Video help - specifically for Video Activists for the g8 2005

Help - Creating video files for Internet

Linux-

FFmpeg is a good catch all tool to create mpeg1, mppeg4 and ogg http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/ffmpeg-doc.html

howto text: http://hackitectura.net/~vale/howtos/man_ffmpeg.txt

Mac -

Export from from premiere or final cut pro as mpegs 1,2 or 4 or as DVavi to export to windows or linux for Xvid conversion. If you prefer the easy to use iMovie, you can export the Movie to iDVD and create a dvd image. Use this image together with Handbrake http://handbrake.m0k.org/ to create a .ogg, mp4 or divx video.

Windows

Create mpeg1 or 2 with tmpegenc. http://www.beyondtv.org/training/cdroms/tmpeg.htm

Divx or Xvid with virtual dub Divx : http://www.beyondtv.org/training/cdroms/divx.htm

Xvid: Basic help files to come- Mick or Hamish to do
Xvid Advanced version is at- http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/xvid-vdub-final.htm

Real Media Streaming - Creating Real Media files for streaming http://www.beyondtv.org/training/real_media/index.html

Geek alert! free software .mp4 files are possible!

Creating compatible Mpeg-4 audio/video files with DivX^? 5, Virtualdub, Apple QuickTime6^? and Mpeg4IP: http://mpeg4ip.sourceforge.net/docs/

help for installing on windows http://www.everwicked.com/content/MPEG4IP_Guide/mpeg4ip-01.php

Hosting - Places to upload large video files -

Uploading smaller video files to local IMC should be fine by the G8 in Gleneagles - but here are some reources for larger files.

http://video.google.org - in testing feedback needed

http://video.indymedia.org - for all your social justice video on broadband needs.

http://www.archive.org - reccomended

Archive.org is working with creative commons has an uploader which makes things really easy . http://creativecommons.org/video/publish-internetarchive This system also publishes RDF data as well.

If you create a user account are some instructions for how it works - there are publisher programs for windows and mac but not for linux so you will need to ftp it and do the metadata afterwards.

http://www.ngvision.org An Italian site with links to indymedia - with space for large video files.

Video distribution - Making Video visible

Projects using bittorrent - peer to peer techology.

http://www.participatoryculture.org

http://beyondtv.blogspot.com

http://www.v2v.cc

Rss / RDF - metadata

This fits in with a wider picture of long term video strategy.

Summary of rss and rdf in users terms, what it is and , how it can be used - mick

Soma specifications - notes on how it could be changed - bill?

And example of the rdf metadata for Archive.org -mick

Example of ourvideo.org rdf metadata

A link to what it could be used for - a summary of vision of making video visible - ed?.

And How a decentralised video network could work - mick and anna?

Collecting Links here:

video activist network:
http://www.videoactivism.org/resource.html

to see activist training videos made by Witness (human rights video activists) here
http://www.witness.org/blogcategory/Training_Videos/

Ells video activist workshops: main wiki page
http://wiki.obin.org/tiki-index.php?page=documentation+from+the+obin.org+and+ACK+video+workshops

Introducing the camera:
http://wiki.obin.org/tiki-index.php?page=video+workshop%2C+session1+%27the+camera%27

Filming in demos:
http://wiki.obin.org/tiki-index.php?page=video+workshop%2C+session2+%27filming%27

Guerilla Media Primer, 60 mins (Cascadia Media Collective, Oregon USA): http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/fscm2/contentviewer.php?content_id=869
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