SW captioned video

K.J. Boal kjoanne403 at HOTMAIL.COM
Fri Apr 13 03:58:59 UTC 2007


I just watched the video - I love it!!! :-)  I've thought of the possibility 
of SW captioning, but I hadn't gotten as far as actually figuring out how to 
do it... it looks great to me!

The only problem I had was when the caption hid one of the signer's hands.  
Otherwise, it looks good to me.

KJ


>From: "Valerie Sutton" <signwriting at MAC.COM>
>Reply-To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>Subject: Re: [sw-l] How do we take a video of ourselves signing?
>Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:03:28 -0700
>
>Hello Stuart!
>Thank you for this suggestion...While we are on this subject of video  on 
>YouTube, I have a confession to make...
>
>Cherie, I hope this was ok with you...One of our Board Members, James  
>Short, wants to create videos with SignWriting captions on them, and  I 
>gave him a video that Cherie Wren had given me, to experiment with  placing 
>SignWriting captions on a video...the SignWriting is by  Cherie Wren as 
>well...it is Little Miss Muffet
>
>Here is the link to this experiment, located on the Harkle.com site,  which 
>is run by James Short...it is in James' message below...
>
>Here is James' message to me:
>
>----------
>
>Hi Valerie-
>
>I put this together in about two minutes. The timing may be a little  off 
>and I have to figure out why some captions are smaller than  others, but 
>this only took me about two minutes!
>
>http://www.harkle.com/signwriting/ (press the "play triangle" to  start 
>video)
>
>Can you tell I'm excited?
>
>James
>
>--------
>
>Val writing again:
>
>To my surprise, when I just went up on YouTUBE to search for  SignWriting, 
>I found the Little Miss Muffet video there, without the  captions! Cherie, 
>did you place it on YouTUBE? Or did it get there by  some other means?...
>
>I am very sorry if James and my work on the captioning might have  gotten 
>onto YouTUBE somehow by mistake! I hope this was ok with you...
>
>The internet scares me a little sometimes...
>
>Anyway...thank you, Cherie, for sharing this wonderful video with us...
>
>and what do you think of the captioning in SignWriting on videos?
>
>http://www.harkle.com/signwriting/
>
>Val ;-)
>
>
>------------
>
>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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