Welcome to the official blog of the TV review team for WordPress.tv
We approve and publish all videos on WordPress.tv as well as help WordCamps with video post-production and captioning and subtitling of published videos.
We use thisP2P2“P2” is the name of the theme the blogs of make.wordpress.org use. When asked to post or view something “on the p2” by a member of the WPTV team, that usually means you’re asked to checkhttps://make.wordpress.org/tv.to post our progress, status reports, and occasional geeky video debates. Use the “Subscribe to Blog via Email”widgetWidgetA WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user.to follow along!
Want to help us?
Video Editing— You can see what videos we have that need editing inthis spreadsheet. No special credentials are needed, just download the raw video file, and use your favorite app to edit.
Subtitles/captions— You can help us extend the reach of of WordPress.tv by adding captions or subtitles to any published video. Just find your favorite video, and follow the steps here tocreate a caption/translation fileand submit for review.
Weekly meetings
We useSlackfor real-time communication. As contributors live all over the world, there are discussions happening at all hours of the day. We have weekly team meetings every Thursday at 17:00 UTC, and they are open to the public!
Videos are grouped by theWordCampWordCampWordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy.Learn more.city. At the bottom of the spreadsheet select the WordCamp you want to work in and click the city.
Videos can be in different stages of processing and can be in different formats. Some need compression only while others will need much more.
Videos are claimed for processing by entering yourSlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platformhttps://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel athttps://make.wordpress.org/chat/.username or contact email in the Editor field and filling in the Date Claimed field. Any video that has not been claimed can be downloaded for processing. Click on the video link and the download will start.
The processing or editing needed for a video is indicated in the blue columns. The editing needs in these columns may not be all the videos needs. If you find it needs more editing than indicated on the sheet and you cannot complete those edits then you can delete your name in the spreadsheet so it can be reclaimed. Please enter the additional editing needed in the Additional Information field in the spreadsheet.
After the processing or editing has been complete then the video can be submitted to WPTV at Submit Video To WPTV
Remember to enter the Date Submitted in the spreadsheet.
Any good editing software can be used for processing videos.
Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL.software (free to download, free to use) is available and can be used for any of these processes. Also instructions for performing any of these editing tasks is also available.
You can use the software you like, but if you need some help in finding one we can recommend these software, they are all free and open source.
Shotcut Shotcut is the first we recommend, it has official support for all the main operating systems (Linux, Windows and MacOS, it’s updated regularly and it’s the one we chose to writeour guide. You can find more info and the download page on theShotcut official website.
Kdenlive Kdenlive is also easy to use, free and open source. It’s more powerful than Shotcut, it has many addons and functions and it is much appreciated in particular in the Linux community, but it lacks an official build for MacOS, so we can recommend it only if you are on a Linux or Windows system. More info on theKdenlive official website.
OpenShot OpenShot is as easy to use as Shotcut as well as free and open source and it has official support for Linux, Windows and MacOS. The only concern is thatthey use Google Analytics for bug and crash tracking. Nothing to worry about, the team is using it as a tool to improve their software, but for someone it may be a concern for privacy reasons. More info on theOpenShot official website.
