On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Alan Pope <a...@popey.com> wrote: > > > In summary I want to revive the screencasts project, and want to ensure > we maintain quality whilst we bring more people on board. >
Couple of points: 1. I realize the recording procedure is well thought through, but it is very rigid. Using xVidcap, recording video and audio separately.. etc, just isn't how I do screencasts. Perhaps this is part of the reason that contribution is low. Maybe a lower barrier of entry (yes, you may sacrifice a bit of quality control) would improve participation. 2. With regards to quality, perhaps these things should be curated in a way. So I produce a screencast meeting certain requirements (run in a VM with a stock Ubuntu desktop install, specific full screen resolution etc.). Then someone (the curator/editor) then takes those screencasts and adds the title screen and carries out the encoding into different formats. I realize point 2. will likely not sit well with the whole community, diy ethos, but this might lower the barrier to entry signficantly as far as actual screencast contributions go. Blender for instance could make this last step (adding the title screen and encoding) quite easy (although cpu-intensive). Dunno, it's just a thought. I realize how much effort goes into producing screencasts (It's been a month since my last Inkscape screencast!). Maybe doing some things to try and lower that bar a bit would help. RQ -- part of the website not up-to-date https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/237995 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
