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VLC Screen Capture
VLC is an open source cross-platform media player that can be used to capture a computer screen for a WordCamp presenter that is giving a live demonstration as part of the presentation. VLC can be downloaded at this link. Be sure to start VLC before the presentation begins so you will be able to capture…
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Making Intro and Outro Panels
Intro and Outro panels are added to all videos. Click to access Intro Panel template. To edit this file make a copy by hovering over the panel and right clicking the mouse and selecting the Make A Copy option. Now open the copy in Google Slides by hovering the mouse over the panel and right clicking and…
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Converting Slides
Presentation slides sometimes need to be added to a video. In order to add slides, each slide needs to be available as a single file. If individual slide files are not provided, then they will need to be created from a PDF file or from a slide presentation service. Some PDF files will be supplied…
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WordPress.tv Moderator Squad Update
“It’s good to be in a role when you can learn something new.” – Matt Mullenweg (Forbes interview 2014) No videos were submitted this week but we did publish some that were in the queue. The Pending queue and the AWS account are clear and ready for videos. In the Mod Chat we talked about: Pinging past…
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WPTV Video Editing
1 – Selecting and downloading a video to edit When WordPress.tv receives video from a WordCamp that needs editing, it is typically logged to our central spreadsheet. At the bottom of the spreadsheet, there are tabs for each WordCamp that submitted video. Within each worksheet you can see a list of video that need to…
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Approval Standards
What, When, How Many? Only review videos in the pending queue, and approve the content submitted by the uploader. When videos are ready to publish, add the READY TO PUBLISH tag. A senior mod will do a final check and then make the video live on the site. Video Guidelines Some items to keep…
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Communication
As a moderator, you will often find it necessary to let other mods know about the status of a video you are working with. To do this, we use a list of special “moderators tags” to mark videos in the queue to make other mods aware of the situation. You can add a new mod tag at any…
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Moderator Buddy System
A new moderator will be paired with a lead moderator. In general, new moderators should communicate with their “buddy” using Slack. The lead moderator will then assign the new moderator a video by entering the new moderator’s username in the tag file for the video. The new moderator will be notified (pinged) using Slack. After…
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Approving Manual Submissions
What are manual submissions? Unlike most videos we receive at wordpress.tv, which are submitted using the public uploader, occasionally we get private submissions by admins to the site, which are just blog posts created manually in the wordpress.tv dashboard. You will see these when: A WordCamp organizer has been added to the site and given…
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Approving Videos
Welcome to wordpress.tv! Moderating content here is a fairly simple process. However, wordpress.tv has a few custom features you’ll need to familiarize yourself with and there are some manual tasks that you will need to perform to moderate video content. The following video and text instructions cover some basic guidelines for moderating a video (WordCamp,…