Kaltura and Wikimania 08 collaborative video editing
July 8th, 2008
Kaltura, who Wikimedia has been working with over the last few months on the exploration of open-source, collaborative video editing on Wikimedia projects, have developed a Wikimania video wiki leading up to this year’s conference in Alexandria. Kaltura is also a generous benefactor of Wikimania this year, providing financial support to make the event possible.
They’re inviting project volunteers and enthusiasts (whether attending or not) to try their hand at collaborative video uploading/editing/improving. Share your video from your travel to Egypt - or if you can’t make it, why not edit in your comments or questions for participants?
Invitation from Lisa Bennet, Director of Public Relations and Marketing, Kaltura
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Hi Everyone,
As Wikimania is right around the corner, we’ve added a new great way to share information about the event. I would like to invite you to the Wikimania Video Site where you can create collaborative videos. The site already has some videos where people can add their expectations for the event or share why they can’t join us this year, and there will be computer stations at Wikimania for attendees to add videos and pictures in real-time from Alexandria. Hopefully, it will be a great resource for people that could not be there in person to see the highlights, and for the attendees to document the event.
Check it out at: http://www.kaltura.com/devwiki/index.php/Wikimania_Video_Site
The site is hosted on the Kaltura devwiki and uses the collaborative video technology from Kaltura, which the Foundation partnered with late last year to explore adding videos to Wikipedia and other projects.
You’re invited to share your experiences from Wikimania, play with the technology, and provide your feedback.
July 8th, 2008 at 2:17 am
Flash - ich!
Anthere Says:July 8th, 2008 at 7:19 am
Okay, my first three feedbacks.
1. I uploaded an image just fine. This image was added to the end of the
video automatically (I could not put it elsewhere). I had no other
choice than cc by sa as a licence. The image may have been cc by sa…
or something else… so I may have infringed the original licence. I had
no field where I could add the source or name of the author. So,
ultimately, I did not respect the licence of the image. I apology to the
author.
2. I tried to remix the video. When I clicked on remix, I found myself
in front of the “add to this video” system. I was never able to remix,
nor to see a history of the entire video.
3. I decided to go back to the main video to click again on the remix
button. It crashed my browser and I lost the roughly 30 pages which were
opened.
That ended my experience with it.
Lisa Says:July 9th, 2008 at 6:30 am
Hi, this is Lisa from Kaltura. Thanks for your feedback.
Here is some useful information about the video-wiki extension:
- I will start by saying that the video-wiki extension project is run as an open-source project on Sourceforge, and any bugs, feature suggestions, and code contributions are welcome there.
Ben Yates Says:- You can access all of the history/versioning information about the video (including advanced dif capabilities etc) by clicking the “Info†button on the bottom right of the player (similar to photos on wiki)
- The first version of the extension included a “Credits†button that included all relevant credit information. It is being re-inserted into the new player within the next week.
- Content is indeed governed by the CC-BY-SA license. The upload wizard enables to import content from repositories governed by CC-BY-SA license or to upload your own content.
- The Remix button works – it opens the online editor. The Add button opens the upload/import wizard – you need to make sure to click the right button for each functionality.
- While the extension has been tested extensively and works well on all popular platforms and operating systems, the community’s feedback is crucial and greatly appreciated, we look forward to more of it.
July 11th, 2008 at 8:46 am
Hey, the wikimedia history integration’s pretty cool.
I ran into a bug recording a video: I couldn’t play back the video after recording. Also, the “webcam selection” is confusing. It only worked when I selected “USB class”, which was the last thing I tried since I have a built-in camera on my macbook. I’ve used other flash utilities that seem to automatically detect the camera.
Further, I still can’t see my contribution to the video: it doesn’t have a thumbnail and doesn’t play when I click on it (though the “loading” bar fills, seeming to indicate that something’s there). If it’s still processing and can’t yet be viewed, the program should tell you that and grey-out the controls.
Ben Yates Says:July 11th, 2008 at 8:47 am
By the way, I’m using firefox 3 on OS X 10.5.
Ben Yates Says:July 11th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Ack, triple post. A couple more things: you should know that wikimedian culture is accustomed to being able to choose almost any license for their uploaded media, so they might chafe at being forced into CC-BY-SA. And have you thought about renaming the “info” button to “contents” or “individual clips”? Note also that the graphic you’re using on the info button — the juxtaposed rectangles — is the same graphic that youtube and other sites use to mean “full screen”, so it’s even easier to misinterpret its function.
Lisa Bennett Says:July 12th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Thanks for all of the feedback, Ben. I’ll make sure your input is brought to the team and taken into consideration when testing and revising the extension.
Howard Says:July 19th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Question? I have a new “Sceptre” 22″ monitor set in “landscape ‘ aspect 16/9 and yet your website comes up in a “towide” image necessitating scrolling back and forth this awckword condition means this is my last visit?