[videoblogging] Re: How to embed hi-res Youtube videos
Another way, albeit not the most user friendly... :) Add ap=%2526fmt%3D18 onto the end of the YouTube link in the embed code object width=425 height=344param name=movie value=http://www.youtube.com/v/MuqiGrWBRqEhl=enfs=1 ap=%2526fmt%3D18/paramparam name=allowFullScreen value=true/paramparam name=allowscriptaccess value=always/paramembed src=http://www.youtube.com/v/MuqiGrWBRqEhl=enfs=1ap=%2526fmt%3D18; type=application/x-shockwave-flash allowscriptaccess=always allowfullscreen=true width=425 height=344/embed/object --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rupert made this cool hack to embed the hi-res version of Youtube videos: http://www.twittervlog.tv/high-quality-youtube-embed-generator.html This guy has a post with some more detailed i fo about the process here: http://blog.jimmyr.com/High_Quality_on_Youtube_11_2008.php Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Recording Live audio from different locations
Hi, Brainstorming a bit. Seems to me that you might - via a desktop sharing application and Audacity (or whatever you're using to record audio on your computer) - be able to approach both 'live recording' and 'quality' together. Don't know if desktop sharing would have the same kind of audio compression / latency as Skype. Might be interesting to find out. Tried Gmail's audio / video chat recently and the audio quality was pretty darned good. None of the Skype echo or weird digital hash hesitations. If may be that Verdi and I both have good connections. I have FIOS. Maybe iChat or any other video conference app in combination with CamTwist (Google it), playing back the pre-recorded video in the chat window so you can sync the audio performance to the vid. What OS do each of you have? If the double-ender strategy appeals and you're bound and determined to use better-quality mics, I should think you wouldn't need 'recorders', but only a free recording application like Audacity, and a preamp or other bit of hardware to put between the mics and the computer, in order to get the mic signal where it needs to be to be 'heard' by the computer. Because of your post, I broke out a Shure FP-11 mic to line amp (new from Ebay for $135) and hooked it up with a dynamic headset mic and it's working okay - with a bit more hiss than I'd prefer - but still much better than the on-board MacBook Pro mic and associated computer noise well in the foreground of the background. Podcasters would be well placed to tell you which USB mics would get you the quality you need. I'm certain there are 'good' USB mics out there for well less than $100 a piece. You can certainly pick up a Shure SM57 or two used for less than $100 each. The Shure mic you later mention - the SM7B - for sure isn't in the budget you describe. The SM57's should be plenty good enough for the web, with the added benefit of rejecting most ambient room noise (like echo, refrigerators, air conditioners, traffic and the neighbors' argument). Another idea is that one or both of you may have a video camera handy to use as a mic, attached and recorded to the computer via fireware or USB. There IS the some time problem of camera noise associated with recording audio with inboard mics on video cameras, but it's usually not THAT much of a problem for lo-budge web purposes. Toward the lo-budget side, you can always write the story so that one (or both) of the characer's voice(s) are supposed to be 'futzed' - e.g., EQ'd so they sound as if they're on a telephone. Call me if you want, and I'll walk you through some more ideas. 862-571-5334 Better these discussions held in real time. Texting possibilities without knowing precisely what you have / want is not an efficient use of our time :) Jan On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Richard Amirault [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: - Original Message - From: Dom (snip) The video portion will utilize voice-over while our content plays beneath. We may also use animation or puppets along with our voices. Anyway, you can see that it would be less than ideal to have the voices at different qualities. Are there any tools for recording two audio streams live from two separate locations that don't involve thousands of dollars of audio equipment? Thanks folks! As suggested a double ender will work just fine. How low cost it is depends on what your definition of cost is. You will need quality recorders. A pair of Zoom H-2s will work great. Do not use anything like a digital voice recorder from Olympus or Sony. I'm not sure about the video aspect of this. Will you both need to see the video to comment on it? I would think that this may be a problem. You both need to see the same thing at the same time. Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] How to create a link within a .wmv?
Using QuickTime Pro I now know the html code necessary to create a link to a url from within a .mov video, but can someone explain how to do the same in a .wmv video? I only use macs and have no experience with Windows programs but surely there must be a means to create this type of link for WindowsMedia Player. Thanks, Michael
Re: [videoblogging] Web Hosting
I'm hitting up Mediatemple now. More expensive -- but not quite as bad as the one I got at 2.99 a month. The cpanel is slow. Matthew From: Ruud Elmendorp: Video journalist Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 1:34 AM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Web Hosting Am quite happy with Dreamhost. Ruud Elmendorp Video Journalist Africa http://www.videoreporter.nl On 11/14/08, David Terranova [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh yeah, I¹ve got some sites on mediatemple, but they all seem to have bandwidth problems (even though each site has a lot of dedicated bandwidth) and connection errors. -- David Terranova www.davidterranova.com | blog.davidterranova.com | www.rebelrave.tv From: Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:33:38 -0800 To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Web Hosting I've asked around on Twitter about this. A lot of people use and like Dreamhost, and they have various nice things like automatic Wordpress installation. If you need a bit more, people seem to like MediaTemple. If you want to go green - in light of the data-centers-polluting-more- than-airlines-by-2020 thing - Dreamhost offset their power use with carbon credits. For properly green hosting, AISO.net is the biggest solar powered host, I think, based in California. When my payment period is up with my current host, I'm moving to http:// solarenergyhost.com which is a solar hydro powered host using AISO's servers but based in Vancouver. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ On 14-Nov-08, at 11:24 AM, Lil Peck wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:11 PM, bmilam52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:bcnvmilam%40live.com wrote: Hostgator blows. I need a new web host for my blog. I'm sick of trying to get into my blog and always running into a problem. What's a good host that some of you use? I use seekdotnet.com. It isn't perfect -- no host is, but so far, of all the ones I have tried over the years. this one has been the best. Lil [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Web Hosting
Okay -- things are looking good now. I guess it's worth paying that much. Let's see if Mediatemple stays cool. Matthew [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] How to create a link within a .wmv?
AFAIK, you can't. -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://changelog.ca/ On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Bookmarts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using QuickTime Pro I now know the html code necessary to create a link to a url from within a .mov video, but can someone explain how to do the same in a .wmv video? I only use macs and have no experience with Windows programs but surely there must be a means to create this type of link for WindowsMedia Player. Thanks, Michael
[videoblogging] Re: Recording Live audio from different locations
Besides a decent mic there is a need to work with your firewall from what it sounds (no pun) like. A lot of great info can be found on the http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/ The Conversations Network's forums. http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/forum/ mentioned on the site belowwhich is probably where I first discovered this if not on this list or another. The following video has information that's been a Must watch video I've recommended often. Covers system Skype preference settings. Hope this helps From Doug Kaye's Weblog http://www.blogarithms.com/ Skype for Interviews - A How-To Video After years of discouraging the use of Skype for interviews here at The Conversations Network, we're now saying a resounding Yes! Paul Figgiani and I have prepared this audiovisual presentation that covers all you need to know in order to get true broadcast-quality Skype recordings. http://tr.im/dkaye_skype ... --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Brainstorming a bit. Seems to me that you might - via a desktop sharing application and Audacity (or whatever you're using to record audio on your computer) - be able to approach both 'live recording' and 'quality' together. Don't know if desktop sharing would have the same kind of audio compression / latency as Skype. Might be interesting to find out. Tried Gmail's audio / video chat recently and the audio quality was pretty darned good. None of the Skype echo or weird digital hash hesitations. If may be that Verdi and I both have good connections. I have FIOS. Maybe iChat or any other video conference app in combination with CamTwist (Google it), playing back the pre-recorded video in the chat window so you can sync the audio performance to the vid. What OS do each of you have? If the double-ender strategy appeals and you're bound and determined to use better-quality mics, I should think you wouldn't need 'recorders', but only a free recording application like Audacity, and a preamp or other bit of hardware to put between the mics and the computer, in order to get the mic signal where it needs to be to be 'heard' by the computer. Because of your post, I broke out a Shure FP-11 mic to line amp (new from Ebay for $135) and hooked it up with a dynamic headset mic and it's working okay - with a bit more hiss than I'd prefer - but still much better than the on-board MacBook Pro mic and associated computer noise well in the foreground of the background. Podcasters would be well placed to tell you which USB mics would get you the quality you need. I'm certain there are 'good' USB mics out there for well less than $100 a piece. You can certainly pick up a Shure SM57 or two used for less than $100 each. The Shure mic you later mention - the SM7B - for sure isn't in the budget you describe. The SM57's should be plenty good enough for the web, with the added benefit of rejecting most ambient room noise (like echo, refrigerators, air conditioners, traffic and the neighbors' argument). Another idea is that one or both of you may have a video camera handy to use as a mic, attached and recorded to the computer via fireware or USB. There IS the some time problem of camera noise associated with recording audio with inboard mics on video cameras, but it's usually not THAT much of a problem for lo-budge web purposes. Toward the lo-budget side, you can always write the story so that one (or both) of the characer's voice(s) are supposed to be 'futzed' - e.g., EQ'd so they sound as if they're on a telephone. Call me if you want, and I'll walk you through some more ideas. 862-571-5334 Better these discussions held in real time. Texting possibilities without knowing precisely what you have / want is not an efficient use of our time :) Jan On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Richard Amirault [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: - Original Message - From: Dom (snip) The video portion will utilize voice-over while our content plays beneath. We may also use animation or puppets along with our voices. Anyway, you can see that it would be less than ideal to have the voices at different qualities. Are there any tools for recording two audio streams live from two separate locations that don't involve thousands of dollars of audio equipment? Thanks folks! As suggested a double ender will work just fine. How low cost it is depends on what your definition of cost is. You will need quality recorders. A pair of Zoom H-2s will work great. Do not use anything like a digital voice recorder from Olympus or Sony. I'm not sure about the video aspect of this. Will you both need to see the video to comment on it? I would think that this may be a problem. You both need to see the same thing at the same time. Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ
[videoblogging] Re: Recording Live audio from different locations
Besides a decent mic there is a need to work with your firewall from what it sounds (no pun) like. A lot of great info can be found on the http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/ The Conversations Network's forums. http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/forum/ mentioned on the site belowwhich is probably where I first discovered this if not on this list or another. The following video has information that's been a Must watch video I've recommended often. Covers system Skype preference settings. Hope this helps From Doug Kaye's Weblog http://www.blogarithms.com/ Skype for Interviews - A How-To Video After years of discouraging the use of Skype for interviews here at The Conversations Network, we're now saying a resounding Yes! Paul Figgiani and I have prepared this audiovisual presentation that covers all you need to know in order to get true broadcast-quality Skype recordings. http://tr.im/dkaye_skype ... --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Brainstorming a bit. Seems to me that you might - via a desktop sharing application and Audacity (or whatever you're using to record audio on your computer) - be able to approach both 'live recording' and 'quality' together. Don't know if desktop sharing would have the same kind of audio compression / latency as Skype. Might be interesting to find out. Tried Gmail's audio / video chat recently and the audio quality was pretty darned good. None of the Skype echo or weird digital hash hesitations. If may be that Verdi and I both have good connections. I have FIOS. Maybe iChat or any other video conference app in combination with CamTwist (Google it), playing back the pre-recorded video in the chat window so you can sync the audio performance to the vid. What OS do each of you have? If the double-ender strategy appeals and you're bound and determined to use better-quality mics, I should think you wouldn't need 'recorders', but only a free recording application like Audacity, and a preamp or other bit of hardware to put between the mics and the computer, in order to get the mic signal where it needs to be to be 'heard' by the computer. Because of your post, I broke out a Shure FP-11 mic to line amp (new from Ebay for $135) and hooked it up with a dynamic headset mic and it's working okay - with a bit more hiss than I'd prefer - but still much better than the on-board MacBook Pro mic and associated computer noise well in the foreground of the background. Podcasters would be well placed to tell you which USB mics would get you the quality you need. I'm certain there are 'good' USB mics out there for well less than $100 a piece. You can certainly pick up a Shure SM57 or two used for less than $100 each. The Shure mic you later mention - the SM7B - for sure isn't in the budget you describe. The SM57's should be plenty good enough for the web, with the added benefit of rejecting most ambient room noise (like echo, refrigerators, air conditioners, traffic and the neighbors' argument). Another idea is that one or both of you may have a video camera handy to use as a mic, attached and recorded to the computer via fireware or USB. There IS the some time problem of camera noise associated with recording audio with inboard mics on video cameras, but it's usually not THAT much of a problem for lo-budge web purposes. Toward the lo-budget side, you can always write the story so that one (or both) of the characer's voice(s) are supposed to be 'futzed' - e.g., EQ'd so they sound as if they're on a telephone. Call me if you want, and I'll walk you through some more ideas. 862-571-5334 Better these discussions held in real time. Texting possibilities without knowing precisely what you have / want is not an efficient use of our time :) Jan On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Richard Amirault [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: - Original Message - From: Dom (snip) The video portion will utilize voice-over while our content plays beneath. We may also use animation or puppets along with our voices. Anyway, you can see that it would be less than ideal to have the voices at different qualities. Are there any tools for recording two audio streams live from two separate locations that don't involve thousands of dollars of audio equipment? Thanks folks! As suggested a double ender will work just fine. How low cost it is depends on what your definition of cost is. You will need quality recorders. A pair of Zoom H-2s will work great. Do not use anything like a digital voice recorder from Olympus or Sony. I'm not sure about the video aspect of this. Will you both need to see the video to comment on it? I would think that this may be a problem. You both need to see the same thing at the same time. Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ
RE: [videoblogging] How to create a link within a .wmv?
Using QuickTime Pro I now know the html code necessary to create a link to a url from within a .mov video, but can someone explain how to do the same in a .wmv video? I only use macs and have no experience with Windows programs but surely there must be a means to create this type of link for WindowsMedia Player. You would need to use Windows Media File Editor, which is Windows-only and part of the Windows Media Encoder. Steps on how to do it are here: http://www.jakeludington.com/project_studio/20051004_windows_media_enhanced_ podcast.html Sony Vegas also includes support for adding links to Windows Media files, but is not free. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
Re: [videoblogging] Web Hosting
I've complained about Dreamhost in the past, but they seem to have really gotten their act together. It now looks like they really are by far the best of the budget hosts. And the green / ngo hosting is a good thing to support. Great transfer speed for those downloading your video content too. Brook -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Traditional Media Scares the Shi* out of me As I Type
From my perspective, the less mainstream corporate media is involved in any alternative independent media, the better. They already destroyed independent film and cable. -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Traditional Media Scares the Shi* out of me As I Type
Bingo. That's THE question, Jacek. Jan On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:53 AM, Jacek Artymiak [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 7:01 AM, @sull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: of interest... http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/13/online-video-wheres-the-money/ Is advertising the only way to monetize on-line videos that all those bright people in the Valley can think of? I watched one of the Web 2.0 gurus recently admit that the startups need to experiment with new revenue models now, like... e-commerce. -- Jacek Artymiak http://devGuide.net vi(1) Tips: Essential vi/vim Editor Skills, 1st ed. http://www.devguide.net/books/vitips1 devGuide.tv http://devguide.tv Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] USB 3.0
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