Really, really nice!
On 2013-04-08, at 15:18, Martin Dias <tinchod...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Stephan!
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Stephan Eggermont <step...@stack.nl> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm very happy to see that the initiative to make video recordings
>> of the PharoConf and MooseDay has resulted in so many
>> screencasts already published. Great work!
>>
>> And now the first feedback:
>> - Format conversion: 62 of 72 GB done, processing the whole weekend.
>> - First 13 minute part currently encoding and uploading.
>> Still about an hour and a half to go.
>> - I would like to receive the presentation files to combine them
>> with video.
>> - Some of the material is difficult to use. Zoomed out too much
>> it is difficult to follow the speaker and the beamer screen is not
>> readable. Combining a screencast with the video only makes
>> sense when zoomed in (talking head size).
>>
>> Why does this take so long?
>> - the video is in a format that I cannot work with directly, so needs
>> transcoding.
>> I have been using VideoMonkey for this, which is based on ffmpeg. I have
>> the impression that this ffmpeg is not using the GPU, but only the i5.
>> I'm open for suggestions on better software for this in the future, as
>> it takes the
>> whole weekend.
>> - I switched from iMovie to Final Cut Pro X. That allows non-linear
>> editing,
>> so I don't have to wait for rendering to cut the movies. It remains
>> responsive
>> even during the format conversion.
>> - video is much larger than the equivalent length of screencast. That
>> creates
>> a upload bottleneck. 13 minutes of HD video is 733 MB. My home upload is
>> 1Mbps (2 hours), so for uploading more material I'll ask someone at our
>> local university.
>> - I'm spending a limited amount of time during the weekend (and none next
>> week).
>>
>> Stephan
>>
>>
>>
>>
