[opensuse-marketing] Screencasts
Hello, http://en.opensuse.org/Screencasts looks like never really started :-( but screencasts are a nice way to present features (remember how often Duncan's video about early libzypp's speed got linked?). IMO screencasts can be also shown at booths to attract visitors (who doesn't get tired to do the same clicks again and again to show some feature all day long?). Is anyone interested in driving this forward? :-) Bye, Steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 21:40 +0200, Stephan Binner wrote:
Hello,
http://en.opensuse.org/Screencasts looks like never really started :-( but screencasts are a nice way to present features (remember how often Duncan's video about early libzypp's speed got linked?). IMO screencasts can be also shown at booths to attract visitors (who doesn't get tired to do the same clicks again and again to show some feature all day long?).
Is anyone interested in driving this forward? :-)
Bye, Steve
If we're going to do screencasts (always visually appealing), I would ask that if there is any voiceover in those casts, then we include subtitling for the Deaf. Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
Hi, On Sunday June 8 2008 15:45:09 Bryen wrote:
On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 21:40 +0200, Stephan Binner wrote:
Hello,
http://en.opensuse.org/Screencasts looks like never really started :-( but screencasts are a nice way to present features (remember how often Duncan's video about early libzypp's speed got linked?). IMO screencasts can be also shown at booths to attract visitors (who doesn't get tired to do the same clicks again and again to show some feature all day long?).
Is anyone interested in driving this forward? :-)
Bye, Steve
If we're going to do screencasts (always visually appealing), I would ask that if there is any voiceover in those casts, then we include subtitling for the Deaf.
I agree with Bryen. A voiceover and subtitles is always the best for this type of medias, though not required. And if possible disabling subtitles would be even better - according to prusnak on his last blog post[1] this is now possible if using YouTube, though I'm sure that the official host wouldn't be YouTube but rather tube.opensuse.org which doesn't invalid the possibility of doing this. This is just an extra... :-) Moreover, people tend to not screencast because their English skills aren't the best. To avoid/minimize this I would say anyone willing and available to help them out subtitling/voicing-over should do it. Ah, what about writing down a whishlist?! ;-) [1] http://stick.gk2.sk/blog/?p=13 -- Regards, Carlos Goncalves -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
Carlos Goncalves wrote:
Moreover, people tend to not screencast because their English skills aren't the best. To avoid/minimize this I would say anyone willing and available to help them out subtitling/voicing-over should do it.
If anyone is willing and able to do a screencast with a script, I'd be happy to do the voiceover for the English speaking audience.
Ah, what about writing down a whishlist?! ;-)
We should probably put that up on the Marketing Team wiki page: http://en.opensuse.org/Marketing_Team Thanks! Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager http://zonker.opensuse.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
If anyone is willing and able to do a screencast with a script, I'd be happy to do the voiceover for the English speaking audience.
Hi.
Having good quality screencasts would be an excellent way to get
attention by giving out something useful. Demos work on getting people
interested. I think we would need a few things set up and agreed upon
to have this done as a team and keeping it a coherent set:
- standard resolution. I believe 800x600 is a good compromise between
screen estate/filesize.
- opening splash screen. something nice and simple, openSUSE styled.
Easily editable template. I have prepared an 11.0 template for this
(Need Inkscape to edit).
http://jimmac.musichall.cz/stuff/openSUSE/title-template.svg
- opening jingle sound to accompany the splash.
- closing splash (license, credits, urls).
http://jimmac.musichall.cz/stuff/openSUSE/end-credits.svg
- one person doing all the voice overs.
- editing/conversion. I doubt the audio/video muxing can be done
automatically, so this would require somebody to by hand. ogg theora
downloads, flash for streaming. I got really frustrated with this as
none of the free tools seems to work for me. I recall kdenlive being
decent, but it crashes on startup on openSUSE 11.0 :/
cheers
--
Jakub Steiner
On Sunday 08 June 2008 16:45:09 Bryen wrote:
If we're going to do screencasts (always visually appealing), I would ask that if there is any voiceover in those casts, then we include subtitling for the Deaf.
I would even argue to with sub-titles in first place: * You don't need a good English speaker * People will not have trouble to understand speaker * You don't need speakers/earphones to understand what is shown * You can play it within office/at fairs without disturbing someone Bye, Steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
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