30 Dec
2004
30 Dec
'04
2:59 p.m.
Hi,
Thank you for creating and distributing these
videos.
You've done a wonderful job, and I believe that they will
be quite helpful to the bewildered new users who have just
arrived on the Linux audio software scene.
Hopefully ;-) .
I will make one recommendation, and I hope
you'll take it
the right way. Your English is superb (better than many of
my countrymen here), but your accent might make it a little
difficult for monocultural USians to follow.
Hehe. Great you tell it. THanks a lot for your thoughts.
Well, I know my english isn't the best, but since I've been to
some international conferences I decided that there's no need
to hide it ;-) .
Anyway, of course a native speaker would be great, but I
simply did it instead of waiting years until someone else
would finally do it.
Perhaps if you
made the scripts available it would be possible to create
multiple language tracks for the videos, maybe by using
Kino or Cinelerra.
Well, there are some video editing tools for Linux, but I
decided to record everything in realtime.
Adding the audio tracks later will increase the needed work
immensely.
Alas, I know nothing about video
production, and it might be necessary to provide separate
versions of the AVIs in various languages, spoken by native
speakers. Perhaps eventually you would consider making a
DVD ? Just a thought... :)
Of course making a multi language DVD is a great idea. but I'd
like it more if the videos are taken completely anew for the
destination language. The reason is simple, it makes less
sense to have a chinese language video with english UI.
Furthermore, I should have created a new user on my box for
making the videos and setting its language to en. I really
hate the german tooltipps accidentally popping up in the
videos ;-) .
And to be honest, I have three goals in mind when making the
videos:
* Reducing n00b questions in the groups
* Help n00bs and tell them to not give up
* Show users of other operating systems what wonderful things
we can do with free software
And finally (you shouldn't have asked ;-):
If someone else wants to create a video showing the usage of a
certain aspect of audio software (or any other aspect of a
linux system, of course), I'll immediately help with all
material and knowledge I can offer.
So, returning to your question, if a native speaker wants to
redo one of the videos, he shouldn't hesitate to order all of
my material by email.
BTW: The third one is not very good, I'll update it after the
holidays.
Gruß & regards
ce