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If you are unable to find a local volunteer who can handle the post-production of your WordCampWordCampWordCamps 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. videos, then the WordPress.tv team will be able to do that for you. You simply need to make sure they get the raw video files that you recorded on the day.
To take advantage of this, please reach out to the team in the #wptv channel in SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..
Your Foundation video camera is set to record in the AVCHD format, which produces great quality video and audio, but can be difficult to work with. Primarily, AVCHD files will need to be converted to .MP4 format and edited to trim any unnecessary footage from beginning and end of the video.
The first step is to access the .MTS files contained within the AVCHD package, as these are the video files we will need to edit and convert.
This video will show you how to access the AVCHD package and locate the .MTS files found within, as well as how to use the VLC Media Player to preview them.
To download the VLC Media Player shown in this video, visit the VLC downloads page →
You can use Avidemux to easily convert your camera’s .MTS files to a more internet friendly format like .MP4, and in the process use the basic editing tools provided to trim the beginning and end of the video.
Follow along with this video to see how it is done.
To upload your video to WordPress.tv, you will need to make sure that your converted video files are under 1GB in size. If the files you created in Avidemux are over this size limit, you can use another open-source app called Handbrake to compress them so that they can be uploaded. Follow along with this video to see how you can compress your video files
If you have several files to compress, you can make the job a little easier by batch compressing your files instead, as shown in this video
Before uploading your videos to WordPress.tv, you will want to make sure you have the following information handy, as you will need to enter them into the form that accompanies the uploader at WordPress.tv. For each video, you will need:
Speaker Name
Title of the Presentation
Description of the presentation (from the WordCamp site)
URLURLA specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org to online copy of presentation slides
You will also want to take the time to change the filename on all of your videos to include the WordCamp name, year and title of the presentation. Eventually also the speaker name and the date. Use this filename as an example:
Once you have your videos properly converted, compressed, titled, and the above metadata, please go to http://wordpress.tv/submit-video/ and upload your WordCamp video.
Fill out all the required fields, and for “Description” be sure to add the URL to slides along with the description of the talk. No HTMLHTMLHTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites. please (it will be stripped out) so just the plaintext description and URL. The volunteer moderators at WordPress.tv will make sure everything is formatted correctly when the video is published.
Next select your video file using the file chooser, and start your upload. Be sure not to power down your computer or disconnect from the internet until the upload is complete.