YouTube Channel for Fluid Project videos, transferring videos to it, general video standards

[Tony Atkins]

Hi, Alan:

Great effort, and a good reminder of some of the videos out there.  I have
subscribed to the channel so that I can work through them and remind myself
of ongoing efforts across the wider team (also to remind myself to share
new videos with wider groups as they come out).

So, I use closed captions a fair amount with my YouTube videos, and would
be happy to help out if I can.   In looking at both the Fluid Project
videos and the outliers, I don't see any way to submit one for someone
else's video.  I tried the translations link just to see, each video was
not "enabled for community contribution".

Also, I assume we should only add captions after the transfer?  It sounds
like they'd be lost otherwise.

Anyway, please advise on how/whether/when we can help with the captions.

Cheers,


Tony

P.S.  The "IDRC Relevant Videos" wiki link appeared to be broken to me, I
had to remove the trailing parenthesis before it would load:
https://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/IDRC-relevant+Videos

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 3:41 PM, Harnum, Alan <aharnum at ocadu.ca> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
>
> *Summary of the Below*
>
> 1)       There is an existing FluidProject YouTube channel at
> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBT-cBmvdLAhCm58ulpBulQ that we can add
> newly made videos to
>
> 2)       YouTube has no automatic function for transferring videos from
> one account to another, but there is a manual process (which results in the
> loss of any metrics and requires re-uploading the video and captions).
>
> 3)       The consensus from last week’s planning meeting seemed to be
> that we should, at minimum, caption published videos.
>
> 4)       Please share any thoughts or questions about how we can best
> make use of video for documenting and disseminating our work.
>
>
>
> *Fluid Project YouTube Channel*
>
>
>
> We’ve made a number of videos recently and uploaded them to YouTube under
> various personal accounts.
>
>
>
> It would be good to consolidate these under the existing FluidProject
> account at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBT-cBmvdLAhCm58ulpBulQ
> (latest videos from the long-ago year of 2009) rather than have them
> floating around under personal accounts.
>
>
>
> *Transferring Videos*
>
>
>
> I am currently the caretaker of the fluid.project.team Google account as
> well as the uploader of some recent videos under my personal YouTube
> account, so have been researching how to do this:
>
>
>
> 1)       YouTube’s “answer” to transferring videos from one account to
> another is basically “download your videos, then upload them to the other
> channel, losing all metrics etc in the process”:
> https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2404846?hl=en
>
> 2)       You also need to download and re-upload any captioning of the
> video, recreate any annotations or other overlays, etc. All a bit of a pain.
>
>
>
> I’ve done the above for my two recent videos, and can work with others on
> doing it for theirs.
>
>
>
> In the meantime, I’ve added a playlist of videos I’m aware of from other
> accounts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=
> PL0t4cuggBuVZ0ZuJjvOHeuuzLzSNnxKR2 (helped by the list at
> https://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/IDRC-relevant+Videos)
>
>
>
> *Standards for Video*
>
>
>
> At the planning meeting last week we talked a little about what our
> standards should be for making videos publicly available – there is a
> desire to create more on the fly videos, but also a recognition that effort
> must be taken to make sure we follow good accessibility practice. The
> consensus seemed to be that English-language captioning is a minimum
> requirement. YouTube’s automatic captioning is not good enough.
>
>
>
> For those who have not used YouTube’s captioning editor (
> https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2734796?hl=en), my experience
> has been good when transcribing English-language videos. Generally I have
> only had to transcribe the spoken audio, and YouTube has been able to sync
> it automatically to the video. This obviously saves considerable time,
> although captioning is still labour intensive (especially with multiple
> speakers).
>
>
>
> *Going Forward – Questions? Comments?*
>
>
>
> I’ve tried to summarize the results of discussions at the planning meeting
> and otherwise, but if there are other opinions or questions, please voice
> them!
>
>
>
> *ALAN HARNUM*
>
> SENIOR INCLUSIVE DEVELOPER
>
> INCLUSIVE DESIGN RESEARCH CENTRE, OCAD UNIVERSITY
>
>
>
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>
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