[videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As usual, Mr. Taylor, you bring up the proper questions. Who in this space deals with Boomer women? Nobody. Yet. We Boomer chicks got time and money and talent ripe for pickin'. Automakers begin to get *that point. Katie Couric and The View type hosts don't suck me and my generation in. What will? Not tits, that's for sure :) My point about tits is that audiences have to evolve (thanks for using the word, Meiser) in order to appreciate how vulnerable they are to manipulation based on the breast and get beyond it. Getting beyond the animal impulse is a good thing and will set you free. Unfortunately, being free is devalued these days. Similar to Vista, you're right... the animal impulse IS an easily exploitable vulnerability. :) The formula wouldn't be The formula if it weren't guaranteed to work on so many guys. Broaden the scope, and you have to find other ways of attracting and retaining attention and then growing your audience. I envision a Boomer community based around teaching / learning / sharing all the creative digital tools of the trade (audio / video) whereby the Boomers can get their strut on creatively and support one another in the process. That's a very interesting idea. I'll have to resarch this with some of my http://BlogHer.com friends, since I have ZERO insight into this demographic. :) -- Bill Cammack http://CammackMediaGroup.com Using tits to sell is like shooting fish in a barrel; where's the challenge in it? Off to work. Jan On 11/13/07, Jeffrey Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Saying sex sells is only a small part of a longstanding and more comprehensive theory in advertising that creating a somewhat realistic aspirational arrival point for an audience is what sells. This is why we have women presenting on many of these shows that are good looking, but more within reach for male audiences than a runway model would be. The idea that these male viewers have somewhat of a chance keeps eyes on the screen, or at least encourages the eyes to return to the screen. When looking across the advertising spectrum and into more general interest brands that run across demographics, you see that this theory has manifested in more diverse ways than the proliferation of sexuality. There's nothing overtly or covertly sexual in Apple's marketing of the iPod, for example, but there is something overtly sexy about how an iPod is marketed. I personally think it's a bit silly to keep repeating the girl-tells-us-about-tech model over and over, lazily avoiding the development of new audiences. I'd love to get some research on this, but I hypothesize that these types of shows (Webb Alert, Geekbrief, etc. Rocketboom is a bit different because there's more of a hipster demo going on there) are being watched by the same slowly-growing crowd. I am looking forward to seeing who's going to be brave enough to throw away or at least expand on the girl-on-a-screen model when it comes to tech reporting on the web, creating a larger market than the present niche by providing aspirational arrival points for more than just males, primarily 18-25, maybe 35. These shows have mastered a niche, but have are not bringing other niches to the table as building blocks to a larger and more general audience. Entities that appeal to women, especially young women, and the heavy-spending and freetime-rich baby boomers as they retire at increasing rates will do the best. Repeating the same model just because it's been successful before will not do that. And for Jason I get your response and agree with much of what you say. But I think you also get that creating a context in which achieving what you outlined in your response can live by explain exactly what you did in response to me is very important, albeit easily forgotten tedious at times. On 13/11/2007, danielmcvicar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mike I was flip, but sex is what does sell, in advertising, etc. However, once it is sold, what are you bringign. Not just sex, but a service. You must give some nutrition with dessert, and once you bring people into the community, listen, get involved, and ultimately lead. This is a good discussion D --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Mike Meiser groups-yahoo-com@ wrote: And don't listen to Daniel McVicar. :) Sorry daniel. Sex sells is B.S. If you want a genuine audience... an audience of makers, participators and creators... like maholo fundamentally needs to survive... you're downplay the overt sexiness of Veronica, and up-play her obvious street cred. Veronica should go all out and be the geek and gaming girl she was born to be... not put on the tight fitting shirt and dumb herself down
[videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13 Nov 2007, at 11:38, Bill Cammack wrote: I wondered how to drag all of those people, aimlessly streaming past me, into viewing an online show. --- Set top box. That's the only way you'll get people watching online shows. I don't know if you use the term 'set top box' in the US. I just mean a box that plugs into your TV. One that'd allow people to watch ordinary network shows on their widescreen tv and also surf internet TV. People will not watch shows on a computer. Do you know anybody who watches anything on a computer? Other than the odd bored moment surfing old TV shows on Youtube? My friends and family will watch my videoblog, mostly because I've forced them to by subscribing them via email, but they won't then go on to watch any of the vlogs I link to, or click on the URLs of people who comment. Computers are full of distractions, and are quite hard things to use if you want to concentrate on or relax to motion picture entertainment. The TV / Couch combo works. I firmly believe it's just a matter of someone bringing internet video to the couch. Until then, forget it. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ I think that's a valid point. Put the online content in front of their faces instead of trying to drag them to the original location (computer) of the online content. Make it as seamless as possible for them to flip from their reruns of struck MSM shows to fresh new content of internet shows they've never seen before and now have hours and hours to catch up on! ;) -- Bill Cammack http://CammackMediaGroup.com
[videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?
Interestingly enough, to both aspects of this conversation, A) Mahalo, and B) formula... Veronica posted today that Mahalo Daily was featured on iTunes today: http://www.veronicabelmont.com/2007/11/mahalo-daily-featured-on-itunes/ along with WallStrip, Daily Feed, Epic-Fu, Crave, Alive in Mexico, Fuel TV, and NPR: Bryant Park Project. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jeffrey Taylor thejeffreytaylor@ wrote: Saying sex sells is only a small part of a longstanding and more comprehensive theory in advertising that creating a somewhat realistic aspirational arrival point for an audience is what sells. This is why we have women presenting on many of these shows that are good looking, but more within reach for male audiences than a runway model would be. The idea that these male viewers have somewhat of a chance keeps eyes on the screen, or at least encourages the eyes to return to the screen. Interesting point. That makes sense. It also makes sense from a basic, yet admittedly stereotypical position of models being models, and mostly nothing else. If you hire a model that's TOO attractive, the viewer isn't going to internally BELIEVE that she actually knows (or cares) anything about the topic. I know that's unfair, and that there are lots of really attractive women that are really intelligent and have great personalities at the same time. However, it would be the same effect as booth babes at trade shows or umbrella girls @ MotoGP races. You might feed the booth babes a couple of lines about the product, but nobody believes they're anything more than hired guns, designed to cheat the viewer into paying attention in the direction of the product they're standing next to... while they're wearing spandex in the middle of winter. (not that *I*m complaining about THAT! :D) I'm not talking about women that actually know something and are representatives of the company, but you'll notice that they tend to be dressed differently, and have a completely different presentation and presence. They're expected to be knowledgeable and proficient, because they're the SUBSTANCE, the bridge between the gawkers coming by to see the booth babes, and them actually becoming aware of and interested in buying her company's product. So, yes... Part of the formula is go good-looking-female, but don't overdo it! :D When looking across the advertising spectrum and into more general interest brands that run across demographics, you see that this theory has manifested in more diverse ways than the proliferation of sexuality. There's nothing overtly or covertly sexual in Apple's marketing of the iPod, for example, but there is something overtly sexy about how an iPod is marketed. I personally think it's a bit silly to keep repeating the girl-tells-us-about-tech model over and over, lazily avoiding the development of new audiences. I'd love to get some research on this, but I hypothesize that these types of shows (Webb Alert, Geekbrief, etc. Rocketboom is a bit different because there's more of a hipster demo going on there) are being watched by the same slowly-growing crowd. Unfortunately, as the formula keeps working, groups are going to keep *working* it. LonelyBoy15 would have been a never-viewed failure. I agree with you that it's laziness. At this point in time, groups are struggling JUST to put a show together, forget about experimenting with new models! :) They want to know what attractive girl they can get, how well she comes across on camera and how much 'cred' she has in whatever the field is in THAT order. 'Cred' is good for initial numbers, but not necessary if she can read what the ghost-writers feed her. I am looking forward to seeing who's going to be brave enough to throw away or at least expand on the girl-on-a-screen model when it comes to tech reporting on the web, creating a larger market than the present niche by providing aspirational arrival points for more than just males, primarily 18-25, maybe 35. These shows have mastered a niche, but have are not bringing other niches to the table as building blocks to a larger and more general audience. Excellent point. The target zone is getting younger, not older. Shows are being made to appeal to the lowest common denominator, like MTV-watchers, viral video and email-joke-senders. I had a meeting with a newspaper owner about bringing his paper online, and his inital response was well... that might be good for the younger readers I think that in general, people are seeing technology as being used increasingly by younger viewers/users and assuming that older internet users just fade away. Using your aspirational arrival points theory, the younger a female lead is in a show, the farther away she gets from being in the AAP of an older male
[videoblogging] Miro Media Player Epic-Fu still shot in TechCrunch
Miro Media Player Released; Billed as Open Joost Competitor by Mark Hendrickson Version 1.0 of the open-source video player Miro was released earlier today http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/13/miro-media-player-released-billed-as-open-joost-competitor/ or http://tinyurl.com/yqmh6h
[videoblogging] Re: Online Video Posting Sites, HELP NEEDED please! :)
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, jt_hanner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Everyone, My name is Jill. I am on youtube, my link is http://www.youtube.com/xgobobeanx i recently started vloging for a company that deals with nudity. I started a new channel on youtube called http://www.youtube.com/icnakedpeople Because I am somewhat popular on my xgobobeanx channel, I have haters and stalkers. These two groups have followed me over to my icnakedpeople channel and have been trying to get it shut down for inappropriate content. I am not showing nudity, but it is more of a silly talk show about stories regarding nudity- nude beach experiences, new parties... etc. If you have 5 free mins, please jump over to the channel and take a look. ( i hope none of my stalkers on this email list- if anyone wants to trade scary stalker stories i am all ears) Anyhow- are there any other video posting sites that would except this talk show? I tried contacting blip, but have not heard back from them. Try their yahoo group = http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/blip-users/ I am not looking to get a million views, i am just looking to not have my channel banned, or flagged, or taken down. Any suggestions... please please please.. i am so desperate. Not sure if anyone has every experienced haters, stalkers, and obsessed people, but it hurts and you feel out of control, because nothing can be done. Thank you for listening, Jill
[videoblogging] Re: Bored
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Kenya Allmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ive never used email to read or write to this group. The yahoo web interface is not as good as a forum, but its gradually moved closer, eg you can view messages by thread. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/messages Also, for people who don't want to receive emails, there is an option to only read messages on the web. From the group page (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/) choose Edit Membership. There are several lists/groups that I have set up that way. That's how I read the group, too. Web-only / Unthreaded. The way the mac touchpad works, it's MUUUCH faster for me to have one page with all of the posts lined up in chronological order. When I come to the messages page, I scroll down until I hit a different-colored link, indicating I've been to that one already, then I scroll back up and use the touchpad to either click in to a post, alt-click to go back or alt-click to open a link in another tab. If I haven't seen any of the posts on the first page, it's one click on the touchpad to see the next page. Also, viewing in-browser is a lot faster for me because with the mail app, I'd have to scroll to the top half of the page, select an email, then scroll back to the bottom half to begin scrolling the actual post. Same thing with resizing. Once I resize the text in-browser, everything I click in to is automatically the same size. I don't have to thread, because when I see a title I don't care about, I visually parse the list as I'm scrolling and pass all the posts with the same length title. -- Bill Cammack http://CammackMediaGroup.com . . . Kenya Allmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kenya.allmond.us http://kenya.allmond.us/vlog VM/F 202-478-0490 To thine own self be true. Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And don't listen to Daniel McVicar. :) Sorry daniel. Sex sells is B.S. If you want a genuine audience... an audience of makers, participators and creators... like maholo fundamentally needs to survive... you're downplay the overt sexiness of Veronica, and up-play her obvious street cred. Veronica should go all out and be the geek and gaming girl she was born to be... not put on the tight fitting shirt and dumb herself down. I agree, and disagree. :) First of all, *obviously* sex sells. It always has, and it always will. In LIFE. Not just in video blogs. :) Maybe we should make a list of the 'top' video blogs with female leads and the 'top' video blogs with male leads. The part where I agree with you is that you need for the chick to have a personality, AND either be able to come up with cool dialogue herself or have the ability to deliver what the ghost-writers make up for her. Dan's not saying for anyone to act like a bimbo or dumb anything down. The fact remains that if you remove chicks as the hosts on your shows, your views are going to plummet. In an ideal world, you can put anyone that looks like anything in front of a camera and have people tune in on a regular basis. Until then, attractive women will always be more in demand and receive more attention than unattractive women or guys in general. Please feel free to prove me wrong. :) If you can, I'll admit that you've changed my mind, publicly, in this same forum where I'm making these assertions. :D -- Bill Cammack http://CammackMediaGroup.com This is much like the youtube issue earlier. Youtube courts a lot of non-genuine traffic... people there for the crowd and spectacle... people who leave assinine comments and wouldn't watch your show if it wasn't the most popular video of the day. This is VERY often seen amongst many top youtube people. 500,000 hits on one video 11,000 on the next. In the racing world you're only as good as your last race... in the youtube world your only really as big as your least viewed video. That is more reflective of your real audience. In order for maholo to survive it must tap into that culture of creators, makers, participators... communicators. -Mike On 11/12/07, danielmcvicar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jason Your view level is pretty good, your show looks very good. If you want more views, put it across the board on multiple servers and hosts. You'd be surprised at how many you can get at Daily Motion. You may also experiment with short sweet and sexy promos. Across the board. Sex is what attracts attention the most, the hook is something that you have an instinct for. Then, as a daily show, you are a service, liek Rocketboom, more than a brand like French Maid TV. Your audience will find a certain comfort in watching the videos daily. What I enjoyed with The Late Nite Mash experiment was a surprise to me...coming from audience counting media. It was the collaboration that I found online and in the community. All the best with your show. Daniel --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jason McCabe Calacanis jason@ wrote: We launched Mahalo Daily with Veronica Belmont last week as some of you might know. You can find the show at http://daily.mahalo.com and on iTunes. We're hosting it at Blip.Tv (for now) but considering some other options since folks have been pinging us. I'm looking for some advice on what we can do--other than make the best show we can--to grow the view to 100k+ a day quickly. We did over 120k views in the first week (about 12-37k views for each of the first four shows) which is much more than I thought we would. We've got our iTunes page running and we're syndicating the videos to YouTube and Facebook. We've also started a Facebook, Ning, Flickr, and Twitter groups/accounts to compliment the program. They are getting nice pickup. On a business level, I'm wondering if there is anyone out there who can bring in 100-250k views a day for show, perhaps in exchange for exclusive hosting rights/advertising rights or something (i.e. Yahoo, AOL, YouTube, etc). Anyone have an distribution tips? Has anyone done deals like this? Mahalo for any help... best J i blogged about this here: http://www.calacanis.com/2007/11/11/congrats-to-tyler-and-veronica-on-an- amazing-first-week-for-mahalo/ Yahoo! Groups Links
[videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I think we're pretty much on the same page bill. In fact I think you've clarified the point. I should say that diversity is the key. Even though youtube doesn't for example deliver loyal audiences it does provide for the visibility to attract loyal audiences. Neither one end of the spectrum or the other is good. Reaching a diverse audience is good, because you need to be visible enough for your core audience to find you. I like this idea... Core inside Diversity. Similar to panning for gold. :) -- Bill In the same way sex sells. If that's all you have in this space you've got sh*t. Why... because increasingly a host is going to have to have a more and more shrewd personality... be more of a geek. Have more knowlege of the subject matter. This is not a knock at all, but when Amanda started working at rocketboom she new nothing about online culture. She was however a quick learner. She didn't have much street cred though, nor did she need it. Veronica on the other hand has tremendously geeky interests and cred. She's not just a pretty face. This is the trend... more cred, more shrewdness, more substance, more passion for the subject matter. Ultimately that will rule out over the whole pretty face routine. I mean, look at Leo Laporte. ;) But that's another tangent... the tech curmudgeon, the non-threatening host that makes everything safe for all the non-geeks... but that's a whole nother' email. It goes with the maturity of the space. I didn't finish that last email the way i had intended either. Sex is definitely not everything in this space, but of course a little sexiness never hurt anyone's numbers. -Mike On 11/12/07, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mike Meiser groups-yahoo-com@ wrote: And don't listen to Daniel McVicar. :) Sorry daniel. Sex sells is B.S. If you want a genuine audience... an audience of makers, participators and creators... like maholo fundamentally needs to survive... you're downplay the overt sexiness of Veronica, and up-play her obvious street cred. Veronica should go all out and be the geek and gaming girl she was born to be... not put on the tight fitting shirt and dumb herself down. I agree, and disagree. :) First of all, *obviously* sex sells. It always has, and it always will. In LIFE. Not just in video blogs. :) Maybe we should make a list of the 'top' video blogs with female leads and the 'top' video blogs with male leads. The part where I agree with you is that you need for the chick to have a personality, AND either be able to come up with cool dialogue herself or have the ability to deliver what the ghost-writers make up for her. Dan's not saying for anyone to act like a bimbo or dumb anything down. The fact remains that if you remove chicks as the hosts on your shows, your views are going to plummet. In an ideal world, you can put anyone that looks like anything in front of a camera and have people tune in on a regular basis. Until then, attractive women will always be more in demand and receive more attention than unattractive women or guys in general. Please feel free to prove me wrong. :) If you can, I'll admit that you've changed my mind, publicly, in this same forum where I'm making these assertions. :D -- Bill Cammack http://CammackMediaGroup.com This is much like the youtube issue earlier. Youtube courts a lot of non-genuine traffic... people there for the crowd and spectacle... people who leave assinine comments and wouldn't watch your show if it wasn't the most popular video of the day. This is VERY often seen amongst many top youtube people. 500,000 hits on one video 11,000 on the next. In the racing world you're only as good as your last race... in the youtube world your only really as big as your least viewed video. That is more reflective of your real audience. In order for maholo to survive it must tap into that culture of creators, makers, participators... communicators. -Mike On 11/12/07, danielmcvicar danielmcvicar@ wrote: Hi Jason Your view level is pretty good, your show looks very good. If you want more views, put it across the board on multiple servers and hosts. You'd be surprised at how many you can get at Daily Motion. You may also experiment with short sweet and sexy promos. Across the board. Sex is what attracts attention the most, the hook is something that you have an instinct for. Then, as a daily show, you are a service, liek Rocketboom, more than a brand like French Maid TV. Your audience will find a certain comfort in watching the videos daily. What I enjoyed with The Late Nite Mash experiment was a surprise to me
[videoblogging] Rebuilding Hollywood in Silicon Valley's image
An article by Marc Andreessen: http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/11/rebuilding-holl.html What would a new entertainment media company, producing original content, look like in the age of the Internet?
[videoblogging] Re: Network-Quality series developed for The Net
their users aware that Quarterlife exists and is currently airing. They're planning to use and pay for user submissions that they receive and like. If this takes off, there's going to be a lot more attention paid to the space, which should open up lots of new opportunities. -- Bill Cammack http://CammackMediaGroup.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack BillCammack@ wrote: There's this online series called Quarterlife that's starting tomorrow on MySpace and the next day on http://quarterlife.com . This could be of interest to those of us discussing monetization of the space. http://blog.fastcompany.com/experts/bcammack/2007/11/networkquality_series_develo pe.html or http://tinyurl.com/397fbc -- Bill Cammack http://CammackMediaGroup.com
[videoblogging] Re: Proprietary Rights Ownership Rights To Your Video Content Question
I agree with all of Markus' points, and will add that hosting services need to have SOME kind of rights to your video, or else THEY wouldn't be allowed to serve them in the first place. Besides that, there has to be something for THEM in exchange for providing you with free services. There's really no reason to use a host in the first place. All you have to do is ftp files to your own server and post them using Show-In-A-Box (for example) as the front end. It looks and acts exactly the same way as if you had your files hosted @ blip.tv and you have the added benefit of NO ToS. OTOH, YOU get charged for bandwidth instead of blip, so there's your tradeoff. -- Bill Cammack http://CammackMediaGroup.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Markus Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 11, 2007, at 2:28 AM, gerrytshow wrote: I was wondering if another knew for sure which of these website listed below would allow you to retain all rights, titles and interests, including without limitation all worldwide intellectual property rights, in and to Your Video Content that is submitted, posted or displayed by You on or through the _XYZ_ and _XYZ___shall not acquire any rights, titles or interest in or to such Video Content. Google Video, MetaCafe, MySpace, AOL, Yahoo!, Revver, YouTube, Brightcove and any others you may think of. Thanks in advance for your help. I really appreciate it. I'd have to say none (even archive.org). While any particular site may be more content creator rights friendly than another, generally there are always a few limitations placed on the submitter and the hosting services do acquire certain rights. Except for Brightcove, each of the services you state that you retain ownership and all rights. But by accepting any TOS you grant the hosting company (and their successors) a perpetual and irrevocable license and allows them to use the content in lots of ways. For example, a hosting company may decide to use part of a video in a TV commercial or use for research. Or one company may merge with another and move your content (I heard a rumor that Google Video is moving all content to YouTube, can anyone confirm?) Also, these sites have the right to remove your content. This has been an issue for some people in this group. Some sites also impose use restrictions (e.g., non-commercial or age). Also content and site conduct rules may be imposed. BTW, I like blip.tv's current TOS as it also reminds you that you are making your content public and what that means. While a simple point, none of the other TOS agreements bother to mention this important point. That being said and the limitations understood, it seems like each of the sites you listed is pretty much the same rights-wise (except Brightcove, their TOS is a little weak and mentions their respect for ownership, but never actually states that user owns content). Markus -- Markus Sandy http://apperceive.com http://ourmedia.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Network-Quality series developed for The Net
and potential plotlines. If you don't know why the USS Enterprise is on its 5-year mission, why should you care about the crew or the episodes? -- Bill Cammack http://CammackMediaGroup.com
[videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know Veronica from sunshine, but I'm guessing she's got a good rack. You don't need much more than that and some low-cut, tight blouses and a bevy of good writers and guests to make the numbers you describe. Yeah, ultimately, that's the formula. Veronica *is* the show. You have an already popular, attractive female as the front, you have people ghost-write her material and you have other people research and do graphics for the show, and it's a wrap. Also, like Rupert said, get featured everywhere you can, especially YouTube, where they have infinite idiots that just so happen to watch a lot of videos, especially the ones placed before their eyes on the first page they land on. They're absolutely worthless, unless you're in the partnership program, but the numbers look good when you're ready to sell, get sponsors or investors. -- Bill Cammack http://CammackMediaGroup.com Lots of writers out of work this week. Jan [Who's kinda sorry for the flip if true response] On 11/11/07, Jason McCabe Calacanis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert rupert@ wrote: This might not be the right place to ask those questions. Most (not all) of the producers here are working organically and personally with much smaller audiences and are creating uncommercial content. Got it. Thought that discussions about distribution channels might be in the mandate since I've seen them here before, but if not please do delete! But here's my two cents: You want regular six figure viewing figures, I'd say the only guaranteed way to do it from a standing start is to get featured on Youtube every time. I would imagine, given your YouTube has come up a lot so I guess we should talk to them about distribution. I agree about the value of those viewers and the horrible behavior. In some ways I guess it's like getting on the front page of digg: you get some traffic but you also get abusive comments from the kiddie/anonymous coward contingent. My feeling is that to get any value or meaningful response from your viewers, you need to build audience and loyalty organically. All the social network/social media groups you've set up are a good start. Agreed. We're getting a great response from Ning (http://mahalodaily.ning.com), Facebook (600 or so memebers), and Twitter. But they're not a quick fix. Or a road to instant viewer riches. Agreed again. I think they are good at creating a space for your existing users to get together. I advise you to look at EpicFu (formerly Jetset) - Zadi and Steve have done it about as right as possible, I think. They've been developing their show and their fans for a long time, and are now getting 1m views per week. They cover a lot of ground, screen on multiple networks as well as their own site and work very hard at it. They have their own social network, which is integral to their show. Seems to work well for them. Will do... those guys certainly know what they're doing and have been at it for a long time. I also advise you not pay any attention to my advice. I'm a videoblogger. I'm happy with a two or three figure audience, not six. I want to keep personal contact with my viewers. I have nothing to sell and no intention of making it my business. None of my opinions are based on any experience of building a promotional show with a big audience. Good luck with it. Actually, I think your advice is sage... focus on the organic and stick to your knitting. The goals of our podcast and a personal podcat are certainly different, but the passion is the same. LinkedIn has like a dozen answers including a VERY funny one from Leo from TWiT. http://www.linkedin.com/answers?viewQuestion=questionID=128692askerID=24171 best j Yahoo! Groups Links -- The Faux Press - better than real http://feeds.feedburner.com/diaryofafauxjournalist - RSS http://fauxpress.blogspot.com http://wburg.tv aim=janofsound air=862.571.5334 skype=janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Full Screen Flash 8 HD Video
Didn't know that about tinyurl, as far as it being blocked because of spam. Good point. I'll post actual permalinks whenever I post tinyurl links. Here's the one to the tinyurl for this topic: http://www.interactivedna.com/HD_FullScreen/ -- Bill Cammack http://CammackMediaGroup.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Erick Papadakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow, this is quite amazing, although here in Asia the flow is a little feretty from time to time as the video buffers. But when it's there, it is absolutely mindboggling. Btw, I had to see it through a proxy. Could you guys please use snipurl.com or something else -- tiny url is supposedly a spammer's haven and many ISPs block it. Better still is to give the original URL along with the snipped URL, as some of us use email clients which can show the long version just fine. Anyway, great work! On Nov 10, 2007 9:11 AM, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks great to me. :) Full-Screen Flash 8 HD Video = http://tinyurl.com/2g9ndq -- Bill Cammack http://CammackMediaGroup.com
[videoblogging] Network-Quality series developed for The Net
There's this online series called Quarterlife that's starting tomorrow on MySpace and the next day on http://quarterlife.com . This could be of interest to those of us discussing monetization of the space. http://blog.fastcompany.com/experts/bcammack/2007/11/networkquality_series_develope.html or http://tinyurl.com/397fbc -- Bill Cammack http://CammackMediaGroup.com
[videoblogging] Re: Network-Quality series developed for The Net
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Garfield has been looking at their terms of service, as it seems like they are trying to get viewings involved, but with the usual 'we own your contributions' type terms: http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2007/11/quarterlife-my-so-called-terms-of- use.html I watched the trailer and yeah it looked like a TV show, and not my sort of thing, I wont be watching it. Cheers Steve Elbows I read Steve Garfield's post. From what I can gather, there are several components to the site. One component is the actual 36-episode show that they're producing (approximately 8 minutes per episode). Another component has something to do with people uploading content. I certainly can't figure out WHY someone would want to upload content to that site. It has this thing called portfolios and says: Quarterlife offers our users a cool new way to upload and share media - across the web!... Huh? What's cool or NEW about *THAT*? They're also affiliated with MySpace, which isn't new... I'm guessing that they're hoping that people are going to think putting content on the same site where a television show is running equates to user interaction. As much red tape as it takes to create shows with large budgets like this one, I wouldn't be surprised if they're working off of an outdated understanding of the internet, like pre-twitter old. Anyway, my point wasn't about ANOTHER destination where people can upload videos and pictures and audio in the hopes of receiving some sort of added value, or perhaps to look like or feel like you're down with the cast of the show. My point was that if this thing works, and they get their money back that they invested to do this, it may help set some standards as far as what internet video is 'worth' down the line. Let's say they spent ~$7,000/minute doing a show, and it doesn't come out looking much different from Lonelygirl15. That would make it easier for shows like http://TheBurg.com and http://SomethingToBeDesired.com to set monetary value on the time, effort and skill they bring to the table to produce their shows. If 'Quarterlife' turns out much better than stuff we've seen from independents, we may have a new benchmark, but more importantly, we get to see if they get their money back and make a profit, which would prompt other groups to throw their hats in the ring and get involved in the online content creation space. Personally, I don't see any added value in the social aspect of their site, but they're not banking on that. They're banking on the formula of Thirtysomething and Dawson's Creek and every other follow the lives of these people in this location with these issues tele-drama that any of us have ever seen. The question is whether there's an audience for that if you cut the segments down from 22 minutes to 8 minutes. Does anyone want to watch 8 minutes worth of Dawson's Creek at a time on the internet? Will they tell their friends? Will they click on the ads (or however the company's planning to get their money back)? I think the show aspect of their site is what's really worth paying attention to, especially while contracts are currently being re-negotiated so that writers can get royalties from television shows that arrive in the online space. -- Bill Cammack http://CammackMediaGroup.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack BillCammack@ wrote: There's this online series called Quarterlife that's starting tomorrow on MySpace and the next day on http://quarterlife.com . This could be of interest to those of us discussing monetization of the space. http://blog.fastcompany.com/experts/bcammack/2007/11/networkquality_series_develo pe.html or http://tinyurl.com/397fbc -- Bill Cammack http://CammackMediaGroup.com
[videoblogging] Re: Network-Quality series developed for The Net
He said on Steve's site: we WILL be influenced by what our users submit, and WILL acknowledge and pay those users whose material we are influenced by. So, there's a potential added value to posting material on their site. Hopefully that means that they've buffered some shows, but don't have them all in the can yet, and are planning to incorporate user-generated ideas to weave the storyline to a degree. That would be a progressive use of video created specifically for the internet. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Garfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The creator of Quarterlife, Marshall Herskovitz, joined in on the conversation in the comments... --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Garfield steve@ wrote: Here's a clickable link to my post: http://tinyurl.com/2aj8lt Comments are starting to come in on the blog and I also started a conversation over on the Quarterlife forum.
[videoblogging] Re: tricks for jacking up audio / boosting sound for editing in imovie 06?
Whoops! Just noticed you said in iMovie. I'm not aware of whether iMovie has more than one audio track! hahaha :D --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To raise the sound of a clip higher than you can get it with the bar, double it. After maximizing the volume of the individual clip, copy it and paste it to the next audio track, exactly under where the original is. Doubling the volume also doubles the backgound noise. If that's not loud enough, make another copy, etc etc. -- Bill Cammack http://CammackMediaGroup.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, scoobyfox heather@ wrote: I've already raised the sound bar as far as i can. I recorded some clips on a Canon SD700 Elph. Sound is not nearly as god as on a Xacti. Anyone have any sound boosting options? heather
[videoblogging] Full Screen Flash 8 HD Video
Looks great to me. :) Full-Screen Flash 8 HD Video = http://tinyurl.com/2g9ndq -- Bill Cammack http://CammackMediaGroup.com
[videoblogging] 2008 International Interactive Emmy® Awards
Just got this in the email. If you know anyone outside of the USA that's involved in series for digital delivery, let them know. -- Bill Cammack http://CammackMediaGroup.com === CALL FOR ENTRIES THE 2008 INTERNATIONAL INTERACTIVE EMMY® AWARDS Entry Deadline is January 7, 2008 For the third year, The International Academy of Television Arts Sciences is recognizing excellence in interactive television produced outside of the United States with three International Interactive Emmy® Awards: Interactive Program Interactive Channel Interactive TV Service New this year will be four International Academy special recognition glass prizes: Animated Series for Digital Delivery Comedy Series for Digital Delivery Documentary Program or Series for Digital Delivery Drama Series for Digital Delivery Eligible submissions must have been created and initially distributed outside of the United States. The Deadline for entries is January 7, 2008. Winners will be announced at a formal ceremony during MIPTV in Cannes, France on April 8, 2008. The International Academy of Television Arts Sciences is the largest organization of broadcasters in the world with over 500 members from nearly 70 countries. Every year, the International Emmy® Awards recognize excellence in programming produced outside of the United States. Through these awards The Academy is celebrating a significantly growing sector of the television industry. For rules and regulations please go to http://www.iemmys.tv./entry.html For questions please contact the Awards Department of The International Academy of Television Arts Sciences at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or +1-212-489-6969.
[videoblogging] Re: invite to all to vlog my talk show with Larry Lessig this Friday
That's an interesting idea, vlogging a show along with filming it. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, scoobyfox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, Some of you know that i do this live monthly interactive talk show in San Francisco. http://www.heathergold.com The next show is this Friday and as always, it's creative commons-ed (if that isn't a verb, I'd like it to be one) . So along with ustreaming the show, we're going to experiment with opening it more. If you'd like to vlog the show, or shoot and flickr it, email and let me know. (If you'd just like to come and participate that's cool too). Friday, November 9: Earnestness: The current importance of being earnest. How can we create believability in our corrupt and chronically insincere politics? What exists outside the quotation marks? Heather conversates with Larry Lessig (founder of Creative Commons, Stanford Law Professor and now a political corruption revolutionary), Curtis Reliford (named American Red Cross' American Good Samaritan for his post-Katrina work), comedian and anti- dealth penalty advocate Aundr� the Wonderwoman and you. Show: 8:00�9:30 pm. Doors open 7:30 After-Party: 9:30 - 11:00 pm. Luscious Garage (map) 459 Clementina St, San Francisco tix: http://www.heathergold.com
[videoblogging] Re: Double Ended Video sound
Using a separate recorder is good anyway for two reasons: 1) You have a backup, in case the sound from your camcorder isn't good 2) If you're filming something longer than the media you're filming to, you still have the audio of the program in between tape changes. -- Bill Cammack http://CammackMediaGroup.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Richard Amirault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At a recent shoot for my show I had a chance to try out the Double Ended Video Sound system that David Tames presented at the recent PodcampBoston2 .. and it worked *very* well. The system is basically using a separate recorder for audio rather than a wireless mic or the built-in mic in the camcorder. I had tried this over a year ago with a low end digital voice recorder but had *major* sync problems. This time I used something decent .. my Edirol R-09 and only had to slightly tweak the sync after about 40 minutes or so (the shoot was about 55 min) The audio of the two panel members was *much* cleaner than the audio from the camcorder. I will use this technique more in the future. I had tried various things to get better audio .. starting with an on-camera shotgun, then a low end wireless mic (VHF), then another low end wireless (UHF), then a medium end wireless (UHF) .. but this works the best. David's presentation: http://n1jdu.org/temp/Double_Ended_Video_Shooting_1.mp3 My video (using his technique): http://n1jdu.org/Fandom/Sci_Fi_Fandom_20.ram Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ
[videoblogging] Re: everyday video in November
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your opinion is your opinion. Admittedly coming from a biased viewpoint and not objective. So, I am rather nonplussed with what you've written and have nothing to add or continue discussing with you. You didn't DISCUSS anything in the first place. You selected the very end of my post and deleted EVERYTHING ELSE I said. Yes. Admittedly biased, which was in the [disclosure], which you ALSO deleted for your own purposes. I am not naming the site as if it doesnt pan out and they dont promote the NaVloPoMo videos, I dont want to see people disappointed. Oh. Ok. -- Bill Cammack http://CammackMediaGroup.com David http://www.taoofdavid.com http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack BillCammack@ wrote: Why don't you name the site then? Also, is that ALL you had to say about my entire rebuttal? :D -- Bill Cammack http://CammackMediaGroup.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Howell taoofdavid@ wrote: Actually Bill, I was sent an email this morning after I posted this by a hosting site asking for a list of NaVloPoMo videos that they could promote. I didnt have to approach them. They had the ambition to approach me when they saw that there was a need to fill. Apparently, you dont *think* correctly. David http://www.taoofdavid.com http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack BillCammack@ wrote: BTW... Is there anywhere else besides blip.tv where you would have the slightest, most miniscule, REMOTE chance of sending an email and MAYBE being featured on the front page of that host? I don't think so. :D -- Bill Cammack http://CammackMediaGroup.com
[videoblogging] Re: everyday video in November
Why don't you name the site then? Also, is that ALL you had to say about my entire rebuttal? :D -- Bill Cammack http://CammackMediaGroup.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually Bill, I was sent an email this morning after I posted this by a hosting site asking for a list of NaVloPoMo videos that they could promote. I didnt have to approach them. They had the ambition to approach me when they saw that there was a need to fill. Apparently, you dont *think* correctly. David http://www.taoofdavid.com http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack BillCammack@ wrote: BTW... Is there anywhere else besides blip.tv where you would have the slightest, most miniscule, REMOTE chance of sending an email and MAYBE being featured on the front page of that host? I don't think so. :D -- Bill Cammack http://CammackMediaGroup.com
[videoblogging] Re: everyday video in November
://nablopomo.ning.com/group/videobloggers A video posted every day of this month. 30 videos from each person involved. That's a massive amount of content. Personal content! Let's see an Internet TV show try and do that. Subscribe to the people. Get to know the people. Befriend the people. Support the people. I remember back when videoblogging was all about the people. David http://www.taoofdavid.com http://www.davidhowellstudios.com Yes. It's a great undertaking. :) BTW... Is there anywhere else besides blip.tv where you would have the slightest, most miniscule, REMOTE chance of sending an email and MAYBE being featured on the front page of that host? I don't think so. :D -- Bill Cammack http://CammackMediaGroup.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Brook Hinton bhinton@ wrote: Having just watched a David Howell navlopomo post that sent shivers down my spine, I have to come here and say: people are posting some of their best work EVER for this project. If you're not following it you really should. I'm only able to keep up with about 20% of the posts at most in real time but I'm looking forward to eventually catching up with all of them, because this is an AMAZING surge of creativity. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
[videoblogging] Re: Major Shakeup in Hollywood
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The major studio writers are on strike starting today. They are interested in obtaining royalties or monetary compensation for their work that airs online. I think the studios are moving slow and can not agree on how money will be made in the future are have been unwilling to commit. Most of these people have contracts with terms well into the future that were defined a long time ago and thus have terms that make no mention of use online. Yep. New ways of MAKING money call for new ways of DISTRIBUTING profits. Many major TV shows, including The Daily Show, may need to revert to reruns today because they depend on writers for up-to-the-minute scripts. Interesting side-effect that these shows are based on daily-fresh material, NONE of which is written by the comedians themselves. Therefore, no writers = no show. I'd love to see these guys hold their own show just based on their personal skills at creating and maintaining a conversation, as well as their own research. You'd be surprised how much on-air talent is *completely* dependent on ghost writers. This is really a major shakeup for the industry. Many people expect this to go unresolved for months. What will happen next? How does or can this effect videobloggers? How it affects us is that finally, somebody will start seriously looking at how to monetize online video. It wasn't a big deal when it was a bunch of hobbyists _not_ getting paid for putting video on the internet. Now that people who are getting paid to be a part of these MSM productions are getting shorted on their online residuals or whatever writers are supposed to get, a lot of people are going to be focused on how to determine the worth of online video, how to figure out and report demographcs and how to convince advertisers that they can deliver ROI. -- Bill http://billcammack.com http://news.google.com/news?hl=enq=writers +strikeum=1ie=UTF-8sa=Ntab=wn Hollywood writers' strike begins as talks collapse 2 hours ago LOS ANGELES (AFP) Hollywood writers went on strike Monday after last-minute talks aimed at ending a standoff between studios and wordsmiths collapsed, with the union demanding a share of cash brought in from DVDs and online distribution of shows. The strike is on, Writers Guild of America spokeswoman Sherry Goldman told AFP. The strike deadline was a minute into Monday in each US time zone, meaning writers in New York City were the first to walk off their jobs, according to Goldman. An 11th-hour negotiating session was held with the help of a federal mediator Sunday, but it broke down without achieving any results. Members of the 12,000-strong union plan to begin picketing Monday morning at major studios in the Los Angeles area and outside NBC studio at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. The first casualties of the walk-out are likely to be talk shows, soap operas, and comedy programs that rely on fresh scripts. Major motion picture studios and television programs typically have stockpiles of scripts that can insulate them from feeling the effects of the strike for a year or longer. Writers want a greater share of residual profits from television series sold on DVDs and money made from programs shown on the Internet, cellular phones, and other new media outlets. Producers acknowledge that online viewing is increasing and promise to study the issue, but argue that it is too early to say how profitable it will be. Writers are determined not to repeat a mistake made decades earlier, when they underestimated how lucrative home video sales would become and settled for a contract that gives them just three cents of each DVD film sale. The biggest sticking point is new media, new technology, Goldman said after the strike began. Our mantra is, 'if they get paid, we get paid'. Writers get 1.2 percent of revenues from shows streamed online for one-time viewing but get nothing from content downloaded to own from websites such as iTunes. This technology has boomed, Goldman said. We need to get paid for new media, she said, rattling off new-fangled ways movies now are viewed, including webisodes, mobisodes and snippets. More of this is being shown on computer screens and we get nothing, she said. For example, if an entire blockbuster film supported by ads is shown free of charge on the Internet, writers get no money because studios label the display promotional. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) has refused to discuss anything related to new media in negotiations during the past three months, Goldman said. There is no common ground, the union spokeswoman said. Producers reject the guild's demands as unworkable and too expensive, setting the stage for the first major strike by Hollywood writers in
[videoblogging] Re: Major Shakeup in Hollywood
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jeffrey Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And writers may very well see the internet talent that profits out of this situation as scabs, and at worst this could set off an adversarial relationship between traditional content producers and web content producers. Assuming this strike goes on for a while, it'll be interesting to see if there *is* overlap between MSM talent and internet talent. Interestingly enough, we were just discussing the other day the what if of unions getting involved in online video, and now, it's the opposite situation of the potential of online talent influencing the current writers' strike. It is a tough line to walk here, as there is a tremendous opportunity, but it also could shoot one's self in the foot when this is all over with. There are no clear-cut answers about how to handle this. J No doubt. Fortunately, it's not *our* problem... except maybe Tim Street! :D It's the proverbial 'sticky wicket' of the writers wanting a percentage of *something*, and the other side not knowing what that *something* is, in the first place. The writers don't want to get stuck again like they did as Heath mentioned in the VHS situation. Now, people are sitting at home ordering DVD box sets of shows instead of watching those shows on TV. It's going to be 'worse' when people can just download entire seasons of shows via the internet and skip all this Blockbuster/Netflix stuff entirely. Yes. I'm glad it's not MY problem! :D -- Bill http://billcammack.com On 05/11/2007, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most of the conflict in this dispute is directly related to the growth of the home video market, first VHS and the DVD sales. You are probably going, Umm, Heath they are talking about 'online' video and I know, but the ROOTS of the issue go back to VHS and DVD's. You see when the last contract was agreed upon, VHS sales were just begining, no one knew how much money was to be made and the writers only got a very small residual. And of course the home video market became a HUGE money-maker with the studios. The writers do not want to make the same mistake, and quite frankly neither do the directors or actor's. Their contracts are up this June. This battle is HUGE, HUGE, for Hollywood. I suspect that if the strike goes on for a bit there will be a run at some of the few web stars out there. But I would caution them..cause once the strike is settled and it will settle sooner or later.Hollywood will dump the new talent in a hot minute and they may find the reception a bit chilly from union members. If you have designs of making it in Hollywood, be careful is all I can say. Heath http://batmangeek.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack BillCammack@ wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Andrew Baron andrew@ wrote: The major studio writers are on strike starting today. They are interested in obtaining royalties or monetary compensation for their work that airs online. I think the studios are moving slow and can not agree on how money will be made in the future are have been unwilling to commit. Most of these people have contracts with terms well into the future that were defined a long time ago and thus have terms that make no mention of use online. Yep. New ways of MAKING money call for new ways of DISTRIBUTING profits. Many major TV shows, including The Daily Show, may need to revert to reruns today because they depend on writers for up-to-the-minute scripts. Interesting side-effect that these shows are based on daily-fresh material, NONE of which is written by the comedians themselves. Therefore, no writers = no show. I'd love to see these guys hold their own show just based on their personal skills at creating and maintaining a conversation, as well as their own research. You'd be surprised how much on-air talent is *completely* dependent on ghost writers. This is really a major shakeup for the industry. Many people expect this to go unresolved for months. What will happen next? How does or can this effect videobloggers? How it affects us is that finally, somebody will start seriously looking at how to monetize online video. It wasn't a big deal when it was a bunch of hobbyists _not_ getting paid for putting video on the internet. Now that people who are getting paid to be a part of these MSM productions are getting shorted on their online residuals or whatever writers are supposed to get, a lot of people are going to be focused on how to determine the worth of online video, how to figure out and report demographcs and how to convince advertisers that they can deliver ROI. -- Bill http://billcammack.com http
[videoblogging] Re: iTunes Problems
When I used to have feedburner issues, if necessary, I would: A) ping feedburner B) recalibrate feedburner C) ping iTunes in that order. -- Bill Cammack http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys For some reason, a couple posts ago, my iTunes stopped being able to find my feed. I havent changed anything on my site I dont think, it just stopped collecting my videos. Is there someone around here who may be able to figure out my problem? My feed has been working fine for years! The feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/EchoplexPark Any help would be much appreciated as its NaVloPoMo and I need to be filling the aggregators with my stuffs:) -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://evilvlog.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] JetSetShow becomes Epic-FU
http://jetsetshow.com is now http://epicfu.com/ -- Bill Cammack http://reelsolid.tv
[videoblogging] Re: Brief early view of Apple Leopard for videobloggers
I hear that. The only things I'm interested in about Leopard are the new iChat features and the ability to remotely control desktops. -- Bill Cammack http://reelsolid.tv --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its a nice OS but at this stage doesnt have much of particualr note to vloggers, unless you use iChat in which case some of its new features might be useful. Photobooth also records video now, and front row is part of the OS now, although I havent checked to see if any of its podcasting features are improved. If you use Adobe Premiere or After Effects you probably need to avoid Leopard for a while as I think Adobe need to issue new updates for them to make them compatible. On a fast mac with a clean install Leopard is very nice, and things like Motion 3 seem faster to me. Quickview and coverflow for video files may also be handy for some if you like that sort of thing. But be warned that some features like iChat special effects are disabled by Apple on older Macs, including all PowerPCs I believe, which isnt going down too well. Also it may eat more RAM. So probably not too many reasons to rush to upgrade, and it remains to be seen whether Core Animation will lead to a new breed of sexy apps, as there dont seem to be any apps that use this stuff yet. Cheers Steve Elbows PS. If you have Leopard and an Intel Mac, you might want to check out some iChat/photobooth effects that I butchered together in Quart Composer at the weekend, to try to make up some peoples disappointment that Apple removed some of the effects that were demod ages ago. Others have now joined in and started to offer effects too. Here is the thread, got way more attention than anything else Ive ever said or done lol: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=376295
[videoblogging] Re: Yankee Stadium project
Sounds like a great project, Ian. Let's chat about it. :) -- Bill Cammack http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jill H [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ooh iam a yankee fan :) and live in nyc :) http://www.youtube.com/xgobobeanx email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jill On 10/28/07, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, My name is Ian Isanberg, assistant organizer for the NYC Videoblogging group. How are you? I am in the early stages of a Multimedia project focused on Yankee fans and the closing of Yankee Stadium. My goal is to interview 100 fans in HD by Opening Day 08. I am looking for as much help as I can. If interested, please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks. --Ian
[videoblogging] Re: another argument for Net Neutrality laws
Apparently, it's even worse already. :/ I just finished watching TeXtra #88 http://www.podshow.com/shows/?mode=detailepisode_id=84796, and in Natali's viewer mail (at the end of the show), a guy wrote in that he had ordered something on Pay Per View on Comcast, and set his DVR to record it since he wasn't going to be home. He says that when he got home, it wasn't on his DVR and that when he complained to Comcast, they informed him that they were no longer allowing Pay Per View events to be recorded on DVRs. http://textra.podshow.com/ -- Bill Cammack http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/24/07, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will there be a time when corporate-owned internet providers start choosing what goes through their networks? Some believe it's happening now, and they seem to have legal right to do it. Comcast, one of the biggest US internet providers, is showing signs of limiting P2P networks. follow up: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071019-evidence-mounts-that-comcast-is-targeting-bittorrent-traffic.html Comcast has been caught blocking BitTorrent traffic in some areas, according to tests performed by the Associated Press. The news organization claims to have confirmed that Comcast is blockingor at least seriously slowing downBitTorrent transfers, regardless of whether the content is legal or not. If true, Comcast's actions have serious implications for sharing information online, and by proxy, Net Neutrality. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Video: http://ryanishungry.com Twitter: http://tinyurl.com/2aodyc RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9
[videoblogging] Re: WordPress entries backup?
Hmm... That's good information. I never checked out Manage Export. I just got the backup plug-in right off the bat. -- Bill http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Adam Quirk, Wreck Salvage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use WP's built-in export function: Manage Export That will export an RSS feed of all entries in your database. or you can use WP Database Backup for more control over what gets included: http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup/ On 10/25/07, GoGen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you please suggest a fast way to backup entries from a blog built with WordPress, so they can be used locally? For example, I'd like to backup all entries from certain period on my site and wouldn't want to copy/paste each of them manually. As for videos, I guess link to blip.tv files would be changeable to local file. Thank you for your time and help! GoGen gogentv.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Adam Quirk Wreck Salvage 551.208.4644 Brooklyn, NY http://wreckandsalvage.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Can anybody tell me....
Thanks for the insights, Adrian. :) --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: around the 8/10/07 Bill Cammack mentioned about [videoblogging] Can anybody tell me that: Can anybody tell me how come people aren't bitching and moaning about copyrighted music in: A) Public Access shows across the country I can't speak for US but in Australia if there is music and you don't have copyright clearance it will not be broadcast. end of discussion. we have community statios here who regularly get sent great stuff from secondary schools but of course it has a soundtrack with music with no clearance, it cannot be broadcast. I may not have been clear about what I mean by public access stations here in the US. Then again, you may understand what they are. Just in case... The way things work (to grossly generalize, based on my experiences in Manhattan, NYC) is you apply to the station to get a time slot, 30 minutes or an hour. If/when you get your slot, it will either be before or after a certain hour, which determines how risque or vulgar your show can be. You give them the name of your show and the topic. Depending on the topic, your show might ONLY be slated for late-night airings. After that, it's up to you to provide the show to the station. They play whatever's there for your show at the time your show comes up. For this reason, sometimes, they will play the exact same show for three weeks in a row, because nobody went to change it. The point of all this background information is to set up the fact that there isn't anyone screening these videos for content. Because of this, you have some shows that are ENTIRELY music videos ripped from television stations with the television station bug still in the corner (MTV, VH1, BET, whatever). So I'm not even talking about someone using the music in the background of their original content. The only thing original about their show might be them talking in between ripped videos, IF that. Meanwhile, I've been to parties that were COMPLETELY VJed from YouTube. I mean, even that fad going on right now, Rick Rolling points to an actual music video. I'm not interested enough to research who posted that there, but you see the point. There's tons of stuff on YouTube also that has ZERO clearance. My point isn't being 'anti' either of these situations. It's just odd to me that people make SUCH a big deal out of whether someone uses copyrighted music in a videoblog that ~ 200 people are going to see during about a six month run, and meanwhile, you have the exact same music, the ENTIRE music video, on YouTube with 500,000 hits over the last year. Someone mentioned that perhaps it was because local public access channels have such a low viewership, but then, shouldn't that apply to videoblogs with low viewership as well? The whole thing's really weird. I'll be interested to see how it all shakes out. i also teach in a uni. media program and we have an expectation of all work from year one that it complies with copyright requirements. We don't want graduates going to work and getting their employers sued because they haven't learnt the basics of media and copyright law. Yes. That's smart. People need to know what they're getting into. lifecasting is interesting. Personally i think they should just let you pay a nominal amount, eg USD50 a year, and that is your licence so that while lifecasting if there is music in the background, you've paid a licence. same way here inn australia you can play music in your shop (you pay an annual licence to the Australian Performing Rights Association and they distribute the money to the artists). -- cheers Adrian Miles this email is bloggable [ ] ask first [ ] private [x] vogmae.net.au [official compliance stuff:] CRICOS provider code: 00122A That's an interesting idea. Who would pay this license? The web site that's hosting the channel(s), or in the case of multiple channels, would each channel be responsible for paying their own fee? Even what you're saying is interesting to me. Why should shop owners need to pay a fee to play music in their shops when someone could sit down at their shop and play music from their radio or laptop license-free? I mean, I understand WHY... since the music is adding value to the owner's shop, but you see how it doesn't make any sense? You can play your radio, that you bought with your own money, that's receiving music from radio stations, in the park and pay nothing. You can play your own CDs, that you bought with your own money, on a laptop and pay nothing. One can argue that the licensing fee was built into the CD that the person bought or whatever media the radio station's playing. However, if that's the case, why isn't that same license built into music that someone on YouTube bought with their own money and put in the background of their non-commercial video? Seems like more than a DOUBLE
[videoblogging] Re: Can anybody tell me....
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: around the 25/10/07 Bill Cammack mentioned about [videoblogging] Re: Can anybody tell me that: Even what you're saying is interesting to me. Why should shop owners need to pay a fee to play music in their shops when someone could sit down at their shop and play music from their radio or laptop license-free? I mean, I understand WHY... since the music is adding value to the owner's shop, but you see how it doesn't make any sense? You can play your radio, that you bought with your own money, that's receiving music from radio stations, in the park and pay nothing. You can play your own CDs, that you bought with your own money, on a laptop and pay nothing. One can argue that the licensing fee was built into the CD that the person bought or whatever media the radio station's playing. However, if that's the case, why isn't that same license built into music that someone on YouTube bought with their own money and put in the background of their non-commercial video? Seems like more than a DOUBLE standard... Seems like A FEW different I'll answer this in bits :-) there is a distinction made between personal use nad broadcasting. turning on the stereo in the shop becomes broadcasting. it isn't about adding value, it is simply a technical definition of broadcasting. ok. So how is (and I'm not disagreeing with you :D) playing your radio in the park NOT broadcasting? What if more people can hear your music in the park than at, say, an outdoor cafe where they've paid a license to play music there? How about DJing? You bought the records. You bought the turntables. You bought the speakers and brought them out to the park. How is that *not* broadcasting? Is it broadcasting because one person has a business and the other one doesn't? Radio stations here pay APRA fees, which cost more than the restaurant's :-) As do dance clubs. I'll assume your point here is that playing music over your radio that you bought and brought to the park is 'covered' by the fees that the radio station paid in the first place. However, if that's the case, why isn't the shop owner similarly covered? And if the shop owner isn't covered to play the radio in the shop, why is the consumer covered to play the radio in the park? The fee is reasonable and its aim is not to stop the practice but to return royalties to the artists. I don't know the specifics, but I do know that radio stations sent their playlists to APRA, and also that they do spot audits just to try to get an idea of the sors of material being played so that they have a reasonable idea of who should be getting the royalties. Absolutely. I'm *ALL* for people getting their royalties. If you make a film, you either have to not use music at all, make the music yourself, pay someone to score the film for you, have music 'donated' to your project or pay whomever created the music you want to use. It makes perfect sense in that case that since you're not incurring the cost of having your film scored, you should pay whomever you got the copyrighted music from. youtube, you're broadcasting. So the rules are different for making a home movie that once upon a time really was a home movie (ie was only viewed at home by immediate family/friends). Personally I like the licence system as it provides revenue back to copyright holders. I think the license system sounds fair as long as it's proportional to the project's actual budget. The question, however, becomes how BROAD is the CAST? :) What makes a video on YouTube that has 6 views a broadcast? Yes... Technically it's a BROADcast, because people all over the world COULD view it if they wanted to... except they don't. Why should a 6-view video on YouTube be held to a higher standard than a home video that's shown in a local recreation center or church basement or at someone's house over the holidays? Because there was the POTENTIAL for hundreds or thousands or millions of views? That's part of my point. I'm not sure at this point how many millions of people live here in NYC, but I guarantee you the *potential* viewership of a public access show is WAY up there, due to the numbers of people with television and cable accounts. No, people can't watch NYC public access in Japan, but that doesn't make a video blog with relatively no traffic more of a broadcast than that public access show, IMO... Of course, I'm no expert in what IS and ISN'T a broadcast. Related to all this, i know we all would like to use our favourite bands on our videos but if they have copyright, or signed it away, and we don't have a licence ot use it, we can't. ... Because we are BROADcasting? Regardless of how un-watched our videos are or how un-listened-to our podcasts are? The fact that there's the *potential* for millions of computer-owners to view our content makes us broadcasters as opposed to home-movie
[videoblogging] Re: Can anybody tell me....
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: around the 25/10/07 Bill Cammack mentioned about [videoblogging] Re: Can anybody tell me that: I may not have been clear about what I mean by public access stations here in the US. Then again, you may understand what they are. Just in case... The way things work (to grossly generalize, based on my experiences in Manhattan, NYC) is you apply to the station to get a time slot, 30 minutes or an hour. If/when you get your slot, it will either be before or after a certain hour, which determines how risque or vulgar your show can be. You give them the name of your show and the topic. Depending on the topic, your show might ONLY be slated for late-night airings. After that, it's up to you to provide the show to the station. They play whatever's there for your show at the time your show comes up. For this reason, sometimes, they will play the exact same show for three weeks in a row, because nobody went to change it. here the community system is different. the broadcaster is still responsible for content, though like the US system anyone can come and pitch shows/content. It is like editors ot the editor. the editor and the newspaper owner is responsible for what is published even if it is a letter to the editor. I see. There are lots of derivative public access shows, like there are lots of derivative text blogs. You know, the kind that just regurgitate celebrity gossip, for instance. There's nothing of original value from the web site creator, but they get a lot of hits because people want to read about what Britney or Lindsay jacked up THIS week. Somehow, it doesn't matter that nobody involved with that site took ANY of the pictures on that site or know ANYTHING first-hand about the topics they cover. They're putting on a web site what they learned on Entertainment Tonight or in some tabloid they subscribe to. Just like nobody forces sites like that to be original, nobody forces public access shows NOT to be a rehashing of what came on a particular music video channel this week. The point of all this background information is to set up the fact that there isn't anyone screening these videos for content. Because of this, you have some shows that are ENTIRELY music videos ripped from television stations with the television station bug still in the corner (MTV, VH1, BET, whatever). So I'm not even talking about someone using the music in the background of their original content. The only thing original about their show might be them talking in between ripped videos, IF that. The only problem I have with these things is that if you do this to others content you can hardly complain when someone does it to yours. For example on this list there have been numerous examples of third party sites aggregating other people's video without credit, etc. But if in your videos you have been reusing others material without a licence, I think you're in a glass house throwing stones :-) Absolutely. I think this is a major factor for a lot of people... I wouldn't want this to happen to me. Like with that MyHeavy thing. People didn't want their family videos with their children in it flanked by 50-foot (relative to the video itself) chicks in bikinis or bras or whatever and all the other gaudy advertising they had placed around our blip feeds. I think this is a great motivator. If we were The Rolling Stones, we wouldn't want our music to be played without us getting royalties! :O... except we're NOT The Rolling Stones. :) [not that there's anything wrong with that] -- Bill http://billcammack.com Meanwhile, I've been to parties that were COMPLETELY VJed from YouTube. I mean, even that fad going on right now, Rick Rolling points to an actual music video. I'm not interested enough to research who posted that there, but you see the point. There's tons of stuff on YouTube also that has ZERO clearance. yep. welcome to the pointy end of diy media. we are all in the middle of these enormous changes and we can see that google are working rather hard to allay the anxieties of big media while also getting to keep the cake -- cheers Adrian Miles this email is bloggable [ ] ask first [ ] private [x] vogmae.net.au [official compliance stuff:] CRICOS provider code: 00122A
[videoblogging] Re: Lo-Fi Saint Louis hits 200!
Congrats on #200! :D --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Streeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just thought I'd let you all know that I just posted my 200th episode. Which might not sound like a lot to some of you, but it's a milestone for me. I can't believe I cranked out 200 of those things. Bill Streeter LO-FI SAINT LOUIS http://www.lofistl.com http://www.billstreeter.net
[videoblogging] Re: One Year of Video Blogging
Congrats Clint. :) Looking forward to good things for your new year! :D - Bill http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Clintus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wanted to say thank you to everyone who's ever stopped by and watched one of my videos or ever interacted with me on one of the many social networks we belong to. It's been an amazing year and I'm looking forward to many, many more. http://www.idoitdigital.com/2007/10/23/one-year-of-video-blogging/
[videoblogging] Re: re:Casey's thread: Dan McVicar, AFTRA, and independent producers
Informative post. Thanks, Dan. :) I'm neither anti nor pro unions. For some people, it makes sense to join one, for the very protections you mention. For others, the expense of joining outweighs the work they get from being a part of that union. Back in the day, a recruiter approached our group of freelancers with an opportunity to cut for CBS News, however you'd have to join a union. The ELECTRICIANS' Union! :/ ? -- Bill Cammack http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, danielmcvicar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everybody, I've been a member of SAG and AFTRA for decades, and sometimes serve on committees in preparing for negotiation. It is my observation that this is a new area for unions, producers, performers and distributors of media. The business models are being disrupted. The union has always been there to protect performers from abusive work conditions, to improve pay and conditions, and has also taken the responsibility for insuring performers. Regarding net video, the union doesn't know what to do yet. There are some plans in place that allow producers of net video to be brought in under AFTRA rules that are not very expensive. They would be similar to lowbudget film deals. Really, it is at what point does the video become professional, and is distributed in a way that makes money. You may always operate outside the union, if you are an independent producer, but there may be limitations in using union members or in distributing videos through union signatories. That is the same in preexisting video and film formats. There are more shared points that the union would have with producers and distributors of content. One in particular is piracy, and the violation of copyright. I have suggested that in the coming negotiation with the networks and producers for the AFTRA contract, that the performer and union retain their right to sue Youtube or another entity that profited illegally from their work and image. This would be an adjustment in language, because the current release transfers copyright to the producer, and it is the producer's responsibility to seek damages. Without drilling down into more specifics, I would like to say that a union can serve performers, creators and producers well. It is the loss of revenue from work that is the biggest threat to all. Just ask people in the music industry. Perhaps there will be an adaptation of the unions to include small producers who perform and create, and the rights for all can be protected. I don't think there is a way to bully anyone out of the sphere now. Not as long as there are video cameras, and places to post videos. What they can do is to help the performer and creator earn some revenue from the further distribution of their work in digital formats, and recover part of that revenue stream be it in paid download, or on a site or format that includes advertising. Ciao! D --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins steve@ wrote: Wel I am a fan of unions in general. I just think there will be some growing pains if they try to apply this stuff to net video prematurely, especially as there is currently so much hype about internet video $$ which doesnt match the reality for most. So I do look forward to the day when unions get in the way of someone exploiting people whilst making lots of money, but do not look forward to the day that some small player with no money gets bullied out of this sphere by unions. Cheers Steve Elbow --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jan McLaughlin jannie.jan@ wrote: Is this a 'problem' for indie talent and technician? Or a blessing? Health insurance, retirement benefits, fiscal protections from abuse, etc? There either will or will not come a time when the things you produce are popular enough to sustain real livings for lots and lots of people. When that entertainment tipping point happens, why not provide yourself and the people you work with living wages and benefits? Serious talent wishing to cross over to MSM will be folded into unions; those who don't want to play in the MSM sandbox will stand outside, not looking in, but looking out to recruit new, hungry talent to feed the hungry long tail of entertainment. Jan
[videoblogging] Re: Casey in the Guardian: Will Hollywood kill the web-only stars.
Here's Jackson West's NewTeeVee article about the strike: http://newteevee.com/2007/10/19/wga-rank-and-file-authorize-strike/ --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://news.google.com/news?q=wga+strikeie=UTF-8oe=utf-8rls=org.mozilla:en-US:officialclient=firefox-aum=1sa=Ntab=wn The Google-collected WGA strike news, FYI. Jan On 10/20/07, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Way to go, Casey. Of course this medium will be unionized. Eventually. Is this a 'problem' for indie talent and technician? Or a blessing? Health insurance, retirement benefits, fiscal protections from abuse, etc? There either will or will not come a time when the things you produce are popular enough to sustain real livings for lots and lots of people. When that entertainment tipping point happens, why not provide yourself and the people you work with living wages and benefits? Serious talent wishing to cross over to MSM will be folded into unions; those who don't want to play in the MSM sandbox will stand outside, not looking in, but looking out to recruit new, hungry talent to feed the hungry long tail of entertainment. Jan On 10/20/07, Irina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: very nice i'm really intrigued by the strike in LA it seems like we online can never be touched by something like that but i hear i am totally wrong On 10/16/07, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could not miss the following article as it is currently given prominence on the Guardian main page: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/oct/16/digitalvideo Touches on issues such as 'the unions are coming' which is certainly something I expect to cause a few nightmares for some in the future. Probably wont affect people who dont use any outside talent in their videos so much for now, but in the longterm the existing 'professional' entertainment industry is certainly going to want to get in on the act. Cheers Steve Elbows -- http://geekentertainment.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links Individual Email | Traditional http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ -- The Faux Press - better than real http://feeds.feedburner.com/WburgtvFallFilmFest - Fall Film Fest http://fauxpress.blogspot.com http://wburg.tv aim=janofsound air=862.571.5334 skype=janmclaughlin -- The Faux Press - better than real http://feeds.feedburner.com/WburgtvFallFilmFest - Fall Film Fest http://fauxpress.blogspot.com http://wburg.tv aim=janofsound air=862.571.5334 skype=janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: any experience with podpress
Ages ago, when I used to use podpress... I never used their stats at all as far as iTunes. My feed = feedburner feed = iTunes. Stats off of feedburner. -- Bill Cammack http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, synchronistv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know I know... i should probably be using show-in-a box, but going into this process I got a ton of advice from a ton of people and over and over I was advised to use podpress to embed my videos on my blog and create my rss feed. Would I do it again..no... but for now... there it is. I am not a coder, so while I have become pretty facile with html, I would need to hire someone to alter my blog, so it is podpress for now. (i am also not a huge feedburner fan, and don't want to risk having to forward my itunes feed now, we all know what that is like) We are featured on itunes this week, which is incredibly wonderful, however my podpress stats don't even list my latest post. I have no idea how many hits itunes is generating, and as I have a huge crew I would like to someday pay, my stats are vital. (I know the file and post are fine, I have both downloaded it from itunes and viewed it directly on the site) anyone with any insight? Much appreciated!!! Kathryn http://www.synchronis.tv
[videoblogging] Re: Are You Having Technical Problems With Blip TV
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope. Nobody'd be uploading to them if there were widespread problems. Blip works fine for me almost all the time. They seriously let me down this morning on two important demonstrations for clients when their servers went down between 9 and 12. But that's very unusual. Their support is the best I've ever come across. They will go massively out of their way to help. Chances are, if they're telling you it's to do with something your end, it is. To be fair... Between 9am and 12pm your time is approximately between 4am and 7am here in NYC, where blip is located. :) Here's their post about it: http://blog.blip.tv/blog/2007/10/18/service/ -- Bill Cammack http://billcammack.com Suggestions: - Check your upload speed, and try uploading to Blip using somebody else's internet connection. Perhaps your ISP sucks. Mine used to. I got a new one. Contention (number of people sharing the pipe) and upload speeds are not things you'd know without checking. Who knows, perhaps your ISP doesn't like people uploading stuff, so they make it deliberately difficult. Sounds a bit like it. - If you're using a wireless connection, plug in. - Download UpperBlip batch uploading app from Blip's download tools section and use it to upload your videos. - Upgrade Firefox. Better yet, uninstall it and download the latest version and install it fresh. - Then uninstall your Flash player and download a new copy. - Lose the Dell. Dells suck dead man's ass. I normally say something a LOT ruder. I do IT support for people on the side, and I don't know one single person with a Dell that hasn't slowed down to an unbearable standstill after 2 years - more often after just ONE year. It seems to me that they make them like that so that you have to buy new ones. And the great thing is, almost all people who have slow Dell seem to replace it with... another Dell. It's all they know. Don't make the same mistake. Particularly now that all new machines come with Vista, the world's worst operating system. Put Vista on a Dell, it's like crossing the beams. You might as well put your fist through the screen before you even turn it on. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ On 18 Oct 2007, at 21:46, gerrytshow wrote: Hello Everyone, I was wondering if any of you out there have experienced any problems recently with uploading your videos onto Blip? Last week, I was unable to upload my video after multiple attempts over a couple of days using both Firefox and Internet Explorer. When I contacted Blip they accused my year old Dell XPS M140 for the problems although offering no REAL concrete answers or solutions to why this happen and how to avoid it in the future. I've been uploading my videos to Blip since Feb 2007 and I've never been able to use Firefox for any of my uploads, and some of my uploads have taken as long as 6 hours. Is this normal using Blip? I cannot continue to have these problems and have Blip point the finger at me and my computer. Does anyone have any insight or answers to these questions? Thanks! Gerry t The Gerry T Show Where Dating Mating Always Come Together http://TheGerryTShow.Blip.TV http://GerryT.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Ideal video-ad platform for an online show
These are all interesting ideas, but I think they're too intricate to be feasible right now. I don't know that there's such a thing as Brazilian local video ad providers, for instance. The way it seems right now is that there are a couple of groups that serve a bunch of different videos and are looking for lots of hits to serve their commercials on. I don't think there are mom pop stores that would like to advertise locally on internet shows that seek out opportunities like the ones you're describing. Also, this is the internet. People watch stuff from everywhere. There's no guarantee that someone in Iowa watching something in Brazil will have an Iowa local video ad provider that wants to serve videos on Brazilian shows. Check out Jonny Goldstein's show with Dina Kaplan (blip.tv) for some insight on sponsorship / advertising = http://tinyurl.com/2wo6an -- Bill Cammack http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if anyone knows a solution, aside from Brightcove and Blip, that will enable the video content provider to host his own videos that can have auto-modular pre-roll, mid-roll, and post- roll clickable video ads. In other words here is a scenario that would really hit home for a show content provider; 1.The end-user visits the site, presses play in the Flash player. The system is intelligent enough to figure out where the end-user is located in the world by his IP address, points all video ads that are local to that end-user. If the end-user logs-in in Brazil, all the video ads are served from Brazilian local video ad providers. Also if the show's original language is English, right away the end- user is presented with large message that pauses the show asking in Portuguese Watch in Portuguese? Yes/No. Of course when the content provider is publishing the content he will have to provide multiple language audio streams, just like DVD movies approach. 2. Somewhere along the show the end-user is presented with a mid- roll video ad that the creators of the show approve of. So say if the creators of the show actually tested a product or service only then they allow the video ads to run, in other words complete control over ad serving. As well as ad expiration. It's like a flash streaming server software/ad-serving engine that works as a package providing the show creators complete control over hosting/publishing, plus it install like wordpress on a web host server. Allowing to choose the video resolution and bandwith beyond 320 X 240, and 500kbps. Therefore all the ad revenues go to the show creators. Any comments/suggestions are truly appreacited Thanks Renat
[videoblogging] Re: Domain question
+1 to what Rox said. It depends on what you're branding. If you're branding your videos, go with .TV. If you're branding a wide selection of items or ideas that *happen* to include video, go with .COM. -- Bill Cammack http://reelsolid.tv http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, John Oeffinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good point Rox, these will primarily be short 5 minute weekly clips on 3 different sites. One weekly clip is based on historical stuff. The other two are weekly summaries of industry stuff (2 different industries - connecting the dots kinda things.) On Oct 17, 2007, at 1:02 PM, Roxanne Darling wrote: If you are producing an internet video series or show aka Internet TV, I think.tv helps communicate that message much more effectively than a dot com address. If you have a blog that sometimes includes video, dot com is more suitable IMO. Aloha, Rox [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: New daily web news/comedy show
Hey Ricky. I like the overall format of the show. When I saw the still, it looked like the generic host on the edge, graphic over the shoulder situation, but you guys went for some interesting stuff. I'll stay tuned. :) Make sure you tell whomever shoots the show to compensate for that gigantic, non-transparent, turquouise bug in the lower-left corner. Today's show featured a plate of food that was completely obscured by that bug. I had no idea what the hostess was trying to eat. Worst-case scenario, attach something to the camera where you can physically block out that area with tape so that the cameraperson knows that whatever's behind the tape won't show up in the video anyway. I really like the live hostess aspect of the show, not trying to use cuts to create sentences. I also like the live studio audience aspect to a large degree. They may have too much to say, consistently, for being a group never seen. Then again, I've only watched one show, so maybe they were seen on Monday or Tuesday. Taking it to the street for interviews was a fun idea also. Good Luck with the show! :D -- Bill Cammack http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ricky Marson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The website I work for, ElasticWaist http://elasticwaist.com , launched a new daily web show this week, called the Daily Special. It is funny, smart take on all kinds of stuff going on in the world today, particularly affecting women. Check it out! Here is the link where you can find today's episode: http://www.elasticwaist.com/elastic_waist/2007/10/the-daily-spe-1.html http://www.elasticwaist.com/elastic_waist/2007/10/the-daily-spe-1.html Ricky [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: YouTube's new content id tool now in beta
Interesting post, Kenya. Blocking exact same copies of videos is of zero value. Whether you can find one example of a copyrighted song or eight of them makes no difference whatsoever. As far as the audio-matching tool, I haven't researched stuff like this, but I say it's impossible... at least for videos where there's dialogue or other sounds over the music. If you look at audio waveforms, you'll know you can't exactly match The Beatles' Penny Lane with a video where someone used Penny Lane as the background music while they talk over it or show videos with audio running as well. The waveforms don't match, so the best YouTube can do is *GUESS* that Penny Lane MIGHT be used in this video. They'll have better success for those videos where people just ripped the song directly and posted it to YouTube with pictures over it or soundless video or if they took a video directly from a television channel like MTV. The only way to implement this properly is to add the human component of having people responsible for physically checking each video that comes up 'flagged', and then making decisions based on that. YouTube isn't going to do that, because they CURRENTLY don't have the human component in place to check videos labeled exactly what they are, with the actual musicians playing the music in the videos and uploaded by someone with some corny screen name. If they try to bypass this and put it in the hands of the copyright holders, there's no incentive for them to actually watch or listen to the videos in question. They would be able to block videos if they wanted to on the strength that YouTube GUESSED that their music was being used in someone's video. Once again, the whole thing's retarded. None of this would even be happening if YouTube hadn't been *BUILT* on blatant piracy from day 1. -- Bill Cammack http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Kenya Allmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Google's new content id tool YouTube Video Identification is now in beta. It will find and block exact same copies of videos by hash value. I don't see it mentioned but they are developing an audio matching tool as well that finds videos containing music based on songs in their database. http://www.youtube.com/t/video_id_about From the Google blog: In implementing this technology, we are committed to supporting new forms of original creativity, protecting fair use, and providing a seamless user experienceall while we help rights owners easily manage their content. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/latest-content-id-tool-for-youtube.html I also found this quote interesting We provide content owners with an electronic notification and takedown tool, to help them more easily identify their material and notify us to take it down with the click of a mouse. The click of a mouse is what bothers me. . . . kenya allmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kenya.allmond.us vm/f 202.478.0490 To thine own self be true. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Ideal video-ad platform for an online show
For that, post your videos on http://blip.tv and pay them to serve post-roll advertisements that YOU choose/create yourself. -- Bill Cammack http://reelsolid.tv --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Bill for helpful insight into this subject, as well as the link to Jonnygolstein.com interview with Dina Kaplan. The thing is that I just brought up Brazil as an example. What I actually meant is demographic-targetted video ads. The show creators buy this backend video-ad serving software and handle the advertising themselves, of course it's harder this way, as opposed to having Blip.tv marketters handle it, but if the show has lots of monthly hits I think it's worth hiring a PR staff that will do all the business part in return for a share in the revenues. What do you guys think? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack BillCammack@ wrote: These are all interesting ideas, but I think they're too intricate to be feasible right now. I don't know that there's such a thing as Brazilian local video ad providers, for instance. The way it seems right now is that there are a couple of groups that serve a bunch of different videos and are looking for lots of hits to serve their commercials on. I don't think there are mom pop stores that would like to advertise locally on internet shows that seek out opportunities like the ones you're describing. Also, this is the internet. People watch stuff from everywhere. There's no guarantee that someone in Iowa watching something in Brazil will have an Iowa local video ad provider that wants to serve videos on Brazilian shows. Check out Jonny Goldstein's show with Dina Kaplan (blip.tv) for some insight on sponsorship / advertising = http://tinyurl.com/2wo6an -- Bill Cammack http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov innomind@ wrote: I was wondering if anyone knows a solution, aside from Brightcove and Blip, that will enable the video content provider to host his own videos that can have auto-modular pre-roll, mid-roll, and post- roll clickable video ads. In other words here is a scenario that would really hit home for a show content provider; 1.The end-user visits the site, presses play in the Flash player. The system is intelligent enough to figure out where the end- user is located in the world by his IP address, points all video ads that are local to that end-user. If the end-user logs-in in Brazil, all the video ads are served from Brazilian local video ad providers. Also if the show's original language is English, right away the end- user is presented with large message that pauses the show asking in Portuguese Watch in Portuguese? Yes/No. Of course when the content provider is publishing the content he will have to provide multiple language audio streams, just like DVD movies approach. 2. Somewhere along the show the end-user is presented with a mid- roll video ad that the creators of the show approve of. So say if the creators of the show actually tested a product or service only then they allow the video ads to run, in other words complete control over ad serving. As well as ad expiration. It's like a flash streaming server software/ad-serving engine that works as a package providing the show creators complete control over hosting/publishing, plus it install like wordpress on a web host server. Allowing to choose the video resolution and bandwith beyond 320 X 240, and 500kbps. Therefore all the ad revenues go to the show creators. Any comments/suggestions are truly appreacited Thanks Renat
[videoblogging] Re: how do you watermark on your videos. your thoughts about its virtues and dra
Bug in the corner, like regular television. http://realfans.tv/2007/08/24/bre-pettis-handmade-music/ -- Bill Cammack http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, heather gold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do tell... heather gold aim: scoobyfox on facebook on twitter on flickr subvert.com | truth through comedy Heather Gold Show | heathergold.com DIY 10/12 @ Luscious Garage [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: how do you watermark on your videos. your thoughts about its virtues and dra
I agree that there *is* no deterrent against thieves and feed-rippers. -- Bill http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm with Brook on this; heck, go to the Youtubes and see their watermark put over a break.com mark put over a heavy.com mark. On 10/16/07, Brook Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find watermarks distracting, and they don't deter thieves one whit. But I'm a logo and branding-averse person by nature (to the point that I put sometimes put black tape over logos of stuff I wear or equipment I perform with). If I was going to use a watermark and really believed it would do any good, I'd make sure it was visible beyond any cropping boundaries someone would use to mask it. Brook -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: live video streaming
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Robyn Tippins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've used uStream and it worked well. I have also done Quicktime Server w/Quicktime Broadcaster, which was a breeze as well. I tried uStream for That's interesting, Robyn. This is the first time I think I've heard of ANYBODY using Quicktime Server... potentially because it's actually expensive instead of free. Did you post anywhere about your procedure of serving files using Quicktime Server? -- Bill http://billcammack.com streaming video into SecondLife (for the main BlogHer sessions this year) and the company we were using for our build in SL could only accept Quicktime files (not sure if that's a SL thing or just per this company), but QT Server/Broadcaster was perfect. uStream has not let me down either, so I could easily recommend either of these. Robyn Tippins Community Manager, MyBlogLog sleepyblogger.com | gamingandtech.com On 10/13/07, Kath O'Donnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi Tom, I guess you've already looked at the VLC streaming pages since you're planning on using VLC to view the streams? the diagrams and instructions there seem to outline it. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/streaming.html http://www.videolan.org/doc/ I've done streaming of a STB composite output using VLC on my laptop instead of requiring a tv (at work). other people could view the stream also by connecting to my ip stream. (this was on a private network/vpn, but would be similar if I had a public ip on the net for external people to access). another option u may want to consider is a streaming box such as slingbox. so similarly, you could connect your camera output to the input of the slingbox and let it handle the streaming (since that's what it's built for). if u use multiple cameras, then u might need a video mixer or video switcher prior to the input of slingbox, or maybe u don't mind the glitch/outage whilst swapping cables manually. then people download the slingbox viewer for free and connect to your feed. the slingbox costs around $150. though I don't think it's available in Aus, so you'd need to buy it off the net eg HongKong or UK site, and I think the licence is for non-commercial use (sounds like your project is?). slingplayer is available for multiple platforms including mobile devices such as phones, PDAs. slingbox is very simple to setup and use. the website has the instructions. plus this means u don't need to dedicate a computer to be the streaming server, you use the slingbox instead so I think in the long run it's a cheaper option. if u connect it to the tv, u can use the remote to change channels etc as well, or write an interface for the infared remote to perform other control functions u might require. I'm not sure if you can view the stream in vlc though - I think it's just the slingbox player. but if you're getting people to download vlc, then getting them to d/l slingbox player is similar? I used to do internet radio using ogg vorbis ( others prior to that) streaming via winamp (similar to live365 site - sometimes we'd use it as a relay site) but haven't done ogg theora / vorbis for video streaming. cheers Kath ps- you're from Warwick? I used to live in bris. what's the project you're working on? --- http://www.aliak.com On 10/13/07, tom_a_sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED]tom_a_sparks%40yahoo.com.au wrote: first of all I dont want to use any internet based website as the project (cross your fingers) is going to use on a Wireless community network (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_community_network (if that ever gets off the ground)) * using 2 to 3 cameras * using ogg theora/vorbis for the feed * want to use open-source/free software (eg videolan) the video well be transcoded to other video file after the event for a rss feeding -- http://www.aliak.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Robyn Tippins Community Manager, MyBlogLog - Yahoo! Sleepyblogger.com | Gamingandtech.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Acoustic echo control
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't do altogether that much audio post work, but I think you're pretty much stuck with already-recorded echo. Yes. There's nothing you can do about it in post. This is why people aren't supposed to say ONE when they're counting down to on-air talent speaking. It's Three, Two, , then the talent talks. This is because the echo from the verbal One will still be audible until after the talent starts speaking, and then there's nothing you can do about it. Echo isn't like refrigerator hum. It doesn't exist in a continuous fashion that you can filter out. It's a replication of the actual dialogue, so to cut out echo, you have to cut out dialogue as well. The trick with audio is to get it right the first time. Recording audio without echo is not easy. One must basically treat the space with carpets, furniture pads and/or acoustic foam. The other alternative is +1. Recording studios pad the walls in this fashion. I've even seen egg cartons used. They have professional padding you could probably buy from an online music store. It's all about prevention, not removal. -- Bill Cammack http://reelsolid.tv to use a less-sensitive, large-diaphram dynamic microphone, like a Shure SM58. The echo sounds aren't powerful enough to move the mic's diaphragm and so do not get recorded. Picking your location with an ear toward sound is a good idea. Why don't you like the echo? Jan On 10/8/07, J. Rhett Aultman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys! You guessed it. We're back with another production-related question. We've been learning to use this new condenser boom-mounted mic in our videos and we love the freedom it's offering us, but we're also noticing that it picks up a fairly heavy amount of acoustic echo when our voices bounce off of the walls and floor. I'm sure people on here have faced this issue before, so would some of you veterans pass on your wisdom on either removing the acoustic echo or preventing it? I've been trying a mixture of notch filters and a bass boost on the editing console, but the results haven't satisfied me. Most of the Google searches I do on this only deal with telephony, so I haven't found good resources yet. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime Yahoo! Groups Links -- The Faux Press - better than real http://feeds.feedburner.com/WburgtvFallFilmFest - Fall Film Fest http://fauxpress.blogspot.com http://wburg.tv aim=janofsound air=862.571.5334 skype=janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Embedding vs. Not
Exactly. If you set up an embed with a fullscreen button, you empower the viewer, as Chuck mentions. I'd rather see that if I'm the viewer, because a lot of times, people have these intricate web pages surrounding their embed, and I don't feel like taking the time to have all that stuff reload after I hit the back button. -- Bill Cammack http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Chuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My attitude is to empower the viewer. I use an embed with a full screen button and let the viewer make the choice. Chuck --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Brook Hinton bhinton@ wrote: I'm curious what others feel about the experience of watching video embedded in a blog / webpage of other content vs the old fashioned experience of just the movie opening in a new window. Like not even a pop up - a whole window. Maybe its my emotional tie to a more theatrical world, but I am so much more focused on a piece when it is ALONE. I go to the actual sites for context, but when I click to play a video, I'm always so disappointed when it plays on the page, and even a little annoyed when its just a popup and all the other stuff is still in my visual field. The only exception is something like disco-nnect or some of the other hacky web art vlogs where the chaos of multiple looping windows is the whole point. On the other hand I completely see the plusses of embedded video from an overall design perspective, and for video which is more about information or entertainment than primarily an aesthetic/conceptual experience I wonder if the surrounding visual and textual material can be a boon. What do the rest of you find - as viewers and as creators? Or is the whole thing such a non issue to most that I'm just revealing my ever advancing age here? Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: No Par-tay this week. Back on Oct 10 with Dina Kaplan of blip.tv
Promo for Jonny's Par-tay featuring Dina Kaplan: http://billcammack.com/2007/10/07/276-jonnygoldstein_dinakaplan_promo_071007/ or http://tinyurl.com/3a4km6 -- Bill Cammack http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, jonny goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll be off the grid in West Virginia, so no Par-tay this week. Very psyched to have Dina Kaplan of blip.tv on Oct 10 where we'll discuss the ins and outs of getting and keeping sponsorship for your video podcast. Might be of interest to some of y'all. http://tinyurl.com/2oghjj Have a great week!
[videoblogging] Re: New here
Looks like a fun show. :) I did a few episodes @ Raceway Park with friends that build and race musclecars. I'll be on the lookout for when your show gets started. :) -- Bill Cammack http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, promodprincess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, here you go: http://horsepowerandheels.com/News/2007/theshow.htm So far, that is the preview for the show. They are still working on the first few episodes. The basic rundown... PNN has sponsored my racecar and is helping me to try and create a web tv show that follows all of our crazy antics, trials and successes on the road and racing. For right now, PNN sent me a Sony HDR-HC5 that I carry around with me everywhere and I then send them footage for them to edit and create the shows with. But because of my limited video experience, I am not sure how to provide them with the content and footage that they need. I figured if I got a better understanding of how it all comes together, I could provide better footage and eventually be able to apply this to my blog and take over editing one day myself. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Irina irinaski@ wrote: erica, send them the link to your videos from PNN! On 10/3/07, promodprincess ericao@ wrote: I am on a PC, Heath! Schlomo Jay, Thanks for the link to freevlog, that was helpful! One of the tutorial steps is down though, and I think its the one that I need the most help with right now, which is #3: Basic Video Tips. Any links you can suggest there? I have not even purchased a camera yet, so those links would be most appreciated! And Irina, I'm blushing! ;) I'm just your average gear-head nerd! --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging% 40yahoogroups.com, Heath heathparks@ wrote: Welcome indeed! ask away! Hopefully you will be using a PC instead of one of those other machines. ;) Heath http://batmangeek.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging% 40yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman jay.dedman@ wrote: Hi! Irina recommended that I join this group because you are the most knowledgable videoblogging info source around. Thanks! I am a complete video novice and am trying to read up on as much as I can before trying to start my own. As of right now, I'm starting from scratch on this project, so any tips you have or experiences you can share for a new vblogger would be fantastic! welcome erica. As Schlomo said, a good place to start is freevlog.org. Once yoou get started, just ask any questions you have. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Video: http://ryanishungry.com Twitter: http://tinyurl.com/2aodyc RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9 -- http://geekentertainment.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: What is online video worth - contract info
for a staff job. I went to see what they were talking about and had an interview with 3 or 4 people, but not the guy in charge of hiring. They were impressed with my demo reel and I left a copy there for the main guy to watch before going back to meet with him a different day. When I got back to that agency, what the main guy was talking about as far as salary, duties and working hours was so off-the-wall and retarded that I had to interrupt him with a very important question... Did you watch my demo reel? This clown had to admit that, no... no he hadn't watched my demo reel, which was currently sitting between us on his desk. So, this guy was wasting my time because he thought he was talking to a junior editor, when meanwhile I was currently *freelancing* for an ad agency that could have eaten his agency alive, AND there were commercials on my reel that were currently running on television, and had been for more than a year. What he SHOULD have done was watch my reel and either realize I was a fit for the job and interview me or realize that I was NOT a fit and NOT interview me. Same thing goes for the television station in your situation. They either need to recognize you as A PRODUCER, PERIOD... or not. If what you've produced is good enough to be on their station, that means they didn't have to hire on-air talent, a videographer, an editor, a producer OR an EP. They didn't have to pay for script-writing, travel, materials, graphics. So, regardless of what your delivery medium is, YOUR time is worth what YOUR time is worth. If you choose to make a deal with them for less than that, it's because YOU decided to 'hook them up' with a discount... It's *NOT* because your time was automatically worth less because you created a video for online distribution instead of for television. Good luck. Let us know how it goes. -- Bill Cammack http://billcammack.com
[videoblogging] Personal Satisfaction vs. Marketability
Amongst the YouTubers that came to Pixelodeon was Caitlin Hill, aka TheHill88 http://flickr.com/photos/ekai/543134602/. Recently, she posted a video to YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KQv4koF1n0 which was a response to other people's responses to her video called Chris Crocker + TV Show = A Load of Crock http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYGmO_zCU6QNR=1. Now I know Caitlin's one of the YouTubers that's doing a character. She does mostly goofy entertainment skits. If she's acting in these two videos, I'll tip my hat, because she seems perfectly serious to me. There are lots of things I find interesting about these videos, including the fact that she seems to have a good grasp on the difference between laughing at and laughing with and she's basically putting down the exact same type of videos that she does herself. She also says that she liked [her work] way more before she cared what other people thought. At this point, AFAIK, she's in the YouTube Partner program. Her punchline at the end of the Crocker video is Please realize this. Reality TV is like YouTube... Need I say more? Granted, I don't watch many YouTube Character videos, so I have no idea whether lots of people are saying this, but (again, if we're to take her seriously, and I've chosen to do that after having watched both videos) her stance seems to be opposing the stance of anything that anybody does is worthwhile to anybody but themselves and anybody who gets sponsored or chosen to do something has been deemed a quality performer. I find it to be a very progressive and insightful stance from someone who specializes in deliberately-goofy videos. Obviously, Caitlin has been exposed to more of the industry, and that may be coloring her view of sit in front of your webcam videos. I wanted to post this in light of some people mentioning that the recent conversations in this group have been about money. How do we get paid? How do we monetize? How do we get sponsored? How do we grow and maintain an audience? How do we get more hits? How do we get more distribution? What kinds of ads should we run? I agree from my own perspective with what Caitlin had to say about caring what people think. That's partially why what was going to be a personal battle with Vergel Evans http://Lx7.ca became Vlog Deathmatch: Video Music Challenge http://vlogdeathmatch.blogspot.com/2007/05/bill-cammacks-official-music-video.html. I had basically bored myself to death doing videos that conformed to what the public was consuming or what was being done in the space. I love that particular video I did with ActionGirl, because it was fun, she brought fantastic energy to the project, and I was consistently, progressively creative during the time we shot it and I edited it. That's more my style and what I got involved with video to do in the first place. I also really enjoyed the diversity and creativity of the other 19 entries in the contest, which I really think of more as a festival. I've also had the *rare* reaction of Damn... I wish *I* had made that video when I see Jay Smooth's creativity in his videoblog Ill Doctrine http://www.illdoctrine.com/2007/06/the_ill_doctrine_dipset_anthem.html http://www.illdoctrine.com/2007/07/john_lee_hooker_i_get_money_fr.html. I guess it all comes down to what YOU would do if you weren't concerned with numbers or viewers or getting sponsored or paying bills through videoblogging... the exact opposite of what we've been discussing lately. Maybe you're already doing exactly what you want. Maybe your videos are already personally satisfying to you. I've been getting A LOT of satisfaction cutting Scriggity http://scriggity.com with Drew Olanoff @ Shauna. Just last night, Clintus McGintus told us he was with the program to do Scriggity epidodes, so it's just getting better and better. :D I wonder what the percentage is between people that actually enjoy what they're doing and people that do their shows specifically to get hits, sponsorship or attention. If you're not going to do videos that *you* like or even LOVE, make sure the ROI's worth it. Otherwise, you might be better off keeping your day job and making videos that are completely unmarketable, yet personally fulfilling. -- Bill http://billcammack.com
[videoblogging] Re: Advice about Lavalier mike
Any Lav will do, especially if you're using noise reduction before final output. The only goal is for the mic to pick up the subject's sound without picking up too much (or hopefully any) of the other person's sound so there's no 'bleed' between the channels. Make sure there's enough play in the cable so the subject doesn't pull on it, causing the mic to move, introducing obvious noises into your audio. MOST importantly, monitor the audio with headphones AFTER the final output. If you have two mics plugged into a mixer plugged into a miniDV camera, attach your headphones to the *camera*, not to the mixer. You want to know EXACTLY what's going on tape. That's because the mics are VERY sensitive to movement, which you won't hear through the air. Movement of a lapel, playing with a tie, putting a hand over the mic... It won't mean anything to you, listening through the air, but when you try to edit, you'll wonder where all that annoying scratching came from. -- Bill http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Kfir Pravda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following Kent's advice on the importance of audio, I am looking for an affordable leveler microphone. I bought some audio equipment in the past, and got a bit burned with buying things that were not exactly what I need. For a set of a news room, outdoor interview and such, I thought of buying the following microphone: AUDIO TECHNICA ATR-35S Lavalier Microphone It is relatively cheap, wireless is not a must, and I read good reviews about it. Did anyone here buy this microphone? Do you have any other recommendation for a lavalier microphone? Thanks! Kfir Pravda E: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog: www.pravdam.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: JoanneFan
Hilarious! :D -- Bill http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Adam Quirk, Wreck Salvage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our fascination with Internet celebrity worship spawned this friendly jab at our Rocketboom friends across the river: http://office.wreckandsalvage.com/ -- Adam Quirk Wreck Salvage 551.208.4644 Brooklyn, NY http://wreckandsalvage.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: ChannelFlip is up
Congrats. The sites look good. :) Add your http:// to the front to get them to link: http://ChannelFlip.com -- Bill http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Wil Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys, I missed the NME, but spent the weekend finishing off the sites etc. ChannelFlip.com and its shows (Unwiredshow.tv, PlayDigital.tv, Discusshow.tv) are now up and running in 'beta' form - IE, no animations and snazzy lower thirds, editing is a bit rough, sites need tidying up. But, on the plus side, it seems that things, you know, work. We are shooting on a regular schedule now and will have one 5-min ep of each show up three times a week. Thought you guys would be interested - more episodes to come on Wednesday and Friday. Cheers, Wil.
[videoblogging] Re: A Video Middle Class?
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just read this good blog post: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070923-barrier-bustin-internet-may-lead-to-a-music-industry-middle-class.html The premise is that there is a burgeoning class of musicians are forming direct relationships with their fans. This cuts out the agency middle men...and all the high costs of promotion. Independent musicians can then hope to make a living by selling their own music and doing live performances. Reading the article, I wonder if you could apply the same logic to online video. Do independent video makers need to rely on advertising modelscontinuing the same relationship to a bloated middle man? Or will a different relationship develop between people watching and the people who make the stuff they want to watch? jay I think the 'problem' with this concept is that there's a difference between how music is consumed and how video is consumed. I think the only way a video maker could pull something like this off would be to already have a base of people interested in their videos enough to chip in to pay for the costs of creating and distributing that video. Kind of like the idea you were talking about that said something like 800 people paying $5 each. http://foureyedmonsters.com has been doing really progressive stuff with online distribution and promotion. Check out their tutorial: http://foureyedmonsters.com/category/tutorial/ . Granted, they're talking about a feature-length film, but I would assume the same concepts would apply to shorter internet productions. -- Bill http://billcammack.com -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Twitter: http://tinyurl.com/2aodyc RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9
[videoblogging] Re: Creative Commons and Virgin being sued for photo use
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apologies if this has been discussed already while I was away - I searched, but didn't find it. This is a very interesting situation, Rupert. Thanks for bringing it up. :) Virgin Mobile has used CC licensed photos from Flickr in a billboard campaign in Australia. They used a photo of a girl under the slogan Dump your Pen Pal The girl, who lives in Texas, feels like she's being insulted Yeah, well, this is one of the problems with advertising. Ads are filled with MODELS... And not necessarily models that have anything to do with the product. When you see some guy that's 52 years old, and he keeps himself in shape with bowflex, you have to wonder how long he's been using bowflex and when it was even invented. You can't take the advertiser's word that the person they're showing used the product in the way they claim. Similarly, the people smiling and skipping down the street together holding hands in the Herpes Simplex-2 commercials don't necessarily HAVE herpes. They have been chosen for that ad campaign, and as actors, have agreed to be spokespeople for this Herpes medicine or whatever. There is NO WAY that the pharmaceutical industry restricts their casting calls specifically to people WITH herpes and that have ever used Valtrex, for example. This is why they thought it was cool to use a picture of some girl that was most likely NEVER anyone's pen pal and especially *NEVER* dumped by a pen pal in her entire life. Again, there is NO WAY advertising agencies are going to restrict their search for pictures specifically to people that have been dumped by pen pals for thier dump your pen pal campaign. - it was a photo taken by a friend, and neither the friend nor she were told by Virgin Media that they were using it. I bet Virgin thought that because they were using it in Australia, she'd never find out. But of course, a photo of the billboard was posted on Flickr. DUH! Her family are now suing Virgin and Creative Commons. Virgin say they had a right to use it, and no obligation to tell anybody, because it was licensed under just an Attribution license - so all they had to do was put his flickr id in the bottom left of the billboard. I agree with Andreas that it looks like Virgin's in the clear here as far as the CC license is concerned. http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/ states Attribution. You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work and derivative works based upon it but only if they give credit the way you request. So, if he poster didn't specify HOW he wants to be credited, that seems to be all they're required to do. The general consensus in discussions seems to be that Virgin CC will lose, because under Australian and US law, the CC license is outweighed by the fact that Virgin didn't obtain a model release. That makes a lot of sense. The FIRST reason that makes sense is that the girl in the picture (according to the discussion @ http://tinyurl.com/2adx67) didn't have any say in what license the poster used. That means that he wasn't authorized to hand over her likeness to Virgin to begin with. Not only did they plaster DUMP YOUR PEN FRIEND practically on top of her face, they flipped the picture horizontally. You can see the picture as it was taken in the discussion thread. The girl to her left is actually on her right, and she's wearing a shirt that says Old Navy on it, so you can tell which way is the right way. This means she wasn't doing the peace sign with her left hand, she was doing it with her right hand. How does Virgin know that that's ok with her? They don't, because they didn't ask her. In some circles, shaking hands with someone with your left hand is a sign of disrespect. I know that sounds retarded, but it's a fact. If someone were to have a picure flipped so it looked like they were shaking hands with someone lefty and that picture was plastered all over billboards, there could be a problem. Interesting that they are also suing Creative Commons. And it has echoes of all our previous discussions on Creative Commons here, and implications for all of us who include random people in our CC licensed videos. If you wonder how this is relevant to you - imaging you shoot a video of a stranger in passing - at a carnival, say, wearing a wacky costume - and some huge multinational uses that image or footage to use in an advertising campaign which pokes fun at the stranger. Suddenly you're in the middle of a shitbag salad. Yeah, that's very interesting. However, that could happen in a non-commercial setting as well. Very interesting. I would suggest always including non-commercial in your CC license, unless you've got very good reason not to. Link to photo with discussion: http://tinyurl.com/2adx67 Flickr Central discussion http://tinyurl.com/2ue9fw
[videoblogging] Re: Quicktime Export: iPhone vs. iPod
I use the iPod settings in Compressor. I figure the LCD is iPod, not iPhone, so it should work on both. I haven't heard from anyone that they couldn't watch my MOVs on their iPhones. -- Bill http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Report back! The times I've tried it, the ipod setting doesn't make it to the iPhone... so I have either been using the iphone setting or both, and just adding a link under the iphone video. What are you finding? David On 9/22/07, Steve Garfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just noticed that Quicktime export settings has both iPod and iPhone. What are you using? iPod settings were working on the iPhone, right? Trying iPhone setting now... Thanks! --Steve http://stevegarfield.com Watch Spices of Life at http://spicesoflife.com -- David King davidleeking.com - blog http://davidleeking.com/etc - videoblog [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Quicktime Export: iPhone vs. iPod
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill - what's a videoblog of yours I could subscribe to? I'll test it out... David http://feeds.feedburner.com/ReelSolidTV Let me know. I might need to start using the iPhone version! :D Thanks. On 9/22/07, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use the iPod settings in Compressor. I figure the LCD is iPod, not iPhone, so it should work on both. I haven't heard from anyone that they couldn't watch my MOVs on their iPhones. -- Bill http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, David King davidleeking@ wrote: Report back! The times I've tried it, the ipod setting doesn't make it to the iPhone... so I have either been using the iphone setting or both, and just adding a link under the iphone video. What are you finding? David On 9/22/07, Steve Garfield steve@ wrote: I just noticed that Quicktime export settings has both iPod and iPhone. What are you using? iPod settings were working on the iPhone, right? Trying iPhone setting now... Thanks! --Steve http://stevegarfield.com Watch Spices of Life at http://spicesoflife.com -- David King davidleeking.com - blog http://davidleeking.com/etc - videoblog [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- David King davidleeking.com - blog http://davidleeking.com/etc - videoblog [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Quicktime Export: iPhone vs. iPod
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alrightie - your feed worked in itunes just fine, but no videos made it to the iphone. Interestingly, the jetsetshow's ipod feed DOES make it to the iphone. Go figure. David Good call David. That would be because I didn't compress the JetSet episode. I added their video to my feedburner feed since I had a piece in it. JetSetShow may very well be compressed with the iPhone in mind. Thanks for the test. I'll try the iPhone setting next time I get around to posting a video. Cheers! :D -- Bill http://billcammack.com On 9/22/07, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, David King davidleeking@ wrote: Bill - what's a videoblog of yours I could subscribe to? I'll test it out... David http://feeds.feedburner.com/ReelSolidTV Let me know. I might need to start using the iPhone version! :D Thanks. On 9/22/07, Bill Cammack BillCammack@ wrote: I use the iPod settings in Compressor. I figure the LCD is iPod, not iPhone, so it should work on both. I haven't heard from anyone that they couldn't watch my MOVs on their iPhones. -- Bill http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, David King davidleeking@ wrote: Report back! The times I've tried it, the ipod setting doesn't make it to the iPhone... so I have either been using the iphone setting or both, and just adding a link under the iphone video. What are you finding? David On 9/22/07, Steve Garfield steve@ wrote: I just noticed that Quicktime export settings has both iPod and iPhone. What are you using? iPod settings were working on the iPhone, right? Trying iPhone setting now... Thanks! --Steve http://stevegarfield.com Watch Spices of Life at http://spicesoflife.com -- David King davidleeking.com - blog http://davidleeking.com/etc - videoblog [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- David King davidleeking.com - blog http://davidleeking.com/etc - videoblog [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- David King davidleeking.com - blog http://davidleeking.com/etc - videoblog [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Quicktime Export: iPhone vs. iPod
Actually, to be accurate, I should say that feedburner's looking at my MOV feed. I haven't even THOUGHT about my feedburner feed since I don't know when... certainly way before they came out with the iPhone. When I make individual posts, for instance to http://realfans.tv , I use Show-In-A-Box / vPiP and compress to MOV, WMV, M4V, 3GP OGG and I let blip handle the Flash compression from my MOV. I'm aware that vPiP allows me to post a feed for each of my codecs, but I haven't bothered to implement that yet. So, technically, for the iPhone, I *should* have pointed you to a specific feedburner feed derived from my M4V feed... except I never made one. :D So, yes... The one feed that I use serves MOVs that are apparently incompatible with the iPhone, so I need to either: A) Make a specific feedburner M4V feed, or B) Compress my MOV in a way where it works with the iPhone and drop the M4V entirely, since it would become redundant. Thanks for bringing this up, David. :) -- Bill http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David King davidleeking@ wrote: Alrightie - your feed worked in itunes just fine, but no videos made it to the iphone. Interestingly, the jetsetshow's ipod feed DOES make it to the iphone. Go figure. David Good call David. That would be because I didn't compress the JetSet episode. I added their video to my feedburner feed since I had a piece in it. JetSetShow may very well be compressed with the iPhone in mind. Thanks for the test. I'll try the iPhone setting next time I get around to posting a video. Cheers! :D -- Bill http://billcammack.com On 9/22/07, Bill Cammack BillCammack@ wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, David King davidleeking@ wrote: Bill - what's a videoblog of yours I could subscribe to? I'll test it out... David http://feeds.feedburner.com/ReelSolidTV Let me know. I might need to start using the iPhone version! :D Thanks. On 9/22/07, Bill Cammack BillCammack@ wrote: I use the iPod settings in Compressor. I figure the LCD is iPod, not iPhone, so it should work on both. I haven't heard from anyone that they couldn't watch my MOVs on their iPhones. -- Bill http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, David King davidleeking@ wrote: Report back! The times I've tried it, the ipod setting doesn't make it to the iPhone... so I have either been using the iphone setting or both, and just adding a link under the iphone video. What are you finding? David On 9/22/07, Steve Garfield steve@ wrote: I just noticed that Quicktime export settings has both iPod and iPhone. What are you using? iPod settings were working on the iPhone, right? Trying iPhone setting now... Thanks! --Steve http://stevegarfield.com Watch Spices of Life at http://spicesoflife.com -- David King davidleeking.com - blog http://davidleeking.com/etc - videoblog [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- David King davidleeking.com - blog http://davidleeking.com/etc - videoblog [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- David King davidleeking.com - blog http://davidleeking.com/etc - videoblog [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Favorite Live Broadcasting Service?
I'm thinking about broadcasting live later on. What's your favorite live service and why? I know Jonny Goldstein likes http://operator11.com . I like the way operator11 switches and lets you add people on the fly, but I don't like the 40 minute time limits. Ustream only has one channel. Blogtv has two channels, but one doesn't record at all. What's your favorite? (not out of those three, but of ANY services you've tried out) -- Bill http://community.realfans.tv
[videoblogging] Re: 35 second episode---down and dirty! (Spoilers inside)
Well, IMO, they proved that they're not playing around with the script-writing. There are at least 10 volatile issues in that building now in less than 20 minutes of total show. :) Shooting Live Mixing was tight and kept things flowing and interesting. I think I heard Andy Lipson's handling the mix. Looking forward to tonight's episode! :D -- Bill http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, it was certainly disturbing -- that one scene. Still, I'll tune in to see what comes (no pun intended) next... I was surprised when they attempted the chat session afterwards. I had already surfed away, but then I came back to the website a few minutes later for some reason and saw the message about them establishing a chat session with the audience. I don't recall seeing a mention of that on their website. Great job, Synchronis! Harold --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, jonny goldstein spamjonny@ wrote: 35 wasted no time in this episode getting into sex (more like rape actually), sneakiness, and murky parentage in the second episode. Whoa! So much for the slow build... Episode had much better sound than last night. They tried to do a chat with actors and audience at the end, but thus far not working... Still, an impressive, if disturbing, 2nd episode.
[videoblogging] Re: Video Double-Enders and Tape Syncs
Sounds like an interesting project, Doug. Thanks for bringing it up. :) -- Bill http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Doug Kaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Videobloggers! Do you produce an interview-style videoblog? Would you like to interview people in remote locations that are too far for you to travel to? Would you like to help out your fellow videobloggers by recording the remote ends of interviews for them? Next week at the Podcast and New Media Expo, The Conversations Network will launch a new free service that I hope will interest you. It's an on-line system to match producers looking for an audio or video tape sync with skilled stringers who can handle the remote recording. We designed this service for both professionals and semi-pros, and I think we've succeeded in bridging that gap. On one hand, we want to encourage a very large number of worldwide bloggers and citizen journalists to collaborate with one another. On the other hand, we want to help pros with proven skills and who must be paid for their work. PodCorps.org is for both groups. A number of your fellow videobloggers have helped us develop this application: testing, evaluating, and providing valuable feedback. I'd like to thank them all, but I leave it to them to identify themselves if they wish, and to express their opinions. The official announcement date is next Friday, September 28, but the doors are open now, and I encourage you to stop by, check it out, hopefully register, and send me feedback either here on the list or privately. You'll find specific information here: http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/podcorps/tapesync You can register here: http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/podcorps Thanks again for everyone's help. ...doug -- Doug Kaye, Executive Director The Conversations Network www.conversationsnetwork.org
[videoblogging] Re: Support for the Jena 6
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, Bill, I sent the orginal post, I was wondering if any vloggers were talking about this, from a non main stream view Actually, my post was addressing the lack of conversation about the topic, not whether the topic should have been posted to this group. I apologize if I gave that impression. I think ANYTHING should be brought up here. Anything. What I'm saying is that people shouldn't expect something that has nothing to do with videoblogging to be hotly debated here... or even responded to, actually. But according to you, since the event wasn't vlogged to begin with, I guess it has no place on this list (?) Not my intent. :) I'm sorry dude, but I have to disagree, I mean this story was going no where, NO WHERE and it was grass roots, people making videos, people blogging, etc that MADE it national, but still it get's barely any coverage. Apples and oranges. Just because attention's been called to it doesn't mean MSM's going to pick up the fumble and run with it. I thought one of the reason's some of the people on this list started vlogging was to cover the very things the MSM ignored. I can believe that. I can also believe they're covering it. If so, I would expect to see posts from people saying here's my video about the Jena 6. I still wouldn't expect hot debate here, regardless of how horrific the situation is. I was simply asking if any vloggers out there were talking about it or more specficly if anyone on this list was vlogging about it Heath http://batmangeek.com And I *absolutely* agree with you that you SHOULD wonder about that and you SHOULD post about that. I haven't been around here long enough to know whether this group morphed from some kind of activism forum into what it is today. From the time I've been here, I've seen ZERO indication of that, so I wouldn't expect anything that has nothing to do with videoblogging to be replied to very much at all. -- Bill http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack BillCammack@ wrote: Obviously, this Jena 6 situation is infinitely more horrific than the Feldman situation. People's lives are being taken away from them unjustly... and just because someone FEELS like taking their lives away. Thats obviously fucked up. However... It has *nothing* to do with videoblogging. Yes, it's fantastic that we now have the ability to get information directly from the source of what's going on and that we can all be citizen journalists if we so choose and we can broadcast our message to anyone around the globe with an internet connection, and they can take our messages and pass them on via links or passing the actual media. Other than that, as far as I've seen in some very in-depth and really well done pieces on the Jena 6, there is NO video of NOTHING, so it's strictly a civil rights issue. The Feldman situation was an issue here because he used the exact same medium that we all use. He used a video blog to express whatever he was expressing, and happened to offend a lot of people in the process. That's why, in the videoblogging group, there was a bunch of discussion about it. Jena 6 is merely same-old-same-old. I'm sure there are egregious injustices that go on every single day that we could bring up IF this were the injustice group. I don't know what the original poster intended to hear from this group about something that's been going on since Plymouth Rock. The reason people rioted about the Rodney King situation was *NOT* because the cops kicked his ass lovely. It was because everyone on the planet SAW WITH THEIR OWN EYES what happened, and the people that this has been happening to their entire lives and the entire lives of their parents and grandparents were looking forward to ONE TIME seeing a proper prosecution of clearly illegal behavior and punishment handed down. The System said FUCK YOU, and that one time EVER that they were going to see consequences and repercussions slipped from the grasp of the people looking forward to it, and they lost their minds. Same thing with OJ. Lots of people swore up and down he was going to get convicted, and then when he didn't, there was no release of the built-up pressure, and people remain mad about it to this day. Same thing with Michael Vick. Lots of people are mad about his dog fighting/killing shenanigans. If he were to somehow WALK without going to jail AND get back in the NFL ASAP, people would feel pressurized and mad. The point is... Yeah, Jena 6 is an horrific situation. Yeah, IRL, it's way way way worse than the Feldman situation. That doesn't mean it has *anything* to do with videoblogging, so I don't know why the original poster would expect to hear comments about it on this list. -- Bill
[videoblogging] Amanda's Out... It's a Pterodactyl Souffle over there!
Jackson West reports on Amanda's departure from ABC: http://newteevee.com/2007/09/21/amanda-congdon-leaves-abc-news/ -- Bill http://billcammack.com
[videoblogging] Re: CBS stole my videoblog? Help.
Hey Matt. I'm the guy that told you when you were pitching this @ the videoblogger meetup @ Rocketboom studios that you needed to hit the streets and practice videoblogging every day so you'd have an idea IF it was feasible for you to take the show on the road. First of all, let's not forget that Ze Frank did Human Baton a lng time ago: http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/12/17/running-fool-is-the-human-baton/ That got way more press and hype than your videoblog did and was started way before, so if they're copying an idea, it's probably Frank's. Second, that's what happens when your concept requires sponsorship. You asked us at that meeting if we thought you could get sponsored and start your trip within three months. The only way you were going to have any chance of doing that would have been to tell EVERYBODY what your plan was, way before you had the ability to implement it yourself. This is why when people are pitching something in the MSM world, they can be your best friend and NOT tell you what they're pitching, because the first one out of the gate with the product gets the credit for the concept. On top of that, CBS obviously has the funds to 'cheat'. They can afford to pay people to take in their traveler. They can also use the clout that whomever hooks him up will be seen on CBS or an affiliate or website. People will help out just to be on local or national televison. So... Forget about competing with MSM in their own arena. :) Interestingly enough, Kfir just made a post about the same thing. Take the advice of the people who have suggested that you leverage your DIFFERENCES from the MSM approach as an independent videoblogger and do your trip anyway, with your own personal style. You might actually get lucky and people might be MORE receptive to your idea now that they can see something EXTREMELY SIMILAR (if not the exact same thing) playing out in front of their eyes, sanctioned by MSM. This isn't the music industry. You can't mail yourself a copy of your concept in a sealed envelope and take that to court to prove that you ame up with the idea before CBS did. I've cut pilots for reality shows that never saw the light of day. That doesn't mean that some production company that watched the pilot and passed on it isn't going to turn around and do their own version of the exact same concept. Good luck. -- Bill http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, mdanzico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I began my videoblog on September 15th of this month. The blog is based around people driving, housing, and feeding me for an 80 day trip around the country. 4 days into the project, I received an email from a friend in this group telling me to immediately check CBS's www.aroundtheworldforfree.com. I checked the site, and although it's a little strange and hard for me to believe, it seems that CBS has in fact stolen my idea for my show. The show is established under pretty much the same pretenses as my own, with the host of the show even being picked up and driven by a volunteer on September 18th in NYC - 3 days after I did exactly the same thing. Now, I'm not really sure what to do. My show is at www.aroundamericaproject.com, and I spread a request video around in July which is where I believe they got the idea - http://www.aroundamericaproject.com/2007/07/16/around-america-in-20-video-request/ The only thing I can think of is to contact other news networks and out CBS, but is this something that I really want to do? Do I even really care that much? I would be extremely happy if others followed my lead and created a similar project, but not under the backing of a media corporation. That's the exact opposite of the point of my show - we don't need media corporations any longer. We are now the media, we possess the power, etc... and we can rely on each other. Any thoughts on what I can do? Should I attempt to get the word out to the blogosphere? Is this something I should even pursue? And, what are the chances that it is just a coincidence? Thanks so much, Matt
[videoblogging] Re: Do we affect users' expectation by the way we define ourselves?
repost from Kfir's site. I use .TV in my sites, because it's the recognized professional suffix for video sites. Other than that, I don't think I've ever referred to video on the internet as internet TV, merely because it was never ON TV. Yes, there are opportunities for Tivo and Apple TV at this point, where you can put your videos on an actual television set, but doing an internet show is nowhere near the same as doing a television show, even though the same skills are utilized in the creation process. As far as the production value of television, TV isn't only high-production-value stuff. Don't forget public access. Any old garbage can get on public access, so lots of internet shows compare quite favorably to shows that are actually ON television. Also, I think it's exactly the opposite... As soon as you say internet in front of TV, people expect LOWER production values, not values similar to actual television shows. The reason for this, as we've discussed in the videoblogging group is $$,$$$. You can not have production value without expenditure... either actual money or in-kind donation of time by professionals that know what they're doing. Since there's no revenue stream for internet shows, there's no money to hire professionals. That means interns and button-pushers are producing internet shows and receiving on-the-job training. That also means that except for the very few situations where people love what they do and are willing to sacrifice their free time, energy and money to put shows on the internet, none of these shows are ever going to get any technically better than they are right now. No budget = no color correction, no sound mix, no experienced editor, no HD cameras, no professional cinematographers, no transportation, no lighting kits, no professional actors, no team to collaborate on a script, no promo department, no graphics department, no producers that know how to craft a good story using b-roll and dialogue, etc, etc, etc, so there's no way that people expect internet shows to be of the calibre of highly-funded television shows. As far as the length of the shows, that's a function of the attention span of people who watch video on the internet. For the most part, nobody's going to sit there and watch your 22-minute video when they can open a new window and click on something else as soon as they get bored with your video. Not to mention, the longer it is, the more money it takes to produce, so with no budget, 3 to 4 minutes is a fantastic length for a show. Ultimately, the issue isn't what you call this thing that we do. The issue is HOW does it go from point A to point B? How do videoblogs get better, production-value wise? One way is what we're seeing now, which is actual production teams being funded and formed specifically to enter the online video market. Another way is the actual studios releasing shows on the net, like 24, the day after it comes out on television. None of that really speaks to the issue of the people that are doing internet video right now and aren't affiliated with production teams or studios stepping up their game if they even CHOOSE to, considering there's no incentive since there's no money involved. -- Bill http://realfans.TV http://reelsolid.TV http://ems.blip.TV :D --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Kfir Pravda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am in California now, and had the time to write a post about something that is on my mind for a long time now. I think that when we call ourselves Internet TV creators, we are setting expectations that we can't meet. I tried to add more depth to the issue here: http://pravdam.com/2007/09/19/why-and-how-internet-tv-creators-shoot-themsel ves-in-the-foot-myself-included/ Kfir Pravda E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog: www.pravdam.com M: +972 (54) 4958066 O: +972 (9) 7441619 F : +972 (50) 8966406 Skype:KfirPravda logo_pravda From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jill H Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 20:37 To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: [videoblogging] hello everyone! HI, I Wanted to introduce myself. My name is Jill- i live in NY- and i vlog on youtube. my link is http://www.youtube.com/xgobobeanx I am hoping to make friends with other videobloggers in ny as well as anywhere! I hope to hear back from anyone and everyone!! Take care Jill [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: YouTube suspends Vloggers account for Fair Use.
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Streeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A local St. Louis video blogger, Antonio French, has had all his videos pulled from YouTube after a Local TV station sent a take down notice to YouTube. The video they sent the take down notice was a report that he had posted where they promised a follow up to a story about an alderman on the take and then didn't. Antonio French had posted this video to show how answers were promised and then posted the follow-up report to show that the question of who the alderman was, was never answered. To me it looks like a clear case of fair use because he was using the videos to comment and critique them. You can read more about what has happened to the rest of his videos on his blog at http://pubdef.net A word about Antonio French � He started his blog Pub-Def as a newspaper reporter frustrated by the lack of depth in local political reporting in St. Louis. He started posting videos to his blog after he saw what I was doing with Lo-Fi Saint Louis. His reporting is very good and has broken several stories that have been followed up in both local and national main stream media. He's become an important source of information on the activities of local government and a vocal critic of local main stream media. He doesn't really make much money with Pub Def (short for Public Defender) but the cost overhead of doing it is so low that he doesn't really need to make that much money at it. He's exactly the kind of grass roots journalist that our little media revolution has made possible. He's currently moving all his videos to Blip.tv (something I suggested he do months ago.) But I can understand why he wanted to continue to use YouTube because it's so well known and has so much traffic. Anyway I thought that this story was relevant to the discussion here� especially in light of the Hip-Hop Violinist story, as some of the circumstances are similar. Yes. This story's completely relevant. Apparently, as Heath points out, the way things are set up, if anyone complains about anything, YouTube will pull videos first and ask questions... never. It's the way the rules are set up... which means... If you post videos to YouTube, you're building your house on sand... quicksand, actually, because all someone has to do is say that they represent the trademark holder for BatMan and remove any of Heath's videos that reference BatMan at all, or close his account down entirely. (I don't know if Heath has a YouTube account or not OR whether he references BatMan in any of his videos or titles) Fair use isn't going to apply in this case, because it's apparently the burden of the poster to PROVE fair use or expressed permission AFTER the fact. First things first... your videos go down or your account disappears. Then again, that's what you get for free. As easy as it is for people to post and as easy as it is for people to search and watch videos on YouTube, that's how easy it is for them to delete you entirely from the walled garden in the blink of an eye. -- Bill http://billcammack.com If you get a moment go check out some of the work he's doing at Pub- Def and if you have any ideas about how he might go about dealing with this issue I'm sure he would be open to hearing them. But I also wanted to introduce him to the group (he's not a participant here) because I think that the kind of work he is doing is really important. Bill Streeter LO-FI SAINT LOUIS www.lofistl.com www.billstreeter.net
[videoblogging] Re: Do we affect users' expectation by the way we define ourselves?
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amen, Brook. Production values are about time, people and skills, not money. Look at pretty much any TV show - soap, cooking, property, reality tv, etc... even in 99% of TV Drama, technically there is *nothing* that we cannot now reproduce or improve upon with very cheap equipment (compared to what it used to be). Assuming as a given that the director is talented at telling a story cutting it, then the next biggest obstacle is learning lighting skills. Not difficult to acquire, at TV levels. (Hell, we've even got to a point in the movies where people Soderbergh and Tarantino are operating and lighting, like Kubrick always did) Then all you need is the time - at the weekend, say. Money is the biggest distraction and illusion in this issue. The kind of salaries, money and even time that are lavished on movies tv are totally bogus. The only thing that costs money (once you've bought your cheapish kit) is people. If you're doing it to MAKE money, then all your collaborators are going to have to be paid - they're not going to just make you rich while they stay poor. But if you're really doing it for the sake of doing it - for art's sake, essentially - then you'll always be able to persuade likeminded people to give up spare time to you for nothing, if your idea execution is good. (It helps to offer them a reasonably proportionate cut of any money that you're extremely unlikely to make.) I agree with everything you've said here. *MY* point, however, is that there's always a cost. It's only a matter of who's absorbing that cost. If someone spends two days working on your project for nothing, as you put it, that means they're not learning any new technology for those two days. They're not doing paid work for clients. They're not playing their guitar or going to the beach. They're not writing blogs or making new business contacts. What's actually happening is that people are donating time to you. The value of that time is whatever they COULD have gotten paid if they had been doing whatever they do to get money, even if that's waiting tables or working in the Apple store. -- Bill http://BillCammack.com So yes, it's harder to achieve something to rival TV output if you're trying to compete with TV. But if you don't care about competing with TV, then it's possible to wipe the floor with it. Plus you're not beholden to anybody. There is no spoon. As far as what we call ourselves, I think TV stinks of commercial formula-driven slickness, so I still mostly call it online video, and call us all Filmmakers. the connotations of those words are clear enough to get the message across to people I'm talking to better than anything else - even if some annoyingly pedantic people complain that we're not using film. I know Jay loves videoblog, but whenever I tell an ordinary person that i'm a videoblogger, you can see them making all sorts of judgements that aren't true. If I tell them I'm a filmmaker who publishes his films online, the conversation tends to go on for quite a lot longer. Quoting for the 100th time: 'To me the great hope is that now these little 8mm video recorders and stuff have come out, some... just people who normally wouldn't make movies are going to be making them, and - you know - suddenly, one day, some little fat girl in Ohio is going to be the new Mozart - you know - and make a beautiful film with her little father's camera...corder - and for once the so-called professionalism about movies will be destroyed... Forever... And it will really become an art form. That's my opinion.' Francis Ford Coppola Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ On 19 Sep 2007, at 19:22, Brook Hinton wrote: Production values are more about people and skill than equipment, and skills can be learned. Including color correction, editing, cinematography, mixing. You can't do that crane shot through the window continuing out the other side of the high rise without big money, insurance, and the right crew, but you can skillfully design the scene so that it can be effectively created with careful editing and pacing, production design, and an (all too rare in the big media world) ability to trigger participation from the viewer's imagination. Who was it that said all you need to make a western is a cactus, some sand, and the front half of a horse? OR something like that. That's the whole thing about this revolution: the tools AND the platform are now in the hands of the creators. ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Takedown policies (was Re: only one hiphop violinist allowed)
I knew YouTube's takedown policy was retarded months ago. A friend of mine did a live performance at a festival. She gave me not one, but TWO feed tapes from the show, meaning raw footage from TWO cameras used to film her performance. These were provided to her by the people that booked her for the festival with the intent that she use it however she feels. She gave me the tapes, and I edited both raw tapes into a final version that OBVIOUSLY nobody else had, because I made it myself. My version wasn't aired on televison it wasn't shown at the festival. I uploaded it to YouTube so she could embed it on her site (I know, YUCK, but that was the best option at that time! :D). The video played with ZERO correspondence to me, up until the whole YouTube gets sued thing, and they started with the takedowns. One day, I think I got a YouTube notification that my video had been taken down. I don't remember if they sent me an actual email. The gist was that THE FESTIVAL had complained that it was copyright infringement and requested for the video to be removed. Of course, that's retarded, because THE FESTIVAL is the one that gave THE ACTUAL PERFORMER more than one tape of the performance. :/ Since YouTube quality was garbage anyway, I left it like that. By that time, I already had redundant versions posted, so it was merely an issue of changing one hypertext link on her site. However, that's because this is what we do. For the average joe that has no clue about anything other than he can talk into his computer and have it show up on this site called YouTube, something like this could be (at least emotionally) devastating. He might not have backups of his videos anywhere else on the net or at home... done. finished. I also saw a link to some guy who was using his friend's YouTube account because HIS account got shut down entirely for supposed copyright infringement. According to him, his show was about teaching people to sing, and he sang a small section of a copyrighted song. done. finished. Anyway... The process is clearly retarded because if they had asked me do you have the right to show this video? I would have pointed them to the performer who would have pointed to the person FROM THE FESTIVAL who booked her for the show and gave her the tapes. Since I sincerely doubt that the higher-ups at a festival have the time to sift through YouTube videos and look for instances of infringement, I'll assume they have interns or at least lackeys that have no idea who's connected to whom running around going AHA!!! THAT'S FROM OUR FESTIVAL!!! and tossing around takedown requests. Same thing with this Paul Dateh thing. You can't make an album called THE Country Music Singer and then trademark that phrase and then (and I've read below that the lawyers are taking responsibility for this thing) bitch and moan about it when someone else refers to them as a country music singer. Similarly... If you play the violin, and your style of music is Hip-Hop, then you are DEFINITELY a Hip-Hop Violinist. That's totally different from trying to pass yourself off as the person that recorded the album called The Hip-Hop Violinist in order to get props or book gigs. Anyway... If we can trademark and bitch about people using generic terms like violinist, let's REALLY get paid!. There are a bunch of dudes running around in England calling themselves Prince. -- Bill http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Dateh just bogged about a conclusion this this story: http://pauldateh.blogspot.com/2007/09/miri-ben-aris-manager-responds.html The manager is taking the fall for the video takedown saying he was overzealous. The good news is that he is saying this because many people complained and began to give his client a bad reputation. People get away with what they can get away with. On a related note, Youtube is having lots of issues with their handling of the DMCA. http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/09/youtube-support.html This again highlights a central problem with the DMCA, namely that it forces takedowns without any kind of review, and puts the burden on proof on the defendant to show that its material is non-infringing. But to ban people for protesting when the process has been used illegitimately is something entirely different. The creationist ministry's own website said that none of the materials ... are copyrighted, so feel free to copy these and distribute them freely. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Twitter: http://tinyurl.com/2aodyc RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9
[videoblogging] Re: hello everyone!
Hey Jill. :) You'll want to join The New York City Videoblogging Meetup Group http://videoblog.meetup.com/8/ -- Bill http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jill H [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI, I Wanted to introduce myself. My name is Jill- i live in NY- and i vlog on youtube. my link is http://www.youtube.com/xgobobeanx I am hoping to make friends with other videobloggers in ny as well as anywhere! I hope to hear back from anyone and everyone!! Take care Jill
[videoblogging] Re: Fwd: Portable Informer #8 - Winners Announced
Congrats, Bill. :D --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Irina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BIL STREEETT -- Forwarded message -- From: Portable Film Festival [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sep 16, 2007 7:06 PM Subject: Portable Informer #8 - Winners Announced To: irinaslutsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Having trouble reading this newsletter? Click herehttp://portablecontent.cmail2.com/e/246207/86dtd5j/to see it in your browser. You are receiving this newsletter because you signed up from our web sitehttp://portablecontent.cmail2.com/l/246207/86dtd5j/www.portablefilmfestival.com. Click here http://portablecontent.cmail2.com/u/246207/86dtd5j/ to unsubscribe. [image: Portable Film Festival Newsletter]http://portablecontent.cmail2.com/l/246207/86dtd5j/www.portablefilmfestival.com [image: spacer image] Informer # 8: The Hoppers and the Finish Line Well folks, it was fast, competitive, gruelling and not without its dirty tricks and truly humbling moments but the 2007 Portable Film Festival competition has concluded and a handful of victors have emerged from the mass of online hopefuls. In this very warm and salubrious informer we announce the winners of the much-coveted Portable Hoppers and we unveil our shiny new project for aspiring online Spielbergs entitled the Portable Screen Academy. So slip off your slippers, clean the toothpaste from your screen and get ready for the golden Thanks Giving Day turkey that is this Portable Informer. *In this Informer:* - Top Hoppers #11511378b08d1c3f_1 - Spreading the Word of Portable #11511378b08d1c3f_2 - Portable Party - Melbourne Pics #11511378b08d1c3f_3 - Portable Screen Academy Submissons Now Open #11511378b08d1c3f_4 Top Hoppers Like drunk red-neck parents that name their children after one night stands and obscure brands of tequila only found south of the border, we too named our gong of gongs in such fashion and promptly forgot where the inspiration came from. It could have been Denis Hopper's cameo on Entouragehttp://portablecontent.cmail2.com/l/246207/86dtd5j/www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf6UfWaJMs8a little while back that sparked our binge but more likely it was thishttp://portablecontent.cmail2.com/l/246207/86dtd5j/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopper_%28spacecraft%29inspiring piece of Russian technology that really set our minds on fire and made it all happen. We'll never know and we're not losing sleep over it. All historical amnesia aside, the Hoppers have become the Portable Film Festival's grand accolade to its most talented film and video producers. There's something to be said for those who are brave enough to put their work online for the whole world to see and critique and the following winners deserve our respect and applause for putting it on the line and extending their careers that little bit further. * *[image: Lo-Fi st Louie Image] Hopper Award Look At Me Lo Fi St. Louiehttp://portablecontent.cmail2.com/l/246207/86dtd5j/portablefilmfestival.com/video.php?video=105by Bill Streeter, United States Bill Streeter's weekly foray into St Louis underground culture has awarded him this year's *Look At Me* *Hopper Award*. Handicapped by a range of medical problems at the start of the festival brought on by Nikkho, the Portable Film Festival video engine, Bill's patented online serial surged ahead in the final weeks of the festival competition to pick up the inaugural *Hopper*. Congratulations Bill, we've got an Adobe Creative Suit Collection and a hundred dollar Threadless voucher cushioned within a Crumpler bag sitting in the Portable headquarters with your name on it.
[videoblogging] Re: video blogging / facebook / myspace / you tube
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Kenya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RSS and manually downloading the FLVs are the only way to get anything out of YouTube. So chances are 5 years of stuff would be extremely difficult to get out. Something else to think about is if your account gets closed (i.e. accused of copyright infringement too many times) you would lose access to all of it. That's right. Sudden lack of access is the MAIN problem... Not only to your actual videos, but to your TEXT POSTS as well as your COMMENTS! That's why you should have backups of all your videos and post using something like WordPress that allows you to back up your entire set of databases. Assuming that A) YouTube's going to be around forever, and B) YOUR VIDEOS are going to be available there forever is a recipe for disaster. Bill http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman jay.dedman@ wrote: YouTube does have RSS feeds (i.e. www.youtube.com/rss/user/[insert username here]/videos.rss) but only the descriptive information and an EMBED are contained in the feed. Miro pulls down the descriptive information AND the FLV video, however. Yep. Youtube has RSS feeds. Just wondering about this scenario. I am using Youtube regularly...posting video, text, etc. In 5 years, I decide I want to move my stuff somewhere else. I want to keep my archives since i was documenting my life. what are my choices? Can I export out my info? Or just delete my account totally and reupload my video somewhere else? I assume this is an issue for all social networks. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 **check out the new look: ryanishungry.com**
[videoblogging] Re: This WedsJonny's Par-tay: Screening Par-tay!
That's actually a good question! :D What are the options for simulcasting live streams? I'm pretty sure they're using ustream. Jonny's using operator11. I would assume he plans to full-screen Kathryn's show on a monitor and point his iSight at it. Another option would be to embed Kathryn's feed and his own feed on the same page, so we could watch both, simultaneously. A third would be if it were possible to feed Kathryn's stream into one of his operator11 slots. -- Bill http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, Jonny - You gonna duplicate the live-stream of the show or what? Just curious. Jan On 9/17/07, jonny goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In this coming week's episode we'll watch the debut episode of 35#8243; Synchronis.TV's Compelling, character rich, plot driven, scripted webisode streamed live. Then you, me, and the rest of the Par-tay will rock it like those judges on the muppets, weighing in with our thumbs up, down, and sideways. If you want to get on camera, get an account at Operator11.com and rev up your webcam. And as always, if you want to stay off camera, you can still contribute to the Par-tay via the chatroom. What: Live screening of 35#8243; then Par-tay and discussion where we weigh in on how it went. When: Weds, Sept 19, 9PM Eastern How to watch: All you need is broadband and a computer. Interactivity: Jump into the par-tay in the live chatroom and if you want some media glory, hook up your webcam and get an account at http://operator11.com (P.S. next week, Drew Olanoff of Scriggity) Yahoo! Groups Links -- The Faux Press - better than real http://feeds.feedburner.com/WburgtvFallFilmFest - Fall Film Fest http://fauxpress.blogspot.com http://wburg.tv aim=janofsound air=862.571.5334 skype=janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: 4-eyed-monster on self-distribution
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jeffrey Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the interview, Arin nails it when he says that it's about creating a community around the film. What we're planning to do at Kinooga funding film projects of all shapes and sizes by allowing individuals to basically 'buy a ticket' to a film project before it's made is to tie a film's ability to break even to any filmmaker's (videobloggers included) ability to create that community before production begins. This allows the filmmaker to concentrate purely on craft during production and post-production and placing the marketing and distribution conversations post-post-production. Yes... It's very tricky, balancing creativity and earning in the online world. Essentially, time is money. If you're not working on one person's project, you could be working on another person's project or spending that time enjoying yourself. In television, it's very simple. The stations sell advertising which gives them money to afford to hire production companies to make shows which can afford to hire on-air talent, shooters, editors and whatever else they need. The money comes down the line from the advertisers. Publicity is handled by the station, as they take commercial space they could have sold to someone and use that 30 seconds to let you know what's coming on in the future. Deals are made from the strength of the producers or the on-air talent. This is why Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise or Samuel Jackson get $20,000,000 per film, because with their names attached to a project, the production companies are guaranteed to make their money back. Without the stars' names, they would spend a lot less, but they would MAKE a lot less. Online, people want you to do everything BEFORE giving you any money to do it. :D YOU create the concept. YOU create the buzz. YOU shoot, edit, compress, upload and distribute the show. YOU publicize the show. YOU make host the social site(s).. and then... maaaybe somebody will give you some dollars for what you're already doing. That's fine if your content is mainstream, or has widespread appeal. But, what if your show's just plain WEIRD? :D What if your content's so off-the-wall that people go WTF??? when they see it? How are you supposed to get THAT funded? Regardless of how talented you might be, advertisers want to know that they can get some sort of ROI on the money they're giving you. They also want to *NOT* be associated with weird stuff. This is why Rawlings, Nike and Upper Deck are reportedly pulling out of their endorsement deals with Michael Vick. Regardless of how talented he is, investors don't want to be associated with him or look like they approve of his actions. This is why I think you have a good idea with Kinooga, allowing people who CHOOSE to fund certain videos or films to give money towards that project. The more people fund a project, the less time the filmmakers have to spend waiting tables or whatever they do to get money and the more time they can spend on making their show better or putting it out faster. Good Luck! :D -- Bill http://billcammack.com My belief is that we still are trying to force the square peg of old advertising, distribution and revenue models into the newly-bored round hole of really and truly independent film. We've shaken up the models of filmmaking, but haven't shaken the models of funding and profit yet for a host of reasons. I'm abundantly clear after watching this space and others that change is possible, that there are many audiences that have passionate interests in which they want to invest and that the processes of filmmaking as we know it can be changed forever if we learn how to channel that passionate interest properly. Full Disclosure: Because I believe in creative people concentrating on being creative as much as possible and thinking about money issues as little as possible (or at least being able to choose WHEN to concentrate about money issues), I'm the President and COO of Kinooga. We'll be doing a full-fledged launch early next year, but you can look at our far-more-complicated-than-intended and incomplete demo site at http://kinooga.com for just a little while longer before it goes under password protection. If you're reading this message and it's too late to see the preview, mail me and I'll let you in. All things being equal, we'll be launching early next year. On 14/09/2007, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the end, the writer felt they were a success on their own terms; a mix of the old (distributor/booker/publicist) and the new (all of the above) would be something to strive for. Food for thought agreed. if you listen to Arin's recent interview, he totally admits they would have done things much differently. I guess the take away is that without their own grassroots efforts, they would have gotten zero love from the traditional system.
[videoblogging] Re: Public Service Videoblogging
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Raymond M. Kristiansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, In TV broadcasting we have public broadcasting channels lik PBS (USA), DR (Denmark) or ZDF (Germany). You also have public service announcements in other media. But what about Public Service Vlogs? Within the vlogosphere, there are a diverse group of green vlogs that focus on individual efforts to reduce our waste and emissions, and we have other projects like Alive in Baghdad ( http://www.aliveinbaghdad.org) which is a collaborative effort over two continents. But: * *Where is the videoblogger who uploads video from a refugee camp in Darfur or Gaza, showing the world what life is like there and taking questions from comments on the site? Where is the educational videoblog that guides you through the jungle of NGOs out there that deal with development aid in countries such as Nepal or Uganda? Where is the videoblog that is your window to the world of a bunch of youngsters in Queens, NY, giving you the opportunity to interact with them and support them in their fight for more areas to safely hang out? I like this idea a lot. I'll see what I can do about some kind of interactive, online experience along the lines of urban issues. -- Bill http://billcammack.com Where are the videoblogs consistently giving updates from New Orleans as it is *today*? Wont it be great when governments and other granting organizations start to realize the potential for video on the net, aggregated through RSS 2.0 with enclosures? Wont it be great if Alive in Baghdad - for instance - could simply focus on creating independent, high quality work and not on where they will get the donations/funding they need? Do you know of any good videoblogs that you might term public service vlogs? Altruistic vlogs that deserve a wider audience? Please give your links here or as a comment on http://dltq.org/?p=88 Best regards, Raymond M. Kristiansen personal site: www.dltq.org co-organizer: www.vlogeurope.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Documentary Feature Film Looking for Vloggers
What you don't seem to understand is that DVD files are *COMPRESSED*. It's called MPEG-2. Check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-2 This is how people are able to make DVDs. They *COMPRESS* the files and then use a program such as DVD Studio Pro to burn these files to a DVD. Either way, they're still computer files, and can still be uploaded to a server in DVD quality. -- Bill http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, sankaprods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey FluxRostrum Co., Thanks for your responses. I can tell you at this point that this is intentionally not widely publicized. We are only inviting people that we are already aware of from Youtube and the people on this list. We want Your Submissions, but not thousands of others. So, if you're submitting and you answer the questions, it's VERY likely you'll be included in our feature length documentary. The format is stated in the contest rules at: http://www.manifestotv.com/communique/?page_id=27 This is the only format we can accept. Compressed files are not acceptable. All of the decent festivals and contests which screen filmmaker's work require Standard Definition (or better) submissions. So it's up to you. Do you want to be in a film produced by Emmy Award winning filmmakers about the future of television? We sincerely hope you do :) Thank You, Riccardo --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, ~ FluxRostrum FluxRostrum@ wrote: Out of respect for people's time and resources I think you should be accepting digital files from digital artists for the purpose of your consideration. I can understand your need for the highest quality format possible for Theatrical Distribution. However, most experienced vloggers can easily compress a file that looks nice on a large screen TV or small screen theatre. You're stance is basically shifting more work on to hopefuls by forcing them to invest more of their time and money on a chance of being included. You will have a lot more material to work with if you make the highest quality possible requirement of only those you wish to actually use. We use links files in these here parts. ;) Solidarity, ~FluxRostrum http://MobileBroadcastNews.com ~ Nawlins~ http://NOTVcollective.org VLOG~FLUX~ http://FluxRostrum.BlogSpot.com Old School~ http://Fluxview.com ~~~ 1b. Re: Documentary Feature Film Looking for Vloggers Posted by: Jay dedman jay.dedman@ kinshasa2000 Date: Sun Sep 9, 2007 11:17 am ((PDT)) Please see the details at: http://www.manifestotv.com/communique/?page_id=27 Submission deadline is September 20th. This may be right around the corner, but this increases the odds of inclusion in the favor of vloggers as you have the most immediate means of creating videos. I really encouarge you to accept links and digital files: All submissions must be on DVD/CD (burned as an .mov or .avi data file), or on mini DV. Why not just let people upload DV files to you? this is the future of TV. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 **check out the new look: ryanishungry.com** = Custom Point of Purchase Displays The Elliott Group specializes in creative design and quality manufacturing of custom POP displays. http://a8-asy.a8ww.net/a8-ads/adftrclick?redirectid=0d3acc510532fa8b448909e4eecbc84b -- Powered By Outblaze
[videoblogging] Re: Documentary Feature Film Looking for Vloggers
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, sankaprods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Bill, Yes, we understand Video DVD compression. But that's not what we're asking for. Please Read the Instructions which state: All submissions must be on DVD/CD (burned as a DV quality .mov or .avi data file), or on mini DV tape. To clarify, here is a tutorial of the process: 1. Capture video full resolution. 2. Edit it down to the best moments, the order is not important. 3. Export to a full-res quicktime .mov or .avi file. 4. Burn the file as DATA onto a DVD (*Not a Video DVD). Or export to mini dv tape. So... If you're accepting DATA DVDs... You're not accepting DATA uploads because... ? (Just so you know, I don't personally care. If it's just your preference, it's your preference and that's the answer.) Hope this explains it. Thank you, Riccardo
[videoblogging] Re: FireAnt acquired by Odeo
W00T!! Congrats! :D -- Bill http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today it was announced that FireAnt's software and technology http://GetFireAnt.com was acquired by SonicMountain, a company that also recently acquired Odeo http://odeo.com (see: http://tinyurl.com/3bbpsg). I've been asked to join the new team, serving as VP of Product Development, and will be heading up FireAnt's transition (among other projects) as we re-launch everything under the Odeo brand later this year. First of all, I want to say Thank You to everyone in the videoblogging community who supported FireAnt along the way, especially Jay Dedman, Daniel Salber, Erik Radmall, and Clint Sharp, who were instrumental in launching this project. We met a lot of wonderful creative people, and made some really important lifelong friendships. It's been an amazing privilege to contribute to this dynamic and innovative community, and especially to have been involved from such an early stage. I also want to thank Jonathan Weiss, Drew Reynaud, and Jesse Boley who continued FireAnt's technology development over the past year, which was demo'd at Video on the Net in March 2007. When we first launched ANTs Not TV at Vloggercon in January 2005, there were about 20 active videobloggers â we knew each of them personally and worked with most of them to create those magical RSS feeds with enclosures. It was amazing to see all these video channels updating over time and to watch them in a unified experience. There was nothing else like it. It was clear that something powerful was happening. It was a new kind of television, and yet it was not like TV at all â it was open to anyone and the possibilities seemed endless. And it began to spread⦠thanks to the many talented and creative video producers, educators, and evangelists. While FireAnt had its share of struggles along the way as a start up, I'm encouraged that the ideas we helped pioneer have grown incredibly stronger over the past few years. This Not TV (now more often called Internet TV) is really changing the media culture, and it's having profound social effects. The medium is enabling new voices and conversations. The playing field is being leveled â the barriers between Internet TV and TV are disintegrating. So it's up to us to create what we want to see and share⦠We don't have to rely on Rupert Murdoch and Sumner Redstone to create our culture. Thank goodness! I look forward to watching your videos (and subscribing!). When I get back to producing a more regular videoblog (or whatever it's called), I hope you'll subscribe and leave me a comment :-) Best, Josh - http://JoshKinberg.com
[videoblogging] Re: What is TV?
um wow! :D That is S futuristic... in a Mad Max, the future's less technical than the past kind of way that it looks COMPLETELY staged and fake! :D Except, of course for Ryanne being so gleeful about seeing herself on the screen and trying to tear herself away from looking at herself to look in the camera! :D Das Sveetnezz!!! :D You guys were, like... video blogging with cups strings!!! :D -- Bill http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's something from the archives, Dec 2004. http://www.momentshowing.net/2004/12/video_videoblog.html I used to work at a Community TV station when I started to videoblog. I did a live call-in show each week...and discovered iSight cameras. This is the result. You'll see some of the OG's of this group. Human Dog, Daniell, Josh Kinberg, Shannon, Charlene, Adam Quirk (preppy!), and Ryanne. Anyway, I'll be on Jonny Goldstein's Party this Wednesday night at 6:30pm PST. http://www.jonnygoldstein.com/ we can get all crazy. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 **check out the new look: ryanishungry.com**
[videoblogging] re: Loiez's footage from Vlogeurope
Cool footage. Thanks for sharing. :) -- billcammack http://reelsolid.tv --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Loiez D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Raw footage from Vlogeurope Many friends at work ;-) http://tinyurl.com/34mk2r Best regards Loiez
[videoblogging] Net Neutrality Article from BBC News
US backing for two-tier internet http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6983375.stm The US Justice Department has said that internet service providers should be allowed to charge for priority traffic. The agency said it was opposed to network neutrality, the idea that all data on the net is treated equally. -- billcammack http://ReelSolid.TV
[videoblogging] Personal Expenses
Personal Expenses: FCE blog post about time and energy between the lines. Might come in handy for people getting bogged down in projects. http://blog.fastcompany.com/experts/bcammack/2007/09/personal_expenses.html or http://tinyurl.com/2hrexz -- billcammack
[videoblogging] Re: Intro New Green Show from the Ask A Ninja Editor
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, damiensomerset [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys, I wanted to tell you guys about our new green show called ZapRoot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlP_1MSDK_U ZapRoot is an unconventional bite-sized news show that covers the fast changing world of the modern Green Revolution. With sarcasm, silliness, sanity, ZapRoot encourages you to have a better time while making a better world. We got our asses handed to us by NewTeeVee, see here: http://tinyurl.com/ynmu7r Nice work on the show, Damien. Congrats, and good luck with it. :) Here's the reply I posted to the NewTeeVee article: = I didn't mind the production values, though I do see your point that some people will see ZapRoot as being too highly produced not to be the `front' for some sort of entrepreneurial interest. I'll be interested to see how the viewers react to jump-cutting a small character over a moving greenscreen background. I've done my own jump-cut videos against a static background or even a static background with changing depths. I've seen Damien Somerset's work on Ask A Ninja, which is jump-cutting over one solid color and in a confined space. Of course, Ze Frank utilized jump-cuts again, in a confined space with a certain size/space/distance relationship between the character and the camera. What I haven't seen and maybe this is the next big thing is jump-cutting over a moving background where the character's so far away from the camera that they completely physically disappear from one location and arrive somewhere else on the screen several times within the same sentence. Having said that, I think the writing's fascinating and they have the niche subject matter to create a very popular show. They definitely have the elements of that formula that's worked so well for other video blog shows. ZapRoot seems ambitious and edgy Definitely one to keep an eye on in the coming months. = I think the show is very well done and is going to turn a lot of heads with the style and the edginess. Personally, I found it hard to watch with the on-air-talent hyperspacing all over the place, but that's partially because I tend to watch videos full-screen. Even if they're small, I zoom them with my macbook pro zoom feature. In trying to focus on the talent, I found myself looking at empty green space very often, and then during the time I spent re-locating the character, I wasn't listening to the dialogue so I was missing the point of the sentences. Then again, I was looking at the video for checking out the style of it, not to listen to the message of it. It's possible that your actual viewers, who are specifically interested in whatever you're talking about, will be more in-tune with the audio than the video and you'll be very successful in getting your point across. However, like I said in the post... Maybe hyperspacing the talent is the next big thing, and you're about to set a trend. :) Either way, you definitely have the proper elements in place to have a highly-viewed and popular show, like http://webbalert.com or http://wallstrip.com or http://textra.podshow.com/ or http://9.yahoo.com/. -- billcammack http://BillCammack.com The show is produced by me (Damien Somerset) Sarah Szalavitz. I was the Executive Producer of TreehuggerTV, producer for Ecorazzi, a web video consultant for GOOD Magazine, and I edit Ask A Ninja. And if you don't know who Sarah Szalavitz is, your just not running in the right circles of nerddom. She is the Director of Content Development for Veoh Networks, Produces Alive in Baghdad and controls the trajectory of the stars and planets in her spare time. We're big fans of the VideoBloggingList and hope you guys like the show. Damien
[videoblogging] Re: Video with embedded hyperlinks using Asterpix
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Garfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Video with embedded hyperlinks using Asterpix. http://tinyurl.com/2y5uua That's very sweet! :D Sweeter than that is Jay's ancient product placement video that you linked! http://www.momentshowing.net/momentshowing/files/feeling-ad.mov The beacon was distracting... especially before I watched the Asterpix tutorial video on their site which explained what that blinking thing was. If you can make the notes without activating the visual beacon, that'll be good and make the video more like an easter egg hunt than please click me... I have information for you. It's a fantastic concept. Revolutionary when it makes its way into video you can actualy use in our normal posting process. Beacon-aside... I like it better than the current mid-roll options for advertising. -- billcammack http://realfans.tv
[videoblogging] Facebook Opens To Public Search
http://gigaom.com/2007/09/05/facebook-open-to-public-search/ -- billcammack http://realfans.tv
[videoblogging] Re: Invite from Andy Roberts ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Here we go again! :D For those of you that don't know, this is a scam where they trick people into inputting the username and password to their mail accounts and then spam everyone on their contact list as if it's a real invite from that person. -- billcammack http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Andy Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AndyRoberts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has invited you as a friend on Quechup... ...the social networking platform sweeping the globe Go to: http://quechup.com/join.php/aT0wMDAwMDAwMDA5Mjk1MTAyJmM9OTc2NzU%3D to accept Andy's invite You can use Quechup to meet new people, catch up with old friends, maintain a blog, share videos amp; photos, chat with other members, play games, and more. It's no wonder Quechup is fast becoming 'The Social Networking site to be on' Join Andy and his friends today: http://quechup.com/join.php/aT0wMDAwMDAwMDA5Mjk1MTAyJmM9OTc2NzU%3D -- You received this because Andy Roberts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) knows and agreed to invite you. You will only receive one invitation from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quechup will not spam or sell your email address, see our privacy policy - http://quechup.com/privacy.php Go to http://quechup.com/emailunsubscribe.php/ZW09dmlkZW9ibG9nZ2luZ0B5YWhvb2dyb3Vwcy5jb20%3D if you do not wish to receive any more emails from Quechup. -- Copyright Quechup.com 2007. Go to http://quechup.com/emailunsubscribe.php/ZW09dmlkZW9ibG9nZ2luZ0B5YWhvb2dyb3Vwcy5jb20%3D if you do not wish to receive any more emails from Quechup [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: new RyanIsHungry.com with Show-In-A-Box awesomeness
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Cheryl Colan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We knew about this already from our testing phase. It is caused by the new offer embed code feature of vPIP - specifically by whatever CSS styles come with it by default. Without adding the share embed code, the page displays fine in IE6. With it, the layout is broken in IE6. I believe it looked fine in IE7 with WindowsXP running in Parallels on my Mac. I don't have access to Vista so that's an unknown. I know what you mean, Cheryl... in general... not particularly pertaining to Show-In-A-Box. I was planning to blog about this after the flash/h.264 hooplah, but didn't have time to with my myriad simultaneous projects. From when I first started out with blogger, I was testing my sites on four browsers on two machines. Mac Firefox, Mac Safari, Windows Firefox, Windows Internet Explorer. I had both monitors next to each other and would keep tweaking until I got something that worked with all four. Eventually, I bailed on Internet Explorer, because the other three generally worked all at the same time, and my extra time was being spent formatting for IE. Same thing with codecs. I started out wanting to make AVI and MP4 and Flash to make sure that whomever came to the site could definitely see the videos. I ended up bailing on AVI and Flash because of quality and frame rate issues. The only reason I'm involved with Flash at all at this point is that blip.tv automatically transcodes my MOVs into Flash when I upload them. The only reason I'm involved with ogg at this point is that Jay Ryanne keep bringing it up, so I may as well encode to that format as well. If it weren't for Show-In-A-Box, I'd just post MOVs, and let anyone else eat cake. :D -- billcammack http://realfans.tv The vPIP release that includes offer embed code came out right before we were set to relaunch and there was a last minute scramble to add it because we wanted that embed code. Before going live, Ryanne and I talked about what to do - whether to go live with the design flaw, or leave the offer embed code feature off the site until more testing could be done, and her decision was to include the offer embed code feature despite the problem with IE6. We're continuing to pursue a solution. I initially found that turning vPIP's offer embed code styling off looked a lot worse than leaving it on. It became an unstyled table that pushed well outside the main content column into the sidebar area (overlapping the content there). I was unable to restyle it with my own CSS. But that's because we were under deadline to get the new site in place. Now that's done, there will be time to poke the CSS until it's beaten into submission. And good thing about that is I'll be able to document how to style it once we figure it out! Great feedback, Bill. Site stats say there are still a significant number of visitors coming in on IE6, so we do need to address this as soon as possible. I should chronicle the whole redesign process. We ran into Safari weirdness, too. When I finally got it working in all my test browsers I felt like a freaking hero. Then it broke when we updated vPIP - and I just about cried. Sigh. Cheryl Colan -- I vlog: hummingcrow.com I make: whatwefound.blogspot.com I teach: node101phoenix.org On 9/4/07, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/4/07, Bill Streeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a slight bug report on this. I just looked at it in IE for Windows and the side bars are stacked on top of each other instead of side by side and some of their content is underneath the posts at the bottom of the page. I know IE is a pain in the ass when it comes to CSS as I am having my own problems with it on my site. I wish I could just ignore IE but unfortunately they're still a major player in the browser arena. thanks for the catch. what version of IE? Mac/PC? you can email me offline. jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 **check out the new look: ryanishungry.com** [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: new RyanIsHungry.com with Show-In-A-Box awesomeness
Great Design! :D Nice work, Cheryl, on the two sidebars! -- billcammack http://realfans.tv --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, ryanne hodson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey all we're proud to announce our site re-design, not only because it looks darn cool it also has a lot of cool functionality that the crew at http://ShowInABox.tv have been building. http://ryanishungry.com these are our new, fancy SIAB features: - Sidebars! Yes we finally have sidebars! Two of them! - Related and Recent Videos Plug-In, part of the Video Press Suite (soon to be public). - An Ogg Theora http://www.theora.org/theorafaq.html#10 Video option and RSS feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/ryanishungry/ogg for all you FOSS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSS fans - A blog category http://ryanishungry.com/category/blog/ so we can keep you updated on cool stuff in good old fashioned TEXT (and sometimes revlogged video)! - Share code so you can re-blog easily! - Fancy new Hire Us http://ryanishungry.com/hire-us/ page with video pop ups of videos we got paid money for and some that we did for fun! - New Design by Cheryl http://hummingcrow.com/! check it out! go subscribe! http://ryanishungry.com/subscribe/ if you want to be a part of building Show In A Box joins the email list here: http://groups.google.com/group/show-in-a-box cheers! -ryanne and jay -- Me http://RyanEdit.com Twitter--http://twitter.com/Ryanne Documenting Green http://RyanIsHungry.com Educate http://FreeVlog.org iChat/AIM VideoRodeo [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: vPIP 1.11 Beta (Ogg support share video) available
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The main features of this release is being able to play Ogg video with the included cortado Ogg player. And on wordpress you can share the embed code of your videos so viewers can embed the video on their sites. To download only vPIP go to: http://vpip.org/ and select the document page for where you'll be installing vPIP. To download this version of vPIP with ShowInABox go to: http://showinabox.tv/wordpress/download/ and get The Whole Enchilada and just to be more clear why this new version of vPIP rocks like a crazy animal with superpowers: Enric included an Ogg player in vPIP...so if you provide an Ogg version, anyone can watch it without any installation. The embedded video will play like flash. The viewer wont know the difference. Why is this important? on the Showinabox list (http://groups.google.com/group/show-in-a-box), we've been talking about Ogg which is an open source codecsimilar to Flash. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogg) The big question is: what happens if Flash or Quicktime starts putting DRM in their codec? or starts putting in limitations we dont want? There's not much we could do. But Ogg, like wordpress, is infinitely malleable. Lots of challenges to overcome, but enric did a big thing by making the Ogg viewing experience seemless. That's an excellent point. Do we have specs on setting up Compressor for ogg output? Data Rate, etc? Or do you use the same settings as, say, MOV, but just switch the codec? -- billcammack http://realfans.tv The new vPIP also has a multiple embed-code generator, or Share. This lets the viewer choose which video format they want to embed on their site. a person might want the 320x240 Flash version. someone else might want to embed the 640x480 HD quicktime. choices! forward and onward. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] Re: NEW My Urban Report - feedback appreciated
http://www.myurbanreport.com/ isn't working right now. All I see is blog lounge and your sidebar. It also shows a header called Recent Articles and has this text after it: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: recent_posts() in /home/myurban/public_html/wp-content/themes/urbanreport1/leftsidebar.php on line 66 -- billcammack http://community.realfans.tv --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, amani_c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey folks, I finally have a design to be proud of (I think). If you have a moment please visit the newly revamped www.myurbanreport.com. I'd appreciate any feedback. Videos can be viewed on the My Urban Report TV button. Let me know what you think! PEACE!! Amani Channel www.myurbanreport.com http://myurbanreport.blip.tv
[videoblogging] Re: vPIP 1.11 Beta (Ogg support share video) available
I see. You're right. Default looks good. I used export - movie to ogg from Quicktime player. It introduced a slight lag, maybe 1 or 2 frames with the video trailing the audio. That may have something to do with the FPS reading 48.01, or it may have something to do with watching it in Quicktime player, because it had to load the ogg as if it was translating the file. It didn't open automatically, like a quicktime file you have on your computer... rather, like a progressive download from the internet. I'll have to see how it plays in vPiP later today. -- billcammack http://realfans.tv --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's an excellent point. Do we have specs on setting up Compressor for ogg output? Data Rate, etc? Or do you use the same settings as, say, MOV, but just switch the codec? we need to do some testing using the QT plugin: http://xiph.org/quicktime/download.html the default settings look really good. jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] Re: Un-lurking and a general introduction
Welcome Milt, and good luck with your project. :) You can search the newsgroup for the names of a couple of sites that do distributed uploading for you, and I believe they keep stats for you as well. -- billcammack http://community.realfans.tv --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Milt Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks! I wanted to send a short post letting you know about what we've been doing and what I am working on now. I've been vlogging since 2004, my vlog is http://realrez.com. Mostly what we (my wife Jamie and I) have done has been in Indian Country. I'm a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, and been a producer for the past 30 years. I occasionally contribute to Rocketboom, Minnesota Stories, and have just started posting stuff on YouTube, BlipTV and all. The reason I'm writing today is that we are starting a peace project called The Bead People. You can see my first piece about it at http://thebeadpeople.org I'm also posting it on every video sharing site I can find because I really want to spread the word. The Bead People came into being after Jamie wrote a book about The Wind of A Thousand Years (http://thebeadpeople.org/wind.html) Originally it was in a novel that she wrote, but then after she had been making bead people for a couple of years, she realized that she was making - what the story was about, so she put it in a separate book, and now we are out telling people that even though we are all different, we are really all the same. You can find out more about us, and our work at my blog, or Jamie's site - http://jamieleeonline.com I hope you will explore the bead people - they are pretty fun. Milt Lee
[videoblogging] Re: Lifecasting- relinked
Lifecasting's just one of those technologies that nobody knows what to do with yet. It also becomes a chicken or the egg situation, like iJustine alludes to in the video when she mentions that she feels like people EXPECT her to do something. The question is whether you do things in order to film them, or you would have done them anyway, and you happen to have your camera along. The other 'problem' with lifecasting right now is that nobody that I've seen doing it so far is an actual entertainer. It's people living whatever their current life is, except there's a camera there. Lifecasting will become interesting when someone is paid to go to specific places and do specific things. As it stands, it's a bunch of people that don't actually have anything to do, but are willing to let you watch that and text chat with them. I've watched iJustine's channel a couple of times when someone on twitter's linked to it. Other than that, I only watch http://justin.tv/sarah, but that's because I actually *know* Sarah and I might be interested in seeing what she feels is interesting to broadcast, or I might see other friends of mine on her camera. Every time I've been on those lifecasting sites, there have been ~300 people watching the channels, so obviously, it's interesting to THEM. To me, it's a bunch of downtime with intermittent sparks of interesting content. I'd rather watch something filmed all day, then edited down into INTERESTING material. -- billcammack http://community.realfans.tv --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, terry.rendon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry everyone, I don't know what happen in the post but here the link, again... http://potw.news.yahoo.com/ Again my apologies. Terry Rendon --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, terry.rendon terry.rendon@ wrote: Yahoo! News Yahoo%21%20News%20put%20up%20an%20article%20about%20%27lifecasting%27.%\ \ 20 just put up an article about 'lifecasting.' This has probably been covered on this group before but I would like to know what you all think about the it. I find it invasive to people's life and kinda creepy. Terry Rendon http://www.terryannonline.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: vPIP 1.11 Beta (Ogg support share video) available
Share button ROCKS!!! :D -- billcammack http://realfans.tv --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Enric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The main features of this release is being able to play Ogg video with the included cortado Ogg player. And on wordpress you can share the embed code of your videos so viewers can embed the video on their sites. To download only vPIP go to: http://vpip.org/ and select the document page for where you'll be installing vPIP. To download this version of vPIP with ShowInABox go to: http://showinabox.tv/wordpress/download/ and get The Whole Enchilada For usage instruction see: http://wiki.vpip.org/index.php?title=Using_vPIP http://wiki.vpip.org/index.php?title=Using_Vlogsplosion and http://wiki.vpip.org/index.php?title=Playing_Flash About vPIP -- vPIP (video Playing In Place) dynamically embeds a link video after the viewer clicks on the link. Web pages load quickly with just image and text links. Then when the viewer clicks one of the links, it's replaced with the video. Clicking on another link closes the prior video and opens the new one. The supported video (and audio) formats are: * Quicktime o .mov o .mp4 o .mp3 (audio) o .smi or .smil o .3gp * Windows Media o .avi o .wmv o .asf o .wma (audio) * Flash o .swf o .flv o Ogg o .ogg ;), Enric -===- http://www.cirne.com http://www.vpip.org
