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

[Durova]

Congratulations!  And thanks for your dedication to the project.  You
realize when he turns thirteen he's going to die of embarrassment over
this...?

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Sage Ross
<ragesoss+wikipedia at gmail.com<ragesoss%2Bwikipedia at gmail.com>
> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Sage Ross <ragesoss+wikipedia at gmail.com<ragesoss%2Bwikipedia 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.
> >
>
> Firefogg is part of the "add media wizard" that (I think) is being
> refined for default deployment on Commons.  (It's already available if
> you add a bit of code to your javascript page.)  So yeah, sooner or
> later it will be possible for many users to simply upload their
> non-free format videos have them seamlessly transcoded.
>
> Along the same lines, hopefully Commonist will simply become
> unnecessary and batch uploads possible without extra software.
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > See now...when I read Steve's question, I was thinking about the "hard
> work"
> > of taking care of the star of the film...
>
> All the jokes I thought of in response require too much familiarity
> with me to be unambiguously non-sexist to WikiEN-l subscribers, so
> I'll just say... that's how I read the question at first, too.
>
> -Sage
>
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