So I spoke with the team doing the video recordings this year about 5 weeks ago. This is what I know:
*Last year, all the talks were recorded, which cost a lot, and then very few people watched them, so (this was not my decision) the decision was made to only record particular talks this year. *No livestreams were available. *The video team that has been hired has been instructed to incorporate .webm conversion and uploading to commons into their workflow, so expect them to upload as soon as they can. I don;t know when this will be. *All the footage that the video team is shooting will be owned (copyright) by Wikimedia Mexico per their contract, so if there are particular clips you want later, contact WMMX. Per Nkansah's point: I don't recommend buying 10 cameras - the cost of shipping, storing, maintaining all that gear is cumbersome and as the years go on, most cameras will go 'obsolete' - they will function but not be up to moderns standards. For those reasons I do recommend renting gear in locations for large productions, like Wikimania. Hope this helps! On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Nkansah Rexford <[email protected]> wrote: > video recording is a real cost driver - you need expensive equipment (as >> of 1.000 USD / day) and a lot of staff if you want to make it >> professionally. >> > > How good is the idea, that instead of hiring these tools year after year, > the WMF/Wikimania grabs a set of, say 10 portable, yet good video cameras, > and reuse them from Wikimania's to Wikimania? > > Unless Wikimania is coming to an end in a couple of years time, I see > grabbing such gadgets (if not already available) and making use of them > from time to time a valid and profitable long-term investment. > > Talk of volunteers? I think when a call is put up for volunteer cameramen, > we can get them to before every wikimania. > > Victor brought a great video camera (property of wmf) last year to > wikimania. I enjoyed using it, and if there're enough for each session, > getting cameramen shouldn't be an issue. > > The wikimedia community is big, thus aside maybe needing the > expert/professional services of production houses to handle live streaming > or sort, recording a session (a point and shoot thing), I don't think any > rocket science might be needed of which we can find volunteers among us to > do that. > > > -- > +Rexford <http://google.com/+Nkansahrexford> | khophi.co > <http://khophi.co/about> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/WPZeroPetition> and Video Content Producer Wikimedia Foundation [email protected] https://donate.wikimedia.org/
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