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Subtitling on YouTube — Now Deaf People Can Giggle At My Videos Too

Published by Zacqary Adam Green at 2:07 AM on March 10, 2010 in Filmmakery. View Comments Tags: , , , . Short URL: http://plankhead.com/vJ

YouTube still doesn’t have nearly the audiovisual quality and presentation of Vimeo, but I gotta hand it to them for providing some fairly awesome features.

I know they’ve had closed-captioning and subtitling features for a while, but I never bothered to try it out until now. I suppose if I don’t do the subtitling now, it’ll soon be done for me by Google’s speech recognition robots, and done very badly.

So here’s “Let’s Meet the Lerners” with full closed-captioning. Click the arrow in the control-bar-thingy, then the “CC” button to turn it on. And if anyone reading this is fluent in another language and wants to translate it, download this .srt file, open it in Notepad on Windows or TextEdit on Mac OS X (if you’re savvy enough to use Linux, I probably don’t need to tell you what your text editor is called), and rewrite all of the texty things while leaving the numbers intact. Then send it to me, of course.

Your Face Is Still a Saxophone, But Not Until April

Published by Zacqary Adam Green at 5:01 PM on February 26, 2010 in Filmmakery. View Comments Tags: . Short URL: http://plankhead.com/xC

So it seems Your Face is a Saxophone is taking me a lot longer than I originally anticipated.

There have been a great deal of technical issues preventing me from working as quickly as I’d thought I would be able to. These issues, however, are in no way insurmountable, just really, really annoying. Expect to know more in March, and see the final product in April.

For now, here’s a still image of something or other happening:

Just In Case I Hadn’t Made Myself Clear, Your Face is a Saxophone

Published by Zacqary Adam Green at 7:30 PM on January 22, 2010 in Filmmakery. View Comments Tags: , , . Short URL: http://plankhead.com/NA

I suppose this isn’t much clearer, but here it is three more times just for the hell of it:

Thumbnail of YFIAS poster with Kevin   Thumbnail of YFIAS poster with Blake.   Thumbnail of YFIAS poster with the Boss.

This February, Your Face is a Saxophone

Published by Zacqary Adam Green at 5:26 PM on January 20, 2010 in Filmmakery. View Comments Tags: , , . Short URL: http://plankhead.com/I2

Just thought you should know.
Your Face is a Saxophone — February 2010 poster

An Anthrocon 2009 Retrospective: Or, How I Learned To Stop Procrastinating and Finish The Video

Published by Zacqary Adam Green at 7:35 PM on September 22, 2009 in Filmmakery. View Comments Tags: , , , . Short URL: http://plankhead.com/aL

I meant to have this done within a week of the con being over. That didn’t quite happen.

Often with these videos I run into editor’s block. There’s always one point where I just can’t figure out the right clip to match the song, and it stalls me. Then I stop and decide to come back to it later. And despite how much I really want to get it done, “later” sometimes means months later.

But it’s here now, so…

You can also watch it on YouTube if you’re on an Android phone or iPhone, but only because you can’t watch Vimeo on those. Seriously, only click that link out of necessity. If I catch anyone watching this on YouTube because they actually prefer it over Vimeo, I will smack them in the face with the Internet. No joke. I will literally pick up the Internet and hit someone with it.