[evergreen-outreach] videos and subtitles

[rogan.hamby at gmail.com]

I'll fix that, thank you.

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 11:18 AM Gagnon, Ron <gagnon at noblenet.org> wrote:

> 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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