On 8/2/13 10:30 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 30/07/2013 Drew Jensen wrote: >> I've been plowing ahead with my ideas here; not just as a single activity >> to produce one or two videos but rather to start a framework for a >> project >> multi-media resources library, from which multiple videos, for multiple >> purposes, would be generated. It could also be used to generate themed >> artifacts for fliers/presentations/artwork(wallpapers, etc) that tie in >> with these videos. > > This is a great idea. The project can surely use better marketing > materials, be it video chunks, screenshots, images, nice documents that > show the new features...
I agree it's a good idea and I had the same ... But I wasn't able to finish my tests in time for the 4.0 release. But in general I think we should establish our own YouTube channel where we provide screencasts and other media files on a regular basis. Important is that we use a common framework and Drew started in this direction already. We need a common credit section for the end of all media files, with some community info, links, donation info etc. A common intro section would also make sense, or maybe a collection of 1-5 different including seasonal ones like a Christmas branded intro or so. Screencast are better than a slideshow, at least if possible we should trz to produce short screencast sections based on a script. And ideally a native speaker with a good voice can provide a related spoken explanation to the screencast (Drew's voice sounds well to me). > >> For the 'community' category - These pieces: >> CommunityBeforeCode_loop.mp4, suitable for use at a show table running >> on a >> laptop, voice over, no musical background - notice I did not tag this >> with >> a license. >> AOO4_HotTamaleBaby.mp4 and hottamale.mp4 take that basic loop and add a >> little party music. > > The result is nice, but the music covers the voice at times. Also, I > would keep links very simple, so not openoffice.apache.org and not the > full URL to the inner pages. I think it's "Community over code" and not > "before code". For the rest, it's impressive to see how the single > chunks can be rearranged to target different use cases. The voiceover is > good and clear. we can have both music sections (with hopefully different music ;-)) and voice over sections where a clear voice give explanations. > >> So, my vision would be to at the end deliver, somehow, for the >> projects use >> an ISO with all the files used to produce the works, this would >> include the >> OpenShot and Pitivi (and other) project files, it would include some >> instructions (which we would build as we do this) on how to make use >> of the >> material. > > This would be perfect. At the moment we don't have many OpenOffice 4 > specific materials, so any well-done videos/graphics are welcome. yes and with some more experience it should be really fun to produce stuff like this ... I tried to play with iMovie on my Mac (see my very first attempts http://people.apache.org/~jsc/test/AOO40_Test.mov) and I just played around a bit... Juergen >> What I would hope could be done, if the good folks at source forge are >> willing which I expect hey would be, is to generate a small and changing >> over time set of videos and have these dished out to users in round robin >> fashion. > > This is stuff that we could also use on the main openoffice.org website, > not only on the download site. > > Regards, > Andrea. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
