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[steve poling]

I've got three cheap video cameras I'll lend to the cause that were left 
over from the workshop on technical debt.


Jeff DeMaagd wrote:
> steve poling wrote:
> > video collection is the easy part. cutting down the footage. that
> > proved very difficult to get done.
>
>
> I had a day to think about it, I think it will actually be easy.  It 
> was tough the first time around (First BCGR) because I only had a tape 
> camcorder, 1 hour footage:1 hour capture.  One time saver is now I can 
> just swap the media on and transfer it at much higher speed.
>
> I also didn't know how to use the program, I tinkered and spent far 
> more time than I would have had I known what I was doing.  The new 
> things this year are that I have a couple solid state camcorders and I 
> have a better idea of what to do.
>
>
>
> Matt Heusser wrote:
> > We could do a discovery session on how to edit videos.  I could buy a
> > copy of iMovie and we could edit videos from our /last/ peer
> > conference and try to put them up on YouTube.
> >
> > I am completely serious.
>
> And:
>
> Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > I'd personally be more interested in watching someone who knows how to
> > edit video use Kino [or some other Open tool].  Kino is Open and I've
> > had pretty good luck with it - but I have no idea what I'm doing 
> when > it comes to editing video.  And Video editing has its own massive
> > collection of slang and acronyms.
>
>
> How about a "media & design" track?  Given how media intensive 
> internet users are becoming, I think it would be a benefit to have a 
> basic understanding of good page (document & web) design, audio, photo 
> & video media.  I'm sure it would be a good springboard for beginners 
> and intermediate users.
>
>
> Jeff
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