Re: [videoblogging] Reducing HD files on mac/Imovie without loosing HD

2010-06-19 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Online video editing sites

2010-06-08 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] What happened to vloggercon site?

2010-06-03 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] What happened to vloggercon site?

2010-06-02 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] What happened to vloggercon site?

2010-06-02 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] What happened to vloggercon site?

2010-06-02 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: WebM Project

2010-05-29 Thread Jay dedman
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 -

Re: [videoblogging] Re: WebM Project

2010-05-21 Thread Jay dedman
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:

Re: [videoblogging] Re: WebM Project

2010-05-19 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Zi8 with ECM-DS70P

2010-05-08 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Markvoort

2010-04-28 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] adding click through url to movie

2010-04-27 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: New Bloggertube Blogger template for video

2010-04-27 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Anyone see this yet? Video subtitling initiative by Mozilla...

2010-04-26 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Anyone see this yet? Video subtitling initiative by Mozilla...

2010-04-26 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] New Bloggertube Blogger template for video

2010-04-25 Thread Jay dedman
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

[videoblogging] Open Source subtitling project

2010-04-25 Thread Jay dedman
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

[videoblogging] Hosting issue

2010-04-21 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Hosting issue

2010-04-21 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Hosting issue

2010-04-21 Thread Jay dedman
...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.

Re: [videoblogging] Hosting issue

2010-04-21 Thread Jay dedman
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

2010-04-20 Thread Jay dedman
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:

Re: [videoblogging] Fwd: Videofreex

2010-04-18 Thread Jay dedman
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,

Re: [videoblogging]

2010-04-16 Thread Jay dedman
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]

[videoblogging] Freedom isn't free -- (not just a Tea Party slogan)

2010-04-16 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: 7D workflow for PC

2010-04-15 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Visiting Aussie with one day Video job in New York

2010-04-15 Thread Jay dedman
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.

Re: [videoblogging] Youtube forum

2010-04-14 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Vloggercue 2010

2010-04-14 Thread Jay dedman
, 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: I'm heading to a Brooklyn events space tonight at 6:30 to start

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Google to open source VP8

2010-04-14 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] question: live streaming from events

2010-04-13 Thread Jay dedman
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.

Re: [videoblogging] LIVES - open source video editing / effects app

2010-04-13 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Google to open source VP8

2010-04-13 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Google to open source VP8

2010-04-13 Thread Jay dedman
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

[videoblogging] TV episode will be shot on DSLR

2010-04-13 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Check week at blip.tv

2010-04-10 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Check week at blip.tv

2010-04-09 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Check week at blip.tv

2010-04-09 Thread Jay dedman
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

[videoblogging] Who cares about Ogg/Theora? Google does.

2010-04-09 Thread Jay dedman
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:

Re: [videoblogging] Vloggercue 2010

2010-04-08 Thread Jay dedman
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

[videoblogging] Check week at blip.tv

2010-04-08 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] how to videoblog worksheets

2010-04-07 Thread Jay dedman
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:

Re: [videoblogging] how to videoblog worksheets

2010-04-07 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: YouTube link to blog to be retired

2010-04-05 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Crash Test Kitchen checking in

2010-04-03 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] vlog research - low income/urban

2010-04-03 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] SLINGERS... from the list's Mike Sizemore

2010-04-02 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] SLINGERS... from the list's Mike Sizemore

2010-04-02 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] YouTube link to blog to be retired

2010-04-02 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] VideoLan Movie Creator - Open Source Video Editor

2010-04-02 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Crash Test Kitchen checking in

2010-04-02 Thread Jay dedman
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!

Re: [videoblogging] Live webvideocasting - Veetle?

2010-04-02 Thread Jay dedman
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?

Re: [videoblogging] AVCHD HDC-1080 PocketCam

2010-03-30 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: German vloggers before 2005 -- Adam Kontras

2010-03-26 Thread Jay dedman
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:

Re: [videoblogging] Re: German vloggers before 2005 -- Adam Kontras

2010-03-25 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] German vloggers before 2005

2010-03-23 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] laurence testud

2010-03-20 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Editing on Mac w/o Firewire...

2010-03-09 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Generate your own music

2010-03-02 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Creating (or outsourcing) title sequences for videobloggers

2010-02-28 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: seminar filming?

2010-02-24 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] CNN iReports?

2010-02-22 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Youtube thumbnail frame

2010-02-21 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] CNN iReports?

2010-02-21 Thread Jay dedman
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

[videoblogging] Lumiere---now on Vimeo

2010-02-21 Thread Jay dedman
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

[videoblogging] Show makers talk about the business of making shows

2010-02-21 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!

2010-02-21 Thread Jay dedman
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:

Re: [videoblogging] short-film ideas using a 360 degree lens

2010-02-15 Thread Jay dedman
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?

2010-02-15 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Veoh is dead

2010-02-12 Thread Jay dedman
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.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Veoh is dead

2010-02-12 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Veoh is dead

2010-02-12 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Veoh is dead

2010-02-12 Thread Jay dedman
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,

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Remember when it was all 320x240?

2010-02-11 Thread Jay dedman
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.

Re: [videoblogging] Veoh is dead

2010-02-11 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Veoh is dead

2010-02-11 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Remember when it was all 320x240?

2010-02-11 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Remember when it was all 320x240?

2010-02-11 Thread Jay dedman
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

[videoblogging] XDCAM + FCP

2010-02-10 Thread Jay dedman
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 --

Re: [videoblogging] YouTube Live Streaming Video

2010-02-10 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Zoom H4N Audio Recorder

2010-02-10 Thread Jay dedman
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

[videoblogging] Remember when it was all 320x240?

2010-02-05 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Remember when it was all 320x240?

2010-02-05 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: H264 still free till 2016

2010-02-04 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!

2010-02-04 Thread Jay dedman
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

[videoblogging] H264 still free till 2016

2010-02-03 Thread Jay dedman
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.

Re: [videoblogging] VlogEurope 2010 - Lisbon.

2010-02-03 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] youtube sound

2010-02-01 Thread Jay dedman
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

Correct subject lines (was Re: [videoblogging] Turnhere free videos)

2010-01-31 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Political Video Project

2010-01-30 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Non-XLR hand held Microphone

2010-01-29 Thread Jay dedman
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

2010-01-28 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: 2010 the year of the tablet?

2010-01-28 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Non-XLR hand held Microphone

2010-01-28 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: avoiding/cleaning hum noise

2010-01-28 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] avoiding/cleaning hum noise

2010-01-26 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Learn from GIF's

2010-01-25 Thread Jay dedman
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

[videoblogging] VIDEO: why open video?

2010-01-24 Thread Jay dedman
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

Re: [videoblogging] Winkball.com - new British vlogging service

2010-01-24 Thread Jay dedman
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

[videoblogging] Mozilla explains why Firefox doesnt support H264

2010-01-24 Thread Jay dedman
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

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >