On 7/20/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/20/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
Video is much more potentially editable than static images. Consider a 5 minute mini-documentary on [[Hurricane Katrina]], slide-show style, with narration taken straight from the text of the Wikipedia article and images taken from commons to match the narration. There is a *lot* of potential for cooperative editing there, basically as much or more than the text of a Wikipedia article.
The idea is probably ahead of its time, though, because AFAIK there aren't any free (even as in beer) software tools to make such video editing easy, let alone collaborative.
Anthony
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_editing_software#Open_software
"Non-linear video editing software" - not a single Windows program on the list. Haven't tried any of them. Are any of them "easy" besides the requirement to install linux?
(Looking again, Jahshaka is listed as cross-platform. I'll try downloading it and using it.)
Actually the main problem with you scenario would be trying to meet the different license requirements of the images.
Both the CC licenses and the GFDL allow aggregate works. If CC images are allowed in a GFDL encyclopedia, I see no reason they wouldn't be allowed in a GFDL documentary.