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. <div>On 9/29/07, <a href="mailto:ubuntu-screencasts-request@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-screencasts-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-screencasts-request@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-screencasts-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Send Ubuntu-screencasts mailing list submissions to         <a href="mailto:ubuntu-screencasts@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-screencasts@lists.ubuntu.com</a> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit         <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-screencasts"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-screencasts</a> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to         <a href="mailto:ubuntu-screencasts-request@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-screencasts-request@lists.ubuntu.com </a> You can reach the person managing the list at         <a href="mailto:ubuntu-screencasts-owner@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-screencasts-owner@lists.ubuntu.com</a> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Ubuntu-screencasts digest..." Today's Topics:    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) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:17:10 +0100 From: Stephen Drake <<a href="mailto:stevepdrake@googlemail.com">stevepdrake@googlemail.com</a>> Subject: Post meeting update To: Ubuntu screencast team list <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-screencasts@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-screencasts@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Message-ID: <1190985430.5459.36.camel@ubuntu> Content-Type: text/plain 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 <<a href="mailto:diego.cortassa@logx.it">diego.cortassa@logx.it </a>> Subject: New on the ML, Italian subs... To: Ubuntu screencast team list <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-screencasts@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-screencasts@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Message-ID: <1190995238.7545.13.camel@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 <<a href="mailto:diego.cortassa@logx.it">diego.cortassa@logx.it</a>> LogX -- Il messaggio e' stato analizzato alla ricerca di virus o contenuti pericolosi da MailScanner, ed e' risultato non infetto. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:01:24 +0300 From: Doru Horishco <<a href="mailto:doruhushhush@hotmail.com">doruhushhush@hotmail.com</a>> Subject: RE: Post meeting update To: Ubuntu screencast team list <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-screencasts@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-screencasts@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:BLU115-W11AB6C03DF467518A1A426C3B20@phx.gbl">BLU115-W11AB6C03DF467518A1A426C3B20@phx.gbl</a>> 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: <a href="mailto:stevepdrake@googlemail.com">stevepdrake@googlemail.com</a> > To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-screencasts@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-screencasts@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > 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 > > > -- > Ubuntu-screencasts mailing list > <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-screencasts@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-screencasts@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-screencasts">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-screencasts</a> _________________________________________________________________ Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! <a href="http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us">http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us</a> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-screencasts/attachments/20070928/89d33087/attachment-0001.htm">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-screencasts/attachments/20070928/89d33087/attachment-0001.htm </a> ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:17:39 +0100 From: Alan Pope <<a href="mailto:alan@popey.com">alan@popey.com</a>> Subject: Re: New on the ML, Italian subs... To: Ubuntu screencast team list <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-screencasts@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-screencasts@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Message-ID: <1190996259.21566.26.camel@mother> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-screencasts/attachments/20070928/f3ec5be5/attachment-0001.pgp">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-screencasts/attachments/20070928/f3ec5be5/attachment-0001.pgp </a> ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:24:24 +0200 From: Diego Cortassa <<a href="mailto:diego.cortassa@logx.it">diego.cortassa@logx.it</a>> Subject: Re: New on the ML, Italian subs... To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-screencasts@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-screencasts@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Message-ID: <1190996664.7545.16.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain 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 <<a href="mailto:diego.cortassa@logx.it">diego.cortassa@logx.it</a>> LogX -- Il messaggio e' stato analizzato alla ricerca di virus o contenuti pericolosi da MailScanner, ed e' risultato non infetto. ------------------------------ -- Ubuntu-screencasts mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-screencasts@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-screencasts@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-screencasts">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-screencasts</a> End of Ubuntu-screencasts Digest, Vol 2, Issue 18 ************************************************* </blockquote></div> -- Matthew Rossi I am for Macs, and the open source scene, are you?  Read my blog at <a href="http://www.mattr.co.nr"> www.mattr.co.nr</a>.  You can also find my podcast at <a href="http://www.penguincentral.co.nr">www.penguincentral.co.nr</a> Everything you can imagine is real. Pablo Picasso Spanish Cubist painter (1881 - 1973)