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Tag: video
I joined the NetSquared Global Leadership Council at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference. Good times!
But I was ambushed by Vanessa Rhinesmith, who interviewed me and fellow meetup leader April Kyle.
Thanks to everyone for coming out and making the panel work (all those hard questions!) A special shout-out goes to W2 Community Media Arts Society, who provided the venue.
Special thanks to panelists:
There’s been an interesting discussion on Pull Focus’ Meatless Mondays video on the Meetup.com page. And you can watch the original “Meathead” video on Youtube.
Resources and presentation slides:
Subtitling:
- Youtube caption editing and translation
- Universal Subtitles – in-browser subtitling of any video. Just launched by Mozilla (the folks behind Firefox)
Videos examples from event:
- Charity:Water
- Choose a Different Ending (Knife violence)
- Stiller Strong (annotation example)
- Meathead video
- NetSquared Camp Vancouver by the wicked-awesome Russell Bennett
- It Gets Better (gay youth)
Free audio resources:
- http://www.jamendo.com/en/
- Free music from Moby for nonprofit filmmakers and students
- The Free Sound Project
Other cool resources:
- Live-stream from your mobile phone with Qik
- Youtube nonprofit webinar
- TechSoup Canada, home of ridiculously discounted software for nonprofits
- Tips from NetSquared on creating video
Links via Miraj Khaled
Other than youtube grants, projects with feature length video ideas may benefit from the examples &
grant/awards at the Skoll foundation & Participant Media
A youtube success story: one-man’s video journey to change the world
- http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/ptech/02/11/youtube.volunteers/
- http://www.youtube.com/user/UnculturedProject
New ways to learn & collaborate:
The Slides:
My grandpappy always used to tell me to “go where the audience is.” (Well, not really, but he should have! Because it’s great advice.) That’s why most nonprofits joined Myspace, and then abandoned Myspace for Facebook when their supporters made the same move.
So, we use paper mailings, email, webpages, social media, public events…. we go where the people are. And increasingly nonprofits’ current and potential supporters are watching video online. So let’s go there too, because the latest research suggests that 50% of internet users are watching online video at least once a week and 32% of all internet traffic is already video (with that figure expected to double by 2013.)
Net Tuesday November 2010: online video for non-profits
Date: Tuesday, November 2
Time: doors at 5:30pm, Starts at 6:00pm, and finishes at 7:30pm
Location: W2 Storyeum, 151 west Cordova
Special features: amplified audio and adequate seating for all!
Featuring:
- A 30-minute overview of the Youtube grants for nonprofits program, plus a demonstration of some fun features like captioning and translation, annotations and call-to-action overlays.
- A 1-hour panel with seasoned experts working in the field who will address the hows and whys of video for nonprofit. How can video help advance your mission? Is it worth your time? Where can you find help in creating a video? How do you promote your video? What makes a “viral video”?
Panelists include:
- Steve Rosenberg, Pull Focus Film School (a nonprofit film school)
- Devon Wong, David Suzuki Foundation (video intern)
- Steve Anderson, OpenMedia.ca (creator of several videos that went “viral”)
- plus a special secret guest
More stuff you should know:
- The David Suzuki Foundation is hiring a Senior Marketing Coordinator to lead our direct mail and online fundraising. If you or someone you know would be a good fit please apply ASAP.
- Jason Mogus and Lauren Bacon are presenting “Are you web ready?” for nonprofit leaders on November 9. It promises to be fabulous. I’ll be there, and you should too. RSVP now.
- FreshMedia is hosting Remixology 3 on November 6. The Topic is “The future of media”
- Communicopia is looking for a new office-mate. Looking for a new office? Check it out.
I’m plotting a topic for the Net Tuesday November meetup, and Ben Johnson suggested “video.”
What do you think? Are you interested in this topic? And do you know of any Vancouver nonprofits who are going interesting work with video? Please let me know in the comments or by emailing eli@vandergiessen.ca
Potential items to be presented and discussed:
- Youtube grants for nonprofits
- Youtube captioning and translation
- How to convert to actions using your videos (annotations, call-to-action overlays, sign-up forms)
- How to recruit video production assistance (volunteers, interns, etc)
- How can video help advance the mission, and is it worth the time? Examples from fundraising, advocacy, education.
The remarkable Russell Bennett created a summary video that beautifully captures the energy of NetSquared Camp Vancouver.
My parents have a hell of a time explaining to their friends just what it is I do at work. And who can blame them, since it’s a bit jack-of-all-trades-y.
And so, for their edification, I present a summary of a recent project.
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Subtitling videos used to be VERY time consuming. It would take a volunteer all day to transcribe the video, time the in and out points for each line of dialog, and then enter it all into Final Cut Pro. Ick!
Naturally, we avoided translating most of the video clips we produce. Which makes the David Suzuki Foundation’s Quebec office very sad. <le boo hoo. le sigh>
But now, through the magic of Google’s translation service and Youtube’s automatic transcription and timing features, we can subtitle a video with 30 minutes of effort. That means we can easily make all our videos bilingual.
Check it out!
(to turn on the captioning click the triangle button in the bottom right of the Youtube player and then hover over your language)
Here’s step-by-step instructions on how to add French subtitles to a Youtube video:
- Upload your video to Youtube.com
- Get Youtube to transcribe your video by going to the “Captions and Subtitles” tab
- Instruct Youtube to transcribe your video, then wait about an hour.
- Download the “English:Machine Transcription” file
- Clean up the Transcription file in a text editor, because Youtube’s translation is wonky! (“police team is wasted energy”??)
- Upload your corrected text file (but keep the “.sbv” extension” to Youtube
Congratulations! You now have a clean caption file in Youtube that can be automatically translated into dozens of languages.
But what if “good-enough” isn’t good enough for you? What if you need a perfect translation?
- Cut and paste your timed caption text into Google Translate and let it work its magic
- Get a native-speaker to review and correct the translation
- Upload the corrected text to Youtube (remember to change your text file’s extension to “.sbv ” and if you’re dealing with a language with accents save the file in UTF-8 format.)
And you’re done!
Helpful links:
- Youtube.com help files on editing captions: http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=100077
- Google Translate: http://translate.google.com/
Elijah van der Giessen 