[videoblogging] Does the file size of video matter anymore?
I was just curious what people thought about the file sizes of their video's or the video's that they subscribe too, download, etc. Do you look at the file size often, does it matter if it's big or not? by big I say over 50 mb. I know some of the size of your video file is dependent on how long your video is, but as we as vloggers start making longer and bigger projects, larger and larger file sizes are going to be a natural by product right? I mean using the Ipod settings at 640X480 in itself can still create a rather large file depending on the length of the video. It seemed in the begining, shorter and smaller was better, but is that changing at all? I mean with the push towards HD, with being able to view content on the TV, etc, it just seems like its all a part of the evolution...or is it? I was just curious as to what you all thought. Heath personal http://batmangeek.com professional http://heathparks.com
[videoblogging] TrafficGeyser.com ?
Have you had any experience with trafficgeyser.com It is a service with a monthly fee to get your videos at the top of Google results. John Leeke www.HistoricHomeWorks.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: QuckTime 7.4 and FCP 4.5HD Disaster
I have had no problem with QT 7.4...but maybe that's because I am running Leopard and FCP 5.1. While I have not upgraded the FCP suite to the latest version, I have experienced no problems with either QT or FCP for a long time. I would also disagree with the statement that Apple's service has deteriorated...but that's just one opinion...having been around Apple products since the II+ days, I think they are doing quite well. On Feb 4, 2008, at 7:15 AM, Bill Cammack wrote: Thanks for the warning. I'm using Quicktime 7.3. I also did NOT upgrade to Leopard. It's important to understand that these groups don't work together. For instance, when they come out with a quicktime upgrade, they don't check through every single possiblity of what could happen with Final Cut Pro and then Color and then Motion, etc etc. One has to weigh the pros and cons. If a system's working fine, there's no reason to upgrade it. 'Matter of fact, I still have final cut 3.0 working on another computer for precisely that reason. Once I had the system working the way I needed it, I never upgraded the operating system, quicktime or anything else about that particular machine. Good Luck. Bill BillCammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone else have trouble with the QT 7.4 update? I made a huge mistake and fixed something that wasn't broken until I fixed it. There are lots of messages on Apple and MacFixit about the problems it caused. I should have looked first. Frankly, I'm amazed that Apple hasn't done anything about it. It appears to be fairly widespread. I'm afraid that Apple service/support has deteriorated since they found the route to success through the iPods. Well, just a warning about 7.4. I understand it crashes AE, too. Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments
comments below On Feb 4, 2008 6:58 AM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So Jay, is this an offer to develop it? I would be very happy to contribute feedback, design, CSS, light coding / anything I can just as long as it's either a) open source, or b) I have some stake in the entity building it. I'm just sick of helping unappreciative companies / people build things that profit them and not giving anything back. The succubus is a good metaphor. yeah, lets not worry about creating a business. go into porn or the new Blackwater-style security services to make money. nough said The primary requirements of such a system is users will be able to add RSS 2.0 / mediaRSS feeds with videos in them... it will also need to regularly crawl and DB these feeds and identify permalinks in the posts cross referencing other posts. Take a moment to check out Andreas writings on tracking conversations. He recently reminded me of his work back in 2004(!). Not sure if I was ready to grasp his ideas back then. http://www.solitude.dk/tag/conversation+tracking my experience and desire for any system screams for a visual presentation. a list of links doesnt excite me. I want to see thumbnails. i want to watch videos i the page easily. i want the page to make the videos look good. thumbnails, embeded videos, visual presentation, that' the easy part jay. It occurs to me I have never put my CSS skills to work in this space... it's way past time I actually put my css skills to work. The big issue is this would require some significant DB work and some good programing. As I said this is nothing that hasn't already been demonstrated through vlogdir, show in the box and other projects in this space. I will happily read up on Andreas' blog posts on the subject. Raymond (dltq.org) and I had a blog at intermediated.com with a bunch of stuff on conversation tracking, but we took it offline since we hadn't posted to it in awhile. Hopefully there's an archive for it somewhere. -Mike Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Professional: http://ryanishungry.com Personal: http://momentshowing.net Photos: http://flickr.com/photos/jaydedman/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/jaydedman RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9 Yahoo! Groups Links
[videoblogging] Re: QuckTime 7.4 and FCP 4.5HD Disaster
Thanks for the warning. I'm using Quicktime 7.3. I also did NOT upgrade to Leopard. It's important to understand that these groups don't work together. For instance, when they come out with a quicktime upgrade, they don't check through every single possiblity of what could happen with Final Cut Pro and then Color and then Motion, etc etc. One has to weigh the pros and cons. If a system's working fine, there's no reason to upgrade it. 'Matter of fact, I still have final cut 3.0 working on another computer for precisely that reason. Once I had the system working the way I needed it, I never upgraded the operating system, quicktime or anything else about that particular machine. Good Luck. Bill BillCammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone else have trouble with the QT 7.4 update? I made a huge mistake and fixed something that wasn't broken until I fixed it. There are lots of messages on Apple and MacFixit about the problems it caused. I should have looked first. Frankly, I'm amazed that Apple hasn't done anything about it. It appears to be fairly widespread. I'm afraid that Apple service/support has deteriorated since they found the route to success through the iPods. Well, just a warning about 7.4. I understand it crashes AE, too. Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: Does the file size of video matter anymore?
Rural areas are a concern, I would agree, but again, you can only compress so much and sometimes you are fighting goverment regulation as in the case of china, so I am not sure what can be done about situations like that. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless you only care about rich people in large urban metro areas, then yes, file sizes do matter. - Andreas Den 04.02.2008 kl. 09:44 skrev Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I was just curious what people thought about the file sizes of their video's or the video's that they subscribe too, download, etc. Do you look at the file size often, does it matter if it's big or not? by big I say over 50 mb. I know some of the size of your video file is dependent on how long your video is, but as we as vloggers start making longer and bigger projects, larger and larger file sizes are going to be a natural by product right? I mean using the Ipod settings at 640X480 in itself can still create a rather large file depending on the length of the video. It seemed in the begining, shorter and smaller was better, but is that changing at all? I mean with the push towards HD, with being able to view content on the TV, etc, it just seems like its all a part of the evolution...or is it? I was just curious as to what you all thought. Heath personal http://batmangeek.com professional http://heathparks.com -- Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen http://www.solitude.dk/
RE: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
Make good videos. people will watch. Use service to get people to watch your videos is the absolute wrong way to go about it. Jim Kukral From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Iliya Krempeaux Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 2:05 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ? From what I've heard of TubeMogul, it seem like a useful service But does TubeMogul provide SEO services?... which is what I think John was after (when asking about trafficgeyser.com). (My guess is he wants to get people to his site to watch his videos... rather than pushing his videos to other sites and have people watch them there.) See ya -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ On Feb 4, 2008 10:58 AM, marotblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:marotblat%40yahoo.com wrote: I don't have first hand experience with traffic geyser's subscription service, but I do know about TubeMogul's free service (I'm part of the founding team). We now also have a subscription service for corporate users. TubeMogul allows you to distribute to the top sites, which also gives you the ability to see your viewership stats across sites in one location. There are a bunch of new features, too, such as promotion of your video to social bookmarking sites and seeing all your comments in one place. Ask me if you have questions! Mark Rotblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:mark%40tubemogul.com http://www.tubemogul.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com , johnleeke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you had any experience with trafficgeyser.com It is a service with a monthly fee to get your videos at the top of Google results. John Leeke www.HistoricHomeWorks.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments
I think it would need someone who can develop it to do a protype of the idea in it's most simple form, a proof of concept. -Mike On Feb 4, 2008 11:42 AM, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wouldnt say it is that easy, a really intuitive system will need more thought in this area than we normally see. Sure, at its most basic its not that hard, but Id sure like to see some attempts to experiment more with how multiple videos are presented visually, see if there is room to bring a lot more fun ease to this realm. As well as plugins that would work with wordpress or whatever, Id really like to see an opensource flash video player that had this sort of stuff built into it, plus the best of features offered by sites/services like blip, youtube etc. Its a shame my flash skills are pretty bad, Id really like to help do working mockup of this stuff, but right now Id probably have to do it in mac-only quartz composer, or wmv-only silverlight, unless I can find the cash time to understand actionsript in flash better. Im not totally sure it makes sense to combine thse wishes with the stuff you are talking about, dont want to overcomplicate the mission, but it could be an opportunity to fill a few other gaps in the 'what wecan do without 3rd party hosted services' department. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thumbnails, embeded videos, visual presentation, that' the easy part jay. It occurs to me I have never put my CSS skills to work in this space... it's way past time I actually put my css skills to work. The big issue is this would require some significant DB work and some good programing. As I said this is nothing that hasn't already been demonstrated through vlogdir, show in the box and other projects in this space. Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [videoblogging] Does the file size of video matter anymore?
Let me see if I can give you a useful answer... In the US, at least at the moment, most people have broadband connections without monthly dowmload limits. So the size of the file is less of a concern especially if people are using aggregators like iTunes or Miro to download video. Where it becomes a concern is when they are trying to watch it on your website. Those export for IPod 1600kbps videos don't often play without a significant amount of waiting. To make up for that (and plugin uncertainty) many people offer a lower bit rate flash version from blip or youtube. Outside the US many broadband connections come with a monthly download cap (maybe 10GB ?? I'm unsure). Anything downloaded over that limit incurs an extra charge. TimeWarner is now experimenting with a service like this in Texas. Of course there is still a large section of the world that don't have broadband connections at all. So, should you quit making big videos? Probably not. Should you give people options? Sure! That's reason #63 why I like vPIP - you can give visitors to your site a range of choices for viewing and subscribing to you videos. - Verdi On 2/4/08, Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless you only care about rich people in large urban metro areas, then yes, file sizes do matter. - Andreas Den 04.02.2008 kl. 09:44 skrev Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I was just curious what people thought about the file sizes of their video's or the video's that they subscribe too, download, etc. Do you look at the file size often, does it matter if it's big or not? by big I say over 50 mb. I know some of the size of your video file is dependent on how long your video is, but as we as vloggers start making longer and bigger projects, larger and larger file sizes are going to be a natural by product right? I mean using the Ipod settings at 640X480 in itself can still create a rather large file depending on the length of the video. It seemed in the begining, shorter and smaller was better, but is that changing at all? I mean with the push towards HD, with being able to view content on the TV, etc, it just seems like its all a part of the evolution...or is it? I was just curious as to what you all thought. Heath personal http://batmangeek.com professional http://heathparks.com -- Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen http://www.solitude.dk/ -- http://michaelverdi.com http://freevlog.org http://nscape.tv
RE: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
Sure...because nobody ever made good videos but suffered from a lack of promotion. Making good videos and assuming the world will beat a path to your door is like opening a restaurant without advertising it. Good food or not, nobody knows you're there. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime Make good videos. people will watch. Use service to get people to watch your videos is the absolute wrong way to go about it. Jim Kukral From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Iliya Krempeaux Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 2:05 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ? From what I've heard of TubeMogul, it seem like a useful service But does TubeMogul provide SEO services?... which is what I think John was after (when asking about trafficgeyser.com). (My guess is he wants to get people to his site to watch his videos... rather than pushing his videos to other sites and have people watch them there.) See ya -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ On Feb 4, 2008 10:58 AM, marotblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:marotblat%40yahoo.com wrote: I don't have first hand experience with traffic geyser's subscription service, but I do know about TubeMogul's free service (I'm part of the founding team). We now also have a subscription service for corporate users. TubeMogul allows you to distribute to the top sites, which also gives you the ability to see your viewership stats across sites in one location. There are a bunch of new features, too, such as promotion of your video to social bookmarking sites and seeing all your comments in one place. Ask me if you have questions! Mark Rotblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:mark%40tubemogul.com http://www.tubemogul.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com , johnleeke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you had any experience with trafficgeyser.com It is a service with a monthly fee to get your videos at the top of Google results. John Leeke www.HistoricHomeWorks.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [videoblogging] Forms for music usage?
Does anybody have some standardized text for a release form? I'm just going to go with the WP Release form plugin and need some legalese to plug in there. I will be dealing with small, local bands, and feel comfortable with this kind of arrangement, but I definitely need some better legalese than I have drawn up. Cheers, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Feb 4, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Ron Watson wrote: Hey everybody, I was wondering if any of you could point me in the direction of a good, simple permission form for music usage for our videoblog and also for public access TV. Cheers, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Feeling vindictive...me too goddamnit
I know that feeling, Irina. At this point, I'm pretty much the spokesperson for public transit in L.A. The project I just started is out in Reseda (I'm in North Hollywood), which means a 45 minute bus ride and 20 minutes of walking there, and the same back. Thankfully, my actors this time have proven very reliable and committed. Which has very much helped me put the other day's BS behind me. My actors are working for free, tackling embarrassing subject matter, getting through my dialogue - which is sometimes tough and always abundant - and trying, God bless them, to get through 15 episodes' worth of material in one go. So I can't complain at the moment. Sound is an issue... not only does the house I'm shooting in sudden;y have a ton of construction going on in the neighborhood around it, it turns out that if you flush the bathroom in this house, it gives off a high-pitched hum that - no matter how many doors you close - the microphone WILL pick up. But hey! It's a borrowed location, from a person through craigslist, and I am damn thankful to have it. Between the hum, the hammering and my dodgy lighting and camera skills, we'll see what kind of crazy-ass mess I end up with. ;) If the quality of the writing and the acting outshine the myriad budgetary and technical issues I'm up against, this might end up being something people actually want to see. Cross your fingers for me, everybody. :) Chris --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Irina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yep, i have to wrangle myself by asking for rides since i know that when there's a car outside i most likely will get in it and get to the place i'm supposed to go i ask eddie to pick me up, etc. AND then i i'm in the right place to do the often retardedly captivating magic that i do on camera http://geekentertainment.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments
So Jay, is this an offer to develop it? I would be very happy to contribute feedback, design, CSS, light coding / anything I can just as long as it's either a) open source, or b) I have some stake in the entity building it. I'm just sick of helping unappreciative companies / people build things that profit them and not giving anything back. The succubus is a good metaphor. yeah, lets not worry about creating a business. go into porn or the new Blackwater-style security services to make money. The primary requirements of such a system is users will be able to add RSS 2.0 / mediaRSS feeds with videos in them... it will also need to regularly crawl and DB these feeds and identify permalinks in the posts cross referencing other posts. Take a moment to check out Andreas writings on tracking conversations. He recently reminded me of his work back in 2004(!). Not sure if I was ready to grasp his ideas back then. http://www.solitude.dk/tag/conversation+tracking my experience and desire for any system screams for a visual presentation. a list of links doesnt excite me. I want to see thumbnails. i want to watch videos i the page easily. i want the page to make the videos look good. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Professional: http://ryanishungry.com Personal: http://momentshowing.net Photos: http://flickr.com/photos/jaydedman/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/jaydedman RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9
Re: [videoblogging] Does the file size of video matter anymore?
Unless you only care about rich people in large urban metro areas, then yes, file sizes do matter. - Andreas Den 04.02.2008 kl. 09:44 skrev Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I was just curious what people thought about the file sizes of their video's or the video's that they subscribe too, download, etc. Do you look at the file size often, does it matter if it's big or not? by big I say over 50 mb. I know some of the size of your video file is dependent on how long your video is, but as we as vloggers start making longer and bigger projects, larger and larger file sizes are going to be a natural by product right? I mean using the Ipod settings at 640X480 in itself can still create a rather large file depending on the length of the video. It seemed in the begining, shorter and smaller was better, but is that changing at all? I mean with the push towards HD, with being able to view content on the TV, etc, it just seems like its all a part of the evolution...or is it? I was just curious as to what you all thought. Heath personal http://batmangeek.com professional http://heathparks.com -- Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen http://www.solitude.dk/
[videoblogging] Forms for music usage?
Hey everybody, I was wondering if any of you could point me in the direction of a good, simple permission form for music usage for our videoblog and also for public access TV. Cheers, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
RE: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
The point I was trying to make was. If you make good videos, people will watch. But yeah, you do need promotion. However, finding a tool that will help people find your videos sounds bit spammy and wrong. Tubemogul just helps you get them up, and now gives you some extra non spammy ways to promote them. That's good. But there are other tools and services out that (of which I'm talking about) that assist you in getting video views and things like that. To me that's the wrong approach. I'm sure we all agree. Jim From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J. Rhett Aultman Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 2:34 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ? Sure...because nobody ever made good videos but suffered from a lack of promotion. Making good videos and assuming the world will beat a path to your door is like opening a restaurant without advertising it. Good food or not, nobody knows you're there. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime Make good videos. people will watch. Use service to get people to watch your videos is the absolute wrong way to go about it. Jim Kukral From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:videoblogging@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Charles Iliya Krempeaux Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 2:05 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ? From what I've heard of TubeMogul, it seem like a useful service But does TubeMogul provide SEO services?... which is what I think John was after (when asking about trafficgeyser.com). (My guess is he wants to get people to his site to watch his videos... rather than pushing his videos to other sites and have people watch them there.) See ya -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ On Feb 4, 2008 10:58 AM, marotblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:marotblat%40yahoo.com mailto:marotblat%40yahoo.com wrote: I don't have first hand experience with traffic geyser's subscription service, but I do know about TubeMogul's free service (I'm part of the founding team). We now also have a subscription service for corporate users. TubeMogul allows you to distribute to the top sites, which also gives you the ability to see your viewership stats across sites in one location. There are a bunch of new features, too, such as promotion of your video to social bookmarking sites and seeing all your comments in one place. Ask me if you have questions! Mark Rotblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:mark%40tubemogul.com mailto:mark%40tubemogul.com http://www.tubemogul.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com , johnleeke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you had any experience with trafficgeyser.com It is a service with a monthly fee to get your videos at the top of Google results. John Leeke www.HistoricHomeWorks.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] QuckTime 7.4 and FCP 4.5HD Disaster
7.4 also breaks renders over 10 minutes long (that's rendering time, not project time) in After Effects, and misc. problems have been reported with pre-FCPStudio2 Apple Pro products as well, though its the After Effects problem that is significant. Workaround if you already upgraded is to install 7.3.1 using Pacifist, though apparently this has to be done very carefully. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
[videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments
I wouldnt say it is that easy, a really intuitive system will need more thought in this area than we normally see. Sure, at its most basic its not that hard, but Id sure like to see some attempts to experiment more with how multiple videos are presented visually, see if there is room to bring a lot more fun ease to this realm. As well as plugins that would work with wordpress or whatever, Id really like to see an opensource flash video player that had this sort of stuff built into it, plus the best of features offered by sites/services like blip, youtube etc. Its a shame my flash skills are pretty bad, Id really like to help do working mockup of this stuff, but right now Id probably have to do it in mac-only quartz composer, or wmv-only silverlight, unless I can find the cash time to understand actionsript in flash better. Im not totally sure it makes sense to combine thse wishes with the stuff you are talking about, dont want to overcomplicate the mission, but it could be an opportunity to fill a few other gaps in the 'what wecan do without 3rd party hosted services' department. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thumbnails, embeded videos, visual presentation, that' the easy part jay. It occurs to me I have never put my CSS skills to work in this space... it's way past time I actually put my css skills to work. The big issue is this would require some significant DB work and some good programing. As I said this is nothing that hasn't already been demonstrated through vlogdir, show in the box and other projects in this space.
Re: [videoblogging] Forms for music usage?
hey ron! I am happy to forward you the release I used for my postcast question of the week, it was a man on the street interview show and I got clearance for everyone... just want to stress that a lawyer did not write it, I cobbled together a template I bought and a few releases I found, so will it hold up in the supreme court? who knows! (though along the way I did have a few lawyers sign it)... sending now... check it out and see if it works for you best, Kathryn http://www.synchronis.tv On Feb 4, 2008, at 11:48 AM, Ron Watson wrote: Does anybody have some standardized text for a release form? I'm just going to go with the WP Release form plugin and need some legalese to plug in there. I will be dealing with small, local bands, and feel comfortable with this kind of arrangement, but I definitely need some better legalese than I have drawn up. Cheers, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Feb 4, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Ron Watson wrote: Hey everybody, I was wondering if any of you could point me in the direction of a good, simple permission form for music usage for our videoblog and also for public access TV. Cheers, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
I don't know.. I think making good videos is definitely necessary... but you still need to get people to come to your site somehow. SEO can help get them there. (Of course once they're there, your _good_ videos will hopefully keep them coming back.) Not that SEO is the only strategy for introducing your work to your target audience but it is one of them for some people. -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ On Feb 4, 2008 11:10 AM, Jim Kukral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make good videos. people will watch. Use service to get people to watch your videos is the absolute wrong way to go about it. Jim Kukral From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Iliya Krempeaux Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 2:05 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ? From what I've heard of TubeMogul, it seem like a useful service But does TubeMogul provide SEO services?... which is what I think John was after (when asking about trafficgeyser.com). (My guess is he wants to get people to his site to watch his videos... rather than pushing his videos to other sites and have people watch them there.) See ya -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ On Feb 4, 2008 10:58 AM, marotblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:marotblat%40yahoo.com wrote: I don't have first hand experience with traffic geyser's subscription service, but I do know about TubeMogul's free service (I'm part of the founding team). We now also have a subscription service for corporate users. TubeMogul allows you to distribute to the top sites, which also gives you the ability to see your viewership stats across sites in one location. There are a bunch of new features, too, such as promotion of your video to social bookmarking sites and seeing all your comments in one place. Ask me if you have questions! Mark Rotblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:mark%40tubemogul.com http://www.tubemogul.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com , johnleeke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you had any experience with trafficgeyser.com It is a service with a monthly fee to get your videos at the top of Google results. John Leeke www.HistoricHomeWorks.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
From what I've heard of TubeMogul, it seem like a useful service But does TubeMogul provide SEO services?... which is what I think John was after (when asking about trafficgeyser.com). (My guess is he wants to get people to his site to watch his videos... rather than pushing his videos to other sites and have people watch them there.) See ya -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ On Feb 4, 2008 10:58 AM, marotblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have first hand experience with traffic geyser's subscription service, but I do know about TubeMogul's free service (I'm part of the founding team). We now also have a subscription service for corporate users. TubeMogul allows you to distribute to the top sites, which also gives you the ability to see your viewership stats across sites in one location. There are a bunch of new features, too, such as promotion of your video to social bookmarking sites and seeing all your comments in one place. Ask me if you have questions! Mark Rotblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tubemogul.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, johnleeke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you had any experience with trafficgeyser.com It is a service with a monthly fee to get your videos at the top of Google results. John Leeke www.HistoricHomeWorks.com
[videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
I don't have first hand experience with traffic geyser's subscription service, but I do know about TubeMogul's free service (I'm part of the founding team). We now also have a subscription service for corporate users. TubeMogul allows you to distribute to the top sites, which also gives you the ability to see your viewership stats across sites in one location. There are a bunch of new features, too, such as promotion of your video to social bookmarking sites and seeing all your comments in one place. Ask me if you have questions! Mark Rotblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tubemogul.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, johnleeke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you had any experience with trafficgeyser.com It is a service with a monthly fee to get your videos at the top of Google results. John Leeke www.HistoricHomeWorks.com
RE: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
I don't think SEO will get you video views. but it can get people to your site. (Whether they stay there or and whether they watch you videos is another question.) 10 ways to get more people to your show without paying anyone for SEO: 1) Be Interesting. If you're boring, no one will link to you and links still matter. 2) The title tags on your pages should be topic relevant as should your post title. If your post title is My Cool Show Episode #363-A, Google won't find you. 3) Write a descriptive 200-250 words about each video you post. If there are supporting details that should be summarized in text, summarize them. 4) Have an email list for people to subscribe to in addition to your RSS feed. Most people still don't get RSS. 5) Embed your video on your page - don't count on people to download it - their time is valuable and by the time the video finishes downloading, they might have forgotten all about it. 6) Digg, Stumble, and bookmark your own stuff when appropriate. If you wouldn't vote for your own content, why should anybody else? 7) Use descriptive tags to help search engines know what your content is about. Your posts are only as good as their supporting metadata. 8) Post articles and/or guest blog on related topics - be an expert in your topic area and get seen beyond your own little corner of the universe. 9) Subscribe to your video blog in every service you can find - there are many sites that won't start tracking you unless you have subscribers. 10) Send out press releases when you do something big - especially if you can make it an interesting story that news outlets might pick up. 11) Get a playboy model to talk about you: http://www.jakeludington.com/life/ Yes, this all takes work, but so does anything worth doing. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
- Original Message - From: Jake Ludington (snip) The big secret for video bloggers who want to rank well in Google is you need to be willing to write text - Google is still a text based search engine. If you can't be bothered to write something descriptive, you will languish in search engine obscurity. My experience with Google is that it does not matter what text you have on your site .. if no one is linked to your site Google will not list your site in ANY position. The more folks who link to your site the higher you will rank. Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ
Re: [videoblogging] Forms for music usage?
Thanks Kathryn! Cheers, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Feb 4, 2008, at 11:54 AM, Kathryn Jones wrote: hey ron! I am happy to forward you the release I used for my postcast question of the week, it was a man on the street interview show and I got clearance for everyone... just want to stress that a lawyer did not write it, I cobbled together a template I bought and a few releases I found, so will it hold up in the supreme court? who knows! (though along the way I did have a few lawyers sign it)... sending now... check it out and see if it works for you best, Kathryn http://www.synchronis.tv On Feb 4, 2008, at 11:48 AM, Ron Watson wrote: Does anybody have some standardized text for a release form? I'm just going to go with the WP Release form plugin and need some legalese to plug in there. I will be dealing with small, local bands, and feel comfortable with this kind of arrangement, but I definitely need some better legalese than I have drawn up. Cheers, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Feb 4, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Ron Watson wrote: Hey everybody, I was wondering if any of you could point me in the direction of a good, simple permission form for music usage for our videoblog and also for public access TV. Cheers, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
RE: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
I've investigated that .. and it's beyond me .. but, currently, that page shows up on the first page of a Google search .. good enough for now. I apologize for my post - I had the mistaken impression that you were attempting to get more traffic. As for not liking QuickTime - I don't really like QuickTime, but 100 million iPod owners is a hard market to ignore. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
[videoblogging] May be of interest to some here
Call For Entries Issued for Filmmakers, Television Producers and Videographers by International Awards Competition, The Accolade Deadline: February 15 Information: www.TheAccolade.net Now in its sixth year, top-tier, international awards competition, The Accolade, announces its Call For Entries for filmmakers, television producers and videographers. The Accolade is a non-traditional, virtual venue. Awards go to those filmmakers, television producers and videographers who produce fresh, standout entertainment, animation and compelling documentaries. The Accolade is a showcase for cinematic gems and unique voices. It receives entries from all over the world including Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Hong, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Puerto Rico, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom and the United States. There are three levels of awards, all based on quality and creativity: Best of Show, Award of Excellence and Honorable Mention. No more than 15 percent of entries are granted Awards of Excellence. Best of Show honors are granted only if worthy productions are discovered. Notable artistic and technical productions are recognized at the Honorable Mention award level. Annually, a special award is given to a production that makes a significant contribution to social change or a humanitarian effort. Since The Accolade is not a traditional festival, viewership is attracted online through The Accolade's website, via targeted press releases directed to industry media and achieved with notifications to The Accolade's email database of more than 26,000 people including producers, distributors and buyers. The Accolade is an award recognized for its rigorous evaluation process by buyers and distributors; they are confident that winning productions are of high quality. The Accolade team works passionately to help worthy productions gain the publicity and distribution they deserve. Clips of the Best of Show productions are streamed on The Accolade Web site. Every filmmaker, television producer and videographer wants credibility associated with their work and buzz about their productions, and that is what The Accolade is all about. The goal of The Accolade is to help the winners of this coveted award achieve the recognition and distribution they deserve. Go to www.TheAccolade.net for rules and entry form. Thomas Baker, Ph.D., Competition Chairperson The Accolade Competition 7946 Ivanhoe Avenue, Suite 201 La Jolla, California 92037 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 858-454-9868
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments
I would be nice if, for example, each WordPress (or Show in a Box) based video blog had a plugin that could show the entire threaded convo itself. That way you could see the convo no matter which video blog you were on. -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ On Feb 4, 2008 3:58 AM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So Jay, is this an offer to develop it? I would be very happy to contribute feedback, design, CSS, light coding / anything I can just as long as it's either a) open source, or b) I have some stake in the entity building it. I'm just sick of helping unappreciative companies / people build things that profit them and not giving anything back. The succubus is a good metaphor. yeah, lets not worry about creating a business. go into porn or the new Blackwater-style security services to make money. The primary requirements of such a system is users will be able to add RSS 2.0 / mediaRSS feeds with videos in them... it will also need to regularly crawl and DB these feeds and identify permalinks in the posts cross referencing other posts. Take a moment to check out Andreas writings on tracking conversations. He recently reminded me of his work back in 2004(!). Not sure if I was ready to grasp his ideas back then. http://www.solitude.dk/tag/conversation+tracking my experience and desire for any system screams for a visual presentation. a list of links doesnt excite me. I want to see thumbnails. i want to watch videos i the page easily. i want the page to make the videos look good. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Professional: http://ryanishungry.com Personal: http://momentshowing.net Photos: http://flickr.com/photos/jaydedman/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/jaydedman RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9
Re: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
I don't think SEO will get you video views. but it can get people to your site. (Whether they stay there or and whether they watch you videos is another question.) -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ On Feb 4, 2008 11:41 AM, Jim Kukral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The point I was trying to make was. If you make good videos, people will watch. But yeah, you do need promotion. However, finding a tool that will help people find your videos sounds bit spammy and wrong. Tubemogul just helps you get them up, and now gives you some extra non spammy ways to promote them. That's good. But there are other tools and services out that (of which I'm talking about) that assist you in getting video views and things like that. To me that's the wrong approach. I'm sure we all agree. Jim From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J. Rhett Aultman Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 2:34 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ? Sure...because nobody ever made good videos but suffered from a lack of promotion. Making good videos and assuming the world will beat a path to your door is like opening a restaurant without advertising it. Good food or not, nobody knows you're there. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime Make good videos. people will watch. Use service to get people to watch your videos is the absolute wrong way to go about it. Jim Kukral From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:videoblogging@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Charles Iliya Krempeaux Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 2:05 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ? From what I've heard of TubeMogul, it seem like a useful service But does TubeMogul provide SEO services?... which is what I think John was after (when asking about trafficgeyser.com). (My guess is he wants to get people to his site to watch his videos... rather than pushing his videos to other sites and have people watch them there.) See ya -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ On Feb 4, 2008 10:58 AM, marotblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:marotblat%40yahoo.com mailto:marotblat%40yahoo.com wrote: I don't have first hand experience with traffic geyser's subscription service, but I do know about TubeMogul's free service (I'm part of the founding team). We now also have a subscription service for corporate users. TubeMogul allows you to distribute to the top sites, which also gives you the ability to see your viewership stats across sites in one location. There are a bunch of new features, too, such as promotion of your video to social bookmarking sites and seeing all your comments in one place. Ask me if you have questions! Mark Rotblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:mark%40tubemogul.com mailto:mark%40tubemogul.com http://www.tubemogul.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com , johnleeke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you had any experience with trafficgeyser.com It is a service with a monthly fee to get your videos at the top of Google results. John Leeke www.HistoricHomeWorks.com
Re: [videoblogging] Updated Video Comments plug-in: version 1.2
Hey David,
Thoughts on spam issues with plugins like this?
Can it hook into Wordpress Aksimet?
Nice work.
Sull
On Feb 4, 2008 5:01 PM, David Meade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all -
Based on some initial playing around with the video comment plugin
for wordpress, I've updated the plugin to version 1.2. You can
download the latest version at
http://www.davidmeade.com/wordpress-plugins#videoComments
Feel free to test/play-around at: http://slackspace.net/testblog/?p=11
Let me know if you find it buggy in anyway.
Changes are as follows:
-- UPDATE / CHANGE LOG --
version 1.2
* Thumbnail URLs are now validated
--- Link must point to a valid link (not resulting in 400 or 500
level http error codes)
--- Invalid images are replaced with a default thumbnail
* Video URLs are now validated
--- Link must point to a valid link (not resulting in 400 or 500
level http error codes)
* Post Permalink URLs are now validates
--- Link must point to a valid link (not resulting in 400 or 500
level http error codes)
* If a video URL is invalid, but the post permalink is good, the
thumbnail will link to that instead. (allowing link to fall through to
the permalink)
* Video Comment fields will now show up when editing an existing
comment (Allowing an administrator to go in and fix/update video
response links as needed).
--- NOTE: Currently, this requires adding a line of code to the
file wp-admin/edit-form-comment.php (pre-modified version is now
included with the plug-in). I have requested this be fixed in the core
wordpres files so that such modification is not required in the future
(http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5741). See ADVANCED INSTALLATION
OPTIONS below.
* Robust clean-up of video comment fields upon deletion of associated
wordpress comment
-- TO DO: --
* Validate links on content-type. (This is code complete but for some
reason wordpress is sometimes returning odd results for links, so I've
disabled it in this version)
-- KNOWN ISSUES: --
* Not compatible with the OpenID plugin - video comment fields are
lost when user is redirected to an OpenID url for authentication.
(http://wordpress.org/support/topic/154438?replies=1#post-685165)
-- UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS --
0) download a backup of your current video comments plugin files
1) Disable your current video comments plugin
2) Delete your current video comments plugin files
3) continue with normal install instructions
-- INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS --
0) download the latest version of the video comments plugin
1) extract to a local folder on your computer
2) upload the entire VideoComments folder to your plugins directory
(wp-content/plugins)
3) activate the plugin
-- ADVANCED INSTALLATION OPTIONS --
1) update your theme's css to set max-width for the
videoResponseThumbnail class
2) ensure the line:
?php do_action('comment_form', $post-ID); ?
appears in your comments/php file for your them. (this is where the
video comment fields are added to the comment form)
3) ensure the line:
?php do_action('edit_comment_form', $comment-comment_ID); ?
appears in your wp-admin/edit-form-comment.php file. I recommend
putting this just above the Advanced section). If you aren't sure
how to do this, you can use the pre-edited edit-form-comment.php that
was included with the zip file for this plugin - just upload it it
your wp-admin folder (make a backup of your existing file first).
Thanks,
- Dave
--
http://www.DavidMeade.com
Re: [videoblogging] Updated Video Comments plug-in: version 1.2
as far as I understand it, this should work with the moderation system
and plugins like akismet. (If that's not the case let me know).
The video fields get saved to the database once the actual comment
does, so if you have some sort of pre-screen check (captcha or
something) it should work fine (unless it somehow eats the video
response fields - let me know if you find an anti-spam plugin where
that's the case).
Once the comment is saved (and the video comment fields just
afterward) - it should be able to sit happily in a moderation queue
before its released to the site. Once it's on the site the video will
show up. (If a comment is deleted, the latest version of the plug-in
is set to remove video comment fields for that comment from the
database)
- Dave
On Feb 4, 2008 5:08 PM, Sull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey David,
Thoughts on spam issues with plugins like this?
Can it hook into Wordpress Aksimet?
Nice work.
Sull
On Feb 4, 2008 5:01 PM, David Meade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all -
Based on some initial playing around with the video comment plugin
for wordpress, I've updated the plugin to version 1.2. You can
download the latest version at
http://www.davidmeade.com/wordpress-plugins#videoComments
Feel free to test/play-around at: http://slackspace.net/testblog/?p=11
Let me know if you find it buggy in anyway.
Changes are as follows:
-- UPDATE / CHANGE LOG --
version 1.2
* Thumbnail URLs are now validated
--- Link must point to a valid link (not resulting in 400 or 500
level http error codes)
--- Invalid images are replaced with a default thumbnail
* Video URLs are now validated
--- Link must point to a valid link (not resulting in 400 or 500
level http error codes)
* Post Permalink URLs are now validates
--- Link must point to a valid link (not resulting in 400 or 500
level http error codes)
* If a video URL is invalid, but the post permalink is good, the
thumbnail will link to that instead. (allowing link to fall through to
the permalink)
* Video Comment fields will now show up when editing an existing
comment (Allowing an administrator to go in and fix/update video
response links as needed).
--- NOTE: Currently, this requires adding a line of code to the
file wp-admin/edit-form-comment.php (pre-modified version is now
included with the plug-in). I have requested this be fixed in the core
wordpres files so that such modification is not required in the future
(http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5741). See ADVANCED INSTALLATION
OPTIONS below.
* Robust clean-up of video comment fields upon deletion of associated
wordpress comment
-- TO DO: --
* Validate links on content-type. (This is code complete but for some
reason wordpress is sometimes returning odd results for links, so I've
disabled it in this version)
-- KNOWN ISSUES: --
* Not compatible with the OpenID plugin - video comment fields are
lost when user is redirected to an OpenID url for authentication.
(http://wordpress.org/support/topic/154438?replies=1#post-685165)
-- UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS --
0) download a backup of your current video comments plugin files
1) Disable your current video comments plugin
2) Delete your current video comments plugin files
3) continue with normal install instructions
-- INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS --
0) download the latest version of the video comments plugin
1) extract to a local folder on your computer
2) upload the entire VideoComments folder to your plugins directory
(wp-content/plugins)
3) activate the plugin
-- ADVANCED INSTALLATION OPTIONS --
1) update your theme's css to set max-width for the
videoResponseThumbnail class
2) ensure the line:
?php do_action('comment_form', $post-ID); ?
appears in your comments/php file for your them. (this is where the
video comment fields are added to the comment form)
3) ensure the line:
?php do_action('edit_comment_form', $comment-comment_ID); ?
appears in your wp-admin/edit-form-comment.php file. I recommend
putting this just above the Advanced section). If you aren't sure
how to do this, you can use the pre-edited edit-form-comment.php that
was included with the zip file for this plugin - just upload it it
your wp-admin folder (make a backup of your existing file first).
Thanks,
- Dave
--
http://www.DavidMeade.com
Yahoo! Groups Links
--
http://www.DavidMeade.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments
obviously of interest http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/02/urls-are-people-too.html On Feb 4, 2008 1:40 PM, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it would need someone who can develop it to do a protype of the idea in it's most simple form, a proof of concept. -Mike On Feb 4, 2008 11:42 AM, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wouldnt say it is that easy, a really intuitive system will need more thought in this area than we normally see. Sure, at its most basic its not that hard, but Id sure like to see some attempts to experiment more with how multiple videos are presented visually, see if there is room to bring a lot more fun ease to this realm. As well as plugins that would work with wordpress or whatever, Id really like to see an opensource flash video player that had this sort of stuff built into it, plus the best of features offered by sites/services like blip, youtube etc. Its a shame my flash skills are pretty bad, Id really like to help do working mockup of this stuff, but right now Id probably have to do it in mac-only quartz composer, or wmv-only silverlight, unless I can find the cash time to understand actionsript in flash better. Im not totally sure it makes sense to combine thse wishes with the stuff you are talking about, dont want to overcomplicate the mission, but it could be an opportunity to fill a few other gaps in the 'what wecan do without 3rd party hosted services' department. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thumbnails, embeded videos, visual presentation, that' the easy part jay. It occurs to me I have never put my CSS skills to work in this space... it's way past time I actually put my css skills to work. The big issue is this would require some significant DB work and some good programing. As I said this is nothing that hasn't already been demonstrated through vlogdir, show in the box and other projects in this space. Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
- Original Message - From: Jake Ludington Not to pick on you, but both of those sites are horrible from an SEO perspective. :) You lost me with SEO Each of those video posts you have should live on an individual page, with an appropriate title. For instance, create a separate page title Why Serenity was more fun than Star Wars and provide more background details than the one sentence description. And for the love of god offer some format other than Real - many people still hate RealPlayer and you can't put those videos on an iPod :) I made the page and chose the format long before I made this available as an RSS feed. I chose Real Player because I host these videos on my own site and while I was told by my host I should be able to get 3 formats to stream .. I could only get two, Quicktime and Real .. for the same bandwidth Real gave a better picture .. so I chose Real. Better descriptions? Outside of quoting some of the comments / questions made during the video I really don't see how I could embellish the descriptions of these videos very much. Yes, I know some folks have issues with Real .. by the same token some folks (me included) have issues with Quicktime. You can't please everyone. Embed the video (use Blip if you want more control) and offer a download as a second alternative. RSS feed? Where is it? :) Embed the video?? why? So there is pretty picture to view before you start streaming? These Real Player videos are between 45 and 60 minutes long .. they *all* stream when clicked. .. more control .. than what? I have total control as it is (as much as I can have without having my own personal server at my house) RSS feed? Its in the IE toolbar, and on the page, on the right-hand side, at the bottom of the main text (before the individual episodes) .. yes, it can done better .. but I write this page with Front Page Express myself, and I'm not wiz kid at html. You could double your traffic without even breaking a sweat. Oh yeah, and on my top 10 list I should have mentioned, have a sitemap and list it with Google Webmaster tools. I've investigated that .. and it's beyond me .. but, currently, that page shows up on the first page of a Google search .. good enough for now. Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ
RE: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
My experience with Google is that it does not matter what text you have on your site .. if no one is linked to your site Google will not list your site in ANY position. The more folks who link to your site the higher you will rank. http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org Not to pick on you, but both of those sites are horrible from an SEO perspective. :) Each of those video posts you have should live on an individual page, with an appropriate title. For instance, create a separate page title Why Serenity was more fun than Star Wars and provide more background details than the one sentence description. And for the love of god offer some format other than Real - many people still hate RealPlayer and you can't put those videos on an iPod :) Embed the video (use Blip if you want more control) and offer a download as a second alternative. RSS feed? Where is it? :) You could double your traffic without even breaking a sweat. Oh yeah, and on my top 10 list I should have mentioned, have a sitemap and list it with Google Webmaster tools. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
[videoblogging] Re: Does the file size of video matter anymore?
I completly agree on having choices, that's part of why I offer a windows file as well as a flash, the issue I am having at the moment, is that in Vegas you can now export to Ipod right out of vegas, saving me time as I now longer have to create an avi then use quicktime pro. But in vegas you can't do a fast start for the Ipod version, but I want to have an Ipod version for Itunesso I am thinking I will have to start doing a mov file as well, as that I can fast start in Vegas. So more options it is.\ But this does lead to another question, how many people are watching the videos on site and how many download and watch on their portable? Anybody know of any studies on that? Heath professional http://heathparks.com personal http://batmangeek.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me see if I can give you a useful answer... In the US, at least at the moment, most people have broadband connections without monthly dowmload limits. So the size of the file is less of a concern especially if people are using aggregators like iTunes or Miro to download video. Where it becomes a concern is when they are trying to watch it on your website. Those export for IPod 1600kbps videos don't often play without a significant amount of waiting. To make up for that (and plugin uncertainty) many people offer a lower bit rate flash version from blip or youtube. Outside the US many broadband connections come with a monthly download cap (maybe 10GB ?? I'm unsure). Anything downloaded over that limit incurs an extra charge. TimeWarner is now experimenting with a service like this in Texas. Of course there is still a large section of the world that don't have broadband connections at all. So, should you quit making big videos? Probably not. Should you give people options? Sure! That's reason #63 why I like vPIP - you can give visitors to your site a range of choices for viewing and subscribing to you videos. - Verdi On 2/4/08, Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless you only care about rich people in large urban metro areas, then yes, file sizes do matter. - Andreas Den 04.02.2008 kl. 09:44 skrev Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I was just curious what people thought about the file sizes of their video's or the video's that they subscribe too, download, etc. Do you look at the file size often, does it matter if it's big or not? by big I say over 50 mb. I know some of the size of your video file is dependent on how long your video is, but as we as vloggers start making longer and bigger projects, larger and larger file sizes are going to be a natural by product right? I mean using the Ipod settings at 640X480 in itself can still create a rather large file depending on the length of the video. It seemed in the begining, shorter and smaller was better, but is that changing at all? I mean with the push towards HD, with being able to view content on the TV, etc, it just seems like its all a part of the evolution...or is it? I was just curious as to what you all thought. Heath personal http://batmangeek.com professional http://heathparks.com -- Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen http://www.solitude.dk/ -- http://michaelverdi.com http://freevlog.org http://nscape.tv
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Looking for people to invite to Vlog Europe '08
Thanks Jeffrey; I am officially watching and this will help me remember as I get RSS from my Upcoming events. :-) Rox On Feb 3, 2008 1:16 PM, beth_tilston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, Invite me, then I'll feel special and will probably come. Maybe I'll have converted some people via Node 101 by then too and we can be a Brighton contingent. Beth p.s. I'm a woman. -- Roxanne Darling o ke kai means of the sea in hawaiian Join us at the reef! Mermaid videos, geeks talking, and lots more http://reef.beachwalks.tv 808-384-5554 Video -- http://www.beachwalks.tv Company -- http://www.barefeetstudios.com Twitter-- http://www.twitter.com/roxannedarling [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
- Original Message - From: Jake Ludington I apologize for my post - I had the mistaken impression that you were attempting to get more traffic. The original poster may have .. I was making a comment on my experience with Google. To further explain: I have a friend who I wrote a webpage for: http://halkoltinshow.com and then I submitted this page to Google and various other search engines .. and I waited .. and waited .. for months .. with zip for results. If I did a search for Hal Koltin Show or Hal Koltin I would get, maybe, 3 pages of hits off Google .. and my page was not to be found anywhere. So I waited and waited .. no change. FINALLY I had someone post a link to this page on their website .. and within 10 days (maybe less) it showed up on a Google search .. this after it had been up for about six months! Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ
[videoblogging] Re: Does the file size of video matter anymore?
Matter in what sense? Largest possible audience? Probably, but I've been doing HUGE files since 05 and havn't had any problems growing an audience. As a general rule my shows are a hour and a half long (movie and host segments). Now I have spent a long time trying to perfect my compression, but i've managed to get an hour and a half of video down to around 350 meg or so in 640x480 and watchable fullscreen. I've never had any complants about file size. My audience continues to grow so I'm not seeing a problem if you choose to go big, but offering other options if possible is always a good idea, just dont go crazy with 50 feeds for the same show. A Max of 3 formats seems ideal. Flash,h.264 (ipod) and maybe a windows format WMV file. Rev. Chumley Cult of UHF --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just curious what people thought about the file sizes of their video's or the video's that they subscribe too, download, etc. Do you look at the file size often, does it matter if it's big or not? by big I say over 50 mb. I know some of the size of your video file is dependent on how long your video is, but as we as vloggers start making longer and bigger projects, larger and larger file sizes are going to be a natural by product right? I mean using the Ipod settings at 640X480 in itself can still create a rather large file depending on the length of the video. It seemed in the begining, shorter and smaller was better, but is that changing at all? I mean with the push towards HD, with being able to view content on the TV, etc, it just seems like its all a part of the evolution...or is it? I was just curious as to what you all thought. Heath personal http://batmangeek.com professional http://heathparks.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
There's also the Google Sandbox... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_Effect You're put under a waiting period before being listed. Although having people link to you can help you get out of the sandbox. See ya -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ On Feb 4, 2008 1:29 PM, Richard Amirault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Jake Ludington I apologize for my post - I had the mistaken impression that you were attempting to get more traffic. The original poster may have .. I was making a comment on my experience with Google. To further explain: I have a friend who I wrote a webpage for: http://halkoltinshow.com and then I submitted this page to Google and various other search engines .. and I waited .. and waited .. for months .. with zip for results. If I did a search for Hal Koltin Show or Hal Koltin I would get, maybe, 3 pages of hits off Google .. and my page was not to be found anywhere. So I waited and waited .. no change. FINALLY I had someone post a link to this page on their website .. and within 10 days (maybe less) it showed up on a Google search .. this after it had been up for about six months! Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ
RE: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
To further explain: I have a friend who I wrote a webpage for: http://halkoltinshow.com and then I submitted this page to Google and various other search engines .. and I waited .. and waited .. for months .. with zip for results. For better results in the future - the domain is actually a subdomain of your site and reasonably unrelated - parking the domain differently might have resulted in a different outcome. The site has 2 pages, which might imply some passing fancy, not something authoritative that Google should care about (and again there's almost no text on the pages for Google to crawl). You don't have a sitemap (submitting might help but is largely useless as stuff tends to get sandboxed). FINALLY I had someone post a link to this page on their website .. and within 10 days (maybe less) it showed up on a Google search .. this after it had been up for about six months! Which likely didn't hurt. Had you posted a link to it from one of your pages, so that Google could find it, that might have helped too. ;) Again, I offer this with every attempt to be helpful, not critical. Getting found online isn't easy, but there are many ways to make it easier. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
[videoblogging] Updated Video Comments plug-in: version 1.2
Hi all -
Based on some initial playing around with the video comment plugin
for wordpress, I've updated the plugin to version 1.2. You can
download the latest version at
http://www.davidmeade.com/wordpress-plugins#videoComments
Feel free to test/play-around at: http://slackspace.net/testblog/?p=11
Let me know if you find it buggy in anyway.
Changes are as follows:
-- UPDATE / CHANGE LOG --
version 1.2
* Thumbnail URLs are now validated
--- Link must point to a valid link (not resulting in 400 or 500
level http error codes)
--- Invalid images are replaced with a default thumbnail
* Video URLs are now validated
--- Link must point to a valid link (not resulting in 400 or 500
level http error codes)
* Post Permalink URLs are now validates
--- Link must point to a valid link (not resulting in 400 or 500
level http error codes)
* If a video URL is invalid, but the post permalink is good, the
thumbnail will link to that instead. (allowing link to fall through to
the permalink)
* Video Comment fields will now show up when editing an existing
comment (Allowing an administrator to go in and fix/update video
response links as needed).
--- NOTE: Currently, this requires adding a line of code to the
file wp-admin/edit-form-comment.php (pre-modified version is now
included with the plug-in). I have requested this be fixed in the core
wordpres files so that such modification is not required in the future
(http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5741). See ADVANCED INSTALLATION
OPTIONS below.
* Robust clean-up of video comment fields upon deletion of associated
wordpress comment
-- TO DO: --
* Validate links on content-type. (This is code complete but for some
reason wordpress is sometimes returning odd results for links, so I've
disabled it in this version)
-- KNOWN ISSUES: --
* Not compatible with the OpenID plugin - video comment fields are
lost when user is redirected to an OpenID url for authentication.
(http://wordpress.org/support/topic/154438?replies=1#post-685165)
-- UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS --
0) download a backup of your current video comments plugin files
1) Disable your current video comments plugin
2) Delete your current video comments plugin files
3) continue with normal install instructions
-- INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS --
0) download the latest version of the video comments plugin
1) extract to a local folder on your computer
2) upload the entire VideoComments folder to your plugins directory
(wp-content/plugins)
3) activate the plugin
-- ADVANCED INSTALLATION OPTIONS --
1) update your theme's css to set max-width for the
videoResponseThumbnail class
2) ensure the line:
?php do_action('comment_form', $post-ID); ?
appears in your comments/php file for your them. (this is where
the
video comment fields are added to the comment form)
3) ensure the line:
?php do_action('edit_comment_form', $comment-comment_ID); ?
appears in your wp-admin/edit-form-comment.php file. I recommend
putting this just above the Advanced section). If you aren't sure
how to do this, you can use the pre-edited edit-form-comment.php that
was included with the zip file for this plugin - just upload it it
your wp-admin folder (make a backup of your existing file first).
Thanks,
- Dave
--
http://www.DavidMeade.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Does the file size of video matter anymore?
On Feb 4, 2008 5:14 PM, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But this does lead to another question, how many people are watching the videos on site and how many download and watch on their portable? Anybody know of any studies on that? Good question. I think the vast majority of people are probably watching things on the web. Just on my own site it probably averages out to about 7 of 10 people watching on the site. And I think I have a pretty heavily videoblogger skewed bunch of people watching. - Verdi
[videoblogging] Re: Does the file size of video matter anymore?
I have been inspired by this video: http://www.flashvideofactory.com/test/DEMO720_Heima_H264_500K.html So that video is 1280x720 25fps but the bitrate is only 500K :) So that video which is naerly 4 minutes long, is only 15.5MB in size, but 720p resolution :) In not sure which encoder settings he used. Granted it is possible to see various compression artifacts here and there, as the bitrate is much lower than would be recommended for such resolutions, but even so, Im very impressed. Other issues such as playback performance on slower machines could be an issue, but ooh nonetheless :) Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 4, 2008 5:14 PM, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But this does lead to another question, how many people are watching the videos on site and how many download and watch on their portable? Anybody know of any studies on that? Good question. I think the vast majority of people are probably watching things on the web. Just on my own site it probably averages out to about 7 of 10 people watching on the site. And I think I have a pretty heavily videoblogger skewed bunch of people watching. - Verdi
Re: [videoblogging] Does the file size of video matter anymore?
On 05/02/2008, at 1:44 AM, Heath wrote: It seemed in the begining, shorter and smaller was better, but is that changing at all? I mean with the push towards HD, with being able to view content on the TV, etc, it just seems like its all a part of the evolution...or is it? hi Heath personally I think shorter is always better. 1. it's the logic of the environment (blogs would have died and will die if posts get longer and become novellas). 2. time - if i subscribe to 10 feeds, and each produces 30 minutes a week, that's 300 minutes of time I need to find (which I don't really have), let alone trying to find 30 minutes of time to watch each one... 3. connections: the smaller things are the easier it is to connect them to other things. The longer they are, the harder it is to connect bits to other bits. This might not be an issue right now but it will in the future (example: If I write a really long blog post and you link to it, and my blogpost covers 6 major ideas, how do you a) indicate which part of my post you are linking to, b) what do you do inn your post about all the irrelevant stuff in my post and c) how would someone following the link from your post to my long post work out what was going on?. Same with video. If I have short segments then easy to cut these together in different ways, if I have lots of only longtakes of action then much harder to join these to other bits. So as we move to video being more web like this sort of granularity will become more important. long video forms will evolve into something interesting online, but short forms will dominate. cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
RE: [videoblogging] Re: Does the file size of video matter anymore?
Steve, the quality at that size is incredible. Ive played around with Divx in SD footage and got my best results, but nothing like that. Outputting the best quality from the Cam still seems to be the key to stunning video. Cheers Rambo HYPERLINK http://rambos-locker.blogspot.comhttp://rambos-locker.blogspot.com -Original Message- From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Watkins Sent: Tuesday, 5 February 2008 10:44 AM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: [videoblogging] Re: Does the file size of video matter anymore? I have been inspired by this video: HYPERLINK http://www.flashvideofactory.com/test/DEMO720_Heima_H264_500K.htmlhttp ://www.flashvid-eofactory.-com/test/-DEMO720_Heima_-H264_500K.-html So that video is 1280x720 25fps but the bitrate is only 500K :) So that video which is naerly 4 minutes long, is only 15.5MB in size, but 720p resolution :) In not sure which encoder settings he used. Granted it is possible to see various compression artifacts here and there, as the bitrate is much lower than would be recommended for such resolutions, but even so, Im very impressed. Other issues such as playback performance on slower machines could be an issue, but ooh nonetheless :) Cheers Steve Elbows --- In HYPERLINK mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com[EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Verdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 4, 2008 5:14 PM, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But this does lead to another question, how many people are watching the videos on site and how many download and watch on their portable? Anybody know of any studies on that? Good question. I think the vast majority of people are probably watching things on the web. Just on my own site it probably averages out to about 7 of 10 people watching on the site. And I think I have a pretty heavily videoblogger skewed bunch of people watching. - Verdi No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.20/1259 - Release Date: 4/02/2008 8:42 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.20/1259 - Release Date: 4/02/2008 8:42 PM [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments
On 02/02/2008, at 8:53 PM, Jay dedman wrote: when you start talking like tis Adrian, you lose me. I am understanding the concepts of video commenting and following the threads. im in. fair enough. lose myself too. I'll think through and try to make a QT mockup to explain what I mean. I'll also try to explain (except I know nuthin' about RSS etc so will rely on Andreas, Sull, et al correcting the errors and omissions) how it might work in practice. cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
