Re: [videoblogging] YouTube will lose half a billion dollars this year
True, but from my brief experience of working with Analysts, they do spend quite a lot of time working on their figures, not just plucking things out of thin air. And it's not a two-bit Analyst, it's a couple of guys at Credit Suisse. So I'd presume that they were basing this on something to make it worth reporting such dramatic figures. A bit more detail here: http://www.contentinople.com/author.asp?section_id=450&doc_id=174797 "Although YouTube makes up approximately 41 percent of all videos viewed in the U.S., the site's ability to monetize its library of videos content remains a challenge. The analysts estimate that YouTube will bring in about $240 million in revenue in 2009, which will come mostly from homepage placement ads and in-video overlays and adjacencies. Credit Suisse estimates that YouTube generates approximately $86.7 million a year on homepage placement ads, or about $7 million per month. In-video ads and banner adjancencies contribute another $87 million, according to the analyst estimates. Sponsored videos ($37.1 million) and sponsored links ($30.1 million) also contribute to YouTube's revenues. On the cost side, Credit Suisse estimates that Google spends $711 million in operating expenses related to YouTube. Those costs include bandwidth, content acquisition, partner revenue shares, site overhead, and storage. The biggest expense for YouTube is the incredible amount of bandwidth that it must pay for. Despite estimating that YouTube pays about half the lowest market rate for bandwidth, the cost of streaming 5 million videos a month adds up. Analysts place bandwidth costs associated with YouTube at about $360 million a year, or $1 million a day. As YouTube ramps up the amount of premium content it serves, content acquisition is also becoming a serious cost for the site, with Credit Suisse estimating that YouTube will pay approximately $260 million in content acquisition costs in 2009. YouTube's revenue share deals contribute an additional $49 million, according to Credit Suisse estimates, while general overhead -- sales and marketing, R&D, and G&A expenses -- are expected to set the company back about $24 million in 2009. Finally, the cost of storage for Google's content library, estimated at about 150 million to 160 million videos for a total of 5 petabytes, is estimated at $12.7 million a year." ... On 8-Apr-09, at 3:51 PM, Steve Rhodes wrote: > > > > Yes, YouTube is losing money, but just because an analyst says they > are losing half a billion dollars doesn't make it so. > > Sent from my iPhone > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] YouTube will lose half a billion dollars this year
Rereading my post, my final comments were supposed to be questions, not statements. Here are some more: As a layman, I don't understand how people will make money with advertising on online video. Surely at some point soon, pay per view will become the norm? Will the recession bring this on? With things like paypal and google checkout, isn't paying for things much easier now? Easy enough to make it worth the viewer's while doing it? And will that lead to a lot more long-form content, so people feel they're getting their money's worth? On 8-Apr-09, at 3:40 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: > in other news... > > http://blog.streamingmedia.com/the_business_of_online_vi/2009/04/disney-says-hulu-running-out-of-cash.html > > ;) > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Rupert > wrote: > >> This is from the Seattle Times last week. Credit Suisse analyst says >> YouTube will cost Google $470m. Bandwidth costs them $360m, content >> rights cost them $252m, but sales from advertising are only $240m >> (um, >> "only"). >> >> Oops. >> >> If YouTube and Google can't make it work, how the hell is anybody >> else >> supposed to? >> >> Google is actually hurting the whole online video market by providing >> video as a free 'loss leader'? While they can afford to prop up >> YouTube's failed business model by subsidizing their massive losses >> to >> the tune of half a billion a year, how can anybody else innovate >> sensible revenue models for online video? The "Free" internet is a >> massive illusion. >> >> http://tinyurl.com/c2akgl >> >> *YouTube set to lose $470M; most ad spots going unsold* >> >> According to a Credit Suisse analyst, the most popular video Web site >> owned by the richest Web site Google will lose $470 million this >> year because it sells advertising only on a fraction of its pages. >> >> For a site that generates as much online traffic as YouTube, it would >> seem a no-brainer that profit is streaming in. >> >> But according to a Credit Suisse analyst, the most popular video Web >> site owned by the richest Web site Google will lose $470 million >> this year because it sells advertising only on a fraction of its >> pages. >> >> YouTube sells ads on less than 3 percent of the Web pages that could >> carry commercial messages, analyst Spencer Wang wrote Friday in a >> note >> to clients. To boost that percentage, Google needs to standardize ad >> formats and better demonstrate that ads on YouTube help sell >> products, >> he wrote. >> >> Weakness at YouTube led Wang to cut his 2009 profit estimate for >> Google to $4.68 a share from $4.83, according to the report. >> >> Google stock has fallen more than a third from its 52-week high last >> May, hurt by slowing growth in the online-ad market and by the >> decline >> in the broader stock market. >> >> "Despite the growth of YouTube's user base, there is little evidence >> to suggest Google has been able to materially monetize this usage," >> Wang wrote. "In light of the current ad recession, experimental >> budgets are being trimmed." >> >> YouTube's sales will rise about 20 percent to $240.9 million this >> year, Wang estimated. >> >> The company may spend $360.4 million for bandwidth to distribute its >> video, and $252.9 million to pay content owners for the rights to >> show >> their material, he wrote. >> >> >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
[videoblogging] YouTube will lose half a billion dollars this year
This is from the Seattle Times last week. Credit Suisse analyst says YouTube will cost Google $470m. Bandwidth costs them $360m, content rights cost them $252m, but sales from advertising are only $240m (um, "only"). Oops. If YouTube and Google can't make it work, how the hell is anybody else supposed to? Google is actually hurting the whole online video market by providing video as a free 'loss leader'? While they can afford to prop up YouTube's failed business model by subsidizing their massive losses to the tune of half a billion a year, how can anybody else innovate sensible revenue models for online video? The "Free" internet is a massive illusion. http://tinyurl.com/c2akgl *YouTube set to lose $470M; most ad spots going unsold* According to a Credit Suisse analyst, the most popular video Web site — owned by the richest Web site Google — will lose $470 million this year because it sells advertising only on a fraction of its pages. For a site that generates as much online traffic as YouTube, it would seem a no-brainer that profit is streaming in. But according to a Credit Suisse analyst, the most popular video Web site — owned by the richest Web site Google — will lose $470 million this year because it sells advertising only on a fraction of its pages. YouTube sells ads on less than 3 percent of the Web pages that could carry commercial messages, analyst Spencer Wang wrote Friday in a note to clients. To boost that percentage, Google needs to standardize ad formats and better demonstrate that ads on YouTube help sell products, he wrote. Weakness at YouTube led Wang to cut his 2009 profit estimate for Google to $4.68 a share from $4.83, according to the report. Google stock has fallen more than a third from its 52-week high last May, hurt by slowing growth in the online-ad market and by the decline in the broader stock market. "Despite the growth of YouTube's user base, there is little evidence to suggest Google has been able to materially monetize this usage," Wang wrote. "In light of the current ad recession, experimental budgets are being trimmed." YouTube's sales will rise about 20 percent to $240.9 million this year, Wang estimated. The company may spend $360.4 million for bandwidth to distribute its video, and $252.9 million to pay content owners for the rights to show their material, he wrote. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] SEO for videoblogs
An incredibly boring video about getting more viewers for your videoblog: http://twittervlog.tv/2009/04/seo-for-videoblogs/ I wish I'd never said I'd make this video. It might bring you more viewers, but that won't do you much good if you've blown your brains out with boredom halfway through watching it. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv
[videoblogging] Videoblogging Week Day One or Two or Three
http://twittervlog.tv/2009/04/videoblogging-week-day-one-or-two-or-three/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Video Blogging Week: Day 1
Thanks for the reminder about the taxes. What would I do without this group? On 6-Apr-09, at 2:39 AM, Mike Moon wrote: > So many decisions. Should I vlog about rolling the lawn or doing my > taxes. > http://mikemoon.net/vlog/2009/04/05/flatlands/ > > Mike > http://vlog.mikemoon.net > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Garfield" > wrote: > > > > Starting off Video Blogging Week 2009. > > > > http://videobloggingweek2009.blogspot.com/ > > > > Here's my first: > > > > Boston Pillowfight 2009 > > > > http://stevegarfield.blogs.com/videoblog/2009/04/boston-pillowfight-2009.html > > > > In this video is tried out hte new iMovie 09 Comic Book theme > feature. > > > > Reply and post yours... > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Video Blogging Week: Day 1
Excellent. Thank you. You just saved me wasting about twenty hours of productive time this week. On 5-Apr-09, at 11:09 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: > yep, here is the twitter search feed: > > http://search.twitter.com/search?q=videobloggingweek > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 1:44 AM, David Howell > wrote: > > > I debated back and forth if I was going to do this. Decided that I'm > > going to play again this year once more. > > > > My first video is up - > > http://www.davidhowellstudios.com/2009/04/05/balance-vbw-2009/ > > > > I'm not going to be posting a link to every video I create this > week here > > though. Best to follow me on Twitter for updates :) @davidhowell > > > > Also, if you hashtag your Tweets with #videobloggingweek, that > should > > collect all videos in one easy to find place. > > > > David > > http://www.davidhowellstudios.com > > > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com %40yahoogroups.com>, > > "Gena" wrote: > > > > > > Yep, mine is up too... > > > > > http://outonthestoop.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-women-should-learn-web-video.html > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com %40yahoogroups.com>, > > "Steve Garfield" wrote: > > > > > > > > Starting off Video Blogging Week 2009. > > > > > > > > http://videobloggingweek2009.blogspot.com/ > > > > > > > > Here's my first: > > > > > > > > Boston Pillowfight 2009 > > > > > > > > > > http://stevegarfield.blogs.com/videoblog/2009/04/boston-pillowfight-2009.html > > > > > > > > In this video is tried out hte new iMovie 09 Comic Book theme > feature. > > > > > > > > Reply and post yours... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Video Blogging Week: Day 1
In my world, weeks start on Mondays not on Sundays, so my Day 1 will be tomorrow. I'm even tempted to reactivate my Twitter account for the week. No, I don't think I want to let that madness back into my life. Or, more importantly, into my work life. But can't search for Hashtagged tweets without being logged in. Are more people participating than the few who have responded here so far? Is there videobloggingweek action on Twitter? On 5-Apr-09, at 10:44 PM, David Howell wrote: > I debated back and forth if I was going to do this. Decided that I'm > going to play again this year once more. > > My first video is up - > http://www.davidhowellstudios.com/2009/04/05/balance-vbw-2009/ > > I'm not going to be posting a link to every video I create this week > here though. Best to follow me on Twitter for updates :) @davidhowell > > Also, if you hashtag your Tweets with #videobloggingweek, that > should collect all videos in one easy to find place. > > David > http://www.davidhowellstudios.com > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Gena" > wrote: > > > > Yep, mine is up too... > > http://outonthestoop.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-women-should-learn-web-video.html > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Garfield" > wrote: > > > > > > Starting off Video Blogging Week 2009. > > > > > > http://videobloggingweek2009.blogspot.com/ > > > > > > Here's my first: > > > > > > Boston Pillowfight 2009 > > > > > > http://stevegarfield.blogs.com/videoblog/2009/04/boston-pillowfight-2009.html > > > > > > In this video is tried out hte new iMovie 09 Comic Book theme > feature. > > > > > > Reply and post yours... > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Has anybody used the Xacti E2?
Brilliant - that's exactly what I needed to know. Low light is super important to me. I'm *always* shooting in low light. Since I can't get hold of any other Xactis out here in the sticks and I need a camera quite quickly, I think I'm going to give the Xactis another pass and get myself the new Canon Powershot SD960IS from Future Shop. It apparently has quite good quality 1280x720 video. I've always been impressed with the more expensive Canon point and shoot cameras' video quality and low light performance, so we'll see what happens with this. I guess if it's not up to par I can always take it back... I do yearn for that Xacti pistol grip, though... On 4-Apr-09, at 8:12 PM, Clintus wrote: > Hey Rupert, I haven't used it personally but I've seen footage from > it and it looks just as good if not better than the E1. The only > thing that turned me off from it was the low light value was only > half of that of the E1. The lux value was almost double. So if you > don't plan on using it in low light situations then you should be > golden. > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert wrote: > > > > I know a bunch of you have used the E1 - and I've loved the > quality of > > the images that people like Ryanne & Jay have captured with it, > > despite the occasional water-related failure. I don't want an HD > > Xacti - I just need 640x480 - and the Waterproof feature will be > > useful, but the only thing available round here is an E2, not an E1. > > Reports of performance please! > > > > Rupert > > http://twittervlog.tv > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: The Interwebs show, business of tech and new media
That's on my to do list for next week - a post and video titled "Yahoo videoblogging group" should push to the top of results. I just added the link to the group to the very bottom of my People I Watch page two weeks ago - but I just checked and that page is in the Google results already for [yahoo videoblogging group] and [videoblogging group] - #3 & #4 on Google UK. So it's obviously not a hard phrase to get results for, and if a few people write posts about the group, they'll push the old stuff - particularly that lame Feldman video - off the top page quite quickly. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 4-Apr-09, at 3:05 PM, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: > Finally, a tech show that's more substance and less boobies! > > P.S. Do a search for the Yahoo Videoblogging Group. It needs to be > SEO'd > (especially the video links) if anyone feels inclined to spend the > time. > > 2009/4/4 Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com %40yahoogroups.com>, > > Rupert wrote: > > > > > . > > > > > > > > I might do a brief video about this next week for videoblogging > week > > > so you all can see what I'm talking about. > > > > > I hope you do! I sure could use it. I think we all could. Great > explanation > > of SEO. > > > > Stan > > > > Stan Hirson > > http://PinePlainsViews.com > > http://LifeWithHorses.com > > coming: http://ThinkingGlobalActingLocal.com > > > > > > > > -- > Jeffrey Taylor > 912 Cole St, #349 > San Francisco, CA 94117 > USA > Mobile: +14157281264 > Fax: +33177722734 > http://twitter.com/jeffreytaylor > http://organicconversations.com > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] The Interwebs show, business of tech and new media
Yeah, sorry if that sounded overly opinionated. That said, here's another opinion. You should do some SEO for the Interwebs. And W&S. But the kind of stuff you're reporting on in W&S are things people are going to be searching for right now. Obopay, Nokia, Skype on iPhone, etc. In social media, we're all obsessed with building word of mouth, but if you do SEO you'll get far more people coming to you through search. Basic stuff you can do now which will have a big effect: Give each post an HTML page Title with keywords in it - titles of companies discussed in post, etc. Give each post an H1 level title with the same or slightly different info. Most blogs' H1 is their blog name, which is hopeless - this is the headline Google looks for after the page Title. Add meta description and keywords to each post - don't believe the people who say this has no effect any more - I've tracked it working on Twittervlog. Get backlinks from your own sites, preferably each week in new posts, and make sure the link anchor text has keywords in it - not just "The interwebs" or your URL. You have PageRank 5 & PR4 on innonate and bullemhead, so they will pass good PR juice onto interwebs.tv and start giving you a PR there. Get links from anywhere else (preferably pages with good PR) to each post, with anchor text - and blag links in vlogrolls, blogrolls. Get an XML sitemap in your root directory, to Google-preferred specs. With Wordpress you can do all this easily with the SEO pack plugin and the Google sitemap plugin. Otherwise you can just hand code it all. If you want, you can track all your performance using an app like Advanced Web Ranking. I've been doing SEO for a local company since I've been in Canada. The guy I work for is very good at it - the good SEO, not the creepy SEO. I've learnt a lot, and the last couple of months I've started to SEO Twittervlog a bit, with immediate effects. I suddenly have thousands of people through to my site through search. Even though I haven't posted video for 4 months. Text posts I did in January on the Oscars and the Tate Altermodern show were getting page 1 or 2 positions on Google. As well as measuring the difference it's made to Twittervlog, I've also put all the vlogs on my People I Watch page into my Advanced Web Ranking, to measure their performance on 250-500 phrases chosen by me and suggested by the Google keyword tool as popular phrases related to online video, videoblogging, etc. Almost none of them feature at all in the first 100 results on Google, MSN or Yahoo for any of the phrases. I think the social media thing has blinded most of us to optimizing our sites for search, which is the way most people navigate the web. And blogs have an extra advantage in SEO, as Google and MSN view blog posts as more likely to be relevant content. So we should all be ranking better. YouTube videos still have an unfair advantage on Google, too - they stick them halfway down the first results page, so make sure your description and tags are full of the right info. Blip's search engine rankings on the other hand are not nearly as good as Vimeo or Mefeedia (who do very well in results, second only to YouTube). I might do a brief video about this next week for videoblogging week so you all can see what I'm talking about. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 3-Apr-09, at 1:14 PM, Adam Quirk wrote: > I agree completely about the sound, you'd think I would know better > by now. > Thing is, that outdoor interview was impromptu and I didn't have any > equipment with me. The gals are new to video and shot a lot of that > segment > themselves, but are definitely learning fast. We'll use lapels for the > in-studio stuff from now on. I don't remember why we didn't in the > first > place. Probably booze. > So there are my excuses, along with a promise that next episode will > be > better. I've already shot a couple segments for it, both of which > are mic'd > properly. > > We send our stuff out to TubeMogul as well, and have a few hundred > views > across the other various platforms, but we're concentrating on > building our > on-site audience with the blip player for now. We're using blip for > a bunch > of reasons, but mostly because they're the best at finding > sponsorships > deals for shows. > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Rupert > wrote: > > > It's like Diggnation and Epic Fu in a menage a trois with Wreck and > > Salvage. > > > > I like your style. If I watched tech shows, I'd watch this. Although > > I do watch Epic Fu, when I'm watching things. And GETV. So I do > > watch tech shows. >
Re: [videoblogging] question: laptop for video editing
Here we go. The question was "I am leaning toward getting a Macbook - are there also PC laptops that are good for editing." I guessed that Roshani wasn't interested in professional editing - the question was a general one about whether you can edit on PC as well - so I was trying to illustrate that for most general video editing, it doesn't really matter whether you use PC or Mac. If you read what I said, I did not say that if you were a professional you had to use a Mac and FCP. I was telling Roshani, who was thinking about getting a Macbook, that the only reason to buy a Macbook for video editing is if you need to use FCP and can spend $1300 on it. I should have added another paragraph about the high end video editing packages for PC just to make it clear that this was a software requirement I was talking about, not a professionalism requirement. I'm sure Vegas Pro can stand toe to toe with Final Cut Studio - I haven't tested them against each other. I do know a lot more professionals who use FCP than Vegas and Premiere. Perhaps that's just because they don't know about Vegas and have false preconceptions about Mac being better than PC for this stuff. I also know a few AVID editors and even a guy who still uses Lightworks. You could probably give them all PCP and make them fight about what's best. But at the low end - and possibly at the highest possible end - it doesn't matter whether you have a Mac or PC for video editing, unless someone else is dictating your software requirements or you really prefer a particular application or interface. The Mac/PC decision should be made for other reasons. If you prefer Mac, get Mac. If you prefer PC, get PC. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv As a succinct appraisal of whether you need to get a Mac to do video editing, I thought it was OK. On 3-Apr-09, at 11:51 AM, Richard Amirault wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Rupert" > > > The more important question is what program you want to use for > > editing. If you need Final Cut Pro and can spend $1300 on it, you > > need to get a Mac. If you just need basic editing or even medium- > > featured editing, it doesn't really matter whether you have Mac or > PC > > - you can use Sony Vegas on a PC ($50) and iMovie on a Mac (free). > (snip) > > I've been using Macs for video for 10 years, and I prefer the > > interface. But I've also use PCs a lot for work, and have done some > > video using Vegas, and it's pretty good too - better in some ways > than > > iMovie, but not as good as the much more expensive Final Cut Pro if > > you want to do lots of fancy stuff. So it's all about what you're > > going to use it for and what you're comfortable with. > > > You are comparing apples to oranges. First, like Final Cut, there are > multiple versions of Sony's Vegas. The "consumer" version is Sony > Vegas > Movie Studio .. but even that comes in, I believe, three different > versions. > Then you have the professional version called Sony Vegas Pro. THAT > program > lists for $550.00 US. > > Vegas Pro can stand toe to toe with Final Cut Pro anyday. Yes, there > are > things that one can do and the other can't .. but it works both > ways. Each > is a professional level video editor. > > Richard Amirault > Boston, MA, USA > http://n1jdu.org > http://bostonfandom.org > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] The Interwebs show, business of tech and new media
It's like Diggnation and Epic Fu in a menage a trois with Wreck and Salvage. I like your style. If I watched tech shows, I'd watch this. Although I do watch Epic Fu, when I'm watching things. And GETV. So I do watch tech shows. I love the lofi look and attitude, but the lofi sound not so much - it's hard on the attention span. i think you can get away with all sorts of visual craziness if the sound is clear, but you try people's patience if they're straining to make out what's being said in formal interviews. in the phone segment, i like the crap handheld mic thing, but maybe it could just be a prop, and you could really mic them separately? the outside interview with Chris Sacca was cool for its slightly greasy video-light look, but maybe you could have had the handheld mic there instead of the camera mic picking up all the ambient noise, or used lapels to keep the informal nature of the chat? As it is, it sounds like the scene is being lit by a flamethrower. Your stats are Blip, and you said you're hosting with Blip to get them onside - are you not also putting it on YouTube and other sharing sites to get more views? On 3-Apr-09, at 9:25 AM, Adam Quirk wrote: > Video globbers, > I just launched a new project that you folks may find mildly > interesting. > > It's called The Interwebs, a weekly show about the business of tech > and new > media. We're going to try to make it 60% smart and 60% funny. > > Most pertinent to this list is our closing segment each week called > Vital > Signs, in which my co-producer Nate and I openly discuss our > statistics, > viewership, and finances; all the other ins and outs of producing a > show for > the web. AOL keyword: transparency. > > This week Vital Signs starts at around the 7:04 mark: > http://theinterwebs.tv/post/92264825/welcome-to-the-interwebs-0-24-this-week-nate > > Eat it all though if you have time, it's good food. > > Ok, > AQ > > @quirk > wreckandsalvage.com > theinterwebs.tv > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Has anybody used the Xacti E2?
I know a bunch of you have used the E1 - and I've loved the quality of the images that people like Ryanne & Jay have captured with it, despite the occasional water-related failure. I don't want an HD Xacti - I just need 640x480 - and the Waterproof feature will be useful, but the only thing available round here is an E2, not an E1. Reports of performance please! Rupert http://twittervlog.tv
Re: [videoblogging] question: laptop for video editing
The more important question is what program you want to use for editing. If you need Final Cut Pro and can spend $1300 on it, you need to get a Mac. If you just need basic editing or even medium- featured editing, it doesn't really matter whether you have Mac or PC - you can use Sony Vegas on a PC ($50) and iMovie on a Mac (free). Then it's a question of what you use in the rest of your life. If they're surrounded by PCs at work and home, some people prefer to stick with PC - just make sure you get a PC with a speedy processor and lots of RAM. I've been using Macs for video for 10 years, and I prefer the interface. But I've also use PCs a lot for work, and have done some video using Vegas, and it's pretty good too - better in some ways than iMovie, but not as good as the much more expensive Final Cut Pro if you want to do lots of fancy stuff. So it's all about what you're going to use it for and what you're comfortable with. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 3-Apr-09, at 8:52 AM, Roshani Kothari wrote: > Hello everyone, > I am leaning towards getting a macbook for video editing. > What do you think of this one? > Any specific pc laptops that are good for video editing? > Thanks. > Roshani > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Videoblogging Week 2009
Just a reminder, because I almost forgot about it myself. Videoblogging week 2009 starts on Sunday. I haven't posted a video on Twittervlog for over four months. I guess I have a lot of clips that I haven't shared with anyone except family. Maybe I'll have a look in my archive and see if I can fill the week with babyvlogging ;) On 17-Mar-09, at 11:47 AM, Josh Leo wrote: > Here is the info! > > VBW is in it's 6th year! > > http://videobloggingweek2009.blogspot.com/ > > April 5-11 > > Please join in! > > -- > Josh Leo > > www.JoshLeo.com > www.ultrakawaii.com > www.WanderingWestMichigan.com > www.SlowLorisMedia.com > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Video blogging history/evolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSEaHyzbqTA On 1-Apr-09, at 1:35 PM, Rupert wrote: > Truth is a dead tree. > > On 1-Apr-09, at 1:18 PM, gintaras.miskinis wrote: > > Just wanted to add, that a qualitative/trusty source, is a source > > which is written by a scientist or other person who is accepted by > > the society, i.e. has a expertise in branch. As I see, he must at > > leased published a book? (nonsense). Anyway, starting to get a > > headache of this unique case... > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Video blogging history/evolution
Truth is a dead tree. On 1-Apr-09, at 1:18 PM, gintaras.miskinis wrote: > Just wanted to add, that a qualitative/trusty source, is a source > which is written by a scientist or other person who is accepted by > the society, i.e. has a expertise in branch. As I see, he must at > leased published a book? (nonsense). Anyway, starting to get a > headache of this unique case... > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Video blogging history/evolution
Cue mass googling of Godwin's law. That's funny. I liked this from the Wikipedia entry for Godwin's law: In a Christmas Day review of The Spirit, New York Times movie critic A.O. Scott suggested that "a similar axiom" to Godwin's Law, "applied to Hollywood, would stipulate that every movie star must eventually dress up in a German military uniform." On 1-Apr-09, at 11:44 AM, Patrick Delongchamp wrote: > Ah, the good old Wikipedia Vlogging article. It actually got > nominated for > deletion years ago due to a lack of reliable sources. I decided to > clean it > up and begin contributing sources to it and I managed to change the > outcome > of the vote. Let's just say it was a..uh..thankless job. :) > > I haven't contributed to it in years though and I agree that it has > gone to > shit. Pardon my merde. Let us know what you find. > > oh and watch out for Godwin's Law around this here town. > > pd > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:26 PM, gintaras.miskinis < > gintaras.miski...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com %40yahoogroups.com>, > > Jay dedman wrote: > > > > > Unfortunately, "reliability" has been a point of contention. > Some in > > > this group may remember the dramedy trying to write the > wikipedia page > > > for videoblogging. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videoblogging > > > Newspapers/magazines must write about it for it to be "reliable". > > > Makes a certain kind of sense. You got to capture the mainstream > to be > > > recognized. It's like a vetting process. > > > > > > Ive also learned that the "history of videoblogging" is wide and > > > varied depending on what community you look at. This group has > its own > > > specific timeline that differs from people who began through > Youtube > > > exclusively. > > > > > > I can scan the chapter I wrote in my book if you'd like and > email it to > > you. > > > > > > Jay > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > http://ryanishungry.com > > > http://jaydedman.com > > > http://twitter.com/jaydedman > > > 917 371 6790 > > > > > > > Thank you for your reply too. It's an honor for me to be contacted > from the > > book author :) > > > > I made some thinking after I had read your shared thoughts and > just have to > > agree: it is sad, that sources, which are not mainstream, cannot be > > trusted..well, officially. > > > > But on the other hand, a year ago, when I was writing a term paper > about > > "video blogging evolution" I used your mentioned wikipedia link, > and this > > year, I thought that I could use my a year ago written info in the > final > > paper, and when rechecked wikipedia - saw, that most of the facts > where > > different then I had found a year ago...it was experience from > practical > > side on my own.. > > > > What connects to YouTube community, I think that those who started > blogging > > didn't feel the real "joy" of the video blogging start, like felt > you people > > (I guess), who had began from technical issues, and ending with > > philosophical. In a sense, Youtubers' generation had everything > "put on the > > plate".. > > > > However, I would be very grateful if you could scan your mentioned > chapter > > and send it to me (to this yahoo mail if possible). You would help > me a lot. > > > > Thanks again and sorry for my English. > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] The Streamy Awards - The Hollywood Monster?
Yeah, but the first version was funnier. On 1-Apr-09, at 8:18 AM, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: > Oops. last sentence should read: > > If we want more independents like Zadi and Steve to be recognized > for their > exemplary work, I think we're going to have to concentrate more on > where we > agree than on partisan rancor. > > 2009/4/1 Jeffrey Taylor > > > The Streamys were far from perfect, but there were as many steps > in the > > right direction as there were in the same or wrong direction. If > we want > > more independents like Zadi and Steve to be recognized for their > exemplary > > work, I think we're going to have to concentrate more on where we > create > > partisan rancor. > > > > 2009/3/31 Michael Sullivan > > > > "Are we recreating the Hollywood monster? Well, if the monster is a > >> monster > >> who needs recognition and validation for the work it has labored > over, if > >> it > >> is the monster of ideas and creation, then yes. But as long as the > >> internet > >> is free, so is the monster. Our monster is not behind a walled > garden, our > >> monster is constantly recreated with a great story, a camera and an > >> internet > >> connection. As long as that is true, and as long as we keep the > >> conversation > >> open, our monster is pretty bad ass." > >> > >> > >> http://www.zadidiaz.com/home/2009/3/31/1st-annual-streamy-awards-once-in-a-lifetime.html > >> > >> And to think i almost posted something insulting! Zadi's post > here changed > >> my mind. > >> > >> Cheers! > >> > >> Sull > >> > >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Jeffrey Taylor > > 912 Cole St, #349 > > San Francisco, CA 94117 > > USA > > Mobile: +14157281264 > > Fax: +33177722734 > > http://twitter.com/jeffreytaylor > > http://organicconversations.com > > > > -- > Jeffrey Taylor > 912 Cole St, #349 > San Francisco, CA 94117 > USA > Mobile: +14157281264 > Fax: +33177722734 > http://twitter.com/jeffreytaylor > http://organicconversations.com > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: REPLY: Promoting the .mov option online
Aha - yes, I see. On 31-Mar-09, at 2:05 PM, Steve Watkins wrote: > > Devices that record & encode in realtime will never achieve the same > quality/filesize optimisation as multi-pass encoding can. The first > pass gives the encoder information about where it can skimp on the > bitrate, hence filesize, giving an advantage.Realtime recording > devices dont have that luxury. > > Cheers > > Steve Elbows > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: REPLY: Promoting the .mov option online
great posts, mr elbows. i agree about naming files .mp4 rather than mov or m4v. yeah, i was very happy with 3ivx so it took me a while to get excited about h264 for videoblogging. Looking back at my posts from 2005 recently, I saw that I seemed to get insanely low file sizes with 3ivx. admittedly they were 320x240 but there wasn't much noticeable pixellation or loss of detail. and looking at my workingformydad.com wmv files that i made with my webcam back in 2003, they were mostly 200-800kb for 30 seconds to 1 minute. not much different in quality to my nokia mp4 files, really, but about 10 times smaller. wmv ftw. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 31-Mar-09, at 1:24 PM, Steve Watkins wrote: > Its both, the codec and the encoder and settings. > > h264 isnt perfect, but a better h264 encoder could give a better > result for your scenario. > > Likewise when Apple first started promoting h264, some people who > had ben using older mpeg4 were not blown away, because they had been > using a really good mpeg4 encoder alled 3ivx which was pretty good > quality, so it seemed like there was less of a leap between mpeg4 > and h264 for them, than those who had only been using lesser mpeg4 > encoders like the default quicktime one. > > If your videos are for viewing in browser and not for download, I > cant think of many disadvantages to using .flv if it gives results > you are happy with. h264 scores more points when device > compatibility is factored in. > > Cheers > > Steve Elbows > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "quietleader" > wrote: > >> > > So is it better to say that video quality depends on how your > encoding application handles content, rather than on the codec used? > > > > - Warren Schirtzinger > > http://www.vespadiaries.com/ > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Video Content Provider Rights
If you're talking about someone stealing content, and contravening your copyright/CC licence, that's one thing. But if you're just talking about someone like YouTube making $x billion from paid advertising on content made by users who don't get a fair share of that, obviously there's little change from the old media model, with a small number of big distribution channels sharing millions of viewers. Isn't that the American way, and won't it always been the same in everything - farming/supermarkets - manufacturing/retail - production/ distribution? Efficiencies of scale in massive national or international businesses with massive expenditure and massive earnings, while local Mom & Pop businesses struggle to survive unless they get a lucky break with a product that's picked up by the big boys (and then go bust when the big boys drop them)? The situation will always favour larger corporations who can establish and build much larger supply, infrastructure & advertising relationships, but then they spend a great deal more money and effort on those things too. YouTube handles all the costs and logistics of UI design, infrastructure, hosting, bandwidth, promotion, media buying, tech support - they're providing a platform that attracts users, and they're looking for people who want to publish content for free for them to make money from. Admittedly, unlike their predecessors, the big web channels don't pay producers anything. But the big new payoff is that it's not against their ToS to use YouTube to advertise your own channel for free. This is the big opportunity, surely. You can tap into their huge audience base and funnel some of them off to your own channel where you handle all the costs and logistics of design, infrastructure, hosting, promotion, media buying, tech support. So instead of donating all your content to them to make money from, you can craft 'advertisement' content that's specifically designed to lure some of YouTube's vast audience to yourchannel.com. In both old and new models, whoever is spending all the money and effort bringing in the actual $$ will keep most of those $$. If YouTube's doing that work and spending that money, they get to keep the profits - if you're prepared to do that work and spend that money (having stolen some of their audience) you get to keep the profits. Until now, independent producers have had to do deals with the channels or distribution companies signing all rights away in deals that left the channel/distribution co making far more than the producers. There was no alternative - no way for indie producers to set up their own distribution and advertising deals. Even FilmFour, which produced Slumdog Millionaire, the winner of Best Picture this year, is struggling to survive. Slumdog has made 10-20 times its budget of $15m, but apparently only a tiny proportion of that will make it back to FilmFour. Plus ça change... Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 27-Mar-09, at 12:45 PM, Jay dedman wrote: > You answered your own question. If you need this hosting site more > than they need you, then they win. What site are you talking about? > > > . > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] The 8 Level of Human Emergence
you mean jay's going to have to ban you seven more times until you stop re-emerging? On 27-Mar-09, at 10:27 PM, windwaterclear wrote: > The 8 Level of Human Emergence > > Life's learning mechanism is such that as the world around us > changes we evolve > new bio-psycho-social coping systems. > > Clare Graves, a research psychologist, mapped the structure of the > evolution of > human emergence from the time of primitive man into a future beyond > his own > death. Not only did he explain how we got where we are today, but he > offered a > logical futuristic look at what will come next. > > Graves was no Nostradamus. The `predictions' in the model are not > about what > will happen but what's the next logical shift in emergent human > coping systems > given where we are right now. > > Harmonic Emergence is what is happening as people evolve through the > 3 latter > levels of bio-psycho-social shifts that Graves outlined. > > Here's a brief lowdown on theGraves's model and how it can help us > understand > our current situation and what has to happen for us to truly evolve > and emerge > into Global Harmony. > > Level 1 Survival > > Once upon a time the earth was populated by primitive man struggling > on his own > with his mate against the elements on a quest to find, sustenance > and shelter, > scavenging like wild animals to merely survive. Everyone else was a > predator, a > competitor or an enemy. > > There are still people on this earth who are surviving with this > level of coping > strategy and some of them are living right here on our streets. > > Level 2 Ritualistic tribal societies > > Level 2 of emergence sees our primitive man, motivated by a desire > for security > and safety, emerging from a solo existence to banding together with > others in an > interdependent way. > > At this level there is a fear of the sacred, spirits, things that are > inexplicable and in shared ritual the fears are allayed. The > individual > contributes his or her skills to the group and feels safe knowing > that others > will pick him up when he falls, and vice versa. It is the forming of > basic > tribe, sharing everything as we learn to trust. > > Level 3 Rebellion and Me Me Me > > Level 3 of emergence is where caring and sharing breaks down where the > individuals rise up and question the laws of the tribe or the rules > of the > family. > > That individual develops their own identity apart from the tribe and > becomes > more egotistical, competitive and self centered seeking instant > gratification, > stuff, land, oil fields. > > It is the beginning of the `private private private' `me me me' > culture. Level 3 > is the culture of `greed war' motivated by a desire to control > people and or > resources. World War 2 was Hitler's Greed War. The Iraq War is ours. > > The level that emerges next, Level 4, is as are all levels of the > model, a > `knock-on' effect from the previous stage. At Level 4, people band > together once > again to protect themselves from the rampages of the rape, pillage > and greed of > Level 3. > > Level 4 Rules, Regulations and Righteousness > > Thus we witness the emergence of a `rule bound society' where right > and wrong > appear crystal clear, the law is respected, extreme levels of > behavior are > suppressed and frowned upon and people live a structured routine > life in their > desire to maintain `order' and `rightness'. And as it continues > order slowly > evolves into restriction and rightness becomes righteousness. > > This was the kind of psycho-social culture that existed here in > America and the > UK immediately after World War 2 from the fifties onwards. > > Level 5 Gordon Gecko Grab it all > > As the individual begins to feel more bound and limited by the rules > and > regulations we see the devleopment of material ambition and > entrepreneurship. > > This emergence often occurs from a situation of abundance where > resources are > rich,the living is easy and it seems as if the world is there for > the taking as > long as we are crafty, clever and ambitious enough to get to the > party early. > > This is epitomized in the Reagan/Thatcher era with their `free > markets' `self > motivation' and survival of the sharpest. Capitalism was [and still > is] the > religion, profit is the Promised Land and bankers and lawyers are > the holy men. > > And we are overstuffed with greed, extravagance and workaholism and > a technology > fest of `toys' and `gadgets' where status takes precedent to utility. > > And this is for the most part the prevalent paradigm that dominates > the US > today. But there is hope > > Level 6 Caring Kindness My Way > > As more and more people start to get that their own riches don't > make them feel > any better about world poverty, hunger, poor education and > extortionate or non > existent health care a more `other' based caring consciousness > emerges. >
Re: [videoblogging] The Time is Now Return to Earth
this list gets more surreal by the day On 27-Mar-09, at 12:38 PM, windwaterclear wrote: > The Time is Now Return to Earth > > Harmonic Emergence is about humans breaking free from the > constraints of the big > Machine, the Matrix or Babylon and learning to live in harmonious > relation to > all life, as opposed to the life of solo discord and aloneness that > our current > social paradigm promotes. > > Return to Earth is the choice to adopt a more natural, earth based, > harmonious > way of living so common to our indigenous ancestors where we are > giving to and > taking from in a symbiotic balanced exchange of energy. > > We will all return to earth in our own way and in our own time. > > Some will find themselves easing into it by spending more time > living in the > experience of raw nature whilst slipping out of their current life > style. > Others are ready now to make the decision to live an indigenous > forest bound > life all year round. You will find yours way as we find ours. > > We are inviting you all to begin the return to earth, to spend time > exploring > and living in and with the elements for as long as it feels right to > you. > And we invite you to do it in the company of people like you who > know there is a > better way. > > This 3 year project - Harmonic Emergence- Return to Earth consists > of a series > of events and experiences held in natural settings on both public > and private > land. The experiences are designed to reconnect us to our natural > habitat and > to encourage and teach people how to live with what nature offers > us, not > greedily or disprespectfully but generously and with reverence. > > March 20, 2009 to December 21,2012. Over this time we sense that > people will > experience a personal shift in how they want to live and will begin > to explore > alternatives such as nomadic forest living, homesteading, sharing > their land > with others or living on land that kind people have set aside as an > offering to > those less well off. > > Return to Earth Events - Just Camping > > Come join us for pot luck camping gatherings in the heart of the > forest every > third Saturday of the month. Help us to build larger gatherings... > justover the > rainbow to the reality of life H.E.R.E. on Earth now. > > I believe that now is the time for the emergence of all of us, we > the people, > one mankind who have chosen to acknowledge that we are in trouble > and that our > only solution is EACH OTHER. Pulling together we have a chance. > Everything in my > life has led me to this. > > Ma [Mother Earth] has sent me a guide and in this vision he said > 'clamber on > because I'm calling all the lost children home'. And I looked at Ma > and she said > 'It's OK.. Go ahead' and the croaker that was egging me on was 'The > Big Green > Frog'. > > The Time is Now Return to Earth > > Earth, Teach Me > > Earth teach me quiet ~ as the grasses are still with new light. > Earth teach me suffering ~ as old stones suffer with memory. > Earth teach me humility ~ as blossoms are humble with beginning. > Earth teach me caring ~ as mothers nurture their young. > Earth teach me courage ~ as the tree that stands alone. > Earth teach me limitation ~ as the ant that crawls on the ground. > Earth teach me freedom ~ as the eagle that soars in the sky. > > The Earth is our Teacher - An old Ute prayer > > harmonicemergence.org/ > wind > tribes.tribe.net/harmonicemergence > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Crackle and LiveVideo
Crackle has a form, but a good way to find a contact number for a company is to look at their press releases. If a company's really trying to avoid being phoned, they only give PR or IR company details, but you can call them and ask them for a direct number. Or you can look at the location given at the top of the press release. In Crackle's case, it's Sausalito. Though apparently they moved to LA last year. In any case, Googling for Crackle Sausalito gives you their number: http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/product-compint-0001327278-page.html which gives the number as: (415)877-4800 Which is still their number - you can press 1 for the company directory. So now you need a name! Their copyright infringement page gives you a form with an address to send your infringement notice to, with Mike Sitrin as the contact name. He was one of the founders of Grouper, the original company. So he might be a good name to ask for. http://crackle.com/support/infringement.aspx But the TOS also gives the following name and address as Crackle's Copyright Agent - a quick google shows she's Sony Pictures' legal counsel. Tracey L. Freed Crackle, Inc. 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Astaire 2416 Culver City, CA 90232 Fax: (310) 244-8103 Email: pir...@crackle.com And a Google for that fax number and name gives you her telephone number: Tel: (310) 244-8313 Copyright and privacy policies are always a good place to look for contacts. Livevideo doesn't have press releases, but its copyright policy has an email for copyright issues - which is what you have, and how you need to respond to a DCMA takedown request - copyrightag...@livevideo.com But LiveVideo is owned by LiveUniverse - and there are lots of reports online that they're in trouble, and their listed phone number has been disconnected. So you may be SOL there, I'm afraid. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 26-Mar-09, at 10:54 PM, Sheila English wrote: > Does anyone here know how to contact people at Crackle or LiveVideo? > Over the weekend someone thought it would be cool to report our > profile as having copyright infringement and/or porn. Most sites > took the time to check it out and we didn't have a problem, but > Crackle and LiveVideo obviously don't investigate. LiveVideo removed > a bunch of videos as "porn", one of which was a children's video and > as far from porn as you can get, Crackle removed our entire profile. > Neither give you a way to contact them, or they simply don't bother > to reply. > > We get hit like that at least once a year. Someone feels the need to > try and sabotage us online, but usually we are able to handle the > damage. > > We had over 350 videos on Crackle. Very sad to lose them. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks! > > Sheila > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] To watermark or not watermark...
Most of the people I've done it for have wanted it top right, but whatever works best with where the action is. In my experience, many of them want it not because they want to watermark/theft-proof their content, but because they think it makes the video look more like TV, and thus makes them seem more professional. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv > > On 27-Mar-09, at 10:14 AM, Irene Duma wrote: > >> Hi, >> Wondering what thoughts are about watermarks. This is for an arts >> group and >> we are debating putting their logo in a corner. >> >> If so, what corner is best? BBC puts their logo top left. Some >> video hosting >> sites used to put their logos bottom right. Is that still true? >> >> They are not into the content sharing frame of mind yet. On the >> plus side, >> their logo is very pretty. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Irene Duma >> >> Strange Duck Media >> Web Design and Creative Marketing >> Blogs and videos for authors, bands, filmmakers, artists and small >> businesses >> http://www.strangeduck.com >> >> St. Johns, Newfoundland >> T 709-738-2242 >> C 709-699-8205 >> >> From: Michael Sullivan >> Reply-To: >> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:53:36 -0400 >> To: >> Subject: Re: [videoblogging] "To be a videoblogger, drink lots of >> water..." >> >> i do. >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnGoLaqrOJA >> >> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Jay dedman > <mailto:jay.dedman%40gmail.com> > wrote: >> > I don;t know what to say. >> >> >> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> >> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] "To be a videoblogger, drink lots of water..."
Oh, you guys Kill me, but I love it My only regret is that I didn't think of it first. And that I'm not a blonde woman who looks good in makeup. On 26-Mar-09, at 7:14 PM, Jay dedman wrote: > I don;t know what to say. > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82aZZraeSxk > Videoblogging has come of age. > > Jay > > -- > http://ryanishungry.com > http://jaydedman.com > http://twitter.com/jaydedman > 917 371 6790 > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Yahoo Groups technical problems?
That last post was an email I sent at 11.30, and it's just been posted with the time as 1.50. I've tried to read this list on the web a few times in the last week or so, and almost every time it's said "The group videoblogging is temporarily unavailable" Maybe Yahoo have been feeding their gremlins after midnight?
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Leaders using video for dipolmacy
but we always do :) On 24-Mar-09, at 10:28 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: > we cannot fall for simple pleasures.
Re: [videoblogging] This cam will change everything!
Great post. I liked your comparison to ye olde DV cam options. It's been so long since I've kept up with camera technology developments that these kind of reference points are quite useful. On 24-Mar-09, at 10:06 AM, Brook Hinton wrote: > If you're looking at ye olde classic DV equivalents, this > is a dressed up tapeless TRV900. not a tapeless DVX-100 or XL1. > > ___ > 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] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] This cam will change everything!
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] Love will tear us apart... again
http://dvblog.org/?p=2325 I just found this via DVBlog and loved it. And wanted to share it, but I've given up Twitter and Facebook. I don't know Brian Gibson http://baiowulf.com or the blog where this was posted http://lucidunison.com But I'll be checking them out now.
Re: [videoblogging] How do you screen?
Would be easier and more delightful if I actually linked direct to the page: http://twittervlog.tv/videoblogs-i-watch-2/ and the OPML file with all the vlog feeds on it: http://twittervlog.tv/?attachment_id=782 On 22-Mar-09, at 9:12 PM, Rupert Howe wrote: > I've finally set myself up with Miro after recommendations from people > here. It looks great. Am going to use it just with my new MacBook > Pro to begin with - then maybe hook up to a TV later if I get the urge > (or get a TV). > > I've started to update my People I Watch page (see also Jeffrey's > thread about art vlogs). I've cut out a couple of vlogs that have > sadly died, added a few, rearranged those that were miscategorised and > put them into alphabetical order. There was a fair bit of cutting and > pasting, so if I've cut you out by mistake, don't feel sad - let me > know. And if you can't see yourself but would like me to subscribe, > let me know. > > At some point, I hope I'll be able to get around to adding short > descriptions. Maybe if I get shingles again. > > For your ease and delight, I've exported the list of feeds for all > those 50+ videoblogs as an OPML file, and put a link to it on my > People I Watch page, which you can download and import into Miro, > iTunes, Google Reader, whatever - to subscribe to them all in one go. > > Rupert > http://twittervlog.tv > > On 14-Mar-09, at 7:23 AM, Richard (Show) Hall wrote: > > > We haven't been watching much lately, but we used to watch a lot > > with iPod > > on the TV. > > > > Now we usually just hook the computer to the TV, and that's how we > > watch > > most everything, because we don't have cable. > > > > We use s-video for the video, and just plug the audio into the audio > > jack. > > > > ... Richard > > > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Jan McLaughlin > > wrote: > > > > > If RichardShow doesn't chime in here soon, you should get in touch > > with > > > him. > > > He and Maureen watch on TV via iPod. > > > > > > Jan > > > > > > Jan McLaughlin > > > Production Sound Mixer > > > air = 862-571-5334 > > > aim = janofsound > > > skype = janmclaughlin > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:33 PM, schlomo rabinowitz > > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Lately, I've been using our xbox to stream videoblogs that I > > collect in > > > my > > > > iTunes. > > > > It's super easy and I'm loving the big-screenness of it all. > > > > > > > > Schlomo Rabinowitz > > > > http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress > > > > http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking > > > > AIM:schlomochat > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Jay dedman > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Jeffrey Taylor > > > > > > %40gmail.com> > > 40gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > > > Since moving into a new space, I need to put together a good > > setup > > > for > > > > > > screening videoblogs. So before I venture forth, I'd like to > > hear > > > some > > > > > > answers to the following questions: > > > > > > 1. What player/aggregator do you use? > > > > > > 2. Do you watch on your computer, or connect to the TV? > > > > > > 3. What else do you do to enhance your screening > environment? > > > > > > Videos showing setups most welcome! Thanks in advance. > > > > > > > > > > when we have everything working (like a new bulb)...we > > download videos > > > > > using Miro...and use a projector to play videos on our wall > > while > > > > > lying in bed. Speakers added to the mix rock it. > > > > > > > > > > I sometimes use iTunes because it's nice to use Front Row with > > remote. > > > > > > > > > > Jay > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Richard (Show) Hall > > http://richardshow.org > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Leaders using video for dipolmacy
Yeah, but I didn't see it as him really talking to the people. To me it seemed more designed as a sly way of talking publicly to the Iranian leaders, which he's not officially allowed to do. Anyway, apparently Iran has quite a lot of internet - 1 in 3 people have access - 23 million or so. And although I think YouTube is blocked, apparently there's a lot of online political action and blogging in Iran - I met an Iranian filmmaker and blogger last year who told me this - so even if they can't stream the video, its transcript (also freely available in Persian) will no doubt have been widely read and discussed. On 22-Mar-09, at 8:54 PM, David King wrote: > Yeah... I'm much more on the "we'll see" side. It's certainly cool to > reach out to a nation with YouTube ... But I'm not sure many of them > actually have access to YouTube. So then, it turns into a dorky "I > really don't get the web" moment. Something Obama can check off his > list without actually doing anything. > > David > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Mar 22, 2009, at 9:34 PM, Rupert Howe > wrote: > > > The even more astonishing thing is that it elicited a similarly > semi- > > direct response from Ayatollah Khamenei in his own speech to the > > nation. The Obama administration couldn't go back on the stated US > > policy of not talking to states who sponsor terrorism, so to get > > around it Obama used YouTube and pretended to be 'reaching out to' > the > > entire populace of Iran. Who, if American dogma is to be believed > (it > > isn't) are suffering under a totalitarian theocracy and have no > > democratic say over their government's policies. > > Magic. Back in 2005, when people on this list were talking about how > > web video was going to change the world, I was sceptical. But here > > it is, changing the world. Fingers crossed. > > > > On 22-Mar-09, at 2:49 PM, Gena wrote: > > > >> The President of the United States on YouTube to communicate with > >> the country of Iran? From a social networking, web video and "We > >> really are going to do things different in a transparent kind of > >> way" I am stunned. In a good way. > >> > >> He rocked me when the students of an Orange County (CA)school > made a > >> YouTube video about their lives and not only did he see it he came > >> to meet with the teenagers last week. > >> > >> I'm not quite an old timer but damn, never saw this coming in my > >> life, a POTUS using YouTube for diplomacy. > >> > >> He is breaking so many firsts I can't keep up with him. He's got to > >> pace himself. He's wearing my tear ducts out and it ain't even > three > >> good months. > >> > >> Gena > >> http;//outonthestoop.blogspot.com > >> --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert wrote: > >>> > >>> That is the most insanely awesome thing. It's an election year in > >>> Iran. This is the tone and content the people need to hear if > >>> they're not going to re-elect Ahmadinejad. > >>> I watched with Persian captions, you can turn them on with a click > >> in > >>> the YouTube player. > >>> And the video quality was great. > >>> > >>> > >>> On 20-Mar-09, at 4:50 AM, Jay dedman wrote: > >>> > >>> We know that Obama used web video effectively in his campaign, but > >>> now he's > >>> using web video to reach out to an entire nation and their > leaders. > >>> http://www.whitehouse.gov/Nowruz/ > >>> They even include an MP3 and MP4 download. Subtitles in Farsi. > >>> > >>> Here's an article with more details: > >>> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/21/world/middleeast/21iran.html?hp > >>> > >>> The president's message released with Farsi subtitles to some > >>> broadcasters > >>>> in the Middle East and marking the Nowruz Spring holiday in I > >>>> ran > >>>> echoed > >>>> sentiments in Mr. Obama's first televised interview from the > White > >>>> House in > >>>> January in which he hinted at a new openness toward Iran. > >>> > >>> > >>> Jay > >>> > >>> -- > >>> http://ryanishungry.com > >>> http://jaydedman.com > >>> http://twitter.com/jaydedman > >>>
Re: [videoblogging] How do you screen?
I've finally set myself up with Miro after recommendations from people here. It looks great. Am going to use it just with my new MacBook Pro to begin with - then maybe hook up to a TV later if I get the urge (or get a TV). I've started to update my People I Watch page (see also Jeffrey's thread about art vlogs). I've cut out a couple of vlogs that have sadly died, added a few, rearranged those that were miscategorised and put them into alphabetical order. There was a fair bit of cutting and pasting, so if I've cut you out by mistake, don't feel sad - let me know. And if you can't see yourself but would like me to subscribe, let me know. At some point, I hope I'll be able to get around to adding short descriptions. Maybe if I get shingles again. For your ease and delight, I've exported the list of feeds for all those 50+ videoblogs as an OPML file, and put a link to it on my People I Watch page, which you can download and import into Miro, iTunes, Google Reader, whatever - to subscribe to them all in one go. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 14-Mar-09, at 7:23 AM, Richard (Show) Hall wrote: > We haven't been watching much lately, but we used to watch a lot > with iPod > on the TV. > > Now we usually just hook the computer to the TV, and that's how we > watch > most everything, because we don't have cable. > > We use s-video for the video, and just plug the audio into the audio > jack. > > ... Richard > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Jan McLaughlin > wrote: > > > If RichardShow doesn't chime in here soon, you should get in touch > with > > him. > > He and Maureen watch on TV via iPod. > > > > Jan > > > > Jan McLaughlin > > Production Sound Mixer > > air = 862-571-5334 > > aim = janofsound > > skype = janmclaughlin > > > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:33 PM, schlomo rabinowitz > > >wrote: > > > > > > > Lately, I've been using our xbox to stream videoblogs that I > collect in > > my > > > iTunes. > > > It's super easy and I'm loving the big-screenness of it all. > > > > > > Schlomo Rabinowitz > > > http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress > > > http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking > > > AIM:schlomochat > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Jay dedman > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Jeffrey Taylor > > > > %40gmail.com> > 40gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > > Since moving into a new space, I need to put together a good > setup > > for > > > > > screening videoblogs. So before I venture forth, I'd like to > hear > > some > > > > > answers to the following questions: > > > > > 1. What player/aggregator do you use? > > > > > 2. Do you watch on your computer, or connect to the TV? > > > > > 3. What else do you do to enhance your screening environment? > > > > > Videos showing setups most welcome! Thanks in advance. > > > > > > > > when we have everything working (like a new bulb)...we > download videos > > > > using Miro...and use a projector to play videos on our wall > while > > > > lying in bed. Speakers added to the mix rock it. > > > > > > > > I sometimes use iTunes because it's nice to use Front Row with > remote. > > > > > > > > Jay > > > > > > > > -- > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > -- > Richard (Show) Hall > http://richardshow.org > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Leaders using video for dipolmacy
The even more astonishing thing is that it elicited a similarly semi- direct response from Ayatollah Khamenei in his own speech to the nation. The Obama administration couldn't go back on the stated US policy of not talking to states who sponsor terrorism, so to get around it Obama used YouTube and pretended to be 'reaching out to' the entire populace of Iran. Who, if American dogma is to be believed (it isn't) are suffering under a totalitarian theocracy and have no democratic say over their government's policies. Magic. Back in 2005, when people on this list were talking about how web video was going to change the world, I was sceptical. But here it is, changing the world. Fingers crossed. On 22-Mar-09, at 2:49 PM, Gena wrote: > The President of the United States on YouTube to communicate with > the country of Iran? From a social networking, web video and "We > really are going to do things different in a transparent kind of > way" I am stunned. In a good way. > > He rocked me when the students of an Orange County (CA)school made a > YouTube video about their lives and not only did he see it he came > to meet with the teenagers last week. > > I'm not quite an old timer but damn, never saw this coming in my > life, a POTUS using YouTube for diplomacy. > > He is breaking so many firsts I can't keep up with him. He's got to > pace himself. He's wearing my tear ducts out and it ain't even three > good months. > > Gena > http;//outonthestoop.blogspot.com > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert wrote: > > > > That is the most insanely awesome thing. It's an election year in > > Iran. This is the tone and content the people need to hear if > > they're not going to re-elect Ahmadinejad. > > I watched with Persian captions, you can turn them on with a click > in > > the YouTube player. > > And the video quality was great. > > > > > > On 20-Mar-09, at 4:50 AM, Jay dedman wrote: > > > > We know that Obama used web video effectively in his campaign, but > > now he's > > using web video to reach out to an entire nation and their leaders. > > http://www.whitehouse.gov/Nowruz/ > > They even include an MP3 and MP4 download. Subtitles in Farsi. > > > > Here's an article with more details: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/21/world/middleeast/21iran.html?hp > > > > The president's message released with Farsi subtitles to some > > broadcasters > > > in the Middle East and marking the Nowruz Spring holiday in Iran > > > echoed > > > sentiments in Mr. Obama's first televised interview from the White > > > House in > > > January in which he hinted at a new openness toward Iran. > > > > > > Jay > > > > -- > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > Rupert > > http://twittervlog.tv/ > > Creative Mobile Filmmaking > > Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] blip search question
I would imagine description and tags. On 21-Mar-09, at 12:41 PM, liza jean wrote: > among our new average of 1400 or so views a day, yesterday were 11 > views that found us thru blip.tv itself. > > then i searched 'superheroine' and saw 4 of our 170 or so clips > listed. > > so i spent some time reading a lot of blip site info, but did not > find any clues as to how blip logs search terms describing a show. > > so which box should i be putting search terms into? description? > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Does anyone have a copy of FCP to sell?
I finally treated myself to a new Macbook Pro. It's a beautiful thing. Now that I have moved beyond my G4 Powerbook, I want to get myself a more up-to-date copy of Final Cut Pro. I'm currently stuck back in version 4.5 Does anybody have a copy they'd like to sell? I know it's a long shot, as most of you will still need your copies. But perhaps you bought one and found it was overkill? Or perhaps you are checking this list one last time before turning Amish? I also wouldn't mind a copy of After Effects. Email me offlist at rupert at twittervlog tv Rupert http://twittervlog.tv Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Kiva.org video
Wow - that Credit Crisis video is great. Tall order - getting something as good as that. As well as looking for one person who could do it, you could look for two: a illustrator and an After Effects whiz to work together on it. On 20-Mar-09, at 12:23 PM, Adam Quirk wrote: Hey all, A friend of mine is working with Kiva (http://kiva.org). They are in need of an entertaining video to explain Kiva to investors, something along the lines of this animated Credit Crisis Visualized video ( http://vimeo.com/3261363). Unfortunately they don't have a budget for such a thing, so they're looking for someone who could benefit from a bunch of exposure in exchange for some donated video production work hours. If anyone is interested, email me back and I'll put you in touch with them. Thanks, Adam Quirk http://wreckandsalvage.com http://theinterwebs.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Happy IE8 Day
Well... as discussed on a local web professionals group that I'm part of in north Vancouver Island, we're not talking about forgetting IE7 and even IE6 just yet. They'll be around for a long time. In London, almost everyone I knew and worked for had XP and was willing to install FF and IE7. Here in the sticks, some people are still on Windows 98. They couldn't download new software even if they wanted to. One very talented local designer said, "Two years ago we had to build a site that rendered well on Netscape 4 for Mac because that's what our client used. We just finished a project where the client was on IE 6 on an 800x600 monitor. Fair enough, in both cases, but hugely frustrating and quite limiting." That kind of compatibility requirement from clients is going to carry on for years. One of the things I've realised is that people with really old PCs running Windows 98 can still see YouTube, even though they can't see any type of video or video sharing site. Which just illustrates YouTube's genius in choosing to stick with their crappy Flash 7 codec. When all the other video sites were competing in quality and features, YouTube's priorities were maximum compatibility and not caring about copyright infringement. That's what made them win. They didn't listen to what everybody else was saying was important. Their site worked for 99% of users, as opposed to the 60 or 70 that could see Blip because they had to have Flash 8, 9 or 10 installed. And their site had the clips that people wanted to share - old TV clips and music videos. Like with the other discussion about the Flip, even though it was crappy quality, YouTube *just worked* for everyone, so everyone used it. R On 20-Mar-09, at 11:27 AM, Jay dedman wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Rupert wrote: > For all of you who design your own videoblogs, or design sites for > other people, this is a red letter day. Internet Explorer with web > standards. Many hours of wasted life reclaimed. Is IE8 really that make of a sea change. Is it like Firefox now? are we talking about just coding one page for all browsers? Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] How patience made a good camera
Some people in the TC comments were wondering what was in it for Cisco - why they were buying what was apparently just a Consumer Electronics product. Somebody suggested that it was to bump demand for their other products by having millions of users flooding the internet with huge HD video files. Yours seems like a better fit. A potential future wireless n camera that does what I loved my Nokia N93 for - cut out the computer, allow you to just upload via your (Cisco/Linksys) router straight to YouTube or similar. Add to that a proper browser-based editing program and you'd have both an AK-47 and a Swiss Army Knife. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 20-Mar-09, at 10:41 AM, Joshua Kinberg wrote: Imagining the possibilities of Flip + Cisco... When high-speed wireless networks are pervasive (and not constrained by Telecoms), and low-cost "purpose-built" cameras like Flip can share to the network immediately That will be the AK-47 of video cameras ~ Josh On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Jay dedman wrote: > > Non-techy people love 1) the fact that there's no cable and 2) that > > the Flip software lets you can transfer, edit and upload to youtube > > really easily. They're prepared to sacrifice quality and features > > for simplicity and ease of use. Having better quality pictures isn't > > worth it if you're less able to share because the technological > > process daunts you. > > By the packaging and marketing, I think Flip camera has borrowed their > aesthetic from Apple. > They are really good at one thing. The iPhone isn't as feature packed > as the Nokia, but much easier to use. > (we played around with the N96 the other day and it was way too confusing) > > People like devices that don't need instructions. We've been teaching > some non-profits how to document their work...and the Flip camera is > really the easiest thing to get them to use. Rupert's reasoning fits > our experience. > > Maybe the Flip is like the gateway drug. Gets people comfortable > shooting/uploading...then they'll crave more control and quality. > > Jay > > -- > http://ryanishungry.com > http://jaydedman.com > http://twitter.com/jaydedman > 917 371 6790 > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] How patience made a good camera
Yeah, Nokia's features are good, and beat Apple in lots of ways. But the Nokia UI is a disaster. They either don't test, or they don't listen. Or both. Given my history, I should be their greatest ambassador, but I've gone off them in a big way. Not that I have an iPhone either. In fact, I don't even have cellphone service anymore. So much for the concept of Twittervlog! Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 20-Mar-09, at 10:10 AM, Jay dedman wrote: By the packaging and marketing, I think Flip camera has borrowed their aesthetic from Apple. They are really good at one thing. The iPhone isn't as feature packed as the Nokia, but much easier to use. (we played around with the N96 the other day and it was way too confusing) Jay [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] How patience made a good camera
Making an usual foray into pessimism, I have to say that we thought the same thing about YouTube. Maybe it just needs more time. Or maybe... "To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence." - Nietzsche On 20-Mar-09, at 10:10 AM, Jay dedman wrote: Maybe the Flip is like the gateway drug. Gets people comfortable shooting/uploading...then they'll crave more control and quality. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Happy IE8 Day
For all of you who design your own videoblogs, or design sites for other people, this is a red letter day. Internet Explorer with web standards. Many hours of wasted life reclaimed. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] How patience made a good camera
Earlier TechCrunch post where Arrington wonders why the Flip has been so successful when it's not as good as the video feature that most people have on their digital stills cameras. The answer is in the comments - like this one: "Here’s why I like my flip: Number of videos of my kids shared with the grandparents before the flip = 0 Number of videos shared after the flip = zillions Sure, I can probably do all the same stuff with something else, but I didn’t. That’s why it’s great." Non-techy people love 1) the fact that there's no cable and 2) that the Flip software lets you can transfer, edit and upload to youtube really easily. They're prepared to sacrifice quality and features for simplicity and ease of use. Having better quality pictures isn't worth it if you're less able to share because the technological process daunts you. Also, it's a purpose-built video camera - therefore people instinctively trust it more than the extra video feature on what is supposed to be a stills camera. They assume that the video shot on their stills camera won't be much good, and that it'll be hard to do anything with it. And maybe they're right. My mother in law brought back some very short video clips that she'd shot on her Canon stills camera in Burma/ Myanmar. They were in AVI format that were too big to email and she'd taken some of them portrait instead of landscape. So she didn't know what to do with them. I had to get her to upload them to Blip, download them, transcode them to mp4, rotate them in Quicktime Pro, then reupload them. If she didn't know me, they would have sat unopened forever on her hard drive, considered useless. Now they're up on Blip - little moving snapshots from inside Burma - http:// jossy.blip.tv Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 20-Mar-09, at 8:07 AM, Jay dedman wrote: Intersting post about how the Flip camera has evolved into a pretty great, inexpensive camera: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/19/flip-video-wrong-wrong-wrong-and- then-so-so-right/ The San Francisco-based company is well known today for creating extremely > small, well designed and inexpensive video cameras that take > exceptional > video. And the software that comes with the devices provides easy > to use > tools to edit that video and upload it to the web. But Pure Digital > wasnt > always selling hit products - it took seven years for the company > to get it > right. In the meantime, they launched products that just werent > quite the > right thing at the right time. > Jay -- 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 Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] How patience made a good camera
I forgot that Vimeo has sample clips of just about everything. Learnt there that the Kodak Zi6 has low light problems and is being superseded by the Zx1 next month, which has a smaller screen (only 2 inches) but has a splash proof / weather proof case. On 20-Mar-09, at 9:08 AM, Rupert wrote: I was just about to buy myself an HD Xacti - but after reading that, I might get myself a Flip Mino HD instead. Last time I saw a Flip in action, I was amazed by how the sound and image were so much poorer than the video on my cheap digital stills camera. I was sure they were going to go bust. Sounds like they've sorted it, and had the money to stay afloat. Does anybody here have anything they've shot on a Mino HD that I can look at? And, more importantly, listen to? One of the commenters mentions the Kodak Zi6 alternative, which has rechargeable batteries and removable SD card instead of having to recharge and download by USB every time you run out of juice or space - so that sounds better for extended roaming use. My four year old little Kodak point and shoot digital camera is one of the best (and most durable) video cameras I've had, with great sound and colors, even though the camera body is ugly. One of the other commenters mentioned that the buttons on the Flip were badly designed so they go off accidentally in your pocket, record stuff, delete stuff. Any experience of this? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 20-Mar-09, at 8:07 AM, Jay dedman wrote: Intersting post about how the Flip camera has evolved into a pretty great, inexpensive camera: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/19/flip-video-wrong-wrong-wrong-and- then-so-so-right/ The San Francisco-based company is well known today for creating extremely > small, well designed and inexpensive video cameras that take > exceptional > video. And the software that comes with the devices provides easy > to use > tools to edit that video and upload it to the web. But Pure Digital > wasnt > always selling hit products - it took seven years for the company > to get it > right. In the meantime, they launched products that just werent > quite the > right thing at the right time. > Jay -- 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 Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Leaders using video for dipolmacy
That is the most insanely awesome thing. It's an election year in Iran. This is the tone and content the people need to hear if they're not going to re-elect Ahmadinejad. I watched with Persian captions, you can turn them on with a click in the YouTube player. And the video quality was great. On 20-Mar-09, at 4:50 AM, Jay dedman wrote: We know that Obama used web video effectively in his campaign, but now he's using web video to reach out to an entire nation and their leaders. http://www.whitehouse.gov/Nowruz/ They even include an MP3 and MP4 download. Subtitles in Farsi. Here's an article with more details: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/21/world/middleeast/21iran.html?hp The presidents message released with Farsi subtitles to some broadcasters > in the Middle East and marking the Nowruz Spring holiday in Iran > echoed > sentiments in Mr. Obamas first televised interview from the White > House in > January in which he hinted at a new openness toward Iran. Jay -- 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 Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] How patience made a good camera
I was just about to buy myself an HD Xacti - but after reading that, I might get myself a Flip Mino HD instead. Last time I saw a Flip in action, I was amazed by how the sound and image were so much poorer than the video on my cheap digital stills camera. I was sure they were going to go bust. Sounds like they've sorted it, and had the money to stay afloat. Does anybody here have anything they've shot on a Mino HD that I can look at? And, more importantly, listen to? One of the commenters mentions the Kodak Zi6 alternative, which has rechargeable batteries and removable SD card instead of having to recharge and download by USB every time you run out of juice or space - so that sounds better for extended roaming use. My four year old little Kodak point and shoot digital camera is one of the best (and most durable) video cameras I've had, with great sound and colors, even though the camera body is ugly. One of the other commenters mentioned that the buttons on the Flip were badly designed so they go off accidentally in your pocket, record stuff, delete stuff. Any experience of this? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 20-Mar-09, at 8:07 AM, Jay dedman wrote: Intersting post about how the Flip camera has evolved into a pretty great, inexpensive camera: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/19/flip-video-wrong-wrong-wrong-and- then-so-so-right/ The San Francisco-based company is well known today for creating extremely > small, well designed and inexpensive video cameras that take > exceptional > video. And the software that comes with the devices provides easy > to use > tools to edit that video and upload it to the web. But Pure Digital > wasnt > always selling hit products - it took seven years for the company > to get it > right. In the meantime, they launched products that just werent > quite the > right thing at the right time. > Jay -- 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 Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Videoblogging Week 2009
Ruh-roh Good work. Bring it on. On 17-Mar-09, at 11:47 AM, Josh Leo wrote: Here is the info! VBW is in it's 6th year! http://videobloggingweek2009.blogspot.com/ April 5-11 Please join in! -- Josh Leo www.JoshLeo.com www.ultrakawaii.com www.WanderingWestMichigan.com www.SlowLorisMedia.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: A call for Art Vlogs and Art Vloggers
I made the list when you'd deleted your old vids and were just doing Nokia mobile docu vids. On 16-Mar-09, at 6:28 PM, David Howell wrote: Huh...didnt think I would be classified under personal documentary? Maybe that's why I get odd responses from those I tell that I make artsy videos. David http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert wrote: > > I have grouped the vlogs in my People I Watch page into videobloggers > who tend to make videoblogs about themselves - and those whose work > is less documentary and often more experimental. > http://twittervlog.tv/videoblogs > > On 16-Mar-09, at 9:06 AM, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: > > Happy Monday, everyone > > As I'm planning this nonprofit for online video art, I'm compiling > the most > exhaustive list possible of "art vlogs". If any of you could reply with > links of video that you consider "arty", "difficult to fund do to the > nature of the programming" or "great vlog, but not targeted to a large > audience", I would be most grateful. > > Thanks heaps. > > J > > P.S. Ping me if you have any questions about the org, or would like to > participate in the planning process. > -- > Jeffrey Taylor > 912 Cole St, #349 > San Francisco, CA 94117 > USA > Mobile: +14157281264 > Fax: +33177722734 > http://twitter.com/jeffreytaylor > http://organicconversations.com > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > Rupert > http://twittervlog.tv/ > Creative Mobile Filmmaking > Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Video sites with MODx
It's an open source website building platform, more than a blogging platform. Content management system based on PHP and MySQL. More akin to Joomla than Wordpress, for instance. Some people I know here in Vancouver Island introduced me to it. I know that more and more people here are working outside the blog format, so I wondered what people's experience was using it with the needs of video and videoblogging. R On 16-Mar-09, at 3:23 PM, Jay dedman wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Rupert wrote: > Is there anybody on the list who has a MODx site, or knows of any > video sites that are built with MODx? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modx so is it an open source blogging platform? jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Video sites with MODx
Is there anybody on the list who has a MODx site, or knows of any video sites that are built with MODx? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv
Re: [videoblogging] A call for Art Vlogs and Art Vloggers
I have grouped the vlogs in my People I Watch page into videobloggers who tend to make videoblogs about themselves - and those whose work is less documentary and often more experimental. http://twittervlog.tv/videoblogs On 16-Mar-09, at 9:06 AM, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: Happy Monday, everyone As I'm planning this nonprofit for online video art, I'm compiling the most exhaustive list possible of "art vlogs". If any of you could reply with links of video that you consider "arty", "difficult to fund do to the nature of the programming" or "great vlog, but not targeted to a large audience", I would be most grateful. Thanks heaps. J P.S. Ping me if you have any questions about the org, or would like to participate in the planning process. -- Jeffrey Taylor 912 Cole St, #349 San Francisco, CA 94117 USA Mobile: +14157281264 Fax: +33177722734 http://twitter.com/jeffreytaylor http://organicconversations.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ---- Yahoo! Groups Links Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Paypal Tipjar Addon for the JW flv video player
Agreed. First you have to ask, and you have to ask the right way. I don't usually tip much for takeaway coffee, but my local takeaway coffee shack has pretty girls serving coffee and a tip jar that says Tips Are Sexy, and it suckers me every time. It would be cool if Blip, Vimeo, etc added this feature. On 13-Mar-09, at 8:00 PM, Jay dedman wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: > could it be the fact that hardly anyone tips for video? people wont tip if you dont give them a chance. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Promoting the .mov option online
A lot of people provide a Flash player as default for maximum compatibility and then provide a text link to the high quality file underneath. In a lot of cases, you need to provide a text link to the file for podcasting purposes anyway, so you could just label that as a high quality version. But it's pretty hard to convince people who don't know about these things that they should choose one file or another. Mostly they're concerned with speed and ease over video quality. If they don't have Quicktime installed (or they have an old version), they're going to get a problem when they click your link to your Quicktime file and they're not going to bother to install Quicktime or upgrade it. Even close family members don't do that, in my experience. Hence the domination of YouTube, whose great move of genius was to stick with an old Flash codec that most people could use on older computers. Four years later, there are still a few people I know here in Vancouver Island who have older computers that can only see YouTube videos, not Blip or Vimeo or anything else - they can't install the latest versions of Flash player. Other than that, at the risk of sounding like I'm on the Blip payroll, the Blip flash player is quite a neat solution. It'll play the video in the Flash player as a high quality H264 mp4 file when one is available, or otherwise as a Flash video. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 13-Mar-09, at 6:47 PM, RatbagMedia wrote: YouTube habits have encouraged a ready use of flash players online. But few people I mix with are aware that the .mov file option I offer is a much better viewing experience. So what means do folk employ to get visitors to consider either downloading or watching the .mov file instead of the flash? My vids are often donwnloaded and screened so quality is an offline issue dave riley Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Face lift
Looks good, Rambo. There's something in the shadow that shouldn't be there, to the left of your For Hire column, and the rounded corner on your sidebar has some white pixels left over from it being cut out and smoothed with a white matte - try a colour that matches your background. I sort of agree with Adam about the font, although I read his comment before seeing the site, so maybe I was primed ;) It's quite elegant, which has a certain effect - but given the content, I'd expect something more active, simpler, younger, stronger. On 13-Mar-09, at 5:53 AM, Adam Warner wrote: Hey Rambo, The new design looks much better, more up to date. Not sure about that yellow text on the left though...it's a bit too fancy for my taste and doesn't evoke anything regarding the ocean or ocean sports to me. Adam W. Warner From: rambos_locker To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:16:48 PM Subject: [videoblogging] Face lift Hi all, just looking for some feedback on a face lift for my site. I'm trying to customize to reflect more what i do now to my target audience. I haven't transferred much content over yet, just want to get the layout right first. http://rambostestbl og.blogspot. com Thanks Cheers Rambo ps, the old site is here http://rambos- locker.blogspot. com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: iPhone compatible Blip embeds
Thanks Miguel, you're absolutely right - this is the answer to Sara's question in the other thread, so I hope she reads this - and I can't believe I had totally forgotten that we had had this exact conversation two months ago. I have the memory and attention span of a On 12-Mar-09, at 2:43 PM, miglsd27 wrote: I think you can Rupert. Manage show players, advanced tab, add a parameter called "showmorebutton" and set the value to false or am I missing something? I had the exact same doubt and got the answer here too. And Blip does rule. Miguel. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Paypal Tipjar Addon for the JW flv video player
This may be old news, but I haven't seen it mentioned here. There's a Paypal Tipjar plugin/addon for the JW flash video player that pops up a Donate window at the end of your videos. http://www.longtailvideo.com/addons/plugins/53/TipJar Rupert http://twittervlog.tv
[videoblogging] iPhone compatible Blip embeds
This happened 3 months ago, but I didn't see it until just now. Blip have created a feature that allows you to view videos embedded with Blip's show player on an iPhone. Usually all flash embedded videos won't work on the iPhone, and YouTube have cornered the market through their iPhone app. My workaround has been to provide a text link to a compatible mp4 underneath my embeds - but that's no longer necessary. You can see the How To video here: http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/11/blip-brings-vid.html You have to create a customized player with "iPhone compatible" enabled in the Features tab when you're creating your custom player - and have an iPhone compatible mpeg4 file uploaded to Blip, of course. (or have them create one for you if you're a Pro user). Blip rules. (even if you can't turn off the More button) Rupert http://twittervlog.tv
Re: [videoblogging] Re: manage Show Player
I don't know how to do that. Looking at the options, as you have, I can't see a way to do it. I'm surprised, because almost everything else you can turn on or off. There might be a parameter you can put into the Advanced section - try using the form on the Blip site to ask them. On 11-Mar-09, at 8:39 AM, sweetmagnoliasstudio wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert wrote: >Thanks Rupert ...Yes I have been reading in several places that IE can cause some headaches with different applications ..so I may look into Firfox now that I am embarking on some new things here on the net. Hey I have another question for you ...When I embed the videos into my site and I click play and they run to the end ..a little box pops up that has two options ...More and Again ...How do I disable that box ..or change the setting for that ..because when you click the more option it begins playing the entire rest of my class videos and I am trying to add a Welcome video to my main page ..But I sure don't need all my class videos to be viewed through it ..I went to another persons class sight and tried out their video that they have customized on blip and when you click on the more option ..you just get something that comes up and reads error...so I figure they have disabled that option somehow.??? thought maybe you could point me in the right direction ... O.k. once again ,..Thanks..Sara > Yes, internet explorer is a bit of a pain, but Blip should have their > site tested to work with IE, since it's still the most popular > browser, I think. I think maybe they're Mac users. > Firefox is good, it's what I use on my Mac, and Blip works fine with > it, as do most things. > > On 9-Mar-09, at 6:53 PM, sweetmagnoliasstudio wrote: > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert wrote: > > > > I am using Internet Explorer ..I am guessing from what I have been > reading lately ..that's a problem ? So should I use Firefox ..would > that be better ? > > > Ahhh... What web browser are you using? > > > > On 9-Mar-09, at 2:11 PM, sweetmagnoliasstudio wrote: > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert wrote: > > > > >O.k. ...I did it but I have to tell you that I would have had it > > days ago ...Very Frustrating ..and I found the problem just now... > > > > On the page where the embed and show player button are...you kept > > mentioning that I should have a choice ..as to what cutomized player > > I wanted .. I kept looking for this option and could not find it ..so > > as I am looking very close I see writing behind the share and show > > player buttons ..so I go between them with my cursor and the stinking > > drop down menu pops down with the cutom players I have made in > > it ...so it is being hidden by the buttons and you can't see that > > option. So I never even knew that option existed ..talk about hours > > of wasted time clicking on that customize button and making player > > after player and getting no where .. > > > > Oh Well > > > > Well I wouldn't have found it without you Rupert ..you got me to > > looking closely at things ..So THANK YOU VERY MUCH !! Don't know if > > that's a glitch on Bliptvs end but boy I hope they get that > remedied .. > > > > Thanks to all here who helped ..I am very grateful !! > > > > Have a Great Day !!! Sara > > > > > OK. I left out the part where I should have said "copy and paste > the > > > code". I think you might be so frustrated with it all that you're > > > looking too hard. > > > > > > You're on the video page, you've clicked Share, chosen Embed and > > > clicked Go - then just copy the code that appears. Don't click > "Edit > > > player customizations." The code you're supposed to be embedding > > > starts with this: > > > http://blip.tv/play/... > > > > > > That's what you want to copy and paste into your page. Just that. > > > It's in a big box directly under the thing you've just clicked. > > > > > > Like I said, you can just leave the setting on the Default Show > > > Player. As I said before, this "Default Show Player" is not the > > > other Whole Show Player you've been embedding, this is a different > > > single episode player. Or, if you want to use your customized > player > > > with the branding and color changes you made in the Manage Show > > > Player section, you can choose it by clicking &quo
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Meet the elite!
I read this as "only one of the people lives in us" and was momentarily quite freaked out. On 9-Mar-09, at 11:57 PM, Irina wrote: i know i already have at least 5 people i'd like to see on that list, and only one of the people lives in the us. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Meet the elite!
Great - thanks for replying so thoroughly. I did wonder when I walked out of my sweaty dark basement office into the crisp blue mountain afternoon whether I'd veered from legitimate observation into snark, and I hope not.Like Jeffrey, I totally see the value and importance of this. If anything, a focal point for the web TV show industry is overdue. And it helps focus the mind on the idea of organising for non-commercial artists. On 9-Mar-09, at 5:15 PM, joshuajcohen wrote: Rupert - You bring up some great points and valid concerns. Let me try to address them: 1) Limit on numbers - We wanted to limit the initial numbers of the IAWTV so we could create a nimble organization that in its inaugural years is capable of getting a lot accomplished. That includes designing an organizational structure that will address a lot of the online video community's concerns. In too many instances we've seen fledgling organizations buckle under the weight of their membership before they were ever able to really get off the ground. I think we have a great core group that's a well-balanced mix of independent content creators, executives, agents, and other creatives who are invested in the industry and its future. In the coming months they'll shape the way the academy grows and the induction process for new members. That being said, I would love to see more independent content creators represented as the IAWTV moves forward and if you have any suggestions on the types of, or specific people you'd like to see in the academy, please send them over. 2) International - Agreed, there admittedly isn't a whole lot of representation outside of the US at this moment, but hopefully that will quickly change (in fact, we're building in support for non- English language selections for next year's Streamy Awards). Again, if Jeffrey or anyone else has recommendations for people who live outside the US who are dedicated to the space, please send those names over. 3) And to Jeffrey's point, ultimately the IAWTV is about providing legitimacy to and growing the web television space. I think an organization like this can have a much bigger voice than the sum of its parts and bring a lot more well-deserved recognition to the online video community as a whole, which I believe is good for everyone. Moving forward, I also hope the IAWTV is able to accomplish a lot of what Jeffrey mentioned: best practices and labor standards and providing guidelines and resources for emerging talent. We all realize the IAWTV is a nascent organization within a burgeoning industry. If you have any suggestions on membership or roles you see that the academy could play, please get in touch. - Josh _ Josh Cohen http://www.tilzy.tv joshuaATtilzyDOTtv --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: > > Big pet peeve of mine when US orgs call themselves international in word, > but not in deed. I'm willing to help in any way I can, and have lots of > ex-US contacts, so anyone "in charge" please feel free to ping me. I > understand that there's reps from international companies, but a big missing > I see here is the independent creators from outside the US. They need > empowering, too! > > In any case, I'm glad this is coming up. Commercial online video producers > need legitimacy, best practice and labor standards in the face of > traditional corporate hegemony. Traditional media execs needs to know that > online "shows" are not cat pissing in toilet vids on YouTube. The community > needs to develop guidelines, not a set of rules, that can help emerging > talent create their own wins. And most importantly, commercial online video > producers need to ensure that they're not relegated to being "cheap labor" > just because they can do everything studios can with fewer people and less > overhead. Cheaper is fine, exploitive is not. For these reasons, I really > hope that the iawtv is a success. > > I think the thing we all need to realize now is that the medium is > developing to the point that different genres are solidifying in online > video content. This is a wonderful thing, and we need to ensure that we put > the cheering on of people following their bliss at the forefront and put our > "I don't like this" and our "I wouldn't do it that way" types of statements > on the backburner. > > > > 2009/3/9 Rupert > > > Here's the kind of post that would have induced a feeding frenzy back > > in the good old bad old days here on the group. Like throwing an > > underling to the piranhas. In the spirit of that, I give you: > > > > The International Acade
Re: [videoblogging] Re: manage Show Player
Yes, internet explorer is a bit of a pain, but Blip should have their site tested to work with IE, since it's still the most popular browser, I think. I think maybe they're Mac users. Firefox is good, it's what I use on my Mac, and Blip works fine with it, as do most things. On 9-Mar-09, at 6:53 PM, sweetmagnoliasstudio wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert wrote: > I am using Internet Explorer ..I am guessing from what I have been reading lately ..that's a problem ? So should I use Firefox ..would that be better ? > Ahhh... What web browser are you using? > > On 9-Mar-09, at 2:11 PM, sweetmagnoliasstudio wrote: > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert wrote: > > >O.k. ...I did it but I have to tell you that I would have had it > days ago ...Very Frustrating ..and I found the problem just now... > > On the page where the embed and show player button are...you kept > mentioning that I should have a choice ..as to what cutomized player > I wanted .. I kept looking for this option and could not find it ..so > as I am looking very close I see writing behind the share and show > player buttons ..so I go between them with my cursor and the stinking > drop down menu pops down with the cutom players I have made in > it ...so it is being hidden by the buttons and you can't see that > option. So I never even knew that option existed ..talk about hours > of wasted time clicking on that customize button and making player > after player and getting no where .. > > Oh Well > > Well I wouldn't have found it without you Rupert ..you got me to > looking closely at things ..So THANK YOU VERY MUCH !! Don't know if > that's a glitch on Bliptvs end but boy I hope they get that remedied .. > > Thanks to all here who helped ..I am very grateful !! > > Have a Great Day !!! Sara > > > OK. I left out the part where I should have said "copy and paste the > > code". I think you might be so frustrated with it all that you're > > looking too hard. > > > > You're on the video page, you've clicked Share, chosen Embed and > > clicked Go - then just copy the code that appears. Don't click "Edit > > player customizations." The code you're supposed to be embedding > > starts with this: > > http://blip.tv/play/... > > > > That's what you want to copy and paste into your page. Just that. > > It's in a big box directly under the thing you've just clicked. > > > > Like I said, you can just leave the setting on the Default Show > > Player. As I said before, this "Default Show Player" is not the > > other Whole Show Player you've been embedding, this is a different > > single episode player. Or, if you want to use your customized player > > with the branding and color changes you made in the Manage Show > > Player section, you can choose it by clicking "Default Show Player" - > > a menu will pop up and you can choose your own player. That will > > change the embed code, and you can copy that. > > > > Rupert > > > > > > On 9-Mar-09, at 1:15 PM, sweetmagnoliasstudio wrote: > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert wrote: > > >Hi Rupert ..Thanks for taking the time to help. I have went over > > your directions and I guess I must have a hole in my head ..LOL > > because I still can't get it to work ..so let me answer your > > questions and then tell you what I have done thus far. > > > > 1. Yes I just want to add 1 video for each segment. > > 2 . Yes I am talking about embedding seperate single videos using a > > customized player. > > > > So I did what you said and I went to my Dashobard and click on "see > > all your posts" ..My 4 videos showed up ..I then clicked on 1 of them > > and as you said on the right side clicked on embed ..then the box > > next to it had the options show player ..legacy player ...or > > wordpress.com ...I left it on show player ... > > > > then the only option under the code is Edit Player > > Customizations ..when you click on this it takes you back to the > > "manage Show Player page" Where I chose all the individual options > > for each page that I wanted. > > > > In General I added my name * clicked on Single Episode * and > > unchecked the share and embed option > > > > In branding I added my own name and left the blip Url > > > > Guide I had no clue so I left it checked Use this guide > > > > Co
Re: [videoblogging] Re: manage Show Player
Ahhh... What web browser are you using? On 9-Mar-09, at 2:11 PM, sweetmagnoliasstudio wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert wrote: >O.k. ...I did it but I have to tell you that I would have had it days ago ...Very Frustrating ..and I found the problem just now... On the page where the embed and show player button are...you kept mentioning that I should have a choice ..as to what cutomized player I wanted .. I kept looking for this option and could not find it ..so as I am looking very close I see writing behind the share and show player buttons ..so I go between them with my cursor and the stinking drop down menu pops down with the cutom players I have made in it ...so it is being hidden by the buttons and you can't see that option. So I never even knew that option existed ..talk about hours of wasted time clicking on that customize button and making player after player and getting no where .. Oh Well Well I wouldn't have found it without you Rupert ..you got me to looking closely at things ..So THANK YOU VERY MUCH !! Don't know if that's a glitch on Bliptvs end but boy I hope they get that remedied .. Thanks to all here who helped ..I am very grateful !! Have a Great Day !!! Sara > OK. I left out the part where I should have said "copy and paste the > code". I think you might be so frustrated with it all that you're > looking too hard. > > You're on the video page, you've clicked Share, chosen Embed and > clicked Go - then just copy the code that appears. Don't click "Edit > player customizations." The code you're supposed to be embedding > starts with this: > http://blip.tv/play/... > > That's what you want to copy and paste into your page. Just that. > It's in a big box directly under the thing you've just clicked. > > Like I said, you can just leave the setting on the Default Show > Player. As I said before, this "Default Show Player" is not the > other Whole Show Player you've been embedding, this is a different > single episode player. Or, if you want to use your customized player > with the branding and color changes you made in the Manage Show > Player section, you can choose it by clicking "Default Show Player" - > a menu will pop up and you can choose your own player. That will > change the embed code, and you can copy that. > > Rupert > > > On 9-Mar-09, at 1:15 PM, sweetmagnoliasstudio wrote: > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert wrote: > >Hi Rupert ..Thanks for taking the time to help. I have went over > your directions and I guess I must have a hole in my head ..LOL > because I still can't get it to work ..so let me answer your > questions and then tell you what I have done thus far. > > 1. Yes I just want to add 1 video for each segment. > 2 . Yes I am talking about embedding seperate single videos using a > customized player. > > So I did what you said and I went to my Dashobard and click on "see > all your posts" ..My 4 videos showed up ..I then clicked on 1 of them > and as you said on the right side clicked on embed ..then the box > next to it had the options show player ..legacy player ...or > wordpress.com ...I left it on show player ... > > then the only option under the code is Edit Player > Customizations ..when you click on this it takes you back to the > "manage Show Player page" Where I chose all the individual options > for each page that I wanted. > > In General I added my name * clicked on Single Episode * and > unchecked the share and embed option > > In branding I added my own name and left the blip Url > > Guide I had no clue so I left it checked Use this guide > > Colors I chose my colors > > Features I unchecked the share and embed code > > and in the preview section the player is correct but it isn't showing > the video segment that I clicked on to begin with. > > O.k. that is where I am at ...I'm am sorry to be so naive about > this ..It sure seems like a very simple process ..so I feel so stupid > not getting this. I can't tell you how much I appreciate your help .. > > Sara > > > Hi Sarah - welcome :) > > I use custom Blip players a lot. > > I think when you say Segments, you just mean 1 video for each > > segment, yes? You're talking about embedding separate single videos > > using your customised player? > > The trick is not to embed from "My Show" but to embed from the > > individual video post page. > > Go to your Dashboard and click on a video to go to its page. > > Click Share, on the right hand sid
Re: [videoblogging] Re: manage Show Player
OK. I left out the part where I should have said "copy and paste the code". I think you might be so frustrated with it all that you're looking too hard. You're on the video page, you've clicked Share, chosen Embed and clicked Go - then just copy the code that appears. Don't click "Edit player customizations." The code you're supposed to be embedding starts with this: http://blip.tv/play/... That's what you want to copy and paste into your page. Just that. It's in a big box directly under the thing you've just clicked. Like I said, you can just leave the setting on the Default Show Player. As I said before, this "Default Show Player" is not the other Whole Show Player you've been embedding, this is a different single episode player. Or, if you want to use your customized player with the branding and color changes you made in the Manage Show Player section, you can choose it by clicking "Default Show Player" - a menu will pop up and you can choose your own player. That will change the embed code, and you can copy that. Rupert On 9-Mar-09, at 1:15 PM, sweetmagnoliasstudio wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert wrote: >Hi Rupert ..Thanks for taking the time to help. I have went over your directions and I guess I must have a hole in my head ..LOL because I still can't get it to work ..so let me answer your questions and then tell you what I have done thus far. 1. Yes I just want to add 1 video for each segment. 2 . Yes I am talking about embedding seperate single videos using a customized player. So I did what you said and I went to my Dashobard and click on "see all your posts" ..My 4 videos showed up ..I then clicked on 1 of them and as you said on the right side clicked on embed ..then the box next to it had the options show player ..legacy player ...or wordpress.com ...I left it on show player ... then the only option under the code is Edit Player Customizations ..when you click on this it takes you back to the "manage Show Player page" Where I chose all the individual options for each page that I wanted. In General I added my name * clicked on Single Episode * and unchecked the share and embed option In branding I added my own name and left the blip Url Guide I had no clue so I left it checked Use this guide Colors I chose my colors Features I unchecked the share and embed code and in the preview section the player is correct but it isn't showing the video segment that I clicked on to begin with. O.k. that is where I am at ...I'm am sorry to be so naive about this ..It sure seems like a very simple process ..so I feel so stupid not getting this. I can't tell you how much I appreciate your help .. Sara > Hi Sarah - welcome :) > I use custom Blip players a lot. > I think when you say Segments, you just mean 1 video for each > segment, yes? You're talking about embedding separate single videos > using your customised player? > The trick is not to embed from "My Show" but to embed from the > individual video post page. > Go to your Dashboard and click on a video to go to its page. > Click Share, on the right hand side, and choose "Embed" from the menu > that pops up, then click Go. > You should now see the embed code for that individual video, with a > menu that says "Custom Player Style: Default Show Player". You can > just use this setting to embed an individual video - it's different > from the "My Show" player, confusingly. Or you can choose a > customized player with your own choice of buttons and colors, by > clicking the "Custom Player Style" menu, and choosing your custom > player from the menu. If you've created and saved a custom player > correctly, you will have given it its own name. > > The other thing you can do is combine more than one video in a custom > player, using Playlists. Add as many videos as you want to a > Playlist, and then either use the standard embed code in the Playlist > section, or create your own custom player and change Type to > "Playlist" - then choose the playlist you've created. > > Weird that Blip haven't replied - they're usually super efficient at > replying - it's always been one of the best things about them. > > Rupert > http://twittervlog.tv > > On 8-Mar-09, at 9:51 AM, Sara Vanderwork wrote: > > Hi ..I am new to this group and bliptv ...I am having some trouble > with the Manage Show Player ..It's probably a very simple > solution ..but I just can't seem to figure it out. So if anyone could > guide me I would be more than appreciative. > > O.k. I am giving an online class ..where I
[videoblogging] Meet the elite!
Here's the kind of post that would have induced a feeding frenzy back in the good old bad old days here on the group. Like throwing an underling to the piranhas. In the spirit of that, I give you: The International Academy of Web Television http://www.iawtv.org/ Just launched last week, though no one mentioned it here. Members are voting on The Streamys awards which Josh Cohen announced a while ago here. The Academy was created by a cartel of the main web video news sites: Tilzy.tv, Tubefilter and NewTeeVee. They've published their inaugural membership list, featuring some of our friends from the group. Most of those you'd expect, who have popular shows, know a lot of people, do the social media thing well, and connect in real life in the right circles at meetups in NY, SF or LA (But not Scoble or Feldman or Ze Frank). Not just performers and show producers, but executives and talent agents. I'm not quite sure why the limit on numbers - other Academies have hundreds or thousands of members, and there are quite a few people I'd want to see on the list who aren't there, because they're either not commercial enough or not well enough connected - even though they have strong and interesting voices and ideas about web television and independent production. That said, I'm particularly glad to see W&S in there. Although I clearly remember Quirk saying that awards were pretentious and pointless, and belong on the wall of real estate offices, so I hope you're not going to vote in the Streamys. (I nominated you). And so much for "International" - as far as I can see, the only even vaguely non-US representation there is Daily Motion's US representative and RDF television's US executive. Not even anybody from any other English speaking countries? That's just lazy - I wouldn't be so bothered by it if it wasn't called the "International Academy of Web Television". If you're going to call it that, you've got to go out of your way to get some representation from other countries, on more than a token level. Anyway, now the media has an official organisation to talk to when they do stories about Web TV. So if the rest of us want to have a voice in media discussion of web video (its present state and its future), we'd better follow Jeffrey's lead and organize ourselves. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv
Re: [videoblogging] manage Show Player
Hi Sarah - welcome :) I use custom Blip players a lot. I think when you say Segments, you just mean 1 video for each segment, yes? You're talking about embedding separate single videos using your customised player? The trick is not to embed from "My Show" but to embed from the individual video post page. Go to your Dashboard and click on a video to go to its page. Click Share, on the right hand side, and choose "Embed" from the menu that pops up, then click Go. You should now see the embed code for that individual video, with a menu that says "Custom Player Style: Default Show Player". You can just use this setting to embed an individual video - it's different from the "My Show" player, confusingly. Or you can choose a customized player with your own choice of buttons and colors, by clicking the "Custom Player Style" menu, and choosing your custom player from the menu. If you've created and saved a custom player correctly, you will have given it its own name. The other thing you can do is combine more than one video in a custom player, using Playlists. Add as many videos as you want to a Playlist, and then either use the standard embed code in the Playlist section, or create your own custom player and change Type to "Playlist" - then choose the playlist you've created. Weird that Blip haven't replied - they're usually super efficient at replying - it's always been one of the best things about them. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 8-Mar-09, at 9:51 AM, Sara Vanderwork wrote: Hi ..I am new to this group and bliptv ...I am having some trouble with the Manage Show Player ..It's probably a very simple solution ..but I just can't seem to figure it out. So if anyone could guide me I would be more than appreciative. O.k. I am giving an online class ..where I need to insert individual segments. So I have 4 segements uploaded. And when I go to My Show ..and click on the segment I want the Copy and Paste code for ..It gives me obviously ..the default player. So I saw that you can customize the player just under the Code ..and I went over and customized each section and saved it. But I still can't get each segment ..to have the customized player. So I know there must be a setting that I need to change ..However I must be missing it because I have played with all the setting for 2 days now and still can't get it to work the way I want. So any guidance on how to get the customized player to work with each segment so I can embed the code would be Great. Thanks ...Sara [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Archive of Videoblog.tv from 2003 onwards
Yes, looks like it. Looks like he's making a living as an online video consultant. I think he's done that site quite well. Including a transparent video player of him welcoming you to the site, just like we were talking about in the other thread. On 8-Mar-09, at 12:04 AM, trine bjørkmann berry wrote: Wow Rupert that's incredible! Shame that first video is gone... is this the guy? http://www.askmrvideo.com/ On 3/5/09, Rupert wrote: > I found the Buzzmachine post via the Wayback machine archive of > Videoblog.tv - now dead. > http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.videoblog.tv > > And I found that because I was browsing the first month of the group, > and there was a message by Perry Lawrence saying that he'd been > playing around with videoblogs for a couple of years - actually since > early 2003 - and had also been doing mobile videoblogging using his > Nokia. > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/message/241 > > > -- ---- twitter.com/trine Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] 246 messages in February
The new version of IE will support standards by default, apparently (astonishingly) - so we'll see. On 5-Mar-09, at 2:01 PM, Jay dedman wrote: Many of us are still pushing for sane copyright(left) and open standards in online video. I've been talking about the new video capabilities in HTML 5 that's coming soon in browsers in the next 6 months (except probably Explorer). It's really is amazing. https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Using_audio_and_video_in_Firefox [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] 246 messages in February
Maybe it'd be good to start by making a statement of these convictions somewhere, and making an argument for them. So much discussion of these things has happened in disposable form, lost in the voluminous archives of this group. > On 5-Mar-09, at 11:10 AM, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: > The door is cracked for people to take a stand for certain > principles in > this medium, but it certainly isn't as open as it was 3-5 years > ago. I give > tough love, not a scolding, when I say we all could do a better job > organizing to stand up for what we believe in this space and providing > opportunity for producers and artists that we believe in, and that > perhaps > some of these convictions are just not important enough to enough > people.
[videoblogging] Archive of Videoblog.tv from 2003 onwards
I found the Buzzmachine post via the Wayback machine archive of Videoblog.tv - now dead. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.videoblog.tv And I found that because I was browsing the first month of the group, and there was a message by Perry Lawrence saying that he'd been playing around with videoblogs for a couple of years - actually since early 2003 - and had also been doing mobile videoblogging using his Nokia. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/message/241
[videoblogging] Buzzmachine post about vlogs from Dec 31st 2002
From the future to the past... This is a post Jeff Jarvis wrote about vlogs on December 31, 2002 - a full year and a half before the group was created. The text is below. You'll have to visit the post to click the many links he provides. It's at: http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/2002_12.html#000466 Vlogs: The state of the art : I've spent my holiday vacation playing with vlogs -- video weblogs -- to learn what this can do for work (I imagine high-school kids giving sports reports) and for pleasure (that is, this blog). The lessons come here and there and so as vacation ends, I'm pulling together the lessons and links in this post. I also just put up two new vlogs (with scripts below, where you can also leave comments... be kind) -- one about year-end media cliches and one about the fading fast-food culture. You can get to both, and my three maiden video voyages as well -- at www.screenblast.com/ buzzmachine. Some of the lessons: : Vlogs are about somebody saying something. That's why the ability to work off a script and read off a teleprompter in Serious Magic's software is critical enabling technology. This isn't just about staring at a camera and trying to think of something to say; it's not about the live camboys and camgirls (to answer Jason Kottke); it's about at least trying to say something. Vlogs are to cams as blogs are to web pages and forums: They are produced, edited, throught- through; they have a point. : There are two reasons why something should be on video instead of in print: the need for (1) graphics and illustration or (2) expression and inflection. Here, too, Serious Magic helps because it allows very easy click-and-drop insertion of graphics tied to your words (rather than to a clock). : I'm still trying to find the right voice for these things. I know that right now, they're either embarrassing (my sacrifice for my art) or merely imitations of bad TV. But I'm starting to feel comfortable with the form. And I'll repeat what I said when I started this: Vlogging lets us online go up against our true competitors -- not news organizations and reporters but commentators, especially on TV (on Sunday morning, on Fox, on 60 Minutes). Bloggers compete with columnists; vloggers compete with pundits. But that's just one voice that will work. Put these tools in the hands of young people with something new to say and a new way to say it and I know we will be wowed. : Bandwidth is the enemy, but the enemy will be vanquished. When Glenn Reynolds linked to my vlogs, the crush of simultaneous users brought my server down. I solved that, for now, by using Sony's Screenblast. But I am confident that bandwidth will improve on the viewer's side of the pipe and get much cheaper on the server's side. My links re vlogging so far: : Introducing vlogging. : How to vlog. : To watch my vlogs go to my "showcase" at www.screenblast.com/ buzzmachine. : The drumbeat for Lileks TV. Others' links on vlogging: : Glenn Reynolds includes multimedia blogging in his look at the year online. : Justin Katz responds to my vlog with a vlog of his own raising questions about the ease and interactivity of the form. (My response.) : Alex Knapp also doubts. (My response.) : David Galbraith defends the future of vlogs and foresees armies of bloggerazzi. : Howard Sherman says the young will be the ones to innovate here. : Henry Copeland sees convergence in vlogging and Gawker. : A Dutch filmmaker's experiment in vlogging (more artsy, less scripted). : An MIT Media Lab researcher, Aisling Kelliher, also experiments with video weblogging here. : Macromedia folks videoed a recent conference here. : The Shifted Librarian wants the text in RSS. Well, I'm halfway there: putting text up; RSS next. : He hates the idea (because it ruins the off-the-cuff casualness of blogs) and so does he. : Finally, I'm proud of this one: When I started this blog, the first snarky anti-me post online came from Follow Me Here. And now he's snarking at vlogging. I must be onto something. : UPDATE: I'll try to keep this up-to-date with further links... : Henry Copeland has a kind review of three of the vlogs. : More kind words from Sean Kirby.
[videoblogging] 246 messages in February
I've just looked at the number of messages being produced by the group. Last month - 246 - was the lowest number of messages since the first month of the group in June 2004. Conversation peaked a year later in June 2005 with 2974 messages (100 per day). Yet you'd imagine that there are more people posting web video than ever before - on Facebook and YouTube mostly. I'm less interested in what this means for the group - we're still producing 8 or 9 messages a day, and people are using Twitter too - and more in what this says about web video and how people perceive it. Is it so commonplace now that it's not worth talking about or getting excited about in a formal setting like a group? Is it so easy to make and upload videos that people don't need to ask for help? Are the corporate sharing sites so easy and dominating that people don't even think about controlling their own content and presentation of it? Is this a clear enough sign that the future is huge corporate superchannels with independent content again shut out?
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Transparent Video Player
> BLOGS & PODCASTS > AS MY WORLD TURNS - http://asmyworldturnsblog.blogspot.com/ > AS MY WEIGHT LOSS WORLD TURNS - http://asmyweightlossworldturns.blogspot.com/ > THE LEFT WING CONSERVATIVE - http://www.geocities.com/theleftwingconservative/ > > > > > From: Bill Vick > Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 10:17 > To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [videoblogging] Transparent Video Player > > > > > > I've come across the Transparent Video player on a few websites. It's > where the player is invisible and a person looks like they are > standing or appearing on your page. Some call it a Video Spokesperson. > > Josh Anderson has a player and demo here: > http://transparentplayer.com/ > > Are their any wordpress plugins to create this effect? I guess you > could use Izzy's white background tutorial (http://xrl.in/) and end up > with something very dramatic - at least that's my game plan. > > Any sources, tutorials or how to's on creating this effect and player? > Can it be used with Blip.tv hosted content? Is it worthwhile buying > into the player or tutorials? > > Bill > http://www.XtremeRecruiting.tv > http://www.EmploymentDigest.net > > > > > Messages in this topic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic > Messages | Links | Polls > > MARKETPLACE > > > > From kitchen basics to easy recipes - join the Group from Kraft Foods > > Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) > Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch format to Traditional > Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe > > > > Recent Activity > > > 4 > New MembersVisit Your Group > > > > Need traffic? > Drive customers > > With search ads > > on Yahoo! > > > Health Groups > for people over 40 > > Join people who are > > staying in shape. > > > 10 Day Club > on Yahoo! Groups > > Share the benefits > > of a high fiber diet. > > . > __ > Windows LiveT Groups: Create an online spot for your favorite groups to meet. > http://windowslive.com/online/groups?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_groups_032009 > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Xacti HD100 - iMovie '09 brick wall. Slamming my head into it. Repeatedly.
or download iMovie 6 from Apple? On 2-Mar-09, at 11:14 AM, David Howell wrote: Found this. Apparently, the deinterlace function when exporting in iMovie09 doesnt work. http://www.macworld.com/article/139124/2009/03/export720pimovie09.html They've written a work around there. I hate iMovie09. Hated iMovie08. Just another reason not to use it. If you don't have Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express is far superior to iMovie. David http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "David Howell" wrote: > > Dont worry. It's not a big deal. Easy to do :) > > Editing compressed MP4 files is a PITA. > > David > http://www.davidhowellstudios.com > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "missbhavens1969" > wrote: > > > > Egad! Uncompress prior to editing? > > > > Hm... > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "David Howell" > > wrote: > > > > > > Dammit... > > > > > > I forgot to paste the instructions for uncompressing the Hi- Def video. > > > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=CA&hl=en&v=g29PhkC2_PQ > > > > > > David > > > http://www.davidhowellstudios.com > > > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "David Howell" > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Export settings... > > > > > > > > Movie to Quicktime Movie. > > > > > > > > Click Options. > > > > > > > > VIDEO > > > > Settings: > > > > Compression Type - H.264 > > > > Frame Rate - Current > > > > Key Frames - Automatic > > > > Frame Reordering - Checked > > > > Compressor - Between Medium and High > > > > Encoding - Best Quality (Multi Pass) > > > > Data Rate - Automatic > > > > > > > > Click OK. > > > > > > > > Size: > > > > Dimensions - Custom - 640x360 > > > > Deinterlace Source Video - Checked > > > > > > > > Click OK. > > > > > > > > SOUND > > > > Settings: > > > > Format - AAC > > > > Channels - Stereo > > > > Rate - 32.000kHz > > > > Render Settings - Best > > > > MPEG 4 AAC LC Encoding Settings: 96kbps > > > > > > > > Click OK. > > > > > > > > Prepare For Internet Streaming: Checked and set for fast start. > > > > > > > > Click OK. > > > > > > > > Click Save. > > > > > > > > Now every freaking Tom, Dick and Harry is going to come in here > > and pick apart every > > > > setting I've typed up here and offer their 2 cents worth as to why > > not to do that and why > > > to > > > > do this. You've seen my videos and what they look like. These are > > my settings when > > > > exporting a Quicktime video after editing footage from the same > > camera as you. > > > > > > > > You shouldn't be editing the MP4 files that come off the camera. > > You need to > > > uncompress > > > > them first. Here are the instructions for how to uncompress the > > Hi-Def video from an > > > > Xacti camera. > > > > > > > > Feel free to ask me any questions you might have. > > > > > > > > David > > > > http://www.davidhowellstudios.com > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "missbhavens1969" > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > So I bought the HD100 (long story, that) and I've got all this > > footage > > > > > and I've been editing in iMovie '09 (which, incidentally, I hate so > > > > > far)and I've got these finished several "projects" and I > > realized that > > > > > I'd been working with the same export setting forever, and now I'm > > > > > going to have to change them. Or, at least, I assume I do. AT any > > > > > rate, this computer is new and I don't know what settings I had > > on the > > > > > old one anyway. > > > > > > > > > > Can anyone point me in the direction of some keen export > > settings for > > > > > this damn thing? Other wise, it's going back to WalMart. > > > > > > > > > > I'd really, really appreciate it. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Bek > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Importing Xacti vids into iMovie
Just for the record - may not be relevant for you here, John - in iMovieHD I've found that the iSight Project setting is much quicker to import and with a much better quality result than the MPEG4 Project setting, for importing all my Nokia MP4 640x480 clips, my Canon Powershot AVI files, and my Kodak MOV files. Not quite sure why or when one would ever want to use the MPEG4 Project setting - iSight setting always works much better. On 27-Feb-09, at 9:36 AM, John Coffey wrote: Thanks David, will check out when I'm off this restricted work PC running IE6. Jimmy CraicHead TV Video Podcast about Sailing, Travel, Craic and Cocktails www.jchtv.com --- On Fri, 2/27/09, David Howell wrote: From: David Howell Subject: [videoblogging] Re: Importing Xacti vids into iMovie To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, February 27, 2009, 12:23 PM This works... http://www.youtube. com/watch? gl=CA&hl= en&v=g29PhkC2_ PQ David Howell http://www.davidhow ellstudios. com --- In videoblogging@ yahoogroups. com, John Coffey wrote: > > For the last 3 years, I've been shooting DV footage and importing into iMovieHD with no problems. I've been playing around with the Xacti E2 and importing into iMovieHD as MP4 but it doen't seem to play well, especially with titles. I just read a Tweet from @missbhavens and she too is unhappy with Xacti iMovie setup. Is the best wat to edit this footage with the Mpeg converter (name escapes me right now) that converts it back to DV footage before iMovie import. Or is there a simple fix by changing the bitstream rate. > Thanks, I really want to get the hang of this for faster uploads and avoiding the miniDV camera at times. > JC > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Revisiting the PPV question...
I didn't think iTunes allowed you to sell short videos - only music videos and movies. Have they changed that? Would be great if they had. And do you have personal experience of selling vids on iTunes, Rick? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 26-Feb-09, at 11:46 PM, Chris wrote: Thanks, Rick. I have to admit, I'm a little intimidated by that iTunes sign-up form. It all seems geared toward people selling music content, so I'm not quite sure how to approach it as a provider of video content. Chris --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Rey" wrote: > > Hey Chris, > > iTunes is a great platform to sell video content. You have to make it through the review > process, though: > > http://www.apple.com/itunes/contentproviders > > -Rick > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Chris" wrote: > > > > Hey all, > > > > A while ago, I asked here about third party pay-per-download systems > > and the main ones I was pointed to were Show Taxi and Mixiv. > > > > They both seem perfectly fine (though I wouldn't mind hearing about > > people's experiences with them) but they both require an up- front fee > > if you actually want to use them to sell any video content. > > > > Right now, given my finances - or lack thereof - I'd prefer to find a > > service that simply skimmed a percentage of my profits from the > > downloads, rather than requiring me to fork over any cash in advance. > > > > I know that's not the ideal situation for long-term earning, but I > > figure I can always switch later. > > > > Anybody know of any such beast? > > > > Thanks, > > Chris > > http://www.youtube.com/user/penelopespantyhose > > > Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Great videoblog project in Nepal
Great stuff. A lot of people don't realise how bad things have been in Nepal until recently, partly because the civil war there wasn't labelled as such. Sounds like a good project. To most of us here, it seems like an obvious and easy thing to do now, to give marginalised people a voice with digital technology. But I thought I'd share my own negative experience of this here because it has some useful lessons. Last year, I taught video and citizen journalism skills to Gypsy traveller and Roma young people - Britain's social equivalent of Dalits - and most of my students weren't at all interested in making videos, or communicating anything about their lives or community. At the end of it, I realised it had been a thoroughly gruelling and dispiriting experience. Partly this was because of my teaching skills, no doubt, and partly because of the insane amount of sugar and Red Bull they were consuming - but also the classes were compulsory for those attending, and I was only given an incredibly compressed time period by the people I was working for - I would have 5 days to teach them basic skills and then think up, script, shoot and cut two serious short documentaries. The lessons I came away with were: 1) that you shouldn't assume that people will want to learn the technical process of how to make videos, let alone share them online. once they get past the first experience of picking up a camera and shooting with it, a lot of people think the process of doing anything more than taking videos of their friends is boring and pointless and even embarrassing. 2) you definitely shouldn't assume that people want to make documentary video, tell personal stories or address serious issues that affect them. they're not making anything they'd want to watch themselves, like a Hollywood movie or a soap. even if in their conversation, they're full of observations about the injustices heaped on them by society. it takes a lot more than you'd think to convince them that it's worthwhile or interesting to channel those thoughts this way. 3) don't assume that because people have grown up with TV and films, they will understand even the basics of shooting and cutting. they won't. you'll have to teach most of them the basics of looking through the viewfinder and keeping the subject in the frame, never mind how to think out what they're shooting and then make cuts that make sense or aren't an unwatchable mess. (And my own standards for what I consider an unwatchable mess are pretty far below mainstream media's). And so the main two lessons that I learnt were: 4) You need a lot of time - and not in intensive sequential sessions. Preferably classes spread over several months with time for them to do practical homework and play with the kit. 5) You should only work with people who have actually volunteered to learn how to make video, even if that cuts your class size down from fifteen to two. I was working with classes of teenagers who were being given this course as a school activity - attendance was not optional - or if it was, it was an easy alternative to attending an academic class like Maths, so they were attending as a kind of skive. Hope that's interesting and useful to anyone planning anything similar. And I hope none of you have to go through what I went through last year. The low point came at the end, when I was teaching a class of Slovakian kids who didn't want to be there and didn't speak any English. And they'd misunderstood their teacher's explanation of the class, and thought they were each going to get a laptop and camera and fly to Slovakia. But I have to say, most of the other groups weren't much less stressful. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 26-Feb-09, at 6:32 AM, Jay dedman wrote: I ran across this project where a couple of videomakers are teaching Nepalese to document their ow lives with video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4M9oeXi3mc http://www.cleanhandsproject.com/ Within Nepals current tumultuous backdrop, the Clean Hands Project provides > a group of Nepali activists and journalists, who are part of the Dalit > untouchable caste, the opportunity to use professional video and photography > equipment and the training to learn how to use it. Often excluded from the > privilege of image creation, Dalits have relied on others to tell their > stories. Co-directors Jes Therkelsen and Phoebe Gilpin spend three months > holding training workshops through rural and urbanized Nepal teaching Dalit > activists and journalists how to use photography and videography to raise > issues of social justice. > An important aspect in this new media world is that we can now get characters to participate in their own story using i
Re: [videoblogging] Re: new Wordpress Video plugin
I've just been watching your videos, Stan. Great stuff. For those who haven't seen http://pineplainsviews.com Stan is documenting the rural area he's moved to. He has a great video story about the life of a dairy farmer as he prepares to sell his herd. http://www.pineplainsviews.com/video-stories/the-dairy-farm Lots of space and time taken showing the farmer at work - you can see from his posture and limp (and that of his farm hand) how hard the work is, and the camera stays with that. Nice presentation of the story in simple little chunks over several pages, with explanatory text - he suggests a linear progression through the story, but the viewer can also easily browse, skip forward and back through videos and pages at will. I did. Good interactive non-linear format, especially for the non tech savvy. Also, his videos have enough time and space in them to allow you to read the accompanying text while you're watching the video and consider both together. In one sense, the videos are purely observational, but the text allows him to put a point of view without voiceover/titles/talking heads. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 18-Feb-09, at 9:16 PM, Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones wrote: I think the new frontier in online video is content. Not technology anymore. And frankly, that's fine with me because content is why I got into it in the first place a few years ago. Stan Stan Hirson http://PinePlainsViews.com http://LifeWithHorses.com Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: new Wordpress Video plugin
One new frontier will be interactivity. Until then it'll be a lot of commercial content repackaged online with limited commercial success. You can see Hollywood experimenting with 3D again because they need to, because most of their content is tired. Last time they did 3D, it was a failed gimmick. Then it got traction with IMAX. Now it's entering normal theaters again, and this time they'll do it properly. It's a good way of competing with online and TV. Online video content will have to differentiate itself too. In more than just style. I think interactive narratives and clickable videos will grow slowly and then become the norm. On 18-Feb-09, at 9:16 PM, Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman wrote: > ... > when people are working on projects on their own time, it's got to > feel fun or groundbreaking. > maybe online video has hit that next stage where it's not so new anymore. > its here and not obvious where it's going to go next. > > Jay I think the new frontier in online video is content. Not technology anymore. And frankly, that's fine with me because content is why I got into it in the first place a few years ago. Stan Stan Hirson http://PinePlainsViews.com http://LifeWithHorses.com Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] No Photo Ban in Subways, Yet an Arrest
He had the law bookmarked in his Blackberry - they didn't care. He must have been playing nice enough at that point for them to be willing to look at what he was showing them. That probably only made it worse. Any kind of resistance or discussion is a red rag to a bull. To prove how belligerent they were, and how determined to abuse their power, they added on charges for obstructing traffic and speaking unreasonably. I think the most effective thing you could carry in New York is a copy of this article from the NY Times, showing that the police have lost similar cases and it's cost them dearly. But pulling it out would probably only make things worse. The only way to avoid being arrested is to plead ignorance, pretend to be a nice middle class tourist and delete your photograph. The relationship between police and public has changed and is out of control. It's been this way for many visible minorities for a long time - now for everyone. But it won't be long before the law is changed, like it has just been in the UK. Something vague and unthreatening sounding, that won't motivate all those petitions and protests. Something that comes in through the counterterrorism backdoor. We've a long way to go before this tide turns. Our children's generation will have to fight for freedom of expression all over again. It's got so bad that when I write emails like this, I worry about being turned back at the border. On 18-Feb-09, at 2:57 PM, Kevin Lim wrote: Is there any legal article for photographers to cite, that's made into something wallet-sized? Some policemen can be reasoned with if we play nice. I wouldn't say "bet your paycheck", but rather "I know you're doing your job". Kevin Lim Cyberculturalist http://theory.isthereason.com This email is: [ ] bloggable [X] ask first [ ] private email locator: ╔╗╔═╦╗ ║╚╣║║╚╗ ╚═╩═╩═╝ On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Tim Street <1timstr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for sharing that. > > Tim Street > 1timstr...@gmail.com > http://1timstreet.com/blog > http://twitter.com/1timstreet > > On Feb 18, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Rupert wrote: > >> From : >> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/nyregion/18about.html?_r=3 >> >> "No Photo Ban in Subways, Yet an Arrest" >> By JIM DWYER >> Published: February 17, 2009 >> >> In the map of New York's most forsaken places, it would be hard to >> top the Freeman Street stop on the No. 2 line in the Bronx, late on a >> February afternoon. Around 4:30 last Thursday, Robert Taylor stood on >> the station's elevated platform, taking a picture of a train. >> >> "A few buildings in place," he noted. "Nice little cloud cover >> overhead. I usually use them as wallpaper on my computer." >> >> Finished with his camera, Mr. Taylor, 30, was about to board the >> train when a police officer called to him. He stepped back from the >> train. >> >> "The cop wanted my ID, and I showed it to him," Mr. Taylor said. "He >> told me I couldn't take the pictures. I told him that's not true, >> that the rules permitted it. He said I was wrong. I said, 'I'm >> willing to bet your paycheck.' " >> >> Mr. Taylor was right. The officer was enforcing a nonexistent rule. >> And if recent experience is any guide, one paycheck won't come close >> to covering what a wrongful arrest in this kind of case could cost >> the taxpayers. >> >> Twice in the last five years, the Metropolitan Transportation >> Authority proposed a ban on photography in the subways as an >> antiterrorism measure. And in 2007, the city proposed severe >> restrictions on filming in the city streets, but retreated when >> visual artists and activists gathered 26,000 signatures on petitions >> of opposition within a few weeks. >> >> Both times that the transportation authority tried to ban >> photography, it, too, dropped the idea because of opposition. Even >> so, people taking pictures in the subways are regularly stopped by >> the police and asked to let the officers see their images or to >> delete them. >> >> "They don't have to do that, and it's completely unlawful to ask them >> to delete them," said Chris Dunn, a lawyer with the New York Civil >> Liberties Union. "But it comes with the explicit or implicit threat >> of arrest. It's a constant problem." >> >> Mr. Taylor — a college student and an employee of a transportation >> agency that he did not want to identify —
[videoblogging] No Photo Ban in Subways, Yet an Arrest
From : http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/nyregion/18about.html?_r=3 "No Photo Ban in Subways, Yet an Arrest" By JIM DWYER Published: February 17, 2009 In the map of New Yorks most forsaken places, it would be hard to top the Freeman Street stop on the No. 2 line in the Bronx, late on a February afternoon. Around 4:30 last Thursday, Robert Taylor stood on the stations elevated platform, taking a picture of a train. A few buildings in place, he noted. Nice little cloud cover overhead. I usually use them as wallpaper on my computer. Finished with his camera, Mr. Taylor, 30, was about to board the train when a police officer called to him. He stepped back from the train. The cop wanted my ID, and I showed it to him, Mr. Taylor said. He told me I couldnt take the pictures. I told him thats not true, that the rules permitted it. He said I was wrong. I said, Im willing to bet your paycheck. Mr. Taylor was right. The officer was enforcing a nonexistent rule. And if recent experience is any guide, one paycheck wont come close to covering what a wrongful arrest in this kind of case could cost the taxpayers. Twice in the last five years, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority proposed a ban on photography in the subways as an antiterrorism measure. And in 2007, the city proposed severe restrictions on filming in the city streets, but retreated when visual artists and activists gathered 26,000 signatures on petitions of opposition within a few weeks. Both times that the transportation authority tried to ban photography, it, too, dropped the idea because of opposition. Even so, people taking pictures in the subways are regularly stopped by the police and asked to let the officers see their images or to delete them. They dont have to do that, and its completely unlawful to ask them to delete them, said Chris Dunn, a lawyer with the New York Civil Liberties Union. But it comes with the explicit or implicit threat of arrest. Its a constant problem. Mr. Taylor a college student and an employee of a transportation agency that he did not want to identify said he had been stopped before when taking pictures, but without problems. Not this time. I said, According to the rules of conduct, we are allowed to take pictures, Mr. Taylor said. I showed him the rules theyre bookmarked on my BlackBerry. Rule 1050.9 (c) of the state code says, Photography, filming or video recording in any facility or conveyance is permitted except that ancillary equipment such as lights, reflectors or tripods may not be used. Then a police sergeant arrived. He tells me that their rules and the transit rules are different, Mr. Taylor said. I tell him, If you feel Im wrong, give me a summons and Ill see everyone in court. The sergeant told them to arrest me. In handcuffs, Mr. Taylor was delivered to the Transit District 12 police station, and a warrant check was run. They were citing 9/11, said Mr. Taylor, whose encounter was described on a blog by the photographer Carlos Miller. Of course, 9/11 is serious. I said: Lets be real. Were in the Bronx on the 2 train. Lets be for real here. Come on. Before he was uncuffed, he got a batch of summonses. The first was for taking photos from the s/b plat of incoming outgoing trains without authority to do so, abbreviating southbound platform. It cited Rule 1050.9 (c). The second was for disorderly conduct, which consisted of addressing the officers in an unreasonable voice. And the third was for impeding traffic on a platform that is about 10,000 square feet. I dont know if you can impede traffic with 15 people per hour coming on the station, Mr. Taylor said. LAST year, the city settled a lawsuit with a medical student who was using his vacation to photograph every subway stop. He got through five before an officer handcuffed him and detained him for about 20 minutes. With legal fees, the cost to the city was $31,501 more than $1,500 a minute. In the case of Mr. Taylor, the officers misinterpreted the rules concerning photography, said Paul J. Browne, the Police Departments chief spokesman. The Transit Adjudication Board is being notified that summons was issued in error, resulting in its dismissal. However, the police will press on with charges of impeding traffic and unreasonable noise, Mr. Browne said. For his part, Mr. Taylor said he was late meeting his girlfriend: It wasnt a pleasant sight. I said, Ill make it up to you. What else could I say? Thanks to the police, they might end up with more than a nice dinner or two at taxpayer expense. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> Your email settings: Individual E
Re: [videoblogging] Radio article on legality of photographing in public in UK
This week, the Counterterrorism Act came into effect, which makes it illegal to document the activities of anybody who is or has ever been a member of the armed forces, the intelligence services or the police, in a way that might be useful to terrorists. This deliberate vagueness gives the police the power to stop anybody photographing them, on an arbitrary basis. ie It's not a law that outlaws photography of the police or soldiers - so they can let tourists still film the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace or the exterior of Parliament, but if you film or photograph a policeman doing something they don't want you to see, they can arrest you for breaking this law. It came into effect the same day that the International Commission of Jurists published a report detailing how much human rights have been eroded internationally by the 'war on terror'. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 11-Feb-09, at 9:20 PM, ruperthowe wrote: There's a short but interesting piece on the BBC's Law In Action about whether the police have any right to stop you taking photographs in public in the UK, in light of various cases where the police have done this. The answer is, basically, that they have to suspect criminal or terrorist intent, and they cannot confiscate or delete material without a court order. You can listen to it here http://tinyurl.com/adpley Rupert http://twittervlog.tv Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Iris app for iSight
A friend just sent me a link to this: Iris - $30 Iris lets you do more cool stuff with your iSight. Iris * Take Snapshots * Make Movies * Record TimeLapse Movies * Detect unwelcome visitors, with Motion Detection, and Email Alerting * Broadcast your video over the web, with Iris's built in WebCam * Browse your snapshots and movies in Iris's built-in Gallery. Send them by email, upload them to Flickr, or export them to view on your iPod, Apple TV, or iPhone. http://www.mildmanneredindustries.com/iris/ Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Low...low...low budget filmmaking
It depends on how you define "spare time". Whether you look at in terms of a few hours in the evenings and at weekends, or all those hours aggregated over many months or years, dedicated to one project. I have no idea how Chris Marker got funding back then - although I suspect that the French had good grants back in the 60s, 70s and 80s. It he must have taken a long time to work on it. Years, I'd have thought. Perhaps alongside an unrelated paying job. In the five years leading up to Sans Soleil's release in 1983, he made two short films, one in 1978 and one in 1981. One of the drawbacks of social media is the pressure to keep presenting work regularly - that publishing regularly is maybe more important than time spent writing/producing/whatever. And it fragments your spare time - means you produce a lot of little pieces, spending a couple of hours on each, and stops you dedicating all that time to a single piece of work that might not be able to be published for months or years. It inspires a curious lack of confidence, that your work might not be good enough to be seen, read or heard amid all the noise and roaring torrent of online media, so it's more important to shout louder and more often. If you haven't published anything on your blog for six months, everybody thinks you've given up or died. People actually delete their whole blogs and back catalogue because they're frustrated that they haven't published anything for a few months, and they think they're out of the game. It's insane. As a result, a lot of the films made and published online don't feel like they've had lots of time put into them. That doesn't necessarily make them weaker - there's a lot of great stuff that comes from people working quickly or observing things in the moment. But I notice this tendency to ephemerality everywhere. Compared to work published in other media or shown in exhibitions, there's less work online that's obviously had a lot of time and thought and dedication poured into it, that has the self-confidence to say "I deserve all the time spent on me" - and when you see something that has, it often stands out. I'm spending a year working on one project, now - because I'd rather aggregate my limited spare time in pursuit of doing one project that excites me than I would spend one evening a week hurriedly trying to publish several personal videoblog posts that I don't care so much about but which I'm doing because I feel I should. I don't know if it'll end up being any good - that's the risk - but it's the way I want to use my 'spare time' this year, and at the end of it I hope I'll feel like it's been worth it. That said, until now I haven't had a larger project I wanted to work on, and it's been great to be able to use my blog to keep practicing and working regularly and experimenting with lots of different things - and had I not done that, I wouldn't now be doing this other thing. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 16-Feb-09, at 7:52 AM, Brook Hinton wrote: The time necessary to create significant/valuable/meaningful long form work, and in many cases even short form work, is why, for better or worse, money is often necessarily part of the sustainability equation for media artists and documentarians even in this age of ultra low cost tools and diy distribution via the web. I don't think Chris Marker made "Sans Soleil" in his "spare time", and I don't think he could now even with an HV30, Final Cut Pro, ultra high speed broadband, and a waiting audience on Vimeo. (Which makes it all the more inspiring to see people like Jay and Ryanne embarking on such journeys anyway.) 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] Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Micropayments (part 81)
Good news. On 12-Feb-09, at 11:45 AM, Kevin Lim wrote: Since it's related to micropayments, Joi Ito twittered that Youtube is implementing Creative Commons as well as Google Checkout for Youtube partners to sell video downloads! We previously discussed how they would likely not do it, but looks like they just did! http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=Mp1pWVLh3_Y Kevin Lim Cyberculturalist http://theory.isthereason.com This email is: [ ] bloggable [X] ask first [ ] private email locator: ╔╗╔═╦╗ ║╚╣║║╚╗ ╚═╩═╩═╝ On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:06 AM, liza jean wrote: > we here at dyna-flix.com, being ever the contrarians, just had our > best ever month of sales. most of which comes in $5 individual > transactions. we have as yet to have any relations with advertisers. > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Brook Hinton > wrote: > >> >> "Free is a right" is, for >> better or worse, the mantra of the generation coming up now, and > one can't >> bend reality, only innovate within/around it . > > best of luck convinvcing all parties concerned to make your life > free. this can only be achieved by refusing to validate someone > else's expense. anyone who hopes to be comfortable for the next 10 > years had best be willing to get their hands dirty in the old > fashioned way of making something new. > > micheal moorecock wrote some lovely books - 'dancers at the end of > time'- about what people want after thousands of years of everything > being free. you might like it. > > Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Encoding In 3GP
When I post videos (I haven't for months) I try to also upload them to Share on Ovi, which converts them to 3gp automatically and provides a mobile compatible channel for you to link to from your blog and an RSS feed. Gives me another outlet where people can watch my videos, and saves the hassle of converting them myself and worrying about the best way to make my blog compatible for older video phones. Rupert On 11-Feb-09, at 10:20 PM, Pat Cook wrote: Hi everyone: I know this has probably been brought up before (I know I've mentioned it a few times), but I'm wondering that, now it seems we have a fairly good idea as to where 3GP is going, which settings would be best to use. The reason I ask is because I want to make versions of my videos for people to play back on the cell phones and other portable devices. The only problem is all the programs out there use so many freakin' different profiles in an effort to cover EVERY FRIGGIN PHONE OUT THERE, it's hard to figure out which profile to use. I'm thinking of just simply going with the Blackberry & Motorola for the most basic support. From there, I'm looking at encoding for large and small screens. From there, I'm thinking of using THE OLDEST profile setting since newer devices are bound to be backwards compatible to begin with. My question is would this be the simplest way to go or would I be going down the wrong route? Of course, since it's unlikely that one account will be able to accomondate the videos without compromising the integrity of the RSS feed, I'll have to have more than one account, but as long as the feeds are promoted on the main blog, it shouldn't matter. Thoughts? Cheers :D Pat Cook patsbl...@live.com Denver, CO BLOGS & PODCASTS AS MY WORLD TURNS - http://asmyworldturnsblog.blogspot.com/ AS MY WEIGHT LOSS WORLD TURNS - http:// asmyweightlossworldturns.blogspot.com/ THE LEFT WING CONSERVATIVE - http://www.geocities.com/ theleftwingconservative/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] You Can¹t Sell News by the Slice
I've moved to the same town as Michael Linton, who has some great thoughts about Open Money, which he explained at Gnomedex a in August 2007. As he says, it'll make your head hurt, but I think it'll make your head hurt less today than it would have done 18 months ago. A lot of us have seen more clearly recently that money is almost make-believe, a useful contract that we've all come to believe in as an empirical - almost atomic - solid irreplaceable building block of everything. When it ceases to become useful, loses its value, or is a thing that people can't obtain at all because they can't earn it, then it opens up a space for something else. If you want to see what kind of open and community-based alternatives to single universal currencies will be emerging in the wake of our financial system's implosion, watch Michael's Gnomedex lecture here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x30gni_michael-linton_school On 10-Feb-09, at 11:36 AM, Kara Andrade wrote: There¹s lots on the topic of micropayments out there today: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/opinion/10kinsley.html?_r=2&th&emc=th http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/impressions/2009/02/09/micro- economics?p age=full My take on this is that the more approaches we experiment with, including micropayments, the more likely we¹ll stumble upon a collective solution. There is no silver bullet anymore, nor was there every. -- KARA ANDRADE | ONLINE COMMUNITY ORGANIZER SPOT.US: www.spot.us 33 Pearl Street #12 | san francisco ca 94103 t: 510.384.0788 k...@spot.us Spot.Us is a nonprofit project of the Center for Media Change. We are an open source project, to pioneer community-funded reporting and creating a marketplace where independent reporters, community members and news organizations can come together and collaborate. This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Revver back from the dead?
Hah! :) Sounds like they haven't paid anybody for a long time, though, so unless that changes my guess is it's more of a Romero. On 3-Feb-09, at 3:51 PM, Freya wrote: Revver seems to have sort of come back, not sure if that is Lazarus style or George A Romero, I guess we will have to see! love Freya [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Tricorn Live Now
It's over now. Was dazzling and hilarious. Brilliant use of Live technology. They're doing it on the first monday of every month. Next one is Monday 2nd March, 8pm EST. Put it in your diaries. On 2-Feb-09, at 5:42 PM, Rupert wrote: I don't think anybody has publicised this here, so I should. Wreck and Salvage's hour long Live show, Tricorn, is now in progress at http://wreckandsalvage.com/tricorn and it's beautiful Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Tricorn Live Now
I don't think anybody has publicised this here, so I should. Wreck and Salvage's hour long Live show, Tricorn, is now in progress at http://wreckandsalvage.com/tricorn and it's beautiful Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: SHVH - Ojai, CA
On Demand is a great theme. I've been thinking of using it myself. My only problem with it is that you can't play the videos on the home page. You have to click off to another page. Would be great if instead of thumbnails, the images you see could play the videos either as scaled-down flash players or using vpip. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 1-Feb-09, at 10:21 AM, Markus Sandy wrote: maybe we'll get some great shots like the one you sent for our brand new community vlog: http://ojaitv.com Thanks to bill streeter for some pointers (we're using the same WP theme called 'on demand'). markus [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: SHVH - Ojai, CA
Those photos are brilliant. My favourite is the one of Zappa with his parents in his house. On 1-Feb-09, at 10:04 AM, Enric wrote: Prior Ojai residents: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2009/jan/17/rock-stars- parents?picture=341867265 Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Backing up your media
Yeah, I'm a double back up guy. But at the moment that means two external hard drives. In England, power was pretty steady and reliable - hardly ever any power cuts - mostly underground power cables. Here on Vancouver Island, we get at least one power cut a month. Usually because someone drunk has driven into a power pole. Eventually that'll fry one of my drives, or make it fail to boot because it'll be in the middle of writing when it cuts out. They're so ridiculously delicate. I worry that when that happens, I'll go to my second backup and I'll either find that it's failed for any of the other absurd reasons these things fail, or that the power will cut again while I'm loading it or using it. Plus, each time one of these things fails, I have to go and spend $150-200 on another piece of shit backup drive that will fail in another year or so. So that's why I like the idea of having net backup as second backup. Spreading the risk. And they're probably less likely to go bust than my second drive is to fail. And I'm not saving 2+ TB of stuff to DVD. That's like a whole week spent backing up, changing discs every 10 minutes. One thing I never understand: if the US is so litigation-happy, how come there's not a class-action lawsuit against Lacie? If anybody else made products that shitty and unreliable, and which destroyed people's stuff, they'd have lawyers crawling all over them. Makes me sad to think of the amount of family photos and video, let alone hard work and art, that keep being lost by thousands of people who buy one of these drives and don't know better than to trust them. Like I didn't a few years ago. Sorry. Have shingles. Am in pain and so am grumpy. Bah. On 1-Feb-09, at 8:17 AM, Brook Hinton wrote: I don't trust net backup. I don't trust anyone to stay in business long enough for that to be worth paying for. External drives are so cheap now. It's easy to move a small external drive around so it's almost never in the same place as your system. I try to set up my backup strategy so that my data survives a fire or my being mugged. Beyond that, yes, drives die, equipment fails, but it does so everywhere including the out there in serverland. But the likelihood of two data locations (like a backup drive and a main drive) failing at once is not high. And if it happens, as the zen people say, its an "opportunity for practice", you know, be here now and all that. If I focus more than this on my existing work, I don't make any new work, or I'm too blocked up to make good work. Frankly, the inability to erase traces of work from the net is more troubling to me than the possibility of losing all my data, even though I don't have any desire to erase anything right now. But I have work that HAD I sent it into the cloudosphere, I would now be trying to get rid of it, because my current self hates it. If I ever make more money, I MIGHT add a remote storage facility to the mix. Maybe. But it would probably be a physical delivery thing, not over the wires. 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] Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Backing up your media
Thank you. This is just what I was about to ask. Apart from YouTube, I don't think we can take any of them for granted this year. None of their revenue models are obvious as far as I can see, and their data costs must be big. Back up! On 31-Jan-09, at 2:53 PM, Josh Paul wrote: After the recent discussion about Revver, and the need to backup your videos elsewhere, I thought I'd mention Mozy (which now has a Mac client). I recently had a nasty drive failure (my Drobo and its backup both failed on the same day...with Seagate drives no less). For $4.95/month I now backup to Mozy, with unlimited storage capacity. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: is Revver no more?
How bloody difficult is it to put up a "Revver is undergoing maintenance" page. You do it if you're offline for an HOUR, let alone a week. They must be unable to pay their bills and have been cut off. The story they told Andrew Baron doesn't ring true at all. But you'd think to back it up they'd at least redirect their domain to a single holding page somewhere, on someone else's server. Not to do so smells of self-pity and despair. Like they're just walking away. Who'd use them after this? With this kind of behaviour, they're begging to go bust. On 31-Jan-09, at 11:26 AM, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: Be astounded no more, Gena. My experiene tells me that businesses having to do with effective external communications are oftentimes the absolute worst at logistics and...you guessed it...communications. 2009/1/31 Gena > How hard is it to understand the concept of communicating with > customers and clients? Part of the reason businesses are tanking is > that whether brick and mortar or online merchants fail to inform about > planned outages or changes in services. > > This is astounding that so many companies just don't get this simple > fact. Businesses have relationships with people they call customers > and clients. Communication is part of that relationship. Exchanging > pay for services is another part. > > If you stop communicating with me and make it harder for me to know > what is going on I will walk away. If you don't deliver the service > you said you would I will take my money and find another place that > will or do without. > > If I walk away with bad feelings I'm gonna tell someone and they tell > two friends and so on... > > I shouldn't need access to the big boss to find out this kind of > stuff. Headbanging stupid. > > Gena > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com , > "Kim Waldauer" wrote: > > > > Does anyone know if Revver is completely out of business? I haven't > been able to get onto > > their site for 2 days and no one over there is responding to emails. > Kinda regretting I use > > them for my rss feed & streaming videos on website. I mean "used". I > know there have been > > rumors floating around about thembut was wondering if anyone on > this forum knew > > anything. > > > > -Kim > > http://www.cubenews1.com > > > > > -- Jeffrey Taylor 912 Cole St, #349 San Francisco, CA 94117 USA Mobile: +14157281264 Fax: +33177722734 http://twitter.com/jeffreytaylor http://organicconversations.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: is Revver no more?
You can batch upload to Blip using their desktop uploading tool. Then create a single embedded Show Player that has a clickable list of thumbnails of your videos down the right hand side, Either include all your videos or create playlists with just a few videos and embed a player which runs off the playlist, like this: Blip will also let you cross-upload to the Internet Archive for further cloud-based backup. http://twittervlog.tv/popular-videos/ On 30-Jan-09, at 3:35 PM, Kim Waldauer wrote: Thanks Irina -- I do have them on other sites, too - will likely switch my site's rss and episode page over to blip. Revver had a great widget to embed a gaggle of videos on one page, so I just have to re- create that with blip-- or if anyone out there has a suggestion, do speak up! I create video content quickly, but coping with the technical end...meh. not so fast ;) Kim http://www.cubenews1.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Irina wrote: > > kim, i'm not sure > but you may want to use a back up source to place your videos > were they theonly place u had them out there? > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Kim Waldauer wrote: > > > Does anyone know if Revver is completely out of business? I haven't been > > able to get onto > > their site for 2 days and no one over there is responding to emails. Kinda > > regretting I use > > them for my rss feed & streaming videos on website. I mean "used". I know > > there have been > > rumors floating around about thembut was wondering if anyone on this > > forum knew > > anything. > > > > -Kim > > http://www.cubenews1.com > > > > > > > > > > -- > http://geekentertainment.tv > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Quick question regarding blip pro..
Yes. You can request reconversion with a Pro account, but actually if have a free account you can email them and they'll do it anyway. Or at least, they always have for me. Just tell them which videos you want to reconvert. And yes, Blip Pro gives you the option to convert your file to a .m4v iPod compatible h264 file, which will play in quicktime. This will also then play instead of the lower quality flash video in their Show Player. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 28-Jan-09, at 7:31 PM, Gavin Jenkins wrote: Hi Everyone! If I upload videos on my free account and they time out on conversion, will I be able to go pro and reconvert and also convert for apple quicktime? Reason I ask is I have a number of large videos, but a slooow connection, I am wanting to pre-upload before going pro so I can get the best value out of blip without the slowness of my connection 'degrading' my subscription to blip. Thanks in advance! Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] More than 10 minutes
Apparently if you were approved as a Director before they reduced the limit for Directors, you can still upload long videos. Has anybody here retained that superpower?! Jay and Ryanne have a fantastic 20 minute video that *needs* to be available on YouTube so it can get wider viewing. http://ryanishungry.com/2009/01/21/home-birth-diy-labor-and-delivery/ If not, Jay, you could upload it in 2 parts. Before birth and after...? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 22-Jan-09, at 5:32 PM, Jay dedman wrote: Is there anyway to upload a video longer than 10 minutes on Youtube? I know in the "old days", you could become a Director. But is there anyway around this limitation? Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
