Hi everyone, I finished the video tutorial I started some month ago, and now it’s completed with both video and audio.
This will be a nice start for new contributors that will attend today’s online Contributor Day of WordCamp Europe and of course for everyone who wants to contribute to the WordPress.tv team.
This project was born during a weekly chat about the need for a new tutorial to unify the process and to make the tutorial more consistent because now we have a written tutorial for Windows users (here: Shotcut tutorial) and a video tutorial for Mac users (here: iMovie tutorial) using two different applications, Shotcut for the former, iMovie for the latter.
We chose to use Shotcut because of its easiness of use (at least in doing what editing for WordPress TV requires), and because it matches some important requirements such as open source code (link to GitHub repo), constant updates and cross platform binaries (it officially supports Windows, MacOS and Linux).
In this video I recorded the basic steps for cutting unwanted footage at the beginning and at the end, adding the intro/outro slides, adding the speaker’s slides when needed and exporting the final video.
You can find the video attached to this post and on WordPress.tv, and the English, Italian, and Spanish (thanks @yordansoares for that one) scripts, that are currently hosted on GitHub to let everyone improve them.
The scripts will be very useful to make subtitles/captions for the video to make it more accessible for everyone.
The video can be improved (I hope you can all understand my not so perfect English pronunciation!), so feel free to give some feedback. I’ll collect them and in the future I can make a new improved version.
Here’s the video, and the links to the scripts: