User:Thunderbirdtr/how to submit a video

How to submit a Video

How to submit your video ?

About the recorded material

• You could use anything to record your material, until it keeps one rule: the sources and the result must be CC-BY-SA.
• Videos is licensed by CC-BY-SA when Video submit progress complete.
• Must have an intro/outro for official video
• Video quality must be smooth and with clear sound
• If you don't talk english, please make subtitles, or copy your speech into text. The accepted formats are SSA, and SRT files.

As Contributor

• Video contributor(s) can record Non-English language but, if you know English please be international for all user.
• You have to speak fluidly on your language, but first choice is English
• If you can't speak English then if possible make your subtitles (English is the best, or copy your speech into text), to let have the others to translate. With this you support your own community in your mother language, but also you support the international community. It also compensating if you have bad mic, and the text stays readable. In such case, please consider to choose "demo format" - where no speech, only music along with the video. (IDEA NEED-APPROVAL)
• You have to use the right, and correct words (no bad words, profanity, sex, or racist)

Advices for beginners

• speak clearly, calmly, fluently - if you make an error, don't worry - make it in multiple parts, can be cutted, and merged
• reduce the filling words (eg. ummm), don't make long pause where you have to talk
• prepare yourself always, and make notes.

Licensing

• You can use different materials from outside, eg. music, inserts - please keep in mind that copyright must be the same as we want to use and accept only. It's CC-BY-SA. If you have concerns about the material source or of it's origin then leave it, and don't use it.
• Videos licensed by CC-BY-SA. Acknowledgment this will you rights on your Video. Further information about License

Recommended softwares

Currently not many purely FOSS editor is available, but we try to suggest few of them:

• Pitivi
• OpenShot (best for clips)
• Imagination (best for slideshows, if you have series of pictures)
• Gnome shell recording capability (webM format)
• Kdenlive (as KDE Video editor tool)

• Gimp (The GNU Image Manipulation Program)
• Blender (is the open source, cross platform suite of tools for 3D creation.)
• Inkscape ( Open Source vector graphics editor, similar to Illustrator or CorelDraw, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. )
• Sozi
• Synfig (if you are creating animations)