Hey Pine!

I'm looking at streamlining the import/upload process for videos among other things, and would be more than happy to help with this.

If the files are already cut up into presentation-sized pieces, then I can handle the batch conversion/upload, and the experience will help me with designing tools for the next batch! If they need cutting still, we'll figure it out. :)

If network speeds are a problem for uploading the footage in its current state, we can work out shipping or otherwise transporting a portable drive. (20G isn't super huge in video terms, so it might be easiest to ship it to me in Portland and I'll do the batch-conversion and upload from my end. For very large collections we may have to ship things to the data center directly and that requires more coordination.)

-- brion

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Jan,

The individual segments have a maximum size of around 1.5GB and are about 25 minutes long at most. I have too many other priorities to be spending lots more volunteer time with these videos, so a batch upload would be most appreciated. Otherwise there may be a long wait before I get around to uploading these one by one.

Pine

On Oct 20, 2015 3:13 PM, "Jan Ainali" <jan.ainali@wikimedia.se> wrote:
Not an answer to your question, but my suggestion would be to cut it in shorter pieces before you try to convert and upload it, By doing that you will reduce the file size and as a side benefit most likely increase the usefulness of, and the chance to the discover the videos. 

Kdenlive is a great tool to do that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kdenlive

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Jan Ainali

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2015-10-21 0:03 GMT+02:00 Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com>:

Hi Multimedians,

I am trying to lightly edit, convert and upload about 20GB of video from Wikiconference USA. One of the conversion tools suggested to me, https://wikimedia.meltvideo.com/index.php/main, uses a self-signed security certificate that is not trusted by my browser for secure Oauth use. Another tool, the videoconvert tool on Labs, crashes my browser, possibly because it wants to put all of the video batch in RAM, and 20GB is both more RAM than I have and far more than the 3GB limit for 32 bit applications. Any other suggestions about how to convert and upload 20GB of video in a batch?

Pine


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