State of PharoConf videos

> Thanks for the effort Stephan!
>
> I attached my presentation.
>
> Cheers,
> Max
>
>
>
> On 07.04.2013, at 22:34, Stephan Eggermont <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm very happy to see that the initiative to make video recordings
>> of the PharoConf and MooseDay has resulted in so many
>> screencasts already published. Great work!
>>
>> And now the first feedback:
>> - Format conversion: 62 of 72 GB done, processing the whole weekend.
>> - First 13 minute part currently encoding and uploading.
>>  Still about an hour and a half to go.
>> - I would like to receive the presentation files to combine them
>>  with video.
>> - Some of the material is difficult to use. Zoomed out too much
>>  it is difficult to follow the speaker and the beamer screen is not
>>  readable. Combining a screencast with the video only makes
>>  sense when zoomed in (talking head size).
>>
>> Why does this take so long?
>> - the video is in a format that I cannot work with directly, so needs transcoding.
>>  I have been using VideoMonkey for this, which is based on ffmpeg. I have
>>  the impression that this ffmpeg is not using the GPU, but only the i5.
>>  I'm open for suggestions on better software for this in the future, as it takes the
>>  whole weekend.
>> - I switched from iMovie to Final Cut Pro X. That allows non-linear editing,
>>  so I don't have to wait for rendering to cut the movies. It remains responsive
>>  even during the format conversion.
>> - video is much larger than the equivalent length of screencast. That creates
>>  a upload bottleneck. 13 minutes of HD video is 733 MB. My home upload is
>>  1Mbps (2 hours), so for uploading more material I'll ask someone at our
>>  local university.
>> - I'm spending a limited amount of time during the weekend (and none next week).
>>
>> Stephan
>>
>>
>>
>

> Thanks Stephan!
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Stephan Eggermont <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm very happy to see that the initiative to make video recordings
>> of the PharoConf and MooseDay has resulted in so many
>> screencasts already published. Great work!
>>
>> And now the first feedback:
>> - Format conversion: 62 of 72 GB done, processing the whole weekend.
>> - First 13 minute part currently encoding and uploading.
>>  Still about an hour and a half to go.
>> - I would like to receive the presentation files to combine them
>>  with video.
>> - Some of the material is difficult to use. Zoomed out too much
>>  it is difficult to follow the speaker and the beamer screen is not
>>  readable. Combining a screencast with the video only makes
>>  sense when zoomed in (talking head size).
>>
>> Why does this take so long?
>> - the video is in a format that I cannot work with directly, so needs
>> transcoding.
>>  I have been using VideoMonkey for this, which is based on ffmpeg. I have
>>  the impression that this ffmpeg is not using the GPU, but only the i5.
>>  I'm open for suggestions on better software for this in the future, as
>> it takes the
>>  whole weekend.
>> - I switched from iMovie to Final Cut Pro X. That allows non-linear
>> editing,
>>  so I don't have to wait for rendering to cut the movies. It remains
>> responsive
>>  even during the format conversion.
>> - video is much larger than the equivalent length of screencast. That
>> creates
>>  a upload bottleneck. 13 minutes of HD video is 733 MB. My home upload is
>>  1Mbps (2 hours), so for uploading more material I'll ask someone at our
>>  local university.
>> - I'm spending a limited amount of time during the weekend (and none next
>> week).
>>
>> Stephan
>>
>>
>>
>>

> Really, really nice!
>
> On 2013-04-08, at 15:18, Martin Dias <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Thanks Stephan!
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Stephan Eggermont <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm very happy to see that the initiative to make video recordings
>>> of the PharoConf and MooseDay has resulted in so many
>>> screencasts already published. Great work!
>>>
>>> And now the first feedback:
>>> - Format conversion: 62 of 72 GB done, processing the whole weekend.
>>> - First 13 minute part currently encoding and uploading.
>>> Still about an hour and a half to go.
>>> - I would like to receive the presentation files to combine them
>>> with video.
>>> - Some of the material is difficult to use. Zoomed out too much
>>> it is difficult to follow the speaker and the beamer screen is not
>>> readable. Combining a screencast with the video only makes
>>> sense when zoomed in (talking head size).
>>>
>>> Why does this take so long?
>>> - the video is in a format that I cannot work with directly, so needs
>>> transcoding.
>>> I have been using VideoMonkey for this, which is based on ffmpeg. I have
>>> the impression that this ffmpeg is not using the GPU, but only the i5.
>>> I'm open for suggestions on better software for this in the future, as
>>> it takes the
>>> whole weekend.
>>> - I switched from iMovie to Final Cut Pro X. That allows non-linear
>>> editing,
>>> so I don't have to wait for rendering to cut the movies. It remains
>>> responsive
>>> even during the format conversion.
>>> - video is much larger than the equivalent length of screencast. That
>>> creates
>>> a upload bottleneck. 13 minutes of HD video is 733 MB. My home upload is
>>> 1Mbps (2 hours), so for uploading more material I'll ask someone at our
>>> local university.
>>> - I'm spending a limited amount of time during the weekend (and none next
>>> week).
>>>
>>> Stephan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>

> Hi,
>
> I'm very happy to see that the initiative to make video recordings
> of the PharoConf and MooseDay has resulted in so many
> screencasts already published. Great work!
>
> And now the first feedback:
> - Format conversion: 62 of 72 GB done, processing the whole weekend.
> - First 13 minute part currently encoding and uploading.
>    Still about an hour and a half to go.
> - I would like to receive the presentation files to combine them
>    with video.
> - Some of the material is difficult to use. Zoomed out too much
>    it is difficult to follow the speaker and the beamer screen is not
>    readable. Combining a screencast with the video only makes
>    sense when zoomed in (talking head size).
>
> Why does this take so long?
> - the video is in a format that I cannot work with directly, so needs transcoding.
>    I have been using VideoMonkey for this, which is based on ffmpeg. I have
>    the impression that this ffmpeg is not using the GPU, but only the i5.
>    I'm open for suggestions on better software for this in the future, as it takes the
>    whole weekend.
> - I switched from iMovie to Final Cut Pro X. That allows non-linear editing,
>    so I don't have to wait for rendering to cut the movies. It remains responsive
>    even during the format conversion.
> - video is much larger than the equivalent length of screencast. That creates
>    a upload bottleneck. 13 minutes of HD video is 733 MB. My home upload is
>    1Mbps (2 hours), so for uploading more material I'll ask someone at our
>    local university.
> - I'm spending a limited amount of time during the weekend (and none next week).
>
> Stephan
>
>
>