Re: [videoblogging] Reducing HD files on mac/Imovie without loosing HD
Hey Cheryl-- If you are recording in HD quality, then compressing that video will decrease the quality. But because you are starting at high quality, the compressed version has a better chance of looking good. Remember that the quality of the video also depends on the kind of lens you have, the lighting, and the original sound. If I shoot a bad video, it will look bad no matter what I do to it. Ultimately, I just experiment will videos look good...but are not so big that people cannot download them quickly. It all depends on what you're trying to accomplish. An artist or filmmaker will probably prefer people wait to download a file because they want the best quality to be seen. An activst is fine with cell phone quality of it can spread quickly around the world. If you are having issues with Youtube, I would use the Youtube forums. Usually that service is pretty solid. Not sure why it wouldnt take your videos. Jay On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:47 AM, cheryl.ben...@ymail.com cheryl.ben...@gmail.com wrote: 1) reducing HD files without loosing HD, is this possible? 2) I have uploaded HD to youtube but took 2 days with repeated fails, and also took many HOURS to upload, those that got through finally 3) I watched Ryan's Freevlog vid's again on blip I think they are at for now, and reduced the size several times for a few and couldn't upload through Tubemogul, even the 300 mb, one stated prior one of my vid's was over 800 mb! 4) Tubemogul has increased my uploading size to 500MB, which I am very grateful for, however, I still have some that are over that, and want to know if following Ryan's directions to smaller, won't that take the HD away - it states in imovie that only one export (I am saving to computer) is HD? 5) The videos are not longer than 10 minutes 6) I have uploaded proir HD from old pc laptop and never had the problems I have with imovie and uploading (my learning curve?) any help with this appeciated, I am holding off uploading through Tubemogul, until I am up to it psychically and I have this sorted out first. btw, I got out (extremely rare for me), and made a make shift steadcam for my power wheelchair with my mini 1033 kodak. will be grabbing a sanyo when able and if it's light enough Thank you Cheryl PUBLIC APPEAL FOR CHERYL -not finished getting help I hopehttp://cherylbenson.ca http://cherylspeaksout.blogspot.com http://youtube.com/cherylspeaksout PHOTOGRAPHY - http://cheryl-benson.fineartamerica.com http://cheryl-benson.artistwebsites.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Online video editing sites
Haven't popped in here for a while. We're running a story on video editing for nonprofits. I wanted to make passing mention of some online alternatives, except most have bitten the dust in the past 3 years. Editing online has yet to catch fire. Either the interface is too clunky, the quality of the clips is poor...and there hasnt really been a good use case. As Rupert said, http://corp.kaltura.com/technology/editing_and_annotation is really the only big active one left that Ive seen. They're use case is getting people to edit/post video for Wikipedia entries. Editing video collaboratively like we currently edit text collaboratively. Jay
Re: [videoblogging] What happened to vloggercon site?
It's working now (thanks Ryanne!) - http://www.vloggercon.com I was just checking out what we were all talking about in 2006: Schedule: http://www.vloggercon.com/?page_id=3 Video Archive: http://www.vloggercon.com/?page_id=208 And even farther back in 2005 when very few people even knew what videoblogging was: http://vloggercon.blogspot.com/2005/02/vloggercon-05-conference-sessions.html Very cool to see how many of these people have evolved in their work. Jay
Re: [videoblogging] What happened to vloggercon site?
All that archived information is now gone... What a great snapshot into a certain time in online video, with vids of some of the best creators and innovators at the time. How come it now goes to Ryan Is Hungry? Good question. I know we were switching the Vloggercon info from peter's server awhile ago. All that info should be archived till time inmemorial. Let me see what happened. Jay
Re: [videoblogging] What happened to vloggercon site?
just in case and if needed i'll offer videobloggers.org server (where Michael Verdi is hosting his drupal project for videobloggers) to archive vloggercon. Hosting etc isnt the problem. Peter just needed to clean off his server and we just never completed the transfer. Should be done tonight. Jay
Re: [videoblogging] What happened to vloggercon site?
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: just in case and if needed i'll offer videobloggers.org server (where Michael Verdi is hosting his drupal project for videobloggers) to archive vloggercon. Hosting etc isnt the problem. Peter just needed to clean off his server and we just never completed the transfer. Should be done tonight. Looks like the site wont be up tonight just because of time crunch. Soon. Jay
Re: [videoblogging] Re: WebM Project
Re full page video: Odd how few cool tools have been made with HTML5 video so far. It'll be interesting to see what the HTML5 version of Navigaya.com looks like, which they say is coming soon. Recently launched as Flash only - nice full page video/web TV, social media browsing interface - a bit like the interfaces Elbows has mused about a few times over the years here. This is the missing link. We need more tools for creators to take advantage of the promise of HTML5 video. We need dead easy ways to play with presentation and interactivity. Dont forget about proposing workshops at http://www.openvideoconference.org/proposals/ I can imagine just a brainstorming session about what these tools might look like. Jay
Re: [videoblogging] Re: WebM Project
Here is an article about the developer who has looked at VP8 and found various problems. Hopefully the reality is not as bad as the article suggests, but in the rush to something free and open it would be all to easy to overlook or dismiss these issues, and then maybe suffer pain later: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/05/19/x264_developer_says_googles_new_vp8_webm_codec_is_a_mess.html Page 2 of that article is where the depressing stuff lurks. Interesting to read, but I would make note of the source. anyone invested in H264 will obviously do what they can to lay down fear. Remember when Google bought Youtube and there was all the fear of copyright lawsuits? Google has the lawyers to figure it out. The more important issue to research is how well WebM works. Hows it look, how smooth is it, how well does it compress and transcode? If Google gives developers all the resources they need, let's give people 3 months before we see some cool expeirments. In my mind, the whole idea is to break out of the idea of the video in the player. What if you could use the whole page as a canvas for your videos? Stan is right that creators need the tools to do this. As Verdi said, http://www.mirovideoconverter.com/, is a nice free tool to transcode to WebM for tests. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Re: WebM Project
Here is the project website: http://www.webmproject.org/ I hope it does well and they can make the encoding and decoding efficient quite quickly, and that lots of tools sprout up quickly. It is indeed good news. Think of how this discussion has unfolded the past year. Ogg/Theora went from a funky little FOSS project to a serious codec backed by Google. If anyone is doing any video experiments with html5 (and VP8)...please post! Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Zi8 with ECM-DS70P
what kind of performance are you expecting out of a $150 camera? I hope nothing professional. It's a low caliber camera. Pretty much you'll get something between crap and amateur results. David has a point. Inexpensive cameras offer amazing convenience but limited quality. I use my iPhone to record video clips these days. The sound/images are pretty horrible (compared to a pro camera), but it allows me to record moments I would lose otherwise. I just love having it in my pocket. Like old Super8, I think creaky DV video has its ow special look that we'll all have good memories of when we're old. Like when I see VHS now. I use a nice camera and dedicated microphone to record events that must be professional looking. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Markvoort
anyone seen eva markvoort's video blogs? very inspired by her courage. http://sentinelsource.com/articles/2010/04/28/features/health_fitness/free/id_398986.txt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjinOU7LR0k I can understand David's point of living some moments without the need to record them...but Eva's videos are exactly what we discussed way back when. People recording their most personal moments in hopes others may understand. Archived for future generations to find and think about. I can only imagine that there are other people (young people especially) who are dying at this moment. This is one way to put a face on it. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] adding click through url to movie
On occasion I need to export a mov or mp4 movie as a Flash (flv) file. I'd like to be able to embed a click through url in the movie like you can do in Adobe Flash. I'd use Flash but I'm not shelling out $900 for something I need once in a while. Does anyone have any other solutions such as third party tools that would do this? I run on a Mac but I have PC's sitting around if need be. An old member of this group made a cool service here: http://www.solitude.dk/archives/linkubator/ It wont work on Flash videos but still cool. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Re: New Bloggertube Blogger template for video
There's still time to submit a video about your hometown to their site! Upload it to YouTube and send the link to hometownshowd...@gmail.com by Wednesday! I'm sure they'd also just appreciate some ratings and comments on the videos if you're not inclined to submit one of your own :) I think http://www.hometownshowdown.blogspot.com is cool idea. Ive been meaning to make a short video of our town. I may get lucky and see the guy who drives around with a machine gun o his jeep: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaydedman/2487068600/ Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Anyone see this yet? Video subtitling initiative by Mozilla...
http://www.drumbeat.org/project/universal-subtitles/ Subtitles bridge linguistic and physical barriers to video. Help create an open lookup standard that lets any video client find matching subtitles in online databases, along with free and open source tools to enable users to easily create subtitles and translations, a Firefox extension that will look up and display matching subtitles, and an open community subtitle database. It's supported by Mozilla but being led by the Miro folks. It'd be awesome if there was a subtitling system that worked across platforms. The subtitles should ravel with the video wherever it goes. Jay [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Anyone see this yet? Video subtitling initiative by Mozilla...
Um, it's by Participatory Culture Foundation, not Mozilla. True. PCP (aka Miro folks) are leading the effort. I assume Mozilla is probably helping fund some of the work. There is an existing effort http://dotsub.com I know the Miro folks have always been frustrated with Dotsub because its a closed system. I know this open source subtitling project has been a big dream for a while. You shouldn't depend on one website for all the subtitles. An interesting recent development is http://speakertext.com , where once a can pay $20/hr (I think) to Amazon Mechanical Turk to transcribe videos. Huh, this is cool. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] New Bloggertube Blogger template for video
I'm pretty much a dedicated Blogger user although i can use Wordpress and um and er about changing over every so often. I'm in one of those periods of contemplation at the moment when I came upon this new template for Blogger http://www.bloggertube-demo-dantearaujo.blogspot.com/ which I'm going to give a whirl.It was produced late last year. Yeah, just in the last couple months Blogger has made some very nice upgrades to their templates. Its much easier now to customize the pages color, sidebar, header, footer. Its probably the first major upgrade in a couple years. Dave, if you use this Bloggertube template, send us the link. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] Open Source subtitling project
We've needed tis for a while. Be interesting if Mozilla can help pull it off: http://www.drumbeat.org/project/universal-subtitles/?utm_source=gsnippetutm_content=subtitleutm_campaign=s010410 Subtitles bridge linguistic and physical barriers to video. Help create an open lookup standard that lets any video client find matching subtitles in online databases, along with free and open source tools to enable users to easily create subtitles and translations, a Firefox extension that will look up and display matching subtitles, and an open community subtitle database. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Hosting issue
This question is a little off-topic. Our neighbor rents a river cabin to weekenders. Most of her business has traditionally come through her website. Last month, we helped her move her website to a cheaper hosting solution. So she has the same website, just a different host. She says that no one is coming to her site now or booking. When she does Google searches, she doesnt even show up on the first three pages. Can switching hosts change your SEO status? Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Hosting issue
Same domain I assume? Just a quick thought...did you move her to WP? Check the Settings--Privacy area just to make sure you're not blocking search engines by mistake. Same domain, same everything. We just moved the same exact website to another host. Now her same website doesnt show up in google searches. Ill do some more rooting around. It could be a totally separate issue. Just wondering if anyone has had this issue. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Hosting issue
...If the hosting was changed, so too were DNS. I believe Google spiders might (possibly) sense the DNS changes, and may have interpreted the change (simultaneous when pages were unavailable) as a domain termination -- and consequently removed and archived the site from its prior ranking. This is speculative, as few REALLY know Google's (ever changing) algorithmic schemas when considering SEO. Other explanations may be just as likely. This make sense since the DNS is the only thing that really changed. Im just surprised this would be an issue since Im sure companies and people change DNS all the time. I cant imagine they would lose their ranking. Thanks for this possibility though. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Hosting issue
It could be a shared ip and the ip is blocked because of one of the other sites hosted. You could ask the host to transfer you to a different IP/server? Good suggestion. Thanks. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] VLMC for Windows nopw available
VideoLAN Movie Creator is a non-linear editing software for video creation based on libVLC and running on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X! It is a free software distributed under the terms of the GPL v2. http://trac.videolan.org/vlmc/ DOWNLOAD: ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/testing/vlmc/vlmc-0.1.0.exe If someone actually downloads and edits with this new software, I'd love to hear how your experience. What especially excites me is the transcoding aspect of it. Someone told me you could drag clips into the app, and it would just know how to edit them. Not sure if this is the truth. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Fwd: Videofreex
Joly, so awesome. I wish this stuff was available online. Jay Videofreex Curated by Dara Greenwald Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 7:30pm 177 Livingston Street, Brooklyn Light Industry presents a survey of work by seminal guerrilla television outfit Videofreex, featuring a number of newly restored tapes. The screening will be introduced by Dara Greenwald, who assisted with the acquisition and preservation of this collection by Video Data Bank. --- Videofreex, one of the first video collectives, was founded in 1969 by David Cort, Curtis Ratcliff and Parry Teasdale, after David and Parry met each other, video cameras in hand, at the Woodstock Music Festival. Working out of a loft in lower Manhattan, the group's first major project was producing a live and tape TV presentation for the CBS network, The Now Show, for which they traveled the country, interviewing countercultural figures such as Abbie Hoffman and Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. The group soon grew to ten full-time members--including Chuck Kennedy, Nancy Cain, Skip Blumberg, Davidson Gigliotti, Carol Vontobel, Bart Friedman and Ann Woodward--and produced tapes, installations and multimedia events. The Videofreex trained hundreds of makers in this brand new medium though the group's Media Bus project. In 1971 the Freex moved to a 17-room, former boarding house called Maple Tree Farm in Lanesville, NY, operating one of the earliest media centers. Their innovative programming ranged from artists' tapes and performances to behind-the-scenes coverage of national politics and alternative culture. They also covered their Catskill Mountain hamlet, and in early 1972 they launched the first pirate TV station, Lanesville TV. An exuberant experiment with two-way, interactive broadcasting, it used live phone-ins and stretched cameras to the highway, transmitting whatever the active minds of the Freex coupled with their early video gear could share with their rural viewers. During the decade that the Freex were together, this pioneer video group amassed an archive of 1,500+ raw tapes and edits. - Video Data Bank Titles to be screened include, among others: Fred Hampton – Black Panthers, Chicago, 1969 Fred Hampton - Chant and Demonstration, 1970 Women’s Lib Demonstration NYC, 1970 Davidson’s Jail Tape, 1971 Interview in the Street II, 1971 Trashing and Gassing in Miami, Republican Convention, 1972 Lanesville Overview I, 1972 Woodstock ’69, Tape #24, 1969 Chicago Travelogue: The Weatherman, 1969 Mayday Realtime, 1971 Followed by a discussion with Greenwald and original members of Videofreex. Tickets - $7, available at door. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging]
Sorry for spam. Member is suspended. On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Rupert Howe rup...@twittervlog.tv wrote: spam On 16 Apr 2010, at 11:12, Ed Smith wrote: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dcmk8xrj_140hbr3j9pb [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] Freedom isn't free -- (not just a Tea Party slogan)
Ning has decided to cancel their free accounts: http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/15/nings-bubble-bursts-no-more-free-networks-cuts-40-of-staff/ Ning has just announced that it is killing off its free product, forcing existing free networks to either make the change to premium accounts or migrate their networks elsewhere. While the email talks about Free versus Premium paid networks, Ning actually has a variety of different premium upgrades. Currently, Nings premium options include support (which has a $10/month and $100/month options for different service levels); Custom domains ($5 a month); Extra storage and bandwidth ($10 a month); Ad removal ($25 a month) and the ability to hide any trace that youre running on Ning ($25 a month). We had some long discussions several years ago when videobloggers started using Ning to make communities to complement their videoblog. (example http://mix.epicfu.com/ which is a nicely designed Ning site). We were asking if it was smart to invest so much time archiving and building a community on a site you dont own. When we did the http://semanal.org/ project in 2008...I know we debated between using Ning or hack Wordpress for this group project. Glad we decided to hack. I think useful services are smart to charge. I know I pay a yearly fee to Flickr.com because I love their service. Blip.tv would be another service that seems worth a fee. But I feel it's really shady when services start free...suck you in...then either force you to pay or dump you. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: 7D workflow for PC
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Adam Quirk qu...@wreckandsalvage.com wrote: I'm so used to Premiere at this point that I probably won't switch unless some open-source competitor comes along with all the features I need. cue the FOSS announcement *Oscar and Emmy award-winning editing software 'Lightworks is going open-source*. http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/04/oscar-winning-video-editor-goes-open.html Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Visiting Aussie with one day Video job in New York
Hi Guys, i have a one day video shoot to do in NY City mostly shooting from a boat on the Hudson River. As a visitor to US from Australia will i need to have a permit to do this or even a special visa for the one days work? No one will stop to ask you if you dont make a big deal out of it. Land of the Free. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Youtube forum
Does anyone know of any good YouTube User/Partner forums? Given the millions of Youtube users I figured there would be no shortage of forums, but my Google search mojo must be totally off today because I can't find any. And I heard on one video there is a forum for youtube partners only, but I'm a partner and don't have a clue! This one is obvious: http://www.youtubepartnersforum.com/ But with 41 members and 97 posts in the last year it's hardly a standout. Ive never found any good place where Youtube users hang out and talk. If you ever find a place, let us know. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Vloggercue 2010
I was just asked to jot down the history of Vloggercue for someone, thought I'd post it here too: Make a page on http://vloggercue.blogspot.com with this info. Link to some of the old photos. Who knew the burning of meat would have a history. Jay Vloggercue started in 2005 when a handful of videobloggers from around the world got together to talk about technical issues and content of web video, and what they were doing to shape it. Most everyone knew each other from their videos, but many had never met in person. The Blip.tv founders were there, after listening to videobloggers for months beforehand, and launched their service that night. There was beer and Asian barbecue, among other things. Vloggercue 2007 was another rooftop affair, this time with many facets of the web video industry represented, as at that point there was actually a web video industry. It was less about personal vloggers, and more about show creators and distribution. There were beer and ribs, among other things. Vloggercue 2010 will try to conjure the energy of Vloggercue 1, inviting anyone and everyone involved with web video. If you post videos of your cat to Youtube, you're welcome. If you founded Youtube, you're welcome. Everyone eats and drinks under the same Brooklyn roof, for free. On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Michael Sullivan sullele...@gmail.comwrote: ditto. On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 9:55 PM, RANDY MANN themaddm...@gmail.com wrote: how did i never seen that video even tho i co stared in it On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 9:49 PM, schlomo rabinowitz schl...@gmail.com schlomo%40gmail.com wrote: Can you get Cheryl Shuman to come? That would be awesome. On another note, for those that dont remember how to get to Adam's place back then, here is a video: http://www.archive.org/details/schlomorabinowitzSloutchingTowardsVloggercue (man, what is that music bed I put over the video? Bad, bad decisions:) Figured I would give the archive.org link for true early roots cred. Or something. Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo.tv http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Adam Quirk qu...@wreckandsalvage.com quirk%40wreckandsalvage.com wrote: This just keeps getting better. Anyone else want to chime in to RSVP? Does Clark of Saturn still read this list? Miss B? Bre? Who do you want to see that you haven't seen since Vloggercue 2005? http://www.flickr.com/photos/50753...@n00/25557700/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/50753...@n00/25557700/AQ On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 7:58 PM, schlomo rabinowitz schl...@gmail.comschlomo%40gmail.com schlomo%40gmail.com wrote: Excitement!!! I think I can make this. Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo.tv http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Adam Quirk qu...@wreckandsalvage.com quirk%40wreckandsalvage.com quirk%40wreckandsalvage.com wrote: Saturday, June 19th Brooklyn, NY Be there or be somewhere else. http://vloggercue.blogspot.com/2010/04/date-and-time.html On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Steve Eisenberg steve.eisenb...@gmail.com steve.eisenberg%40gmail.com steve.eisenberg% 40gmail.com steve.eisenberg% 40gmail.comwrote: Hi smell some BBQ coming from Garden Fork TV in Brooklyn. On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Adam Quirk qu...@wreckandsalvage.com quirk%40wreckandsalvage.com quirk% 40wreckandsalvage.com quirk%40wreckandsalvage.com wrote: http://vloggercue.blogspot.com/2010/04/bushwick-starr.html http://vloggercue.blogspot.com/2010/04/bushwick-starr.html Location secured, working on dates. Shooting for Saturday June 19th. Will confirm when I know for sure. On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Adam Quirk qu...@wreckandsalvage.com quirk%40wreckandsalvage.com quirk% 40wreckandsalvage.comquirk% 40wreckandsalvage.com quirk%40wreckandsalvage.com wrote: It's official then, if Randy is coming this will be a real party. On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:23 PM, RANDY MANN themaddm...@gmail.com themaddmann%40gmail.com themaddmann% 40gmail.com themaddmann%40gmail.com themaddmann%40gmail.com wrote: mu bbq im in On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com jay.dedman%40gmail.com jay.dedman% 40gmail.com jay.dedman%40gmail.com jay.dedman%40gmail.com wrote
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Google to open source VP8
I do not recognise the sides in the battle quite like you have stated them. Whilst its true that Apple were the first to really start pushing h.264, and are the most likely not to allow other formats on their mobile devices, many other important players in this game support h.264. Microsoft already showed their hand - they are supporting H.264 in IE9. They already support it in Silverlight and the XBox360, and I believe Windows Phone 7 devices will be able to play it. It really will be interesting to see what happens with browsers, Google will certainly make Chrome attractive by presumably supporting all 3 of the formats we are talking about, some others may follow suite as a result, or if h.264 dominates html5 video on the web then Firefox may end up having to do a workaround to provide support too, such as relying on the OS or a plugin to do the job. Flash is a big winner so long as there is html5 video codec mess in the browser arena. This is another reason I dont want the battle to be too complex prolonged. If Google's VP8 codec forces H264 to remain free...then that's a huge win right there. The minute that H264 decides to start charging any site that uses their codec...people could just switch over to VP8. I think Flash is being forced to open up as welland continue to innovate. It's also important for video tools as well. Be great to build a video editor (legally) without having to pay fees to use the core technology. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] question: live streaming from events
What service do you prefer to livestream from events? Ustream, CoverItLive, something else? Why do you prefer it? We've used Justin.tv for some events very successfully. For the tech geeks--They allow you to use Quicktime Broadcaster and hook into their servers which allows for better quality. They even will take off ads if you say you're from a non-profit. Ill be glad to share my contact's info. Eddie Codel now work at Ustream.tv as their Production Coordinator. As a long time videoblogger, I would trust his opinion on the state of their current service. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] LIVES - open source video editing / effects app
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Brook Hinton bhin...@gmail.com wrote: Another open source video editing package (that adds some live video features to boot) that looks interesting: http://lives.sourceforge.net Gabriel, the LiVES developer, has reached out to some on this group. So far it's only on Linux though he has tried porting it to mac. He created it for VJ's who mix video at live music events. I've never personally used it but hear that it's a little weird to edit video with. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Google to open source VP8
This is pretty awesome: http://newteevee.com/2010/04/12/google-to-open-source-vp8-for-html5-video/ That could seriously change the codec equation for the better. Yep, its here. An open source codec that supposedly can compete with H264. I look forward to actually seeing what the codec looks like...and how it works in the browser. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Google to open source VP8
I'm so bored by the idea of even more epic codec battles. Apple/ Safari/iPhone/iPad in h264 versus Google/Chrome/Phones/Set Top Box/etc in ogg/vp8. Versus Microsoft and whatever they choose to do. No compatibility between browsers for HTML5. Seems like Apple are hardening their position on various things, and so are Google, Adobe, etc. Pretty boring for all of us, having to cater for all or pick sides. Agreed. But I think that ultimately open is always better and worth the hassle to make standard. Remember that we are still in the very early days of web video. What happens now determines how things will be in the future. I love Apple and use all they have...but I dont like the idea that I depend on their benevolence. Jobs will die...and instead of a hippie entrepreneur, we'll get the ex-President of Pepsi leading the company again. So the mantra is keep it open...but focus on creating. In the end, that's what really counts. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] TV episode will be shot on DSLR
Online video is not TV. Online video is not TV. Online video is not... But this is interesting: http://philipbloom.co.uk/2010/04/10/house-season-finale-shot-entirely-with-canon-5dmkii/ The TV show, House, will shoot an episode entirely on the Canon 5D. I found it interesting since several folks here have this camera and do their work on it. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Check week at blip.tv
Let me know if you guys have any questions about our services, ad sales, payments, whatever. Happy to answer any and all questions you've got -- skeptical or not. We're an open book. The only thing I can't talk about is how much specific shows made. That's their confidential information and up to them to decide whether or not to share. Youtube has a partner program that you apply to. They send the person an email whether or not they want them. The dont offer any guidelines as to why they turn people down or accept them. Seems to be based on number of views but they provide no specific benchmarks. How does blip work? Looks like anyone can turn on ads. Any other benchmarks? Do all creators get the same deal? Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Check week at blip.tv
I don't know about Blip, but as I've mentioned before, I'm a Youtube partner and I certainly make money from it, as I do from Google ads on my blog site. I'm not allowed to say how much, but it's not insignificant. Not enough to live off to be sure, but I've only got several thousand regular viewers. If you extrapolate, and my audience increased say 10 fold, I could probably do it full time and make a meager living. I know another video blogger who has roughly those audience figures, and he has mentioned that within the next year he might take it full-time if growth continues. I just hit my first anniversary video blogging too. It's been good to hear your past experience. I believe blip focuses on ads INSIDE the video (either pre-roll, mid-roll, or post-roll)...not sure if Youtube does this. Ive wondered if people are out off by ads in videos they watch. Text ads on the page seem easy enough to ignore. Is anyone here a blip partner? Does Youtube or blip make you sign a exclusive contract with them...or can you put the same content in both places to collect two checks? Just wondering how all this plays out. Dave, huge congrats on the first year anniversary. jay
Re: [videoblogging] Check week at blip.tv
That old video of yours about your mum - interrupted with your Coke ad - springs to mind, Jay - is that still online somewhere? http://momentshowing.net/2005/03/video-a-videoblog-circa-2006/ Obviously, places like blip.tv are pushing ads on shows that are the new kind of TV. Personal videos probably arent going to mesh with ads. Funny now to look at this video from 2005, when no one took online video seriously. I remember newspaper articles considered videoblogging a quaint hobby/joke. uh, haha. http://collateralmurder.com/ All the power we thought online video would have is here. Changing the conversation. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] Who cares about Ogg/Theora? Google does.
We've discussed the arcane notion that Flash might be a problem...and that an open source video codec might allow more innovation for editing tools, web presentation/interaction, and mobile devices. Looks like Google is officially diving into this idea: http://www.osnews.com/story/23135/Google_Puts_Weight_Behind_Theora_on_Mobile Remember that Google bought ON2 last year...the company who open sourced the Theora codec. If Google open sources ON2's latest version, it could really rival H264. The fact that Google is putting money behind Theora is huge. Video can be as free as the word. After praising Theora's quality and compression levels, Google states in no uncertain terms that Thoera is patent free. The overwhelming feature that makes it stand out from its rivals is the fact it's free, the company writes, Really free. Not just 'free to use in decoders', or 'free to use if you agree to this complicated license agreement', but really, honestly, genuinely, 100% free. The specification for the stream and encoder/decoder source is available for public download and can be freely used/modified by anyone. Theora was designed and is maintained with the overriding goal of avoiding patents. No other codec can come even close to claiming to be as patent or royalty free as Theora can, whilst still holding a candle to the alternatives. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Vloggercue 2010
I'm heading to a Brooklyn events space tonight at 6:30 to start planning Vloggercue 2010. The only details I have right now are that it will be in June, in Brooklyn, and free. As in free beer, free food, free video screening, free music, free love. After tonight I'll have more details to share. http://vloggercue.blogspot.com/ Ryanne and I will make it up this year. Easy reason to visit NYC again. We havent had a good videoblogging hang out in a long time. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] Check week at blip.tv
This blog post says blip.tv sent a bunch of checks to show creators. I know some folks here are also Youtube partners. It would be really great if independent producers are really getting paid. http://theblog.blip.tv/post/505915181/this-week-is-check-week-at-blip-tv-were-sending I wonder if you can post shows on Youtube and blip...getting paid for both. Are they exclusive? I also cant believe that ads actually work. If anyone here has experience as partners on blip/youtube, love to hear more info. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] how to videoblog worksheets
A friend is going to be leading a small workshop and I remember there used to be some one-sheets to help new teachers teach videoblogging. I looked around the wiki, but couldn't find them. Anyone know where they went? Here's the best that was ever collected: http://node101.pbworks.com/Teaching+Materials It's been untouched for a couple years, so some of the materials will obviously be out-of-date. Might at least help get him started. Jay
Re: [videoblogging] how to videoblog worksheets
Here's the best that was ever collected: http://node101.pbworks.com/Teaching+Materials It's been untouched for a couple years, so some of the materials will obviously be out-of-date. Might at least help get him started. By the way, you may want to contact Jen Proctor who teaches a video/film university class. She may have updated info to share. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Re: YouTube link to blog to be retired
You just add an overlay title using your video edit software. Most people put it in the intro or ending credits etc. If you want to do it the low-tech way, stick a sign in the background when you shoot your video! Exactly. Youtube also lets you create hot links that click through to other Youtube URL's which is cool. Unfortunately, you cant add links outside Youtube (assume its to avoid spam). There's ways to add this hotlinks with other software but it hasnt ever caught on. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Crash Test Kitchen checking in
A friend of mine has just made a short film using the Red format. The progressive way that the compression works sounds like it might be ideal for web video. Imagine you've got a 1GB file - if you only download the first 100MB, say, you still get the whole length of the video, but in a lower resolution. That's as I understand it, anyway. So imagine a person with a slower connection being able to view your video more or less immediately at a lower resolution, or wait for the resolution to build up. I would love to get confirmation of this fact. As Quirk said, Silverlight enables this kind of downloading..but I wonder if it can get its orgins from the actual camera you use. There has probably been a lot of discussion here about Red that I've missed! For now I'm pretty chuffed with my new HF200 and not having to juggle tapes any more. When I convert the video my old single core Dell notebook - the one we started Crash Test Kitchen with in 2004 - can still handle the editing! We havent spoken about the RED camera much here because no one has one yet (or admitted to it). We have pointed to the small RED camera that they're working on that will be pro-sumer. Currently, we've all been trading examples of what the DLSR's (Mark V/VII + Lumix) can do. A number of people here arenow using them for their video work. The SLR lenses seems to really make the difference. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] vlog research - low income/urban
Hi, I'm researching a topic that has to do with encouraging kids from low income and/or urban landscapes to express themselves with video. This could be both singly or as part of an educational program. I vaguely remember a few years ago a number of interesting projects that focused on videoblogging from both within the US and also less developed nations. Can anyone point to such projects/sites -- or does anyone know how successful such efforts have been? I'm imaging that a significant challenge would be funding such an effort and also giving access to cameras and editing software to the kids. There are a number of people from this list who have had experienced teaching videoblogging to these kinds of communities. I know Rupert taught Roma kids in England. I think Kerry is currently running a program for Somali(?) students in Ohio. Ryanne and I have taught different workshops as well. Like this: http://ryanedit.blogspot.com/2006/10/tibetan-kids-vlogging_29.html I cant think of any one place where there is a collection of material. Be great if there was. Maybe ask some more specific questions. Or others can chime in. We've had discussions here before about the problems of teaching videoblogging, especially in low income/education areas. First its difficult to get access to technology (hardware+broadband) on a regular basis. Maybe this is changing with the popularity of smart phones. Then it's a matter of the time it takes to learn how to tell stories. Editing isnt easy. People are shy. Culture clashes can be difficult. But all this is changing each year as videoblogging becomes more normal. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] SLINGERS... from the list's Mike Sizemore
So I am nerding out with a buddy who works in the comic book industry the other night and we are talking about videoblogging and indie video in general and I remembered a VERY cool sizzle reel I found late last year called SLINGERS: http://vimeo.com/7963572 and when I found the link on Vimeo I noticed some VloMo09 posts in the more from this user channel on the right... and it's from Mike Sizemore, who used to post on the list. Mike's a good guy. He's a writer out of London. You can follow him on twitter here: http://twitter.com/mikesizemore That trailer for their proposed TV show looks amazing. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] SLINGERS... from the list's Mike Sizemore
CORRECTION: The Mike Sizemore that we know is at https://twitter.com/sizemore. Jay On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: So I am nerding out with a buddy who works in the comic book industry the other night and we are talking about videoblogging and indie video in general and I remembered a VERY cool sizzle reel I found late last year called SLINGERS: http://vimeo.com/7963572 and when I found the link on Vimeo I noticed some VloMo09 posts in the more from this user channel on the right... and it's from Mike Sizemore, who used to post on the list. Mike's a good guy. He's a writer out of London. You can follow him on twitter here: http://twitter.com/mikesizemore That trailer for their proposed TV show looks amazing. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] YouTube link to blog to be retired
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=178162 I never used this feature in YouTube, but I use the automatic cross posting to my blogs from Blip.TV all the time. I guess this is one more reason I'll keep Blip.TV as my primary means of video distribution. This is weird: We will soon be retiring the ability to add and link to a blog from your YouTube Account. Even though Link to a blog will soon be retired, you still have other options to share your YouTube Activity with external sites. You can: * Embed a video / playlist in a blog or webpage. (Learn more here) * You can AutoShare your YouTube activity to Facebook, Twitter, and Google Reader. (Learn more here) It always pays to add a link to your blog INSIDE the video itself. Jay [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] VideoLan Movie Creator - Open Source Video Editor
This is the link to the software page: http://trac.videolan.org/vlmc/ Videomaker has a posted about the new open source video editing software: http://videomaker.com/community/blogs/videonews/2010/03/7232-vlc-released-new-open-source-editor Cool! The VLC guys were showing off some screenshots of the editor they were working on this past summer at the Open Video Conference. If you've ever used the VLC player, you know it plays anything you throw out it. They said their editor would similarly be able to handle any codec you put into it. This would be amazing to avoid all the transcoding we do now. Incompatible formats is what scares away beginners from editing video. I cant wait till a mac version comes out. Jay
Re: [videoblogging] Crash Test Kitchen checking in
Lenny and myself are still doing Crash Test Kitchen whenever we can, and I've got Garage Night TV on my plate as well. Still taking the lo-fi how-to approach, with some concessions to modernity - have just bought a Canon HF200 AVCHD camera and gone widescreen. Oh the joys of editing AVCHD! Actually I'm having reasonable success with Adobe Premiere Elements and Free HD Converter. http://www.crashtestkitchen.com http://www.garagenight.tv Welcome back Waz. I thin many of us have found our groove and add little new technologies as needed. i know some here are jumping into the DSLR world for video. We're about to buy one ourselves. Quality just gets better and better. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Live webvideocasting - Veetle?
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Brook Hinton bhin...@gmail.com wrote: Revisiting the whole live video thing due to stumbling across veetle.com. It seems a little too good to be true, free high quality live streaming at SD or HD with no ads and no bandwidth limits. Anyone used it? Experiences? Anything? Says its created by some students at Standford. Probably just trying to attract as many users as possible so eating all the costs now. Has anyone used this service yet? Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] AVCHD HDC-1080 PocketCam
Anyone have any data on this device purchased on eBay? Digitronics HD AVCHD HDC-1080 PocketCam Full HD 1080 8.0 Mega Pixels Arrived in mail with nothing but the pocketcam, and doesn't seem to show up on google. Plugged it into my USB but WindowsXP doesn't like it. Won't even recharge the battery. Any assistance appreciated. Ivre never heard of this camera either. I'd send it back if you can. Sorry if this is obviousbut it's best t do the research on the camera you want before you purchase. There are many good pockets cameras between $100-200 that have great support forums. Jay
Re: [videoblogging] Re: German vloggers before 2005 -- Adam Kontras
So, do you agree when I say that there were no many long-lasting videoblogs just short-dated experimental ones between 2000 and 2004? This post doesnt discuss individual people, but it does go over technical/commercial landscape of online video: http://newteevee.com/2010/01/01/the-decade-in-online-video-part-1-the-early-years/ Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Re: German vloggers before 2005 -- Adam Kontras
thanks for your answer. Actually, there were and still is the videoblog of Adam Kontras http://4tvs.com/. He already had started in 2000! But he seems to be the only one with a classic videoblog in those early days (...not to mention especially German videoblogs, I see). I spoke with Greenhorn (Ingvar: http://www.greenhornsview.blogspot.com/) but he doesn't have got a videoblog but he has some experimental videos on his site. So, do you agree when I say that there were no many long-lasting videoblogs just short-dated experimental ones between 2000 and 2004? Then, Ryanne and Steve came in. I would say that this is a true statement. When I started this Videoblogging group in 2004, I scanned the web for anyone who posted video regularly to a blog. Adrian Miles, Steve Garfield, and Chris Weagel are some of the ones I remember. Just look in the archives of this group. There were people I invited to the group who never responded. Most folks seemed to have done one experiment with video and were done. I dont think I remember Adam: http://4tvs.com/explanation.html Maybe I thought he was too popular to invite? Many of the others who joined soon after were video folks who immediately understood the idea behind videoblogging and started doing it. Remember that there were no online video services back then. Part of the fun/frustration was making it up as we went along. Compression, uploading to a server, embedding, RSS feeds. It wasn't long before Youtube and other services popped up. Video communities spread. It just had to be easy enough to get video online. Jay
Re: [videoblogging] German vloggers before 2005
I have been searching for a while but with little success. Is within our group any German vlogger who had started his vlog before 2005? The only one I could find is greenhorn and now I try to contact him via email and maybe now it works via our group... But has anyone a hint for me? Or hadn't there existed any German videoblogs before that time? Hey Jenna-- To be honest, there weren't any vloggers really anywhere before 2004. People experimented with posting video online, but Adrian Miles was the only person I found who had used a blog to post videos on any kind of regular basis. Ive never heard of greenhorn. Jay
Re: [videoblogging] laurence testud
Sorry for the spam. Banned. Jay On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 4:44 AM, Tony Pelliccio k...@yahoo.com wrote: http://asthmacare.in/annick.html -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Editing on Mac w/o Firewire...
Looks like I might be bartering for a new-ish mac 13 There is no firewire input and i was wondering how some of you dealt with that problem. I think my cams are only capable of exporting via firewire... Any help would be appreciated? I use an external hard drrive with USB and Firewire to make it work. --The computer connects through USB to Hard drive. --The camera connects through Firewire to Hard drive. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Generate your own music
I've been looking for some new intro music for my blog, and one of my viewers pointed me to this site: http://www.codeorgan.com/?url=www.eevblog.com/ It generates music based on the site contents, and it turns out my site main page generates quite good music! My site sounds like an 80's black comedy. Cool. http://www.codeorgan.com/ Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Creating (or outsourcing) title sequences for videobloggers
Today I'm swamped with a pletora of digital animation tools, and here I am staring at Final Cut Pro wondering how the heck I'm suppose to do the same thing. Are there any tools you've found to bring back the fun of making title animations (aside from fixed ones like in iMovie), or even sites where there are templates folks like me could remix from? Things havent changed. People use Aftereffects and Phtoshop to make titles...then bring those sequences into FCP. Apple does have Motion, which is FCP's copy-cat AfterEffects program. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Re: seminar filming?
My method has been to run a recorder off the board, but also mainly to have a Zoom H2 set on 2 chan surround somewhere fairly central. Then one can run it through the levelator to balance out loud and quiet. The it's just a question of mixing, or cutting between one and the other in post. We dont talk about it often, but this free software is really awesome for normalizing audio: http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] CNN iReports?
right!...I remember when I survived the China May 2008 quake and most of the hot news agencies of the world were around my interview... CNN called me for an interview about the disaster ... and I just replied -straight 2,000 USD per minute-cause I knew they make cash with free news from cyber citizens reports... and they just wanted it for free...I said NO WAY ... well, same deal with other famous media agencies in the world ... the one that really gave me a great deal was AP (associated press) How much did they pay you for what amount of video? Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Youtube thumbnail frame
http://www.youtube.com/partners http://www.youtube.com/t/partnerships_faq Quote: To become a YouTube Partner, you must meet these minimum requirements: * You create original videos suitable for online streaming. * You own or have express permission to use and monetize all audio and video content that you upload—no exceptions. * You regularly upload videos that are viewed by thousands of YouTube users, or you publish popular or commercially successful videos in other ways (such as DVDs sold online). And they are VERY strict with copyright. Tell them you make ALl your own media even the music. We mentioned we used CC-licensed music...and they sent us forms they wanted us to get signed by all parties and faxed to their office. We ended up not being Youtube Partners but seems they just want people who post regularly and are regularly popular. They sent us an invite after some of our videos started hitting 50k. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] CNN iReports?
I submitted my first two CNN iReports in the last two days, just for fun. Both times a CNN staffer called me the next day to vet them and get a quote from me that is below the video. Anyone have any feelings on iReports? Seems a nice way to embed a video on my blog, with the cool red CNN iReport on the video, but I bet they own that video now!!! So perhaps not a good hosting alternative, albeit a great ego boost. They even said if I updated an uploaded video to email them and they can swap it out with the new version. Interestingly accessible for such a big organization. It is cool they do it. I m pretty sure blip.tv built their backend so the accessibility isnt too surprising. Now to put on my cynical hat. If you post little daily life stories, itll never go on the air. What they want is to get the person who records the tornado or the school shooting. iReport is built to get the free money shot for their TV network. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] Lumiere---now on Vimeo
I just saew that Vimeo has a http://vimeo.com/groups/1minute: With the chaos of everyday life consuming our senses, it is nice to sit back and enjoy moments and experiences that are often overlooked. This project aims to study the forgotten moments and times in life that we often pass by without acknowledging. The rules: -Video must be exactly one minute long -No camera movement (no panning, tilting, etc) -No editing whatsoever -Use original sound -Tag with '1 minute' This is what Andreas and Britanny started with http://videoblogging.info/several years ago. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Show makers talk about the business of making shows
We were talking earlier last week about the trials of creating and funding a webshow: http://newmediacracy.com/2010/02/episode-6-the-return-of-new-mediacracy.html Zadi, Steve...Kent Nichols of Askaninjahave posted a LONG (2-hr) audio podcast where they talk about how they deal with show making in LA. History, process, money, deals, love, life, failure, success. Its worth a listen. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:47 AM, M. Sean Kaminsky kaminsky...@gmail.com wrote: just came across this wordpress plug-in - not sure how effective it is - but thought it was interesting: WP-PreventCopyBlogs Here's the direct link to this plugin: http://www.techtipsmaster.com/wp-preventcopyblogs.html Kid of cool if you're worried about copying. Itd be weird if a popup happened anytime someone copied a link. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] short-film ideas using a 360 degree lens
I seen 1000's of these panorama videos [1][2 I am trying to think of a story/drama that would make a 360 degree lens worth using Do you have a link to a 360 camera that you would get? jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Remember when it was all 320x240?
It's a full time living for quite a few people: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/business/media/11youtube.html I'm not quite there yet, but there's always hope! Yep, this is the article that everyone points to: YouTube declined to comment on how much money partners earned on average, partly because advertiser demand varies for different kinds of videos. But a spokesman, Aaron Zamost, said hundreds of YouTube partners are making thousands of dollars a month. At least a few are making a full-time living: Mr. Buckley said he was earning over $100,000 from YouTube advertisements. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Veoh is dead
I have to say that Dmitri has always been really friendly and nice, across many interactions over many years, and today of all days I want to wish him and everyone who worked at Veoh well. I actually think about everyone in our Web video world all those years ago as being somewhat of a pioneer. I never met Dmitri or had any interaction with him. Veoh did give a couple small sponsorships at Vloggercon and Pixelodeon. I certainly dont wish ill will towards anyone. Ive made too many mistakes in my short life to enjoy other people's failure. But it interesting to see how things are playing out. Techcrunch had a relevant article today: http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/12/online-video-vcs-wrong/ Were still in the early days of online video content and history is repeating itself. The film industry initially recreated theater and added a camera to record plays; early TV recreated radio and added a camera as well. Online video content has much room for improvement, but what is missing is the kind of investment required to create compelling content. VCs keep throwing out cliché after cliché and just show their lack of understanding of that fact. Sure, some of the aggregators such as Veoh did scale quickly but it wasnt all that defensive. Despite all of this, VCs seem to be making all of the same mistakes over and over again: investing in the technology and not in the content. This is something we've all spoken about at length. There's plenty of money for technology and ZERO money for creators. Advertising is something to watch but there's a HUGE gap between making a video series and bootstrapping its popularity long enough where you might make some money to survive. I also like the mantra: the web is not TV. Ill be sad if all this work just leads to HULU, or another place where you can watch LOST episodes. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Veoh is dead
As a viewer I remain pissed off that when I go looking for regular compelling content I usually find magazine-format programs that dont float my boat for reasons of my age, the pace of the show, or cultural incompatibilities (eg I like Americans but where the hell are the British shows not made by existing media personalities?) Please can someone cheer me up by posting a few links to some content that there is a chance I might like (it doesnt need to be British, anything but the magazine format stuff will do). All excuses aside, I agree with Eric Mortensen of blip.tv who just tweeted (https://twitter.com/ericmortensen) about creators having no excuses to not do their thing. Ultimately, creators have always been behind the ball and must sacrifice to prove their worth. This reality wont go away just because we have shiny computers. I just find it funny that VC's have wasted hundreds of millions on technology solutions to video. It's become extremely clear that it's not the problem we need solved. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Veoh is dead
I suppose one of the reasons Ive always liked non-commercial personal vlogs is that many people can be entertaining in ways that are not 'larger-than-life' that showbiz requires, that are just the same as the ways normal people have entertained eachother on a close personal level since time immemorial. But we have been somewhat spoilt by everything from talented geniuses at their prime creating brilliance, to huge personalities, epic tales and great actors and it remains very unclear to me if there is much more of that to go around. Are we just not fostering it and giving it room to grow in people, or is such potential actually rare? I admit I was hoping more would come from the partial removal of 'cocaine decisions' from the creative world but hopefully Ive just been barking up the wrong tree and some great things will happen one day or great things that are already happening will be recognised as such by me and others. I love that: cocaine decisions. Frank Zappa lives. I think we got to remember how young all this stuff is. Five years is not an eternity even in internet time. I feel lots of great things have happened. Lots of experimentation, business plans, failed business plans, amazing technology, shitty technology. At least 75% of the video I watch is now made by random people around the world. Most of that is NOT a show format. I also am more drawn to the personal/eyewitness video that get passed around in links. For instance, here's a link I just watched: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss68YWoihqs A man smashes 29 TV's in a Walmart. Much more fun than a 3-minute show on what's happening at MacWorld (for me that is). The web is not TV. That's the mantra. It probably makes sense to copy TV formats now in this transitional periodbut in 10 years, I think popular online content won't be what we think of shows now. I'm still super psyched that it's all cracked open. We still got to create on pure energy as all artists before us. As David Cross says: Shut up you fucking baby! Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Veoh is dead
Do you think its safe to try discussing the creation aspect, now that there are presumably less people participating here, and there is no longer a danger of urinating on the newborn flames of vlog hope where everything seemed possible because that time has long passed? My friend, David, coincidentally wrote a relevant post today about creators developing fans and finding alternative means of funding: http://el-oso.net/blog/archives/2010/02/11/the-creative-class-and-crowdfunding/ It's not specific about video and riffs on the 1000 True Fans theory, but still interesting to see how things are evolving. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Remember when it was all 320x240?
Originally (2006) I produced videos 320x240 @15fps. I was more conscious 4 years ago about file size. I imagined Blip blowing up with files being anything larger. :) Since then I've settled in on 480x272 as my standard output rez (16:9). If I have 4:3 video I'll normally output to 480x360. I use vpip on my wordpress site to add the videos. Over the years, I've since gone back, left the original video @ 320x240, but I have it displayed on the site at 480x360. It looks no worse than some of the stuff I see on YT. While I have my pants down telling all my dirty secrets, I've shoot everything over the past couple years in HD. I don't output in HD, just the original content is in HD. That way, I have more options down the road. I've always advocated this direction. I loved vPIP (http://vpip.org) because it let you post multiple formats so people could choose. Someone may want the full HD version, while another person can choose the smaller Flash version, or another person may want to watch the .ogv file, or someone else can watch the H264 version because they really appreciate the compression quality. vPIP also creates different RSS feeds for your different formats. This is important since different devices require different formats since we're still in days of the codec war. I've always been surprised vPIP hasnt been more popular, or someone hasn't copied it's features.I guess because it takes more work to post multiple formats, but I think its a nice option until there's some standardization. I also still post smaller sized videos online...but keep higher quality archives for the future. I'd rather people watch a slightly slower quality video than click away because they dont want to watch for the 720HD version to download. That being said, David's work at http://www.eevblog.com/ is extremely appealing to a very specific group of people. Someone who likes to take apart electronics will wait to download the HD version if that's their only choice. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Veoh is dead
http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20100211/veoh-finally-calls-it-quits-layoffs-yesterday-bankruptcy-filing-soon/- I never really used them, but thought y'all would find this interesting nonetheless... I dont know anyone who used them to host videos. Not exactly sure who their users were. Kind of reminded me of Revver, another online video hosting company to go bankrupt. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Veoh is dead
Did some brief trawling through the archives of this group circa 2005-2006 and saw one reason why I remember Veoh - Their founder was active here when they started, and the Halycon bloke with pink hair rather overpromoted them on this group from time to time. Those were the days when you could literally watch almost every video posted each day. It was in the hundreds. Veoh decided to import, transcode, and reupload everyone's videos to Veoh one night. I bet it was before a funding meeting so they wanted to show how popular they were. Dmitry came on the list and made peace by deleting all the videos they imported. It was this incident that had a group of us create this best practices for hosting sites: http://videoblogginggroup.pbworks.com/Best+Practices+for+Aggregation+Sites I dont see sites do this anymore (reuploading people's videos). Maybe Im not just aware of it. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Remember when it was all 320x240?
HD is not their only choice. I use an embedded YouTube player which defaults to 360p, the user must then manually chose 480p or 720p if they way higher res. If they subscribe to my podcast with iTunes or whatever they get a separate 480x272 version. About half my audience subscribe and watch directly via my YouTube channel, which again defaults to 360p. So my available HD content uses no more bandwidth than anyone else's blog or video, unless the user decides that's what they want. I didnt know Youtube did all this these days. This is great. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Remember when it was all 320x240?
I would guess that its partly the extra work the publisher has to go through like you say, but also some other technical issues to do with how the plugin works in practice, along with whatever the story is regarding what happened to ShowInABox and other video module plugins that it tried to promote, most of which Ive long since forgotten. What remains active of these prior efforts? There was some very nice functionality in these things but they needed polishing to gain wider use. People got understandably burnt out developing themes and plugins. Also it was a time when Wordpress was updating itself every couple weeks. Too difficult to keep up. Eric (aka UnholyKnight) was cool enough to update recently the plugins for the latest Wordpress: http://unholyknight.com/VideoWrangler/ But as youve mentioned, commercial services have come along way to providing the services people want. David Jones just clued me into how easy Youtube has made viewing. Upload one version and they trasncode into multiple formats, plus seem to provide different RSS feeds for different devices. That's all we were ever trying to do with http://showinabox.tv/ I wanted stuff to evolve whereby people could mix a variety of different services from different companies together in a standard and modulaar way, where it would be trivial to switch service providers for any part of the system without having a nightmare, where the user had full control over their data, and where there was still room for indie developers to add functionality to the basic service offerings. Well in reality we sometimes get sort of some of the above, but not in a way that makes me feel there is a cohesive platform I can build on without placing undue trust on a single corporate platform such as writing a facebook app or whatever. I always wanted to build a frontend for Amazon S3. It'd be an app that connected to your S3 account. You'd just drag a video into the app...and it'd transcode and upload the video into multiple versions. It'd provide a nice interface to your library of videos, including DV/HD copies of all your work. Hosting is cheap enough to do this. So instead of relying on free commercial hosting sites, you'd have control. Not sure if many people want this control though. Youtube makes it so easy. Plus some people seem to actually be making money from Adsense through Youtube. Never mind, personally Im hungry to work on something so shall likely return to Drupal and see what can be done with that in conjunction with video hosting services html5. I like the possibilities in HTML5. What will be interesting is if we can find different ways to tell stories beyond just a short video posted in a Flash player. All this could be more than just TV on the internet. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] XDCAM + FCP
If anyone here has experience working with Sony's XDCAM video files and FCP, please email me offlist. I have a colleague who's stuck and has a couple questions that she can't find anywhere online. She seems to have stumped everyone with her issue. Thanks in advanced. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] YouTube Live Streaming Video
I watched the Google Buzz launch video today, and noticed it was live streamed over YouTube. I had not heard of them offering a live streaming service. Is this something new or am I just late to the party as usual? I havent seen a Youtube streaming service. They probably just use it internally since they have the servers and engineers. Could obviously be testing for a public release as well. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Zoom H4N Audio Recorder
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Brook Hinton bhin...@gmail.com wrote: Excellent resources and info, Rob, thanks! Should go in the wiki if its still around... Jay? (I can't find the link for some reason). Here it is: http://videoblogginggroup.pbworks.com/ We started this wiki several years ago to remember useful links or explanations. Please add/edit as necessary. Sometimes it's useful when someone asks a question that was answered in detail in previous messages. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] Remember when it was all 320x240?
well, Vimeo just announced that it's added 1080p with ACCHD support (for Vimeo Plus members). http://www.studiodaily.com/blog/?p=2568 Youtube did this in the fall but it's not becoming common. I have a pretty decent mac and it can barely handle playback. But it was just 4 years ago when people complained of their computes choking on 320x240 videos. Bandwidth was slow and processing power limited. Just a matter of time before the groupBorgmind upgrades itself. Really really beautiful images at 1080p. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Remember when it was all 320x240?
They don't make you an HD flash version but blip has always supported any size file you want to put up there. You can just add a 1080p file (along with lots of other formats) when you upload. Thats why blip is good. They are almost completely format agnostic. For instance, I use always blip when I need to post an mp3. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Re: H264 still free till 2016
They still gain in other ways by having h.264 as the standard, ie they get larger payments from companies that distribute a lot of video, sell video, make hardware software that encodes decodes, etc etc. The end user or small creator still ends up paying in the form of a small chunk of the cost of things they buy, or a small percentage of the cut that the video host/distributor takes, but if done right its such a small amount that hardly anyone notices, and those who dont have the means of paying are not chased by the brain police or completely locked out of the online video revolution. Yes, someone just watching video online or editing with commercial software will see no change. But if we wanted to create our own video editing software or transcoder, we would have to pay licensing fees to use H264. If H264 is the default standard, then any grassroots solution will necessarily be illegal. This is why Firefox is pushing for Ogg/Theora to be widely adopted since they cannot afford to pay a licensing fee for each Firefox install. This is also why awesome video projects like http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ are created by somewhat shadow groups who put plenty of blood, sweat and tears into their projects...but cannot really by public about it. If H264 is the standard then it cuts out any player who cant pay. At the same time, the creators of H264 have every right to insist on payment for their team of engineers who create a beautiful codec. Just like a pharmaceutical company has every moral right to charge for medicine they research and produce. It's also like Microsoft's Internet Explorer. For a while it was the default browser because they pushed it onto all computers that were bought with Windows. The browser was free to the user, right? Who cares? Defacto standard. Of course we learned that a closed browser stifled innovation and added cost onto the cost of each computer bought. It took quite a battle legally and technically to get people to undestand that O! if the browser is open, then thousands of developers will extend its usability, and make it all much cooler. And in order for this to happen, there cannot be a fee to play. Will be interesting to see what Mozilla do with firefox, and the youtube html5 test and ipad have stirred up a heck of a lot of online discussion about these issues recently, time will tell if this leads to anything useful or remains mostly hot air. Yeah, its good for H264 to extend their freeness till 2016 since they can continue to get inside of all devices. But it also gives Mozilla, google, and others time to develop an alternative codec if they so choose. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Chad Boeninger cfboenin...@gmail.com wrote: I recently discovered that it's been happening to me as well. Take a look at my post here http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/businessblog/2010/01/27/a-day-in-the-life-of-librarian/ and see the striking similarities here http://www.dreambusinesscoach.com/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-librarian/ . Granted, the site does link back to the original post, but I still feel a bit violated. Dave's example is really extreme form of a splog. Its actually nicely designed as well. Looks real and not just a scrape trying to pull links. When this group first started when online video was very new, there were a lot of sites popping up scraping and aggregating video. Often they'd just grab RSS feeds and suddenly have instant content. We came up with a list of best practices that helped set the tone for what was acceptable: http://videoblogginggroup.pbworks.com/Best+Practices+for+Aggregation+Sites Dave, keep us up to date with what happens. As others have suggested, take a deep breath and take it step by step. If this guy gets some formal letters from an attorney...you may be surprised how quickly it goes away. Im surprised he has the domain in his own name. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] H264 still free till 2016
Steve of Elbows has mentioned this day several times. H264 will now officially be royalty free to users for a little while longer. My cynical read: they're trying to make sure H264 is the video standard online...then they can charge out the wazoo. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/03/1528242/MPEG-LA-Extends-H264-Royalty-Free-Period The MPEG LA has extended their royalty-free license (PDF) for 'Internet Video that is free to end users' until the end of 2016. This means webmasters who are registered MPEG LA licensees will not have to pay a royalty to stream H.264 video for the next six years. However the last patent in the H.264 portfolio expires in 2028, and the MPEG LA has not released what fees, if any, it will charge webmasters after this 'free trial' period is over. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] VlogEurope 2010 - Lisbon.
VlogEurope 2010 - Lisbon. I've had this on my mind for some time, and now is as good a time as any to start spreading the word and getting people to find time in their schedule to make it to Portugal in November. So why VlogEurope 2010 - Lisbon? Portugal is easily reachable from both sides of the Atlantic, and if I had my way the event would mix up as much of the world as possible. It's not expensive to fly here, and accommodations are reasonable by European standards. What will happen? For me VlogEurope should be about what the people attending want to do, but judging from previous editions the main thing will be about having people together in a big session of vlog fun, and discovering the city. Lisbon has seen a boom of really nice hostels, and since that turned out good in Budapest, shouldn't we try something like that here? There will be lots to see after, and also to eat and drink. Trust me ;). Just trying to start the conversation and get some feedback. But we're on! Hey Miguel...I notice no one has answered this message yet. Might be better to post on vlogeur...@yahoogroups.com. Not sure how many US citizens can afford to travel overseas right now. Tough financial times and an uncertain future. Not sure what the atmosphere is like in Europe. But I love the idea of an event in Portugal. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] youtube sound
So..now that I edited the video and uploaded to the Youtube I'm experiencing some sort of video behind the sound issue. The raw compressed file is looking good, but when I upload it to Youtube, the visual goes faster than the sound. Is it just me or Youtube doing smth wrong today? Have you had any issues like that? I did fix the raw sound to reduce the hum. Could that be doing something to the video on Youtube? It'd be helpful if you send a link to the Youtube video so we can see it. Also be good to know how you compressed the video and fixed the sound. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Correct subject lines (was Re: [videoblogging] Turnhere free videos)
Just a quick note as the moderator of this list. I notice that we have a thread here under Turnhere free videos, yet none of the discussions are about Turnhere. Please appease my obsessive compulsive behavior and start a new email thread with a new subject heading when changing topics. This helps make the conversations understandable in our email inboxes. Jay On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Tom Dolan tomjdo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Been looking @ some video blog sites and comparing to the one I'm building. I've imported two short videos I made, from YouTube just to chk compatibility, etc. They appear in a list format on the Home page/ Blog and I can add commentary if I choose so far so good. But now, I've been looking at other vid-blogs and some have a Player with selections in a list connected to the player either under the Player or to the side of the Player. Do you think that's a better format than the more traditional 'blog' style where each is listed in its own space? I know, content is important, nevertheless, I'd like to give the visitor a format that is user friendly but surprise them with the content. Opinions pleze. BTW, Richard Harrington likes lijit. So I checked it out. Thought OK, so I installed configured it as small, non-intrusive, no ads. Kinda neat, but the search on my site either had ads, or worse, if the subject was not found on my site it offered off-site locations...excse me! I deactivated the plugin, wrote lijit support with ??'s and awaiting response. I don't want ads at least for awhile. So back to WordPress Search for now and I'm ok with it. Any experience w/lijit or opinions? Inspirational Vid-blogs I should check-out? Thanx. Tom Dolan tomjdo...@gmail.com -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Political Video Project
Is the Political Video Project still going? I see politicalvideo.org only goes as far as 2007 or so. Problem is I need video from the past year because I plan on capitalizing on President Obama's hopeful plans to change Washington (And call him his staff on the carpet on a few things at the same time) by making a remix viral video posting it to my political blog. So I suppose the bigger question now (Given all the issues at stake) is what (If anything) is being done to somehow continue (Or preserve) videos from the Obama Administration? In my opinion, we shouldn't stop preserving videos simply because we've changed Presidents in the past year. That's lame. All political speech should be available no matter what party is in power. http://politicalvideo.org started because you couldn't easily get access to President Bush's speeches. All his videos were locked in REAL or streaming Windows format. Several of us spent a week scraping Bush's presidential site, transcoding the video archive, and reposting online in a searchable format. Obama's administration has greatly diminished the need for hacking to get access. Here are high-quality photos you can download posted daily: http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse. His speeches are posted online, including a downloadable mp4 and mp3: http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/weekly-address-reining-budget-deficits I would like to see even more transparency beyond just access to videos in the political process. http://sunlightfoundation.com/ is a good advocacy group to check out. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Non-XLR hand held Microphone
Someone linked to the AudioTechnica website but I'm not sure what they were exactly trying to link to. They have good quality, affordable mics that use the 1/4 jack. Do some searching. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Re: avoiding/cleaning hum noise
I have a question about lavaliere. For interviews, is it better to use this type of mic.? Does it pick up less ambient sound. What about if I film outside with it..what noises does it pick up? If I filmed outside with a lavaliere and if it didn't pick up enough outside noise, maybe it wouldn't give the real sense of the environment? I don't know. Or is it enough to use the shot mic that I have and just mount it on a boom pole (any recommendations on which are good?) as close to the object as possible? I wouldnt overthink it. We use a wireless lavalier when we have time to hook it up to the person. It sounds awesome even in the noisiest of places. Plus it lets the person take us on walks without losing any sound. If we cant use a lavalier, we use a shotgun mic mounted to the camera. Whatever the camera points at, the sound is excellent. As always, just jump in. Experience will give you the answers. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Re: 2010 the year of the tablet?
I've been shooting video and editing it or broadcasting it live from my HP Compaq TC1100 tablet for nearly 4 years. A lot of my shooting is on building construction and restoration sites, so the highly portable tablet form factor is extraordinarily useful. Shoot in the morning, edit over lunch and post it. Or, when operating live over wireless with no cables at all, bluetooth from cam to tablet, wifi from tablet to the internet direct. Video Reports from the Field: http://www.historichomeworks.com/hhw/video/rftf.htm Youve been documenting your woodworking since I can remember. Never knew it was on a tablet. Your videos are the perfect example of how niche content works the best for online video. I doubt a million people would find a 17-minute video on scraping paint popular, but the people who are into restoring old homes must LOVE your videos. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Non-XLR hand held Microphone
I am looking for a traditional hand held microphone to use for man-on-the-street news interviews. Everything I can find is either an XLR mic or a toy. I have a Panasonic TM300 which is a nice small camera but has a traditional 1/4 microphone jack. I know there are XLR converters which would be fine but all the ones I have seen are super huge and bulky, which kind of defeats the purpose of the small camera. So can anyone suggest a decent microphone with the right connector or a small XLR converter? Thanks. As Richard suggested, we used to use a 1/4-XLR adapter since any serious mic seems to be XLR. But I have used http://www.audio-technica.com that had a 1/4 plug. Worked well. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Re: avoiding/cleaning hum noise
I've been practicing a lot with the camera over these past days to try to figure out where the problem may be and I think that it's camera that makes this noise. I tried mic mounted on it, further from it-on a tripod..it still gave that hum sound. Even when the mic was off, I could still see the level of noise on my camera showing up. So I'm not sure if the jack is bad or if the camera is too loud in general. I think any further discussion on your hum problem would require us all to see/hear a clip from this camera. Could be all kinds of things. Youd be surprised how keenly sensitive this group will be if they can actually hear the hum. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] avoiding/cleaning hum noise
I would like to know how you manage to record a sound with minimum hum in a room environment. I have a good microphone that I use for my filming, but I always get a huge hum sound if I film inside. What camera do you use, or where do you place your mic? Some cameras are notorious for their loud tape mechanism. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Learn from GIF's
And as for the open video alliance video you posted recently - more fine lofty words but there is more vagueness and blending of all the different sorts of 'open' into one thing in order to demonstrate why open is important, but its a bit misleading really, because the theora stuff has nothing to do with the copyright other open issues they mention. And the case that we should use open standards to avoid costly barriers to entry would carry more weight with me if it bore much relation to the reality right now, eg if there were many video hardware software tools that actually used the open standards well, and no cheap h264 tools, but thats not actually the case. Chris Blizzard was clear that Ogg/Theora is not the holy grail: http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2010/01/html5-video-and-h-264-what-history-tells-us-and-why-were-standing-with-the-web/ Many of you might notice that I havent talked much about Theora or Vorbis. In fact some of you might read this post as me throwing them under the bus. That couldnt be further from the truth. What Ive really been talking about is one part of a larger ecosystem. What the web is really asking for is a codec that is implemented everywhere, that competes well on quality and doesnt come with GIF-like surprises. Theora and Vorbis fit every part of this bill. You can actually use them on all of the desktop browsers, either via native support or via a Java plugin that actually works pretty well. But given the situation with (possible) submarine patents (in .ogv) it would actually be a good idea for us to have more than one royalty-free codec available for browser vendors, site owners and content publishers. That way if one of them turns out to have issues, you just turn one of them off and continue to use the other one Thats why I think that if Google did offer a new codec that it would make a wonderful addition to the list of codecs we could use on the web. And if they want to use it on Youtube and other Google sites, thats great. But its good to have other options in the wings. There is certainly a lot of lofty philosophical talk happening right now around Open Video. Even that term is being inserted into relevant conversations so people start relaizing that there is a different being Open and Closed video. Its a slow education process. Ultimately most things start with philosophy and, if based in logic, move to reality. Its still pretty amazing to me that Ogg/Theora is even in play. There are literally just a couple dudes who work kind-of fulltime on the codec. Compare that to the x-number of fulltime employees working on Flash and H264 stuff. As all these recent articles point out, everyone is waiting on Google to make the big play. Will they stick with H264/Flash and pay whatever license fees will be required to run Youtube and their emerging mobile phones? Or was their purchase of On2 (makers of .ogv) show they feel web video is a vital part of the web and refuse to give up that control to Adobe or the MPLA. We will see Steve! Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] VIDEO: why open video?
This is a really nice video explaining why the tools of video need to be more open: http://openvideoalliance.org/why-open-video/ Stuff we've talked about here, but another step to making the vision more clear. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Winkball.com - new British vlogging service
The iSight is about as good as it gets. You'll have trouble importing hi-8 into your Mac, unless you want to fork out for final cut pro and an analogue/digital converter box. Would be cheaper and much better just to buy a Kodak Zi8 or a Flip Mino HD for $100-200. Or even the previous version of either: the Zi6 or the Flip SD, for slightly less. I agree with Rupert that you can certainly capture a hi8 video onto your computer with converters...but you'll cause yourself a lot of headache. Be easier to just invest in an inexpensive, high quality DV camera. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] Mozilla explains why Firefox doesnt support H264
Mozilla's VP-of-Engineering explains on his blog: http://shaver.off.net/diary/2010/01/23/html5-video-and-codecs/ Vimeo and YouTube seem to believe that reliance on proprietary plugins for video is a problem on the web. Mozilla believes that reliance on patent-encumbered formats is a problem on the web. Whos right? Both groups are, in this case; that we can attack, from different perspectives, the multifacted problem of freeing video on the web is an example of the distributed innovation that has made the web such a powerful and popular platform. For Mozilla, H.264 is not currently a suitable technology choice. In many countries, it is a patented technology, meaning that it is illegal to use without paying license fees to the MPEG-LA. Without such a license, it is not legal to use or distribute software that produces or consumes H.264-encoded content. Indeed, even distributing H.264 content over the internet or broadcasting it over the airwaves requires the consent of the MPEG-LA, and the current fee exemption for free-to-the-viewer internet delivery is only in effect until the end of 2010. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
