[WikiEN-l] Things to do with your home movies

[Sage Ross]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:56 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Put 'em on Wikipedia!
>
> Is it still super complicated and like a lot of hard work?
>

It's not too hard now if you're running Firefox 3.5.  Just edit your
video in whatever video software is easiest on your machine (e.g.,
Windows Movie Maker) and save a high quality version in a convenient
format (e.g., AVI, MPEG, other common formats), then go firefogg.org,
install the plug-in, click "make ogg", and use the default encoding
settings.

If you're feeling especially ambitious, you can add metadata and/or
fiddle with the resolution and bit-rate settings (all through
firefogg).  Converting to Commons-ready ogg with firefogg is actually
easier than uploading a file to Commons.

-Sage