how to manage the captations

[ms-studio]

Since the discussion of the previously created issue - #10 - has focused on the distribution of video recordings, I'm opening another issue here with Ale's initial question:

should we provide a solution for managing the captation or should we keep on leaving it to those who are actually doing them?

If we consider the whole process, the key elements are:

• Recording
• Live-streaming
• Postproduction
• Keeping an archive in full quality (the raw recordings, the postproduction files) - to be handed over to LGM organizers.
• Publishing a web archive, as discussed under distribution of video recordings #10 .

Recording

About the recording part - it could be a good idea to have a fact sheet for the team in charge of the video handling, to make clear what exactly we expect.

Again, here's an example of documentation created by the WordPress community for aspiring conference organizers:
http://plan.wordcamp.org/planning-details/video/getting-great-wordcamp-videos/

There are several pages of information, including this one about audio quality:
http://plan.wordcamp.org/planning-details/video/loud-and-clear-getting-good-audio/

I noticed that in recordings from LGM conferences (including 2014), the audio quality is sometimes quite poor, having been recorded through the camera microphone instead of tapping into the venue's soundboard.

Having such a fact sheet / reminder may be helpful for getting quality recordings.

Postproduction Output

Also, we should tell clearly what formats we want as postproduction output. The recordings from Madrid - which had excellent video, sound and editing - have been published online in FLV. This is certainly not our favorite archival and delivery format ... but again, we should be able to state what format (file format, codec, resolution, bitrate...) we want.

Next step: create an etherpad page in order to draft this document.

[aoloe]

from the minutes of the "final" meeting at the lgm 2014 i get that there are a few people who volunteered to manage the captions.
we should involve them in the process.

• Video archiving team
• Tasks: taking care of team, equipment, webspace, recording conference, annotations, encoding etc.
• People: Peter / Constant, Larisa

[ms-studio]

I created a Pad where we can gather vital information:

https://lgm.titanpad.com/6