How could Counterparty best be presented in a similar video?
Are there any plans to make one?
These videos are pretty expensive. While theyâre certainly nice, it would likely have to be a benefactor that furnishes the money for something like this. Do you know anyone who wants to spend $10k or so on such a video?
Itâs not just the money, itâs the time required to spend on the script. You can pay for the animation but you still have to write a good script, and that takes time (time which is probably better spent on developing the protocol/products).
That being said, if thereâs someone in the community with experience in making these videos/scripts I think that kind of contribution would be very useful.
I totally agree. An expensive video is unlikely to be anyoneâs priority at this point.
Would be fun though to have an informal discussion on what the script could be like. Even if no video were to be made from it, a short, concise description of CP would come handy to those presenting CP to new people.
This is actually a good idea. @ivana makes a good point though that this gets expensive. However FLDC is talking with a couple of people about doing one of these videos for us since we are non profit and we have some people of interest. We are still writing the script for ours (and we will pay Stephanie Murphey in LTBC once we are further along to be the voice https://letstalkbitcoin.com/purchase-ads) but this is something that will take sometime still since those of interest are saying they wont do it for free, but they will give us a good discount. I also havent seen any of these animators work yet as i am still waiting to hear back from them.
However, I could push them to do a CP version as well if a script is written. I can find an animator if someone else is willing to write a script. As most of you have picked up, my writing skills are not the best yet, I am getting better though 
I havent written as much as i have in the past 8 months since I was in high school, and even then not that much lol
My first video presentation ever 
Counterparty explained in three minutes. Emphasis on popular assets.
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Some notes on video blogging:
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Windows Movie Maker is good for editing. It took me literally 1 minute to figure it out. I inserted clips and still images (the âWHAT IS COUNTERPARTY?â frame is an image). Then I removed unnecessary parts by splitting clips and deleting the unwanted pieces.
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(I hope) presenting is a skill like rollerblading, swimming, etc. You can learn it well, but it takes a lot of practice.
I encourage others to give it a try as well. My hope is that others will iterate on the same topic, and eventually someone will make a very good <5 min presentation of Counterparty.
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+1 and +10 for the initiative 
Yea. For a free product, Windows Movie Maker is pretty decent. Its easy to use
FWIW - I use Kdenlive, and find it to be just wonderful. Itâs open-source, and free. Iâm surprised to see that youâre running Windows. Iâd suggest switching to XUbuntu 
Out of curiosity, what do you have against Windows :)?
At this point, my primary problem with Windows is that itâs incompatible with a world of Bitcoin.The security model of Windows was always broken, but since there wasnât a currency that could facilitate specialization of skills amongst black hats, and since there wasnât a sufficiently developed value transfer mechanism for use in holding data hostage - the worst that could happen to Windows users was âspywareâ where their machineâs performance was merely encumbered for the sake of comparatively small amounts of money. Now, in a world of Bitcoin, we should see that insecure operating systems have such a high bounty for attack, that they will be rendered completely unusable. (Data locker is an easy example here)
Thereâs a lot of reasons that Windowsâ security model is bad, but primarily itâs due to : Microsoftâs requirement for an inordinate degree of backward-compatibilty, Government purchasing matrices that did not have any meaningful consideration for âreliabilityâ and/or âsecurityâ, and of course Microsoftâs very ambitious development timelines. Most of these decisions canât fixed at this point, and as such itâs going to be an increasing expensive platform to run as these problems catch up to everyday users.
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Also, related to the OP, see: http://reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/32t40p/if_anyone_wants_animations_i_accept_bitcoin_for/ Perhaps?
FWIW - I use Kdenlive, and find it to be just wonderful. Itâs open-source, and free.
Thanks for the tip. Iâll check it out.
Vdubmod for minor editing and slicing is not too bad either. Itâs quite limited but I enjoy it for a lot of simple tasks.