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Unbelievable stats from our project to “clean” every video file

on Aug 20, 2014

A while back, we told you about a big initiative underway in the TED office: Project Cleans. Essentially, we are taking each and every one of our 1,800+ talk video files and stripping them of the text and add-ons that were originally baked in, re-encoding the video, and saving the “clean” files in a new media […]

Why TED is “cleaning” every single one of our video files — all 1,700 of them

By Gwen Schroeder

on Jun 16, 2014

When you watch a TED Talk, you see a speaker on a stage sharing a big idea. But for us in TED’s post-production department, we see each talk as the final product of a complex recipe. The speaker and their words are the most important ingredient, of course. But there are other, less-obvious ingredients in […]