tip for machinima making under Linux

I found this excellent tip over in the "Movies & Machinima" forum:

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I think it may be a good idea to include the keymapping commands in the secondlife script. Would it be safe to put them in the official tarball, or if not at least throw a link to the tip in the README-linux.txt file?

I am glad you liked the tip.

I did not suggest that myself because I have never had good luck anywhere suggesting changes to default Linux behaviours.

So, a change like that is best described where its really used, and people that need it use it, and purists who can't stand any hint of a suggestion of change away from The One True Way won't get offended.

One needs look no further than the design decisions behind something like metacity for GNOME... "we don't include ways to change anything because we already picked the best settings for you." Say what? GIVE ME FOCUS POLICY CONTROL BACK! WAHHHH! Metacity took a double-tap to the head for that one documentation line.

Honestly, if we're wishing... I would rather have a way in the SL Viewer to assign any viewer action to user-definable input events (key, mouse, joystick, spacecam, serial port, dbus, whatever) rather than hardcoded defaults.

hmmm... I need some further tips for machinima making ...

I just captured some SL - scenes using yukon and edited them with cinelerra - well, the result looks very nice - at home. After upload to youtube the result is blurry and does not look so nice anymore. Well, its ok for its my first video (lol - n00b again). But for future I want more ... so i have some questions

What would be the best format to convert seom files to for use with cinelerra?
What would be the best options for rendering with cinelerra for later use in youtube?
And maybe I'll have to convert what I get from cinelerra before uploading - what to do best here ?


Armin

Everyone starts as a n00b...

I think you are being bitten by YouTube's automatic compression when you upload.

How long/large can my video be?
http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=55743&topic=10527

How can I upload Higher Quality Videos?
http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=91450&topic=10526

What video file formats can I upload?
http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=55743&topic=10527

You might find other stuff at:
Uploading Videos to YouTube
http://forums.secondlife.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=2015549

yus. therefore i did a little study and uploaded one 5 sec sequence as flv, h.264, mjpeg and xvid. they look pretty much the same. the h.264 has a glitch in the first second, that happened trying another sequence, too. the h.264 took longest to get transcoded at utube side, flv was on within a few seconds.

speaking about transcoding ... I found a useful gui for ffmpeg at http://www.winff.org/ offering source and packages for deb and rpm (and something unknown - whats ".exe" ?).