Media Library

A media library is a repository from which videos may be remixed. This should involve raw foorage. It should be organized in a fashion that facilitates the creation of explainer videos. While various online platforms may exist for Collaborative, Online Editing, the current method that can result in scalable, parallel development is a simple upload to a media sharing site, from which another user may edit remotely.

The simplest instance of this is, ex, a person uploading high quality footage - in numerous clips, and others downloading.

A Media Library should have critical OSE assets, as well as some raw footage.

To make a Media Library useful for remote editing purposes, we need to clarify the requirements for making uploaded footage useful.

OSE's official repository is on YouTube and Vimeo. Other collaborators should upload to their own media upload sites, and these may be cloned in OSE's Media Library as needed.

The properties of Media Clips that make them useful are:

• Good, interesting, or artistic content
• Any documentary material of important topics
• Content should be highly relevant to the discussion in the OSE Book - forthcoming.
• Clips should be preprocessed (trimmed for dead time) prior to uploading to a media site to facilitate use
• Individual videos should be transcribed/annotated for critical points

Reference Protocol

• A person downloads a template for a sample platform for collaborating on video. For example, this template example can be a wiki page, with windows (such as found in Flashy XM. Different windows show different views:

• A standard template for flow of the video (what content it should have) - standardized to an effective format
• A script window. A script to be followed is essentially the starting point.
• A treatment window - it is a 'specification for the video', if taken with the Work Flow Infographic for making specific types of video. Video length needs to be specified.
• Procedures for how to generate source files, such as animations from CAD, screen captures, etc. The diversity of content is what will make an effective video.
• Instructions on how to collaborate on videos - a RSA Animate or Infographic.
• Collaboration Team
• Video Embed with links to a list of other videos. On the video storage site, the relevant videos should be organized in a Playlist. Editing comments should be made on the videos themselves
• Guidelines for desirable resolution and how to attain it.
• Graphics assets, style outlines, graphics source files, etc. - even lined up in an editable Google Doc for the order they should be used.
• Source files.
• Source file for an editable copy of the video - a person has to download the source clips separately into a folder. The video exists on a media site, and other assets are

See Also

Meta-requirement/specification for Collaborative Video Editing