[Imc-g8-2005] The man from archive.org, he say YES

[inverse telecine]

Hows it going,

Just a quick update to let you know the admins from www.archive.org
have given the green light to externally host PAL DVD-Compliant MPEG2
footage from the G8 summit on their servers. They have asked for a
test file in the PAL format because all their mpeg files are NTSC. I
will look after this. I dont think there will be any problem with this
though.

I wont be able to attend the media conference in London due to weekend
work commitments, so perhaps people at this could draw up a possible
"snag list" with regards to the legal/security situation (if any) with
the footage being stored in the US? I have to let the people at
archive.org know.

Just read the long email about the Edinburgh Media Centre - sounds
good. Well done to all concerned.

For the media centre, I propose that we give out a CD-ROM of free
audio and video editing software, coupled with perhaps an "independent
media manual" printed off explaining how people can produce footage
with the software, and also use the CCPublisher (Creative Commons)
Tool which is used for uploading to archive.org.

Goldwave is excellent for PCM audio editing (and exporting to MP3),
and a progam like Virtual Dub is good for capturing MiniDV footage and
then exporting it to DivX for web publishing, which could be put up
during the summit. All the MPEG2 stuff can come afterwards - it is far
too time consuming to upload/download files of DVD-quality size and
would probably creak put any network set up in the media centre under
a lot of bandwidth pressure.

All of this stuff is freeware/shareware for Windoze, sorry I am not
familiar with Macs or Linux so if anyone else can pitch in that would
be great.

There are loads of other sites out there with free video & audio
tools. I am happy to collate these but someone in Scotland may have to
burn up copies because I dont think I will be arriving up until
Saturday July 2nd.

I can put together a corresponding media manual for the video and
audio tools and PDF it. (just dont expect it any time soon!)