I've been assembling an updated video to go on the habariproject.org home page that shows some of the fundamental things that are different about Habari from other blog software out there.
The video is 1 minute, 20 seconds long, and uses the script you can find here (some bits are yet subject to change due to some time constraints): http://wiki.habariproject.org/en/User:Ringmaster/Screencast_Scripts There is a section that starts "Behind the software stands a constantly growing worldwide community" that I want to create a photo montage for. I'm not exactly sure how I'm going to accomplish this just yet, because I'm no video effect expert, but my basic idea involves a lot of photos/screenshots of people and their websites flying around the screen. WHAT I NEED FROM YOU: It would be great to have actual Habari users' photos and website designs flying around in our intro video. If you want to be involved, I'd ask that you submit a photo of yourself and/or your website(s). If you submit something, try to supply a photo with one dimension (height, width) of at least 640 pixels, and no dimension more than 1024 pixels. If you take a screenshot of your site (yes, please do), please omit the browser chrome (the part of the window that is the browser and not your website) if possible. If you supply a screenshot of your site that includes the browser, I will likely crop off the scrollbar, bookmark bar, address bar, status bar, etc. But it would make my life easier if I could just drop your shot in, rather than do a lot of editing. The disclaimer is that if you do send something, you should be able to give permission to use the photo, and have granted it to me to be used in the video. If the photo is used in the video it will be very, very hard to remove it after the fact, so bear in mind that sending a photo grants us permission to use it in the intro video as described. I'm not going to put any names or websites as text in the video. We could potentially set up a wiki page to list the photos used (if you wanted to do that), but there won't be any credit links from the video page itself. In other words, if you're doing this only to boost your Google juice or make a dollar, you're doing it wrong. I'd really like to get this done as soon as I can, so the faster you can get your photos in, the better. To hasten the process, I'm going to set a hard deadline of this Saturday, midnight EST, for all submissions. It's possible I'd accept more after that, but I make no guarantees. In case you're interested in what I've produced so far, here's a link, but keep in mind that this was an early revision, and only the first 20 seconds or so, and I might yet switch fully over to After Effects to produce this thing, if Camtasia keeps being painful: http://static.owenw.com/habari1/index.html Thanks in advance for your help. Hope to see you all in the video. Owen -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-users
