Deaf Community of Cape Town (DCCT) (www.dcct.org.za) captures many of their events on video using a high quality video camera. There is a requirement to archive the videos with suitable metadata and also to extract and edit clips and possibly add subtitles (for those of us who are not fluent in SASL), as well as transcoding them to compressed web friendly formats. The recorded SASL videos can be edited to remove the audio channel to reduce video file size. The resulting videos can be encoded using the H.264 video codec with a frame size of 640 x 480 pixels and a frame rate of 25 frames per second as per the ITU requirements. These clips should be added to the existing website. You can see that the current website largely has static images (www.dcct.org.za/?q=gallery-page).

The website is build using Drupal content management system (CMS). You will need to understand how it works in order to do this project. Documentation can be found at www.drupal.org/documentation please study the tutorials. Drupal works with PHP modules, each module governs functionality in the website and can be managed through logging into the site. Like any other website there is the file system where all code and supporting files are stored. The Drupal site has a database alongside the regular file system. The database is a stores information used by each module of the Drupal site and is also very important.

Your output for this project is obviously the system and the paper based on it. You will have to follow rigorous software development techniques to ensure that the system is well designed and documented.