Ubuntu-screencasts Digest, Vol 2, Issue 18

Sat Sep 29 12:15:32 BST 2007

Hi Diego.  Welcome to the Ubuntu Screencasts Project :)

First off a piece of english advice, when you say "I talk good English", you
don't need the a.  Good is an adjective, not a noun ;)

We can't wait for your contributions.

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>    1. Post meeting update (Stephen Drake)
>    2. New on the ML, Italian subs... (Diego Cortassa)
>    3. RE: Post meeting update (Doru Horishco)
>    4. Re: New on the ML, Italian subs... (Alan Pope)
>    5. Re: New on the ML, Italian subs... (Diego Cortassa)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:17:10 +0100
> From: Stephen Drake <stevepdrake at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Post meeting update
> To: Ubuntu screencast team list <ubuntu-screencasts at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <1190985430.5459.36.camel at ubuntu>
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> Hello,
>
> Starting with the next subtitle (tour of system and applications), I've
> tried to make sure there are very few subtitles of less than two
> seconds. The knock on effect is that some lines are pushed to over 100
> characters. The default guidelines in most editors are to limit them to
> ~70. This actually looks fine on larger resolution videos, particularly
> 1280x720. However on the lower resolutions 768x432 and 512x288, Totem is
> forced to use two or three lines, which can obscure quite a large part
> of the video on the lowest res. To mitigate this you can select a
> smaller font size on most players, Totem defaults to 20. It would be
> nice if the video players could dynamically scale the font size to the
> video resolution.
>
> Comments on this change are welcome.
>
> I haven't yet had time to go back and change the previous subtitle
> files, mainly because I'm trying to catch up on the newly released
> screencasts.
>
> One last thing. There was a recent post on the ubuntu-doc mailing list
> about the standard language. I was unintentionally using en_gb, which I
> realise was wrong. So I'm switching to en_us instead. There shouldn't be
> too many changes needed to existing .srts, but I'll post updated version
> when I can.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:00:38 +0200
> From: Diego Cortassa <diego.cortassa at logx.it>
> Subject: New on the ML, Italian subs...
> To: Ubuntu screencast team list <ubuntu-screencasts at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <1190995238.7545.13.camel at localhost>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> Hi screencast team!
>
> Just a quick message to introduce myself.
>
> I'm Italian, I'm an old time Ubuntu user, I think screencasts are the
> best way to introduce our beloved OS to new people and I'm interesting
> in helping.
>
> I talk a good English but I don't think is good enough to record a
> screencast on my own (i.e. funny accent), So I started translating the
> English subtitles to Italian.
>
> I already uploaded italian srt files for "Why Ubuntu", "Introduction to
> Linux", "Samba Filesharing" and "Printing In Ubuntu" on the wiki...
>
> Bye!
> --
> Diego Cortassa <diego.cortassa at logx.it>
> LogX
>
>
> --
> Il messaggio e' stato analizzato alla ricerca di virus o
> contenuti pericolosi da MailScanner, ed e'
> risultato non infetto.
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>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:01:24 +0300
> From: Doru Horishco <doruhushhush at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: Post meeting update
> To: Ubuntu screencast team list <ubuntu-screencasts at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <BLU115-W11AB6C03DF467518A1A426C3B20 at phx.gbl>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2"
>
>
> Hello,
>
>      I do not think that increasing the number of words in order to
> maximize the
> display time of a subtitle will solve the problem. I think will do exactly
> the opposite.
> It might work for English language where most of the terms come from, but
> for other languages, where the terms sometimes must be adapted, the
> increasing
> number of words per lines will end in covering up the whole screen with
> the subtitle.
>      I am struggling trying  to fit approximative the same number of words
> in the
> Romanian translation  and is not so  easy .
>     I think that fewer words and less time per lines and more lines will
> do a better job.
>     I know that means a lot more work to do, so is just a suggestion.
> You've done a good job till now and, no question about that, you'll do
> the same in the future.
>
> > Subject: Post meeting update
> > From: stevepdrake at googlemail.com
> > To: ubuntu-screencasts at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:17:10 +0100
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Starting with the next subtitle (tour of system and applications), I've
> > tried to make sure there are very few subtitles of less than two
> > seconds. The knock on effect is that some lines are pushed to over 100
> > characters. The default guidelines in most editors are to limit them to
> > ~70. This actually looks fine on larger resolution videos, particularly
> > 1280x720. However on the lower resolutions 768x432 and 512x288, Totem is
> > forced to use two or three lines, which can obscure quite a large part
> > of the video on the lowest res. To mitigate this you can select a
> > smaller font size on most players, Totem defaults to 20. It would be
> > nice if the video players could dynamically scale the font size to the
> > video resolution.
> >
> > Comments on this change are welcome.
> >
> > I haven't yet had time to go back and change the previous subtitle
> > files, mainly because I'm trying to catch up on the newly released
> > screencasts.
> >
> > One last thing. There was a recent post on the ubuntu-doc mailing list
> > about the standard language. I was unintentionally using en_gb, which I
> > realise was wrong. So I'm switching to en_us instead. There shouldn't be
> > too many changes needed to existing .srts, but I'll post updated version
> > when I can.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:17:39 +0100
> From: Alan Pope <alan at popey.com>
> Subject: Re: New on the ML, Italian subs...
> To: Ubuntu screencast team list <ubuntu-screencasts at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> Hi Diego,
>
> On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 18:00 +0200, Diego Cortassa wrote:
> > Just a quick message to introduce myself.
> >
>
> Welcome to our world :)
>
> > I already uploaded italian srt files for "Why Ubuntu", "Introduction to
> > Linux", "Samba Filesharing" and "Printing In Ubuntu" on the wiki...
> >
>
> Excellent work!
>
> I'll try to update the site over the weekend with the good work from the
> wiki.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
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> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:24:24 +0200
> From: Diego Cortassa <diego.cortassa at logx.it>
> Subject: Re: New on the ML, Italian subs...
> To: ubuntu-screencasts at lists.ubuntu.com
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> Il giorno ven, 28/09/2007 alle 17.17 +0100, Alan Pope ha scritto:
>
> > On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 18:00 +0200, Diego Cortassa wrote:
> > > Just a quick message to introduce myself.
> > Welcome to our world :)
>
> Hope I will find the time to join on some IRC meetings!
>
> >
> > > I already uploaded italian srt files for "Why Ubuntu", "Introduction
> to
> > > Linux", "Samba Filesharing" and "Printing In Ubuntu" on the wiki...
> > Excellent work!
>
> thanks :-)
>
> > I'll try to update the site over the weekend with the good work from the
> > wiki.
>
> Just finished another one: "Burning an Ubuntu CD using Nero"
>
>
> --
> Diego Cortassa <diego.cortassa at logx.it>
> LogX
>
>
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