[videoblogging] Re: Where to Host Videos Now that My Beloved Blip.tv Doesn't Love Me Anymore
Have you looked into SmugMug? http://www.smugmug.com I know a lot of people that were disappointed with Vimeo TOS have gone there. I don't know much about it personally. A. Valdez http://wreckandsalvage.com http://aaronvaldez.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Adam Warner awarne...@... wrote: Hi all, I'm disappointed to learn that Blip.tv is discouraging me from hosting my videos. I'm especially disappointed because I have been using Blip since the beta days (under two accounts). I feel like I've just been kicked in the gut. This email to the group is intended to ask your opinion on whether I should continue with Blip.tv and if not, I would really appreciate your opinions on alternatives for hosting my videos as it relates to my requirements to keep some private and some public. Here are the details. I am developing a new site which will contain a lot of video. While I was poking around in my Blip.tv account I happened across their FAQ and saw something that I wanted to get some further information on before I started hosting hundreds of videos. I sent Blip.tv this message through their contact form: I have a Pro account and have been using it mostly for testing some video tutorials I've been making. The reason (I'm paying) for the Blip Pro account is because of the private feature and the ability to turn off embedding in the player settings. While browsing around in the Dashboard today I came across the content policy and it has me a bit worried as it may relate to my intended usage of Blips service. I hope you can clear things up and advise. My intention is to utilize my Blip account to continue to host my tutorial videos for a learning site in development. The site is named LearnWebTools and is located at http://learnwebtools.com. The site's focus will be to provide video tutorials on various web technologies. My desire is for some of these videos to only be available on this site (ones marked as private), and some to be available to through the show page (ones marked as public) and to take advantage of your video distribution service. I am looking for verification from Blip as to whether or not my intended usage constitutes a show in Blip's terms and if not, what steps I would need to take to become compliant. The first reply from Blip Support: Thanks for reaching out. We are a free platform, provided your content meets our terms of service. We are not a good solution for marketing or commercial videos. See our Terms of Service: Prohibited Content section, fourth bullet. You can read this at http://www.blip.tv/tos It looks like you have a really interesting business, and I hope you find a good match for a service provider. Best to you in your endeavors! ***Fourth Bullet of the tos says this*** Content that has as its sole or primary purpose to advertise a particular product or service that, in the sole judgment of Blip.tv, does not otherwise have redeeming value to the community. Blip.tv may allow the uploading of some such content for a fee, at its sole discretion. Such advertising content may be treated differently than other content (i.e. through indications that it is an advertisement, or exclusion from some indices or searches). I replied with this: I'm not sure I was clear on my intent. My intent is to create a show that showcases my video tutorials. It wouldn't be a show in terms of actors and such, more of a helpful Reality show. It is not to market commercial videos. I was asking if this would be considered a show under the Blip tos? I really do hope I can continue to use the Blip.tv service. ...and received this response: We're not a good solution for screencasts. If it is determined a tutorial is meant as advertisement for a product the account would be removed. Is it just me, or am I being misunderstood by this support person? If you do a simple search for tutorials or better yet screencasts, you will see many examples of tutorial screencast shows. Maybe the issue is that I actually asked permission? I'm just so disappointed. I plan to reply to the latest response with some further questioning (and perhaps begging), or maybe someone from Blip will see this and chime in (Mike do you still read these threads?) I welcome your thoughts everyone, and if I'm just plain wrong in my thinking that I should be able to continue using Blip, then so be it. I'll start looking for alternative ways to host my videos. Maybe I should go with the FlowPlayer route and just host my own? Sincerely, Adam W. Warner http://LearnWebTools.com http://WordPressModder.org My Recommended Web Hosting [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Kodak Zi8 for blogging?
I ended up with a Zi8 after exploring options for a small video camera. I really wanted a camera that fit in my pocket, handled 16:9, didn't require phone contracts, and claimed to be HD. I shoot mostly outside and love that I can always have a camera on me now. Like Gena noted the shake on these cameras is very bad handheld so you have to figure out ways to work around it. I bought a small Gorillapod to take out when I know I want to shoot something locked down for long durations or creatively attach the camera to something. http://joby.com/ Otherwise I just shoot short bursts and sometimes smooth short shots out in post. My last two posts use the zi8 http://blog.aaronvaldez.com/ Seems like a great choice if you are upgrading from a webcam setup at home and want to use external mics. Steve Garfield has some tests with mics on his site. http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2009/09/kodak-zi8-entry-level-mic-tests.html Is there anyway to use mirrors to bounce the display around so you can see it? As with anything D.I.Y. it should be at least 10x bigger than the camera itself.
[videoblogging] Re: working w/video from multiple sources
How about converting everything to Apple ProRes? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, greg e...@... wrote: Hello, i could use some help regarding video shot from a variety of sources, which i'd like to bring all together and edit on Final Cut Pro 6, ultimately output and compressed to a few different formats: quicktime H264 for my own website (and for iPod), flash for YouTube, and then of course the ability to burn to DVD in high quality. The output/compression shouldn't be a problem for me. Its the choice of codec for importing and working with multiple sources that seems confounding (!)... wanting to maintain decent quality without too many rendering stages, and not bogging down the computer... my multiple sources include: - Canon HV30 mini-DV camcorder, shooting in either HD or DV mode - Sony TRV950 mini-DV camcorder in DV mode - shooting blog-type video in Quicktime from my Apple MacBook's internal camera, which uses h264 640x480 millions 16.7 FPS / AAC stereo 44.1 - capturing to disk from Wirecast video streaming software, which uses a strange codec suffix i've never seen before f4v, but it think its also h264.. and the highest-quality option i could choose came out as 720x540 millions 22.1 FPS / AAC stereo 44.1 (wondering where these arbitrary frame per second rates come from?) - a friend's portable video camera which puts out Apple MPEG-2 SD Camcorder Video 720x576 (1024x576) 16-bit Little Endian 48k... (pretty low quality) I'd imagine that i have to pick one codec to edit with and then batch- process all my clips ahead of time, and then import them into FCP. I have a recent MacBook Pro 2.93ghz and firewire 800 hard drives, so processing power is probably not too much of an issue; however, HD footage probably only makes up 25% of my clips, so i don't think its necessary to choose HD as my codec of choice (as it tends to take quite a while to render!)... Any suggestions? Part 2: Sometimes i'd like to simply edit the Quicktime/Macbook or Wirecast H264 video all by itself, within its native codec, so there's less chance of loss (and less time converting files). Using Final Cut 6, when you drag a captured clip into a sequence, it 'sometimes' prompts you to see if you want to change the sequence settings to that of the clip... cool... but: for some reason it still often requires a rending stage, and its usually the audio weird... why? is AAC a problem? also, sometimes the imported movie has serious audio drift, which gets worse the later you go in the file...and so it doesn't appear like an easy shift would fix it. Any idea what's going on here? Thanks in advance for any help, suggestions or links Greg [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: This is kind of kick ass
I found all of his work be pretty refreshing. He's taking the approach that can be found in all disciplines of understanding the materials and exploring the essence of the medium. Obviously much of the work plays on the use embed feature. He takes something created for the purpose of sharing/distribution and manipulates it into something unintended, unexpected. I also like the play on perceived motion. I've seen this done on Super 8 film by Canadian filmmaker John Porter in the early 80's. As seen on this list, someone can tell you how this is done technically. It isn't exactly revolutionary yet it requires an artist to explore its possibilities. One other thing, I've never understood the too much free time statement. It's such an ugly, judgmental thing to say. It makes no sense. Most people are driven to make art or videoblogs or play golf or whatever because they're driven by it not because they don't have anything to do. I've gotten this statement a few times in the past so this isn't directed directly to you David. Also it's something I only hear applied to art. I'm trying to imagine walking up to somebody playing with their kid in the park and saying You've got too much free time on your hands. Other artists I like in this area: Oliver Laric http://oliverlaric.com/ Spirit Surfers http://spiritsurfers.net And Jay Dedman pointed to this brilliant morsel this morning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVm_HJ_ax8oeurl Aaron Valdez Wreck Salvage --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Terranova [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He also has a lot of free time by the looks of it. Some people just have the free time part, yet get considered as artists by making [time-consuming but not-so-clever] gimmicks. Nothing wrong with that. It¹s just fascinating who gets considered artists sometimes. I don¹t really know much about this guy, so I may be wrong in including him in this generalization... -- David Terranova davidterranova.com From: T.Whid [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:41:58 -0400 To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] This is kind of kick ass The creator's name is John Michael Boling http://johnmichaelboling.com/ He's an artist that creates all sorts of clever web visual/cultural things. On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Brook Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:bhinton%40gmail.com wrote: www.gogle.com is a wonder. On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:38 AM, Kath O'Donnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:aliak77%40gmail.com wrote: makes it hard to click play though unless you're on a slow connection! marquee direction=leftobject width=425 height=350param name=movie value=http://www.youtube.com/v/3ccvfwbe8- E/paramparam name=wmode value=transparent/paramembed src=http://www.youtube.com/v/3ccvfwbe8-Eautoplay=1loop=1 http://www.youtube.com/v/3ccvfwbe8-Eamp;autoplay=1amp;loop=1 type=application/x-shockwave-flash wmode=transparent width=425 height=350/embed/object/marquee I would love to know how this is done. -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Total Recut Video Remix Challenge
For anyone interested in mashups, remixes, or Creative Commons, Total Recut http://totalrecut.com is running a short remix video contest. They've lined up some great judges (Lawrence Lessig, Kembrew McLeod, and Mark Hosler among others) and prizes for the winners (looks like specifics are TBA). You can read more about it here http://www.totalrecut.com/contest1.php Aaron Valdez http://wreckandsalvage.com
[videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo Screening was Fun!!!
Thanks to all the UK folks for promoting O.G. videoblogging in the terrestrial world. Beth! Rupert! Croma! --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, ryanne hodson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rupert, beth tilston and robert croma put on a great event here in brighton, uk such a great variety of work from so many people! i made a video about it (and the next day) http://ryanedit.blogspot.com/2008/01/brighton-days-4-and-5-navlopomo.html the screening happened at The Werks which is a co-working space here in brighton! http://coworking.pbwiki.com/CoworkingBrighton w00t for uk geeks! -- Me http://RyanEdit.com Twitter--http://twitter.com/Ryanne Documenting Green http://RyanIsHungry.com Educate http://FreeVlog.org iChat/AIM VideoRodeo [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Fair Use (was: being a youtube star)
Chalk one up for the good guys. Gotta keep the Monkey Minds and Lizard Brains in check. Way to respond. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still say her own videos would benefit greatly if she added that friggin' cartoon butterfly to all of them. Chris --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman jay.dedman@ wrote: On Jan 3, 2008 1:44 PM, noel hidalgo noel@ wrote: i just love the most recent video... holysnappers! it's time for a blog war!!! http://www.detrimentalinformation.com/2008/01/my_legal_struggle_with_christi.html It's like an epic battle of foes. Im glad it all worked out and everyone came to their senses. Videobloggers/Youtubers should be able to use each other's work for parody, comment, etc with appropriate attribution. just like text blogs, newspapers, and books. Jay
[videoblogging] Re: Copyright and fair use... it ain't over yet.
While fair use laws favor using less... In a parody, the parodist is borrowing in order to comment upon the original work. A parodist is permitted to borrow quite a bit, even the heart of the original work, in order to conjure up the original work. That's because, as the Supreme Court has acknowledged, the heart is also what most readily conjures up the [original] for parody, and it is the heart at which parody takes aim. (Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music , 510 U.S. 569 (1994).) There's no 3-second rule in copyright, I think that's only when you drop something on the floor. People have been sued for less and cleared for more. There is no magical number. Seems to me that this is all about John's video popping up under related videos when people watch her videos. They just can't stand it. Copyright is the side issue. So let's admit what the real problem is, discuss our feelings, and figure out how we can heal one another? Sorry, I watched a few of her videos. Just as it isn't in anyone's best interest to go to court, I think the same can be said for messing with people who have the capability of posting much weirder (debatable) and copyright compliant video responses to the University's YouTube videos. We could make a month of it.
[videoblogging] Re: Last Next To Heaven of Season 1
Congrats on the milestone. I'm surprised you lasted this long with the heroin addiction and that out of control daughter of yours. There's a subgroup of the Prelinger Archives of creative work made with their footage if anyone is interested. http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger_mashups Only good can come from making crazy creative shit and throwing it out there. Method to madness.
[videoblogging] Re: YouTube: This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.
Too long? What's the limit, 10 min unless you have a director's account? I don't think sponsorships are an issue. We've haven't had any problems with it. -- Aaron Valdez http://www.wreckandsalvage.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Garfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A video I posted to YouTube for Spices of life was taken down. --- This video has been removed due to terms of use violation. Pyramid on a Plate #2: Healthy American Food Exposed http://spicesoflife.com/2007/05/25/pyramid-on-a-plate-2-healthy- american-food/ or http://tinyurl.com/yt99a8 --- When I emailed YouTube, I get this message back from them: --- It looks like you didn't go through our Help Center before sending this message! We're unable to personally respond to this email. By looking through our Help Center, you may be able to find a solution to the problem you're experiencing. You'll also be able to gather more information that will be needed for us to best assist you. Check out our Help Center here: http://www.google.com/support/youtube/ --- I'm not sure why they took this down, and would like to talk to a YouTube person to find out why. Could it be because our video has a sponsor? Thanks, --Steve -- Steve Garfield http://SteveGarfield.com
[videoblogging] The most boring videoblog ever now accepting videos! (yawn)
My videoblog Blandlands, the most boring videoblog ever created, is now taking submissions though I hate using the terms accepting videos and taking submissions. I have been slowly filming boring landscapes (the only way to do it) for the last few months. A few people have sent me videos saying thinking of you. So there, I now have this technononological html thing that transforms blanks into email and it's very official! So send me something if you are inspired by outlet malls, traffic islands, and little people in the big world. Think of it as sending me a crummy postcard. Main page for inspiration and guidance http://blandlands.com Submission page http://blandlands.com/your_blandlands.htm I guarantee tens of people will watch and be bored to death by your video. I have the stats to back this up. Aaron Valdez http://www.aaronvaldez.com
[videoblogging] Re: camera advice
All nice cameras. The XL2 is the bulkier of the bunch but there's the option of interchangeable lenses if you need it. I don't think the PD170 has the 24P option or other frame rate modes other than a movie mode. The Sony and Panasonic come with XLR ins and the Canon requires an attachment accessory to go from mini-ins to XLR. The XL2 doesn't have a flip out viewfinder and the eyepiece viewfinder is color and not the best for critical focusing. I would decide between the Sony and Panasonic unless the interchangeable lens thing is a major factor. I haven't used the Panasonic so maybe someone else could chime in? Looks like you get XLR inputs and frame rates. Wondering how image quality and low light shooting compare? Any other Panasonic drawbacks? XXXOOO Aaron Valdez --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, josheklow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm shopping around for a new camera for vlogging as well as other video projects. I've been looking at the Canon XL2, the Panasonic DVX100B, and the Sony PD170. I'm going to be trying these cameras out before I make any purchase, but I figured that this group would be a good source of advice on these or other cameras.
[videoblogging] Re: New blip.tv show player
Grace at http://www.fearlesscooking.tv used it in her new post. I like the built in episode guide. The text for the episode description is a bit small (in terms of my parents being able to read it!). It'd be nice if there was a clearer Commenting Link. I may have missed it but I think now you have to click on Read More About This Post on Blip. Maybe we'll see a shift from blog structured websites to more emphasis on custom site design around a single embedded player. Variety would be nice, the blog structure isn't really ideal for all. Neato. AV http://www.aaronvaldez.com --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds quite interesting, anybody tried it yet? Some details here: http://blog.blip.tv/blog/ Cheers Steve Elbows
[videoblogging] Re: New blip.tv show player
Verdilicious - Points well taken. I think the blog format isn't for everyone. I've switched one of my three videoblogs back over to standard site because I found I didn't need things like commenting, permalinks, or categories. I use my blip acct to update RSS subscribers on this site. My other two sites that include a big chunk of text and photos along with video in their posts are meant for a blog format. Like anything I think people should evaluate what they are doing, what they want to do and find the best suitable format. (It would be nice to have a customizable player sort of like wordpress widgets where you can pick and choose what elements are included on your player.) AV --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Verdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aaron Steve - you bring up some good points. I do think options for people are important and I do like the ability to look through an archive but the price is that you loose all the other benefits of a blog - permalinks, comments, context, choice of video size and formats. That player is really built on the idea that your blip.tv blog is your blog. So it only shows and links back to your blog posts on blip. Comments? They have to go on the blip blog (as long as the viewer know to click through to the blip blog to leave a comment). Plus you have to have the blip hot shows menu. That thing pulls in stuff completely out of context that you have no control over. Of course you do have control in that you certainly don't have to use the show player at all. I just think the blog part of videoblogging is important and desirable and I feel a little sad when people are so excited about dropping it. - Verdi On 4/15/07, Steve Garfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I put the new blip.tv player on my 'homepage' this morning. http://www.stevegarfield.com/ I blogged about it here: http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2007/04/blip-video-player.html In the blog post I say, vlogs are dead. ;-) It's a joke, but also ironic since the reason for initially using blogs to post video in the first place was a technical one. There wasn't any easy way to post video to the web. Once I figured out that I could put video in a blog post, I got a very easy way to publish videos, along with the added benefits of that video being included in a blog post. But that method, over time, introduced the problems of old videos getting lost in archives, and not having an easy way to browse through videos. There are a lot of companies now bringing to the market ways to make it easy to surf videos and I'm glad that blip.tv has given me a way to allow people to browse my archives that are hosted with blip.tv. --Steve On Apr 15, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Steve Watkins wrote: Sounds quite interesting, anybody tried it yet? Some details here: http://blog.blip.tv/blog/ Cheers Steve Elbows Yahoo! Groups Links -- Steve Garfield http://SteveGarfield.com -- http://michaelverdi.com http://spinxpress.com http://freevlog.org Author of Secrets Of Videoblogging - http://tinyurl.com/me4vs [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Alternative to Videoblogging Week
The videoblogulebrities will have you believe that April 1st marks the beginning of Videoblogging Week. I'm here to tell you, brothers and sisters, that the first week of April is traditionally reserved for WRECK SALVAGE PROPAGANDA PURPOSES ONLY. We at Wreck and Salvage encourage you to not create your own media during this time. Any such actions will be seen as an imminent threat to our sovereignty. Instead, sit there and ingest Wreck and Salvage transmissions. If you have to make anything, please - WRECK SALVAGE PROPAGANDA ONLY and be sure to tag your videos Bikini Grease. Thank you for your support (really, you have no choice). We will be disseminating 21 new doctrines from the following locales: http://www.bullemhead.com http://www.bottomunion.com http://www.valdezatron.com Sincerely, Aaron Valdez
[videoblogging] Re: Vote Different Editting
There is relatively little altering of the original work. All effects are made by placing masks over the existing tv monitors and then adding a new layer with the Hillary footage. After Effects is your best tool because you can tweat the edges and the surface of the inserted footage to make it better conform with the original source material. You can pull off the picture effect in FCP and other programs just no as well or easily in my opinion. I have just started with After Effects and this kind of stuff is sort of AE 101. Very easy to do. All of the shots invloving tvs are also static in this piece which means you don't have to keyframe the mask and move it every few frames. Just add points around the object until you have the outline of the mask over the tv set right. Them add the new layer of video and adjust the scale as needed to fit inside the mask you created. The video itself has a few effects thrown on it. It's just a matter of figuring out what effects do what and how to combine effects. Again, pretty easy. The logo on the shirt is added as another layer and is keyframed to match the perspective and motion of the runner. Probably time consuming but fairly easy, just adjust the scale and position of the logo to follow the runner. After Effects does fill in the gaps between keyframes with a perceived path so you don't have to do frame by frame, but the more keyframes you use the better the motion especially with something like a person running and bouncing up and down. The spinning part I don't know how to do, never tried it. I imagine it involves curving the logo to match the body curvature and masking as well. After Effects is expensive. Find a student whose ID you can use to get a discount from one of those educational software companies. The difference is several hundred dollars. Throw them a few bucks or contribute to their binge drinking. My first AE forray is up at Wreck and Salvage. http://www.wreckandsalvage.com Used mattes to preserve the original wipes from the Starman trailer and insert my own footage. What I was trying to ask, and I haven't found a good answer, is how does one go about making a new video, like Vote Different through editing existing videos. The closest I've gotten, so far is from someone off the list suggesting that After Effects could probably be used to do something like that. Could this have been done with After Effects? How much work is it to get proficient enough in something like After Effects to modify a video the way they did? Are there other tools that are better? Are there open source tools? To get more specific, at about three seconds into the video, you see the drones marching in with three video monitors in the upper left hand section of the screen. These monitors have a video of Hillary playing in them. How difficult is it to take a video and add it into a section of another video? At about 6 seconds, 15 seconds, 20 seconds, and 38 seconds the image of the runner is modified to have an iPod and an Obama graphic. How difficult was this? How much of this do you need to do on a frame by frame basis, and how much can be automated with something like After Effects? On a more general basis, how many of you on this list have done this sort of editting to any of your videos? How many of you know how to do it? Aldon --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack BillCammack@ wrote: Is that your answer to the poster's question about tools to use to make a video like that???
[videoblogging] Re: Test a video on you phone/handheld?
Si Senor. FCP in the wood-paneled, jesus adorned, freezer of a basement. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Adam Quirk, Wreck Salvage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He uses FCP, I'm pretty sure. But you'd have to ask Sr. Aaron Valdez, as he is the mastermind behind the America, Your America! series on WS. On 3/7/07, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great - yeah, that works for me now. And I have wifi on N93 so I don't get the pain of slow loading (is there an emoticon for smug bastard?). I don't know what the conventions/standards are, but do people use mobile. subdomains as well? And another great video, by the way. When it started, I didn't think it would hold me for the whole 5 mins with split screens and confusion, but it really did. GRAN CAANYON! Just out of interest, what did you use to cut it and split screen? FCP? Rupert On 7 Mar 2007, at 23:44, Adam Quirk, Wreck Salvage wrote: Well, I took that javascript swap out because it's buggy as hell and just went with different calls to CSS for handheld and Screen, with a capital S in screen because if not Windows Mobile will try to display it (good thinking MS!). The two CSS import rules in the main page's header are still there, because dammit it actually works on some handhelds and phones, like my razr. But since our site is very graphics-heavy, it's probably better for mobile users to just use our http://wreckandsalvage.com/mobile site that I have now re-linked to the Cellphone button on our front page. Thanks for the design nod. On 3/7/07, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nokia N93, running Opera Mobile and Flash 7 - I get to see the whole home page fine because Opera Mobile lets you see all the images as they should be and at various levels of zoom, but there's no Flash video of course (Opera only handles Flash 7) and when I click the Cellphone image/link nothing happens because it doesn't like the javascript. I could download the Quicktime and Windows videos by clicking on them because they're direct links to the files on Blip. HTH. (Also, if I click the Cellphone link on my Mac Firefox, it freaks out and goes black and doesn't allow me to go back or anything - presumably the javascript swaps the CSS to a mobile.css or something, does it? A less stylish answer might be to have a direct link to the file and maybe even (sigh) a text link? I love your design, by the way.) Hope this helps Rupert On 7 Mar 2007, at 22:27, Adam Quirk wrote: I'd be very grateful if anyone with a video-capable handheld or mobile phone would be willing to test our site for me. It's supposed to detect that you're on a mobile and change the layout accordingly. It seems to work on my razr, but I just heard that it isn't working for someone running Windows Mobile. If you're up for it: 1. Visit wreckandsalvage.com from your phone/handheld 2. Tell me if you can see the site and/or one of the videos 3. Tell me what you're using, device/OS. Muchas gracias. -- Adam Quirk Wreck Salvage 551.208.4644 Brooklyn, NY http://wreckandsalvage.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Adam Quirk Wreck Salvage 551.208.4644 Brooklyn, NY http://wreckandsalvage.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Adam Quirk Wreck Salvage 551.208.4644 Brooklyn, NY http://wreckandsalvage.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: automatic video editing - pro or con?
My mother used Muvee to edit a two hour static shot from a her crappy camera place in the church balcony what must have been a half mile away at my wedding. I guess she told Muvee to make a ten minute video out of it. What I got was five seconds of real time video - dissolve - five more seconds - dissolve. It was hilarious. Just enough time to spark a little nostalgia then instantly throw you into a rage cursing this useless technology. To her credit she made two versions. I guess thinking I the second one would include omitted sections in the first. Brilliant mom. She also made a music video Muvee that wasn't so bad. I think it's useful if you are a horrible videographer. Meaning no one can tell what's important when watching your footage. It makes something out of nothing and nothing out of something. I thought it would be interesting to shoot a bunch of shakey abstract footage, extreme closeups and throw that into Muvee, sit back and wait for the computer to melt. Best wishes on the survey, Aaron Valdez ++ http://www.aaronvaldez.com http://www.wreckandsalvage.com http://www.lostinlight.org http://www.valdezatron.com http://www.mylifereducedtodomainnames.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mark Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am doing an article for Camcorder Computer Video Magazine about Automatic Video Editing programs and functions. Many of the low cost consumer video editing products have an option that allows you to pick a bunch of video scenes, a music track and then an editing style and then the program automatically selects the best pieces of the video clips, cuts the video to the beat, and inserts a bunch of cool effects to make it look sexy. What is your opinion about these kinds of products? Would you ever use one to create a wedding or special event video? By the way, many of these now enable you to control the clip selection, effects and/or cleanup the finished video project. If you don't want me include your comments in the article, please tell me not to publish. Either way, you are free to weigh in with your opinion. Mark Shapiro Camcorder Computer Video Magazine Internet Video Magazine www.internetvideomag.com
[videoblogging] Re: Movies vs. videos
Movie is a general term. It implies motion though there as motionless movies. Or technical motion. Frames moving through the projector, Fields of video. Passing pages in your browser. It can be almost anything in any form. It can exist on video, film, as a screencast, a drawing on a napkin, a series of photos, or the scanning of the landscape seen through your own eyes. It can be a single image or a neverending loop. I just made a movie. Embrace that a movie can be anything and made by anyone. Just call it a movie and it's a movie. Your movie can hold the meaning of one hundred one hundred million dollar movies. My favorite filmmaking quote is The best films are the ones you never make. -- James Broughton (poet/filmmaker) Aaron Valdez http://ww.lostinlight.org http://www.valdezatron.com http://www.wreckandsalvage.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had seen the video Jay Dedman recommended on Web 2.0 before from e-learning circles or wherever, and it struck me that people here commented on it seamlessly when, as I recall, there was no video in it! On the Internet a movie has become something quite different from a video. A movie can be made with no video, or video can be embedded in a movie. Video is the stuff that comes out of digital video cameras or Web cams. Maybe it seems seamless because online sites like YouTube or Eyespot are automatically turning videos into movies? What do you think about the distinction between (a) movie and (a) video? Practical questions, if I may: Do any programs do both screencasting and video editing or movie making? Can you get good results as a workaround by pointing your camera at your computer while Websurfing? If so, what kind of lighting and other techniques would work best? Collegially, Steve McCarty Professor, Osaka Jogakuin College, Japan President, World Association for Online Education (1998-2007) Online library: http://www.waoe.org/steve/epublist.html YouTube Educational Group: http://www.youtube.com/group/educational
[videoblogging] Re: What would you do with 100 one minute videos and why?
Create a limited edition of video iPods or iPhones with all 100 videos preloaded. Sell them for $100,000 each. http://www.jonasmekas.com/store.php Cheers, AV http://www.valdezatron.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, ryan junell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: howdy vloggerz... last year I created The SLOMO Video Festival which consisted of one hundred one minute slow motion videos by 85 video artists and filmmakers though the festival is still being screened in real venues, its main screening arc is over and now it needs to find a home online... the festival has license agreements with all of the filmmakers to be able to use them for the purposes of the festival wherever with basic attribution so the question I put to the group is, What would you do with 100 one minute videos and why? I know the obvious ones like... post to blip, revver, google, etc. but hopefully there's some other sneaky/clever way of doing it that might be more interesting... -- ryan junell junell.net slomovideo.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: video showcase
A sort of get you up to speed page at Valdezatron Industries. http://valdezatron.com/101 --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While it doesnt showcase my favorite videos, it does showcase my archive which is kinda similar to what you are requesting. http://www.davidhowellstudios/archive/ David http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, JD Lasica jdlasica@ wrote: Does anyone have an example of a video showcase page that they think is pretty cool? I'm not talking about services like video hosting sites that display thumbnails of your uploaded videos. I mean a video display page (of thumbnails or larger images) that you maintain on your videoblog, showing a dozen or couple of dozen of your favorite videos. Anyone? thanks! jd realpeoplenetwork.com
