THanks a lot for the flowers, but let's be honest: There are many things I could have done better ;-) . Yes, this is the reason why I published them: Not the best in quality, but learning by viewing them should be possible. And yes, noone likes to read documentation (if there is any ;-), but more people like to watch a nice video with a bottle of goor beer in the hand ;-) . You have cut an important aspect: The videos show clearly *that* it is possible and even *not* impossible to do serious audio work using free software - simply a lil bit more difficult. Well, I think, Dave's right: All people over the world will understand my english, because it's so bad that I use a very reduced set of words ;-) . And it will sound horrible for a native speaker, of course. But most people of the desired destination group aren't native speakers, so I have no problem with continuing the work by myself, except a native speaker will pop up and do the job, but I fear there will be none ;-) . [...] Best regards & all the best in 2005, ce

Hi, Hopefully ;-) . 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. 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. 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

[...] Hopefully, as sf is available from any location... Hm, nice page I didn't know before. Well, you're reminding me of the following problem: I'd really like to set up a page for linux tutorial videos; I'd start with audio of course, but any other aspects of the system should be put to some videos, too, of course. And I'd really appreciate contributions from other people. The problem is bandwidth, which costs money or ugly ads. The same problem as spreading free music discussed some time before in this (great) list. Jep, I hope so, too. The problem is the central page with web space and bandwidth. I have already some HTML files here, containing a xvidcap config file and other useful information. I tried to register a project for that some weeks before on sourceforge and unfortunately haven't heard anything since then ;-) . Me too ;-) . Best regards and 'appy new year! ce