[evergreen-outreach] videos and subtitles

[Gagnon, Ron]

Rogan and all,
Agreed.  The transcripts are a real asset.

Speaking of transcripts, the Consortium leaders video has the Developers
Update transcript attached.  The Developers Update has its correct
transcript.

Thanks,
Ron

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 9:19 AM Ruth Frasur <rfrasur at gmail.com> wrote:

> Rogan, these were my observations as well. I agree with your suggestions.
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2020, 1:41 PM <rogan.hamby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've spent a little time today (and hit the limit of what I can spare) to
>> look at closed captions and subtitles on the videos so far.  My
>> observations in no particular order are :
>>
>> 1) The closed captions files are a mess.  Even with a conscious effort to
>> not be nitpicky they could take a lot of time to make readable and that's
>> without addressing the time syncing issues.
>>
>> 2) Youtube does not provide any feedback about what it doesn't like about
>> the subtitle files when it does encounter an issue either than line number
>> and it's not clear how it's calculating those line numbers (subtitle line
>> versus actual file line).
>>
>> 3) The Youtube autogenerated ones on the ones I did look at are
>> surprisingly good and can be easily edited from the classic editor.  In
>> many cases they would need at least a little though.  Antora alone has some
>> amusing variations.
>>
>> These three things combined with a desire on my part to not make this a
>> tar pit of activity has led me to making the following recommendations:
>>
>> 1) We continue putting the really clean transcript on the
>> evergreen-ils.org site and linking to it in each video description.
>>
>> 2) For the subtitles / closed captions we use the Youtube autogenerated
>> ones as our basis rather than the CC file from Zoom as I think it's a
>> cleaner basis and has the advantage of time codes in place already.
>>
>>
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