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.
Gru? & regards
ce
