2013/3/25 Cedric Greevey <cgree...@gmail.com> > > Don't lecture me about what software is or is not capable of.
Nobody even mentioned what software is capable of. You cannot produce great content without experienced people involved. Shooting something only looks trivial. There are all kinds of issues that we viewers have no idea about: * Some speakers have terrible mic technique, speak too loudly then too quiet. You have to level that out during editing. * Some speakers run around the stage like crazy because they are too excited/worried/their talk is a clown show. Software is not ready to handle that well. Amateur videographers aren't ready either. * Hardware fails. Amateurs have no idea what to do and how to plan for redundancy. Professionals deal with it all the time. * You need to understand acoustic characteristics of the room. Again, amateurs have no idea how to assess it or adapt the shooting process to it. and the list goes on and on. Putting together all this costs money, that's why the Strata videos (there is 100+ of them from last year if I am not mistaken, by the way) cost money. Alex & co have put together 4 or 5 conferences. According to some people I know, they are some of the best conferences in recent years in our industry. I think it's reasonable to assume Alex knows what he's talking about, what the alternatives to this InfoQ deal are and what was realistic given the time and budget they had. Proudly declaring you can do better with amateurs working minimal wage and some free software is very, very optimistic. Don't forget that InfoQ has 600K+ visitors per month. At one video a week, there will be months with constant stream of Clojure content on it. It is the kind of exposure that helps the Clojure community *a lot*. More than the rest of Clojure marketing/promotion combined. Imagine what kind of long term impact it may have. Are you willing to ignore all that just to make the videos appear all at once for free? It's very shortsighted if you ask me (if you care about Clojure, that is). -- MK http://github.com/michaelklishin http://twitter.com/michaelklishin -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
