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.
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