[videoblogging] Mobile Video
We call them cell phones in the US, but Mobile video is becoming pretty interesting...especially outside the US. South Africa particularly has some stuff going on. a conference called, Mobile Active, just occurred last month: http://www.mobileactive08.org/ Then there's this project that is getting kids to connect to each the through video on their mobile phones; http://www.thegrid.co.za/ Here's a documentary they are making: http://www.vincentmaher.com/?p=779 what I dont get is why it seems to difficult to do cell video in the US. is the N95 the only game in town? my iPhone is cool...but only seems to do video if I jail break it. weird. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
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I was a finalist in the Nokia mobile filmmaking competition for Pangea Day, and they flew the five of us to LA from all over the world. The guy who won was from South Africa - Eduardo Cachuco. This was his winning video, of kids playing an old arcade machine in a township outside Johannesburg: http://share.ovi.com/media/PangeaDay.film/ecachucho.10002 He told me that online video - even YouTube - is hard to watch in South Africa because of the connection speeds. You have to wait ages for everything to load and buffer. Even in the capital, Jo'burg, where he lives and works. The telecom company has a monopoly on internet connections and there's no connection or government regulation to increase speeds. Crazy - must be hurting their economy at some level. Anyway, I wonder whether this has increased the amount of mobile video being watched and made because it's not noticeably slower than their 'broadband'. The same in South Asia & South East Asia. There's lots of mobile filming action there - a significant number of entries for the competition were from India and Indonesia, for example. Nokia have pushed mobile filmmaking in the Southern Hemisphere for much longer than they have here - this was the first year for the mobile filmmaking competition in the Northern Hemisphere, but it's been running successfully in Asia & Australasia for three years. They're certainly upping the ante in pushing storytelling using their devices. But the N Series have been 3G devices - so haven't been available in the US until recently. USA can be amazingly backward in adoption of new tech, weirdly - not sure what the reasons for not adopting 3G early are, but presumably it got caught up in commercial/ regulatory nonsense. Apple's refusal to add video is just stupid - they're saving it as a treat to convince people to buy a new iPhone in 2009. Frustrating. Nokia's video is good (tho colors aren't great and low light is terrible) - and they even have a built-in editor. But I can't help feeling that Apple's implementation & interface would be easier & higher quality. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 27-Nov-08, at 7:24 AM, Jay dedman wrote: We call them cell phones in the US, but Mobile video is becoming pretty interesting...especially outside the US. South Africa particularly has some stuff going on. a conference called, Mobile Active, just occurred last month: http://www.mobileactive08.org/ Then there's this project that is getting kids to connect to each the through video on their mobile phones; http://www.thegrid.co.za/ Here's a documentary they are making: http://www.vincentmaher.com/?p=779 what I dont get is why it seems to difficult to do cell video in the US. is the N95 the only game in town? my iPhone is cool...but only seems to do video if I jail break it. weird. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: White paper on Residual Marketing Effects of digital video
Sheila: What did you learn with your visit to Google? John
Re: [videoblogging] Mobile Video
For what it's worth, I've heard that qik is close to having a non jailbroken iPhone app soon. That should get interesting! Sent from my iPhone On Nov 27, 2008, at 9:24 AM, "Jay dedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We call them cell phones in the US, but Mobile video is becoming > pretty interesting...especially outside the US. > South Africa particularly has some stuff going on. > > a conference called, Mobile Active, just occurred last month: > http://www.mobileactive08.org/ > > Then there's this project that is getting kids to connect to each the > through video on their mobile phones; > http://www.thegrid.co.za/ > Here's a documentary they are making: http://www.vincentmaher.com/?p=779 > > what I dont get is why it seems to difficult to do cell video in the > US. > is the N95 the only game in town? > my iPhone is cool...but only seems to do video if I jail break it. > weird. > > Jay > > -- > http://jaydedman.com > 917 371 6790 > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] T-Day Greetings
Happy Thanksgiving, all you glittering vloggerati. ;-) Chris http://myspace.com/necropol http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=772532559
[videoblogging] Editing Program > Publishing Options
While I'm new to videoblogging I'm keen to quickly explore my options. The recommendations for publishing online carried in BlipTV http://blip.tv/learning/export/ seem to parallel those promoted by other sources such as Dedman, etc. I've got a low RAM pc such that many video editing programs are ponderous on it. So, after exploring my options I thought I'd simply stick with Movie Maker -- although it presents a few SAVE AS issues. MM has all I need in way of bells and whistles but it has an extremely annoying cut tool which I find very difficult to deploy the way I want. So I'm learning to use VirtualDub which slices and dices like the best kitchen helper tool. There's no comparison in the way Virtual Dub cuts the clips and its better than Ulead and Pinnacle, I think, in that regard. The ebook manual written for it is very comnprehensive: http://www.packtpub.com/virtualdub/book. On a good run you cat slice in a twice. I gather there are quite a few folk in the video universe who prefer to combine VirtualDub with Movie Maker so I was wandering what sort of capture to publish protocol they followed? I assume that finishing off would also involved QuickTime Pro prior to upload -- so that's three program tools for the one end result. I've got no issues with that. I just want precise control over my slices and dices... [The annoying thing is that it is complicated to go Movie Maker to VirtualDub as the audio on the DV-AVI files won't necessarily process in VirtualDub. So I assume you gotta go VirtualDub > Movie Maker > QuickTime Pro > Web upload. But what's the preferred SAVE AS en route for videoblogging? I sure folk have their preferences.) dave riley http://ratbaggy.blogspot.com/
[videoblogging] Sony PMW-EX3 XDCAM EX HD Camcorder
Hey everyone, Thanks for all the responses last time on FCP. Just wanted to check with you guys about a camera my company is thinking of buying. We're an international media outfit, primarily TV, but we do have a website where I work as a producer and reporter. The camera the TV people have told us they think we should get to be compatible with their systems is the Sony PMW-EX3 XDCAM EX HD Camcorder. They have said it's not a huge size camera and is easy to carry around for those of us who are not camerapeople. Any feedback on this camera would be greatly appreciated. All best, Miranda
Re: [videoblogging] Sony PMW-EX3 XDCAM EX HD Camcorder
I've heard it's not compatible with Avid. On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 8:33 PM, mleitsinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Thanks for all the responses last time on FCP. > > Just wanted to check with you guys about a camera my company is > thinking of buying. We're an international media outfit, primarily TV, > but we do have a website where I work as a producer and reporter. > > The camera the TV people have told us they think we should get to be > compatible with their systems is the Sony PMW-EX3 XDCAM EX HD > Camcorder. They have said it's not a huge size camera and is easy to > carry around for those of us who are not camerapeople. > > Any feedback on this camera would be greatly appreciated. > > All best, > Miranda > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
