Comment 17 for bug 237995

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Alan Pope <email address hidden> wrote:

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> In summary I want to revive the screencasts project, and want to ensure
> we maintain quality whilst we bring more people on board.
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Couple of points:

1. I realize the recording procedure is well thought through, but it is very
rigid. Using xVidcap, recording video and audio separately.. etc, just isn't
how I do screencasts. Perhaps this is part of the reason that contribution
is low. Maybe a lower barrier of entry (yes, you may sacrifice a bit of
quality control) would improve participation.

2. With regards to quality, perhaps these things should be curated in a way.
So I produce a screencast meeting certain requirements (run in a VM with a
stock Ubuntu desktop install, specific full screen resolution etc.). Then
someone (the curator/editor) then takes those screencasts and adds the title
screen and carries out the encoding into different formats.

I realize point 2. will likely not sit well with the whole community, diy
ethos, but this might lower the barrier to entry signficantly as far as
actual screencast contributions go.

Blender for instance could make this last step (adding the title screen and
encoding) quite easy (although cpu-intensive).

Dunno, it's just a thought. I realize how much effort goes into producing
screencasts (It's been a month since my last Inkscape screencast!). Maybe
doing some things to try and lower that bar a bit would help.

RQ