I would heartily agree that captioning in receptive would be faster for comparison studies, and much easier to explain to people. That's how I taught the entire system in the beginning. What do you see another person doing. <br><br>For particular signs, it became easier to write your own hands, and then that took off, but, for the most part, a mirror image on all directions could be built into a conversion program, and that would really help.<br><br>Charles Butler<br><br><br><b><i>rocha@ATLAS.UCPEL.TCHE.BR</i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Hi everybody,<br><br> Just to let you know I think it would be much better to caption the<br>video in the receptive mode. It seems it would be much easier to<br>assimilate the writing to the images.<br><br> All the best,<br><br> Antônio Carlos<br><br>P.S.: sometimes I manage to get time to read some messages!
:-)<br><br><br><br>> I just watched the video - I love it!!! :-) I've thought of the<br>> possibility<br>> of SW captioning, but I hadn't gotten as far as actually figuring out how<br>> to<br>> do it... it looks great to me!<br>><br>> The only problem I had was when the caption hid one of the signer's hands.<br>> Otherwise, it looks good to me.<br>><br>> KJ<br>><br>><br>>>From: "Valerie Sutton" <signwriting@MAC.COM><br>>>Reply-To: sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu<br>>>To: sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu<br>>>Subject: Re: [sw-l] How do we take a video of ourselves signing?<br>>>Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:03:28 -0700<br>>><br>>>Hello Stuart!<br>>>Thank you for this suggestion...While we are on this subject of video on<br>>>YouTube, I have a confession to make...<br>>><br>>>Cherie, I hope this was ok with you...One of our Board Members, James<br>>>Short, wants to create
videos with SignWriting captions on them, and I<br>>>gave him a video that Cherie Wren had given me, to experiment with<br>>> placing<br>>>SignWriting captions on a video...the SignWriting is by Cherie Wren as<br>>>well...it is Little Miss Muffet<br>>><br>>>Here is the link to this experiment, located on the Harkle.com site,<br>>> which<br>>>is run by James Short...it is in James' message below...<br>>><br>>>Here is James' message to me:<br>>><br>>>----------<br>>><br>>>Hi Valerie-<br>>><br>>>I put this together in about two minutes. The timing may be a little off<br>>>and I have to figure out why some captions are smaller than others, but<br>>>this only took me about two minutes!<br>>><br>>>http://www.harkle.com/signwriting/ (press the "play triangle" to start<br>>>video)<br>>><br>>>Can you tell I'm
excited?<br>>><br>>>James<br>>><br>>>--------<br>>><br>>>Val writing again:<br>>><br>>>To my surprise, when I just went up on YouTUBE to search for<br>>> SignWriting,<br>>>I found the Little Miss Muffet video there, without the captions!<br>>> Cherie,<br>>>did you place it on YouTUBE? Or did it get there by some other means?...<br>>><br>>>I am very sorry if James and my work on the captioning might have gotten<br>>>onto YouTUBE somehow by mistake! I hope this was ok with you...<br>>><br>>>The internet scares me a little sometimes...<br>>><br>>>Anyway...thank you, Cherie, for sharing this wonderful video with us...<br>>><br>>>and what do you think of the captioning in SignWriting on videos?<br>>><br>>>http://www.harkle.com/signwriting/<br>>><br>>>Val
;-)<br>>><br>>><br>>>------------<br>>><br>>>On Apr 10, 2007, at 6:42 PM, Stuart Thiessen wrote:<br>>><br>>>>One of the best ways to handle video clips would be for a person to set<br>>>>up an account through one of the video online sites (I use YouTube).<br>>>> Once<br>>>>you have an account, you can post video online for people to see. For<br>>>>example, I posted my suggestion to YouTube to give you an idea of what<br>>>> it<br>>>>could be like. If you follow this link, you will see my suggestion on<br>>>>video: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=F5vOW8rE_BE. Most video online<br>>>>sites support tagging, so you can tag it as SignWriting. Then it would<br>>>> be<br>>>>easy to find any clips that discuss SignWriting issues.<br>>>><br>>>>Stuart<br>>>><br>>>>On Apr 10, 2007, at 17:53, Valerie Sutton
wrote:<br>>>><br>>>>>SignWriting List<br>>>>>April 10, 2007<br>>>>><br>>>>>Dear SW Listers!<br>>>>><br>>>>>The SignWriting List is always free for everyone and it is the best<br>>>>> way<br>>>>>to get tech support for your questions. So no matter what, if you want<br>>>>>free tech support, please post your question to the List and then<br>>>>>someone will answer you!<br>>>>><br>>>>>It is great if you can post a very short video of you signing one<br>>>>>sign... to show us what you want to write. It is important to see what<br>>>>>we are writing sometimes!<br>>>>><br>>>>>There are three issues related to posting videos:<br>>>>><br>>>>>1. They need to be very short, because the List software doesn't have<br>>>>>much memory. So we have to
be careful to just post a video of one sign<br>>>>>at a time. If you have a larger video, you can send it to me privately<br>>>>>and then I will post it on our web site temporarily so we all can go<br>>>>> to<br>>>>>a link to view it.<br>>>>><br>>>>>2. Be sure you have permission to post a video that is of someone<br>>>>>else...taking the video of yourself would be the best!<br>>>>><br>>>>>3. But how do we video ourselves doing a sign? Some people know how to<br>>>>>do that, but actually I do not...<br>>>>><br>>>>>I can take a photo of myself with Photo Booth or iChat AV on the<br>>>>>Macintosh, and I do have a built-in iSight camera, but how do I video<br>>>>>tape myself signing? and does anyone know how to do it on the PC?<br>>>>><br>>>>>So I hope someone can answer...how
would you suggest videotaping<br>>>>>ourselves signing something?<br>>>>><br>>>>>Val ;-)<br>>>>><br>>>>><br>>>>><br>>>><br>>>><br>>><br>>><br>><br>> _________________________________________________________________<br>> Don’t waste time standing in line—try shopping online. Visit Sympatico /<br>> MSN<br>> Shopping today! http://shopping.sympatico.msn.ca<br>><br>><br><br><br>-------------------------------------<br>Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa<br>Escola de Informática<br>Coord. Prog. de Pós-grad. Informática<br>Universidade Católica de Pelotas<br><br><br><br></signwriting@MAC.COM></blockquote><br>