On Tuesday, October 20, 2015, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Brion,
> I suppose that I could try uploading to Google Drive and sharing the files
> with you, which may or may not encounter the same problem that the Labs
> tool has. I would prefer to be done with this project ASAP, so if it's OK
> with you I can send you some kind of physical media and then you can upload
> as you see fit.
>

Yeah physical media is fine - best not to lose momentum! I'll follow up off
list with shipping details.

-- brion

> One note: there are a couple of clips that I would rotate or concatenate
> if I could. My antiquated editing software is 32-bit, so like my browser,
> it crashes when dealing with large video files. If you could rotate or
> concatenate as you think best, I would appreciate it.
>
> Please email me off-list with the address where you would like me to ship
> the physical media with the videos.
>
> Pine
> On Oct 20, 2015 4:09 PM, "Brion Vibber" <[email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote:
>
>> Hey Pine!
>>
>> I'm looking at streamlining the import/upload process for videos among
>> other things, and would be more than happy to help with this.
>>
>> If the files are already cut up into presentation-sized pieces, then I
>> can handle the batch conversion/upload, and the experience will help me
>> with designing tools for the next batch! If they need cutting still, we'll
>> figure it out. :)
>>
>> If network speeds are a problem for uploading the footage in its current
>> state, we can work out shipping or otherwise transporting a portable drive.
>> (20G isn't super huge in video terms, so it might be easiest to ship it to
>> me in Portland and I'll do the batch-conversion and upload from my end. For
>> very large collections we may have to ship things to the data center
>> directly and that requires more coordination.)
>>
>> -- brion
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Pine W <[email protected]
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jan,
>>>
>>> The individual segments have a maximum size of around 1.5GB and are
>>> about 25 minutes long at most. I have too many other priorities to be
>>> spending lots more volunteer time with these videos, so a batch upload
>>> would be most appreciated. Otherwise there may be a long wait before I get
>>> around to uploading these one by one.
>>>
>>> Pine
>>> On Oct 20, 2015 3:13 PM, "Jan Ainali" <[email protected]
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Not an answer to your question, but my suggestion would be to cut it in
>>>> shorter pieces before you try to convert and upload it, By doing that you
>>>> will reduce the file size and as a side benefit most likely increase the
>>>> usefulness of, and the chance to the discover the videos.
>>>>
>>>> Kdenlive is a great tool to do that.
>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kdenlive
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2015-10-21 0:03 GMT+02:00 Pine W <[email protected]
>>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>>:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Multimedians,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am trying to lightly edit, convert and upload about 20GB of video
>>>>> from Wikiconference USA. One of the conversion tools suggested to me,
>>>>> https://wikimedia.meltvideo.com/index.php/main, uses a self-signed
>>>>> security certificate that is not trusted by my browser for secure Oauth
>>>>> use. Another tool, the videoconvert tool on Labs, crashes my browser,
>>>>> possibly because it wants to put all of the video batch in RAM, and 20GB 
>>>>> is
>>>>> both more RAM than I have and far more than the 3GB limit for 32 bit
>>>>> applications. Any other suggestions about how to convert and upload 20GB 
>>>>> of
>>>>> video in a batch?
>>>>>
>>>>> Pine
>>>>>
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