Frank wrote:
It's fairly simple but you probably know you can't just upload a DVD,
nor 28GB of raw DV footage that easily. I use my computer for work:
video editing and processing, image manipulation, etc. and I'm
familiar with the process. Capturing the 2.5 hours of footage and
getting it to fit on a single-layer DVD took 10 hours of computer
time. I can't afford to use this computer to reformat the video again
because I have work to do.
I have to admit, I'm a little surprised at this. You see, if you want to
get video out to people quickly, efficiently, and with far less
technical jiggery-pokery, you put it on YouTube or Google Video. Image
quality isn't a major issue with this. Imaging a DVD for something like
this is, well, kind of labor-intensive.
As you know, when you image a DVD, you have to perform a LOT of work. It
may require converting the video to another format, deciding on a DVD
format, generating menus... and it couldn't have been easy to squish a
2.5-hour video onto a standard DVD. Let alone the inevitable series of
failed burns. And the net result is something that requires a long
DVD-burning process to copy, and distribution is hand-to-hand, almost.
Not exactly the best way when you want to share the meeting with an
interested community.
But putting a video onto the Web is much, much easier and far more
efficient. You recompile the video as a Quicktime file. You don't even
have to reduce the resolution: Google or Youtube does that after you
upload it. You could also recompile them in ten minute chunks. As for
the computer time, you just run the recompile at the end of the day, and
it's done by next morning: it wouldn't impact on your job at all. Once
you have the files, you upload them onto Google or Youtube (again, an
overnight upload would avoid work conflicts), publish the links to the
listserv, and now _thousands_ of people can watch them without requiring
you to burn a copy of a DVD.
I did this with the FoCP's meetings. Hunt around on our website,
http://www.clarkpark.info, and you'll see them.
I've handed it off to someone else who will have it online shortly.
Guess that's the best strategy we can have right now.
I've distributed a few DVDs (to my immediate neighbors who asked me to
shoot the meeting and promised to make copies for those who want them
and to John Fenton who asked for a copy) but my time with them is over.
Good thing you handed it off to someone else, then. Hope to see it
online soon!
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