I got a late start tonight, so in keeping with a suggestion from my esteemed colleague, I’m finishing up one transcription after clearing comments and then taking it easy for an evening.
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Ryan Markel
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Ryan Markel
Ripping through older how-to’s for subtitles so things aren’t inconsistent.
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Ryan Markel
Punched in another subtitle and a half—now I sleep.
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Ryan Markel
Sketched out some basic course ideas and subbed the WordPress 2.8 intro video—and calling it a night.
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Ryan Markel
Subtitles are up for the latest two videos; now working for a little while on cataloging what we have/don’t have and thinking about ways we can best organize and present some of the content.
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Ryan Markel
I have an idea in my brain for giving people “courses” of WordPress.tv content—videos arranged in a more-or-less sequential order showing people how to do very specific things. We have a lot of this content already and most of it seems to be up-to-date.
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Jane Wells
Michael and I have been talking about this forever. Check in with Noel… there were some technical reasons why it didn’t happen with v1.
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Noel Jackson
The technical reason was automating this. It was an extra planning stage at that point. But, manually creating a page is no problem, someone just needs to plan out the videos and then I can make sure they display nicely.
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Michael Pick
Cool – glad we’re on the same page here. The original WPTV spec was all about courses, and Jane and I have been discussing it a lot since, but we made some sacrifices to agile development and getting things moving early on I think. It’s certainly something I’d like to have as the central focus of v.2, and perhaps hacked in the interim with list pages/the “playlist” concept
I’ll fill you in on some of the things we’ve discussed next time we chat, Ryan, and try and dig up the archives for you to have a look at.
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Matt
There’s no technical reason you can’t make a page with a bunch of videos embedded on it.
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Michael Pick
Sounds good – I guess it’s then just adding some kind of nav item for people to get to it via, and maybe some signposting of the different page content. Also – would be good to use the .com equivalent of the Picture-in-Place plugin, as loading a bunch of videos into the browser at once might slow down page loads a fair bit on slower connections/processors?
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Matt
I would do the simplest possible thing first, and then see if it’s worth it to invest more.
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Michael Pick
Maybe lists with stills linking out to images and relevant support page linking in that case. Discussing with Ryan and pooling our thoughts on the most efficient solution
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Ryan Markel
Going back a bit into the past with some subtitling submissions—but not too far—while thinking of possibilities for organizing things more efficiently.
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Michael Pick
Awesome – I’m loving seeing the subtitles option on some of the videos now – definitely bloggable
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Ryan Markel
Comments long since moderated; got the final 1-Click installer video out of the transcription queue, and now working on a transcription that was 12% finished and abandoned (the bbPress integration video).
Also checked in briefly on the status of some of our WordCamp SF videos (waiting on those to come in) answering some questions that came in through email, including some users interested in sending us tutorials, and a handful of other odds and ends while uploading to dotSUB in the background.
Almost ready to call it a night.
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Ryan Markel
Getting rocking a little earlier this evening. We’ll start with some moderation and then move on to some more of last night’s project.
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Ryan Markel
Now on to some more transcriptions and sweeping through some older stuff to make sure nothing has broken since it’s been uploaded/embedded.
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Ryan Markel
I found four videos from the original dotSUB submissions that didn’t yet have transcripts, so I cleaned them up and they’re ready (the 1-click install series). One more still needs some help, but that’s tomorrow.
Also, I find I have to re-qsueeze the HD video of WordCamp talks to be able to upload it to dotSUB, so I’m crunching away on a resize overnight. My iMac never saw it coming.
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Ryan Markel
Found a workaround to the HD uploads thing; will get that moving when I get started later today.
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Ryan Markel
Just finished up transcribing the BlackBerry app introduction video, but the subs aren’t showing in the VideoPress player yet – is there a window of time after which they normally would show?
There’s plenty more to get to tomorrow—I’ll check it in the morning. Michael, if you look at it and find something amiss, let me know as it’s late and my brain may be short-circuiting.
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Michael Pick
Cool. I’ve CC’d you on a message to our resident video tech wizard Hailin
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Ryan Markel
I just added a transcription-in-progress to the latest tutorial on WordPress.tv.
Michael, I’m going to be out for a bit here, but could you do a pass on the transcription for errors/typos? The editor in me is screaming that someone else needs to take a look at it before I mark it as final and accept the message dotSUB gives me that “no more changes will be permitted.”
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Michael Smolens
Ryan
This is Michael Smolens, CEO of dotSUB. We can set WordPress up on with a project management system so the project manager can allow captions/timing to be changed. We do not make this easy, as once a video has multiple languages done with the same time code, and then the caption is changed, all the different langauge versions are wrong, and it is impossible then to fix everything.
michael@dotsub.com
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Michael Pick
Thanks for picking up on this, Michael – much appreciated.
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Michael Pick
Ryan – will try and take a look today, thanks for this. I had the same fear before, but I figure people will let the very occasional typo slide if it gets through
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Ryan Markel 3:23 am on July 30, 2009 Permalink |
Finished up the transcription of the Google Analytics video.
Michael Pick 3:41 am on July 30, 2009 Permalink |
Have a good evening!