Multimedia struggles

June 18th, 2006

Still travelling (at Hamburg aIrport at the moment on my way to France).
I have had a frustrating few days in teh last week and have been too dispirited to post much.
Firstly I have been finalizing a report on a project for the European Commission. Why oh why do they demand two paper copies of everything? Why can’[t we submit the reports on CD. It would save a lot of paper, provide much better access to our work and save a lot of trees.
At the same time I have been trying to produce a video version of my presentation at the Open Culture seminar in Como on what I am now calling ‘e-learning 2.0, pedagogy and Quality.”
for the first version I just tried editing together the audio of my presentation together with the slides. But at 34 minutes that seemed much to long to be useful. So then I tried a new and shorter recording of the talk whilst following the slides. But it was still too long and needed a lot of editing to get rid of the pauses whilst I changed slides.
For the third version I watched the slides and wrote a script which I then recorded. then I matched the slides to the audio rather than the other way round. i am pleased with the results - it is a reasonably slick recording and comes in at about 6 minutes - which is about what I was aiming for.
But can I get it on line - no way? I have tried the Creative Archive, Google Video and Ourmedia - all of which failed with different reasons for each. In desperation, I got up and seven this morning and tried publishing it to .Mac. “There has been an error” was the ever helpful Mac error message.
Something is wrong - maybe it is something to do with my ISP or the file format (Quicktime.mov). If anyone reading this has any ideas or advice I will be very grateful.
I will try again when I return on Wednesday.

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