[videoblogging] Re: Looking for videos to promote and spotlight
What century does your web designer come from?? :)) If you believe you have taste in what's good, judging from the design of your site your venture is epic fail! Pardon my straight-forwardness... Solution: Hire a web designer first... --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Irina irina...@... wrote: hi mark, i noticed a little hyperbole on your about page :) are you really the only online publication that spotlights the best videos and Internet http://www.internetvideomag.com/about-us1.htm# films and movies on the net, as well as great web siteshttp://www.internetvideomag.com/about-us1.htm# that demonstrate amazing creativity and skill regarding how they integrate video into the site On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Mark Shapiro edi...@...wrote: Internet Video Magazine promotes and spotlights your videos. That's what we do. Send us the URL, tell us a little about the video, and if its good enough, cool enough, we will feature it on our Best Videos of the Week section. We also run contributed and bylined artilces. So if you have something to say, want to share some production tips, drop us a line Mark Shapiro www.internetvideomag.com edi...@... editor%40internetvideomag.com -- http://geekentertainment.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] THI IS REFRESHING!!!!!!!!
Zoom will start shipping these new pocket camcorders which use Zoom's H4n's condenser mike technology. I only wish it filmed in HD 16X9 Shake it out... http://bit.ly/3R9SdX
[videoblogging] Re: B H Disappointment
I made a promise to myself that I will never buy anything from BH no matter how desperate I am to get something or whether other stores don't carry what I want to get. BH simply became arrogant in their customer service as they achieved power. Let me explain; I have a Strida folding bike and one day I went to BH to purchase a Panasonic TM300. I folded the bike, which by the way folds into a stroller-like shape, and was entering BH, the Welcome to BH, Mexican guy said you can't come in with a bike. I said I was here yesterday with this bike folded and you guys simply put it in the customer bag check-in (I was testing this camcorder then and now I was ready for the purchase). He said no more, chain it outside. I said I have no chain. He called a security guy that one denied the entry too, I asked to talk to the manager and another security guy, not a manager, came out and denied the entry. I simply turned away and rode off. BH lost a customer and ever since I've been telling everyone that this store is no longer what it used to be. I was a loyal customer there since 1995. If you are in NYC, make no mistake, go to a camera rental and play with what you want to buy there, or rent it for a day, and then simply go online and make a purchase anywhere else but BH that has 5-star rating on pricegrabber.com. Good luck! --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones shir...@... wrote: I've been doing business with B H for over 20 years. A lot of business. And all that time, I've been an ardent B H booster. I called them today and explained that I'm considering buying a Sony HVR Z5 and wanted to know when it would be available as they are not in stock. I also explained that I live 2 hours away and would like to make an appointment to come down and look at one. The salesman told me that I did not have to make an appointment, I could always come and look at a demonstrator. It is on a tripod. I asked if I could hold it and see how it balances, etc., because all my shooting is hand-held. He said no, it would have to stay on the tripod. No appointment or other arrangement could be made. I asked what he thought I should do and he made the suggestion that I should go to a rental house and rent one for a weekend. Now this is a $5,000 plus purchase and I feel that I should have the opportunity to hold one in my hands and look through the finder before I buy it. Right now, this is a deal-breaker. I am not going to buy a camera that I am not allowed to even hold. My question to the group: Any suggestions for a reliable dealer in the New York area with prices in the same range as B H? Or Boston? I've been dealing up until now exclusively with B H so I have no experience with alternates. Thanks, Stan Hirson http://LifeWithHorses.com http://PinePlainsViews.com http://ThinkingGlobalActingLocal.com
[videoblogging] Re: Two more video services close off
This year will be the most informative in terms who's truly innovative in online video hosting. I had a hunch that seesmic or imeem would not be around for long simply by initially checking out their UI and user experience. Not that I am happy that they are folding, but this is another example that the mee-too model doesn't work unless you bring something groundbreaking. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman jay.ded...@... wrote: I just saw that both Seesmic and Imeem have decided to stop accepting/hosting videos for people. http://blog.imeem.com/2009/06/25/simplifying-imeem/ http://newteevee.com/2009/06/26/seesmic-no-business-in-video-conversations/ It's interesting that Seesmic is closing down video since that was their big play when starting. I know that the vidder community had collectively chosen Imeem to host all their videosand now find out they have 5 days to get take their work down before deletion. This is just another example of the need to backup all your work. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] Re: Wikipedia to Add Video
Here is that video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg6-Mxzsuj0 --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman jay.ded...@... wrote: From the articles it sounds like initially the Add Media button will allow you to add Ogg Theora video from Wikimedia and Internat Archive and perhaps others. So you'd need to upload there first. What would really be cool is to have the wiki capability for editing video. So edit histories can be gone back to (and branched off of) for people to create different edits at any time and point. Here's another good link explaining what Wikimedia is planning with video: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Media_Projects_Overview At the Open Video conference, it became clear that the Mozilla foundation, Internet Archive, Wikimedia, and Xiph.org are all working together to build a FOSS editing platform. Many agreed that Ogg/Theora is a good FOSS codec to begin with...but not the end. Better codecs will be developed (like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_%28codec%29 developed by the BBC). The point is to find alternatives to the dominant Quicktime and Flash codecs. The goal is to have an open standard for video just like there are open standards for text and images for the web. As Enric points out, once there's an ecology for FOSS video...creative developers can start doing things like wiki capability for editing video. Or cool interactive video. But instead of developers fighting with Flash/Quicktime to get it to do what they want, we can work with FOSS codec developers. I know for creators it's still a difficult argument to make. It's really a show me the goods first moment. How will this make me more creative? Get more views? Give me better quality compression at a smaller size? Ensure I have watchable archives in 50 years? The future remans to be seen, but good tools are already being built. Check out http://firefogg.org/ for a neat Firefox plugin that automatically transcodes videos to Ogg. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] Re: Wikipedia to Add Video
Here is an interview with Erik Moller of Wikimedia Foundation (deputy director) on open video at the Open Video Conference 2009 in NYC. He talks about open video in wikipedia. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman jay.ded...@... wrote: From the articles it sounds like initially the Add Media button will allow you to add Ogg Theora video from Wikimedia and Internat Archive and perhaps others. So you'd need to upload there first. What would really be cool is to have the wiki capability for editing video. So edit histories can be gone back to (and branched off of) for people to create different edits at any time and point. Here's another good link explaining what Wikimedia is planning with video: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Media_Projects_Overview At the Open Video conference, it became clear that the Mozilla foundation, Internet Archive, Wikimedia, and Xiph.org are all working together to build a FOSS editing platform. Many agreed that Ogg/Theora is a good FOSS codec to begin with...but not the end. Better codecs will be developed (like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_%28codec%29 developed by the BBC). The point is to find alternatives to the dominant Quicktime and Flash codecs. The goal is to have an open standard for video just like there are open standards for text and images for the web. As Enric points out, once there's an ecology for FOSS video...creative developers can start doing things like wiki capability for editing video. Or cool interactive video. But instead of developers fighting with Flash/Quicktime to get it to do what they want, we can work with FOSS codec developers. I know for creators it's still a difficult argument to make. It's really a show me the goods first moment. How will this make me more creative? Get more views? Give me better quality compression at a smaller size? Ensure I have watchable archives in 50 years? The future remans to be seen, but good tools are already being built. Check out http://firefogg.org/ for a neat Firefox plugin that automatically transcodes videos to Ogg. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] The Truth Is... (Washington DC) 2009
Dear friends, Here is what people in Washington DC had to say about truth. Watch http://bit.ly/By8Km Enjoy! -- Sincerely, Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Frequency of Distribution
I too tend to film more than I can edit with a 60GB HDD camcorder. Since I only shoot spontaneous situations improv-style interactive comedy (www.mrthyself.com)I approach filming with a motto, Shoot first, ask questions later. Far too many times there were cases when I didn't have my cam with me but situation was perfect to be captured. The availability of huge hard drives in consumer cams allow for possibility to shoot more noise than signal. By signal I mean something interesting - worthwhile. In my cam I have a way to divide video clips and delete the unwanted before I even plug the cam to a computer for backup. So on my commute from Manhattan to Brooklyn I peacefully edit out the crap without wasting time when at the PC. I am thinking about going away from the resource-hungry, albeit storage efficient, AVCHD codec to get the newest marvel from JVC - GY-HM100U. Though it uses dual SD-card approach, the video is pristine, let alone the low-light filming and 3CCD's... Making this switch will make me more efficient about sensing where worthwhile action is. I dream about a day that internet has enough universal hi-speed connectivity to allow raw footage stored online in a huge video pool from around the world. This way people can both contribute as well as take from this pool of footage where video can be searched by keywords. Imagine the possibilities? :) There would have to be some in-camcorder system for tagging videos, GPS (Sony's consumer HDR-XR520V), as well as scene/face/motion detection. So the cam writes its EXIF (still cameras use this for exposure etc) info about what it recognized in the video scene and tags it into the video file. I am very lazy when it comes to editing, I have a huge load of footage sitting on multiple hard drives waiting to be edited. I am hoping that camcorder manufacturers will soon add ability to add premade editable titles and end credits right in-camcorder. This way the filmmaker simply houses the footage between the title and the end credits while on the road, glues the resulting video, transfers this video file to a computer and, viola, it's ready for transcoding and publishing. :) It would be nice to have transcoding ability in camcorder as well but so that it's redundant allowing to be able to film while this process is taking place. Imagine, you activate Youtube HD H.264 transcode and within an hour you get the ready-to-upload file? Your thoughts?? Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack billcamm...@... wrote: Hey All! :D Hope everyone's well and in good spirits. I haven't been around the email group, but I've been on the scene this whole time. Actually, recently, I had the pleasure of running into Jay Dedman unexpectedly @ Burp Castle haha, Great bonus to my day. :D Anyway.. I recently bought a camera that connects to your computer via USB and fits in your pocket. I already had an HD camera, but I wanted something for run-n-gun. My goal was to achieve daily video output via filming at least 5 upload-worthy segments each week, or at least in one day, so I could release them during the week. What I found was that depending on what your style is, those cameras can hold a ton of footage. If your style is to run the camera and hope something happens, you won't get much. If your style is to recognize potential moments and be prepared, what you end up with is a bunch of snippets that amount to more footage than you needed for that week. Actually, I should back up here. Video is how I express myself. It's my hobby as well as what I do for money. When I'm not creating video for a client, I'm creating video for myself.. because this is what I do. If this were a business application, it wouldn't matter how much I shoot, because it would all be funneled into the allocated release date and TRT of the production and anything that's excess would be discarded... Except, I don't shoot video to discard it. I shoot video to express it. I shoot to share, because I was already there. I know what happened. I experienced it already. I've been putting video online for the last three years because I want other people to be able to experience (as much as they're able to) what I've experienced, vicariously. So my goal is to release the material that I shoot... not shoot enough for coverage so that I can make my minimum requirement for my show(s). The 'problem' is that my run-n-gun camera has made me too efficient in creating videos that I'd like to release. My goal of having a daily video output has been far surpassed, and now I'm considering what I want to do with my excess footage. The solution I've arrived at with the help of brainstorming with friends that follow my feed(s) is to dump all my footage to a host (in my case, blip.tv) and only release special episodes and/or compilation/explanatory videos to my blog
[videoblogging] Re: Fun with YouTube's Audio Content ID System
I had the same situation with music that I use for my on-going international dance project called iDance (www.imtv.us). The solution I found that works for the youtube robot not to be able to distinguish whether the soundtrack is copyright or not is keeping the street noise in the video that was picked up by the camcorder mike during filming of an iDance. Here is a sample of what I did with this video that was blocked by youtube when I initially uploaded without street noise. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gjF50Aam3c In this one I actually found an audio clip from freesound.org that was recorded on the streets of the Times Square in NYC. Worked like a charm... It's good to know that youtube only scans 30 seconds into the video for any copyright music. On my next iDance I will try to keep the street noise only for the first like 40 seconds into the clip and then fade out that audio track for the music to come through clean. Thanks for the idea Jay! --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi michaelve...@... wrote: That's a pretty amazing (and thorough) write up. I just uploaded 3 videos to youtube with music on them and they passed. The first two use a track that's a mashup of Radiohead and Jay-Z called Dirt off your andrioid. The 3rd video uses some unmodified pieces of Robot Rock by Daft Punk and even though it's a very repetitive song neither of the sections come first 30 seconds of the song. Looks like my next video should work too. The good part of Mr. Roboto doesn't kick in until about 40 seconds in. - Verdi On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@... wrote: http://www.csh.rit.edu/~parallax/ I don't consider myself to be much more than a casual YouTube user. I'll upload maybe one or two things a year, but nothing amazing or anything I put any real effort into. For example, one of my videos depicts three members of my high school's marching band dressed in pajamas at an overly girly sleepover. The song used in the background was I Know What Boys Like by The Waitresses. I thought it was hilarious when I was 17, but I had all but forgotten about it five years later. I was caught by surprise one day when I received an automated email from YouTube informing me that my video had a music rights issue and it was removed from the site. I didn't really care. Then a car commercial parody I made (arguably one of my better videos) was taken down because I used an unlicensed song. That pissed me off. I couldn't easily go back and re-edit the video to remove the song, as the source media had long since been archived in a shoebox somewhere. And I couldn't simply re-upload the video, as it got identified and taken down every time. I needed to find a way to outsmart the fingerprinter. I was angry and I had a lot of free time. Not a good combination. I racked my brain trying to think of every possible audio manipulation that might get by the fingerprinter. I came up with an almost-scientific method for testing each modification, and I got to work. -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://michaelverdi.com
[videoblogging] Re: video purchase list / setup - looks good?
If I were you I would go with the VIXIA HF S10. I don't trust hard drive based camcorders (have one Sony one SR7), they make clicking and moving parts noise which is recorded into the video in very quite environments. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Randy Ksar rk...@... wrote: hey everyone. Was going to start video blogging and wanted to know if the below looks like a good starter kit. Anything else I need? Looks good? Let me know. The content is going to be around mobile applications/development so interview style videos in a business office and at events/conferences. Thanks for the feedback. -Randy rk...@... http://twitter.com/djksar Product Brand Model Number HD Video Camera Canon Vixia HG21 Handheld Wired Mic Sennheiser MD-42 Wireless Mics Sennheiser EW100ENGG2 Shotgun Stereo Mic Azden SMX-10 LED Light Sima SL-20LX Universal Shoe Mount Bescor VB-50 Tripod Bogen 190XDB Video Editing Software Apple Final Cut Express 4.0 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: video purchase list / setup - looks good?
Make sure the EW100ENGG2 wireless mike setup is compliant with the new government radio frequency standards. I don't know off the top of my head, but I hear that there's new versions of products companies have released to comply with new radio regulation... --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Randy Ksar rk...@... wrote: hey everyone. Was going to start video blogging and wanted to know if the below looks like a good starter kit. Anything else I need? Looks good? Let me know. The content is going to be around mobile applications/development so interview style videos in a business office and at events/conferences. Thanks for the feedback. -Randy rk...@... http://twitter.com/djksar Product Brand Model Number HD Video Camera Canon Vixia HG21 Handheld Wired Mic Sennheiser MD-42 Wireless Mics Sennheiser EW100ENGG2 Shotgun Stereo Mic Azden SMX-10 LED Light Sima SL-20LX Universal Shoe Mount Bescor VB-50 Tripod Bogen 190XDB Video Editing Software Apple Final Cut Express 4.0 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] This cam will change everything!
If the low-light capability of this camcorder is good, coming out in April, it will change the way we look at professional equipment. http://www.macvideo.tv/camera-technology/features/index.cfm?articleId=109356 On another note, have you seen this? http://tinyurl.com/cuok88 If you spread this video like wildfire, rate it, and or subscribe I will come visit you in your State to say hi, and even film you dancing through the streets for the iDance project... Thanks!!! Renat
[videoblogging] Re: This cam will change everything!
Yeah, $4K is a bit steep, but if it proves itself in low light, I think it's a winner... --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert rup...@... wrote: Great. I heard about this camera a while ago - thanks for the reminder. I see they have the pro GY-HM700 coming out this month as well, shoulder mounted, with interchangeable Canon lens and other goodies for the cost of a small car. They say the HM100 will be under $4k, though. Which is still twice as much as I paid for my car. Although not as much as I've paid the mechanic since I bought it. On 23-Mar-09, at 11:26 PM, Renat Zarbailov wrote: If the low-light capability of this camcorder is good, coming out in April, it will change the way we look at professional equipment. http://www.macvideo.tv/camera-technology/features/index.cfm?articleId=109356 On another note, have you seen this? http://tinyurl.com/cuok88 If you spread this video like wildfire, rate it, and or subscribe I will come visit you in your State to say hi, and even film you dancing through the streets for the iDance project... Thanks!!! Renat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: This cam will change everything!
It's the size of the cam for what it offers, that's revolutionary. Have you seen pictures of it? The darn thing fits in a palm of the hand. This JVC HM100 uses XDCAM codec in a Quicktime wrapper. I wish they used AVCHD that Panasonic's AG-HMC150 uses for space-savings and etc. However, if having it in Quicktime is less processor-intensive when editing, I would go with it any day... Compare the size of JVC HM100 and that of EX1/HVX200. BTW, CMOS chip(found in EX1/EX3) tends to give you wobbling effect on quick pans. I am kinda skeptical of the whole CMOS in video acquisition now... The only thing I am concerned about, and not discoverable till this cam comes out in April, is LOW LIGHT performance. I will go into debt to get this marvel if it at least offers 2lux. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Brook Hinton bhin...@... wrote: I'm skeptical. This is not revolutionary. There are two existing camcorder lines that compete with this, albeit a grand or two over the price (assuming this comes in around 4k) - the Sony EX1, and Panasonic's HVX200. Both have more control and professional features. The EX1 has 1/2 inch chips (the difference between, say, regular 8mm and Super 16 in terms of depth of field control) and unbelievable low light performance with a 35mbps codec similar to JVC's. The Panasonic uses a codec that isn't subject to the perils of temporal compression (but does have an issue re its lower res chips). With the JVC and for the matter the Sony, you still need to transcode if you want to work efficiently in anything but a cuts-and-dissolves only environment. Final Cut Pro already deals with these formats natively. JVC is just finally introducing a competing product. The whole direct to quicktime thing is just hype. DVCPro HD is already FCP compatible and doesn't need transcoding. Any temporal codec is going to need transcoding for professional use whether its native quicktime or not: its just the nature of the beast - the basic physical reality of GOP structure. The one fantastic, revolutionary thing is that it uses SDHC cards instead of a proprietary and more expensive card format. But it's 1/4 chips and mpeg2. The 35mbps codec, if its anything like Sony's, will be significantly better than HDV though. If you're looking at ye olde classic DV equivalents, this is a dressed up tapeless TRV900. not a tapeless DVX-100 or XL1. The lens is another variable. In HD, the lens is a huge factor. None of the cams in this range have had particularly good lenses, but that's not surprising given the cost of HD lenses. That doesn't mean its not good or a good value, its just not particularly groundbreaking. I'll look at it closely when its available, but if I'm in the market in something for this range I suspect I'll wait and save a little bit more for something like an EX1. ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: This cam will change everything!
It's the size of the cam for what it offers, that's revolutionary. Have you seen pictures of it? The darn thing fits in a palm of the hand. This JVC HM100 uses XDCAM codec in a Quicktime wrapper. I wish they used AVCHD that Panasonic's AG-HMC150 uses for space-savings and etc. However, if having it in Quicktime is less processor-intensive when editing, I would go with it any day... Compare the size of JVC HM100 and that of EX1/HVX200. BTW, CMOS chip(found in EX1/EX3) tends to give you wobbling effect on quick pans. I am kinda skeptical of the whole CMOS in video acquisition now... The only thing I am concerned about, and not discoverable till this cam comes out in April, is LOW LIGHT performance. I will go into debt to get this marvel if it at least offers 2lux. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Brook Hinton bhin...@... wrote: I'm skeptical. This is not revolutionary. There are two existing camcorder lines that compete with this, albeit a grand or two over the price (assuming this comes in around 4k) - the Sony EX1, and Panasonic's HVX200. Both have more control and professional features. The EX1 has 1/2 inch chips (the difference between, say, regular 8mm and Super 16 in terms of depth of field control) and unbelievable low light performance with a 35mbps codec similar to JVC's. The Panasonic uses a codec that isn't subject to the perils of temporal compression (but does have an issue re its lower res chips). With the JVC and for the matter the Sony, you still need to transcode if you want to work efficiently in anything but a cuts-and-dissolves only environment. Final Cut Pro already deals with these formats natively. JVC is just finally introducing a competing product. The whole direct to quicktime thing is just hype. DVCPro HD is already FCP compatible and doesn't need transcoding. Any temporal codec is going to need transcoding for professional use whether its native quicktime or not: its just the nature of the beast - the basic physical reality of GOP structure. The one fantastic, revolutionary thing is that it uses SDHC cards instead of a proprietary and more expensive card format. But it's 1/4 chips and mpeg2. The 35mbps codec, if its anything like Sony's, will be significantly better than HDV though. If you're looking at ye olde classic DV equivalents, this is a dressed up tapeless TRV900. not a tapeless DVX-100 or XL1. The lens is another variable. In HD, the lens is a huge factor. None of the cams in this range have had particularly good lenses, but that's not surprising given the cost of HD lenses. That doesn't mean its not good or a good value, its just not particularly groundbreaking. I'll look at it closely when its available, but if I'm in the market in something for this range I suspect I'll wait and save a little bit more for something like an EX1. ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: This cam will change everything!
It's the size of the cam for what it offers, that's revolutionary. Have you seen pictures of it? The darn thing fits in a palm of the hand. This JVC HM100 uses XDCAM codec in a Quicktime wrapper. I wish they used AVCHD that Panasonic's AG-HMC150 uses for space-savings and etc. However, if having it in Quicktime is less processor-intensive when editing, I would go with it any day... Compare the size of JVC HM100 and that of EX1/HVX200. BTW, CMOS chip(found in EX1/EX3) tends to give you wobbling effect on quick pans. I am kinda skeptical of the whole CMOS in video acquisition now... The only thing I am concerned about, and not discoverable till this cam comes out in April, is LOW LIGHT performance. I will go into debt to get this marvel if it at least offers 2lux. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Brook Hinton bhin...@... wrote: I'm skeptical. This is not revolutionary. There are two existing camcorder lines that compete with this, albeit a grand or two over the price (assuming this comes in around 4k) - the Sony EX1, and Panasonic's HVX200. Both have more control and professional features. The EX1 has 1/2 inch chips (the difference between, say, regular 8mm and Super 16 in terms of depth of field control) and unbelievable low light performance with a 35mbps codec similar to JVC's. The Panasonic uses a codec that isn't subject to the perils of temporal compression (but does have an issue re its lower res chips). With the JVC and for the matter the Sony, you still need to transcode if you want to work efficiently in anything but a cuts-and-dissolves only environment. Final Cut Pro already deals with these formats natively. JVC is just finally introducing a competing product. The whole direct to quicktime thing is just hype. DVCPro HD is already FCP compatible and doesn't need transcoding. Any temporal codec is going to need transcoding for professional use whether its native quicktime or not: its just the nature of the beast - the basic physical reality of GOP structure. The one fantastic, revolutionary thing is that it uses SDHC cards instead of a proprietary and more expensive card format. But it's 1/4 chips and mpeg2. The 35mbps codec, if its anything like Sony's, will be significantly better than HDV though. If you're looking at ye olde classic DV equivalents, this is a dressed up tapeless TRV900. not a tapeless DVX-100 or XL1. The lens is another variable. In HD, the lens is a huge factor. None of the cams in this range have had particularly good lenses, but that's not surprising given the cost of HD lenses. That doesn't mean its not good or a good value, its just not particularly groundbreaking. I'll look at it closely when its available, but if I'm in the market in something for this range I suspect I'll wait and save a little bit more for something like an EX1. ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: This cam will change everything!
It's the size of the cam for what it offers, that's revolutionary. Have you seen pictures of it? The darn thing fits in a palm of the hand. This JVC HM100 uses XDCAM codec in a Quicktime wrapper. I wish they used AVCHD that Panasonic's AG-HMC150 uses for space-savings and etc. However, if having it in Quicktime is less processor-intensive when editing, I would go with it any day... Compare the size of JVC HM100 and that of EX1/HVX200. BTW, CMOS chip(found in EX1/EX3) tends to give you wobbling effect on quick pans. I am kinda skeptical of the whole CMOS in video acquisition now... The only thing I am concerned about, and not discoverable till this cam comes out in April, is LOW LIGHT performance. I will go into debt to get this marvel if it at least offers 2lux. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Brook Hinton bhin...@... wrote: I'm skeptical. This is not revolutionary. There are two existing camcorder lines that compete with this, albeit a grand or two over the price (assuming this comes in around 4k) - the Sony EX1, and Panasonic's HVX200. Both have more control and professional features. The EX1 has 1/2 inch chips (the difference between, say, regular 8mm and Super 16 in terms of depth of field control) and unbelievable low light performance with a 35mbps codec similar to JVC's. The Panasonic uses a codec that isn't subject to the perils of temporal compression (but does have an issue re its lower res chips). With the JVC and for the matter the Sony, you still need to transcode if you want to work efficiently in anything but a cuts-and-dissolves only environment. Final Cut Pro already deals with these formats natively. JVC is just finally introducing a competing product. The whole direct to quicktime thing is just hype. DVCPro HD is already FCP compatible and doesn't need transcoding. Any temporal codec is going to need transcoding for professional use whether its native quicktime or not: its just the nature of the beast - the basic physical reality of GOP structure. The one fantastic, revolutionary thing is that it uses SDHC cards instead of a proprietary and more expensive card format. But it's 1/4 chips and mpeg2. The 35mbps codec, if its anything like Sony's, will be significantly better than HDV though. If you're looking at ye olde classic DV equivalents, this is a dressed up tapeless TRV900. not a tapeless DVX-100 or XL1. The lens is another variable. In HD, the lens is a huge factor. None of the cams in this range have had particularly good lenses, but that's not surprising given the cost of HD lenses. That doesn't mean its not good or a good value, its just not particularly groundbreaking. I'll look at it closely when its available, but if I'm in the market in something for this range I suspect I'll wait and save a little bit more for something like an EX1. ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Really Great Article on Media Trends and the Curation Economy
I have some constructive criticism in regards to the Flick Bank micro-payment idea; I don't think it will work, since making an average (non-fan) end user go to another site to buy credits and have him return back to the show's site, is making the whole experience hard for the user. Rule of thumb when it comes to user interactivity online: Make it fool-proof easy for them and they will find it useful. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@... wrote: highly recommend you read Ted Nelson's original stuff from the 60s on hypertext and micropayments. He had a similar system except it also allowed for quotation and applied to all content. Ted's stuff won't help you build it but it might help solidify the ideas? On 12/01/2009, at 5:50 AM, Milt Lee wrote: That article was excellent. I've been contemplating a technology that would make all this happen much sooner. Suppose (and I'm sure many people have) that you had a system where folks could give you a few cents every time they looked at a video. Let's say you have a site with 10 videos that anybody can watch, and then you post 20 or 30 or 100 more that it costs anywhere from 1 cent to 10 cents ( or more) for people to watch. And on your site you have a little button that takes folks to another site where they buy credits - $ 5.00 or $ 10.00 at a time. Then they come back to your site, and click on a video that they want to watch, that costs 2 cents. They watch it and they are happy, and you've made two cents. Now when you reach a certain threshold - say $ 10.00, the Flick Bank deposits the money in your paypal account. You can let it gather if want. (Maybe the Flick bank pays interest??) The way this starts is that somebody puts together the Flick Kicks Bank, and starts signing up artists. Then Flick Kicks starts promoting the idea that people should get paid for their work. The problem that has held this back - that has stopped this process of mini-micro payments is that up until now, merchant account or Paypal, have charged $ .30 a transaction plus 2.7%. With this new system, Flicks has to pay for the transaction - but only once. So even though $ 5.00 represents 200-250 transactions, there's only one charge at the beginning and one that the artist pays, when they get their money. Anybody want to help me build this? cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@... bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
[videoblogging] Re: Joomla Video Hosting and Social Network
Hey Ron, I have been running Joomla for Innomind.org site since 2005-2006 or so and have not yet upgraded to 1.5. Let me tell you about Joomla and video; This is the worst CMS when it comes to video. The only embeddable player that works perfectly with Joomla is Brightcove's (brightcove.com). They just switched to v3. When embedding Blip, Youtube or any other video hosting sites videos always gave me issues and I had to come up with workarounds to have blip player play smoothly. If you want to stay with Joomla for community building reasons, I suggest to use Brighcove. Its embeddable player/video lineup interface usability and looks beats any other out of the water, including Blip's. Too bad they discontinued the free acounts starting Dec. 17. However, you mentioned that you want to implement pay/download/view, I know that Brightcove has that feature to offer. There's another player in the field of online video hosting, it's called Ooyala, but I haven't played around with embedding it using Joomla. If there's a robust community building plugin for Wordpress, definitely go with Wordpress then. I, to the tell you the truth, have been disappointed with the way Joomla handles video, with or without addition video-enabling plugins. Good luck! Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson k9d...@... wrote: The dreamhost post and an email I received at the same time, reminded me of this thread about Joomla as a video host. I also just happen to be cutting screenshots for a powerpoint presentation. So... Back to the early days of December myfirstmemory was asking about video uploading to joomla. One of the things I mentioned was HWDvideoshare ( http:// hwdmediashare.co.uk/ ) . One of the responses was that it was too ugly to use. Here's how it wound up looking for me: http://k9athlete.com/images/stories/devscreenshots/videoplex.jpg I changed the site back to blue, so I'll have to skin it again, but it's real nice looking, I think. It also does JW player, to whatever specs are available on the player at present. Perl uploader, mencoder, ffmpeg... it's a pretty nice solution. I'm still on a shared server, so I've not been able to get it all up and running... It should handle user generated submissions for myfirstmemory and will be handling them for my site. I know it's a little late, a month later and all, but my memory was jogged and it was sitting right in front of me. I think it's worth taking another look at. Peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Dec 8, 2008, at 3:55 PM, myfirstmemorydotorg wrote: Hey there, so you are using JomSocial. Did you also try Community Builder and if so, any feedback? Have you considered having people contribute video, and if so, how? Cheers, MyFirstMemory.org --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson k9disc@ wrote: Joomla as Video Portal --- Here's something that I don't know if any of you know about. http://hwdmediashare.co.uk From the website: hwdVideoShare is a powerful video gallery for Joomla that allows you to display video media in an organised and managable layout on the Internet. hwdVideoShare can handle the uploading, server-side processing and playback of large video media in all popular formats. I'm looking at this for the 'large project' I've been talking about for the last year or so, but it's an alpha release right now, and the current styling is not very good. The developer seems to be the bomb, though, he's making it happen real quick and has a great reputation for delivering outstanding support very quickly. From what I can see, that's an understatement. I'm not sure which direction I'm going to go, but this is a possibility. There is also a real nice video tool for joomla, called All Videos Reloaded: http://allvideos.fritz-elfert.de/ Very cool stuff. Joomla is becoming much more robust, and is really starting to embrace media and social networking. Check out my old standard: http://k9disc.com . If you goto Main MenuConnectDisc Dog Cantina to see a brand spankin' new Social Networking component, JomSocial, in action. I think it looks pretty slick and has been well received by the disc dog community. I'm not real happy with the organizational structure, but I'm about ready to wrap it into that 'large project'. More on the 'large project' --- I'm in the process of creating a dog sport community, not unlike k9disc.com - but BIGGER - that will feature pay to play instructional video, a facebook-esque social network, affiliate vendor support, and online magazine. If anyone is interested in discussing Joomla as a media/social network platform, I'd be happy to engage
[videoblogging] blip.tv and ActiveVideo Networks to bring online shows to TV
http://www.streamingmedia.com/press/view.asp?id=11025
[videoblogging] Embedding Youtube HD video on other sites
I don't know if it was already posted here about this topic, my apologies if it was... http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/11/20/how-to-embed-and-play-720p-hd-high-definition-youtube-videos-fmt22-code-hack/ I actually like the Youtube's HD implementation better than that of Vimeo's. Somehow Vimeo's tends to pixelate the edges in the video. Renat
[videoblogging] Re: Defending Videographer's Rights in Court
Hello everyone! Later today I am heading out to court for the hearing in Brooklyn, NY. The lawsuit is for use of intellectual property without the creator's consent. BTW, the Judge Joe Brown show in LA never came through due to defendant's denial to do it on TV. A mutual friend of ours, who happens to be a lawyer, tried to mediate this issue, saying that the defendant wants to settle this out of court. I told him to tell the defendant that I specified my asking rates in the emails we exchanged right before I filed the lawsuit. Wish me luck. :) Renat --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov innom...@... wrote: Hello everyone! Over the past three months I completed three 2-minute videos for a startup DJ company, who never paid a penny for my work, promising me that when they will start getting paid for their gigs in night clubs then they will pay me for each completed video. Within these three months I shot 8 events for them, each one requiring at least 4 hours of shooting. They started pressuring me lately to deliver four more completed videos within a week or so. Since they never paid for any of my work I told them if they wanted speed they would have to pay $600 per completed video with a week turnaround from the shoot day. This escalated into a dispute and now I no longer want to deal with them. I asked them kindly to remove these three videos I created from their web site, myspace, youtube, and vimeo. They are refusing to do so claiming that these videos belong to them. I offered to let them keep them online if they would pay $300 per each video so we part our ways peacefully. And now we are having a dispute over who owns these videos. All of the agreements we made among us were verbal and never in writing. On Monday I want to file a lawsuit in small claims court to have these videos pulled of the web or for them to pay up. Has anyone in our vlogging community ever dealt with a similar situation? If I were to contact Youtube/Vimeo for video removal request, what do they ask for to proof video ownership? Should I also file for reimbursement for the time I spent shooting these 8 events? Basically it comes to 32 hours of very hard work running around in the clubs shooting small clips. I offered them these source video files at $100 per each event, so they could use them by hiring another editor, they refused. So I will gladly have to purge them all. After the court, of course. Also, there's no copyright mention in the end credits of all three videos, the last two list my name as camera/editing. They're claiming that their glamorous company provided exposure for my video skills. I never wanted exposure by shooting and editing their videos. I even did not put my name in the end credits of the first video, which proofs that. They approached me for help, not the other way around. Here are these three videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8x5B-h08Hs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGRiB35h7Pw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcIbVFu6_PE This DJ company never invested into any of the video production (props, special video preparation or anything). They just had a stable (yes, stable, :) that's what it says in their recent press release) of girls DJ for them, without paying them either by the way. I have seen many of their graphic designers and photographers come and go, which slowly started making sense to me that they just want to parasite off other people's energy and skills. I would truly appreciate any input you may have regarding this situation or content ownership before I head out to court to fight for my rights. Thanks everyone! Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org
[videoblogging] AVCHD playback on Mac
Is there a free add-on to the Quicktime player on a Mac to be able to play AVCHD files? I have 2GBs of AVCHD files to send to a Mac illiterate friend of mine, who is on a Mac. I converted those files to .mov, the result weighs 9GB of .mov files. The problem is how to send them to him. If there's an add-on I will send those AVCHD files via filemail.com Any help is highly appreciated... Thanks Renat
[videoblogging] Re: Canon 5D Mark II
Amazing camera, indeed. Low light performance beats any camcorder up to $75k. I hope Canon adds 24P in the firmware update. For $2700, this camera is a steal. If you see the video it shoots, you'll be hooked for life.. :) The mono on-board mike is a minus too, but not major one. I'm seriously considering one, I hear there's a year wait though... :) Renat --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Scott Parent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any have a chance to use this camera yet? I have been seeing the video this produces and I'm blown away. I currently shoot with a Canon XH-A1 and I'm seriously considering getting the 5D Mark II because of the quality of the footage. Anyone played with one? Thoughts? -Scott -- --- American Cliche http://www.americancliche.net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Sony PMW-EX3 XDCAM EX HD Camcorder
This is a fantastic camcorder! If you will NOT need to change lenses for your projects, consider getting the EX1 one, (EX3's older bother). It will save you somewhere around $4000. There are even ways to save on SXS media by getting SD card adapter to work with either of the camcorders. Try dvinfo forums. If you have Adobe Premiere CS4 this camcorder will fit it like bread and butter. If I had money I would definitely buy one. Sincerely, Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, mleitsinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everyone, Thanks for all the responses last time on FCP. Just wanted to check with you guys about a camera my company is thinking of buying. We're an international media outfit, primarily TV, but we do have a website where I work as a producer and reporter. The camera the TV people have told us they think we should get to be compatible with their systems is the Sony PMW-EX3 XDCAM EX HD Camcorder. They have said it's not a huge size camera and is easy to carry around for those of us who are not camerapeople. Any feedback on this camera would be greatly appreciated. All best, Miranda
[videoblogging] Re: The Truth Is... Project (AMERICA Edition)
True, it is overly optimistic, but so was the idea to start The Truth Is... project more than four years ago. I am currently creating a separate site just for this project alone. www.truth.imtv.us --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Starting Jan. 20, 2009 I want to take The Truth Is... project (my 4-year old international social video experiment about what truth means) on the road accross every State in the US. http://tinyurl.com/5lrvsj The only thing that comes in the way is finding a sponsor who would pay for the expenses associated with this multi-month traveling project. You should contact some of the other folks who have taken similar vlog journeys. Like Flux: http://fluxrostrum.blogspot.com/ Or Ashley: http://sustainableroute.com/ Or these dudes: http://bit.ly/Ul51 or Noel: http://luckofseven.com/ All these creators got/get some funding from other people. I doubt it was more than just gas money. But why does nayone make a road trip...the journey. I want to announce my intent to do this on national TV, Good Morning America comes to mind, or some other TV show of that size. As far as sponsorship, first thing that popped in is having a Smart car (smartusa.com) provide the car/gas for traveling in exchange for promoting it on the road and in the end credits. But then I recalled Aptera (aptera.com). I think it's a great company which will revolutionize personal transportation. Here is my question to videoblogging community; I never written such proposals or contacted any TV station before to release a press release. What network/show would be ideal to contact first to announce of my intent to make this happen? What car company, aside from the ones I mentioned above, should I contact for sposorship first? well...sounds like you have a plan. Seems overly optimistic and could lead to some disappointment if these things dont happen. But go ahead and write letters for sponsorship. Crazier things have happened. You would be the first videoblogger to announce his quest on Good Morning America. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] Re: Defending Videographer's Rights in Court
What you, Liza, numerously failed to understand here is that I am suing for the video, NOT for the music that comes along with it. It's a cease and desist of the video. And this video will NOT be used by me in any way after the lawsuit. Deleted, gone forever. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, liza jean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: here's some practice for court: young man please prove the defendents own said music. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov innomind@ wrote: Rupert, You have pointed out interesting thoughts. I have accepted the fact that this court TV show will be cut, this is America after all. I don't take this very seriously though, if it happens it happens, if not I will not spend the rest of my life blogging about it. Speaking of blogging, I did blog about it, just one entry... http://innomind.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-am-going-through-ugly- dispute-with.html I am in no way trying to bring traffic to my site(s) should I win the case. These three videos I will purge either way. My intent is to have these videos lawfully deleted from the defendants hard drives, or pay up for my work. To answer Liza Jean about the music in the video. The music belongs to the defendant, and is welcome to play their music both on their site or to their prospective corporate clients. As long as my video work is not attached to it. Like I said; If I win I will delete all 3 videos and the raw files of every of eight events I shot for them. I do not want to associate my name with these sharks. Renat --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert rupert@ wrote: Renat, How many of these shows have you watched? Are you watching them now, all the time, while you prepare this? Because you should be. Look how silly the people in the show look. That's going to be *you* in the box. However justified you feel now - however ridiculous you think the opposition's correspondence is, you *will* come off looking bad, too. Perhaps shrill, irrational, emotional - you're obviously very upset about all this, to the point where you want to humiliate them publicly, and the show will play that up, and they will try to get you worked up in your testimony. Certainly, you won't get a chance to slowly and carefully lay out the correspondence to make your case on TV. All that stuff will be cut - it's boring. This is not paranoia - it's the way Reality TV really works. I have first hand experience from the production side. Irina just backed me up. Really - imagine how you'd feel about it if you get there and you're suddenly not winning as easily as you imagined (which is usually what happens in court cases, as in politics). Your ex-clients will have better lawyers advising them what to say. Most of the plaintiffs on these shows are made to look like fools. And it's not like you're a widow who's been wrongly evicted. As a videographer of models, your case is hardly going to tug on the nation's heartstrings. Finally - this I just don't understand - it seems you want to humiliate these people on TV, and yet you rejected Jay's suggestion to blog about your experience as public whining? You'd rather get 2 and a half minutes of supposed national broadcasting and totally forfeit control over how you look in public? And you're asking for advice on how to do this on the *videoblogging* list? The whole point of which is to reverse that power structure? And where is this going to go when it's been broadcast - once, during daytime, to bored housewives and students? Nowhere. It'll be broadcast and disappear. Do you even know how many people watch this show, and what the demographic is? Should your client really be shaking in their boots about being 'exposed' on this show? How many of their potential business partners are ever going to see it or even know about it? My point is, I just can't believe that you'd be willing to trade control of your image and reputation for such weak rewards. YOU have the power to make your own video about your case that will show up in all their search results if you do it right. YouTube and other video sharing sites are often heavily weighted so that they often feature in the top 2 pages for any search result. Make an entertaining video of the correspondence from *your* side. Humiliate them in a way that's viewable by all their clients, 24 hours a day 7 days a week via Google. Not once on a cable channel on a Tuesday afternoon in January in a place that's set up as a freakshow and then disappears for ever. That's all these things are - freakshows. And you're volunteering to be a freak
[videoblogging] Re: Defending Videographer's Rights in Court
Good looking out Irina, Thanks so much! It's written in the producers letter that they guarantee the payment should I win the case. As far as ridiculness of the correspondence I exchanged throughout the last couple of weeks with the defendant; this must be televised... I will though ask the producer to provide the lodging and food money upfront before he sends the airline tickets. The only thing that may come in the way of doing it on TV is the delay of serving the lawsuit to the defendant or her not wanting to do it at all regrdless of the incentive she receives with the TV approach. Renat --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Irina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: renat, i know a good friend who was a producer for one of the judges' shows his job was to make sure the show was as ridiculous and insane as possible, even if it meant humiliation and horror for the participants, even if it meant kind of lying to them just do not think the producers are on your side in any way and like someone else on this list said, get the money in advance tell them to send you a check tell them you dont have any credit cards or any extra money do NOT agree to re-imbursement make them buy the airline tix for you and pay for the hotel for you etc. the re-imbursement can take up to six months to one year On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 5:34 PM, liza jean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: who owns the music on these videos? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov innomind@ wrote: Well, If supposedly the defendant agrees to do it on TV then there's no need to blog the hearing in court since the cameras will already tape it. There's a bit of complication in regards to serving the papers to appear in court. The letter returned back to court on Nov. 18. When I was filing the complaint I wrote down the home address of the defendant, though she emailed me her business one prior to that. The reason I wrote the home one is because we never conducted any business at the business address in Manhattan. So I figured, what are the chances that this address even exists if she so willingly gave it to me. Good thing as of Nov. 21st. it's still within 23 days since the initial filing, so I went back to court and updated the address to the business one. Now if she gets it by Dec. 1st, there's still time enough for the Judge Joe Brown producer to convince her to do it TV- style. Until Dec. 1st... Renat --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, johnleeke johnleeke@ wrote: If you do it, it would be fascinating for us if you video blog the experience. I wonder if they have you sign away all your rights to shoot and distribute your own video about the experience. John www.HistoricHomeWorks.com -- http://geekentertainment.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] The Truth Is... Project (AMERICA Edition)
Hello dear videobloggers, Starting Jan. 20, 2009 I want to take The Truth Is... project (my 4-year old international social video experiment about what truth means) on the road accross every State in the US. http://tinyurl.com/5lrvsj The only thing that comes in the way is finding a sponsor who would pay for the expenses associated with this multi-month traveling project. I want to announce my intent to do this on national TV, Good Morning America comes to mind, or some other TV show of that size. As far as sponsorship, first thing that popped in is having a Smart car (smartusa.com) provide the car/gas for traveling in exchange for promoting it on the road and in the end credits. But then I recalled Aptera (aptera.com). I think it's a great company which will revolutionize personal transportation. Here is my question to videoblogging community; I never written such proposals or contacted any TV station before to release a press release. What network/show would be ideal to contact first to announce of my intent to make this happen? What car company, aside from the ones I mentioned above, should I contact for sposorship first? Should the PR and sponsorship part go smoothly I even want to contact Barak Obama to interview him in regards to what he thinks the truth is. Hoping to do this as spontaneously as possible... :) BTW lodging will not be needing sponsorship since I will use couchsurfing.com Any comments or suggestions I would highly appreciate. Thanks everyone! Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org
[videoblogging] Re: XLR to 1/8 (3.5mm) cable
Neither yelded sutable results. Anyone else in the community uses XLR to 1/8 for camcorder hookup? Thanks --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Eisenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cables to go or cables for less in indiana? On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello gang, Can anyone recommend a reliable (not HOSA)cable XLR to 1/8 (3.5mm)? My two HOSA ones hit the dust, one a year earlier, the second one today. Such a horrible company, they use inferiour materials for making their products... Don't ever trust it for cabling. I did some searches on SamAsh, BH, Sweetwater, but could not find one suitable for connecting to camcorder XLR mike (Electrovoice the Hammer) to 1/8 (3.5mm). When my first HOSA cable died I did contact BH asking about the Moster cable one they have, but the rep advised me not to get that one because it's not for camcorder connectivity though it did have XLR to 1/8. Any help is truly appreciated... Thanks Renat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Defending Videographer's Rights in Court
Rupert, You have pointed out interesting thoughts. I have accepted the fact that this court TV show will be cut, this is America after all. I don't take this very seriously though, if it happens it happens, if not I will not spend the rest of my life blogging about it. Speaking of blogging, I did blog about it, just one entry... http://innomind.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-am-going-through-ugly-dispute-with.html I am in no way trying to bring traffic to my site(s) should I win the case. These three videos I will purge either way. My intent is to have these videos lawfully deleted from the defendants hard drives, or pay up for my work. To answer Liza Jean about the music in the video. The music belongs to the defendant, and is welcome to play their music both on their site or to their prospective corporate clients. As long as my video work is not attached to it. Like I said; If I win I will delete all 3 videos and the raw files of every of eight events I shot for them. I do not want to associate my name with these sharks. Renat --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Renat, How many of these shows have you watched? Are you watching them now, all the time, while you prepare this? Because you should be. Look how silly the people in the show look. That's going to be *you* in the box. However justified you feel now - however ridiculous you think the opposition's correspondence is, you *will* come off looking bad, too. Perhaps shrill, irrational, emotional - you're obviously very upset about all this, to the point where you want to humiliate them publicly, and the show will play that up, and they will try to get you worked up in your testimony. Certainly, you won't get a chance to slowly and carefully lay out the correspondence to make your case on TV. All that stuff will be cut - it's boring. This is not paranoia - it's the way Reality TV really works. I have first hand experience from the production side. Irina just backed me up. Really - imagine how you'd feel about it if you get there and you're suddenly not winning as easily as you imagined (which is usually what happens in court cases, as in politics). Your ex-clients will have better lawyers advising them what to say. Most of the plaintiffs on these shows are made to look like fools. And it's not like you're a widow who's been wrongly evicted. As a videographer of models, your case is hardly going to tug on the nation's heartstrings. Finally - this I just don't understand - it seems you want to humiliate these people on TV, and yet you rejected Jay's suggestion to blog about your experience as public whining? You'd rather get 2 and a half minutes of supposed national broadcasting and totally forfeit control over how you look in public? And you're asking for advice on how to do this on the *videoblogging* list? The whole point of which is to reverse that power structure? And where is this going to go when it's been broadcast - once, during daytime, to bored housewives and students? Nowhere. It'll be broadcast and disappear. Do you even know how many people watch this show, and what the demographic is? Should your client really be shaking in their boots about being 'exposed' on this show? How many of their potential business partners are ever going to see it or even know about it? My point is, I just can't believe that you'd be willing to trade control of your image and reputation for such weak rewards. YOU have the power to make your own video about your case that will show up in all their search results if you do it right. YouTube and other video sharing sites are often heavily weighted so that they often feature in the top 2 pages for any search result. Make an entertaining video of the correspondence from *your* side. Humiliate them in a way that's viewable by all their clients, 24 hours a day 7 days a week via Google. Not once on a cable channel on a Tuesday afternoon in January in a place that's set up as a freakshow and then disappears for ever. That's all these things are - freakshows. And you're volunteering to be a freak? If none of this makes any sense to you, just ask yourself what the benefits of this are - if you take away the idea that it will drive traffic to your site (it won't) and your certainty that they will come off looking worse (they won't). It's all downside and risk. Except for a free trip to LA. If you count a trip to LA as upside. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 24-Nov-08, at 12:15 AM, Renat Zarbailov wrote: Good looking out Irina, Thanks so much! It's written in the producers letter that they guarantee the payment should I win the case. As far as ridiculness of the correspondence I exchanged throughout the last couple of weeks with the defendant; this must be televised... I will though ask
[videoblogging] Re: The Truth Is... Project (AMERICA Edition)
Anyone?? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello dear videobloggers, Starting Jan. 20, 2009 I want to take The Truth Is... project (my 4-year old international social video experiment about what truth means) on the road accross every State in the US. http://tinyurl.com/5lrvsj The only thing that comes in the way is finding a sponsor who would pay for the expenses associated with this multi-month traveling project. I want to announce my intent to do this on national TV, Good Morning America comes to mind, or some other TV show of that size. As far as sponsorship, first thing that popped in is having a Smart car (smartusa.com) provide the car/gas for traveling in exchange for promoting it on the road and in the end credits. But then I recalled Aptera (aptera.com). I think it's a great company which will revolutionize personal transportation. Here is my question to videoblogging community; I never written such proposals or contacted any TV station before to release a press release. What network/show would be ideal to contact first to announce of my intent to make this happen? What car company, aside from the ones I mentioned above, should I contact for sposorship first? Should the PR and sponsorship part go smoothly I even want to contact Barak Obama to interview him in regards to what he thinks the truth is. Hoping to do this as spontaneously as possible... :) BTW lodging will not be needing sponsorship since I will use couchsurfing.com Any comments or suggestions I would highly appreciate. Thanks everyone! Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org
[videoblogging] Re: Defending Videographer's Rights in Court
Well, If supposedly the defendant agrees to do it on TV then there's no need to blog the hearing in court since the cameras will already tape it. There's a bit of complication in regards to serving the papers to appear in court. The letter returned back to court on Nov. 18. When I was filing the complaint I wrote down the home address of the defendant, though she emailed me her business one prior to that. The reason I wrote the home one is because we never conducted any business at the business address in Manhattan. So I figured, what are the chances that this address even exists if she so willingly gave it to me. Good thing as of Nov. 21st. it's still within 23 days since the initial filing, so I went back to court and updated the address to the business one. Now if she gets it by Dec. 1st, there's still time enough for the Judge Joe Brown producer to convince her to do it TV-style. Until Dec. 1st... Renat --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, johnleeke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you do it, it would be fascinating for us if you video blog the experience. I wonder if they have you sign away all your rights to shoot and distribute your own video about the experience. John www.HistoricHomeWorks.com
[videoblogging] XLR to 1/8 (3.5mm) cable
Hello gang, Can anyone recommend a reliable (not HOSA)cable XLR to 1/8 (3.5mm)? My two HOSA ones hit the dust, one a year earlier, the second one today. Such a horrible company, they use inferiour materials for making their products... Don't ever trust it for cabling. I did some searches on SamAsh, BH, Sweetwater, but could not find one suitable for connecting to camcorder XLR mike (Electrovoice the Hammer) to 1/8 (3.5mm). When my first HOSA cable died I did contact BH asking about the Moster cable one they have, but the rep advised me not to get that one because it's not for camcorder connectivity though it did have XLR to 1/8. Any help is truly appreciated... Thanks Renat
[videoblogging] Re: Defending Videographer's Rights in Court
I called the producer today and asked about what court costs meant in the letter he sent me. He said that if I win they cover the cost of filing the lawsuit ($20) as well. So, he confirmed that they will cover travel to and from LA, lodging (2 days in LA), even $35/day cash for food. It all sounded interesting not only for the fact that all is covered but also that since it will be shown on national TV the videographers tuning in can benefit from this experience as if they were in the court room. So I went ahead and gave the producer a green light. He also said that there's no guarantee that my case will be selected, it all depends on how interesting the case is. He asked me to tell him how it all started that prompted me to start the lawsuit, whether I take medication (?), if I am married,etc. Now I need to find out from the court if the defendant has been served the papers to appear in court, if so, then the producer will contact the defendant with proposal to do it on TV. The thing is, in case I win, the defendant doesn't have to pay out of pocket to pay me, this TV show does... It all sounds very corrupt but I doubt that going traditional court way will bring results for both parties. We are living in the times of when TV ratings and PR is more important than justice. Thanks everyone who shared any wisdom, I will keep you updated of the proceedings of this... Renat --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today I received a DHL letter from Judge Joe Brown. Asking if I want to fly to LA to tape the hearing. The producer of this show promises in this letter that they will pay for travel and all expenses associated doing it this way, and guarantee the appearance fee for appearing on this program. Also, if I win the case they guarantee that I receive the money awarded by the arbitrator within 30 days, plus the court costs (I need to find out what that means). Whereas if I win the case traditional court way, the payment from the defendant is not guaranteed by the court in a timely fashion, if ever. Has anybody in the vlogging community ever done lawsuits televised? Should I go for it? Renat --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov innomind@ wrote: Hello everyone! Over the past three months I completed three 2-minute videos for a startup DJ company, who never paid a penny for my work, promising me that when they will start getting paid for their gigs in night clubs then they will pay me for each completed video. Within these three months I shot 8 events for them, each one requiring at least 4 hours of shooting. They started pressuring me lately to deliver four more completed videos within a week or so. Since they never paid for any of my work I told them if they wanted speed they would have to pay $600 per completed video with a week turnaround from the shoot day. This escalated into a dispute and now I no longer want to deal with them. I asked them kindly to remove these three videos I created from their web site, myspace, youtube, and vimeo. They are refusing to do so claiming that these videos belong to them. I offered to let them keep them online if they would pay $300 per each video so we part our ways peacefully. And now we are having a dispute over who owns these videos. All of the agreements we made among us were verbal and never in writing. On Monday I want to file a lawsuit in small claims court to have these videos pulled of the web or for them to pay up. Has anyone in our vlogging community ever dealt with a similar situation? If I were to contact Youtube/Vimeo for video removal request, what do they ask for to proof video ownership? Should I also file for reimbursement for the time I spent shooting these 8 events? Basically it comes to 32 hours of very hard work running around in the clubs shooting small clips. I offered them these source video files at $100 per each event, so they could use them by hiring another editor, they refused. So I will gladly have to purge them all. After the court, of course. Also, there's no copyright mention in the end credits of all three videos, the last two list my name as camera/editing. They're claiming that their glamorous company provided exposure for my video skills. I never wanted exposure by shooting and editing their videos. I even did not put my name in the end credits of the first video, which proofs that. They approached me for help, not the other way around. Here are these three videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8x5B-h08Hs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGRiB35h7Pw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcIbVFu6_PE This DJ company never invested into any of the video production (props, special video preparation or anything). They just had a stable (yes, stable, :) that's what it says in their recent press release) of girls DJ for them, without paying
[videoblogging] Re: Defending Videographer's Rights in Court
Today I received a DHL letter from Judge Joe Brown. Asking if I want to fly to LA to tape the hearing. The producer of this show promises in this letter that they will pay for travel and all expenses associated doing it this way, and guarantee the appearance fee for appearing on this program. Also, if I win the case they guarantee that I receive the money awarded by the arbitrator within 30 days, plus the court costs (I need to find out what that means). Whereas if I win the case traditional court way, the payment from the defendant is not guaranteed by the court in a timely fashion, if ever. Has anybody in the vlogging community ever done lawsuits televised? Should I go for it? Renat --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone! Over the past three months I completed three 2-minute videos for a startup DJ company, who never paid a penny for my work, promising me that when they will start getting paid for their gigs in night clubs then they will pay me for each completed video. Within these three months I shot 8 events for them, each one requiring at least 4 hours of shooting. They started pressuring me lately to deliver four more completed videos within a week or so. Since they never paid for any of my work I told them if they wanted speed they would have to pay $600 per completed video with a week turnaround from the shoot day. This escalated into a dispute and now I no longer want to deal with them. I asked them kindly to remove these three videos I created from their web site, myspace, youtube, and vimeo. They are refusing to do so claiming that these videos belong to them. I offered to let them keep them online if they would pay $300 per each video so we part our ways peacefully. And now we are having a dispute over who owns these videos. All of the agreements we made among us were verbal and never in writing. On Monday I want to file a lawsuit in small claims court to have these videos pulled of the web or for them to pay up. Has anyone in our vlogging community ever dealt with a similar situation? If I were to contact Youtube/Vimeo for video removal request, what do they ask for to proof video ownership? Should I also file for reimbursement for the time I spent shooting these 8 events? Basically it comes to 32 hours of very hard work running around in the clubs shooting small clips. I offered them these source video files at $100 per each event, so they could use them by hiring another editor, they refused. So I will gladly have to purge them all. After the court, of course. Also, there's no copyright mention in the end credits of all three videos, the last two list my name as camera/editing. They're claiming that their glamorous company provided exposure for my video skills. I never wanted exposure by shooting and editing their videos. I even did not put my name in the end credits of the first video, which proofs that. They approached me for help, not the other way around. Here are these three videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8x5B-h08Hs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGRiB35h7Pw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcIbVFu6_PE This DJ company never invested into any of the video production (props, special video preparation or anything). They just had a stable (yes, stable, :) that's what it says in their recent press release) of girls DJ for them, without paying them either by the way. I have seen many of their graphic designers and photographers come and go, which slowly started making sense to me that they just want to parasite off other people's energy and skills. I would truly appreciate any input you may have regarding this situation or content ownership before I head out to court to fight for my rights. Thanks everyone! Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org
[videoblogging] Re: How to embed hi-res Youtube videos
Another way, albeit not the most user friendly... :) Add ap=%2526fmt%3D18 onto the end of the YouTube link in the embed codeÂ… object width=425 height=344param name=movie value=http://www.youtube.com/v/MuqiGrWBRqEhl=enfs=1 ap=%2526fmt%3D18/paramparam name=allowFullScreen value=true/paramparam name=allowscriptaccess value=always/paramembed src=http://www.youtube.com/v/MuqiGrWBRqEhl=enfs=1ap=%2526fmt%3D18; type=application/x-shockwave-flash allowscriptaccess=always allowfullscreen=true width=425 height=344/embed/object --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rupert made this cool hack to embed the hi-res version of Youtube videos: http://www.twittervlog.tv/high-quality-youtube-embed-generator.html This guy has a post with some more detailed i fo about the process here: http://blog.jimmyr.com/High_Quality_on_Youtube_11_2008.php Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] USB 3.0
http://lifehacker.com/5086167/usb-30-to-transfer-25gb-in-70-seconds
[videoblogging] Re: Defending Videographer's Rights in Court
What is that synchmaster, you speak of? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, liza jean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: all they have to do to get them back up is shave a few frames off the front and make a new account. works for us every time, and then every time (a million channel views and thousands of happy subscribers) synchmaster finds them and flags them and it all disappears. . . . --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Richard Amirault ramirault@ wrote: Great .. but .. it does not mean they are gone forever. Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ
[videoblogging] Re: Defending Videographer's Rights in Court
Amazingly Youtube removed all 3 videos I requested without even notifying me. The reason why I think the removal was from Youtube's side and not from flakes I was dealing with is because they also had one of these videos on Vimeo. And when I checked the Vimeo video was still there. They would have removed them all from both Youtube and Vimeo. Unlike Youtube, Vimeo has no DMCA fillout form, to remove that one video, so I had to send them what I wrote to Youtube. On Dec. 17 I will face the flakes in Brooklyn small claims court. If anyone interested in how events unfold, let me know... :) To read how it all started, visit the following page; http://innomind.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-am-going-through-ugly-dispute-with.html Cheers Renat --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, liza jean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: good luck with your complaint to youtube. please let us know if they take the videos down for you. have you tried flagging them as inappropriate? works every time synchmaster wants to get rid of our videos. our videos disappear as if by magic, our accounts cancelled. seems to be automatic once it is flagged. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman jay.dedman@ wrote: On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Renat Zarbailov innomind@ wrote: I agree with you. I guess I was in the heat of the moment with this situation, calling blogging - whining... :) My apologies... I will make a post on my personal blog. I guess google will crawl for this company's name and will bring up this page anytime someone makes a search on them. Think of it as an act of penace. Of finding peace with yourself in the electronic confession booth. god bless. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] Re: Defending Videographer's Rights in Court
Thanks everyone so much for the wisdom shared here. I just filed a DMCA Youtube complain hoping that they honor my request. Here is what I wrote; * Dear Youtube, I am the creator of the following 3 videos (shot and edited). It took me at least 3-4 10-hour working days to create each video without pay from the user (StadjDjModels). I no longer permit this user to use my videos due to the loss of relationship between us. She refused my kind request to remove them, that is why I have no choice but to contact you. Should you need further proof of ownership of these videos I would gladly provide them. Thanks so much. Sincerely, Renat Zarbailov * Yes it is a sad situation and at this point all I want is to remove these videos off the web, I don't care much for them paying for my work done for them. I wonder if small claims court allows initiation of a claim that doesn't seek monetary reimbursement. As far as whining about this experience on blogs to create bad rep for them; It is an option, but I think it only creates more PR for them in the end. And what are the chances that the future videographers they're about to hire will see those blogs? They might, if they ever gotten screwed before, but I think this company looks for emerging talent to be able to have a free ride by offering them either exposure or money in the near future. I must mention that they did offer $300 for the Halloween gig, and later in addition to that wanted 3 more videos delivered in a week timing. That's what promted me to start this dialog that turned ugly. Lesson learned. Next time, no free rides, and heavy research about who I am about to deal with. At the end of the day it all comes down to trust. Thanks again everyone!!! --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone! Over the past three months I completed three 2-minute videos for a startup DJ company, who never paid a penny for my work, promising me that when they will start getting paid for their gigs in night clubs then they will pay me for each completed video. Within these three months I shot 8 events for them, each one requiring at least 4 hours of shooting. They started pressuring me lately to deliver four more completed videos within a week or so. Since they never paid for any of my work I told them if they wanted speed they would have to pay $600 per completed video with a week turnaround from the shoot day. This escalated into a dispute and now I no longer want to deal with them. I asked them kindly to remove these three videos I created from their web site, myspace, youtube, and vimeo. They are refusing to do so claiming that these videos belong to them. I offered to let them keep them online if they would pay $300 per each video so we part our ways peacefully. And now we are having a dispute over who owns these videos. All of the agreements we made among us were verbal and never in writing. On Monday I want to file a lawsuit in small claims court to have these videos pulled of the web or for them to pay up. Has anyone in our vlogging community ever dealt with a similar situation? If I were to contact Youtube/Vimeo for video removal request, what do they ask for to proof video ownership? Should I also file for reimbursement for the time I spent shooting these 8 events? Basically it comes to 32 hours of very hard work running around in the clubs shooting small clips. I offered them these source video files at $100 per each event, so they could use them by hiring another editor, they refused. So I will gladly have to purge them all. After the court, of course. Also, there's no copyright mention in the end credits of all three videos, the last two list my name as camera/editing. They're claiming that their glamorous company provided exposure for my video skills. I never wanted exposure by shooting and editing their videos. I even did not put my name in the end credits of the first video, which proofs that. They approached me for help, not the other way around. Here are these three videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8x5B-h08Hs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGRiB35h7Pw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcIbVFu6_PE This DJ company never invested into any of the video production (props, special video preparation or anything). They just had a stable (yes, stable, :) that's what it says in their recent press release) of girls DJ for them, without paying them either by the way. I have seen many of their graphic designers and photographers come and go, which slowly started making sense to me that they just want to parasite off other people's energy and skills. I would truly appreciate any input you may have regarding this situation or content ownership before I head out to court to fight for my rights. Thanks everyone! Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org
[videoblogging] Re: Defending Videographer's Rights in Court
I agree with you. I guess I was in the heat of the moment with this situation, calling blogging - whining... :) My apologies... I will make a post on my personal blog. I guess google will crawl for this company's name and will bring up this page anytime someone makes a search on them. Thanks again. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great post Jay... I thought the same thing. It's a small world for us independent content creators. I'm constantly running into folks from this list all over the place. Take it to them, Renat. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Nov 9, 2008, at 5:24 PM, Jay dedman wrote: As far as whining about this experience on blogs to create bad rep for them; It is an option, but I think it only creates more PR for them in the end. And what are the chances that the future videographers they're about to hire will see those blogs? They might, if they ever gotten screwed before, but I think this company looks for emerging talent to be able to have a free ride by offering them either exposure or money in the near future. I must mention that they did offer $300 for the Halloween gig, and later in addition to that wanted 3 more videos delivered in a week timing. That's what promted me to start this dialog that turned ugly. come on Renat. I hope I dont have to point out the absurdity of calling blogging about your situation as whining. if anything, you're leaving a bread trail so other videographers wont be taken advantage of. I know I always google any person/company im going to do work with. opinions matter. And the web makes them matter for a long time. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Defending Videographer's Rights in Court
Hello everyone! Over the past three months I completed three 2-minute videos for a startup DJ company, who never paid a penny for my work, promising me that when they will start getting paid for their gigs in night clubs then they will pay me for each completed video. Within these three months I shot 8 events for them, each one requiring at least 4 hours of shooting. They started pressuring me lately to deliver four more completed videos within a week or so. Since they never paid for any of my work I told them if they wanted speed they would have to pay $600 per completed video with a week turnaround from the shoot day. This escalated into a dispute and now I no longer want to deal with them. I asked them kindly to remove these three videos I created from their web site, myspace, youtube, and vimeo. They are refusing to do so claiming that these videos belong to them. I offered to let them keep them online if they would pay $300 per each video so we part our ways peacefully. And now we are having a dispute over who owns these videos. All of the agreements we made among us were verbal and never in writing. On Monday I want to file a lawsuit in small claims court to have these videos pulled of the web or for them to pay up. Has anyone in our vlogging community ever dealt with a similar situation? If I were to contact Youtube/Vimeo for video removal request, what do they ask for to proof video ownership? Should I also file for reimbursement for the time I spent shooting these 8 events? Basically it comes to 32 hours of very hard work running around in the clubs shooting small clips. I offered them these source video files at $100 per each event, so they could use them by hiring another editor, they refused. So I will gladly have to purge them all. After the court, of course. Also, there's no copyright mention in the end credits of all three videos, the last two list my name as camera/editing. They're claiming that their glamorous company provided exposure for my video skills. I never wanted exposure by shooting and editing their videos. I even did not put my name in the end credits of the first video, which proofs that. They approached me for help, not the other way around. Here are these three videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8x5B-h08Hs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGRiB35h7Pw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcIbVFu6_PE This DJ company never invested into any of the video production (props, special video preparation or anything). They just had a stable (yes, stable, :) that's what it says in their recent press release) of girls DJ for them, without paying them either by the way. I have seen many of their graphic designers and photographers come and go, which slowly started making sense to me that they just want to parasite off other people's energy and skills. I would truly appreciate any input you may have regarding this situation or content ownership before I head out to court to fight for my rights. Thanks everyone! Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org
[videoblogging] Re: What to charge for camera and video editing
Thanks everyone who had something to say on this. I have decided that it would be fair to charge $600 (shoot and edit)for 2-minute videos like below with a week turnaround. Renat --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone! What is a fair rate to charge for 2-minute videos like below? http://vimeo.com/1779640?pg=embedsec=1779640 A company wants me to be their permanent videographer producing a video from each gig they perform at. On average it takes me about 3-4 hours of shooting at nightclubs using my Merlin Steadicam. And editing, which I hate btw... :), takes me at least two full days since I usually accumulate about and hour of short shots from each event to later compile the video to a soundtrack. Any comments are highly appreciated. Thanks!!! Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org
[videoblogging] Advertising Rates and Metrics for Streaming Online Videos
http://www.streamingmediaglobal.com/article.asp?id=10794
[videoblogging] What to charge for camera and video editing
Hello everyone! What is a fair rate to charge for 2-minute videos like below? http://vimeo.com/1779640?pg=embedsec=1779640 A company wants me to be their permanent videographer producing a video from each gig they perform at. On average it takes me about 3-4 hours of shooting at nightclubs using my Merlin Steadicam. And editing, which I hate btw... :), takes me at least two full days since I usually accumulate about and hour of short shots from each event to later compile the video to a soundtrack. Any comments are highly appreciated. Thanks!!! Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org
[videoblogging] Advice for Indie Filmmakers
http://www.studiodaily.com/main/topstory/10058.html Sincerely, Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org
[videoblogging] Re: Best Low-Light HD camcorder
Of course, if it was within budget/size Sony EX1 would definitely be the winner in low light. It has 1/2 chips on it and blows HVX200 out the water in image quality/low light. So if one were to choose between Canon HV20 and HV30, albeit tape-based, what does HV30 fix over HV20? I also wonder if anyone in the videoblogging community using the new Canon HF11 (24MBPS AVCHD), which comes with its own 32GB solid-state hard drive plus ability to use SDHC cards. I would trade my Sony SR7 to this one any day. As far as editing AVCHD; I have been editing in this format using Premiere Pro CS3 with MainConcept HD 1.3 plugin with good results on a self-built Windows XP X64 rig that has Intel Quad Q6600 chip with 4GB RAM. The very upcoming Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 will allow editing AVCHD natively (and promises no-render approach to effects), although I think they will still use Mainconcept under the hood since Adobe outsources its media encoder to them. One of the best features CS4 will offer is ability to encode out to any web format without interuption of editing abilities, - background encoding. Currently with my setup, simple AVCHD cutting and playback in the timeline is smooth even without Matrox R2 card, that presumably improves AVCHD editing dramatically. I just can't justify the $1k price of this card though... :) As soon as I apply effects or even stretch clip's time I need to render to play the results. Thanks everyone for the input, Renat --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Brook Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You won't find a hard-disk or card based AVCHD or HDV format camcorder that is better in low light than the HV20. Yet. Unless you want to spend several thousand on an HVX or the Sony EX. Also AVCHD, even the new higher-bitrate implementation, still lags WAY behind HDV in image quality (and HDV kinda sucks to begin with). I think within a couple of years it will be better than HDV but the real-time capture implementation has a long way to go. People's experiences editing with AVCHD vary widely, but if you have a way to convert it to an intraframe codec your life will be easier. I am dying to switch to a tapeless camera, but there isn't one yet that tempts me. I use an HV20 as my everyday (and use lots of other cams of all types in connection with work), and despite the inconvenience of tape (and since I shoot 24p the inconvenience of removing pulldown on everything before editing) it's still worth the bother for its image quality and low light capability. You could also look into a portable hard drive based capture system for your HV20 instead of spending probably close to the same amount for an inferior camera - you'd get the HV20's quality and get to go tapeless. Can't vouch for this model, but I know that people use it: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/553295-REG/Focus_Enhancements_ASYF_1314_01LF_FS_4_HD_Portable_DTE.html#specifications Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Best Low-Light HD camcorder
Anyone? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ! What is the best low-light performing hard drive/solid state based HD camcorder with a price up to $1300 out there? I heard Canon HV20/30 are great in low-light, but they are tape based. This is a good question. I'd love to hear people's answers. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] Best Low-Light HD camcorder
Hello everyone! What is the best low-light performing hard drive/solid state based HD camcorder with a price up to $1300 out there? I heard Canon HV20/30 are great in low-light, but they are tape based. Any comments are truly appreciated. Thanks Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org
[videoblogging] Re: Subtitling your videos
I wonder if it recompresses the resulting subtitled video. Oe does it simply give you its own flash player that plays the subtitles over the existing video? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks cool: http://subtitle-horse.org Subtitle Horse is a online subtitle editor to translate flash videos (FLV) and get the subtitle-code in different formats, like TimedText or SRT. A timedText file (which is supported by the JW FLV Player and Adobe FLV playback component) can be generated online. Just add your FLV file into the box and it'll let you add subtitles. Go here for an example for how it works: http://subtitle-horse.org/preview.php you can even integrate it into your blog/drupal page: http://subtitle-horse.org/subtititle_tool_cms_integration.php I haven't played it around with it in detail, but looks cool. can't tell if it's open source or not, but it comes from the indymedia video world. if it's easy to add this functionality to your blog...so anyone can help translate videos...that would be awesome. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: H264 encoded movies
When will the players from blip.tv or vimeo.com will natively support H.264 content? They have been promising it for ages but what's holding them? The file size of H.264 video is way smaller too compared to Quicktime/WMV. Anyone has any info on this? Thanks --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, some flash players can play H.264 encoded movies - it doesn't matter if they have .mp4, .m4v or .mov as the extension. What matters is that they're encoded with H.264. The JW FLV Media Player http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Media_Player and the FlowPlayer http://flowplayer.org/ will both play H.264 videos. You can watch these on Mac, Win and Linux (inside the flash player) with latest couple of versions of the Flash plugin - you don't have to have quicktime installed. Verdi On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 8:11 PM, RICHARD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I finally persuaded a client to encode their web movies to .h264 instead of Real Media. I'm using Apple's Compressor to encode .h264 video from a FCP 6 project. By default, Compressor uses the .mov extension when compressing to .h264 Will The new .h264 friendly version of Flash play a .mov file encoded as .h264? Or does it have to have a .mp4 or some other extension? Will Windows play a .h264 encoded web video without Quicktime installed? What is the best file extension/method for maximum compatibility with .h264 encoded web movies? Thanks, Richard [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://graymattergravy.com
[videoblogging] Re: 12seconds.tv
This 12 second thing will make people talk like robots or like those voiceover guys at the end of informercials. When you tell something, pauses are essential for the listener to memorize and visualize your story. my 12 cents Renat of Innomind.org --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, darbycoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: has anyone else checked this out? i see that they're trying to take the success (if you will) of seesmic and combine it what that of twitter (its brevity). but are we really that ADD that we NEED to compress the time frame to 12 seconds? i think its novel but that's about it. as a culture - we're all about expedience - but in condensing and condensing the time frames in which we communicate are we changing how we communicate? personally - i've been watching a lot of longer format films/documentaries/etc lately because i've been feeling a need for something with depth/breadth/context/landscape. do you see value in 12seconds.tv? or is it just another niche thing. cheers scott
[videoblogging] Re: Video Journalism Revolution
I do agree with you. He doesn't show what he considers the ultimate Video Journalism. I suspect that this speech was recorded in 2004. It would be nice to see him share his thoughts in regards to whether the revolution he speaks of actually happened. Renat of Innomind.org --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mark Shea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for this vid. Very entertaining and thought provoking but also disturbing… I would like him to show me some examples of what he thinks is excellent. If most TV is garbage – where's all the brilliant examples of creative excellence this guy is talking about? These little cameras have been around now for some years…Where's all the great examples of innovative creative genius? Have you seen it? The democratization of this technology is all good but why is it that something like this always falls into the hands of a big corporation who stage-manage access to it and ultimately owns the means of distribution - You Tube style. Irina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey thanks for posting this! i have to go to columbia jschool in october to figure out how to save journalism this helps lol On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check this out. Very insightful speech. http://www.vjawards.com/video/337/Michael-Rosenblum-40-minute-vj-revolution-speech -- http://geekentertainment.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Video Journalism Revolution
Check this out. Very insightful speech. http://www.vjawards.com/video/337/Michael-Rosenblum-40-minute-vj-revolution-speech
[videoblogging] Re: Sanyo Xacti HD1010 4MP MPEG4 High Definition 1080i/1080p Camcorder with 10x
It would be nice to see the footage from the VPC-HD1010. Hey John, can you please upload some sample 1920X1080 30P hiest quality setting footage to eatlime.com and post us all the download link here? I, for instance, then can then test the footage in my Premiere Pro CS3 setup and let you know if I could edit it. Thanks Renat --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, johnleeke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got my 1010 three days ago. It's very nice to shoot with. I still have to figure out how to get files over to the PC and editing, etc. John Leeke www.HistoricHomeWorks.com
[videoblogging] Voiceover Work
If anyone needs a clear-voice radio-dj type male voiceover professional look no further than Tim Keefe. I just worked with him for the upcoming new edition of The Truth Is... (Spain) project and he amazed me with the quality of his work. He works remotely too, all he needed is the transcript and the video clips to which to voiceover. You can hear the resulting audio here; http://www.eatlime.com/download.lc?sid=8646AA07-1706-CB2C-2438-0DD8F6E82ACA Just wanted to spread the word from a satisfied producer. I can stand by this guy when it comes to voiceover. Contact me off list to get his contact info. Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org
[videoblogging] GPU Accelerated H.264 Encoder (coming soon)
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3339
[videoblogging] Re: Easy code generator for High Quality YouTube embeds
Tested the code... Works like a charm. Thanks Rupert! Good job. On another note, (please forgive me...) Does anyone know of a fast AVI to WMV converter that produces great looking youtube vids with good looking youtube thumbnail image? I just used a trial version of MS Expression Encoder 2 and all the thumbnail images are looking like abstract art :) Take a look http://youtube.com/user/thetruthisproject Thanks Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've created a tool which generates the right HTML code to embed High Quality YouTube videos. Instead of you having to fiddle around altering the code yourselves with the code I posted here last night. Most people I've told today seem pretty indifferent - but it makes a phenomenal difference to the quality of the video. If you play the two versions of Epic FU I've embedded on http:// twittervlog.tumblr.com/ together, you can see that difference for yourselves, especially in shots of Zadi in the studio. The colours and resolution are better than you get with a Blip flash player. And you get to use YouTube without sacrificing quality. Anyway, for anybody who does see the difference and wants it, my embed code generator is here: http://www.twittervlog.tv/high-quality-youtube-embed-generator.html Rupert http://twittervlog.tv Begin forwarded message: From: ruperthowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: June 25, 2008 1:32:08 AM PDT (CA) To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: [videoblogging] How to embed high quality MP4 versions of YouTube videos! Reply-To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com I've been reading about how to make YouTube videos look really good. There's quite a good article here: http://tinyurl.com/6lz636 BUT the most useful thing I discovered was how to link to and embed the High Quality MP4 versions that you can toggle to watch on the site. If you're posting/linking to a YouTube video, add fmt=18 to the end of the URL and it'll play in HQ. Doesn't work for embeds, but I found a way to cheat it: add ap=%2526fmt%3D18 to the end of both URLs in the embed code and it'll embed as a High Quality MP4 video. NO MORE SHITTY YOUTUBE EMBEDS! http://tinyurl.com/5c9e3h [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Wait A Minute...
http://slatev.com/player.html?id=1452245820
[videoblogging] Re: Free Beer to the person who can explain the steps of recording
Save your hair and use Camtasia 5 from TechSmith, export to any web format right out of it without going to any NLE. Always perfect tutorials with menu zoom and all. Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jennifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I've been pulling my hair out for weeks and just when I think I get close to having my 24 minute tutorial online for my team to see...something stops me DEAD in my tracks. I'm trying to record my audio and video (great quality not needed) of my screen (outlook, excel, browser, etc) so that my team can start taking more tasks off my plate. I would prefer to stick with CamStudio for now. I have 20 different people telling me to use 20 different software products and until I can figure out how to use the free one, I'm not going to start plunking down $300 a whack. I've been through every HOW TO RECORD SCREENS video on YouTube, Revver, SHOWMEDO etc and I have come to a few conclusions: 1. CamStudio will work just fine for what I need 2. The AVI file it produces is too large and I heard that it depends on the codec involved. 3. I'm clueless on the best compression method at this point and again I'm under the impression that using the same codec is important. 4. If I export to a SWF, audioacrobat can take it but bloats it up ten time bigger than original 5. If I export it to WVM it's all fuzzy and I lose the ability to see the text. I've redcued my screen reso to 800x600 before recording and tried to keep the end result at 640x480. I've tested both WMV, SWF, FLV and all come with issues. I've tried Reply, CamTasia, Media Manager 9, ViewletCam, Windows Movie Maker, VideoLAN/VLC, QuickTime, Windows Media Encoder, and now I've forgotten and have to start the cycle over again. Why can't anyone say Set the to , and the ___ to and give me a step by step from start to finish? Again, FREE BEER to whoever can explain this. Disclaimer, FREE BEER may be exchanged for cold hard cash.
[videoblogging] You Must See This!!!
http://www.vimeo.com/993998 This is by far the best animation I have seen to date. Enjoy! Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org
[videoblogging] Camera Operator Wanted (NY Tri-State Area)
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/crg/695083372.html
[videoblogging] Re: $14 DIY steady cam
I don't think you can get as smooth moving pictures with this as you would with a Steadicam Merlin. This $14 one is made out of plumbing pipes and it will tire you sooner than you can say action... If it was made from PVC piping, then I would say it stands a chance to be somewhat efficient, of course it depends on the design. My 1.5 cents... :) Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Caleb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/steadycam/ ~ ~ Caleb J. Clark ~ Portfolio: http://www.plocktau.com ~ The problem with communication is the assumption it has been accomplished. - G. B. Shaw. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Is anyone here attending Streaming Media East?
I'll be there too... --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Sheila English [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know how I missed this event. It seems huge! http://www.streamingmedia.com/east/program/ I wondered if anyone would be vlogging/blogging or chatting about this? I'm trying to figure out how in the world I can make it on such short notice and at such a high ticket price, but if I manage it I'll certainly share. And if I don't, I'm hoping one of you are! Sheila
[videoblogging] Re: Is anyone here attending Streaming Media East?
Wow, seems that this event is very dear to you... :)) What exactly are you interested in for this event? How far are you from NY anyway? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Sheila English [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *sigh* I'll do my best not to be jealous. lol Any insight you're willing and able to share would be much appreciated. Sheila --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov innomind@ wrote: I'll be there too... --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Sheila English sheila_clover@ wrote: I don't know how I missed this event. It seems huge! http://www.streamingmedia.com/east/program/ I wondered if anyone would be vlogging/blogging or chatting about this? I'm trying to figure out how in the world I can make it on such short notice and at such a high ticket price, but if I manage it I'll certainly share. And if I don't, I'm hoping one of you are! Sheila
[videoblogging] Re: Solid-state camera recommendation
Editing AVCHD on PC natively is now possible without any issues in Adobe Premiere CS3 with an add on from Mainconcept called MainConcept MPEG Pro HDV 3.1.0. You would of course need a fast Intel Core Duo 2 machine with at least 2.6GHZ processor and 4GB RAM plus RAID0 hard drive configuration. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, ruperthowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Apple Apps all have means to ingest AVCHD footage. Not quite true. The *newest* Apple apps support AVCHD, but with limitations. The terrible (in my view) new iMovie 08, for instance supports it, but not the better iMovie 6. If you have an older version of iMovie or FCP, you're stuck. But then if you have an older Mac, you're stuck, too. Quick google told me that FCP 6 (the latest version) initially didn't allow AVCHD import, and then was updated last summer to allow it, but with big limitations - only on a Mac Pro and not natively: it transcodes to other codecs that use 10 times more space than native AVCHD. For PCs, Sony Vegas does support AVCHD - and I like Vegas a lot. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Christopher Polack ottorabbit@ wrote: Panasonic also has a hybrid camera - http://www2.panasonic.com/consumer-electronics/shop/Cameras-Camcorders/Camcorders/Hi-Def-Camcorders/model.HDC-HS9_11002_7005702 Check respective NLE software sites for AVCHD workflow info.
[videoblogging] Re:Cool WP theme for video
Looks great. Only if it was possible to have the Flash player have a button for full screen viewing and support for H.264. Thanks Jay! -- Sincerely, Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] HD at 500Kbit/s
Wow, this guy surprised me again. I can wait for blip to support h.264 format. http://www.progettosinergia.com/flashvideo/flashvideoblog.htm#090408 Thoughts? Renat
[videoblogging] Re: fun with garbage mattes
There has been another guy on youtube (I forget his name) who has 5 second movie reviews. Maybe it's like 30 second, or a minute but the concept has been around for sometime now. Nice choice of the movie though... :) --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ricky Marson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I directed this music video and tried out some composite shots and had some fun with filters. Let me know what you think... Girl Robot 6 - A Lot Like You: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iYXi7HmGSENR=1 Thanks, Ricky
[videoblogging] Mission-Critical Video storage solutions
I recently started a yahoo group related to archival of data in our everexpanding digital world. This is my first post there, and actually very important one, at least to me, since two of my hard drives just failed. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/archivist/message/1 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/archivist/message/1 I cordinaly invite everyone to join the Archivist http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/archivist/ group, anyone who is not neutral to loss of important data to preserve the content for future generations to come. Thanks! Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Collecting stats on wordpress.com
I just heard that Wordpress 2.5 RC2 came out, completewith image galleries and dashboard redesign. I will start messing around with Show in the box when a stable WP2.5 comes out. Never did like the interface of the current WP. Pardon for being a bit off-topic... Renat --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, jimmyjay24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My vlog host is wordpress.com. I'm trying to decide what stats to collect and how to get them. Eventually, I may want to show stats to potential advertisers. I'd appreciate any info, specifically: 1) What are the must-have stats? wordpress.com gives page views but not unique visitor counts and it does not give clickthoughs on its feed. 2) Should I stick with the wordpress.com feed or install feedburner? wordpress is slowly bringing back feed stats. They currently let me see how many hits on a particular post come from its feed and they'll eventually let me know the total number of feed subscribers. But wordpress is rolling out new features slowly. Feedburner will give me clickthroughs. Are there other compelling reasons to go with feedburner? I realize I may want to use feedburner to capture email subscribers. 3) Do I want to install a stat counter and, if so, which one should I install? The only stat counters that wordpress.com supports are sitemeter, statcounter, shiny stats and activemeter. I lean towards sitemeter—anyone having issues with sitemeter? 4) If I switch to a self-hosted blog with wordpress.org, will that cause a problem? What do I need to know about transitioning my stats? Stats are confusing and I'd appreciate any suggestions. Jim ihatetodance.com
[videoblogging] Re:pocket sized projectors, the future of impromptu video blog screenin
I was considering this Boxlight Bumblebee $700 super light weight projectorhttp://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2100966,00.aspfor my mobile traveling Silent Screamerhttp://innomind.org/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=67Itemid=30quad-core video-editing workstation embedded into a carry on luggage. Kind of makes sense to get a projector of this type than lugging around a 20 plus LCD. What held the urge, aside from lack of fund to get it :), is the lack of lumens. I hope NyTimes's prediction (projection?) comes true in regards to $300-350 lightweight projectors. It would be nice carrying an Asus EEE with a pocket projector, like a Samsung one (forgot the model), and project beautiful moving pictures onto walls anywhere one happens to be. Reminds me of the Star Wars where one of the main characters throws this little ball that starts projecting holographic videos. Skype anyone? -- Sincerely, Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] He passed away on March 27
I interviewed this man one night when I was returning home from a friend of mine when I noticed this old man sitting on the stairs of a building, I made a comment that it isn't very healthy to sit on the cold stone, and the conversation turned into a short spontaneous film. Here is the interviewhttp://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid935220722/bclid932508388/bctid604271218 May he rest in peace... -- Sincerely, Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: He passed away on March 27
Oops, I didn't mean to post this to videoblogging group. I selected all email contacts in my gmail, I guess the videoblogging group email was there too. But regardless now... Well, I didn't know this man before I met him. His family did contact me after discovering this footage of him online and were grateful that there's a memory of him. Here is an exerpt... In many ways, your interview is a time capsule of all that made him who he was. Those who wish to visit him, may do so while visiting Central Park. As a New Yorker, Jack's final request was perfect. Appropriately, he requested that he be cremated, and his ashes be spread in Central Park. Your film does a wonderful job of capturing Jack's spirit and we thank you for it He was a poet and had a hard life loosing his son to drugs. May his soul rest in peace. Renat --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recording this kind of conversation is the height of media-making IMHO. Sorry for your loss. Delighted you were able to preserve this moment for posterity. Thanks. Jan On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 3:11 AM, Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I interviewed this man one night when I was returning home from a friend of mine when I noticed this old man sitting on the stairs of a building, I made a comment that it isn't very healthy to sit on the cold stone, and the conversation turned into a short spontaneous film. Here is the interview http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid935220722/bclid93250838 8/bctid604271218 May he rest in peace... -- Sincerely, Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- The Faux Press - by whatever media necessary http://feeds.feedburner.com/diaryofafauxjournalist - RSS http://fauxpress.blogspot.com aim=janofsound air=862.571.5334 skype=janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Don't Adjust Your Browser
This only works in Firefox... http://users.telenet.be/kixx/
[videoblogging] Re: Stage6 flipped
Do you remember how DIVX rental DVD's wanted to compete with retail DVD market? It was back in 1999 I believe. The premise was that you buy a DIVX DVD for like $5 and it expires in couple of days without having to return the disc. It required a special DIVX DVD player though. Whoever bought such players apparently lost, just like the ones who uploaded lots of videos to DIVX. So, it is, after all a trust thing. Seems like DIVX was cursed from the first day it was invented or something. It a shame, so much money wasted... Renat --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah from what Ive heard there is some backlash about this, far too little notice, not very reasonable, and no pathway to transfer the videos to another service. Its a shame, DivX stuff in the browser was quite good although Ive long been negative about its chances of success compared to other formats. DivX bought Mainconcept last year, who make h264 encoder decoder software, so I thought they had some strategy for the future to remain relevent, but if nobody is using DivX on the web and they closed their own platform then I see them slipping further into irrelevance. There was some rumor that stage6 closed down rather than surviving as a seperate entity, because the DivX board couldnt agree ownership percentages for the new entity. What a waste! And people on stock forums wonder why their shares dont perform too well. Without a successful strategy to keep their format relevent, I think DivX will just be a memory within 5 years. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz schlomo@ wrote: I think its sad. They have been good to people in their community; even offering random gigs along the way. What I dont like is that the user only have 3 days to get their vids off the site before it shuts down. That seems a little too quick as I imagine stage6 has known that things were going to end up dark for a while now. It just seems so abrupt. On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Renat Zarbailov innomind@ wrote: Despite the quality and speed of DIVX HD for streaming, compared to FLV, I never trusted myself to upload any vids to Stage6. Encoding to DIVX has always been error-prone and that was the only reason why I stayed away from it. Renat . -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Sony's XD CAM EX1 solid-state camera review
http://internetvideomag.com/Articles_2008/021808_Sony_XDCAM_EX1.htm I think this cam blows Panasonic HVX200 out of the water. What are your thoughts? Renat
[videoblogging] Stage6 flipped
Despite the quality and speed of DIVX HD for streaming, compared to FLV, I never trusted myself to upload any vids to Stage6. Encoding to DIVX has always been error-prone and that was the only reason why I stayed away from it. Renat
[videoblogging] Re: we should all enter this one
Tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are :) Renat --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. Of course. the common blue collar person has no appreciation for art or arty things. How about you just stop with the labels. Your hole is already deep enough. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Charles Iliya Krempeaux supercanadian@ wrote: I'm sorry you were insulted by what I said. I didn't mean to insult. The way it looks like to me is that whatever you want to call them... the vast majority of the people I know seem to have certain tastes in videos. I was trying to use a monicker that described them. I thought putting normal in quotes would be sufficient, and people would know what I meant. Maybe I should have used something like... the common blue collar person. I thought normal would be a good monicker since you often hear terms like the real people used in political discourse to describe the same group. (Please note the quotes around the real people... and that I'm not the one who came up the phrase the real people.) Again, sorry if I insulted you. -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 8:08 AM, Brook Hinton bhinton@ wrote: Whoops just saw your followup. Gosh golly, you're right, I guess I don't have any layman or common people in my audience. Only royalty and criminals/ Sheesh. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
[videoblogging] Re: Interesting video interview about the future of online video advertising
Blip does have the advertising model. So far they only video ads I have seen them serve is one and only Pimple commercial about America's war on pimples or something :) Am I the only one seeing this or has anyone seen any other commercials served by Blip. I love Blip, don't get me wrong. I just don't want them to flip just because their ad people aren't doing their best connecting the advertisers with the show producers. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Charles Iliya Krempeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, On Feb 16, 2008 2:57 PM, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with you Adam. It's just a matter of time that all that you describe will happen. As far as the advertising platform, maybe even open-source, that I mentioned earlier about in this post, I have discovered that it is possible using Adobe Flex in tandem with Adobe LiveCycle. Imagine if there's an advertising platform out there, much like Google AdWords but for video, that allows independednt video producers to log-in to their accounts and choose what video ads are suitable for their show. On the other end, the advertising companies create their profiles on this platform and submit their 5-10 second video adds (also with ability to let the independent producers to create the ads for them). So the platform hosts the video ads and connects the advertisers with the independent producers. The producers get the Flash player with capabilities to display URL hotspots (product placement) and other features I mentioned, like RSS video ad insertion into episodes. Of course the platform also has to CDN host the footage of episodes. It seems that the most ideal company to come up with something like this is Blip. But they are sleeping. They seem to only want to connect the independent producers with pre/mid/post-roll video ads only if the episode reaches a certain number of views. What are your thoughts on this? Blip.tv might not have anyone there who has a background in online advertising. I do think blip.tv is in a good position to be a tool vendor. Providing the infrastructure for video bloggers and other Internet TV makers behind the scenes. This could include tools for online advertising too. But it's up to them if they want to take actions to add online advertising to the list of services they offer. -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/
[videoblogging] Re: Interesting video interview about the future of online video advertising
Does the advertise here page approach actually work? Isn't it that the producer has to pitch his show to the advertiser? I wonder what Steve or Zadi have to say ragarding this, since the example here is related to their show. Love the epicFu, by the way! ;) Thanks --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Charles Iliya Krempeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's an example of an advertise here page. http://epicfu.com/advertise/ If you have something like this, then you've done alot more than most do. Other things you could add to this... - prices - an system to let users purchases ad space online -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ On Feb 13, 2008 12:33 AM, Charles Iliya Krempeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, On Feb 12, 2008 10:44 PM, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your words are golden Bill. Only good content is king, rather than just any content. Just because content is created doesn't mean it's worth watching. On another note though, I am surprised that none of the companies, including blip, takes notice about what the producers need to monetize online shows, they only look at the scenery of online video from their software programming mindset. And when they flip, they wonder what they did wrong... It's all about usability testing!!! Put yourself in the shoes of the end-user and see if you will resonate to the existing video ad approaches. Big advertising platform creators like Maven networks and Move networks have it tailored for huge Fox-like corporations to be smoothly transforming their traditional TV content to the web. However, there's no company with a practical solution that does that for the independent producers. Does that mean that the future of online video advertising is only for the established TV brands? Why can't independent content producers establish an alliance that works with advertisers directly? There needs to be an RSS video ad approach for this to work. If there's any Adobe Flex programmers reading this they should take notice that this is where online video can prosper benefiting all. Similar to Google's Adwords this RSS feed would automatically embed itself to the most watched episode of an online show, hence advertisers are happy that the ad is seen by many. Also URL hotspots in the video is also essential for product placement for new tab opening when the end-user clicks on it. What are your thoughts on this? Take this from someone who was the principal software engineer at an online advertising network for 3+ years and someone played most the roles of this take this as advice from the engineer creating this technology... from a publisher selling ads on his sites... from an advertiser creating ads and finding places to put those ads... and to some degree (from daily observation of my former co-workers)... from a sales person dealing with advertisers... and a business development person attracting publishers. AND not someone who's just rambling and giving advice about something he doesn't know anything about. ATTRACTING ADVERTISERS Create an advertise here page on your video blog. And make sure potential advertisers can find it and get to it. (There is alot that can be said about this... but to make it so my reply isn't too long, I'll keep this brief.) OK... so you want to get advertisers?! Have you told them how to contact you? Have you even told them you are accepting advertisers? Do you provide information about how you sell advertising? (CPM? CPT? CPC? CPA? Etc?) What about how much you charge? The minimum you should probably do is create an advertise here page giving this kind of information. (You probably want to keep SEO and other promotion techniques in mind for this page too when creating it.) Ideally though you'd have more than just an advertise here page... and have a self serve (and automated) system where people could pay you money online and see their ad get scheduled to come up right there and then. (All automated without them having to wait, and without you necessarily having to do much anything... other than quality control, fraud detection, etc.) Really though... if you really want to get advertisers... I strongly suggest you get sales people. They can really help But, I know... I know. How can you afford one?. if you can't afford one by yourself, then team up with other people and get some. Get enough people and you should be able to afford some sales people. But make sure the people you team up with make your combined offering attractive to advertisers. Either make it so your combined content could be considered to be about the same thing to advertisers... or where
[videoblogging] Re: Interesting video interview about the future of online video advertising
I agree with you Adam. It's just a matter of time that all that you describe will happen. As far as the advertising platform, maybe even open-source, that I mentioned earlier about in this post, I have discovered that it is possible using Adobe Flex in tandem with Adobe LiveCycle. Imagine if there's an advertising platform out there, much like Google AdWords but for video, that allows independednt video producers to log-in to their accounts and choose what video ads are suitable for their show. On the other end, the advertising companies create their profiles on this platform and submit their 5-10 second video adds (also with ability to let the independent producers to create the ads for them). So the platform hosts the video ads and connects the advertisers with the independent producers. The producers get the Flash player with capabilities to display URL hotspots (product placement) and other features I mentioned, like RSS video ad insertion into episodes. Of course the platform also has to CDN host the footage of episodes. It seems that the most ideal company to come up with something like this is Blip. But they are sleeping. They seem to only want to connect the independent producers with pre/mid/post-roll video ads only if the episode reaches a certain number of views. What are your thoughts on this? Thanks Renat --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, influxxmedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov innomind@ wrote: URL hotspots in the video is also essential for product placement for new tab opening when the end-user clicks on it. What are your thoughts on this? This will be the future of web video for sure. Adobe Media Player should make this a more viable option with an interactive Flash layer over H264 video. Enhanced podcasts come close to this in some ways, but I haven't seen any that use that technology for 'traditional' advertising. I'm sure the minds of advertisers have to be changed/convinced that web video is worthwhile avenue for advertising on. As has been mentioned already it comes down to ROI for them. I think old school ad mentality dictates that broad advertising to a vast audience in the hope that a small percentage of those viewers react to the ad. The new school will be slivercasting to highly targeted niche audiences, that will obviously be much much smaller. Once advertisers can be convinced that bigger is not necessarily better it should really beneftit a web video show with a small but loyal niche audience. We're seeing it with Ask A Ninja a little bit (maybe others I'm not aware of) but those eyeballs are still valuable. The Beer School podcast for instance. You know right there what demographic is subscribing to that show. Any number of advertisers would be smart to buy ad space/sponsor it. It will get there, but the wheels of industry turn slowly... adam
[videoblogging] Re: More Video Overlay Ads
This seems to be the answer, albeit need additional improvements. Thanks for the link Charles! --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Charles Iliya Krempeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.insideonlinevideo.com/2008/02/15/overlaytv-overlays- anything/ -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/
[videoblogging] Re: Interesting video interview about the future of online video advertising
Charles posted this link http://www.insideonlinevideo.com/2008/02/15/overlaytv-overlays- anything/ It seems promising... I am testing it right now. Renat --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with you Adam. It's just a matter of time that all that you describe will happen. As far as the advertising platform, maybe even open-source, that I mentioned earlier about in this post, I have discovered that it is possible using Adobe Flex in tandem with Adobe LiveCycle. Imagine if there's an advertising platform out there, much like Google AdWords but for video, that allows independednt video producers to log-in to their accounts and choose what video ads are suitable for their show. On the other end, the advertising companies create their profiles on this platform and submit their 5-10 second video adds (also with ability to let the independent producers to create the ads for them). So the platform hosts the video ads and connects the advertisers with the independent producers. The producers get the Flash player with capabilities to display URL hotspots (product placement) and other features I mentioned, like RSS video ad insertion into episodes. Of course the platform also has to CDN host the footage of episodes. It seems that the most ideal company to come up with something like this is Blip. But they are sleeping. They seem to only want to connect the independent producers with pre/mid/post-roll video ads only if the episode reaches a certain number of views. What are your thoughts on this? Thanks Renat --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, influxxmedia adam@ wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov innomind@ wrote: URL hotspots in the video is also essential for product placement for new tab opening when the end-user clicks on it. What are your thoughts on this? This will be the future of web video for sure. Adobe Media Player should make this a more viable option with an interactive Flash layer over H264 video. Enhanced podcasts come close to this in some ways, but I haven't seen any that use that technology for 'traditional' advertising. I'm sure the minds of advertisers have to be changed/convinced that web video is worthwhile avenue for advertising on. As has been mentioned already it comes down to ROI for them. I think old school ad mentality dictates that broad advertising to a vast audience in the hope that a small percentage of those viewers react to the ad. The new school will be slivercasting to highly targeted niche audiences, that will obviously be much much smaller. Once advertisers can be convinced that bigger is not necessarily better it should really beneftit a web video show with a small but loyal niche audience. We're seeing it with Ask A Ninja a little bit (maybe others I'm not aware of) but those eyeballs are still valuable. The Beer School podcast for instance. You know right there what demographic is subscribing to that show. Any number of advertisers would be smart to buy ad space/sponsor it. It will get there, but the wheels of industry turn slowly... adam
[videoblogging] Yahoo Buys Maven Networks
http://www.insideonlinevideo.com/2008/02/13/yahoo-buys-maven-networks- for-160-million/
[videoblogging] NY Video 2.0
Just discovered this and wanted to share. If you are in NY and have something internet-TV-like cooking up this is a must for you. www.nyvideo.org See you on Feb. 26th at Webster hall!!! Yay! :)
[videoblogging] Re: Interesting video interview about the future of online video advertising
Hi Tim, It been over a year downloadablemedia.org has been around. I would like to hear what practical results have been achieved that bring independent producers closer to advertisers. Thanks --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Tim Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Renat, I wish I could say that everything you talk about was easy to do and that we could just flip a switch and have it all be perfect and work for every independent producer - but that's just not the way it is. There are a few of us that are trying to make several of those things you write about happen for independents but it's going to take time and help from everyone. It's easy to complain about the situation but if you are really interested in bringing advertisers and content producers together I urge you to join the Association of Downloadable Media http://www.downloadablemedia.org/ and sign up to attend Ad-tech in San Francisco in April 15-17 http://tinyurl.com/3cg6g6 The ADM will be offering a substantial discount to the event and there will be some steps taken in the direction you are talking about. Rome wasn't built at an advertising conference and all are problems won't be solved there either but if you can attend you will be surrounded by other people who want to see independent content creators and advertisers come together. Tim Street Creator/Executive Producer French Maid TV Subscribe for FREE @ http://frenchmaidtv.com/itunes MyBlog http://1timstreet.com On Feb 12, 2008, at 10:44 PM, Renat Zarbailov wrote: Your words are golden Bill. Only good content is king, rather than just any content. Just because content is created doesn't mean it's worth watching. On another note though, I am surprised that none of the companies, including blip, takes notice about what the producers need to monetize online shows, they only look at the scenery of online video from their software programming mindset. And when they flip, they wonder what they did wrong... It's all about usability testing!!! Put yourself in the shoes of the end-user and see if you will resonate to the existing video ad approaches. Big advertising platform creators like Maven networks and Move networks have it tailored for huge Fox-like corporations to be smoothly transforming their traditional TV content to the web. However, there's no company with a practical solution that does that for the independent producers. Does that mean that the future of online video advertising is only for the established TV brands? Why can't independent content producers establish an alliance that works with advertisers directly? There needs to be an RSS video ad approach for this to work. If there's any Adobe Flex programmers reading this they should take notice that this is where online video can prosper benefiting all. Similar to Google's Adwords this RSS feed would automatically embed itself to the most watched episode of an online show, hence advertisers are happy that the ad is seen by many. Also URL hotspots in the video is also essential for product placement for new tab opening when the end-user clicks on it. What are your thoughts on this? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack billcammack@ wrote: While I respect what he's saying, because he's the one with the company that deals with the business end of making money off of people that make videos, I don't think lack of content is the problem here. The problem *now* is what I've BEEN saying the problem is, which is that without a way to figure out whether suburban males with lawns that are likely to buy a lawnmower are tuning in to your show, you can't sell advertising to lawnmower manufacturers. To say that there isn't enough content for companies to advertise on doesn't take into account that there's tons of content that NOBODY wants to advertise on because of lack of perceived ROI. That's what's so funny about this video boom. People are rushing to make a site where people are going to get on the bandwagon and upload UGC and they think they're going to make all this money from it, when in reality, they don't know JACK about video, they don't know JACK about building, growing and maintaining an audience, they don't know JACK about creating, advertising or moderating a social site... All they know is that there's gold in them thar hills! :D Get them a pan. There's CONTENT being made every single day, just on youtube alone. The point is that none of it's monetizable because you can't tell who's clicking on it, and unless you're willing to do some form of shotgun advertising where you know a show gets 200,000 views per week and you're willing to take a chance on them, it's not CONTENT you want, but GOOD content, NICHE content and content you're likely to see ROI
[videoblogging] Interesting video interview about the future of online video advertising
Here is Hilmi Ozguc (of Maven Networks) talking about the future of video advertising. http://wbztv.com/consumer/technology/MITX.Social.Media.2.584567.html Enjoy!
[videoblogging] Re: Interesting video interview about the future of online video advertising
Your words are golden Bill. Only good content is king, rather than just any content. Just because content is created doesn't mean it's worth watching. On another note though, I am surprised that none of the companies, including blip, takes notice about what the producers need to monetize online shows, they only look at the scenery of online video from their software programming mindset. And when they flip, they wonder what they did wrong... It's all about usability testing!!! Put yourself in the shoes of the end-user and see if you will resonate to the existing video ad approaches. Big advertising platform creators like Maven networks and Move networks have it tailored for huge Fox-like corporations to be smoothly transforming their traditional TV content to the web. However, there's no company with a practical solution that does that for the independent producers. Does that mean that the future of online video advertising is only for the established TV brands? Why can't independent content producers establish an alliance that works with advertisers directly? There needs to be an RSS video ad approach for this to work. If there's any Adobe Flex programmers reading this they should take notice that this is where online video can prosper benefiting all. Similar to Google's Adwords this RSS feed would automatically embed itself to the most watched episode of an online show, hence advertisers are happy that the ad is seen by many. Also URL hotspots in the video is also essential for product placement for new tab opening when the end-user clicks on it. What are your thoughts on this? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I respect what he's saying, because he's the one with the company that deals with the business end of making money off of people that make videos, I don't think lack of content is the problem here. The problem *now* is what I've BEEN saying the problem is, which is that without a way to figure out whether suburban males with lawns that are likely to buy a lawnmower are tuning in to your show, you can't sell advertising to lawnmower manufacturers. To say that there isn't enough content for companies to advertise on doesn't take into account that there's tons of content that NOBODY wants to advertise on because of lack of perceived ROI. That's what's so funny about this video boom. People are rushing to make a site where people are going to get on the bandwagon and upload UGC and they think they're going to make all this money from it, when in reality, they don't know JACK about video, they don't know JACK about building, growing and maintaining an audience, they don't know JACK about creating, advertising or moderating a social site... All they know is that there's gold in them thar hills! :D Get them a pan. There's CONTENT being made every single day, just on youtube alone. The point is that none of it's monetizable because you can't tell who's clicking on it, and unless you're willing to do some form of shotgun advertising where you know a show gets 200,000 views per week and you're willing to take a chance on them, it's not CONTENT you want, but GOOD content, NICHE content and content you're likely to see ROI from. Bill Cammack http://BillCammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov innomind@ wrote: Here is Hilmi Ozguc (of Maven Networks) talking about the future of video advertising. http://wbztv.com/consumer/technology/MITX.Social.Media.2.584567.html Enjoy!
[videoblogging] Collaborating on a screenplay
Hello gang! Look what I found... You can write your script with as many or as few people as you want via a web browser, nothing to install, and it's free. http://www.plotbot.com
[videoblogging] Re: Best Youtube compression out of Adobe Premiere CS3
By the way here is the link to the final video with the compression I mentioned about... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exvu8Bqx5vQ Is this kick ass quality for youtube or what?? Cheers --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After 2 years of constant search for the ideal compression scheme, I have finally come to a solution. If you're using Adobe Premiere CS3 and you edit your footage in 16X9 standard definition, simply do the following. 1. Sharpen the video to the point you see some dotty artifacts appearing in the video (looks like a jpeg still image when highly compressed) 2. Right out of timeline, without even hitting enter to render SD edited material, go to export, adobe media encoder. Once there under format choose Windows Media, and under preset NTSC Source to Download 1024kbps, however, that is not all, we will edit this preset and then save it as a Youtube one for future sweet encoding :) So now, in the video tab... BASIC VIDEO SETTINGS make sure you have the following; Allow interlaced processing - unchecked Encoding passes - Two Bitrate mode - Constant Frame W/H 640X480 Frame rate 29.97 but depending on your footage (some people shoot in 24 frames) Pixel aspect ration (important) - D1 DV NTSC (0.9) this is 4X3 although the original footage is 16X9 BITRATE SETTINGS Maximum bitrate - 3,739.63 (yes under 4mbps) Image quality - 100 ADVANCED SETTINGS Decoder complexity - Main Keyframe interval - 5 Buffer size - Default Now go to Audio tab change Audio format to 192kbps 44 stereo VBR 3. Hit OK on the bottom (you will see that the estimated file size is beyond 100mb allowed by youtube but don't worry, if you go the approach described below all will be fine). Save to file to you har drive. 4. Log in to youtube and at the upload page, on the right hand side you will see a new Multi video uploaded button to upload files larger than 100MB or upload many files at once! That's it! :) If you have achieved better quality using Premiere CS3 I sure would like to hear about it. Thanks Renat of Innomind.org and Mr.Thyself.com
[videoblogging] Re: Best Youtube compression out of Adobe Premiere CS3
Yeah but your footage is not handheld. When the cam is on a tripod the footage in most cases looks great, especially if the scene is well lit. Now, you were talking about blurring the video instead of sharpening it?? Did I miss something? I mean those examples looked nice but I am sure if you would have sharpened them they would look even better. Also, I noticed a weird thing about youtube yesterday. When I opened that same resulting video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exvu8Bqx5vQ)in Internet Exploer 6, the video looked not as sharp as on Firefox 2. Another thing I noticed is when you press that little screen button on youtube player on that video it doesn't scale down. Which made me wonder if youtube is wising up and finally using the H.264 engine, hence the very sharp video. What are your thoughts on this guys? Renat of Innomind.org and Mr.Thyself.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about this, Renat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSwNz2wu5Gg Cheers, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Feb 1, 2008, at 6:34 AM, Renat Zarbailov wrote: By the way here is the link to the final video with the compression I mentioned about... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exvu8Bqx5vQ Is this kick ass quality for youtube or what?? Cheers --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov innomind@ wrote: After 2 years of constant search for the ideal compression scheme, I have finally come to a solution. If you're using Adobe Premiere CS3 and you edit your footage in 16X9 standard definition, simply do the following. 1. Sharpen the video to the point you see some dotty artifacts appearing in the video (looks like a jpeg still image when highly compressed) 2. Right out of timeline, without even hitting enter to render SD edited material, go to export, adobe media encoder. Once there under format choose Windows Media, and under preset NTSC Source to Download 1024kbps, however, that is not all, we will edit this preset and then save it as a Youtube one for future sweet encoding :) So now, in the video tab... BASIC VIDEO SETTINGS make sure you have the following; Allow interlaced processing - unchecked Encoding passes - Two Bitrate mode - Constant Frame W/H 640X480 Frame rate 29.97 but depending on your footage (some people shoot in 24 frames) Pixel aspect ration (important) - D1 DV NTSC (0.9) this is 4X3 although the original footage is 16X9 BITRATE SETTINGS Maximum bitrate - 3,739.63 (yes under 4mbps) Image quality - 100 ADVANCED SETTINGS Decoder complexity - Main Keyframe interval - 5 Buffer size - Default Now go to Audio tab change Audio format to 192kbps 44 stereo VBR 3. Hit OK on the bottom (you will see that the estimated file size is beyond 100mb allowed by youtube but don't worry, if you go the approach described below all will be fine). Save to file to you har drive. 4. Log in to youtube and at the upload page, on the right hand side you will see a new Multi video uploaded button to upload files larger than 100MB or upload many files at once! That's it! :) If you have achieved better quality using Premiere CS3 I sure would like to hear about it. Thanks Renat of Innomind.org and Mr.Thyself.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: HV20 Camera Noise
Check this out. http://www.vimeo.com/463187 It does however pick up the camera noise from the HV20... God bless hard drive based camcorders :) cheers --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Josh Leo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For all you HV20 owners out there, I have a problem (and I know Kent Bye has the same issue) Camera Noise!! Check out all the camera noise in this video I made with the camera: http://vimeo.com/475731 Lots of high-pitched noise obviously this is because the internal mic is so close to the tape mechanism. And obviously, when the room is quiet the auto-gain ettenuator makes that noise even louder. I have used lapel mics to get rid of the noise and that works great, but I want a solution for when I am just filming other people and things. I thought about getting a shotgun mic but I am not sure if it would help as much as I want it to. so I am asking these questions: - does your HV20 camera make this much noise? - what do you do to stop the camera noise? - what kind of shotgun works well with the camera? -- Josh Leo www.JoshLeo.com www.ultrakawaii.com www.WanderingWestMichigan.com www.SlowLorisMedia.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Best Youtube compression out of Adobe Premiere CS3
After 2 years of constant search for the ideal compression scheme, I have finally come to a solution. If you're using Adobe Premiere CS3 and you edit your footage in 16X9 standard definition, simply do the following. 1. Sharpen the video to the point you see some dotty artifacts appearing in the video (looks like a jpeg still image when highly compressed) 2. Right out of timeline, without even hitting enter to render SD edited material, go to export, adobe media encoder. Once there under format choose Windows Media, and under preset NTSC Source to Download 1024kbps, however, that is not all, we will edit this preset and then save it as a Youtube one for future sweet encoding :) So now, in the video tab... BASIC VIDEO SETTINGS make sure you have the following; Allow interlaced processing - unchecked Encoding passes - Two Bitrate mode - Constant Frame W/H 640X480 Frame rate 29.97 but depending on your footage (some people shoot in 24 frames) Pixel aspect ration (important) - D1 DV NTSC (0.9) this is 4X3 although the original footage is 16X9 BITRATE SETTINGS Maximum bitrate - 3,739.63 (yes under 4mbps) Image quality - 100 ADVANCED SETTINGS Decoder complexity - Main Keyframe interval - 5 Buffer size - Default Now go to Audio tab change Audio format to 192kbps 44 stereo VBR 3. Hit OK on the bottom (you will see that the estimated file size is beyond 100mb allowed by youtube but don't worry, if you go the approach described below all will be fine). Save to file to you har drive. 4. Log in to youtube and at the upload page, on the right hand side you will see a new Multi video uploaded button to upload files larger than 100MB or upload many files at once! That's it! :) If you have achieved better quality using Premiere CS3 I sure would like to hear about it. Thanks Renat of Innomind.org and Mr.Thyself.com
[videoblogging] Re: Best Youtube compression out of Adobe Premiere CS3
Yeah that is the disadvantage of shooting in 16X9 and outputting to youtube. Ideally it would be best to shoot in 4X3 and not change the aspect ratio but if you you want to preserve the videos for future shoot in 16X9. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm confused about changing the aspect ratio for output. Won't the image end up smooshed? Chris --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov innomind@ wrote: After 2 years of constant search for the ideal compression scheme, I have finally come to a solution. If you're using Adobe Premiere CS3 and you edit your footage in 16X9 standard definition, simply do the following. 1. Sharpen the video to the point you see some dotty artifacts appearing in the video (looks like a jpeg still image when highly compressed) 2. Right out of timeline, without even hitting enter to render SD edited material, go to export, adobe media encoder. Once there under format choose Windows Media, and under preset NTSC Source to Download 1024kbps, however, that is not all, we will edit this preset and then save it as a Youtube one for future sweet encoding :) So now, in the video tab... BASIC VIDEO SETTINGS make sure you have the following; Allow interlaced processing - unchecked Encoding passes - Two Bitrate mode - Constant Frame W/H 640X480 Frame rate 29.97 but depending on your footage (some people shoot in 24 frames) Pixel aspect ration (important) - D1 DV NTSC (0.9) this is 4X3 although the original footage is 16X9 BITRATE SETTINGS Maximum bitrate - 3,739.63 (yes under 4mbps) Image quality - 100 ADVANCED SETTINGS Decoder complexity - Main Keyframe interval - 5 Buffer size - Default Now go to Audio tab change Audio format to 192kbps 44 stereo VBR 3. Hit OK on the bottom (you will see that the estimated file size is beyond 100mb allowed by youtube but don't worry, if you go the approach described below all will be fine). Save to file to you har drive. 4. Log in to youtube and at the upload page, on the right hand side you will see a new Multi video uploaded button to upload files larger than 100MB or upload many files at once! That's it! :) If you have achieved better quality using Premiere CS3 I sure would like to hear about it. Thanks Renat of Innomind.org and Mr.Thyself.com
[videoblogging] Re: Best Youtube compression out of Adobe Premiere CS3
Yes that's true but at the expense. The vid then looks washed out. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Kary Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you upload 16x9 to YouTube they will automatically letterbox it for you. MySpace does as well. Some sites do not. -- Kary Rogers http://www.GoodCommitment.tv On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah that is the disadvantage of shooting in 16X9 and outputting to youtube. Ideally it would be best to shoot in 4X3 and not change the aspect ratio but if you you want to preserve the videos for future shoot in 16X9. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Chris cjburdick@ wrote: I'm confused about changing the aspect ratio for output. Won't the image end up smooshed? Chris [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Mr.Thyself Show LIVE!!!
Dear friendz and enemiez of Mr.Thyself around this wet planet, You are cordially invited to a LIVE Mr.Thyself Show!!! What: Mr.Thyself Show LIVE!!! Where: www.blogtv.com When: Wednesday, January 30, 9PM EST You need to preregister at the BlogTV.com site to be able to interact or to watch the show. It will be a blast from the red planet!!! So share the news with your friendz and enemiez and enjoy the spontaneity in its bloom. We will see you there! Renato with Mr.Thyself, - Improving Martian tourism since 2004!
[videoblogging] Unplugged
http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=9842
[videoblogging] Re: New Video Camera Recomendations?
I have been watching the camcorder scene for the past year and a half again because it was time to free myself from tapes. Eventually I settled for Sony HDR-SR7, which has a CMOS sensor (not best for dark situations, you need Sony PD170 for dark shooting :). Sony just came out with a newer 160GB version, which is SR12, but squeezed the sensor, despite upping the HD video from 1440X1080i to 1920X1080i. So the SR7th sensor is still better than the SR12th, even though the hard drive is only 60GB. The beauty of SR7 is that it shoots in both standard MPEG2 9mbps and AVCHD 15mbps. So if you shoot for the web only, I think this is the ideal approach, since the MPEG2, although not an editing format, is very economical and you can simply backup the footage to DVD. Although I haven't burned any MPEG2 footage to a DVD to test I hope it will allow the footage to be playable in any DVD player without transcoding before hand. Another neat feature besides being able to delete unwanted video right in the cam is splitting the video right in the cam. So, say you have some parts in a clip that you want gone, you can on the go split and delete parts. Also it has mini audio port so you can plug practically any mike via mini to XLR cable. I am yet to shoot in AVCHD, when the software world wakes up and smells the flowers. Till this day most of the professional NLE applications do not support this format. I edit my MPEG2 footage in Premiere CS3, it doesn't support MPEG2 editing (as I mentioned above that this format isn't an editing one) so I found a workaround to this after weeks of research. All Premiere needs is a Dolby file from Encore CS3 to be imported into the Premiere install directory. Otherwise the video plays in the timeline but no audio. For now my rig is a combination of SR7 with extended battery (5 hours?), with semi-fisheye lens Raynox HD-3032PRO (not for all occasions of course), and all sitting on a Merlin Steadicam you get pretty nice moving pictures. I hope the above helps Renat from MrThyself.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, pettisb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Gang, I'm in the market for a new video camera. My Sony HC1 died a while back from overuse and I've been using my xacti hd2 with a wide angle lense and simple shotgun mic setup. I really prefer the hd2's 720p to 1080i. If I could send interlacing to hell, I would do it in a second. So I'm looking for a more beefy camera than the wee xacti to look a little more impressive and get better color and sound. Has to be 720p or 1080p. Has to record to hard drive or cards. I hate tapes. I'd like it to have 3 ccds but not essential. Low light awesomeness would be nice. Has to accept wide angle lens attachment. Has to be decent at recording audio. Anyone go to CES and see anything I should keep an eye out for? Anyone have a favorite camera that they are loving right now? Bre http://brepettis.com
