Re: [videoblogging] Re: HTML5 Webinar tomorrow

2010-08-18 Thread Jay dedman
> Great news! Vimeo came out with a universal player for embeds. Only one video 
> is needed to be sent up and it works with mobile, etc. I tested an embed with 
> an existing video and it plays on my iPod Touch, iPad, and my MacBook. Their 
> announcement: http://vimeo.com/blog:334
> I posted a test on Posterous with the embed code. Feel free to try this out:
> http://stanhirson.posterous.com/pages/new-embed-from-vimeo-will-it-work

So what did Vimeo to allow this? Im confused why everyone (youtube.
blip, etc) doesnt have players and codecs that work everywhere. Whats
the secret sauce?

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Re: [videoblogging] Re: HTML5 Webinar tomorrow

2010-08-18 Thread Jay dedman
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Michael Verdi  wrote:
> Well this isn't perfect but it's much better than it's been in the past.
> Here's what I've been using lately on michaelverdi.com:
> 
> 
> 
>  height="300" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true">
> 

Have you documented obvious problems on certain browsers?

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Re: [videoblogging] HTML5 Webinar tomorrow

2010-08-18 Thread Jay dedman
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Lil Peck  wrote:
> Here you go:
> http://www.reelseo.com/html5-video-webinar-replay/

Thanks for the link. It'll be interesting to see if all the browsers
agree on implementation.

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[videoblogging] VBS and citizen journalism

2010-08-18 Thread Jay dedman
Interesting short article on the rise of videos made by regular people on
social topics: http://is.gd/enky5

Online portals, such as the alternative film-making company VJ Movement, the
> youth-focused online television company VBS.TV, and the news broadcaster
> Current TV, are catering to an arguably rising demand for current affairs
> documentaries from a new, online audience – especially, they say, ones
> composed of younger viewers disenchanted with traditional news media.
>

http://www.vjmovement.com/ and http://VBS.tv are two places to explore.

I always think mini-documentaries are a great format between web shows and
quick one-off videos.

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Re: [videoblogging] HTML5 Webinar tomorrow

2010-08-18 Thread Jay dedman
> Link and Blurb:
> http://www.reelseo.com/free-webinar-html5-video/
> Tomorrow, Wednesday July 21st at 11am Pacific time, we will be holding
> a FREE webinar titled, “Dive into HTML5 Video.”  This webinar will
> offer you the unique opportunity to learn about HTML5 video from true
> experts on the subject, Jeroen “JW” Wijering, creator of the JW Player
> and the Opera’s HTML5 video core developer, Philip Jagenstedt.  Sit in
> with us and you’ll truly, Learn from the Masters.
> Here you will have a chance to learn about the various HTML5 video
> codecs (webM, Ogg, H.264), browsers that support HTML5, advantages,
> disadvantages, the future of HTML5 video, and how you can use it today.

Did anyone attend this webinar? I assume this isnt a webinar kind of group.

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Re: [videoblogging] VEDA - Vlog Every Day in August

2010-08-11 Thread Jay dedman
> So I just watched a video from someone stating that they are participating in 
> VEDA, Vlog Every Day in August. When I did a google search I wasn't able to 
> find any official site for it. But what I did find is that people do it in 
> April as well. Not sure how long this has been going on or which month came 
> first. Just thought it was interesting. Videoblogging month has always been 
> in November for as long as I can remember.
> Anyone else heard of this before?

Got a link to that video? Maybe its a Youtube custom.

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[videoblogging] Renewed Interest in Financing Original Web Shows

2010-08-11 Thread Jay dedman
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/09/business/media/09video.html?_r=1&src=twt&twt=NYTimesAd

The promise of Web video has risen and fallen over the last few years. What
makes the current round of interest more compelling is the realization in
the industry that Web video will not supplant television viewing anytime
soon, just complement it. That partly explains why the companies have
stopped labeling themselves “TV on the Internet.”

“We realized we were putting a burden on Web-original programming by trying
to make it like TV,” said Lance Podell, the Next New Networks chief
executive, who now calls his company a provider of “Web original
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Re: [videoblogging] Google TV

2010-08-11 Thread Jay dedman
> I think since it's Google it will likely change shit. But I wish they would 
> be more open with their direction. It seems like a DirecTV and Boxee 
> competitor, and possibly since their recent hand-holding w Verizon they have 
> something brewing for FIOS boxes.
> Either way, I see living room web video as the future, just like we all 
> predicted 5 yrs ago. And obviously our monetary reward will be Large and 
> equally distributed as this technology is fructified. I'm just glad I hold 
> the patents on "videoblogging", "web tv", and "web video". All profit will be 
> spewed into a tax-free off-shore fund for video artists to create meaningful 
> and relevant programming.

It is difficult to overemphasize how things will be different when
people can watch video on their TV, easily. Those who have been busy
learning how to entertain people will benefit for sure. Those who love
the personal video can keep loving it. We've already won!

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Re: [videoblogging] Google TV

2010-08-11 Thread Jay dedman
> Does anyone here have any information about the new Google TV that's going 
> live this fall? I see Sony is doing something with them. I heard the API for 
> it won't be available until next year. I was wondering if anyone knew if 
> whether or not Google will be asking for beta >testers?

This is the probably the most up to date info from google to the
public: http://www.google.com/tv/faq/
Seems like we wait till it comes online, then SDK will be available.

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Re: [videoblogging] 5min.com wont remove my videos

2010-08-09 Thread Jay dedman
> Yeah David, good to let the video producing community of the dodgy video 
> websites to avoid

In the early days of videoblogging, we were always "fighting" with
video sites that were unscrupulous. There were several examples of
sites that just sucked in people's videos without permission, provided
no linkbacks/credit, and even sometimes added ads on the videos.

Veoh was one of these companies. Back in 2005, they sucked in a bunch
of videos to make sure it looked like they were well used when
searching for VC funding. The community made a big stink and they
reversed their actions.

If a company cares about its reputation, these companies care what
people think and will take action to fix problems. But Ive seen many
spammy video sites that dont care. They may not be looking for funding
and are just using your videos to get hits for advertising? Hard to
say.

Best thing is to just alert other creators to not use obnoxious sites.
I think many of these sites eventually just close shopand erase
all the nonsense they created. Fly by night operations.

If you put something online, it'll end up in places you didnt intend
or want. Probably not a good idea to waste a lot of energy fighting
it. Focus on making good work and supporting virtuous online video
sites.

When we're all rich and famous we can hire expensive lawyers to sue everyone.

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Re: [videoblogging] Reducing HD files on mac/Imovie without loosing HD

2010-06-19 Thread Jay dedman
Hey Cheryl--

If you are recording in HD quality, then compressing that video will
decrease the quality. But because you are starting at high quality, the
compressed version has a better chance of looking good.

Remember that the quality of the video also depends on the kind of lens you
have, the lighting, and the original sound. If I shoot a bad video, it will
look bad no matter what I do to it.

Ultimately, I just experiment will videos look good...but are not so big
that people cannot download them quickly. It all depends on what you're
trying to accomplish. An artist or filmmaker will probably prefer people
wait to download a file because they want the best quality to be seen. An
activst is fine  with cell phone quality of it can spread quickly around the
world.

If you are having issues with Youtube, I would use the Youtube forums.
Usually that service is pretty solid. Not sure why it wouldnt take your
videos.

Jay



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>
> 1) reducing HD files without loosing HD, is this possible?
> 2) I have uploaded HD to youtube but took 2 days with repeated fails,
> and also took many HOURS to upload, those that got through finally
> 3) I watched Ryan's Freevlog vid's again on blip I think they are at for
> now, and reduced the size several times for a few and couldn't upload
> through Tubemogul, even the 300 mb, one stated prior one of my vid's was
> over 800 mb!
> 4) Tubemogul has increased my uploading size to 500MB, which I am very
> grateful for, however, I still have some that are over that, and want to
> know if following Ryan's directions to smaller, won't that take the HD
> away - it states in imovie that only one export (I am saving to
> computer) is HD?
> 5) The videos are not longer than 10 minutes
> 6) I have uploaded proir HD from old pc laptop and never had the
> problems I have with imovie and uploading (my learning curve?)
>
> any help with this appeciated, I am holding off uploading through
> Tubemogul, until I am up to it psychically and I have this sorted out
> first.
> btw, I got out (extremely rare for me), and made a make shift steadcam
> for my power wheelchair with my mini 1033 kodak. will be grabbing a
> sanyo when able and if it's light enough
> Thank you
> Cheryl
> PUBLIC APPEAL FOR CHERYL -not finished getting help I
> hopehttp://cherylbenson.ca
> http://cherylspeaksout.blogspot.com
> http://youtube.com/cherylspeaksout
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> http://cheryl-benson.fineartamerica.com
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Re: [videoblogging] Online video editing sites

2010-06-08 Thread Jay dedman
> Haven't popped in here for a while. We're running a story on video
> editing for nonprofits. I wanted to make passing mention of some
> online alternatives, except most have bitten the dust in the past 3
> years.

Editing online has yet to catch fire. Either the interface is too
clunky, the quality of the clips is poor...and there hasnt really been
a good use case.

As Rupert said,
http://corp.kaltura.com/technology/editing_and_annotation is really
the only big active one left that Ive seen. They're use case is
getting people to edit/post video for Wikipedia entries. Editing video
collaboratively like we currently edit text collaboratively.

Jay


Re: [videoblogging] What happened to vloggercon site?

2010-06-03 Thread Jay dedman
> It's working now (thanks Ryanne!) - http://www.vloggercon.com

I was just checking out what we were all talking about in 2006:
Schedule: http://www.vloggercon.com/?page_id=3
Video Archive: http://www.vloggercon.com/?page_id=208

And even farther back in 2005 when very few people even knew what
videoblogging was:
http://vloggercon.blogspot.com/2005/02/vloggercon-05-conference-sessions.html

Very cool to see how many of these people have evolved in their work.

Jay


Re: [videoblogging] What happened to vloggercon site?

2010-06-02 Thread Jay dedman
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Jay dedman  wrote:
>> just in case and if needed i'll offer videobloggers.org server (where
>> Michael Verdi is hosting his drupal project for videobloggers) to archive
>> vloggercon.
>
> Hosting etc isnt the problem. Peter just needed to clean off his
> server and we just never completed the transfer. Should be done
> tonight.

Looks like the site wont be up tonight just because of time crunch. Soon.

Jay


Re: [videoblogging] What happened to vloggercon site?

2010-06-02 Thread Jay dedman
> just in case and if needed i'll offer videobloggers.org server (where
> Michael Verdi is hosting his drupal project for videobloggers) to archive
> vloggercon.

Hosting etc isnt the problem. Peter just needed to clean off his
server and we just never completed the transfer. Should be done
tonight.

Jay


Re: [videoblogging] What happened to vloggercon site?

2010-06-02 Thread Jay dedman
> All that archived information is now gone... What a great snapshot into a
> certain time in online video, with vids of some of the best creators and
> innovators at the time.
> How come it now goes to Ryan Is Hungry?

Good question. I know we were switching the Vloggercon info from
peter's server awhile ago. All that info should be archived till time
inmemorial. Let me see what happened.

Jay


Re: [videoblogging] Re: WebM Project

2010-05-29 Thread Jay dedman
> Re full page video: Odd how few cool tools have been made with HTML5
> video so far.  It'll be interesting to see what the HTML5 version of
> Navigaya.com looks like, which they say is coming soon.  Recently
> launched as Flash only - nice full page video/web TV, social media &
> browsing interface - a bit like the interfaces Elbows has mused about
> a few times over the years here.

This is the missing link. We need more tools for creators to take
advantage of the promise of HTML5 video. We need dead easy ways to
play with presentation and interactivity.

Dont forget about proposing workshops at
http://www.openvideoconference.org/proposals/
I can imagine just a brainstorming session about what these tools
might look like.

Jay


Re: [videoblogging] Re: WebM Project

2010-05-21 Thread Jay dedman
> Here is an article about the developer who has looked at VP8 and found 
> various problems. Hopefully the reality is not as bad as the article 
> suggests, but in the rush to something free and open it would be all to easy 
> to overlook or dismiss these issues, and then maybe suffer pain later:
> http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/05/19/x264_developer_says_googles_new_vp8_webm_codec_is_a_mess.html
> Page 2 of that article is where the depressing stuff lurks.

Interesting to read, but I would make note of the source. anyone
invested in H264 will obviously do what they can to lay down fear.
Remember when Google bought Youtube and there was all the fear of
copyright lawsuits? Google has the lawyers to figure it out.

The more important issue to research is how well WebM works. Hows it
look, how smooth is it, how well does it compress and transcode? If
Google gives developers all the resources they need, let's give people
3 months before we see some cool expeirments.

In my mind, the whole idea is to break out of the idea of "the video
in the player". What if you could use the whole page as a canvas for
your videos? Stan is right that creators need the tools to do this.

As Verdi said, http://www.mirovideoconverter.com/, is a nice free tool
to transcode to WebM for tests.

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Re: [videoblogging] Re: WebM Project

2010-05-19 Thread Jay dedman
> Here is the project website:
> http://www.webmproject.org/
> I hope it does well and they can make the encoding and decoding efficient 
> quite quickly, and that lots of tools sprout up quickly.

It is indeed good news. Think of how this discussion has unfolded the
past year. Ogg/Theora went from a funky little FOSS project to a
serious codec backed by Google.

If anyone is doing any video experiments with html5 (and VP8)...please post!

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Re: [videoblogging] Re: Zi8 with ECM-DS70P

2010-05-08 Thread Jay dedman
> what kind of performance are you expecting out of a $150 camera?
> I hope nothing professional. It's a low caliber camera. Pretty much you'll 
> get something between crap and amateur results.

David has a point. Inexpensive cameras offer amazing convenience but
limited quality. I use my iPhone to record video clips these days. The
sound/images are pretty horrible (compared to a pro camera), but it
allows me to record moments I would lose otherwise. I just love having
it in my pocket. Like old Super8, I think creaky DV video has its ow
special look that we'll all have good memories of when we're old. Like
when I see VHS now.

I use a nice camera and dedicated microphone to record events that
must be professional looking.

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Re: [videoblogging] Markvoort

2010-04-28 Thread Jay dedman
> anyone seen eva markvoort's video blogs? very inspired by her courage.
> http://sentinelsource.com/articles/2010/04/28/features/health_fitness/free/id_398986.txt
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjinOU7LR0k

I can understand David's point of living some moments without the need
to record them...but Eva's videos are exactly what we discussed way
back when. People recording their most personal moments in hopes
others may understand. Archived for future generations to find and
think about.

I can only imagine that there are other people (young people
especially) who are dying at this moment. This is one way to put a
face on it.

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Re: [videoblogging] Re: New Bloggertube Blogger template for video

2010-04-27 Thread Jay dedman
>There's still time to submit a video about your hometown to their site! Upload 
>it to YouTube and send the link to hometownshowd...@gmail.com by Wednesday!
> I'm sure they'd also just appreciate some ratings and comments on the videos 
> if you're not inclined to submit one of your own :)

I think http://www.hometownshowdown.blogspot.com is cool idea. Ive
been meaning to make a short video of our town. I may get lucky and
see the guy who drives around with a machine gun o his jeep:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaydedman/2487068600/

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Re: [videoblogging] adding click through url to movie

2010-04-27 Thread Jay dedman
> On occasion I need to export a mov or mp4 movie as a Flash (flv) file.
> I'd like to be able to embed a click through url in the movie like you can do 
> in Adobe Flash. I'd use Flash but I'm not shelling out $900 for something I 
> need once in a while.
> Does anyone have any other solutions such as third party tools that would do 
> this?
> I run on a Mac but I have PC's sitting around if need be.

An old member of this group made a cool service here:
http://www.solitude.dk/archives/linkubator/
It wont work on Flash videos but still cool.

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Re: [videoblogging] Anyone see this yet? Video subtitling initiative by Mozilla...

2010-04-26 Thread Jay dedman
> Um, it's by Participatory Culture Foundation, not Mozilla.

True. PCP (aka Miro folks) are leading the effort. I assume Mozilla is
probably helping fund some of the work.

> There is an existing effort http://dotsub.com

I know the Miro folks have always been frustrated with Dotsub because
its a closed system. I know this open source subtitling project has
been a big dream for a while. You shouldn't depend on one website for
all the subtitles.

> An interesting recent development is http://speakertext.com , where
> once a can pay $20/hr (I think) to Amazon Mechanical Turk to
> transcribe videos.

Huh, this is cool.

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Re: [videoblogging] Anyone see this yet? Video subtitling initiative by Mozilla...

2010-04-26 Thread Jay dedman
> http://www.drumbeat.org/project/universal-subtitles/

Subtitles bridge linguistic and physical barriers to video. Help create an
> open lookup standard that lets any video client find matching subtitles in
> online databases, along with free and open source tools to enable users to
> easily create subtitles and translations, a Firefox extension that will look
> up and display matching subtitles, and an open community subtitle database.


It's supported by Mozilla but being led by the Miro folks. It'd be awesome
if there was a subtitling system that worked across platforms. The subtitles
should ravel with the video wherever it goes.

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[videoblogging] Open Source subtitling project

2010-04-25 Thread Jay dedman
We've needed tis for a while. Be interesting if Mozilla can help pull it
off:
http://www.drumbeat.org/project/universal-subtitles/?utm_source=gsnippet&utm_content=subtitle&utm_campaign=s010410

Subtitles bridge linguistic and physical barriers to video. Help create an
> open lookup standard that lets any video client find matching subtitles in
> online databases, along with free and open source tools to enable users to
> easily create subtitles and translations, a Firefox extension that will look
> up and display matching subtitles, and an open community subtitle database.
>

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Re: [videoblogging] New Bloggertube Blogger template for video

2010-04-25 Thread Jay dedman
> I'm pretty much a dedicated Blogger user although i can use Wordpress and um 
> and er about changing over every so often. I'm in one of those periods of 
> contemplation at the moment when I came upon this new template for Blogger
> http://www.bloggertube-demo-dantearaujo.blogspot.com/
> which I'm going to give a whirl.It was produced late last year.

Yeah, just in the last couple months Blogger has made some very nice
upgrades to their templates. Its much easier now to customize the
pages color, sidebar, header, footer. Its probably the first major
upgrade in a couple years.

Dave, if you use this Bloggertube template, send us the link.

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Re: [videoblogging] Hosting issue

2010-04-21 Thread Jay dedman
> It could be a shared ip and the ip is blocked because of one of the other
> sites hosted.
> You could ask the host to transfer you to a different IP/server?

Good suggestion. Thanks.

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Re: [videoblogging] Hosting issue

2010-04-21 Thread Jay dedman
> ...If the hosting was changed, so too were DNS.
> I believe Google spiders might (possibly) sense the DNS changes, and may
> have interpreted the change (simultaneous when pages were unavailable) as a
> domain termination -- and consequently removed and archived the site from
> its prior ranking. This is speculative, as few REALLY know Google's (ever
> changing) algorithmic schemas when considering SEO. Other explanations may
> be just as likely.

This make sense since the DNS is the only thing that really changed.
Im just surprised this would be an issue since Im sure companies and
people change DNS all the time. I cant imagine they would lose their
ranking. Thanks for this possibility though.

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Re: [videoblogging] Hosting issue

2010-04-21 Thread Jay dedman
> Same domain I assume?
> Just a quick thought...did you move her to WP? Check the Settings-->Privacy 
> area just to make sure you're not blocking search engines by mistake.

Same domain, same everything. We just moved the same exact website to
another host. Now her same website doesnt show up in google searches.

Ill do some more rooting around. It could be a totally separate issue.
Just wondering if anyone has had this issue.

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[videoblogging] Hosting issue

2010-04-21 Thread Jay dedman
This question is a little off-topic. Our neighbor rents a river cabin
to weekenders. Most of her business has traditionally come through her
website. Last month, we helped her move her website to a cheaper
hosting solution. So she has the same website, just a different host.

She says that no one is coming to her site now or booking. When she
does Google searches, she doesnt even show up on the first three
pages.

Can switching hosts change your SEO status?

Jay

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Re: [videoblogging] VLMC for Windows nopw available

2010-04-20 Thread Jay dedman
> VideoLAN Movie Creator is a non-linear editing software for video creation 
> based on libVLC and running on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X!
> It is a free software distributed under the terms of the GPL v2.
> http://trac.videolan.org/vlmc/
> DOWNLOAD:
> ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/testing/vlmc/vlmc-0.1.0.exe

If someone actually downloads and edits with this new software, I'd
love to hear how your experience. What especially excites me is the
transcoding aspect of it. Someone told me you could drag clips into
the app, and it would just know how to edit them. Not sure if this is
the truth.

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Re: [videoblogging] Fwd: Videofreex

2010-04-18 Thread Jay dedman
Joly, so awesome. I wish this stuff was available online.

Jay


> Videofreex
> Curated by Dara Greenwald
> Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 7:30pm
> 177 Livingston Street, Brooklyn
>
> Light Industry presents a survey of work by seminal guerrilla
> television outfit Videofreex, featuring a number of newly restored
> tapes. The screening will be introduced by Dara Greenwald, who
> assisted with the acquisition and preservation of this collection by
> Video Data Bank.
>
> ---
>
> Videofreex, one of the first video collectives, was founded in 1969 by
> David Cort, Curtis Ratcliff and Parry Teasdale, after David and Parry
> met each other, video cameras in hand, at the Woodstock Music
> Festival. Working out of a loft in lower Manhattan, the group's first
> major project was producing a live and tape TV presentation for the
> CBS network, The Now Show, for which they traveled the country,
> interviewing countercultural figures such as Abbie Hoffman and Black
> Panther leader Fred Hampton.
>
> The group soon grew to ten full-time members--including Chuck Kennedy,
> Nancy Cain, Skip Blumberg, Davidson Gigliotti, Carol Vontobel, Bart
> Friedman and Ann Woodward--and produced tapes, installations and
> multimedia events. The Videofreex trained hundreds of makers in this
> brand new medium though the group's Media Bus project.
>
> In 1971 the Freex moved to a 17-room, former boarding house called
> Maple Tree Farm in Lanesville, NY, operating one of the earliest media
> centers. Their innovative programming ranged from artists' tapes and
> performances to behind-the-scenes coverage of national politics and
> alternative culture. They also covered their Catskill Mountain hamlet,
> and in early 1972 they launched the first pirate TV station,
> Lanesville TV. An exuberant experiment with two-way, interactive
> broadcasting, it used live phone-ins and stretched cameras to the
> highway, transmitting whatever the active minds of the Freex coupled
> with their early video gear could share with their rural viewers.
>
> During the decade that the Freex were together, this pioneer video
> group amassed an archive of 1,500+ raw tapes and edits.
>
> - Video Data Bank
>
> Titles to be screened include, among others:
>
> Fred Hampton – Black Panthers, Chicago, 1969
> Fred Hampton - Chant and Demonstration, 1970
> Women’s Lib Demonstration NYC, 1970
> Davidson’s Jail Tape, 1971
> Interview in the Street II, 1971
> Trashing and Gassing in Miami, Republican Convention, 1972
> Lanesville Overview I, 1972
> Woodstock ’69, Tape #24, 1969
> Chicago Travelogue: The Weatherman, 1969
> Mayday Realtime, 1971
>
> Followed by a discussion with Greenwald and original members of Videofreex.
>
> Tickets - $7, available at door.




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[videoblogging] Freedom isn't free -- (not just a Tea Party slogan)

2010-04-16 Thread Jay dedman
Ning has decided to cancel their free accounts:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/15/nings-bubble-bursts-no-more-free-networks-cuts-40-of-staff/

"Ning has just announced that it is killing off its free product, forcing
existing free networks to either make the change to premium accounts or
migrate their networks elsewhere.
While the email talks about Free versus Premium paid networks, Ning actually
has a variety of different premium upgrades. Currently, Ning’s premium
options include support (which has a $10/month and $100/month options for
different service levels); Custom domains ($5 a month); Extra storage and
bandwidth ($10 a month); Ad removal ($25 a month) and the ability to hide
any trace that you’re running on Ning ($25 a month)."

We had some long discussions several years ago when videobloggers started
using Ning to make communities to complement their videoblog. (example
http://mix.epicfu.com/ which is a nicely designed Ning site). We were asking
if it was smart to invest so much time archiving and building a community on
a site you dont own.

When we did the http://semanal.org/ project in 2008...I know we debated
between using Ning or hack Wordpress for this group project. Glad we decided
to hack.

I think useful services are smart to charge. I know I pay a yearly fee to
Flickr.com because I love their service. Blip.tv would be another service
that seems worth a fee. But I feel it's really shady when services start
free...suck you in...then either force you to pay or dump you.

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Re: [videoblogging] Visiting Aussie with one day Video job in New York

2010-04-15 Thread Jay dedman
> Hi Guys, i have a one day video shoot to do in NY City mostly shooting from a 
> boat on the Hudson River. As a visitor to US >from >Australia will i need to 
> have a permit to do this or even a special visa for the one days work?

No one will stop to ask you if you dont make a big deal out of it.
Land of the Free.

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Re: [videoblogging] Re: 7D workflow for PC

2010-04-15 Thread Jay dedman
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Adam Quirk 
wrote:
> I'm so used to Premiere at this point that I probably won't switch unless
> some open-source competitor comes along with all the features I need.


"*Oscar and Emmy award-winning editing software 'Lightworks is going
open-source*."
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/04/oscar-winning-video-editor-goes-open.html

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Re: [videoblogging] Re: Google to open source VP8

2010-04-14 Thread Jay dedman
> I do not recognise the sides in the battle quite like you have stated them. 
> Whilst its true that Apple were the first to really start pushing h.264, and 
> are the most likely not to allow other formats on their mobile devices, many 
> other important players in this game support h.264. Microsoft already showed 
> their hand - they are supporting H.264 in IE9. They already support it in 
> Silverlight and the XBox360, and I believe Windows Phone 7 devices will be 
> able to play it.
> It really will be interesting to see what happens with browsers, Google will 
> certainly make Chrome attractive by presumably supporting all 3 of the 
> formats we are talking about, some others may follow suite as a result, or if 
> h.264 dominates html5 video on the web then Firefox may end up having to do a 
> workaround to provide support too, such as relying on the OS or a plugin to 
> do the job.
> Flash is a big winner so long as there is html5 video codec mess in the 
> browser arena. This is another reason I dont want the  complex & prolonged.

If Google's VP8 codec forces H264 to remain free...then that's a huge
win right there. The minute that H264 decides to start charging any
site that uses their codec...people could just switch over to VP8.  I
think Flash is being forced to open up as welland continue to
innovate.

It's also important for video tools as well. Be great to build a video
editor (legally) without having to pay fees to use the core
technology.

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Re: [videoblogging] Vloggercue 2010

2010-04-14 Thread Jay dedman
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> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > <http://vloggercue.blogspot.com/2010/04/bushwick-starr.html
> > > > > >Location
> > > > > > > > > secured, working on dates. Shooting for Saturday June 19th.
> > > Will
> > > > > > > confirm
> > > > > > > > > when I know for sure.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Adam Quirk <
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> > > > > > > > > >> planning
> > > > > > > > > >> > > Vloggercue 2010.
> > > > > > > > > >> > > The only details I have right now are that it will be
> > in
> > > > > June,
> > > > > > > in
> > > > > > > > > >> > Brooklyn,
> > > > > > > > > >> > > and free. As in free beer, free food, free video
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> > > > > > > > > >> > > After tonight I'll have more details to share.
> > > > > > > > > >> > > http://vloggercue.blogspot.com/
> > > > > > > > > >> >
> > > > > > > > > >> > Ryanne and I will make it up this year. Easy reason to
> > > visit
> > > > > NYC
> > > > > > > > > >> > again. We havent had a good videoblogging hang out in a
> > > long
> > > > > > time.
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Re: [videoblogging] Youtube forum

2010-04-14 Thread Jay dedman
> Does anyone know of any good YouTube User/Partner forums?
> Given the millions of Youtube users I figured there would be no
> shortage of forums, but my Google search mojo must be totally off
> today because I can't find any.
> And I heard on one video there is a forum for youtube partners only,
> but I'm a partner and don't have a clue!
> This one is obvious:
> http://www.youtubepartnersforum.com/
> But with 41 members and 97 posts in the last year it's hardly a standout.

Ive never found any good place where Youtube users hang out and talk.
If you ever find a place, let us know.

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[videoblogging] TV episode will be shot on DSLR

2010-04-13 Thread Jay dedman
Online video is not TV. Online video is not TV. Online video is not...

But this is interesting:
http://philipbloom.co.uk/2010/04/10/house-season-finale-shot-entirely-with-canon-5dmkii/

The TV show, "House", will shoot an episode entirely on the Canon 5D.
I found it interesting since several folks here have this camera and
do their work on it.

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Re: [videoblogging] Google to open source VP8

2010-04-13 Thread Jay dedman
> I'm so bored by the idea of even more epic codec battles.  Apple/
> Safari/iPhone/iPad in h264 versus Google/Chrome/Phones/Set Top Box/etc
> in ogg/vp8.  Versus Microsoft and whatever they choose to do.  No
> compatibility between browsers for HTML5.
> Seems like Apple are hardening their position on various things, and
> so are Google, Adobe, etc.  Pretty boring for all of us, having to
> cater for all or pick sides.

Agreed. But I think that ultimately "open" is always better and worth
the hassle to make standard. Remember that we are still in the very
early days of web video. What happens now determines how things will
be in the future. I love Apple and use all they have...but I dont like
the idea that I depend on their benevolence. Jobs will die...and
instead of a hippie entrepreneur, we'll get the ex-President of Pepsi
leading the company again.

So the mantra is "keep it open"...but focus on creating. In the end,
that's what really counts.

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Re: [videoblogging] Google to open source VP8

2010-04-13 Thread Jay dedman
> This is pretty awesome:
> http://newteevee.com/2010/04/12/google-to-open-source-vp8-for-html5-video/
> That could seriously change the codec equation for the better.

Yep, its here. An open source codec that supposedly can compete with
H264. I look forward to actually seeing what the codec looks
like...and how it works in the browser.

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Re: [videoblogging] LIVES - open source video editing / effects app

2010-04-13 Thread Jay dedman
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Brook Hinton  wrote:
> Another open source video editing package (that adds some live video
> features to boot) that looks interesting:
> http://lives.sourceforge.net

Gabriel, the LiVES developer, has reached out to some on this group.
So far it's only on Linux though he has tried porting it to mac. He
created it for VJ's who mix video at live music events. I've never
personally used it but hear that it's a little weird to edit video
with.

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Re: [videoblogging] question: live streaming from events

2010-04-13 Thread Jay dedman
> What service do you prefer to livestream from events?
> Ustream, CoverItLive, something else?
> Why do you prefer it?

We've used Justin.tv for some events very successfully. For the tech
geeks--They allow you to use Quicktime Broadcaster and hook into their
servers which allows for better quality. They even will take off ads
if you say you're from a non-profit. Ill be glad to share my contact's
info.

Eddie Codel now work at Ustream.tv as their Production Coordinator. As
a long time videoblogger, I would trust his opinion on the state of
their current service.

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Re: [videoblogging] Re: Check week at blip.tv

2010-04-10 Thread Jay dedman
> Let me know if you guys have any questions about our services, ad sales, 
> payments, whatever. Happy to answer any and all questions you've got -- 
> skeptical or not. We're an open book. The only thing I can't talk about is 
> how much specific shows made. >That's their confidential information and up 
> to them to decide whether or not to share.

Youtube has a "partner program" that you apply to. They send the
person an email whether or not they want them. The dont offer any
guidelines as to why they turn people down or accept them. Seems to be
based on number of views but they provide no specific benchmarks.

How does blip work? Looks like anyone can turn on ads. Any other
benchmarks? Do all creators get the same deal?

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[videoblogging] Who cares about Ogg/Theora? Google does.

2010-04-09 Thread Jay dedman
We've discussed the arcane notion that Flash might be a problem...and that
an open source video codec might allow more innovation for editing tools,
web presentation/interaction, and mobile devices.

Looks like Google is officially diving into this idea:
http://www.osnews.com/story/23135/Google_Puts_Weight_Behind_Theora_on_Mobile

Remember that Google bought ON2 last year...the company who open sourced the
Theora codec. If Google open sources ON2's latest version, it could really
rival H264. The fact that Google is putting money behind Theora is huge.
Video can be as free as the word.

After praising Theora's quality and compression levels, Google states in no
uncertain terms that Thoera is patent free. "The overwhelming feature that
makes it stand out from its rivals is the fact it's free," the company
writes, "Really free. Not just 'free to use in decoders', or 'free to use if
you agree to this complicated license agreement', but really, honestly,
genuinely, 100% free. The specification for the stream and encoder/decoder
source is available for public download and can be freely used/modified by
anyone. Theora was designed and is maintained with the overriding goal of
avoiding patents. No other codec can come even close to claiming to be as
patent or royalty free as Theora can, whilst still holding a candle to the
alternatives."

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Re: [videoblogging] Check week at blip.tv

2010-04-09 Thread Jay dedman
> That old video of yours about your mum - interrupted with your Coke ad
> - springs to mind, Jay - is that still online somewhere?

http://momentshowing.net/2005/03/video-a-videoblog-circa-2006/
Obviously, places like blip.tv are pushing ads on shows that are the
"new kind of TV". Personal videos probably arent going to mesh with
ads. Funny now to look at this video from 2005, when no one took
online video seriously. I remember newspaper articles considered
videoblogging a quaint hobby/joke.

uh, haha. http://collateralmurder.com/
All the power we thought online video would have is here. Changing the
conversation.

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Re: [videoblogging] Check week at blip.tv

2010-04-09 Thread Jay dedman
> I don't know about Blip, but as I've mentioned before, I'm a Youtube partner 
> and I certainly make money from it, as I do from Google ads on my blog site.
> I'm not allowed to say how much, but it's not insignificant. Not
> enough to live off to be sure, but I've only got several thousand
> regular viewers.
> If you extrapolate, and my audience increased say 10 fold, I could probably 
> do it full time and make a meager living.
> I know another video blogger who has roughly those audience figures, and he 
> has mentioned that within the next year he might take it full-time if growth 
> continues.
> I just hit my first anniversary video blogging too.

It's been good to hear your past experience. I believe blip focuses on
ads INSIDE the video (either pre-roll, mid-roll, or post-roll)...not
sure if Youtube does this. Ive wondered if people are out off by ads
in videos they watch. Text ads on the page seem easy enough to ignore.
Is anyone here a blip partner?

Does Youtube or blip make you sign a exclusive contract with them...or
can you put the same content in both places to collect two checks?
Just wondering how all this plays out.

Dave, huge congrats on the first year anniversary.

jay


[videoblogging] Check week at blip.tv

2010-04-08 Thread Jay dedman
This blog post says blip.tv sent a bunch of checks to show creators. I
know some folks here are also Youtube partners. It would be really
great if independent producers are really getting paid.
http://theblog.blip.tv/post/505915181/this-week-is-check-week-at-blip-tv-were-sending

I wonder if you can post shows on Youtube and blip...getting paid for
both. Are they exclusive?
I also cant believe that ads actually work.

If anyone here has experience as partners on blip/youtube, love to
hear more info.

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Re: [videoblogging] Vloggercue 2010

2010-04-08 Thread Jay dedman
> I'm heading to a Brooklyn events space tonight at 6:30 to start planning
> Vloggercue 2010.
> The only details I have right now are that it will be in June, in Brooklyn,
> and free. As in free beer, free food, free video screening, free music, free
> love.
> After tonight I'll have more details to share.
> http://vloggercue.blogspot.com/

Ryanne and I will make it up this year. Easy reason to visit NYC
again. We havent had a good videoblogging hang out in a long time.

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Re: [videoblogging] how to videoblog worksheets

2010-04-07 Thread Jay dedman
> Here's the best that was ever collected:
> http://node101.pbworks.com/Teaching+Materials
> It's been untouched for a couple years, so some of the materials will
> obviously be out-of-date. Might at least help get him started.

By the way, you may want to contact Jen Proctor who teaches a
video/film university class. She may have updated info to share.

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Re: [videoblogging] how to videoblog worksheets

2010-04-07 Thread Jay dedman
> A friend is going to be leading a small workshop and I remember there used
> to be some one-sheets to help new teachers teach videoblogging.
> I looked around the wiki, but couldn't find them. Anyone know where they
> went?

Here's the best that was ever collected:
http://node101.pbworks.com/Teaching+Materials

It's been untouched for a couple years, so some of the materials will
obviously be out-of-date. Might at least help get him started.

Jay


Re: [videoblogging] Re: YouTube link to blog to be retired

2010-04-05 Thread Jay dedman
> You just add an overlay title using your video edit software. Most
> people put it in the intro or ending credits etc.
> If you want to do it the low-tech way, stick a sign in the background
> when you shoot your video!

Exactly. Youtube also lets you create "hot links" that click through
to other Youtube URL's which is cool. Unfortunately, you cant add
links outside Youtube (assume its to avoid spam). There's ways to add
this hotlinks with other software but it hasnt ever caught on.

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Re: [videoblogging] vlog research - low income/urban

2010-04-03 Thread Jay dedman
> Hi, I'm researching a topic that has to do with encouraging kids from
> low income and/or urban landscapes to express themselves with video.
> This could be both singly or as part of an educational program. I
> vaguely remember a few years ago a number of interesting projects that
> focused on videoblogging from both within the US and also less
> developed nations. Can anyone point to such projects/sites -- or does
> anyone know how successful such efforts have been? I'm imaging that a
> significant challenge would be funding such an effort and also giving
> access to cameras and editing software to the kids.

There are a number of people from this list who have had experienced
teaching videoblogging to these kinds of communities. I know Rupert
taught Roma kids in England. I think Kerry is currently running a
program for Somali(?) students in Ohio. Ryanne and I have taught
different workshops as well. Like this:
http://ryanedit.blogspot.com/2006/10/tibetan-kids-vlogging_29.html

I cant think of any one place where there is a collection of material.
Be great if there was. Maybe ask some more specific questions. Or
others can chime in.

We've had discussions here before about the problems of teaching
videoblogging, especially in low income/education areas. First its
difficult to get access to technology (hardware+broadband) on a
regular basis. Maybe this is changing with the popularity of smart
phones. Then it's a matter of the time it takes to learn how to tell
stories. Editing isnt easy. People are shy. Culture clashes can be
difficult. But all this is changing each year as videoblogging becomes
more normal.

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Re: [videoblogging] Re: Crash Test Kitchen checking in

2010-04-03 Thread Jay dedman
> A friend of mine has just made a short film using the Red format. The 
> progressive way that the compression works sounds like it might be ideal for 
> web video. Imagine you've got a 1GB file - if you only download the first 
> 100MB, say, you still get the whole length of the video, but in a lower 
> resolution. That's as I understand it, anyway. So imagine a person with a 
> slower connection >being able to view your video more or less immediately at 
> a lower resolution, or wait for the resolution to build up.

I would love to get confirmation of this fact. As Quirk said,
Silverlight enables this kind of downloading..but I wonder if it can
get its orgins from the actual camera you use.

> There has probably been a lot of discussion here about Red that I've missed! 
> For now I'm pretty chuffed with my new HF200 and not having to juggle tapes 
> any more. When I convert the video my old single core Dell notebook - the one 
> we started Crash >Test Kitchen with in 2004 - can still handle the editing!

We havent spoken about the RED camera much here because no one has one
yet (or admitted to it). We have pointed to the small RED camera that
they're working on that will be pro-sumer. Currently, we've all been
trading examples of what the DLSR's (Mark V/VII + Lumix) can do. A
number of people here arenow using them for their video work. The SLR
lenses seems to really make the difference.

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Re: [videoblogging] Live webvideocasting - Veetle?

2010-04-02 Thread Jay dedman
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Brook Hinton  wrote:
> Revisiting the whole live video thing due to stumbling across veetle.com. It
> seems a little too good to be true, free high quality live streaming at SD
> or HD with no ads and no bandwidth limits. Anyone used it? Experiences?
> Anything?

Says its created by some students at Standford. Probably just trying
to attract as many users as possible so eating all the costs now. Has
anyone used this service yet?

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Re: [videoblogging] Crash Test Kitchen checking in

2010-04-02 Thread Jay dedman
> Lenny and myself are still doing Crash Test Kitchen whenever we can, and I've 
> got Garage Night TV on my plate as well. Still taking the lo-fi how-to 
> approach, with some concessions to modernity - have just bought a Canon HF200 
> AVCHD camera and gone widescreen. Oh the joys of editing AVCHD! Actually I'm 
> having reasonable success with Adobe Premiere Elements and Free HD Converter.
> http://www.crashtestkitchen.com
> http://www.garagenight.tv

Welcome back Waz. I thin many of us have found our groove and add
little new technologies as needed. i know some here are jumping into
the DSLR world for video. We're about to buy one ourselves. Quality
just gets better and better.

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Re: [videoblogging] An Introduction

2010-04-02 Thread Jay dedman
> www.TailTrex.tv is an intended revenue center of Society for Outdoor
> Adaptive Resources, Inc., S-O-A-R, a California 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Our
> mission is to facilitate Disabled Person access into Designated and
> non-designated US Wilderness, pursuant to §508 of the Americans With
> Disabilities Act, and encourage the use of all U.S. lands by the disabled.
> We are a small organization, yet committed to a much needed task.
>
> S-O-A-R aims to achieve its goal through modified canine handling protocols
> I developed in cooperation with the US Forest Service, to tow wheelchair
> bound people into wild places by use of specially trained dogs. Therefore an
> Internet television program celebrating dogs and their relationship to
> humans and wild places is fitting; hence, TailTrex.tv -- to launch January
> 1, 2011.

Welcome Mark. I know we have at least one other member who works with
dogs and videoblogs. Ron Watson over at http://k9disc.blip.tv/. I'm
sure he'll chime in here.

Do you have any videos of dogs pulling wheelchairs in the forest?
(didnt see that footage on your site). I'd love to see what that looks
like.

Jay


Re: [videoblogging] VideoLan Movie Creator - Open Source Video Editor

2010-04-02 Thread Jay dedman
> This is the link to the software page: http://trac.videolan.org/vlmc/
> Videomaker has a posted about the new open source video editing software:
> http://videomaker.com/community/blogs/videonews/2010/03/7232-vlc-released-new-open-source-editor

Cool! The VLC guys were showing off some screenshots of the editor
they were working on this past summer at the Open Video Conference. If
you've ever used the VLC player, you know it plays anything you throw
out it. They said their editor would similarly be able to handle any
codec you put into it. This would be amazing to avoid all the
transcoding we do now. Incompatible formats is what scares away
beginners from editing video.

I cant wait till a mac version comes out.

Jay


Re: [videoblogging] YouTube link to blog to be retired

2010-04-02 Thread Jay dedman
> http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?&answer=178162
> I never used this feature in YouTube, but I use the automatic cross
posting
> to my blogs from Blip.TV all the time. I guess this is one more reason
I'll
> keep Blip.TV as my primary means of video distribution.

This is weird:

We will soon be retiring the ability to add and link to a blog from your
> YouTube Account. Even though "Link to a blog" will soon be retired, you
> still have other options to share your YouTube Activity with external sites.
> You can:
>
>* Embed a video / playlist in a blog or webpage. (Learn more here)
>* You can AutoShare your YouTube activity to Facebook, Twitter, and
> Google Reader. (Learn more here)
>

It always pays to add a link to your blog INSIDE the video itself.

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Re: [videoblogging] SLINGERS... from the list's Mike Sizemore

2010-04-02 Thread Jay dedman
CORRECTION: The Mike Sizemore that we know is at https://twitter.com/sizemore.

Jay

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Jay dedman  wrote:
>> So I am nerding out with a buddy who works in the comic book industry the
>> other night and we are talking about videoblogging and indie video in
>> general and I remembered a VERY cool sizzle reel I found late last year
>> called SLINGERS:
>> http://vimeo.com/7963572
>> and when I found the link on Vimeo I noticed some VloMo09 posts in the "more
>> from this user" channel on the right...
>> and it's from Mike Sizemore, who used to post on the list.
>
> Mike's a good guy. He's a writer out of London. You can follow him on
> twitter here:
> http://twitter.com/mikesizemore
>
> That trailer for their proposed TV show looks amazing.
>
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Re: [videoblogging] SLINGERS... from the list's Mike Sizemore

2010-04-02 Thread Jay dedman
> So I am nerding out with a buddy who works in the comic book industry the
> other night and we are talking about videoblogging and indie video in
> general and I remembered a VERY cool sizzle reel I found late last year
> called SLINGERS:
> http://vimeo.com/7963572
> and when I found the link on Vimeo I noticed some VloMo09 posts in the "more
> from this user" channel on the right...
> and it's from Mike Sizemore, who used to post on the list.

Mike's a good guy. He's a writer out of London. You can follow him on
twitter here:
http://twitter.com/mikesizemore

That trailer for their proposed TV show looks amazing.

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Re: [videoblogging] AVCHD HDC-1080 PocketCam

2010-03-30 Thread Jay dedman
> Anyone have any data on this device purchased on eBay? Digitronics HD AVCHD 
> HDC-1080 PocketCam Full HD 1080 8.0 Mega Pixels
> Arrived in mail with nothing but the pocketcam, and doesn't seem to show up 
> on google. Plugged it into my USB but WindowsXP doesn't like it. Won't even 
> recharge the battery.
> Any assistance appreciated.

Ivre never heard of this camera either. I'd send it back if you can.
Sorry if this is obviousbut it's best t do the research on the
camera you want before you purchase.

There are many good pockets cameras between $100-200 that have great
support forums.

Jay


Re: [videoblogging] Re: German vloggers before 2005 --> Adam Kontras

2010-03-26 Thread Jay dedman
> So, do you agree when I say that there were no many long-lasting videoblogs 
> just short-dated experimental ones between >2000 and 2004?

This post doesnt discuss individual people, but it does go over
technical/commercial landscape of online video:
http://newteevee.com/2010/01/01/the-decade-in-online-video-part-1-the-early-years/

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Re: [videoblogging] Re: German vloggers before 2005 --> Adam Kontras

2010-03-25 Thread Jay dedman
> thanks for your answer. Actually, there were and still is the videoblog of 
> Adam Kontras http://4tvs.com/. He already had started in 2000! But he seems 
> to be the only one with a "classic" videoblog in those early days (...not to 
> mention especially German videoblogs, I see).
> I spoke with Greenhorn (Ingvar: http://www.greenhornsview.blogspot.com/) but 
> he doesn't have got a videoblog but he has some experimental videos on his 
> site.
> So, do you agree when I say that there were no many long-lasting videoblogs 
> just short-dated experimental ones between 2000 and 2004? Then, Ryanne and 
> Steve came in.

I would say that this is a true statement. When I started this
Videoblogging group in 2004, I scanned the web for anyone who posted
video regularly to a blog. Adrian Miles, Steve Garfield, and Chris
Weagel are some of the ones I remember. Just look in the archives of
this group. There were people I invited to the group who never
responded. Most folks seemed to have done one experiment with video
and were done.

I dont think I remember Adam: http://4tvs.com/explanation.html Maybe I
thought he was "too popular" to invite?

Many of the others who joined soon after were video folks who
immediately understood the idea behind videoblogging and started doing
it. Remember that there were no online video services back then. Part
of the fun/frustration was making it up as we went along. Compression,
uploading to a server, embedding, RSS feeds.

It wasn't long before Youtube and other services popped up. Video
communities spread. It just had to be easy enough to get video online.

Jay


Re: [videoblogging] German vloggers before 2005

2010-03-23 Thread Jay dedman
> I have been searching for a while but with little success. Is within our 
> group any German vlogger who had started his vlog before 2005? The only one I 
> could find is "greenhorn" and now I try to contact him via email and maybe 
> now it works via our group...
> But has anyone a hint for me? Or hadn't there existed any German videoblogs 
> before that time?

Hey Jenna--

To be honest, there weren't any vloggers really anywhere before 2004.
People experimented with posting video online, but Adrian Miles was
the only person I found who had used a blog to post videos on any kind
of regular basis.

Ive never heard of "greenhorn".

Jay


Re: [videoblogging] laurence testud

2010-03-20 Thread Jay dedman
Sorry for the spam. Banned.

Jay

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 4:44 AM, Tony Pelliccio  wrote:

>
>
> http://asthmacare.in/annick.html
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Re: [videoblogging] Editing on Mac w/o Firewire...

2010-03-09 Thread Jay dedman
> Looks like I might be bartering for a new-ish mac 13"
> There is no firewire input and i was wondering how some of you dealt
> with that problem.
> I think my cams are only capable of exporting via firewire...
> Any help would be appreciated?

I use an external hard drrive with USB and Firewire to make it work.
--The computer connects through USB to Hard drive.
--The camera connects through Firewire to Hard drive.

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Re: [videoblogging] Generate your own music

2010-03-02 Thread Jay dedman
> I've been looking for some new intro music for my blog, and one of my
> viewers pointed me to this site:
> http://www.codeorgan.com/?url=www.eevblog.com/
> It generates music based on the site contents, and it turns out my
> site main page generates quite good music!

My site sounds like an 80's black comedy. Cool.
http://www.codeorgan.com/

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Re: [videoblogging] Creating (or outsourcing) title sequences for videobloggers

2010-02-28 Thread Jay dedman
> Today I'm swamped with a pletora of digital animation tools, and here I am
> staring at Final Cut Pro wondering how the heck I'm suppose to do the same
> thing.
> Are there any tools you've found to bring back the fun of making title
> animations (aside from fixed ones like in iMovie), or even sites where there
> are templates folks like me could remix from?

Things havent changed. People use Aftereffects and Phtoshop to make
titles...then bring those sequences into FCP.
Apple does have Motion, which is FCP's copy-cat AfterEffects program.

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Re: [videoblogging] Re: seminar filming?

2010-02-24 Thread Jay dedman
> My method has been to run a recorder off the board, but also mainly to
> have a Zoom H2 set on 2 chan surround somewhere fairly central.
> Then one can run it through the levelator to balance out loud and
> quiet. The it's just a question of mixing, or cutting between one and
> the other in post.

We dont talk about it often, but this free software is really awesome
for normalizing audio:
http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator

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Re: [videoblogging] CNN iReports?

2010-02-22 Thread Jay dedman
> right!...I remember when I survived the China May 2008 quake and most of the 
> hot news agencies of the world were around my interview... CNN called me for 
> an interview about the disaster ... and I just replied -straight " 2,000 USD 
> per minute"-cause I knew they make cash with free news from cyber citizens 
> reports... and they just wanted it for free...I said "NO WAY"  ...
> well, same deal with other famous media agencies in the world ... the one 
> that really gave me a great deal was AP (associated press)

How much did they pay you for what amount of video?

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Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!

2010-02-21 Thread Jay dedman
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:47 AM, M. Sean Kaminsky
 wrote:
> just came across this wordpress plug-in - not sure how effective it is - but
> thought it was interesting:
> WP-PreventCopyBlogs

Here's the direct link to this plugin:
http://www.techtipsmaster.com/wp-preventcopyblogs.html
Kid of cool if you're worried about copying. Itd be weird if a popup
happened anytime someone copied a link.

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[videoblogging] Show makers talk about the business of making shows

2010-02-21 Thread Jay dedman
We were talking earlier last week about the trials of creating and
funding a webshow:
http://newmediacracy.com/2010/02/episode-6-the-return-of-new-mediacracy.html

Zadi, Steve...Kent Nichols of Askaninjahave posted a LONG (2-hr)
audio podcast where they talk about how they deal with show making in
LA. History, process, money, deals, love, life, failure, success.

Its worth a listen.

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[videoblogging] Lumiere---now on Vimeo

2010-02-21 Thread Jay dedman
I just saew that Vimeo has a http://vimeo.com/groups/1minute:

With the chaos of everyday life consuming our senses, it is nice to sit back
> and enjoy moments and experiences that are often overlooked. This project
> aims to study the forgotten moments and times in life that we often pass by
> without acknowledging.
>
> The rules:
> -Video must be exactly one minute long
> -No camera movement (no panning, tilting, etc)
> -No editing whatsoever
> -Use original sound
> -Tag with '1 minute'
>

This is what Andreas and Britanny started with
http://videoblogging.info/several years ago.

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Re: [videoblogging] CNN iReports?

2010-02-21 Thread Jay dedman
> I submitted my first two CNN iReports in the last two days, just for fun.
> Both times a CNN staffer called me the next day to "vet" them and get a
> quote from me that is below the video. Anyone have any feelings on iReports?
> Seems a nice way to embed a video on my blog, with the cool red "CNN
> iReport" on the video, but I bet they own that video now!!! So perhaps not
> a good hosting alternative, albeit a great ego boost. They even said if I
> updated an uploaded video to email them and they can swap it out with the
> new version. Interestingly accessible for such a big organization.

It is cool they do it. I m pretty sure blip.tv built their backend so
the accessibility isnt too surprising.

Now to put on my cynical hat. If you post little daily life stories,
itll never go on the air. What they want is to get the person who
records the tornado or the school shooting. iReport is built to get
the free money shot for their TV network.

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Re: [videoblogging] Re: Youtube thumbnail frame

2010-02-21 Thread Jay dedman
> http://www.youtube.com/partners
> http://www.youtube.com/t/partnerships_faq
> Quote:
> "To become a YouTube Partner, you must meet these minimum requirements:
>    * You create original videos suitable for online streaming.
>    * You own or have express permission to use and monetize all audio
> and video content that you upload—no exceptions.
>    * You regularly upload videos that are viewed by thousands of
> YouTube users, or you publish popular or commercially successful
> videos in other ways (such as DVDs sold online).

And they are VERY strict with copyright. Tell them you make ALl your
own media even the music. We mentioned we used CC-licensed music...and
they sent us forms they wanted us to get signed by all parties and
faxed to their office.

We ended up not being Youtube Partners but seems they just want people
who post regularly and are regularly popular. They sent us an invite
after some of our videos started hitting 50k.

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Re: [videoblogging] Re: Remember when it was all 320x240?

2010-02-15 Thread Jay dedman
> It's a full time living for quite a few people:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/business/media/11youtube.html
> I'm not quite there yet, but there's always hope!

Yep, this is the article that everyone points to:

YouTube declined to comment on how much money partners earned on average,
> partly because advertiser demand varies for different kinds of videos. But a
> spokesman, Aaron Zamost, said “hundreds of YouTube partners are making
> thousands of dollars a month.” At least a few are making a full-time living:
> Mr. Buckley said he was earning over $100,000 from YouTube advertisements.
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Re: [videoblogging] short-film ideas using a 360 degree lens

2010-02-15 Thread Jay dedman
> I seen 1000's of these panorama videos [1][2
> I am trying to think of a story/drama that would make a 360 degree lens worth 
> using

Do you have a link to a 360 camera that you would get?

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Re: [videoblogging] Re: Veoh is dead

2010-02-12 Thread Jay dedman
> Do you think its safe to try discussing the creation aspect, now that there 
> are presumably less people participating here, and there is no longer a 
> danger of urinating on the newborn flames of vlog hope where everything 
> seemed possible because that time has long >passed?

My friend, David, coincidentally wrote a relevant post today about
creators developing fans and finding alternative means of funding:
http://el-oso.net/blog/archives/2010/02/11/the-creative-class-and-crowdfunding/
It's not specific about video and riffs on the "1000 True Fans"
theory, but still interesting to see how things are evolving.

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Re: [videoblogging] Re: Veoh is dead

2010-02-12 Thread Jay dedman
> I suppose one of the reasons Ive always liked non-commercial personal vlogs 
> is that many people can be entertaining in ways that are not 
> 'larger-than-life' that showbiz requires, that are just the same as the ways 
> normal people have entertained eachother on a close personal level since time 
> immemorial. But we have been somewhat spoilt by everything from talented 
> geniuses at their prime creating brilliance, to huge personalities, epic 
> tales and great actors and it remains very unclear to me if there is much 
> more of that to go around. Are we just not fostering it and giving it room to 
> grow in people, or is such potential actually rare?
> I admit I was hoping more would come from the partial removal of 'cocaine 
> decisions' from the creative world but hopefully Ive just been barking up the 
> wrong tree and some great things will happen one day or great things that are 
> already happening will be recognised as such by me and others.

I love that: "cocaine decisions". Frank Zappa lives.

I think we got to remember how young all this stuff is. Five years is
not an eternity even in internet time. I feel lots of great things
have happened. Lots of experimentation, business plans, failed
business plans, amazing technology, shitty technology. At least 75% of
the video I watch is now made by random people around the world. Most
of that is NOT a show format. I also am more drawn to the
personal/eyewitness video that get passed around in links.

For instance, here's a link I just watched:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss68YWoihqs
A man smashes 29 TV's in a Walmart.
Much more fun than a 3-minute show on what's happening at MacWorld
(for me that is).

The web is not TV. That's the mantra. It probably makes sense to copy
TV formats now in this transitional periodbut in 10 years, I think
popular online content won't be what we think of shows now.

I'm still super psyched that it's all cracked open. We still got to
create on pure energy as all artists before us. As David Cross says:
"Shut up you fucking baby!"

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Re: [videoblogging] Re: Veoh is dead

2010-02-12 Thread Jay dedman
> As a viewer I remain pissed off that when I go looking for regular compelling 
> content I usually find magazine-format programs that dont float my boat for 
> reasons of my age, the pace of the show, or cultural incompatibilities (eg I 
> like Americans but where the hell are the British shows not made by existing 
> media personalities?)
> Please can someone cheer me up by posting a few links to some content that 
> there is a chance I might like (it doesnt need to be >British, anything but 
> the magazine format stuff will do).

All excuses aside, I agree with Eric Mortensen of blip.tv who just
tweeted (https://twitter.com/ericmortensen) about creators having no
excuses to not do their thing. Ultimately, creators have always been
behind the ball and must sacrifice to prove their worth. This reality
wont go away just because we have shiny computers.

I just find it funny that VC's have wasted hundreds of millions on
technology solutions to video. It's become extremely clear that it's
not the problem we need solved.

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Re: [videoblogging] Re: Veoh is dead

2010-02-12 Thread Jay dedman
> I have to say that Dmitri has always been really friendly and nice, across
many interactions over many years, and today of all days I want to wish him
and everyone who worked at Veoh well.
> I actually think about everyone in our Web video world all those years ago
as being somewhat of a pioneer.

I never met Dmitri or had any interaction with him. Veoh did give a couple
small sponsorships at Vloggercon and Pixelodeon. I certainly dont wish ill
will towards anyone. Ive made too many mistakes in my short life to enjoy
other people's failure.

But it interesting to see how things are playing out. Techcrunch had a
relevant article today:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/12/online-video-vcs-wrong/

We’re still in the early days of online video content and history is
> repeating itself.  The film industry initially recreated theater and added a
> camera to record plays; early TV recreated radio and added a camera as
> well.  Online video content has much room for improvement, but what is
> missing is the kind of investment required to create compelling content.
>  VCs keep throwing out cliché after cliché and just show their lack of
> understanding of that fact. Sure, some of the aggregators such as Veoh did
> scale quickly but it wasn’t all that defensive.  Despite all of this, VCs
> seem to be making all of the same mistakes over and over again: investing in
> the technology and not in the content.
>

This is something we've all spoken about at length. There's plenty of money
for technology and ZERO money for creators. Advertising is something to
watch but there's a HUGE gap between making a video series and bootstrapping
its popularity long enough where you might make some money to survive.

I also like the mantra: "the web is not TV". Ill be sad if all this work
just leads to HULU, or another place where you can watch LOST episodes.

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Re: [videoblogging] Re: Remember when it was all 320x240?

2010-02-11 Thread Jay dedman
> I would guess that its partly the extra work the publisher has to go through 
> like you say, but also some other technical issues to do with how the plugin 
> works in practice, along with whatever the story is regarding what happened 
> to ShowInABox and other video module plugins that it tried to promote, most 
> of which Ive long since forgotten. What remains active of these prior 
> efforts? There was some very nice functionality in these things but they 
> needed polishing to gain wider use.

People got understandably burnt out developing themes and plugins.
Also it was a time when Wordpress was updating itself every couple
weeks. Too difficult to keep up. Eric (aka UnholyKnight) was cool
enough to update recently the plugins for the latest Wordpress:
http://unholyknight.com/VideoWrangler/

But as youve mentioned, commercial services have come  along way to
providing the services people want. David Jones just clued me into how
easy Youtube has made viewing. Upload one version and they trasncode
into multiple formats, plus seem to provide different RSS feeds for
different devices. That's all we were ever trying to do with
http://showinabox.tv/

> I wanted stuff to evolve whereby people could mix a variety of different 
> services from different companies together in a standard and modulaar way, 
> where it would be trivial to switch service providers for any part of the 
> system without having a nightmare, where the user had full control over their 
> data, and where there was still room for indie developers to add 
> functionality to the basic service offerings. Well in reality we sometimes 
> get sort of some of the above, but not in a way that makes me feel there is a 
> cohesive platform >I can build on without placing undue trust on a single 
> corporate platform such as writing a facebook app or whatever.

I always wanted to build a frontend for Amazon S3. It'd be an app that
connected to your S3 account. You'd just drag a video into the
app...and it'd transcode and upload the video into multiple versions.
It'd provide a nice interface to your library of videos, including
DV/HD copies of all your work. Hosting is cheap enough to do this.

So instead of relying on free commercial hosting sites, you'd have
control. Not sure if many people want this control though. Youtube
makes it so easy. Plus some people seem to actually be making money
from Adsense through Youtube.

> Never mind, personally Im hungry to work on something so shall likely return 
> to Drupal and see what can be done with that in conjunction with video 
> hosting services & html5.

I like the possibilities in HTML5. What will be interesting is if we
can find different ways to tell stories beyond just a short video
posted in a Flash player. All this could be more than just TV on the
internet.

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Re: [videoblogging] Re: Remember when it was all 320x240?

2010-02-11 Thread Jay dedman
> HD is not their only choice.
> I use an embedded YouTube player which defaults to 360p, the user must  then 
> manually chose 480p or 720p if they way higher res. If they subscribe to my 
> podcast with iTunes or whatever they get a
> separate 480x272 version.
> About half my audience subscribe and watch directly via my YouTube channel, 
> which again defaults to 360p.
>
> So my available HD content uses no more bandwidth than anyone else's blog or 
> video, unless the user decides that's what they want.

I didnt know Youtube did all this these days. This is great.

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Re: [videoblogging] Re: Veoh is dead

2010-02-11 Thread Jay dedman
> Did some brief trawling through the archives of this group circa 2005-2006 
> and saw one reason why I remember Veoh - Their founder >was active here when 
> they started, and the Halycon bloke with pink hair rather overpromoted them 
> on this group from time to time.

Those were the days when you could literally watch almost every video
posted each day. It was in the hundreds. Veoh decided to import,
transcode, and reupload everyone's videos to Veoh one night. I bet it
was before a funding meeting so they wanted to show how popular they
were. Dmitry came on the list and made peace by deleting all the
videos they imported.

It was this incident that had a group of us create this "best
practices" for hosting sites:
http://videoblogginggroup.pbworks.com/Best+Practices+for+Aggregation+Sites

I dont see sites do this anymore (reuploading people's videos). Maybe
Im not just aware of it.

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Re: [videoblogging] Veoh is dead

2010-02-11 Thread Jay dedman
> http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20100211/veoh-finally-calls-it-quits-layoffs-yesterday-bankruptcy-filing-soon/-
> I never really used them, but thought y'all would find this
> interesting nonetheless...

I dont know anyone who used them to host videos. Not exactly sure who
their users were. Kind of reminded me of Revver, another online video
hosting company to go bankrupt.

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Re: [videoblogging] Re: Remember when it was all 320x240?

2010-02-11 Thread Jay dedman
> Originally (2006) I produced videos 320x240 @15fps. I was more conscious 4 
> years ago about file size. I imagined Blip blowing up with files being 
> anything larger. :)
> Since then I've settled in on 480x272 as my standard output rez (16:9).
> If I have 4:3 video I'll normally output to 480x360.
> I use vpip on my wordpress site to add the videos.
> Over the years, I've since gone back, left the original video @ 320x240, but 
> I have it displayed on the site at 480x360. It looks no worse than some of 
> the stuff I see on YT.
> While I have my pants down telling all my dirty secrets, I've shoot 
> everything over the past couple years in HD. I don't output in HD, just the 
> original content is in HD. That way, I have more options down the road.

I've always advocated this direction. I loved vPIP (http://vpip.org)
because it let you post multiple formats so people could choose.
Someone may want the full HD version, while another person can choose
the smaller Flash version, or another person may want to watch the
.ogv file, or someone else can watch the H264 version because they
really appreciate the compression quality.

vPIP also creates different RSS feeds for your different formats. This
is important since different devices require different formats since
we're still in days of the "codec war".

I've always been surprised vPIP hasnt been more popular, or someone
hasn't copied it's features.I guess because it takes more work to post
multiple formats, but I think its a nice option until there's some
standardization.

I also still post smaller sized videos online...but keep higher
quality archives for the future. I'd rather people watch a slightly
slower quality video than click away because they dont want to watch
for the 720HD version to download.

That being said, David's work at http://www.eevblog.com/ is extremely
appealing to a very specific group of people. Someone who likes to
take apart electronics will wait to download the HD version if that's
their only choice.

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Re: [videoblogging] Re: Zoom H4N Audio Recorder

2010-02-10 Thread Jay dedman
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Brook Hinton  wrote:
> Excellent resources and info, Rob, thanks! Should go in the wiki if its
> still around... Jay? (I can't find the link for some reason).

Here it is: http://videoblogginggroup.pbworks.com/
We started this wiki several years ago to remember useful links or
explanations. Please add/edit as necessary. Sometimes it's useful when
someone asks a question that was answered in detail in previous
messages.

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Re: [videoblogging] YouTube Live Streaming Video

2010-02-10 Thread Jay dedman
> I watched the Google Buzz launch video today, and noticed it was live 
> streamed over YouTube. I had not heard of them offering a live streaming 
> service. Is this something new or am I just late to the party as usual?

I havent seen a Youtube streaming service. They probably just use it
internally since they have the servers and engineers. Could obviously
be testing for a public release as well.

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[videoblogging] XDCAM + FCP

2010-02-10 Thread Jay dedman
If anyone here has experience working with Sony's XDCAM video files
and FCP, please email me offlist. I have a colleague who's stuck and
has a couple questions that she can't find anywhere online. She seems
to have stumped everyone with her issue. Thanks in advanced.

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Re: [videoblogging] Remember when it was all 320x240?

2010-02-05 Thread Jay dedman
> They don't make you an HD flash version but blip has always supported
> any size file you want to put up there. You can just add a 1080p file
> (along with lots of other formats) when you upload.

Thats why blip is good. They are almost completely format agnostic.
For instance, I use always blip when I need to post an mp3.

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[videoblogging] Remember when it was all 320x240?

2010-02-05 Thread Jay dedman
well, Vimeo just announced that it's added 1080p with ACCHD support
(for Vimeo Plus members).
http://www.studiodaily.com/blog/?p=2568

Youtube did this in the fall but it's not becoming common. I have a
pretty decent mac and it can barely handle playback. But it was just 4
years ago when people complained of their computes choking on 320x240
videos. Bandwidth was slow and processing power limited. Just a matter
of time before the groupBorgmind upgrades itself.

Really really beautiful images at 1080p.

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Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!

2010-02-04 Thread Jay dedman
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Chad Boeninger  wrote:
> I recently discovered that it's been happening to me as well.  Take a look
> at my post here
> http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/businessblog/2010/01/27/a-day-in-the-life-of-librarian/
> and see the striking similarities here
> http://www.dreambusinesscoach.com/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-librarian/
> .  Granted, the site does link back to the original post, but I still feel a
> bit violated.


Dave's example is really extreme form of a splog. Its actually nicely
designed as well. Looks real and not just a scrape trying to pull
links.

When this group first started when online video was very new, there
were a lot of sites popping up scraping and aggregating video. Often
they'd just grab RSS feeds and suddenly have instant content.

We came up with a list of best practices that helped set the tone for
what was acceptable:
http://videoblogginggroup.pbworks.com/Best+Practices+for+Aggregation+Sites

Dave, keep us up to date with what happens. As others have suggested,
take a deep breath and take it step by step. If this guy gets some
formal letters from an attorney...you may be surprised how quickly it
goes away. Im surprised he has the domain in his own name.

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Re: [videoblogging] Re: H264 still free till 2016

2010-02-04 Thread Jay dedman
> They still gain in other ways by having h.264 as the standard, ie they get 
> larger payments from companies that distribute a lot of >video, sell video, 
> make hardware & software that encodes & decodes, etc etc. The end user or 
> small creator still ends up paying in >the form of a small chunk of the cost 
> of things they buy, or a small percentage of the cut that the video 
> host/distributor takes, but if >done right its such a small amount that 
> hardly anyone notices, and those who dont have the means of paying are not 
> chased by the >brain police or completely locked out of the online video 
> revolution.

Yes, someone just watching video online or editing with commercial
software will see no change.
But if we wanted to create our own video editing software or
transcoder, we would have to pay licensing fees to use H264. If H264
is the default standard, then any grassroots solution will necessarily
be "illegal".

This is why Firefox is pushing for Ogg/Theora to be widely adopted
since they cannot afford to pay a licensing fee for each Firefox
install. This is also why awesome video projects like
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ are created by somewhat shadow groups who
put plenty of blood, sweat and tears into their projects...but cannot
really by public about it. If H264 is the standard then it cuts out
any player who cant pay.

At the same time, the creators of H264 have every right to insist on
payment for their team of engineers who create a beautiful codec. Just
like a pharmaceutical company has every moral right to charge for
medicine they research and produce.

It's also like Microsoft's Internet Explorer. For a while it was the
default browser because they pushed it onto all computers that were
bought with Windows. The browser was free to the user, right? Who
cares? Defacto standard. Of course we learned that a closed browser
stifled innovation and added cost onto the cost of each computer
bought. It took quite a battle legally and technically to get people
to undestand that "O! if the browser is open, then thousands of
developers will extend its usability, and make it all much cooler."
And in order for this to happen, there cannot be a fee to play.

> Will be interesting to see what Mozilla do with firefox, and the youtube 
> html5 test and ipad have stirred up a heck of a lot of online >discussion 
> about these issues recently, time will tell if this leads to anything useful 
> or remains mostly hot air.

Yeah, its good for H264 to extend their freeness till 2016 since they
can continue to get inside of all devices. But it also gives Mozilla,
google, and others time to develop an alternative codec if they so
choose.

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Re: [videoblogging] VlogEurope 2010 - Lisbon.

2010-02-03 Thread Jay dedman
> VlogEurope 2010 - Lisbon.
> I've had this on my mind for some time, and now is as good a time as any to 
> start spreading the word and getting people to find time in their schedule to 
> make it to Portugal in November. So why VlogEurope 2010 - Lisbon?
> Portugal is easily reachable from both sides of the Atlantic, and if I had my 
> way the event would mix up as much of the world as possible. It's not 
> expensive to fly here, and accommodations are reasonable by European 
> standards.
> What will happen? For me VlogEurope should be about what the people attending 
> want to do, but judging from previous editions the main thing will be about 
> having people together in a big session of vlog fun, and discovering the 
> city. Lisbon has seen a boom of really nice hostels, and since that turned 
> out good in Budapest, shouldn't we try something like that here? There will 
> be lots to see after, and also to eat and drink. Trust me ;).
> Just trying to start the conversation and get some feedback. But we're on!

Hey Miguel...I notice no one has answered this message yet. Might be
better to post on . Not sure how many US
citizens can afford to travel overseas right now. Tough financial
times and an uncertain future. Not sure what the atmosphere is like in
Europe.

But I love the idea of an event in Portugal.

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[videoblogging] H264 still free till 2016

2010-02-03 Thread Jay dedman
Steve of Elbows has mentioned this day several times. H264 will now
officially be royalty free to users for a little while longer. My cynical
read: they're trying to make sure H264 is the video standard online...then
they can charge out the wazoo.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/03/1528242/MPEG-LA-Extends-H264-Royalty-Free-Period

"The MPEG LA has extended their royalty-free license (PDF) for 'Internet
> Video that is free to end users' until the end of 2016. This means
> webmasters who are registered MPEG LA licensees will not have to pay a
> royalty to stream H.264 video for the next six years. However the last
> patent in the H.264 portfolio expires in 2028, and the MPEG LA has not
> released what fees, if any, it will charge webmasters after this 'free
> trial' period is over."
>

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Re: [videoblogging] youtube sound

2010-02-01 Thread Jay dedman
> So..now that I edited the video and uploaded to the Youtube I'm experiencing 
> some sort of video behind the sound issue. The raw compressed file is looking 
> good, but when I upload it to Youtube, the visual goes faster than the sound. 
> Is it just me or Youtube doing smth wrong today? Have you had any issues like 
> that? I did fix the raw sound to reduce the hum. Could that be doing 
> something to the video on Youtube?

It'd be helpful if you send a link to the Youtube video so we can see
it. Also be good to know how you compressed the video and fixed the
sound.

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Correct subject lines (was Re: [videoblogging] Turnhere free videos)

2010-01-31 Thread Jay dedman
Just a quick note as the moderator of this list. I notice that we have
a thread here under "Turnhere free videos", yet none of the
discussions are about Turnhere.

Please appease my obsessive compulsive behavior and start a new email
thread with a new subject heading when changing topics. This helps
make the conversations understandable in our email inboxes.

Jay



On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Tom Dolan  wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> Been looking @ some video blog sites and comparing to the one I'm
> building. I've imported two short videos I made, from YouTube just to
> chk compatibility, etc. They appear in a list format on the Home page/
> Blog and I can add commentary if I choose so far so good. But now,
>
> I've been looking at other vid-blogs and some have a Player with
> selections in a list connected to the player either under the Player
> or to the side of the Player. Do you think that's a better format than
> the more traditional 'blog' style where each is listed in its own
> space? I know, content is important, nevertheless, I'd like to give
> the visitor a format that is user friendly but surprise them with the
> content. Opinions pleze.
>
> BTW, Richard Harrington likes lijit. So I checked it out. Thought OK,
> so I installed & configured it as small, non-intrusive, no ads. Kinda
> neat, but the search on my site either had ads, or worse, if the
> subject was not found on my site it offered off-site
> locations...excse me! I deactivated the plugin, wrote lijit
> support with ??'s and awaiting response.
>
> I don't want ads at least for awhile. So back to WordPress Search for
> now and I'm ok with it. Any experience w/lijit or opinions?
> Inspirational Vid-blogs I should check-out?
>
> Thanx.
>
> Tom Dolan
> tomjdo...@gmail.com
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