Re: [IAEP] Video ready for editing

2009-08-03 Thread Jim Simmons
Over the weekend I installed kino on one of my computers and I'm trying to learn how to use it to edit my videos. There are fancier programs for video editing on Linux but this one does what I think I need. It can convert my .ogv files from recordmydesktop to .dv, does simple non-destructive

Re: [IAEP] Video ready for editing

2009-08-03 Thread David Farning
Thanks for pushing this forward! One steady person pushing things forward makes it much easier for other to jump on board. This is pretty anecdotal I have been surprised at the number of times I have seen comments saying that people chose a particular software product because it had a good

Re: [IAEP] Video ready for editing

2009-08-03 Thread Jim Simmons
David, I may make a wiki page on what I learn from this experience. It's not difficult to do a video like this, but there are a lot of little details you have to work past. James Simmons On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:09 PM, David Farningdfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Thanks for pushing this

Re: [IAEP] Video ready for editing

2009-08-01 Thread Jim Simmons
I just created another video, demoing the features of Read Etexts, and posted it in the same place. This one has a sound track which should come up when it demos text to speech with highlighting. I can play this one with totem, but mplayer doesn't like it for some reason. This one is about 70

[IAEP] Video ready for editing

2009-07-31 Thread Jim Simmons
I am in the process of uploading 60 mb of video to shell.sugarlabs.org. This video demonstrates using Get Internet Archive Books to find and download books, then restoring them from the Journal to read with the Read Activity. It needs resizing and editing, title cards, sound, you name it. It is