[videoblogging] Re: re:Casey's thread: Dan McVicar, AFTRA, and independent producers

2007-10-22 Thread Enric
I remember when I got out of College with a Film degree and called the local Projectionist union. The woman there, hearing how young my voice sounded, basically said how dare I call for information. -- Enric --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Gena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you say

Re: [videoblogging] My short film turned epic - how do I get it out there?

2007-10-22 Thread Jan McLaughlin
You published Mike Diana?!!!? Cool! Been in the same 'zine w/him - http://11211magazine.com That makes you a-okay in my book. Whoo-whoo! Put the vid up @ Google video, Veoh (you can drag your feed into Veoh and from Veoh to a bunch of other spots, too, that Blip may not cover in their

Re: [videoblogging] Re: re:Casey's thread: Dan McVicar, AFTRA, and independent producers

2007-10-22 Thread Jan McLaughlin
Hey, Gena, I don't think media hosts like Blip would be on the unions' radar. It's the techies and talent they rep. Were Blip 'producers' of content, that might be another story. Production companies are the entities who pay techies and talent. They are 'signatories' with unions, and agree

[videoblogging] Sennheiser MKH-416 P48 Short Shotgun Mic @ Ebay

2007-10-22 Thread Jan McLaughlin
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=230183078362 This is a great short shotgun mic - tho the price is a bit high - I've seen 'em go for as little as $400. Know there may be some out there in the market for a good mic; I've got this one tagged @ Ebay for notification of sales. Jan

[videoblogging] Re: re:Casey's thread: Dan McVicar, AFTRA, and independent producers

2007-10-22 Thread Bill Streeter
What is a professional production company? That's easy, one that is doing it for hire and is getting paid. Vloggers and podcasters that are doing stuff for fun and as a hobby aren't professionals, strictly speaking. Which is not a slight on the quality of their work--but we all know that there

[videoblogging] Re: new camera suggestions?

2007-10-22 Thread Milt Lee
I haven't used it yet - I'm just upgrading to Vegas 8 - from Vegas 7, but the new version of Vegas does support AVCHD, and of course vegas is really fun to use. So I think if I were going go the tapeless route which would be very cool, I would definitely think of Vegas. For some reason, it

[videoblogging] Re: new camera suggestions?

2007-10-22 Thread Heath
I use Vegas as well, and can atest that it is pretty easy to use and really nice. It has never crashed on me and it just is great. I hope my next camera will be a tapeless one, hard drive all the way...although, tape does have easy back up advantages that a hard drive version doesn't.

[videoblogging] International Disturbed People's Day

2007-10-22 Thread Heath
Today is apparently the International Disturbed People's Day and I wanted to wish all vloggers a Happy international disturbed people's day. Cause to be frank most of the vloggers I know are DEEPLY disturbedespecialy Galacticast and Wreck and Salavge, some episodes of Lo-Fi St. Louis, and

[videoblogging] NaVloPoMo - National Videoblog Posting Month, anyone?

2007-10-22 Thread Rupert
From: http://www.profy.com/2007/10/22/nablopomo/ You may have heard of the seemingly crazy NaNoWriMo, where people sign on to write a novel in the month of November. In response to NaNoWriMo, one blogger decided to have a little fun and create NaBloPoMo - write a blog post a day for the

Re: [videoblogging] NaVloPoMo - National Videoblog Posting Month, anyone?

2007-10-22 Thread David Meade
Interesting idea. Sounds insane, but then so does NaNoWriMo and people do that. This envisioned NaVloPoMo wouldn't have to be in November would it? :-) On 10/22/07, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: http://www.profy.com/2007/10/22/nablopomo/ You may have heard of the seemingly crazy

Re: [videoblogging] NaVloPoMo - National Videoblog Posting Month, anyone?

2007-10-22 Thread schlomo rabinowitz
If I can just use one of those Record In Browser thingies like on The Facebooks or Seesmic, I'm down. The thought of compressing a video every day makes my head (and my computer) hurt!! -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text

[videoblogging] Human readable contracts

2007-10-22 Thread Jay dedman
The past year, we've been discussing human-readable contracts and release forms. Jon Phillips from Creative Commons has started a side project that does exactly this: http://www.ownterms.org/ OwnTerms is designed as a repository for boilerplate legal documents: those that every web site, startup,

Re: [videoblogging] NaVloPoMo - National Videoblog Posting Month, anyone?

2007-10-22 Thread Rupert
@Schlomo, I immediately thought of you your FB/Seesmic vids. For most people it'd have to be a super low maintenance project, and regular Capture/Editing/Compression times would make it impossible, so a good answer would be to use a Record In Browser option or to upload single one-shot

Re: [videoblogging] Re: halloween vlogfest 2007?

2007-10-22 Thread Micki Krimmel
Or you could come to my halloween party! LA vloggers are certainly welcome. Here is the invite on upcoming. http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/299358/ The details are private so add me as a friend if you're interested. On 10/21/07, Steve Woolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In

[videoblogging] Re: the end of dltq, the beginning of something else

2007-10-22 Thread jonny goldstein
DLTQ was a provocative, personal, exploration of the medium of videoblogging. Congrats on a rich, varied project. And best of luck on your next project where you will be focusing on online video and civil society. For folks who want to get inside Raymond's head, he's the guest on this week's

[videoblogging] Re: International Disturbed People's Day

2007-10-22 Thread Enric
Your not disturbing me, I already am --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today is apparently the International Disturbed People's Day and I wanted to wish all vloggers a Happy international disturbed people's day. Cause to be frank most of the vloggers I

[videoblogging] Realtime 3D Vlogging?

2007-10-22 Thread Rupert
Eric Rice just posted this on Twitter. Not for me, but thought some of you might be interested to have a play: http://www.tvnima.com/ Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: [videoblogging] NaVloPoMo - National Videoblog Posting Month, anyone?

2007-10-22 Thread Jay dedman
I know we have videoblogging week, and that's hard enough. But how about a month where we strip away worries about production values and editing and just post simple short videos, one per day - starting November 1st? Use your phone, your webcam, your iSight - make lumieres, moving

[videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo - National Videoblog Posting Month, anyone?

2007-10-22 Thread Heath
Should be easy for me, as I am posting 30 seconds of crappy video a day from my cell phone nowI have to be honest something very liberating about it as well..and thanks to David Meade and the 2 other people who have subscribed to it! Of course some on this list, do it everyday anyway...

[videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo - National Videoblog Posting Month, anyone?

2007-10-22 Thread cromadot
Great idea. Great possibilities. Jay's simplicity suggestion may be the key. But Rupert you'll have to go to bed at 8 every night if you're going to get up at 4 am like Leonard Cohen http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/leonard_cohen/famous_blue_raincoat.ht\ ml to write that novel. And if you do

[videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo - National Videoblog Posting Month, anyone?

2007-10-22 Thread cromadot
Great idea. Great possibilities. Jay's simplicity suggestion may be the key. But Rupert you'll have to go to bed at 8 every night if you're going to get up at 4 am like Leonard Cohen http://tinyurl.com/2twy5c to write that novel. And if you do could you give me a call when you get up. Nothing

[videoblogging] pocketPC video editor?

2007-10-22 Thread David Meade
Hi all - Does anyone know of a Windows Mobile application that allows for trimming and combining of video clips? I just cannot find such an app but find it hard to believe that not even one crappy option exists. My windows mobile phone takes video (avi or mp4) and I want to be able to trim the

Re: [videoblogging] the end of dltq, the beginning of something else

2007-10-22 Thread Rupert
You should make a banner, like Bush: DLTQ: Mission Accomplished. I think it's a great idea to close one chapter and Focus all your energy into this as a Project. Go big, Raymond. On the one hand, what you're talking about is inspiring and I'd love to be involved - but I wouldn't be able to put

Re: [videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo - National Videoblog Posting Month, anyone?

2007-10-22 Thread Rupert
Ha :) Yeah, it'll be fun. Simple, low-rent fun. Rather than just make our own Ning site, perhaps we should invade the NaBloPoMo Ning site as a videoblogging splinter group, for wider exposure and more opportunity to make new connections with people. Seems like they've got it all set up.

[videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo - National Videoblog Posting Month, anyone?

2007-10-22 Thread David Howell
I'll give it a go as best I can. We'll be knee deep in moving then so it could provide for interesting things. David http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ha :) Yeah, it'll be fun. Simple, low-rent fun. Rather than just

[videoblogging] Making Videos For Cell Phones

2007-10-22 Thread Patrick Cook
Hi everyone: There are probably better places to ask this question, but I figured I'd start here. What is the defacto standard video configuration for cell phones (Not neccessarily the iPhone, though that can be included as well)? The reason I ask this is because I'd like to create seperate a

Re: [videoblogging] pocketPC video editor?

2007-10-22 Thread Jan McLaughlin
Hadn't thought about that David, but it might be nice...especially to cut out the last 2-3 frames when filming 'small' video in 3gp (my pocket pc films in either 3gp or mp4, 'large'). Here are my collected 8525 links though - FYI - http://del.icio.us/love_detective/8525 Will let you know if I

Re: [videoblogging] Making Videos For Cell Phones

2007-10-22 Thread Jan McLaughlin
Thing is - and I *make cell phone vids on the cell phone - not in a million years would I ever consider downloading vids specifically to watch on my cell - other than those family / friends portraits I just keep on there for hearts' sake. Is anybody really watching vids on their cell phones -

Re: [videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo - National Videoblog Posting Month, anyone?

2007-10-22 Thread Rupert
COOL. I should've known you'd all be up for this. I've created a video bloggers group within the NaBloPoMo Ning social network. http://nablopomo.ning.com/group/videobloggers Roll on November 1st. I might use it as an excuse to try a bunch of different video sites and services. Screw

Re: [videoblogging] pocketPC video editor?

2007-10-22 Thread David Meade
well I have an unlimited data plan with cingular (now att) , and can record as much video as my SD card will allow.So far my mobile vlogs have all been via email. I record the video and then email it to my blip address ... it then automatically gets cross posted to my site. I've done one

Re: [videoblogging] pocketPC video editor?

2007-10-22 Thread Rupert
So I downloaded one of your mp4s and changed the extension to 3gp and it plays fine. What that means, I don't know. Seeing as it worked for a while and then stopped, my first guess is that it's something Apple screwed up in the last Quicktime update - allowing QT to recognise a 3gp file with

Re: [videoblogging] pocketPC video editor?

2007-10-22 Thread David Meade
hmmm thats odd ... 3gp is a type of mp4 as I understand it .. but still ... that odd. :-P I don't think I can change the extension, but I can choose to save as avi instead of mp4 ... I'll do some testing ... given your discovery, I bet they probably are using the same codec inside the avi

Re: [videoblogging] pocketPC video editor?

2007-10-22 Thread Rupert
Oh, God, I haven't used Facebook for ages. Except to watch those videos that Heath made, and only then because he tagged me and I got sent a message about that. It's got to the point where I'm scared to open it to read all the messages and friend requests and hear how many people have bitten

[videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo - National Videoblog Posting Month, anyone?

2007-10-22 Thread Mike Moon
It's quite ironic this challenge has come up, for just this past week I posted a vlog about vlogging for a whole month. http://tinyurl.com/2yeezx Currently sitting at 21 posted on Oct 22, but I have a Lumiere I can post. Perhaps I should get rested up for November instead. Sounds like it's going

Re: [videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo - National Videoblog Posting Month, anyone?

2007-10-22 Thread Rupert
Damn, I've been so behind on my video watching that I hadn't realised you were doing this. Good work! But don't rest up! Keep going! Push through! Do two months! You can do it ;) R On 22 Oct 2007, at 23:48, Mike Moon wrote: It's quite ironic this challenge has come up, for just this past

Re: [videoblogging] pocketPC video editor?

2007-10-22 Thread Patrick Cook
Hi everyone: On 10/22/07, David Meade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmmm thats odd ... 3gp is a type of mp4 as I understand it .. but still ... that odd. :-P I don't think I can change the extension, but I can choose to save as avi instead of mp4 ... I'll do some testing ... given your

Re: [videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo - National Videoblog Posting Month, anyone?

2007-10-22 Thread David Meade
Given the visual nature of video I thought I'd toss together a navlopomo logo: http://www.davidmeade.com/Pics/navlopomo.jpg http://www.davidmeade.com/Pics/navlopomo.psd These are very simple ones based on the NaNoWriMo logo ... I didnt want to spend a lot of time on the logo since I thought we

Re: [videoblogging] pocketPC video editor?

2007-10-22 Thread Rupert
Hey Pat, Yeah, the unfortunate truth of video codecs is that you can't make something for everyone. Flash seems like the perfect Mac/Windows solution, since nearly all computers have Flash player, or can download it quickly. But Flash doesn't work on phones. Or at least, Flash 8 9 won't

Re: [videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo - National Videoblog Posting Month, anyone?

2007-10-22 Thread Rupert
On 23 Oct 2007, at 00:09, David Meade wrote: Now ... tags? NaVloPoMo08 ?? Nasty! Yes! Love the logo. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[videoblogging] The Winnies, a place to crash for a day?

2007-10-22 Thread Heath
Hey - My wife and I are getting into LA for the Winnies on Thursday night around 7ish (hopefully,..long story) anyway I was hoping that maybe we could crash with someone, thursday night. We have a hotel for Fri, Sat and Sunday but was trying to save a bit on costs and was hoping that maybe

Re: [videoblogging] pocketPC video editor?

2007-10-22 Thread Jan McLaughlin
Yeah. I had same probs with mp4 files not playing. Anywhere. Used the 'change the extension to 3gp' which worked fine. Problem with 8525 pocket pc mp4 shooting is that the files are too large to MMS to Blip, so I've got to get 'em to the MacBook, change the extension, edit, then upload. Have

Re: [videoblogging] pocketPC video editor?

2007-10-22 Thread Jan McLaughlin
My guess is the most universal cell phone format for download is 3gp. Send me your phone # off list and we can try. Jan On 10/22/07, Patrick Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone: On 10/22/07, David Meade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmmm thats odd ... 3gp is a type of mp4 as I

[videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo - National Videoblog Posting Month, anyone?

2007-10-22 Thread David Howell
But of course I'd be up for this ;) What makes you think I wouldnt be up for no quality vids? Dude...my best stuff is no quality! David http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: COOL. I should've known you'd all be up for this.

[videoblogging] Re: pocketPC video editor?

2007-10-22 Thread Steve Watkins
Plenty of wisdom there from Rupert :) And yeah I am surrounded by portable devices phones that can play video but I dont use them. The N95 has all the features but I dont find it fun to use, the screen isnt quite big enough and the UI is better but still not good enough. But now that Ive got an

[videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo - National Videoblog Posting Month, anyone?

2007-10-22 Thread Steve Watkins
Wahey this sounds like fun, I will join in though I may be a few days late as I have a nasty deadline in early November. The only video I put online this year was for videoblogging week, helped me to focus, and they were rather rushed, so this new event should fit right in, for if I start to try

[videoblogging] OT: Want to Track Political Candidate Spending?

2007-10-22 Thread Patrick Cook
Hi everyone: Just got this URL while listening to DSC #671 (October 12, 2007) earlier tonight http://www.opensecrets.org/ Be sure to check out the presidential candidate spending on the site. Cheers :D -- Pat Cook Denver, Colorado PODCASTS - **NEW VLOG** AS MY WORLD TURNS -

[videoblogging] Re: re:Casey's thread: Dan McVicar, AFTRA, and independent producers

2007-10-22 Thread Gena
Just got home. Ok, that clears a few things up. I'm not anti-union. I just want to be cautious of all the future constrictions that seem to be slowly moving into place. Here in L.A. you can't take a deep breath without finding someone who wants to be an actor. True not all of them will be union

Re: [videoblogging] pocketPC video editor?

2007-10-22 Thread Patrick Cook
Hi everyone: On 10/22/07, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Pat, [Snip] The one format that does seem to be accepted by almost all phones that play video is 3gp. But at what resolution? 160x120 or thereabouts, I think. Tiny. Interestingly enough, I've found from the software

Re: [videoblogging] pocketPC video editor?

2007-10-22 Thread Rupert
Hi Pat, I still advise caution on that interpretation of the market. My own interpretation of mobile companies offering video services is that they are selling their own content from their own portals. That's how it is in the UK, anyway - most video consumed on phones is P*rn/Soft P*rn