<html><body><blockquote>----- Original Message -----<br /><div style="width:100%;background:rgb(228,228,228);"><div style="font-weight:bold;">From:</div> "Tim Ansell" <mithro@mithis.com></div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">To:</div>"Paul Wayper" <paulway@mabula.net><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</div><video@lists.linux.org.au><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</div>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:55:01 +1000<br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</div>Re: [Video] Willingness to pay the proper people<br /><br /><br /><div dir="ltr">
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<div>The main fear, as I see it, with going with a company to record video from LCA is the loss of control. We lose control of the output formats, we lose the ability to correct things afterward, and it's more difficult - and costly - to change things as needed during the conference.</div>
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<div>I think some of this is lack actually doing specification of your requirements. For example; if you want the output in free formats <b>require that in the contract</b>. The fact that it is missing from the contract would be like missing the fact that you want a room for 500 people rather than 10!</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br /></div>Yeah, good luck with that. Because I suspect most companies are built to just deliver the final product and will just refuse to work with something that requires that kind of internal control. And I also wouldn't trust it to just be a crappy, low-quality Theora re-encode of the h.264 output.<div><br /></div><div>Yes, specifying it in the contract is the right way to solve the problem, but it begs the question of whether you can get them to sign the contract with that requirement.</div><div><br /></div><div>Anyway, I think this list is more interested in keeping our own control of video production and using FOSS to achieve it :-)</div><div><br /></div><div>Have fun,</div><div><br /></div><div>Paul</div><div><blockquote><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
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