Re: [GSAS-board] Video Question

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

> Because I am going to miss tonight I have been thinking about our use of video. 
>  I know Erik
> records them and then makes them available to members.  Do we have the OK from 
> the speakers to
> put them on YouTube though?  Would it be as simple as having them sign a little 
> permission slip
> saying we could post it under a GSAS account?  It would be SUCH an easier way 
> to view them
> rather than bugging Erik for it.

Too long for YouTube, and YouTube quality is traditionally too crappy 
(though I recognize they have been working on this, allowing h.264 mpeg-4 
video).  Also requires about the same level of bugging me, as I still have 
to produce them, which is most of the work (weaving the audio with the two 
cameras, reformatting powerpoint slides for 16:9, synchronizing the slides 
with everything else, cutting between, and rendering).

The real issue is that most speakers don't want their talks "out there".
Most speakers have been comfortable with having a DVD in the club library, 
but that's about it.

Steev and Phil were special cases because they're club members, not folks 
that fly around to other clubs talking (YET), and they gave me special 
permission to make an mpeg-4 file of their talks.  But I'm working slowly 
on warming up some of the other speakers to the idea of their talks being 
downloads.  I'm going to send Ghazanfar the mp4 of his talk and afterwards 
ask him if it's ok with him to distribute it via downloads.  I'll get back 
to you with what he thinks.

In related news, I can do Blu-Ray now.  I may have to make the 
latest set of talks (Luis, Steve Lundblad, Steev, Phil, Ghazanfar, and 
Lawrence next month) into a high-res Blu-Ray disk.  Which nobody will ever 
watch. :)

  - Erik


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Erik Olson
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