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

[Steve Bennett]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Sage Ross <ragesoss+wikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Hmm, sounds like that would make a good extension to Commonist.

Steve