[videoblogging] Re: Apple TV and iPod clash
not sure if any posted this yet.. but this is from Apple: --- Greetings from the iTunes Podcasting Team: Apple TV is here, and podcasts are making a big move into the living room. We want all of them to look as good as possible, so we have three video formatting recommendations for you. Also note that we have just posted a revised and expanded technical spec. Finally, the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is coming up. There's a major focus on developers of content in addition to developers of software. Recommendations for Formatting Video Podcasts 1. If you're encoding your video podcast at 320x240, please increase the resolution to either 640x480 or 640x360 (depending on the aspect ratio of your source files). Why? Because video podcasts at this resolution look great on Apple TV and still port to video iPods. Lower resolution podcasts might also work on both platforms, but they don't look nearly as good on a widescreen TV. As always, make sure to test any encoding changes you make to ensure device compatibility. QuickTime 7.1's Export to iPod function will ensure that a video file is encoded at a width of 640 and is iPod-compatible. 2. It's best not to create two different podcast feeds for different resolutions. By doing so, you dilute the popularity of your podcast and reduce exposure in our charts. It's better to have one feed high in the charts than two that are lower. 3. If your source files are 16:9, stick with that aspect ratio. Don't add letterboxing to make them 4:3. By doing so, you prevent the video from expanding to fill a 16:9 widescreen TV and instead end up with black space on all four sides. Also, your original source files should be at least 640 pixels wide. Of course these are just recommendations. We understand that there are good reasons for 320x240 (bandwidth bills) and 720p (looks fantastic). Do whatever makes the most sense for your show. For more information on formatting video, see the recently updated spec: http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcaststechspecs.html To see a sample of excellent podcasts that also look great with Apple TV, check out the Apple TV Podcast Showcase. WWDC June 11 - 15, San Francisco, CA The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC07) has a whole session track dedicated to Content and Media developers, designers, information architects, graphic designers and web producers. You'll learn how to implement best practices to harness digital content for delivery to the Web, applications and devices such as the iPod or Apple TV. Whether you're creating next- generation rich-media portals or leveraging the latest AJAX toolkits to develop hybrid/Web integrated OS X applications, the Content and Media track provides the latest information on how to build modern, platform-optimized experiences for Mac OS X Leopard. WWDC07 is your opportunity to connect with Apple engineers, get a firsthand look at the latest technologies and spend a week getting the information you won't find anywhere else. http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/ Best regards, The iTunes Podcasting Team -- --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, andrew michael baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only reason NOT to go with separate files, in my opinion, is based on ranking in the charts. For instance, if you have 2 or three dif quicktime feeds, it starts to divide your itunes audiences and then you dont get reported on any charts. There is some discovery loss for people who browse itunes. Im new to TVs myself, but aren't most HD TV's optimized for wide- screen viewing? And isn't the iphone widescreen as well? So why 3:4 letterbox that much of the screen real-estate? It would have to be a pretty selfish reason, no? And if someone is going to watch on just an iPod, Id rather spend the selfishness on saving the bandwidth because the increase in quality doesn't seem substantial enough for a small ipod screen unless an audience member is a rare audiophile type or collector. Everyone is different, though it seems logical and not unfamiliar to provide multiple feeds and file formats. Format options seem to be expanding, not narrowing. Drew p.s. It would be interesting to ask Scott S. about this: I recall the publicly distributed info about the possibility of a single cross platform file format (i.e. a 640x480 file for ipod, tv and some other devise) that came out just before the iphone was introduced. Interestingly enough, I heard from David Pogue - based on his interview with Jobs - that Apple used tactics to fool, hide and divert info from their employees and their partners in order to keep the iPhone secret up until the last minute. Thus, the inference that there would be no widescreen anything was made. Kinda of a far fetched casual proposition as to why people are stuck with 3:4 a consequence but you never know :)
[videoblogging] Re: Apple TV and iPod clash
My video feed enclosures support ipod,iphone,itv and quicktime.. I just use iPod .m4v format. So in quicktime export to ipod and get a 640x480 video that anyone can watch. The only thing that *might be worth while to instead of .m4v would be .mp4 video that you can play in all of apples stuff in addtion to PSP... but .mp4 videos kinda suck to playback over the web in my opinion. My feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/billshackelfordcompod All my links in my podcast rss file point to flash video on my site and the enclosures are the .m4v files. I have also been provideing .3gp video.. but no no one has been looking at those. my mobile site: http://m.billshackelford.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve: That's precisely what I was thinking. Subscribe to the feed that works for you. http://JetSetShow.com , for instance has about 6 feeds. Waz: Personally, if I were concerned about a video being playable on iPods as well as AppleTV and having only one feed for the reasons you mentioned, I'd aim for the lowest common denominator. I haven't looked into AppleTV, so I'm not sure this is possible, but the data rate for iPods is lower than the data rate for AppleTV, so I'd make a video to iPod spec and test it through iTunes to make sure it also runs on AppleTV. You might lose some resolution that way, but if you insist on having only one feed, that's the only way I can see it working. Again, assuming there IS a LCD that you can encode to. -- Bill C. BillCammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins steve@ wrote: I guess the assumption would be that your viewers would subscribe to one feed or the other, depending on which hardware they owned. Its not ideal but it may be ideal for some viewers, depending on how fussy they are about getting the best possible qualiy on their device. Unfortunately these issues are unlikely to vanish. Because for all my evangelising about mpeg4 and h24 standards, this is unlikely to boil down to one common subset of h264 just so long as theres so much variation in decoding power between devices. Battery life is a big issue for mobile devices and high-def TV's arent very forgiving of low-quality/low res footage, so it may get worse. If high-def web video wasnt so absurdly huge in comparison to what we're mostly used to, there would probably be even more confusion and conflicting pressures already. The jump from 320x240 t 640x480 is quite significant, I know Apple mailed people advising everyone to change, but theres certainly merit in considering still offering a 320x240 version at this time. You could for example keep the ipod feed at 320x240 and offer the 640x480 version specifically for apple TV. Because Im not sure how many ipod people use the TV out, and they might hate the increased filesizze more than they appreciate the higher res they may never get to see. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, wazman_au elefantman@ wrote: Bill, Can't see how that would work, because Apple TV syncs with iTunes on your computer, which means your iPoddable feed. You could have a separate feed but this would effectively be a separate podcast - and would you expect your viewers to subscribe to both? Waz --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack BillCammack@ wrote: Work-around #4 1) Export for AppleTV 2) Export for iPod 3) Two different feeds Bill C. http://BillCammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, wazman_au elefantman@ wrote: Stupid bloody Apple, why do they DO things like this Folks, this is a tough one, and yes, I've read through the Casey-initiated thread. Good start but sadly optimistic. The question is, how do we pump out vids that are 640x480 and have the baseline low- complexity profile, thus being both iPod and (presumably) Apple TV compatible? Baseline can be selected when exporting with your own settings, but the low-complexity sub-option cannot. According to Apple's developer spec, low-complexity has been defined by Apple for the iPod, and it seems to be restricted to the Export for iPod option, which cannot be configured. When exporting an iPod video, QuickTime chooses automatically whether to use baseline or baseline low-complexity - in a nutshell, anything upwards of 320x240 gets low- complexity. Gory details here: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2007/tn2188.html Three possible workarounds. I am not in front of QTPro right now so will try later: 1) Use the Export for iPod option with the source vid sized at 640x480 - this will goad QTPro into using low-complexity - and then find
[videoblogging] Democracy Player and Thumbnails
Is there anyway I can tag images in my posts so that democracy player will use them as thumbnails?
Re: Fwd: [videoblogging] Test a video on you phone/handheld?
On a LGVX8100 cell phone from verizon I could not get any of the videos to play. I also have a mobile site with video on it to here: http://m.billshackelford.com I found out the cell phones with verizon's OS with the openwave browser do not support video at all (which is most of them). I was able to determine that more phones are comptible with .3gp than with .3g2 it appears across the providers. I think your idea of posting a link to a windows media file is a good idea for all the Windows spartphones out there. I will be adding a link to my iPod compatible files off my moblie site because it will be compatible with the iPhone. Cell phone podcasting looks like it will take off with the iPhone :) Is your .mov files ipod compatible? Great videos :) - Bill http://billshackelford.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nokia N93, running Opera Mobile and Flash 7 - I get to see the whole home page fine because Opera Mobile lets you see all the images as they should be and at various levels of zoom, but there's no Flash video of course (Opera only handles Flash 7) and when I click the Cellphone image/link nothing happens because it doesn't like the javascript. I could download the Quicktime and Windows videos by clicking on them because they're direct links to the files on Blip. HTH. (Also, if I click the Cellphone link on my Mac Firefox, it freaks out and goes black and doesn't allow me to go back or anything - presumably the javascript swaps the CSS to a mobile.css or something, does it? A less stylish answer might be to have a direct link to the file and maybe even (sigh) a text link? I love your design, by the way.) Hope this helps Rupert On 7 Mar 2007, at 22:27, Adam Quirk wrote: I'd be very grateful if anyone with a video-capable handheld or mobile phone would be willing to test our site for me. It's supposed to detect that you're on a mobile and change the layout accordingly. It seems to work on my razr, but I just heard that it isn't working for someone running Windows Mobile. If you're up for it: 1. Visit wreckandsalvage.com from your phone/handheld 2. Tell me if you can see the site and/or one of the videos 3. Tell me what you're using, device/OS. Muchas gracias. -- Adam Quirk Wreck Salvage 551.208.4644 Brooklyn, NY http://wreckandsalvage.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: Fwd: [videoblogging] Test a video on you phone/handheld?
Thanks for the code snippet.. I will plug it in. The Kermit video sounds like a new episode for your vlog :) My home movie footage unfortunalty had to go through several conversion processes before I could get it on my Mac. The original 8mm film was transfered to VHS a while back. The VHS tape was captured with a PC in Windows Media format. I had to buy the Flip for Mac code to then get the .wmv file into iMovie where it converted it to DV. I edited it and then exported it to the web formats. I hope one day to have it recaptured directly from the 8mm film to a Computer. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Adam Quirk, Wreck Salvage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, lots of Windows Mobile devices out there now, hence the .wmv link. And yeah our .mov's are totally iPoddy. I loved Home Movies. Very soothing for some reason, even with the quick cuts. I really wish my parents or grandparents had taped stuff back then. I do have some VHS tapes from the early 80's of some of my t-ball games, and one of me standing in front of the TV singing Rainbow Connection along with Kermit. I need to have my parents send me those before they decompose. PS, if you stick a bit of javascript in your embed code, when someone clicks in the box all the text is automatically selected. Like this: input name=embed type=text value=some code that embeds a video onClick=this.focus(); this.select() Just learnt that the other day and was momentarily impressed with it. -Adam On 3/8/07, Bill Shackelford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a LGVX8100 cell phone from verizon I could not get any of the videos to play. I also have a mobile site with video on it to here: http://m.billshackelford.com I found out the cell phones with verizon's OS with the openwave browser do not support video at all (which is most of them). I was able to determine that more phones are comptible with .3gp than with .3g2 it appears across the providers. I think your idea of posting a link to a windows media file is a good idea for all the Windows spartphones out there. I will be adding a link to my iPod compatible files off my moblie site because it will be compatible with the iPhone. Cell phone podcasting looks like it will take off with the iPhone :) Is your .mov files ipod compatible? Great videos :) - Bill http://billshackelford.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert rupert@ wrote: Nokia N93, running Opera Mobile and Flash 7 - I get to see the whole home page fine because Opera Mobile lets you see all the images as they should be and at various levels of zoom, but there's no Flash video of course (Opera only handles Flash 7) and when I click the Cellphone image/link nothing happens because it doesn't like the javascript. I could download the Quicktime and Windows videos by clicking on them because they're direct links to the files on Blip. HTH. (Also, if I click the Cellphone link on my Mac Firefox, it freaks out and goes black and doesn't allow me to go back or anything - presumably the javascript swaps the CSS to a mobile.css or something, does it? A less stylish answer might be to have a direct link to the file and maybe even (sigh) a text link? I love your design, by the way.) Hope this helps Rupert On 7 Mar 2007, at 22:27, Adam Quirk wrote: I'd be very grateful if anyone with a video-capable handheld or mobile phone would be willing to test our site for me. It's supposed to detect that you're on a mobile and change the layout accordingly. It seems to work on my razr, but I just heard that it isn't working for someone running Windows Mobile. If you're up for it: 1. Visit wreckandsalvage.com from your phone/handheld 2. Tell me if you can see the site and/or one of the videos 3. Tell me what you're using, device/OS. Muchas gracias. -- Adam Quirk Wreck Salvage 551.208.4644 Brooklyn, NY http://wreckandsalvage.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Adam Quirk Wreck Salvage 551.208.4644 Brooklyn, NY http://wreckandsalvage.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Call for Films: The Second Annual TucsonFilm.com ShortFest
Here is a Festival looking for short films/videos: The Second Annual TucsonFilm.com ShortFest Saturday, April 14, 2007 at The Gallagher Theater in the University of Arizona Student Union The SUBMISSION PROCESS FOR THE 2007 TucsonFilm.com ShortFest is now OPEN! Remember, there is NO SUBMISSION FEE for Arizona filmmakers or for films made in Arizona! The submission fees for out-of-Arizona films are: EARLY DEADLINE (POSTMARKED by February 23, 2007) $10 REGULAR DEADLINE (POSTMARKED by March 10, 2007) $15 FINAL DEADLINE (POSTMARKED by March 24, 2007) $20 THE FINAL POSTMARK DEADLINE FOR ALL FILMS IS MARCH 24, 2007 All filmmakers will be notified of their film's status by April 7, 2007 NEW 2007 PARTNERS ANNOUNCED: We are delighted to announce that presenting sponsors for the 2007 TucsonFilm.com ShortFest include The Hanson Film Institute and The Arizona Daily Star, and supporting sponsors include AVID Technology, Inc. and The Tucson Film Office. 2007 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: We are also delighted to announce that the keynote speaker and guest for the 2007 TucsonFilm.com ShortFest will be renowned Star Trek writer/producer ANDRE BORMANIS. 2007 PRIZES: We are still accumulating filmmaker prizes, but we can confirm that one main prize will be a new AVID XPRESS PRO editing software package. Thank you AVID! Other prizes include hundreds of dollars in CASH AWARDS, sponsored by the Tucson Film Office, and 16mm Super-8 film donated by KODAK. 2007 JUDGES STAFF: Film judges for the 2007 ShortFest will include Star Trek producer Andre Bormanis, Hanson Film Institute Director Vicky Westover, UA Media Arts Producer-in-Residence Patrick Roddy, ShortFest Director Timothy Gassen, and co-Director Mike Rom.
[videoblogging] call it a podcast or a vlog?
What is the correct terminology for a video feed? Call it a 'podcast' or a 'vlog'? Does it matter? Also, what do I do with 'vblog' :)
[videoblogging] Re: call it a podcast or a vlog?
lol.. I will go with 'podcast' or make up a new word classify my feed :) - Bill --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Paul Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh this old chestnut, not everyone likes to think their show is a videoblog or vlog, some have dragged themselves from the audio and make video podcasts instead, since portable media players such as ipods and alike came out its made it possible for vlogs and video podcasts and indeed vblogs (another term for vlog). When you sign up for a feedburner account it asks you 'are you a podcaster' due to podcaster coming from the audio side a few weeks before people started using video. Some people prefer audio podcasting, as we are pretend or Virtual TV stars, they are Virtual or pretend Radio Stars. Evolution of Web 2.0..Blog...Photoblogaudio podcastingvideo blogging, v-blog, video podcaster. what next? (what ever happened to those virtual reality machines?) there we go the history of words in a nutshell. Paul On 20 Feb 2007, at 03:58, Bill Shackelford wrote: What is the correct terminology for a video feed? Call it a 'podcast' or a 'vlog'? Does it matter? Also, what do I do with 'vblog' :) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
