On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 02:18:49PM -0500, Matt Pfingsten wrote: > Here is my suggestion: > > Each person should upload one good take with at least 5 seconds of space at > the head and tail of their clip to give some flexibility in editing it. The > background should either be in front of their Cinelerra setup or in front of > a local landmark, building, etc. > > Each person should be encouraged to do something different with their clip. > Having 30 talking heads saying "I use Cinelerra" in their native language > would be pretty boring, so each person should do something creative with > their shots and/or say something unique. > > Some kind of deadline should be established. I know I wouldn't have time to > do this until December at the earliest. > > Each clip should be uploaded with their name and location in the filename. > For example, mine would be Matt-Pfingsten_Nashville-Tennessee-USA.mov. If > the essential info is in the filename it'll be tough to lose track of it. If > it was in an enclosed text file or an e-mail it might be hard or time > consuming to track down. > > With the source clips available, each person can cut the project to their > liking, create their own titles effects, music, sound, etc. > We set a deadline for rendered cuts to be placed on-line. Then we vote. > > Just out of curiosity, what is the purpose of this video? Is it just for > shits and giggles or is it intended as some kind of PR video?
It's for fun, and because we're a Community. The Cinelerra "Community Version" community. =) At least, that'll give us a good opportunity to share our videos. The idea of the name is nice: Surname-Name-City-Country.mov But that's not enough information. We need: - Surname & Name and/or pseudonym - City - Country - What people says, written in their native language - What people says, written in English That's why I also think Alex's idea of putting that information at the beginning of each video is quite nice. Let's do both then. We name the file Surname-Name-City-Country.mov, and we put the information during 2-3 seconds at the beginning of each video. That way, we'll get all the information in each video, and we'll cut that part of the video for the final video, of course. Should the video contain just the user speaking in front of the camcorder, at the place he/she choose? Or should the video be "prepared" by the user, with the name, flag, and so on? Having just the people in front of the camera, without any effect, would allow one to create an homogeneous final video (with all the users). As regards to the deadline, we should first define a deadline for "receiving" the videos of ourselves. 2 weeks should be ok, don't you think? Then, 1 more month should be enough for everybody to prepare his/her final video. We then share our videos and select the best one. We should also share our .xml cinelerra projects files! That would be very interesting to see how we used cinelerra to do our videos! =) I'll do the video of myself on next week. I already have a funny idea. =) Nicolas. _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
