Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/State of the Union Address (January 27, 2010) Barack Obama

State of the Union Address (January 27, 2010) Barack Obama

This was United States President Barack Obama's first official State of the Union address. The speech was delivered on the floor of the chamber of the United States House of Representatives in the United States Capitol. The theme for President Obama’s speech was “Rescue, Rebuild Restore – a New Foundation for Prosperity”. Among the topics that Obama covered in his speech were proposals for job creation and federal deficit reduction. Transcript and video available at the source. This file contributes significantly to the following articles:

• 2010 State of the Union Address
• State of the Union address
• Timeline of the Presidency of Barack Obama (2010)

• Nominate and support (video preferred). TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 00:36, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
• Support iff a video version of this same speech does not appear. (It was broadcast by c-span so one should exist) --Guerillero | My Talk | Review Me 03:36, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
  • Video file exists at the Miller Center, but neither of the filetypes were editable in Moyea because of loss of synchronicity of the audio and video. I have only been able to work with .rm file types (see Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/Address Before a Joint Session of Congress (February 24, 2009) Barack Obama (video) to understand successful possibilities.). At Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/File:Ich bin ein Berliner Speech (June 26, 1963) John Fitzgerald Kennedy, I explained that only one of the three common Miller center video file types is editable in the software I was using. This file only has the other two video types.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 13:31, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
    • P.S. Probably, people with high end software can make something of those other file types. I generally don't pay for software and only do so when it is essential. Otherwise I try to find freeware.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 14:12, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
  • Comment Anyone else hear clicking around the 26 minute mark or so? Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 11:17, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
    • I hear it now. I will try to isolate it separately from the applause and reduce it tonight.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 12:42, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
    • It seems to be some sort of static reverberation that does not occur in the absence of other sounds. I am having trouble finding clicks that do not occur either during speech or applause.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 16:58, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
• Comment I can hear clicking at moments when the audio peaks - this is on the source file at the Miller Centre and nothing to do with TonyTT (great work by the way). I assume it occurs throughout, but I have not yet had the chance to watch the whole hour + of the speech. It's a shame that there is not a better version which we can get a clean audio / better video quality from. On the whole I am in favour of supporting, but given I have not yet watched the whole thing I don't think I should really. Major Bloodnok (talk) 21:21, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
  • Just thought I'd let you know that the Whitehouse.gov version has the same problem on its audio version. I assume you might not be able to get a PD clean version. I encourage you to consider this version before the nom closes.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 23:24, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

• I have been unable to get rid of the click in the audio, but I was able to produce a video. I started with a 865MB file and to get it below 100MB, we lost some quality. However, it is recognizable. I could make the display size smaller and try to boost the quality in other ways.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 07:37, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
  • Oppose video: Audio sounds really muffled on it. That kind of goes against the basis of Featured sounds. I'll Support audio, though. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 10:11, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Comment I'm now inclined to agree with Adam on this one; a video is no doubt valuable, but we hit the 100MB file size issue when it comes to long speeches, and quality deteriorates as a result of trying to include (as we should) all of the hour + on this. I've been thinking about this video issue and the fundamental problem is the one of quality - which is something which FS (and FP come to that) treats as an important part of the test of assessment standard. In an ideal world there would not be the technical file size issue, and we could have the quality we wanted. Even though there are reasons why we can't have it hosted in WP, I'm not sure that we can accept a lower quality of video given that there is a higher quality source out there already. I'm verging on oppose for this one, and will have to consider whether to change my vote on the other Obama speech.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Major Bloodnok (talk • contribs) 13:45, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

I tinkered with the Video4Web converter custom settings to remain under 100MB output. I increased audio quality features and reduced video quality features.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 15:42, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

• Support There are issues to do with quality of video in files which last a long time, and here is not the place to solve that. The video is of historical interest and illustrates an important event. The audio on the most recent version sounds better than it did before. Major Bloodnok (talk) 18:45, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
• I'll Support the new video. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 23:48, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Promoted State of the Union Address (January 27, 2010) Barack Obama (WhiteHouse.gov-reedit).ogv -- (the second edited one) -- Sven Manguard Wha? 20:40, 16 April 2011 (UTC)