Difference between revisions of "User:Torley Linden/Vidtut process"

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How my video tutorials reach the world. A behind-the-scenes glimpse at the step-by-steps:

After vidtut is rendered to .MP4, upload it to YT.
Fill out Video Upload form thusly:
- Title = "Second Life TuTORial - " or "SL TuTORial - " (if tip title is too long), followed by tip title.
- Description = Some minimalist variant pointing to http://torley.com
- Video Category = Howto & Style
- Tags = second life secondlife tips tricks school tutorial knowledge base learn education teach online world tech community love (in the future, I may want to vary these further).
Click "Upload a video" then select the .MP4 and upload it. Video usually goes live several minutes later.

Open up template, craft blog post in Windows Live Writer, and set it to publish in the future on Thursday (when Tip of the Weeks tend to show up).
Include supplemental pictures, word explanations, and other relevant content addendum that didn't make it into the video. Related resources links always a plus.
Test pre-published link to assure quality.

Log into blog-like tool.
Copy-and-paste earlier blog posting into this, and publish it. NOTE: This tool can't publish in advance yet, so this is done nearer to the time or shortly after the aforementioned blog post appears.
Check for any significant content inconsistencies, most notably that embedded videos don't work, so I'll need to replace them with links like this:

Use iDesktop.tv to search for and download the current Second Life Tip of the Week as a .MOV
Open the .MOV in QuickTime Player and scroll to the end. If there's a white (or otherwise undesirable frame), use the L-shaped widgets to select everything EXCEPT it and go to Edit menu > Trim to Selection.
Go File menu > Export and save as a Hinted Movie, Default Settings. This prepares it for streaming on the Internet.
Rename the now-hinted movie to be more friendly, using dashes (-) instead of spaces and removing other special characters as appropriate.
Example: SLTotW-99-How-to-Be-Happy.mov
Upload the movie to the Second Life Amazon S3 servers using S3Fox.
When the upload's done, set the ACLs so everyone can read the file. (Most reliable way is to right-click the "vidtuts" folder, "Edit ACL" and click so the "Read" column has all checkmarks under it, then "Save".
If needed, test the URL to make sure it works.
Update Video Tutorials with the newest, most likely a new "#" under all the previous TotWs.

Embrace incoming feedback from my beloved community and use lovely ideas to fuel future vidtuts .

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 * Open the .MOV in QuickTime Player and scroll to the end. If there's a white (or otherwise undesirable frame), use the L-shaped widgets to select everything EXCEPT it and go to Edit menu > Trim to Selection.
 * Go File menu > Export and save as a Hinted Movie, Default Settings. This prepares it for streaming on the Internet.
 * Rename the now-hinted movie to be more friendly, using dashes (-) instead of spaces and removing other special characters as appropriate.
+*: '''''Example:''' SLTotW-99-How-to-Be-Happy.mov''
 * Upload the movie to the [http://vidtuts.s3.amazonaws.com/ Second Life Amazon S3 servers] using S3Fox.
 * When the upload's done, set the ACLs so everyone can read the file. (Most reliable way is to right-click the "vidtuts" folder, "Edit ACL" and click so the "Read" column has all checkmarks under it, then "Save".
 * If needed, test the URL to make sure it works.
 * Update [[Video Tutorials]] with the newest, most likely a new "#" under all the previous TotWs.
 == Afterwards ==
 * Embrace incoming feedback from my beloved community and use lovely ideas to [[User:Torley_Linden/Vidtut_ideas|fuel future vidtuts ]].