Re: [videoblogging] Repair shop for mini dv cameras? SF bay area.
Sounds like worn out heads, meaning a head replacement, which is rarely done on consumer equipment. I'm assuming you've already tried cleaning the heads. As for old tapes: DV is not even close to archival. You should not count on more than 3 years, though you can get over 5 if you store carefully (moderate temperature, no high humidity, far from speakers/video monitors/cel phones/magnetic power slots/certain parking gate cards/etc.). What happens when they go bad? Dropouts. Audio first. My dear old TRV900, my trusty everyday camera for years, went down the same path. My choice was between a new HD or many hundreds of dollars to repair the TRV (and no guarantees from Sony's facility that it would be up to the standards I needed after the repair, since they allow for pretty generous tolerances in refurbing consumer gear). I went with the HDV. I still don't know for sure that it was the right choice. The 900 had a feverish cult following for good reason. Brook (who is still waiting, in HDV purgatory, for a 24P DVCproHD camcorder that is the same size as his old TRV900 or smaller and has the same level of manual control) ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
Re: [videoblogging] Why is YouTube so Damn Sexy?
I rarely post my own work there because the recompress it to all hell and molest it with their TOS. ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
Re: [videoblogging] best format to upload to youtube
If your clip is very short you could try a strategy someone on Ken Stone's site uses - compress to photojpeg at as high a quality as you can while staying within the 100MB limit. Since photo jpeg doesn't compress temporally, you only end up going one pass through a temporal codec (whatever flavor of flash you tube is using). But this only works for a VERY short clip. Cutting your frame rate down to 15 should help too. I notice there's now an option to upload pretty gigantic files to You Tube using a program they offer for download, but it only runs on windows. WIth that option you could theoretically do photo jpeg or dv for longer clips. My best results so far on longer clips have been with h.264 even though You Tube claims they don't support it. Occasionally they'll reject an h.264 - it looks like these are usually close to but still under the 100MB limit, but I don't have enough data to know for sure that's the trigger. But it ends up in a low quality flash encode no matter what, so anything with detail and motion is just going to look like crap on YT. On the iphone, though, SOME of it looks pretty good - probaby because those particular clips are h.264 from a relatively high quality original upload. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
Re: [videoblogging] wordpress spam comments
I use Spam Karma. It's been great. Akismet is also considered effective but it requires you to get wordpress.com account for some sort of key, and I am so tired of registering for ANYTHING anymore. Brook On 12/17/07, Brian Richardson - WhatTheCast? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look for a WP plugin called Akismet. It's very good as spam comment filtering. On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 1:46 pm, Brian Gonzalez wrote: I'm sure somebody's had this problem before and mentioned it here, but for the past few days, literally every minute I'm getting a spam comment linking to porn on my wordpress blog, what do I do to stop that? Thanks guys. -- Brian Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] 210-683-6027 taxiplasm.net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links Brian Richardson - http://whatthecast.com - http://siliconchef.com - http://dragoncontv.com - http://www.3chip.com -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
Re: [videoblogging] wordpress spam comments
I use Spam Karma. It's been great. Akismet is also considered effective but it requires you to get wordpress.com account for some sort of key, and I am so tired of registering for ANYTHING anymore. Brook On 12/17/07, Brian Richardson - WhatTheCast? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look for a WP plugin called Akismet. It's very good as spam comment filtering. On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 1:46 pm, Brian Gonzalez wrote: I'm sure somebody's had this problem before and mentioned it here, but for the past few days, literally every minute I'm getting a spam comment linking to porn on my wordpress blog, what do I do to stop that? Thanks guys. -- Brian Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] 210-683-6027 taxiplasm.net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links Brian Richardson - http://whatthecast.com - http://siliconchef.com - http://dragoncontv.com - http://www.3chip.com -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
[videoblogging] Alive in Baghdad correspondent killed
A horrible thing. http://aliveinbaghdad.org/2007/12/15/ali-shafeya-aib-special-correspondent-killed-at-home/ and some other coverage from Steve Rhodes: http://tigerbeat.vox.com/library/post/alive-in-bagdhad-reporter-killed.html ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
Re: [videoblogging] Re: camtwist:free program to add effect to your webcam
Steve (watkins): the two main prebuilt solutions people are using for live work, at least those using macs, that go beyond basic vj-ing are modul8 and the public beta of the new VDMX. I'm finding the latter more flexible, but modul8 is great if you don't require lots of on-the-fly precision in terms of cueing and effect changes within clips. both should work great with a lemur. I am drooling over the fact that you have a lemur. They are amazing. If you are at all scripting / programming friendly, you'll probably be happier learning Jitter (which also means learning Max/MSP) and rolling your own solution. I haven't gone there yet but I'm tempted. An open source equivalent is PureData, but it needs extensions to work with video - I think GEM is what most people use with it. There's also Isadora, which is somewhere between a prebuilt solution and Jitter if I understand the literature. I hear only good things about it, and it runs on multiple platforms. Somebody also coded a full VJ app using Quartz Composer - can't remember who - but stopped because VDMX looked so promising and is going to work directly with QC comps. Caveat: I'm not in any way shape or form a natural programmer or even a geek so on the open source side there may be better options. I'm like the video (and audio) equivalent of Harry Partch, who complained that he was forced into carpentry by what he wanted his music to sound like. I'm an equally reluctant semigeek in the digital domain, for similar reasons. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
Re: [videoblogging] Re: DV Widescreen settings
Most editing software packages provide capture and timeline/sequence presets for working with 16:9. Make sure you set them correctly before you start. Common square-pixel SD export resolutions for 16:9: 854x480 (note that this still involves some upscaling due pixel aspect difference - there's no real unscaled DV to square-pixel conversion ) 720x404 640x360 480x270 (272 for the iphone) 360x202 320x180 HD: 960x540 1280x720 -- Brook Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
Re: [videoblogging] Re: What kind of Pro camera should I get?
Just a data point: some of us HAVE had serious problems with long-GOP compression in HDV. But again, it all depends on what sort of work you do. Worth noting that the high quality 24P setting on the EX1 uses an extra 10 mb/s of bandwidth in addition to a slightly smaller GOP, which should make those blockies and fuzzies a little less problematic. The EX1 is interesting. AT its price point its really competing with the HVX - once you add the cards its significantly more expensive than an XH-A1. The 1/2 inch sensor is a plus but it's still a far cry from the 2/3 inch sensors on high end cameras. Low light performance is about a stop better than than the HVX. Another thing to note: i uses CMOS chips, like the HV20 and the lower end Sony HDVs (and, for that matter, the RED). These use a rolling shutter, which can result in distortion when things are moving quickly across the frame. I actually LIKE this distortion - it feels somewhat organic, like an exagerration of the rotating shutter in a film camera - but some pros are leery of it. A lot of work is going intoimproving this in the RED camera. I don't know what sort of implementation Sony is using but if its a concern you should check on it. Again, I LIKE the look of CMOS, including the rolling shutter, so for me its almost a plus. (you can see a greatly exagerrated version of the rolling shutter effect on cel phone video cams like the Nokia N93 - it's nowhere NEAR that level of distortion on pro/semi pro cams though). Personally, I would still choose an HVX over the EX1 because of the long GOP issue (though I haven't used an EX1 yet so we'll see). But I'm not rushing out to buy either. I'm renting til the field stablizes or my production schedule gets heavier. Brook Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
Re: [videoblogging] What kind of Pro camera should I get?
Warning - long response. First - if you have a good rental house nearby I would strongly consider renting for your for-hire work unitl you get a good sense of what cameras you like and how their workflow works out for you. That's what I'm doing right now - there's still a lot of upheaval in the low to mid end HD production field and things will keep changing rapidly. The fallout from the introduction of the RED camera is going to change things drastically. That said, here's my take on the sub-10k cams I'm familiar with. You'll note very little Sony or JVC mentioned - I used to favor Sony's stuff, but they've fallen way behind in this field in my view. JVC makes some very interesting midrange cameras, but I am leery of their For 24P in standard def/DV you are pretty much limited to the absolutely excellent Panasonic DVX100 (or its more expensive big brother, the HVX200, which also does HD once you add pricey P2 cards - see below). For pro for-hire work I still try to avoid HDV except for projects that are primarily interviews or other material that won't have a lot of motion. The Canon HDV stuff does a better job than the other brands on avoiding motion artifacts and blocking it seems, but you're going to be delivering on DVD, h.264 files or an HD DVD / Blu-Ray pretty soon for many clients, which means putting that long-GOP mpeg2 transport HDV stream through not only color correction and whatever other image processing and compositing but ANOTHER pass of temporal compression. That said, I know others who are using the the higher end Sony and Canon HDV cameras for professional work. If you go that route, the HX-A1 is a great value. If you want 24P in HDV, Sony has one model, but it has pretty crummy low light performance. Canon's prosumer/professional HDV stuff does 24F, which is kind of like a 24fps version of frame mode on the XL1 and GL1 - doesn't have the res of 24P but it has the look and can be treated as true 24P in post. On the lower end - while I adore my little HV20 as an everyday personal cam and even for my own filmmaking, it lacks the support you really need for professional audio in the field (unless you're doing double system sound), and is going to make most clients a little uneasy since it looks and feels like a very cheap consumer camera. It's 24P feature requires some extra steps in post as it doesn't carry the cadence flags other 24P video equipment uses. The picture, once you learn to get full manual control, rivals its more expensive brothers and sisters though. It's the best consumer-for-pros secret weapon cam since the Sony TRV900, but it's not something to build a production business around. IF you can afford it and are willing to learn the workflow of using P2 cards and no tape, the HVX200 is NON-hdv HD camera for the money, does multiple frame rates, and uses dvcproHD instead of HDV for compression. Basically (though this obersimplifies), its a native 16:9 HD version of the DVX100 (it will also do DV on tape). But once you get the cards and the support stuff it is more expensive than the high end Canon and Sony HDV stuff. There's a lot of talk about it only resolving 540 lines and the interpolation it uses. I should also repeat here three mantras I always tell my students: 1) Never buy anything until you are ready to learn it thoroughly and use it regularly immediately. I work with so many people who got themselves fully equipped and then, two years later, find themselves facing obsolescence or incompatabilities once they are ready to really learn and use. 2) Never WAIT to buy something you need right away due to fear of something better and cheaper coming out soon - it's not worth the missed opportunity. 3) A skilled and talented artist or craftsperson can get professional results from almost anything. An unskilled person will not do any better with a CIneAlta HDCam than they will with a cel phone camera. The person is at least 95% of the quality equation. The equipment is secondary. FWIW, with apologies for my habitual lectury teacher-tone, Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
Re: [videoblogging] What kind of Pro camera should I get?
Among the typos I left this out - despite the hubbub about the HVX200's 540 line resolving power, everyone I know feels it holds up to HDCam and even film outpt as well or better than its HDV equivalents. Resolution isn't everything by a long shot. Also be warned that the fake 24P on some of the Sony cameras can NOT be treated as 24P in post and looks really really wonky. And I left out my summary: assuming 24P is necessary: Best value: Panasonic DVX100 (but doesn't do HD) Best HD option under 10k: Panasonic HVX-200 Best Professional HDV for the money: Canon XH-A1 Best Consumer HDV: Canon HV20 Best Consumer DV: Sony's cheapos still have the picture quality edge, while Panasonic's have the interface/ergonomics edge. Brook On 12/9/07, Brook Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warning - long response. First - if you have a good rental house nearby I would strongly consider renting for your for-hire work unitl you get a good sense of what cameras you like and how their workflow works out for you. That's what I'm doing right now - there's still a lot of upheaval in the low to mid end HD production field and things will keep changing rapidly. The fallout from the introduction of the RED camera is going to change things drastically. That said, here's my take on the sub-10k cams I'm familiar with. You'll note very little Sony or JVC mentioned - I used to favor Sony's stuff, but they've fallen way behind in this field in my view. JVC makes some very interesting midrange cameras, but I am leery of their For 24P in standard def/DV you are pretty much limited to the absolutely excellent Panasonic DVX100 (or its more expensive big brother, the HVX200, which also does HD once you add pricey P2 cards - see below). For pro for-hire work I still try to avoid HDV except for projects that are primarily interviews or other material that won't have a lot of motion. The Canon HDV stuff does a better job than the other brands on avoiding motion artifacts and blocking it seems, but you're going to be delivering on DVD, h.264 files or an HD DVD / Blu-Ray pretty soon for many clients, which means putting that long-GOP mpeg2 transport HDV stream through not only color correction and whatever other image processing and compositing but ANOTHER pass of temporal compression. That said, I know others who are using the the higher end Sony and Canon HDV cameras for professional work. If you go that route, the HX-A1 is a great value. If you want 24P in HDV, Sony has one model, but it has pretty crummy low light performance. Canon's prosumer/professional HDV stuff does 24F, which is kind of like a 24fps version of frame mode on the XL1 and GL1 - doesn't have the res of 24P but it has the look and can be treated as true 24P in post. On the lower end - while I adore my little HV20 as an everyday personal cam and even for my own filmmaking, it lacks the support you really need for professional audio in the field (unless you're doing double system sound), and is going to make most clients a little uneasy since it looks and feels like a very cheap consumer camera. It's 24P feature requires some extra steps in post as it doesn't carry the cadence flags other 24P video equipment uses. The picture, once you learn to get full manual control, rivals its more expensive brothers and sisters though. It's the best consumer-for-pros secret weapon cam since the Sony TRV900, but it's not something to build a production business around. IF you can afford it and are willing to learn the workflow of using P2 cards and no tape, the HVX200 is NON-hdv HD camera for the money, does multiple frame rates, and uses dvcproHD instead of HDV for compression. Basically (though this obersimplifies), its a native 16:9 HD version of the DVX100 (it will also do DV on tape). But once you get the cards and the support stuff it is more expensive than the high end Canon and Sony HDV stuff. There's a lot of talk about it only resolving 540 lines and the interpolation it uses. I should also repeat here three mantras I always tell my students: 1) Never buy anything until you are ready to learn it thoroughly and use it regularly immediately. I work with so many people who got themselves fully equipped and then, two years later, find themselves facing obsolescence or incompatabilities once they are ready to really learn and use. 2) Never WAIT to buy something you need right away due to fear of something better and cheaper coming out soon - it's not worth the missed opportunity. 3) A skilled and talented artist or craftsperson can get professional results from almost anything. An unskilled person will not do any better with a CIneAlta HDCam than they will with a cel phone camera. The person is at least 95% of the quality equation. The equipment is secondary. FWIW, with apologies for my habitual lectury teacher-tone, Brook ___ Brook Hinton film
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Easy Idea for NaVloPoMo
Maybe I'm just cranky today, I guess the fact of that particular site as someone's business venture just gives me a reaction not unlike those in the reaction videos. So carry on pukin'! B On 11/16/07, Patrick Delongchamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dubious cultural value? lol, Brook, it's just a joke. If people want to participate, they'll do it because it's funny. No cultural value implied. :P On Nov 16, 2007 12:22 PM, Brook Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well... On 11/16/07, Patrick Delongchamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No vlogs yet? Someone *has* to be up for the challenge. Maybe the fact that it's been done quite a bit already, as you described, limits the appeal. What do further responses add to anything? And why would we want to use our navlopomo videos to publicize some external commercial project of dubious cultural value? Actually there hasn't been any shortage of ideas with navlopomo'ers at all. No one seems to be having any trouble coming up with their own ideas from what I've seen. The emphasis on the personal in the group might also be a factor in the lack of participation in this challenge. For me, the problem hasn't been ideas, but time. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Easy Idea for NaVloPoMo
Well... On 11/16/07, Patrick Delongchamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No vlogs yet? Someone *has* to be up for the challenge. Maybe the fact that it's been done quite a bit already, as you described, limits the appeal. What do further responses add to anything? And why would we want to use our navlopomo videos to publicize some external commercial project of dubious cultural value? Actually there hasn't been any shortage of ideas with navlopomo'ers at all. No one seems to be having any trouble coming up with their own ideas from what I've seen. The emphasis on the personal in the group might also be a factor in the lack of participation in this challenge. For me, the problem hasn't been ideas, but time. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
Re: [videoblogging] bad Western Digital Hardrives?
There is no such thing as a truly reliable external firewire drive, sadly. Though I've had better luck with LaCies then with some other brands. Laptop users remember! TURN ON THE COMPUTER BEFORE CONNECTING THE DRIVE TURN ON THE DRIVE (if that's an option) BEFORE CONNECTING CONNECT AND WAIT FOR MOUNTING before launching FCP or whatever. EJECT/DISMOUNT the drive before disconnecting the most important one DISCONNECT before shutting down, sleeping. And remember FW400 connectors are super super fragile despite their appearance. Plug and unplug carefully. Pull straight out/push straight in. This goes for the little camera ports too. Most drive failures come from repeated live disconnects and shutdowns. The next culprit in line is bent/tweaked firewire ports, then burned out firewire ports. (of course there are variations other will swear by, but the dismount before disconnect or shutdown/sleep is absolutely crucial to getting any longevity out of the drive at all). Brook p.s. the best advice: switch to eSATA as soon as you can. ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
Re: [videoblogging] Re: bad Western Digital Hardrives?
I can also confirm that so far G-Technology's drives have a pretty good record with my clients and others I know who use them. Probably the only company making externals that I haven't heard complaints about. -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
Re: [videoblogging] Re: bad Western Digital Hardrives?
It's so random. OWC has the worst track record in my studio and with my clients, though I haven't used their most recent enclosures. The message is THEY WILL ALL FAIL eventually. All of them. For pretty much every brand, someone will have had one stay up for 6 years while another person will have had 3 drives fail within a year. Follow the precautionary steps and whatever drive it is it will last longer at least. Another thing - they're not all equal in terms of using them for video. One of the reasons I've continued to use LaCie, despite failures, is consistently good performance (e.g., playing back real time previews in FCP of multi-layer sequences with effects without dropping frames). But that's ony the D2s, and only if formatted HFS+. Again, G-Tech has the rep right now, but they're young, and I still would not rely on ANY solution as rock solid. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?
When I hear the phrase the industry I reach for my Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
Re: [videoblogging] ripping a small portion of a DVD?
If it's not copy protected I believe mpeg streamclip (it's free - www.squared5.com, and you have to use the www) will let you set an in and and out point in a VOB file and export to format of choice (as long as you have Compressor or the Quicktime mpeg2 component). Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Bored
Every forum (save one very large one) I've participated in that did not include an option to access and interact via email has dwindled away to irrelevance over a short period of time, regardless of member enthusiasm. Email is essential for discussion lists and forums, even if some prefer going directly to a forum interface. Yahoo, for all its quirks, at least offers a dual system. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
Re: [videoblogging] NaVloPoMo - the 12th
Ning is terribly disorienting and confusing, it's true. Even reading topics is difficult - something about layout? Navigation? Who knows. But I think posting all of our videos here would overwhelm the videoblogging group. Brook On 11/12/07, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyways, I know this is NaBloPoMo, and I know this Ning site has been set up... http://nablopomo.ning.com/group/videobloggers ...and forgive me if I'm dense, but that site is SUPER confusing to me. Has anyone thought of posting their videos here? Maybe just reply to this post today, and give us a direct link to your video for this day, the 12th... i think we chose to just stick to the Ning site for the NaVloPoMo project so we didnt clutter this group. Some people may not want an update of every video posted. you guys should go check out al the videos being made: http://nablopomo.ning.com/group/videobloggers these are the people who are active on this list. i usually dont get to see the actual people who I read all the time. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Video: http://ryanishungry.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/jaydedman Photos: http://flickr.com/photos/jaydedman/ RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9 -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
Re: [videoblogging] Proprietary Rights Ownership Rights To Your Video Content Questio
If you want something close to that level of rights retention you have to host your own files or use a plain old web hosting service, which is not that big of a deal now that bandwidth is so cheap. ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com NaVloPoMo'ing at: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Network-Quality series developed for The Net
That trailer is painful. I Need an antidote to recover my morning. ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
Re: [videoblogging] Fair Use principles
This is a fantastic. And I'm so glad the test suite videos chosen are right on the edge instead of obvious examples. I feel a little less paranoid about my Raymond stuff knowing the EFF is on the same wavelength. ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
Re: [videoblogging] Full Screen Flash 8 HD Video
I dunno. Lotsa motion artifacts - and I think that's even at a reduced frame rate? But still a move in a good direction. Brook (who is just in a cranky anti-temporal compression mood after being unable to avoid having h.264 mungle his video yesterday... EVEN AT 5Mb/s... grrr.) ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab now in navlopomo mode
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Major Shakeup in Hollywood
I think the online media world does itself a disservice by comparing itself to MSM or seeing the potential of online media as related to the relative health or relevance of MSM. The only thing the two worlds have in common is that they can make and distribute images and sounds. In all other respects, they are worlds apart, and this is a very very good thing for the long term health of independent media online. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: everyday video in Novemeber
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
Re: [videoblogging] Re: everyday video in Novemeber
I just signed up. I may be sorry. Perfectionism is a terrible disease ya know. I'll use it as an excuse to relaunch my catchall/studio/whatever vlog, temporalab, which I never really followed up on. I'll have to post two today I guess. nanovlomo posts will be at: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab starting in a few hours. Yikes, Brook -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: everyday video in Novemeber
Whew. Two videos up. My site is screwed up - I hadn't looked at it since converting it to Show in a Box. RSS is messed up according to Google Reader (not updating but the feed LOOKS correct) though the feedburner feed seems fine. So this will be very weird and it may undo me but I guess I'm REALLY in now. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com www.brookhinton.com/temporalab for the mondo nanovlomo whatevero.
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Patrick Power 1969-2007
Just so people know: the site does not load correctly in Firefox - a javascript failure (I think) that loads neither the contribution site nor the original site. In Safari, both load correctly, so you can now access the original site as well. The contribution page loads in the foreground, the original on another page or tab. The upper right pane always reloads with a new selection of videos. Stunning, amazing videos. Does anyone know his family? Brook On 10/21/07, Enric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow. I am stunned. Patrick Power mailed Brittany and I when he saw the lumiere manifesto on boingboing. We had very brief communication and then nothing. Now I know why. Brittany went through almost all of his videos as she was searching for the right ones to present on dvblog. His works were nothing short of amazing. I cannot tell how saddened I am to hear that he has passed away. - Andreas Den 21.10.2007 kl. 15:06 skrev Brook Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The excellent dvblog.org today posted some intriguing work by a fellow named Patrick Power. A trip to patrickpower.com, however, revealed the disturbing news that Patrick Power died a week ago. Perusing photos on the site, it appears that within the last five months, he had a child, got married, and died. Further research indicates that his site and work have not been much discussed, that much of his work (still viewable thanks to the wayback machine) was absolutely extraordinary, and that he was a genuine pioneer in this medium, posting web video since the mid-90s and, while not exactly videobloging, having a regularly updated site for the last decade consisting of constantly updated videos. Really the only thing that makes it not one of the first videoblogs is the lack of RSS. Further, he was regularly teaching this to people. Does anyone have more information about him - his work, what happened to him, anything? I should also mention that the redirect from patrickpower.com includes a donation button to help his family. ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen http://www.solitude.dk/ http://www.patrickpower.com/otto/ http://www.patrickpower.com/cloudset/ -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Patrick Power 1969-2007
The excellent dvblog.org today posted some intriguing work by a fellow named Patrick Power. A trip to patrickpower.com, however, revealed the disturbing news that Patrick Power died a week ago. Perusing photos on the site, it appears that within the last five months, he had a child, got married, and died. Further research indicates that his site and work have not been much discussed, that much of his work (still viewable thanks to the wayback machine) was absolutely extraordinary, and that he was a genuine pioneer in this medium, posting web video since the mid-90s and, while not exactly videobloging, having a regularly updated site for the last decade consisting of constantly updated videos. Really the only thing that makes it not one of the first videoblogs is the lack of RSS. Further, he was regularly teaching this to people. Does anyone have more information about him - his work, what happened to him, anything? I should also mention that the redirect from patrickpower.com includes a donation button to help his family. ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: live video streaming
Re QT Streaming Server being expensive: Darwin Streaming Server is, basically, QT Streaming Server, but uncoupled from OSX Server, open source (free), and runs on multiple platforms: http://developer.apple.com/opensource/server/streaming/index.html Brook -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] live video streaming
You didn't say it was free or not no worries! Someone else indicated QTSS was expensive, I was just pointing out a free version. -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] how do you watermark on your videos. your thoughts about its virtues and drawbacks?
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]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Embedding vs. Not
Oh I totally agree about the back button, it has to be new window for me. Full screen doesn't work for me either, unless the original size is huge. I hate seeing video scaled. That brings up another complication though - where full screen may make more sense: HD. When I relaunch, new video will be available at 1280x720. Yes, that's smaller than many folks' displays, but not by that much. And I still like to make things work on 1024x768 displays (probably because I am using projectors so much when teaching). Embedding 1280x720? On a design level... how? Brook -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Embedding vs. Not
my preferred choice would be the use of a video poster image thats smaller, and triggers the video in a lightbox/thickbox which is 1280x720. But is this really better than it triggering a new browser window, say with just a black background and no distracting graphics or text beyond the good ol' quicktime navigation? (Come to think of it, what would be great would be a way to have the navigation controls go away to, reappearing only if the viewer moves the mouse) B ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re:Flash FLV settings
Since you're using 24fps you should know that blip's flash transcoding defaults to 15fps. WHich solved the mystery of why it made my 24P stuff unwatchable. For 15 or 30fps sources the quality is very good. Brook -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Embedding vs. Not
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]
Re: [videoblogging] money
Based on one episode (the one with the old school friend and the birthday party) I don't see anything that indicates they COULDN'T have paid for it out of pocket. They thank Art Institute, NYC so they may be getting equipment through a connection there, or just have it: nothing here requires more than a DV camera, a good mic on a boom feeding a camera a second recorder, a small light kit (if that, and the lighting is pretty odd), and editing software. They may have more than that, they may not. It *is* more competently edited and acted then most sitcom-via-videoblog stuff I've seen. What would drive it into the budget (as opposed to no budget) category would be if the people are being paid. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] sorta like the hollywood bridge
Were streams stored here temporally too? Not sure what you are asking with that one. Where are streams of audio/video stored if at all? Your browser cache. On macintel machines, the problem is that the cache files have no extension, so you have to look for the logical time created and size. When watching a stream is the video and audio still stored temporarily on Mac Intel machines? Yes, see above. At least it is when using firefox. At the moment I do not recall exactly where the cache is located - I think firefox creates user directories and keeps a cache folder in each one. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] [Reminder] 35 Live @ Wed Sep 26 17:00 - 23:00 (Jan McLaughlin)
I'm getting it both in the group and in my individual email queue. On 9/26/07, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this reminder coming through to the videoblogging group? Sheesh. Not meant to - only to come to me - testing the email and SMS notifications through Google calendar. Jan On 9/26/07, MissPeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone make this stop? On 9/26/07, Google Calendar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jan McLaughlin, this is a reminder for Title: 35 Live Time: Wed Sep 26 17:00 - 23:00 (Eastern Time) Calendar: Jan McLaughlin You can view this event at http://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEWeid=dWZxamtha2p0dWpocm45b2xrbWZ0YXVhb2dfMjAwNzA5MjZUMjEwMDAwWiBqYW5uaWUuamFuQG0tok=MjAjamFubmllLmphbkBnbWFpbC5jb205ODZmODg4YmQ5OTQ2YTM5N2QxZDJkNzA3Yzc1NWU1NDcyNzQ2OWRmctz=America%2FNew_Yorkhl=en You can also view your calendar at http://www.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this email at the account [EMAIL PROTECTED] jannie.jan%40gmail.combecause you are subscribed for reminders on calendar Jan McLaughlin. To stop receiving these notifications, please log in to http://www.google.com/calendar/ and change your notification settings for this calendar. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- http://www.musicNerve.com - strange music for strange people http://digg.com/podcasts/musicNerve_com_strange_music_for_strange_people [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 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] -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com
Re: [videoblogging] A Video Middle Class?
Do independent video makers need to rely on advertising modelscontinuing the same relationship to a bloated middle man? No, and many of us are not willing to anyway. I don't want consumer products I may not approve of appearing on the same screen as my own work. It implies approval. Or will a different relationship develop between people watching and the people who make the stuff they want to watch? I believe it will. I'm not sure it will be a pay-per-download model though. Probably more along the lines of what Issa (formerly Jane Siberry), Kristin Hersh (Throwing Muses/50 Foot Wave) and other indie music folks are starting to experiment with. Issa offers downloads free (accept a gift from Issa) OR for purchase, with the customer setting the price. Hersh is about to introduce what sounds like a patronage/participation model of some kind. For those of us making non-mainstream video, it's a lot more confusing than it is for musicians, because there's no single model for existing value. My work is caught in a world where price ranges from nothing (giving it all away online, irresistible to those of us infected by punk rock roots) to limited availability through institutional rentals (it KILLS me that young adults don't see Sadie Benning videos unless they are lucky enough to have a class with a good budget and a teacher who will rent them - on VHS - from WMM for $75, but it would kill me more to think she didn't have at least a shot at making a living from her work), to the edition of 5 DVDs, $5000 each contemporary art world. (for many artists, that's possible quick income, but guaranteed obscurity in the long run). So how does, say, a filmmaker who maybe make s a few thousand at best every year from a handful of academic rentals navigate these waters? I'm launching something in the next month or so on my site, though I haven't arrived at a model yet. I have an immediate negative (knee jerk?) reaction to artificial exclusivity, borne of frustration at not being able to see the stuff I cared about when I was young and those aforementioned punkesque values, which is part of what makes me love the videblogging world so much. But I also believe that artists should be able to make a living from their work, and that when artists are prevented from devoting their working hours to it the work suffers, and so does the culture. There is also a danger to going totally DIY though: how do people FIND your work? I have a filmmaker friend who recently had a somewhat successful indie film, and made the decision to go with a known distributor and make far less (if any) money because it would mean the number of people who saw the film would nicerase several times over. People still look where they've been conditioned to look: whether its their favorite theater, PBS, the sundance channel, artforum, film threat... or you tube. I know a lot of this isn't relevant to many people here, but it is to some, and it all impacts the economics of it, whether you're posting abstract water studies made with a cel phone camera or french maid tv. And there's one more reality we can't avoid: I believe the idea of paying for something that exists as zeros and ones in cyberspace is, in the long run, doomed. Which is why I'm inspired by the steps taken by Hersh and Siberry/Issa. Insert usual apology for ranting with run on sentences here. (web references: Issa: www.sheeba.ca Kristin Hersh: www.throwingmusic.com Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] A Video Middle Class?
ps that should be increase several times over. Not nicerase. Though I like how that looks as a word. On 9/25/07, Brook Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do independent video makers need to rely on advertising modelscontinuing the same relationship to a bloated middle man? No, and many of us are not willing to anyway. I don't want consumer products I may not approve of appearing on the same screen as my own work. It implies approval. Or will a different relationship develop between people watching and the people who make the stuff they want to watch? I believe it will. I'm not sure it will be a pay-per-download model though. Probably more along the lines of what Issa (formerly Jane Siberry), Kristin Hersh (Throwing Muses/50 Foot Wave) and other indie music folks are starting to experiment with. Issa offers downloads free (accept a gift from Issa) OR for purchase, with the customer setting the price. Hersh is about to introduce what sounds like a patronage/participation model of some kind. For those of us making non-mainstream video, it's a lot more confusing than it is for musicians, because there's no single model for existing value. My work is caught in a world where price ranges from nothing (giving it all away online, irresistible to those of us infected by punk rock roots) to limited availability through institutional rentals (it KILLS me that young adults don't see Sadie Benning videos unless they are lucky enough to have a class with a good budget and a teacher who will rent them - on VHS - from WMM for $75, but it would kill me more to think she didn't have at least a shot at making a living from her work), to the edition of 5 DVDs, $5000 each contemporary art world. (for many artists, that's possible quick income, but guaranteed obscurity in the long run). So how does, say, a filmmaker who maybe make s a few thousand at best every year from a handful of academic rentals navigate these waters? I'm launching something in the next month or so on my site, though I haven't arrived at a model yet. I have an immediate negative (knee jerk?) reaction to artificial exclusivity, borne of frustration at not being able to see the stuff I cared about when I was young and those aforementioned punkesque values, which is part of what makes me love the videblogging world so much. But I also believe that artists should be able to make a living from their work, and that when artists are prevented from devoting their working hours to it the work suffers, and so does the culture. There is also a danger to going totally DIY though: how do people FIND your work? I have a filmmaker friend who recently had a somewhat successful indie film, and made the decision to go with a known distributor and make far less (if any) money because it would mean the number of people who saw the film would nicerase several times over. People still look where they've been conditioned to look: whether its their favorite theater, PBS, the sundance channel, artforum, film threat... or you tube. I know a lot of this isn't relevant to many people here, but it is to some, and it all impacts the economics of it, whether you're posting abstract water studies made with a cel phone camera or french maid tv. And there's one more reality we can't avoid: I believe the idea of paying for something that exists as zeros and ones in cyberspace is, in the long run, doomed. Which is why I'm inspired by the steps taken by Hersh and Siberry/Issa. Insert usual apology for ranting with run on sentences here. (web references: Issa: www.sheeba.ca Kristin Hersh: www.throwingmusic.com Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] A Video Middle Class?
Recent discussion from an indie film perspective, only really dealing with the downloads vs. dvd model though: http://www.mediarights.org/engine_feed/2007/09/ifp_conference_can_filmmakers.php ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] thats what pop culture means.....
I've saved up so much money to spend All I could afford is a bad weekend And there's no reason to stay in There's nothing on the television Popular culture no longer applies to me Popular culture no longer applies to me Popular culture no longer applies to me Popular culture no longer applies to me Yeah!!! -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Software
Intensity and the on-air software it comes with are not, according to that link, mac only. On 9/22/07, outlawstarwind2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alright, so Im starting my own online video show about gaming... I want to be able to switch between two cameras, videos, images and take audio from the line in on one of my video cards. I want to be able to edit on the fly, throw up overlays with my name on it when need be, or have a static outline (a la Pardon the Interuption). Ideally, what I'm looking for is a software only version of NewTeks Tricaster or VT[4] series. I found this: But its only for Macs and I have a PC. http://www.channelstorm.com/ I also found this, which is along the lines but not exactly it, this is also for a mac only. http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/on-air/ I'm currently using e2e vcam.. but its really buggy, slow and constraining. It's also way to much work just to load a video. Any ideas or suggestions? Price isnt a problem, but preferably something under $5,000 (Otherwise I should just buy a TriCaster :P) -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Creative Commons and Virgin being sued for photo use
if you plan to take pictures of strangers and you're going to receive any income from that, you need to have a commerical purpose consent form signed acknowledging that. Actually this is still a grey area. This area where it is NOT grey is when the person's image is used in advertising or promotion, which courts have ruled includes something like a magazine cover as it is in essence advertising the magazine itself. And of course misrepresentation (which such use really is) is a clear cut issue. But when it comes to the Cartier-Bresson aspect of art documenting public life, even when the resulting work is sold, we are still floundering in uncertain waters (and I note that to require releases for such work would make a huge portion of very important cultural work illegal or impossible to perform). This is different, however, than formal interview situations, in which case releases are indeed prudent, regardless or their legal necessity. Disclaimer: not a lawyer. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: YouTube suspends Vloggers account for Fair Use.
I believe Fair Use *is* in fact in the copyright statute. The problems: it's a subjective call due to the weighing of factors necessary (and if those factors were replaced by a specific and stringent test it would probably NOT be a good thing - I doubt the transformative clause would survive, and it is absolutely key), and unless they can persuade the EFF or the ACLU you to help, the independent artist or media maker is up against corporate-funded take-no-prisoners legal teams when it comes to proviing their case. I wish the law could be more specific, but what I'd want to see would never pass: a law that frames the issues solely as fraud and piracy, of whether or not the use deprived the copyright owner of sales or rentals by making the public think the copy was the actual item or by explicitly pirating the work as is. Period. The point of copyright should be to prevent false claims of authorship and to prevent outright fraud, and that should be IT. That's what it was for to begin with. Crabbily pre-coffee, Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Do we affect users' expectation by the way we define ourselves?
For me, calling it Internet TV is setting the bar too LOW. Other than the fact that series work is possible on the web (not something previously limited to TV) and that moving images in a box are involved, I don't see how it has much to do with TV at all. I sometimes call it web cinema, but that's too limiting too, and just reflects my bias as a filmmaker. Last night I turned on my TV for the first time in a few weeks. Again, I wondered if I would even HAVE a tv if mass media wasn't the subject of some of my work. I could not find anything on any of the gazillion channels that had the capacity to do more than fill time. Oh there may have been a movie on IFC or something (I didn't check) but I always prefer renting them anyway because digital cable looks so horrible. Other than liking the concept of series work, I don't see the connection for me, and I've never understood why internet TV became a popular phrase. I guess it can sell the medium to adevrtisers or funders, but really, why compete with something that, despite having oodles of resources, completely and utterly sucks? TV is the great lost opportunity of the media age. I'd hate to see video on the web end up as the equivalent in the new media age. Brook p.s. The anomalies Twin Peaks, The Prisoner, and Arrested Development are exempt from my generalized tirade. __ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Do we affect users' expectation by the way we define ourselves?
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]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: YouTube suspends Vloggers account for Fair Use.
Important to note that this isn't so much a problem with YouTube as it is a problem with THE LAW, which blip and everyone else also has to deal with. Copyright infringement is your best entertainment value ---Negativland ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Do we affect users' expectation by the way we define ourselves?
Amen right back, Rupert! Kfir, I think the point Rupert and I are both making is that there doesn't NEED to be a lack of ability re production value. The tools are no longer out of reach, and you can learn the skills. So why conpensate/mitigate? As an aside, traditional production values aren't even necessarily the best ones for web video in the first place. From my perspective we should be creating new visual languages, new ways of conveying exploring and communicating. But I realize not everyone is after that, and knowing the how of more conventional production is a great advantage even when your goal is to dismantle the formulas they spring from and feed. I'll copy posts to your blog when I can but I'm working and can't really post in 2 places at once right now. Brook On 9/19/07, Kfir Pravda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really love this discussion. It seems that we focusing, at least in some cases, in looking into production value. Maybe production value can be mitigated with a wider experience? Meaning, maybe we can create a wider interaction with the viewers, that will compensate our lack of ability to reach the same production value. It will be great if you will cross post the discussion on the blog - I believe it is important to get additional people involved in the conversation, that are not necessarily members of this group. Kfir Pravda E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] kfir%40pravdam.com Blog: www.pravdam.com M: +972 (54) 4958066 O: +972 (9) 7441619 F : +972 (50) 8966406 Skype:KfirPravda logo_pravda From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com[mailto: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Rupert Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 11:45 To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: Do we affect users' expectation by the way we define ourselves? 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.) 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
Re: [videoblogging] Re: video blogging / facebook / myspace / you tube
Fantastic news, David. Congratulations! -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: 4-eyed-monster on self-distribution
I love the idea of Kinooga, and am relieved to hear Jeffrey Taylor say the current site is confusing... it is, with a capital C. One suggestion: change, or remove, the use of the term download - it is REALLY confusing in the current context. But I love the idea and look forward to seeing this develop. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] video blogging / facebook / myspace / you tube
YouTube viewers, MySpace people, Facebook people, RSS people, people who go directly to sites, LiveVideo people, etc etc etc... it looks more and more to me like there isn't much intersection between these spheres. They are for the most part different audiences. People decide where they like to experience web media, and go there. For me, MySpace is pretty much unusable. The interface is so horrible that I dread the times I need to go there. Facebook is nicer, but feels strictly like social media, so its perfect for social media related video but no so much for more focused projects / art / series / etc. You Tube has viewers viewers viewers watching their abysmal poorly encoded destruction of what in some cases were once nice looking videos, but its the only place you'll reach that audience. I like controlling the experience. My stuff is not aimed at a mass audience. So its wordpress and my own sites for most of my stuff. In other words, decide what you want to do and who you want to reach, and find the sites, platforms, and approaches that work best for that. It will be different for each person, sometimes for each vlog or project by one person or group. If you want to reach the largest possible audience, you have to use them all. As for the cultures and behaviors in the various places - posting a video on your own site is like setting up a showing in a theater. Posting a video on You Tube is like setting up a projector and an amplifier on a random street corner. Naturally, in the latter case, responses will vary wildly, and you will overhear the sometimes hormonally influenced commentary of those using the commons for other purposes. Brook www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] CC: Noncommerical and vlogs
fair use clips from TV/Movies that would clearly be kicked out of the fair use category if my blog were to have any commercial uses. (warning: not a lawyer, just someone who has done a lot of collage work over a couple of decades) It depends on the type of commercial use and more specifically the nature of the use. Plenty of fair use heavy projects generate some income, from Negativland to the collage work of film and video artists who get screening, exhibition and rental fees. But commercial or not, fair use or not, the lawyers who may come calling will just want your money and be backed by scary big resources. Transformative is a big part of the four factors, and the four factors are to be weighed in context. I'm not sure a tip jar moves a site into the commercial category. There's a difference between selling something and accepting a gift. Brook -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: blip.tv redesign!
Bill Cammack: people don't go to blip to search the random videos like they go to youtube, for instance. I do. FWIW. And I know many who do. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Rates for 12 vodcasts... Need your help...
1. 9-7 is an awfully long shoot day for interviews 2. in your studio - if that means a studio set up for shooting - treated for sound, lights, etc. - you should pay an additional rental fee for the studio. 3. Rates for producing vodcasts are no different than rates for producing any other video or film. 4. For a one-person crew doing this sort of thing in SF, expect to pay from $400 to $1200 and more for one day, plus materials, depending on the person's experience. Equipment rental is usually extra, and a ten hour day may mean overtime fees. 5. Same rates for editing. 6. As most vloggers can testify, one person can get amazing results, but two or three (adding sound and a grip/lighting person) will bump up the polish significantly if you can afford it. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Live!
A tip for anyone who starts to explore the non-flash software: use photo-jpeg (at 75% or higher quality) as the codec for the video files. Frame-based codecs are much easier on the processor, and photo-jpeg (though some prefer apple motion jpeg A or B) has emerged as a good balance between performance and quality. Temporally compressed codecs don't work too well, and h.264 is particularly tough for more than a stream or two. I hate the banding photo-jpeg creates but there isn't a viable alternative yet. If you like programming or scripting, the two most popular choices for building your own setup are Max/MSP/Jitter (www.cycling74.com) and Isadora (don't have the URL handy - it's marketed by a live performance group that uses it in their performances). Some contemporary live-cinema performers who come to mind that you may want to explore: Sue Costabile Miranda July Laurie Anderson Nate Boyce Zoe Beloff Wet Gate Scott Arford Nate Boyce Potter-Belmar Labs/Future Worker Girl There are also many theater and dance companies doing really interesting things with live video. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Live!
Oh and more for the programming-minded: Quartz Composer (free in the Apple Developer Tools) and Processing are two free options for building your own live video applications. vjcentral.com has good forums discussing this stuff - keep in mind its mostly from the point of view of live vj use. Brook -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Fwd: Chris Brogan has invited you to Spock
Now I've never (I don't think) been Broganized in this manner, but to be fair sometimes this isn't an intentional thing: I recently joined Facebook, and relying on the don't worry, this won't email anyone unless you tell us too language, let it search my gmail account for other facebookers. I don't know what happened - and I am usually really careful about this - but whatever sequence of clicks I made did, contrary to my intention, email an invite to every facebooker in my gmail account. Horribly, horribly embarassing (the last two mornings I've been cringing at the do I know you? messages from people who happened to be on listservs or who had mistakenly emailed me due to a typo). On the other hand I now have a buncha facebook friends - including some folks from here - and as a newbie to such things that is nice, but still. Embarassing. There needs to be some sort of social networking etiquette guidebook for clueless newbies like myself. (of course Chris Brogan is almost certainly not such a clueless newbie) Brook -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Help! I Need to Rename My Video Blog!
CutRateDate Val-U-Date DollarDate CheapskateDating Dating-on-the-Cheap -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: for Podtech re: racist posts by Loren Feldman and lack of responsibility
The best response to hate media is love media. B ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] For Dan McVicar (was Re: Loren Feldman = Techn igga)
Finally clicked to see what all this is about. I'd never heard of Loren Feldman so while I may be missing some context, a video-going-viral has only itself as context, so I'm not sure that's relevant. It's not satire. Not even close. That has nothing to do with its offensiveness, but it's not satire, because it's not about anything except Feldman's imagined (at least based on this clip) ability as a comic and what can only be called an all out stereotyping attack on, well, all African Americans. Because that's the size of the brush he uses to slap a random blop of ugly paint onto a video screen. There is nothing there but racism. Nothing. He isn't mocking himself (at least not intentionally), the preoccupations of the tech world, media stereotypes (it cluelessly advances and amplifies them rather then mocking them or revealing them).anything.. The video is so bad it's ripe for being the SUBJECT of something satirizing racism, stereotypes, cultural preoccupations and norms. Where is there anything here beyond his stating if a black man was a tech blogger it would be like this and isn't that funny? It's not even isn't it funny that a lot of people THINK it would be like this? It's the actual, blatantly racist assumption. It's thought provoking only if you count what a creep, does he really think this is funny? as a thought worthy of provoking. There's just nothing else there. It was so much worse than I imagined from the comments here. Sure, it should be protected speech, of course. But I feel like I've just listened to some drunken racist telling me a bad, long joke behind a bar he's been thrown out of, except for the nauseating knowledge that this has a large audience. If a high school or college kid did this I think it would haunt them for the rest of their lives. Ugly ugly ugly. And stupid to boot. Everyone suffers lapses in judgment and misfires, so I sure hope he owns up to this and makes amends... otherwise, how can one believe he's other than he appears in the clip? Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Owning a television...
I watch TV. I go to the movies. I watch video online. I watch video art in galleries. I only like a small percentage of the actual work that ends up on each, but what's that law again that says only a tiny percentage of anything will be worthwhile? But the formats and venues... great. More more more please. I wish they were all, online video included, WAY less driven by profit or the hope for profit (though I also wish everyone who wants to could make a living working in them), but I don't see them as being in competition. I also try to experience things in the format for which they were intended as much as possible. Since mass media and media culture are subjects of some of my work and some of the classes I teach, I try not to cut myself off, but I also try to avoid passive TV viewing. That also means I watch a lot of things I really really really don't like, online and offline. But at a basic level I just love the whole phenomenom of images that move and things making noises, regardless of where they come from. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Are You People Alive?
Even if you don't live in or shoot in NY this is so important - it's basically a handover of everything that falls between tourist photography and 7 figure indie films to the purely commercial sector. The outlawing of a huge swath of media art production, documentary, citizen journalism, and even many aspects of amateur and hobbyist photography and filmmaking - in the very city that is the American heart of street photography. It will also make it possible for the police to legally arrest people documenting protests, events, and police actions - the elimination of an important citizen check on power. If this happens in NY, it will get worse everywhere else too. So please please please sign the petition whether or not you live in New York. Yesterday's Democracy Now had a segment on this with Jem Cohen and others that you can access from their site. There is a movement to legally limit noncommercial and small scale video and photographic work all over the country. It may be time to start a camera equivalent to Critical Mass. Brook Hinton ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Shield for net journalists - as long as you do it for money
In other words, indymedia doesn't count. or any other primarily volunteer news organization. Only people connected to organizations who get money from the very people a journalist might have to, you know, expose, or be ethical enough to not whitewash. Disgusted, Brook On 8/3/07, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.podcastingnews.com/2007/08/02/congress-fights-bush-protect-bloggers-rights-excludes-noncommercial-bloggers/ The bill excludes casual bloggers from protections, stipulating that the protections apply only to those who derive financial gain or livelihood from their journalistic activity. While this part of the bill could prove controversial to anyone that blogs as a hobby, it would include people that get income from things like AdSense. Okay so they wanted some shield laws for journalists, and wanted to include blogs and vlogs, but they didnt want it to apply to every human. So we (well not me, Im in the UK) get this strange fudge, wheere if you want to protect your sources then you better get some adverts. Wibble! Steve Elbows -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Are You People Alive?
I am delighted to learn that, at least for this first round, WE WON! The details, from a blog on the NYT site: Revised Rules Coming on Filmmaking and Photography, After Uproarhttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/after-uproar-revised-rules-coming-on-filmmaking-and-photography/ By Sewell Chan http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/author/schan/ http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/after-uproar-revised-rules-coming-on-filmmaking-and-photography/ _ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] the ugly truth about online video
I note this, from djoxyk in the comments section: I watch video on Soundpedia http://soundpedia.com/ and Youtubehttp://youtube.com/'cause it's free and fast services. The online video is a big part of my life since I spend up to 10 hours a day in the internet. I do not watch TV 'cause advertising irritate me. That's the point of using online media services. Do any of you, when you watch video online, pay attention to ads at all? And how many of us will just close the window of an ad we can't skip or get rid of? OR refuse to return to something where we know an ad will be IN the video episodes? If I ask myself what are the worst things about television? I come up with these: 1. Advertising. 2. The influence advertising support has on what gets programmed. 3. The programming. (which flows directly from 1 and 2). It's not like the advertising model has made television such a great thing (beyond the expected handful of programs that break the mold) - otherwise why are we bothering with an alternative to begin with? If online video is really going to provide a compelling alternative to television, a mechanism that allows people to focus full time on making deep, quality work is indeed important. The current obsession with advertising as a means to this, though, just leads me to expect any profitable aspect of online video to ultimately devolve to the level of television, only smaller and available on demand. For everyone making this stuff, from those making video with a more mass appeal and an eye on dollars, to those doing personal work, far greater benefits (monetary and artistic) will come of finding a business model that ISN'T about advertising. In fact, if we can do that, it could leak into other media (television itself?) as well, and quality would rise accordingly. It could change the whole face of mediamaking. I wish I knew what that model could be, but with so many creative and innovative people in this hypercommunicative sphere, there is hope for an alternative to evolve. I know I'm not going to stop thinking about it. Please note that I say this with all due respect to folks like blip who are trying to find creative and effective ways to make advertising support videomakers in new and less obtrusive ways. I just don't share the optimism. Brook On 8/2/07, caminofilm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: interesting article about predictions for online video advertising http://mediabiz.blogs.cnnmoney.com/2007/07/27/the-ugly-truth-about-online-video/ -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: the ugly truth about online video
That's a zillion times *more* interesting than most monetized video. Brook On 8/2/07, pouringdownpix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: never YET? never EVER? uninteresting videoblog monetized, if only for a moment: http://pouringdown.tv/?p=161 -- daniel, pouringdown.tv -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: State of the Vlogosphere, Vol 2 – Trends in Online Video
I meant livevideo.com, the site, which definitely isn't a live-real-time video site. -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] State of the Vlogosphere, Vol 2 – Trends in Online Video
LiveVideo is chock full of videoblogs. Conspiciously missing. Brook On 7/30/07, Charles Iliya Krempeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Mefeedia's put out the latest State of the Vlogospere... http://mefeedia.com/blog/2007/07/202/ See what's happening in the world of vlogging, Internet TV, vodcasting, the NewTube, or whatever you call it. See ya -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News http://vlograzor.com/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] State of the Vlogosphere, Vol 2 – Trends in Online Video
Be sure to investigate tree3 on livevideo. She is a friend and student of mine who in her elderly years has gone completely wild with videoblogging on livevideo. She also makes some remarkable personal videos about India and Southeast Asia but she keeps seperate identities online so those aren't part of the tree3 ouevre. http://www.livevideo.com/tree3 (just don't try to add her as a friend or whatever it is on livevideo. she has videos about why she refuses to do the whole friends-listy thing) I haven't used livevideo because the image quality is so crappy but it may be the right thing for a more personal project coming up. Brook On 7/30/07, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, i guess it's in Other. I didn't know about Live Video until a couple of days ago. Completely passed me by. You're right, there are a lot of videoblogs there. I read rumours that it's owned by Google - that it's a secret Google video projecct. I just signed up. I found it through a vlogger on Youtube, who pointed me to the YouTube LiveVideo discussion forum: http://ytlv.forumotion.com/index.htm On 31 Jul 2007, at 00:39, Brook Hinton wrote: LiveVideo is chock full of videoblogs. Conspiciously missing. Brook On 7/30/07, Charles Iliya Krempeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED]supercanadian%40gmail.com wrote: Hello, Mefeedia's put out the latest State of the Vlogospere... http://mefeedia.com/blog/2007/07/202/ See what's happening in the world of vlogging, Internet TV, vodcasting, the NewTube, or whatever you call it. See ya -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News http://vlograzor.com/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- ___ 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] -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] storyboarding free/shareware?
Celtx doesn't have any tools for creating storyboard graphics but does have a drag and drop storyboard feature, and is one of the best pieces of free production software for mediamakers out there. I use it constantly. And if you don't need storyboarding software for creating the images themselves, its all you need - plus you get screenwriting tools and project management tools to boot. Brook On 7/29/07, Lan Bui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot vouch for this software (I have played around with it, but we are still using paper for our show) but I know many other that do. http://www.celtx.com/ Check it out, it is very feature rich!!! -Lan www.LanBui.com On Jul 27, 2007, at 2:54 PM, tengrrl wrote: Hi, A friend of mine asks: Can you recommend good storyboarding software (free is best) for the mac and/or PC? Any suggestions I can pass along to her? Thanks, Traci [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Is BlogTelevision.net Violating Your Creative Commons License?
Argh blogtelevision has some of mine. Infuriatingly, their remove your site link requires that your email address match the domain name you want blocked from their scanning, for security purposes. The gall of these people... but at some point how do you even keep up? ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] The Vloggies (was Re: irina gone)
I am racing off to a shoot this morning so I will probably chime in a bit more later, but I have been very disturbed by so much in these threads. Before leaving, I wanted to note two things: 1) The repeated references to videoblogging as the industry. 2) The reference in a recent podtech post to more content from video pros. I have nothing - NOTHING - against people making money, or people making GOOD money, from videoblogging, or any other media activity. I would be a hypocrite otherwise: while I am not what one would call a commercial filmmaker or musician based on what I produce, my living is made in those worlds, some of if directly or indirectly from my own work, and while I continue to eschew advertising (I *might* feel differently if I got to pick who the advertisers were), I am all for artists, entertainers, and alternative media people making a living at it if they want to. I also shiver at the words talent and content, but the people placed in those categories by those holding the pursestrings have been at the bottom of the food chain for way way way way way too long. The relationships need to move from the parasitic to the symbiotic side of the scale. But if media companies succeed in narrowing the general perception of videoblogging down to an industry of pros, the potential of this revolutionary medium to do so many things for so many - opening up new channels of expression for the previously unheard, the development of communities based on new forms of communication, the advancement of the art of the moving image and its language, and perhaps most importantly the breaking down of the stifling, narrow, suffocatingly dull range of media options and opportunities economically dictated in their mania for predictable financial outcomes by old media, by the high-finance side of the art world, and by the now star-driven field of independent film - will be lost. (oh, and apparently the need to create run on sentences like the one above ;-) I don't want to have to find another word besides videoblogging to describe that side of what I do, but much of the recent dialog makes me worry that I will soon have to. A couple of other things: 3) Blip is indeed a wonderful model of what businesses in this new world can be. 4) Irina, who I have never met, seems to be a force of nature in this community - the good kind - and I hope in the long term this opens up more opportunities for her. 5) I remain optimistic about the potential for this medium. I want to be clear - this is not an anti-moneymaking rant. But please please please lets keep videoblogging from going down the road indie film went: becoming a slightly edgier copycat of the same world it hoped to be an alternative to. Sure there's room for blatantly commercial and old-media-like work, but let's keep the term, the field, the form, viably and visibly open, so that new voices, new possibiities, and alternative and groundbreaking work - in whatever form they take - are the point rather than the exceptions. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Cloverfield - First Movie With Camcorders
Are you sure they don't mean cel phone camera or something? That wouldn't be true either - there's already been at least one feature length cel phone-shot documentary. Features have been shot on video for decades, and since Festen (the first Dogme95 film, a superb narrative feature shot with a horrible-quality Sony pocketcam in available light - but it is visually STUNNING), which was shot ten years ago, there have been hundreds if not thousands of narrative features shot on consumer-grade DV (not even HDV) camcorders. This includes not just first timers but directors like Hal Hartley, Spike Lee, Lars Von Trier, Rebecca Mailer, Jean-Luc Godard, Marc Forster... the list goes on and on. There are film studies classes that focus specifically on these (I've taught some of them myself). Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com vlog links are here [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Cloverfield - First Movie With Camcorders
D'oh - sorry, I misread, thinking they were claiming it was the FIRST feature shot with camcorders. But shooting a film with consumer camcorders these days is not that big a deal. On 7/11/07, Brook Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you sure they don't mean cel phone camera or something? That wouldn't be true either - there's already been at least one feature length cel phone-shot documentary. Features have been shot on video for decades, and since Festen (the first Dogme95 film, a superb narrative feature shot with a horrible-quality Sony pocketcam in available light - but it is visually STUNNING), which was shot ten years ago, there have been hundreds if not thousands of narrative features shot on consumer-grade DV (not even HDV) camcorders. This includes not just first timers but directors like Hal Hartley, Spike Lee, Lars Von Trier, Rebecca Mailer, Jean-Luc Godard, Marc Forster... the list goes on and on. There are film studies classes that focus specifically on these (I've taught some of them myself). Brook [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] FLV Encoding...
Blip's free flash encoding can't be beat. Light years better than You Tube's. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com vlog links are here [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: The History of What My Dog Can't Hear
In the US it is assumed the venue has paid their annual licensing fee. My understanding is even bars and cafes aren't supposed to have a radio on unless they have paid a licensing fee. It is: insane. ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com vlog links are here __ On 7/3/07, Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are standard licensing agreements for this kind of stuff and no permission is needed as long as you pay. In the case of music being covered by a live band it is to the best of my knowledge the venue who is paying the licensing fees (in Denmark, don't know about the US) to the appropriate organization. - Andreas [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] New York Times Article on Changing Photography Rules for City
Evil. Government surveillance increases by the minute, but visual journalists, artists, documentarians and citizens lose the right to document the world they live in unless they can a) afford it and b) formalize and plan everything (in order to apply to shoot at some specific time and place and purchase insurance) to the point that spontaneous life cannot be recorded researched, visually commented upon and on and on. The NYC laws on this are ALREADY horrible - this would be a nightmare. To say nothing of the carte blanch police would have regarding anyone documenting a protest, let alone an arrest during everyday life. So very very wrong and dangerous. And as for street photography, its the outlawing of Cartier-Bresson's decisive moment. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com vlog links are here TRACE GARDEN now available in flash format on Blip! tracegarden.blip.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] July - My Month of Youtube
I've been thinking about this too. My main hesitation has been the quality of their flash encoding, but I'm going to put all of Trace Garden up there in the next month or so (unless it looks like their h.264 option is coming REALLY soon and allows for direct uploads). It doesn't replace the kind of focused community, dialog, and presentation of vlogging, but its there and people watch. YouTube could be a great way to promote the kind of vlogging most of this group practices - as long as the url is in a video, the curious will visit the site for the full experience and the other things on offer. So I think of it as a clip venue and a promotional outlet - but not a replacement for the site of an actual vlog project. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com vlog links are here
Re: [videoblogging] Re: July - My Month of Youtube
I'm: http://youtube.com/slowhello Add! subscribe! friend! me or whatever it is one does on YT! I'll look for y'all too. All I have up is one Trace Garden video, but I'm going into upload overdrive shortly. I'm also launching a personal vlog next week and will put those on YouTube as well - but maybe a different account. Trying to decide whether to separate my conceptual projects from the personal on YT or if its worth the bother. I jsut discovered I'm also on YT via an old friend who uploaded stroby grainy old clips of me doing a live noise set a log time ago in the record store he used to run. A *very* strange feeling to run across that. I barely recognize myself. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com vlog links are here __ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Question on How Do You Do The Blurred Face in a Video
If you're not using a program with a plugin or effect tailored to do this, the usual process in a basic NLE or effects program is to layer the video on top of itself, make a matte or mask for the area you want to blur on the top layer (hopefully your program lets you keyframe the position of the matte to follow the person's face), then blur the appropriate layer (bottom if the mask creates a hole for the blurred area, top if it mattes out the unblurred area). Be sure to feather the mask/matte somehow. I know nothing about ulead but most programs have free or cheap plugins you can download - you might do a web search for one that does this in your program. ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com vlog links are here TRACE GARDEN now available in flash format on Blip! tracegarden.blip.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: New contender on the Live broadcasting field
turns out operator11 makes you give them the right to resell your content, however, whenever, wherever they want. yuk. no thanks. guess I'll have to track down somebody else's mogulus-friendly intel mac to look at a mogulus show. I can't even load a blog that USES mogulus, in any browser. don't even get a crash log, just the pizza wheel of death until I do two force quits. it seems to load almost all the way - the furthest Ive gotten is fine tuning - before the crash. the logs just say ??? crash. streamwebtown looks interesting, but my audience is for whatever reason mostly mac users, and not geekesque enough to be willing to install flip4mac or do anything else to tweak or configure. still this is pretty exciting. my needs are more for the live mixing than the live camera element (though I need both), so even though I can't SEE mogulus I'm excited that this is the direction things are heading. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com vlog links are here TRACE GARDEN now available in flash format on Blip! tracegarden.blip.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: New contender on the Live broadcasting field
I've tried to access mogulus feeds from two macs now (both Intel, so maybe that's it) and it still crashes any browser. Wonder what's up. Any word on how image quality compares to operator11? Brook [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Local Vlog screenings (was: Weekly Video Conference)
Echoing Jen's post on all counts- great observations and suggestions. The context/aesthetics issue is a big one worthy of more discussion. Two other thoughts come to mind: 1) To connect with work/people/audiences in other indie moving image practices, curators can put together a program and try to get existing microcinemas and media arts organizations to put it on their schedule - there are thriving venues and organizations in most cities. This way you not only don't deal with renting a hall/projector/etc., but you tap into the REST of the moving image community. 2) Along the same lines, I would be more interested in seeing videoblogging work in MIXED programs that also show other moving image work. I've been talking along these lines to a couple of places about programs for next season that try to grapple with the questions about aesthetics and context that Jen talks about in her post. Again, it takes curators. If this movement, for lack of a better term, is to have a real lasting place and influence in the broader spectrum of moving image work (I know the phrase is terribly academic but I can't think of a more inclusive one, and anyway as conflicted as I am about it I live a good percentage of the time in that world), it needs to be in dialog with other film/video/installation/web art/etc. work. ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com vlog links are here TRACE GARDEN now available in flash format on Blip! tracegarden.blip.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Local Vlog screenings (was: Weekly Video Conference)
Whoops, Jay slipped in - with valid concerns and points - before I finished typing. I gotta digest all this a little but do want to say none of what I was talking about REPLACES the DIY do it now side. More soon. ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com vlog links are here TRACE GARDEN now available in flash format on Blip! tracegarden.blip.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Local Vlog screenings (was: Weekly Video Conference)
Ironically, much of the canon of tha A-G film world that is now studied academically arose from EXACTLY the conditions and ethics that you talk about in your post, except that the A-G world WAS the backyard screenings on sheets reacting against the rarified and/or exclusive film and gallery worlds of the time. Down to the inclusion of lots of diary films and a wholehearted embracing of the concept of amateur. (Well, OK, on the WEST coast it was. Or so I'm told ;-).) I worry that if vlogging stays primarily a form where people vlog just for other vloggers and tech folks who are interested in watching it, it won't, in the long run, thrive. The A-G film world is struggling today partly (imo) because it stayed in dialog primarily with itself. Re the not just artbut personal, newsy, etc etc - I think some of the best art around is coming from those very vlogs! But again,. context... on the big screen, the context change can be serious (and as has been pointed out, that can be good or bad). Brook -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Videoblogging Influences
Vloggerpeeps, I'm curious about people's thoughts re vlogging antecedents and influence from other media/movies/etc. Especially if there is stuff that has influenced YOUR vlogging, but also generally speaking. A few examples to start off: * For vlogs that fall into the personal and video-diary realm: *Some of the homecam people from the 90s, Jennicam being the most famous. * Sadie Benning's pixelvision diaries. * In experimental film: George Kuchar's weather diaries, Anne Robertson's super8 diaries. * Caveh Zahedi's films (also in the narrative/serial category, but Bathtub of the World is literally something that could have been a series of vlog entries) The valdezatronnin, jimpunkin' media-hackin' mashuppin' side o'things: * Negativland/Over the Edge, Burroughs, Bruce Conner, earlier collage stuff * Emergency Broadcast Network (TV Sheriff too but that's now not then) Chasing the galactiwindmill narrative and serial-narrative (humorous and dramatic varieties) * Repeating sketches/characters on Saturday Night Live * Dogme95 manifesto (No lights, handheld camera, only props found on the set etc.) * Theatrical Improv * Kentucky Fried Movie Documentary/Alternanews * Michael Moore No need to stick to those or any categories, just trying to prod some discussion with those examples. I'm curious about influences PERIOD. Also curious to hear from people who feel their vlogging ISN'T really influenced by other media. Brook p.s. for all I know the vloggers I used in my hybrid names might be HORRIBLY OFFENDED to be associated with stuff under the categories, no direct links intended! ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com vlog links are here TRACE GARDEN now available in flash format on Blip! tracegarden.blip.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Local Vlog screenings (was: Weekly Video Conference)
re context I recently had to show some of my online stuff theatrically (not at pixelodeon, which BOO HOO family obligations prevented me from attending and i've been eating up all the post event coverage). I thought a lot about the whole recontextualizing issue. If it was a lecture/demo sort of thing I'd definitely show the actual blog, or simulate the ipod experience or something, but this was part of a show that had my other stuff in it. I tried all sorts of things. I did not come up with a good solution. The stuff was so thoroughly designed for a small screen and an intimate viewing experience that it couldn't survive the translation. In the end I added some new material to string pieces together and added some text to at least cue the audience into the original context, so they at least knew the WHY of the pieces. It was ok but just ok. The images were just too big, too overpowering - these were pieces I would never have made for that context, and if vlogs didn't exist they wouldn't have been made at all. On the other hand, people were inspired by the pieces, and thanks to having a QA afterwards it led people to the videoblog. It was still worth doing. Another curator elsewhere asked to show some of the same stuff, unaltered, and I didn't even hesitate. And it got me thinking, and in fact I am now working up a live version of Trace Garden (presented as a real time seance), but it's a COMPLETE reworking of it, which will take quite a while to put together. One of the difficult things for filmmakers right how is that we have pretty much lost control over the context of presentation. Vlogs are GREAT in that sense on one hand - you not only create the context, you control the look and feel of the equivalent to the theater or tv or whatever yourself. But theatrically, esp. with video, you have no idea what your work will look like in any setting - will they be able to see that figure in the shadows creeping up on the two people in the car? Depends on the projector, how much light in the room, etc. Why not just brighten the figure? Cuz its a different figure then. And further, if you are lucky enough to become popular, it IS going to be ripped, torrented, youtubed, poorly transferred to PAL VHS from a second generation copy of a rented tape, shown in a bar while a band plays, etc. So why not make work that will survive it all? for some people that's an option, but for many of us the things that make us want to get the camera out to begin with involve images that can't translate all that well between contexts. So for screening vlogs, I think its a case by case thing: sometimes Ryanne's approach will be perfect, for some vlogs something else, for some, well it isn't gonna be perfect, but it may be worth going for it anyway. Brook (who is obviously procastinating or he'd get to work!) oh p.s. Rupert I love that video. What you said, and also the wonderful little whoa! whoops! interruptions! ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com vlog links are here TRACE GARDEN now available in flash format on Blip! tracegarden.blip.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: New contender on the Live broadcasting field
Well it's possibly a mac thing. I took a look at some operator11.com stuff - the image quality is definitely starting to (ahem) move in this field. -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: New contender on the Live broadcasting field
I would love to hear reports on fps, image quality, etc. The site doesn't have any links to existing broadcasts. I have a very labor-intensive project that is on hold waiting for a live solution that has enough oomph to allow some at least some aesthetics to come into play. Brook On 6/19/07, bordercollieaustralianshepherd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is Mac friendly!!!. Are you using a mac? THe features are great: archive, chyron, multiple cameras, collaborate, timeline/storyboard. Missing a few things I would like to have. Is there a revenue share? What is teh Producer cost? Less then Amazon or same for bandwidth? Thanks for the lead. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Jonathan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got accepted into the Mogulus beta and wanted to share with you about a new broadcasting tool. I've been toyng with the whole Live broadcasting field for a little bit. -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: New contender on the Live broadcasting field
Your site crashes both firefox and safari on my macbook pro a ways into connecting/loading the mogulus player. Crashes are REALLY rare on both, so something's amiss (no surprise I guess since it's beta). Brook On 6/19/07, Jonathan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My broadcast site is http://tv.tniwwt.com The image quality is pretty good for streaming ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Videolbog from antartica!!!!
Whoa. Fantastic. The world feels so much smaller and more wondrously large at the same time... Brook On 6/13/07, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: check this guy out: http://www.jasonsolis.blogspot.com/ ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com vlog links are here TRACE GARDEN now available in flash format on Blip! tracegarden.blip.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: 3ivx v5 is out for mac win linux
I'm absurdly obsessive about image quality, and ALL of the current options make me wince (except when their artifacts and problems are part of the aesthetic of a piece), but I have to say h.264, for me, was a gigantic step up from 3ivx (which had been my pick for best quality), which in turn did indeed produce much better mpeg4 and at smaller file sizes than apple's mpeg4 codec. But in my tests and use, (no, I haven't kept stuff from the initial tests I did, sorry), artifacts were MUCH less of a problem in h.264, which was the first temporal codec that seemed to cure most of the horrible blockiness that even bugs me when I watch a DVD. It does, however, only work well with progressive, field-blended or deinterlaced sources, so I have to do more prep with it. I also found the x264 flavor of it used by mpeg streamclip and ffmpegx produces better looking video at small file sizes (at least using multipass) than quicktime's h.264, though you have to be careful when you tweak everything to stay compatibnle with ipods, appletv. etc. (there is an excellent overview of all the h.264 levels and compatibility issues on wikipedia),. Had I been stuck with quicktime for web-destined h.264, I'd have given up due to the encoding time alone. There is, sadly, no way around the other issues Andrew mentions: some older machines choke on decoding h.264, and it starts to look really bad when the try to play it back. For me, the high quality on machines that can handle it is just too seductive, so I use it anyway, though I just moved Trace Garden to blip so that it can have a flash version for other folks, and will be moving all of my other vlogs and video stuff there shortly as well. I'm going to try the new 3ivx when I get back home, though. I'd be thrilled if the quality is now comparable to h.264, because having to use flash for the widely viewable versions of stuff yuk yuk, yuk yuk yuk..(though kudos to blip - their flash encoding is LIGHT years better than YouTube/LiveVideo/etc.) Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com vlog links are here TRACE GARDEN now viewable in flash on Blip! http://tracegarden.blip.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: question about wide angle lenses
Quality varies wildly with these, esp. when you get into the smaller (wider) multipliers. I would stick with the more reputable brands (Century Optics, Canon) unless you have the chance to try before you buy (or a source with a great return policy). Since they aren't actual lenses but rather lens adapters, also remember you are adding another piece of glass to your whole lens assembly (with your existing zoom already wide - meaning more of the surface of the lens in focus) so keeping things clean and the aperture as open as possible becomes crucial. OTOH, the weird distortion from the cheapo brands can be great for those of us who like the option to turn our camcorders into video Holgas/Dianas/Lomos when the mood strikes. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com vlog links are here TRACE GARDEN now available in flash format on Blip! tracegarden.blip.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Is there a listings for pixelodeon?
re not being chosen: as someone who has been on both ends of this (curator and maker) in the past, I can state categorically that quality of work and enthusiasm of the curator for it are only a small part of the equation when putting a program together. thematic development, balance, program flow/pacing, conceptual relevance and so much more are factors that a curator has to take into account even when s/he wish (because they love this or that piece) s/he could ignore them. signed, REALLY wish he could attend (but isn't in the program), Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com vlogs at: www.brookhinton.com/tracegarden www.brookhinton.com/thepublicrecord [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: solicitations from yahoo group members?
Someone may also be spoofing emails from the group - the actual person may not be doing the spamming. It's destroyed two email addresses I've had in the past. Brook [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: camera advice
So much depends on what kind of vlogging you do and what other uses you'll make of these cameras. I have used all three, and have an extremely strong preference for the Panasonic over the other two, but none of them are ideal for on-the-street quick-shoot purposes. These days when I'm shooting DV and don't need to worry about attracting too much attention, I reach for a DVX. But what I carry around with me is a little Canon Optura 500 (probably soon to be replaced by an HV20 - not for the HDV, which Im not wild about as a format, but for the 24P). I'm used to lots of manual control and direct access to it, so that aspect drives me nuts, but it's MUCH better for a carry everywhere vlogging camera than the DVX. And it DOES have manual control, just not at the level I prefer. But you mention as well as other video projects so here's my summary of the three cameras: PD170 - as Jay says, a workhorse. And you DON'T have to shoot dvcam with it, it also does regular DV. Very easy to use, very clean looking video ( too clean for my tastes ), but difficult to do much with it aesthetically beyond experimenting with slow shutter speeds. If you want a camera that gives you a professional looking image with minimal fuss, it's a good choice. XL2 - Personally I cannot stand the XL form factor. It drives me nuts. When I shoot with an XL1 or XL2 in public people stare at it. The XL2 does have a good range of manual / image control, though, and if you like the form factor, want interchangeable lenses, and have the $$$, it's worth considering. DVX100B - I love the DVX and HVX cameras. If the old TRV-900s were the DV bolexes of their day, the DVX100's are the DV aatons. But they invite and in some cases require a pretty deep understanding of cinematography and the technical underbelly of digital video to get the most out of them (though one can just spend the time to create a couple of default presets one likes and use those for quick shooting). Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Katherin McInnis and Brook Hinton screening tonight
Not totally vlog-centric, but some of you bay area folks might want to check out our Excavations of the Recordable World show tonight at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. It includes some of the Trace Garden vlog material reconfigured for the big screen and other digital work by myself and Katherin McInnis. 7:30, I think it's $8. Event info: http://www.sfcinematheque.org Interview: http://theeveningclass.blogspot.com/2007/05/experimental-cinema-evening-class.html Katherin's site: http://www.katherinmcinnis.com -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
