Dare 2 Be Digital/Workshop

D2BD Open Video Workshop

Make a video

• Workshop participants will get a small .h264 clip from Rainer/Marcia, convert it

Convert your video to open formats

• Miro Converter (link)
• converts (AVI, H264, MOV, WMV, XVID, Theora, MKV, FLV, MP4) to (WebM,MP4,OGV)

Upload it

• FTP - Cyberduck (attendees will use a shared public ftp account)

Place it on a webpage

• .htaccess needs to have the right types in it for ogv to work:

AddType    audio/ogg .ogg
AddType video/ogg .ogv
AddType video/mp4 .mp4
AddType video/webm .webm

• each participant can work on their own html page in d2bd/live
• explain <video> tag
• add ogg/webm/mp4

Internationalize your video

• Universal Subtitles widget (link)
• Demo the javascript video
• (stores subtitles off-site, need an account)
• Subtitle it in whatever language you like as the original language
• Demo how people can go to the video and add their own language (localizers are standing by)

Popcorn with Butter?

• Demo the Bieber pop-up video page
• Demo the Bieber butter page and let them play with it (get as much of this to work as possible)
• Links to popcorn & butter

[linkhere handout]

TODO

• set up live dir with index page that lists all pages in the directory
• set up an html page per laptop, signs for each laptop saying what page they will be working on (9 * 3)
• add info to the localizer wiki on where to find the videos on the day of
• ftp account for girls to use
• layout & print handout - include logos for Mozilla, Drumbeat, Popcorn, Butter, Miro, Universal Subs

Prep laptops

Download and install: Miro Converter Cyberduck TextWrangler/Coda Latest Firefox