version back to google videos for us to check out. If it looks like an improvement we can put it on Daily Motion, hopefully as Officia

Re: [IAEP] Read Etexts Videos available

2009-08-22 Thread Bastien
Hi Caroline, Caroline Meeks writes: > I'm exploring YouTube as we go here. > > They have yet another cool feature.  Captions/subtitles > > http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=100079 > > Apparently rather then adding text like you did in your video, you could > create > a

Re: [IAEP] Read Etexts Videos available

2009-08-22 Thread Bastien
Hi Jim, Jim Simmons writes: > Another thing I've noticed is that most Sugar videos on Daily Motion > are Official Content, which apparently means someone is paying money > so the videos can be shown without commercials popping up at the > bottom. That's thanks to Dailymotion collaborating wit

Re: [IAEP] Read Etexts Videos available

2009-08-21 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Jim Simmons wrote: > Caroline, > > I could probably add music with Cinelerra. I printed off the 200+ > pages of the manual and put it in a binder but haven't read it yet. > I'm in the middle of coding improvements to my Activities now and that > is my first prio

Re: [IAEP] Read Etexts Videos available

2009-08-21 Thread Jim Simmons
Caroline, I could probably add music with Cinelerra. I printed off the 200+ pages of the manual and put it in a binder but haven't read it yet. I'm in the middle of coding improvements to my Activities now and that is my first priority. Apparently thousands of people are downloading my Activitie

Re: [IAEP] Read Etexts Videos available

2009-08-20 Thread Caroline Meeks
Hi James, This is good! But it would be better with music and annotations. I know we want to be using daily motion because it doesn't use Flash. But YouTube looks like it has tools that makes what we want to do much easier. Adds music with guaranteed usage rights and annotations. I wonder if we

[IAEP] Read Etexts Videos available

2009-08-05 Thread Jim Simmons
Dave and David, Yesterday I did a screen capture of Read Etexts in action, then fired up Kino to edit it and add title cards. The results are not awful, but perhaps could be improved with better editing software. I have posted the original capture in Ogg Video format, plus my finished product wh