to the Leaky Video Gallery help thread.

Obviously with a project as huge as this, there are going to be teething problems, glitches and pesky bugs popping in at any time.

If you find something you would like our tekkies to look into, then please post about it here . This is also the place to ask for help in searching for a particular video and our Gallery mods:-

KimmyBlair
Hagiographer13
birthday twins
blue4t
kendra.dumbledore
LizetM
moony_lupin


will be happy to help you!

how do I add the video to itunes? I clicked the ipod button and all it gave me was another webpage wit the video on it. Thanks!

-Caroline

I've asked Alex to come and help you and others who are experiencing difficulties with this. His fool-proof guide will be here soon !

You have to right-click and save the MP4 video to your computer first, and then you open up your iTunes

1. Right-click and save the MP4 video to your computer
2. Open iTunes
3. Click the "File" dropdown menu and choose "Add file to library"
4. Locate the video you would like to add to your iTunes library on your computer
5. Choose the video and click "OK"
6. iTunes will now process the video and add it to your library

Hope that helps everyone!
--Alex

Thank you so so so so so much!

Hey does anyone have any more videos on tom/draco if you do can u please post them thanks

Hi!

Um... well, this is more of a complaint... but I don't want to bug you guys with emails because I bet you already have TONS. Anyway, your most recent video: about Harry, Carrie and Garp and the one that starts with Jo reading - the audio is over-written at the q&a, so would you guys please, please look at that? It's really, very frusterating!

~*Ginny*~

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. The tekkies are now looking into it .

Just to update you, our fabulous tekkies have been working on this video since Friday and we hope to have it corrected shortly. It's proving problematic but we know how much you want it. I'll update further when it is ready .

my internet speed is 100.00 Mbps..willl videos from here work..they work really slow.......

can you help?

When it's done, you guys will get a BIG HUGE hug
Sorry for not replying !

Thanks a bunch!!

~*Ginny*~

Hello all..
I'm sorry if this has already been addressed elsewhere; however,
I'm new, and I'm having a hard time downloading the 3rd section of the Harry, Carrie, Garp in wmv format.
The 2nd section installed fine. Any help is much appreciated.
Dave

Thank you for all your queries and questions .

These have been passed over to our Leaky tekkies and they will look into them.

The videos are my area of responsibility, and if they are great or if they stink then it all comes back to me. I have been working on this video for about a week now, and it's being a huge pain in the backside. Keep in mind that I work in video for a living, so when I say it's causing me problems it's REALLY causing me problems. I know how important these videos are to the HP fans, because I am one myself. I haven't even seen the whole Harry Carrie and Garp (HCG) video yet because of the same problems you are all experiencing. Some videos are offline right now because of these problems, so you won't be able to download them. Just take some comfort in knowing that this is diligently being worked on and as soon as I have a breakthrough, you'll get the video and hear me cheering.

In the meantime, feel free to throw things at me if you get really frustrated. Bear in mind that sometimes, such as this time with the HCG video, the original video we get to edit isn't that great to begin with. It would be like taking a picture with your camera phone and trying to make a poster out of it. Forget what you see in movies....that technology just doesn't exist on the public market. As it stands, Leaky's videos sometimes go through over $100,000 worth of software before making it to the website, and we still have periodic issues. Considering the number of videos we have available right now, I'm surprised we haven't had more problems.

Again, I'm really sorry that these problems exist, because I know we're all waiting anxiously to see this video. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me directly at chris.dotson at gmail.com.

Hello Tekkies!

I just want to mention what a great job you all do keeping these various videos afloat on this site!
Cheers to you all!!


I also wanted to request a link to download the Harry Carrie and Garp videos...atleast the ones that work properly now. I was watching it the other day...then lost the link and now i cannot find it any more!
No worries if u guys took it down to fix any problems!
Keep up thr great work!!

Thanks!

You have no idea what a pain that video has been. I've worked on it every day for the last...what, two weeks now? I've actually dreamed about it! I have the entire video as a whole, but it's over 1GB in size. The good news is that the 4th segment in the series actually came out correctly tonight! Whew! The quality isn't quite as high as I would have liked, but I think it's going to be as good as it gets for now.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, Tekkies!
Thanks for all you have done! We're sorry it caused you so much pain.
Keep up the Great work!!!

~*Ginny*~

P.S. Keep the avatar, it's lovely

Thank you!

I however cannot find it still, unless i misuunderstood you to say it is now up on the site again and is as good as it gets.

!!

At the New York reading last summer, they showed an intro video for Jo, does anyone know where this video is from? And where can I get it?

You can find it Here

If you read this thread you'll see this particular video is giving our video tekkie, Chris Dotson, sleepless nights . As soon as it is up and running in the Video Gallery, we will of course, let you all know .

I just recently went about on a large project of fixing the audio on the Harry, Carrie and Garp downloads that I got from Leaky. It was a large task, but I was able to do Parts 1-3 relatively quickly. Part 4 is the only problem.

It's a long a tedious process, but I was actually get the audio lined up on Part 4 when the same thing happened, and I'd really just like to cry right now.

Thanks for continuing to work on it. I know we all appreciate it!

When I try to get to page 2 of this month's videos I'm getting a server side error of simply "Application error (Rails)" which probably means you've got to fix something with your rubies on rails code. The link of "http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/videogallery/show/year/2006?page=2" seems incorrect because it doesn't specify the month.

For the record I'm viewing with Firefox 2.0 with Win XP.

Thanks

I couldn't get to the second page either. I use Internet Explorer with Win XP. I got to those videos from Leaky's main page.

Thank you for reporting those glitches . I have passed your messages onto Alex and the Leaky tekkies for their attention.


Donna

Those year page links are now fixed. When I did my updates for last night, it broke those links. Typical technology

Should be all set for everyone.

--Alex

Works great now, thanks for the fix

Hi everyone !

I don't really know if this is the appropriate topic to post my request on, so if it is not, please excuse-me.

I'm a french PotterManiac, and i recently fell upon this video : Harry Potter and the Secret Chamberpot of Azerbaijan. I tried to translate it to put French subtitles on it, but there are still some bits I really don't understand (I'm not very good at Spoken English...), especially when Saunders-JKR is speaking...

So I wonder if someone could give me a hand and/or find the script of this video, with the lines of every actor, cause I'm much better at understanding written English than spoken (and that's saying something !)


Thanks for the help ! ;)

Because this video is so long, sadly I think it would be impossible for anyone from this site to help translate the video for you Mateo. I've had a look on the Comic Relief website and also the BBC website to see if there is a transcript of it but I can't find one yet - I'll keep looking though and if I find it, I'll post a link for you .

I'm sorry if this isn't the right place, but it looks it.
When the "Harry, Carrie and Garp" videos came out in August (I think) I downloaded them, naturally, however the 4th video had the audio all mixed up and that was the one with Jo on it. I never got around to redownloading it but today I decided, well, what the heck, but I can't find the videos anywhere in the video galleries. Is it not up there? Or am I looking under the wrong categories. I've been looking under JK Rowling.

Oops. I guess that I should read the conversation before asking my question.

The Harry, Carrie and Garp video is coming - it is just prematurely ageing our video tekkies in the process as it has proved most troublesome!

As soon as it is in the Video Gallery, we will start a thread dedicated to it .

Hopefully by tonight all! No promises, but I think we're finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel! Stay tuned

~Andrew

There's a new commercial for sorcerer's stone this saturday on ABC Family. It's really funny. They have this like, song for it. If someone could upload it I would be very appreciative. I would do it myself I just don't have the means or know how. Thanks guys.

Thanks for the notice PhoenixLament23 . Our video staff have been advised.

Can I ask a technical question? Is there a preferred format for video submissions? I have on occasions captured UK TV programmes (via a digital dvb-t usb stick) which produces huge files and thus require a certain amount for conversion before they are small enough to upload. So are there any preferred formats, sizes, bitrates/quality etc. for submission (the broadcast resolution varies but BBC ONE is broadcast at a resolution of 720x576 for display at an aspect ratio of 16:9).

Excellent question! If I had my way, everyone would have a super fast Internet connection and we could take those huge files since they convert the cleanest. Since that's not a reality, we've managed to set up a system that can take just about any video format in and create the formats we need.

Even though we can take any digital format in, some compress better than others while maintaining a nice picture. Quicktime (MOV) works well, as does Windows Media (WMV). I would suggest scaling the video down to 400x300 (most encoding apps will keep the 16x9 aspect ratio and give you the black bars across the top and bottom). If you opt to go with Quicktime, I suggest using the Sorenson 3 codec. It does a very nice job. If you go with Windows Media, use the Windows Media 9 codec, but MAKE SURE you encode in CBR mode, NOT VBR.

If you're still with me, the rest of the settings should be the same no matter if you go with MOV or WMV.

Resolution: 400 x 300
Video bitrate: 800 kbps
Frames per second: 15
Audio Sampling rate: 44khz
Audio Bitrate: 32kbps
Mono is fine, but if it's a fairly short clip you can go stereo. It doesn't make a huge difference.

That may still generate a large file, especially if you've got several minutes worth of video like in an interview, but the file will be much smaller than your source. I hope that helps. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask.

Thanks, that is somewhat useful, though I use linux (and generally ffmpeg) so the formats aren't necessarily easy (I can do .mp4 files though which I think is ISO MPEG-4 and AAC 2.0), so I will have to experiment a bit. I have a followup question, can you download large files? I can in theory upload files to work (even if I to use a CD/DVD as a transport medium) and they have plenty of bandwidth.

why can't I download the movies? it says: Invalid menu handle

why?

P.S. also something like temporary internet... hmmm...

Yep, I certainly can. I've got loads of bandwidth, so if you can drop it on a web server (the easiest) or an FTP I can get pretty much any size file you've got.

I can't download the videos... why?

it always say: invalid menu handle...

help! please!

Hey Drinny!
First of all to the Lounge!
I'm not quite sure about your exact problem, nevertheless I'll try to give you kind of a walk-through how to download videos from our video gallery, hoping that this will solve your problem.
The video-downloading is actually quite a simple procedure because all you have to do is to right-click either on the wmv-button (for the Windows Media Player format) or the ipod-button (for the Quicktime format) and then choose the option save the file as ....

Your browser will then start downloading the video and some minutes later you should be able to enjoy the video on you own computer.
That's it.

I really hope this solves your problem, but if you still get those error messages feel free to contact me via pm (please write down the exact circumstances that led to this error message) and I'll pass it along to our tekkies, so that they can have a look at it.

Hope that helps!

- yellowpepper2311 (Video/Image Handler)

HI!

I don't want to nag cause it sounds like your heads are exploding right now but hows the Harry, Carrie and Garp video coming along?

Keep up the great work!

It's funny you should ask that! That particular video has had *so* many issues trying to get it to convert and just play nice. It just didn't want to. Yesterday, I got a new video card that would allow me to output the video to tape. Once I do that, then I'm 100% confident the video will work and be up in our gallery. Sorry this has taken so long, but it's a good thing you can't hear what was being said on my side of the computer every time I tried to get that video to convert.

Haha okay, thanks for all your hard work.

You'll be pleased to know that the long awaited Harry, Carry and Garp videos are NOW available in the Gallery!

It's two parts, and has been cut down to only JKR's portion. The videos would have been HUGE otherwise. If you want the entire thing, let me know via a PM and I'll arrange a way to get it to you.

Without further hesitation, here you go!

part 1: http://video.leakynews.com/video/show/711

part 2: http://video.leakynews.com/video/show/712

Okay sorry to create even more problems BUT in the video gallery when I go to post a comment (under the totally awesome Harry Carrie and Garp video) and it says I need to type the text in an image that is above which is totally fine but then there is no text in the image!
Maybe I'm just going blind but all I see is blobby things and no text at all.

Thanks
Mads

Ooooh! Awesome! Thank you so much Chris!

Hmm, have the same problems over there. Will pass it along to the tekkies then...
Thanks for the heads up, Mads!

Wow! Thanks so much! You guys rock

I am happy to report that the TLC Video Galleries are once again fully operational. This includes the comments feature . . . so now we can gush over the awesome trailers, DH book cover releases, and Harry, Carrie & Garp with Jo reading from HBP!

Thanks so much to our super tekkie AlexTLC!



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