How do we take a video of ourselves signing?

[Stuart Thiessen]

It is ready now.

Stuart

On Apr 10, 2007, at 21:09, Valerie Sutton wrote:

> HI Stuart -
> I followed your link below and it told me there were no videos with 
> that link so I waited awhile and it did not show up...do I have to 
> login with a password?
>
> But I still don't know how to actually make the video that one 
> uploads? How do you make a video of yourself signing a sign on the Mac 
> or PC?
>
> The place to upload is not the problem as much as just making the 
> video itself!
>
> Val ;-)
>
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> On Apr 10, 2007, at 6:42 PM, Stuart Thiessen wrote:
>
>> One of the best ways to handle video clips would be for a person to 
>> set up an account through one of the video online sites (I use 
>> YouTube). Once you have an account, you can post video online for 
>> people to see. For example, I posted my suggestion to YouTube to give 
>> you an idea of what it could be like. If you follow this link, you 
>> will see my suggestion on video: 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5vOW8rE_BE. Most video online sites 
>> support tagging, so you can tag it as SignWriting. Then it would be 
>> easy to find any clips that discuss SignWriting issues.
>>
>> Stuart
>>
>> On Apr 10, 2007, at 17:53, Valerie Sutton wrote:
>>
>>> SignWriting List
>>> April 10, 2007
>>>
>>> Dear SW Listers!
>>>
>>> The SignWriting List is always free for everyone and it is the best 
>>> way to get tech support for your questions. So no matter what, if 
>>> you want free tech support, please post your question to the List 
>>> and then someone will answer you!
>>>
>>> It is great if you can post a very short video of you signing one 
>>> sign... to show us what you want to write. It is important to see 
>>> what we are writing sometimes!
>>>
>>> There are three issues related to posting videos:
>>>
>>> 1. They need to be very short, because the List software doesn't 
>>> have much memory. So we have to be careful to just post a video of 
>>> one sign at a time. If you have a larger video, you can send it to 
>>> me privately and then I will post it on our web site temporarily so 
>>> we all can go to a link to view it.
>>>
>>> 2. Be sure you have permission to post a video that is of someone 
>>> else...taking the video of yourself would be the best!
>>>
>>> 3. But how do we video ourselves doing a sign? Some people know how 
>>> to do that, but actually I do not...
>>>
>>> I can take a photo of myself with Photo Booth or iChat AV on the 
>>> Macintosh, and I do have a built-in iSight camera, but how do I 
>>> video tape myself signing? and does anyone know how to do it on the 
>>> PC?
>>>
>>> So I hope someone can answer...how would you suggest videotaping 
>>> ourselves signing something?
>>>
>>> Val ;-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
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