Re: [Wikivideo-l] Handling raw footage; high-res formats, 100MB size limit

Hello, I know of two different groups that have larger video files they would like to post to commons. 1) profs with videos on OpenCourseWare that also want them to be available for remixing and reuse in Wikimedia projecst. 2) documentary filmmakers that want to share their raw material from interviews and background footage, particularly for documentaries about Wiki[m]edia. Examples of the first include a few class-length videos about classical mechanics, each 150-200MB long, which could be easily broken down into dozens of clips suitable for illustrating part of various physics articles and books. Examples of the second include the material from the original Wikimentary http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=mediatype%3Amovies%20AND%20collecti… and the footage from Truth in Numbers?, the former already posted to the Internet Archive, the latter proposed for uploading and sharing soon.  Since TiN? has ~1TB of footage to share from the past 5 years, I encouraged them to join this list. Questions;  --> where should raw original media be posted?  I'd like to say 'Commons' but the file size limits prevents that at present.  The Internet Archive solution seems like it may work in theory but is hard to use in practice.  --> how do we handle high res original formats vs. lighter formats suitable for quick editing?  I assume we don't have tools that automatically rescale resolution the way we have them for images.  --> have we ever had a bulk upload of video clips? Sam. -- Samuel Klein          identi.ca:sj           w:user:sj          +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Wikivideo-l mailing list Wikivideo-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikivideo-l