Start and End Slides, Take 2

[Ubuntu Clips]

On 1/23/07, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt at myrealbox.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 23, 2007, at 6:54 AM, Ubuntu Clips wrote:
> >
> > On 1/20/07, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> > ...
> >> I suggest you have only one slide at the start, not two, and make the
> >> title the biggest element of that slide. That way it will work better
> >> in environments where the first frame is used as a preview -- for
> >> example when it is being streamed over the Web, and people are staring
> >> at the first frame while the rest of it is buffered.
> > ...
> > Thank you for the feedback. If we did this, we could either move the
> > starting slide (with the k/x/ubuntu logo) as the second slide or
> > remove it altogether as you suggest. Does anyone else have any
> > preferences or thoughts about this?
>
> I suggest making a combination slide for the first frame:
>
>                                Ubuntu logo
>                           Ubuntu variant+version
>
>                                   Title
>
>                            originating Web site
>
> Fade it out starting at about 0.5 seconds in and finishing about 1
> second in, then start the screencast itself.
>
> > More fundamentally, can we assume that the web stream version of the
> > videos will always be accompanied by a web title or text that will
> > include the information on the starting sequence slides?
>
> No. For example, every page for a video on YouTube invites people to
> embed the video on their own site using HTML code that presents no
> extra text.


Good point.


> I know that Youtube doesn't seem to use the first frame as the static
> > preview and I just checked Google Video and it looks like it also uses
> > a random frame. Thoughts, ideas?
>
> YouTube uses the middle frame as the preview. Google Video seems to use
> a frame from about 5 seconds in, unless that frame looks like text, in
> which case it uses a later one. So in neither case could you put a
> slide in the preview without it being a non-sequitur during playback.
> But when you click Play you get the first frame until enough has
> buffered to start playing the rest, which is why the first frame is
> important.


Ok. I'll have another cut at this and post another version shortly.

Cheers,
Michael

-- 
ubuntuclips.org
video howtos for human beings
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/attachments/20070123/fa4529ff/attachment.html>