[57north-discuss] Tapemeasure Yagi Fieldtrip

[Andrea Faulds]

On 2 Oct 2014, at 14:40, Robert McWilliam <rmcw at allmail.net> wrote:

> Where do we want to start collecting these? There was talk of having our
> own media server at some point. Or do we just want to go with
> youtube/vimeo/other?

I’d suggest YouTube. It is, by far, the most popular site for video. It’s also free, they have a player that works well across platforms, and they have the infrastructure to handle different bandwidths. Plus, YouTube is unlikely to disappear any time soon.

Of course, we could also provide a direct download somewhere in WebM.

> I screwed up a few things with the recording so notes for next time:
> - Very few people still use 4:3 screens so that's a stupid aspect ratio
> to shoot in

4:3 works better for the slides, though. I’m not sure it matters too much.

> What are others using for video editing? I used Pitivi for this as it
> works (most of the time) with enough features to make this kind of edit
> easy and doesn't have a huge learning curve. But it does crash
> occasionally (and the autosync doesn't seem to work) so I'd be
> interested to hear of alternatives. 

When I was on Ubuntu I used OpenShot, it’s alright. To be honest, though, video editing completely sucks on OSes that aren’t Windows or OS X. If you want a decent free video editor, try the former Windows Live Movie Maker (now called Movie Maker and part of Windows Essentials, IIRC). But that requires a Windows install.

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