On Monday, March 25, 2013 4:19:12 AM UTC-5, Ustun Ozgur wrote:
>
> To compare, PyCon videos are usually up in less than 1 week, see 
> http://pyvideo.org/. Probably the production of those videos are 
> supported by the PSF, but it might still be a good idea to see how they do 
> it. I made some googling as to how they do it. Here is an interview with 
> Carl Karsten, who owns the aptly named "NextDayVideo": 
> http://us.pycon.org/2011/blog/2011/03/02/pycon-2011-interview-carl-karsten/"After
>  
> a half-hour setup, all of the talks, then a half-hour teardown, it’s an 
> encoding and checking party after that." 
>
> From the company's website, it seems that the rate per day is around 
> $4000, but they seem flexible: 
> http://www.nextdayvideo.com/page/pricing.html 
>

My total costs with InfoQ are less than $1000. At $4000/day, the conference 
would be losing money.
 

> The main difference with these videos with the ones on infoq is that there 
> is only the video stream, there is no separate slide view. This makes it 
> easier to produce since one doesn't need to sync the video with the slides. 
> (which, by the way, is better for me personally, because watching InfoQ 
> videos on iPad is always awkward since one only sees only the speaker.)
>

That should be changing soon.
 

> One other alternative I can think of is to urge the speakers to record the 
> talk themselves using QuickTime (or equivalent in other OSes). This is 
> actually trivial, see 
> http://zachholman.com/posts/how-to-screencast-your-talk/ for an example.  If 
> doing this at the time of the talk adds to the pressure of giving the talk, 
> we could perhaps encourage the speakers to do it while rehearsing. 
>

This would be a nightmare. I have a hard time just getting speakers to send 
me their slides! 
 

> Alex Miller, how would this affect the InfoQ deal in terms of 
> copyright?This might indeed be the best of both worlds, the professional 
> quality videos will be still shown on infoq, while the screencast versions 
> will be immediately available. For live-coding sessions, which is not that 
> uncommon, actually the screencast quality would be higher.
>

InfoQ's main consideration is that they want the first free release of a 
talk to be on their site, so this would not be ok. 
 

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> Ustun
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