Re: [videoblogging] Re: Blip feature request/is it already there?
Yeah, from what Nick said about what he was doing, it seems like he wasn't clicking the plus button. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ On 7-Jan-09, at 3:33 PM, miglsd27 wrote: Yes, true. Jay forwarded my qestions to blip tech support and they answered: Hi there, You can create a custom player that does not show the more button at the end. Follow these steps: 1. Go to the player editor and create a new Single Episode player, make sure you name it something you'll recognize. 2. Customize the player however you'd like. 3. Go to the Advanced tab 4. Use the blank boxes at the bottom of the page to enter showmorebutton in the first one, and false in the second. (Don't include the quotes) 5. Click the plus button 6. Click Save Player So I only had to change my show player, works perfect. The strange thing is I posted first in the blip yahho group and got no answer Miguel. You can use the Show Player to show single episodes. And you can customise the Show Players a huge amount via the Manage Show Players link in the Dashboard. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ On 7-Jan-09, at 5:24 AM, Jay dedman wrote: But you can also just embed the single video itself. Use the Legacy player in the embed options on the right side of your blip page. This will just play the single video. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [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] Re: Video: Your day in moments
On a related note, the marvellous Mary Matthews just made a video from pictures people took at midnight on Jan 1st. http://videopancakes.blogspot.com/2009/01/project-midnight.html On 4-Jan-09, at 8:11 PM, Kevin Lim wrote: Adrian, Looking forward to it :) Archive.org seems to generate thumbnails from uploaded video as independent jpegs, which I've stitched together as a cover poster for previous videos. A quick and dirty way might also be to simply grab a screenshot of video thumbnails generated from within your video editing program, where you can even set the intervals of the clips. Kevin Lim Cyberculturalist http://theory.isthereason.com This email is: [ ] bloggable [X] ask first [ ] private email locator: ╔╗╔═╦╗ ║╚╣║║╚╗ ╚═╩═╩═╝ On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au wrote: applescript can do it, don't need SMIL if you don't want to. I'll ask a former student of mine who is doing a lot of web video stuff, might be able to get him to make something On 05/01/2009, at 2:30 PM, Kevin Lim wrote: I think the (1) micro-thumbnail poster approach is more viable than the (2) interval video approach, because I can still scrub through my captured video anyway. A lot of web video service can generate thumbnails, but does anyone know of a desktop app that can do that? Perhaps an Applescript / Quicktime SMIL guru here? cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re:Feedback please
No - works fine for me on a 4 yr old Powerbook OSX 10.4 in both Safari and Firefox. Might be that Blip was having a blip, or that you don't have Flash Player version 10? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 On 5-Jan-09, at 2:11 PM, rambos_locker wrote: Paul, what browser and operating system, seems like my site might have issues with Macs and Safari. Anyone else with a Mac unable to access the flash video at either link?? http://rambos-locker.blogspot.com/2008/12/vaka-eiva-teaser- video1.html or http://blip.tv/file/1560157 --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Paul Pierog paulvideop...@... wrote: I waited around a while but no video ever came up for me. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Dear 2008,
Great video. Reminded me of all the great videos of yours that I've caught at various times this year. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ On 2-Jan-09, at 1:34 PM, mcmpress wrote: An incredible year of amazing people, places and things. Thank you, 2008. You were good to me. http://www.vimeo.com/2695112 http://www.vimeo.com/2695112 - Mary Matthews Video Pancakes [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Happy Christmas everyone
and Happy New Year. Thanks for helping to make life more interesting, creative and fun. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv
Re: [videoblogging] What am I missing?
You could start by browsing the list of people I watch (when I get time, which I don't at the moment). There are a few missing, but you might find a few that would pass you by otherwise. It's on my People I Watch page at: http://twittervlog.tv/?page_id=255 Rupert On 23-Dec-08, at 7:22 PM, terry.rendon wrote: I used to be a big fan of video blogs/vlogs/web shows (whatever you which to call it). I had some sites I would visit on a regular basis. This is no longer true. Can people recommend new video blogs/vlogs/web shows that I can check out during the holidays? Anything entertaining and fun. Thanks! Terry Ann [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Crowdsourced Footage for the Blessed Unrest film
Kinda sounds like something cool that I'd be into, but all the 25c words and all the 'new era' 'unprecedented event' 'entirely new' 'never before' hype obscured the meaning. What happens, and how does it work, in plain English? On 20-Dec-08, at 11:49 PM, philonmessage wrote: http://www.blessedunrestthefilm.com/about_the_film.html For the first time in history a film is about to jump from home page to the global stage with the click of a button. BLESSED UNREST: THE FILM is an unprecedented event that harbors the potential to launch an entirely new genre of filmmaking and create a revolutionary infrastructure and social technology for global dialogue, collaboration and cooperation in media. BLESSED UNREST: THE FILM is set to inaugurate a new era in citizen filmmaking, journalism and storytelling, lowering the barrier of entry into filmmaking, media tools and venues like never before. - created entirely on the film's website, synthesizing film submissions hailing from every corner of the globe into one central narrative with multiple threads to develop a plotline with characters we grow to know and who are irrevocably and forever changing everything about their world--and ours. The site enables users to partake in collaborative editing in micro-communities devoted to certain themes set up by our directorial and editorial team. With the full resolution source tagging married to this collaborative editing interface, the film studio is- certainly sounds like a whole new approach, updates by email from the site. regards Phil. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Macbook pro questions
Apart from anything else, it's worth using a monitor for editing work because working for prolonged periods at a laptop is very bad for your neck and back. I've managed to eliminate headaches and neck pain by connecting my powerbook to a monitor. It also removes the temptation to use the trackpad, which compounds the problem by making you tense and twist your arms, wrist fingers much more. This is a hugely underestimated problem. Our bodies compensate for our abuse to a point, but the compound buildup of damage to muscles is insane. The head is a big heavy ball that's far better balanced on top of your neck using front and back muscles, not hanging forward with your neck and back holding onto it with all their might. I know enough editors who have bad backs anyway because of slumping forward at the desk, even before it became possible to do it on a laptop. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 19-Dec-08, at 10:10 AM, Irene Duma wrote: Ok. I got answers re: the specs for MacBook Pro 17 2.5GHz 4GB/ 250GB / 512VRM/ Super 1680x1050 Matte with 1 TB external array for $$2880 CDN Yes it¹s a 3 month old model, but brand new. Super = super drive - DVD dual layer burner Matte screen - standard res The sales person said yes, the new MBPros have HD res 1920 x1200 but are lots more expensive and that I should by a monitor with the money I save. He said I won¹t be able to edit HD on the monitor though, but that almost noone does that as there¹s not enough workspace. So, I am just wondering about the Monitor resolution. Would it be ridiculous using the monitor for editing I am thinking about if I am away from the desk? Would it be better to spring for the new ones? Macdoc are saying now is a goodtime to buy because the Canadian dollar has dropped and prices are expected to go up. Thoughts and thanks. Irene Duma Strange Duck Media Web Design and Creative Marketing Blogging easy computer tips http://www.strangeduck.com/blog and comedy at http://www.bittertonic.com St. John¹s Address: 12 Allan Square St. John's, NL A1C 4A8 T. 709-726-6178 C.709-699-8205 From: Dom Zook d...@gadzookfilms.com Reply-To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:55:40 -0800 To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Macbook pro questions The older version, my version, had a 1440x900 max. resolution, but the video card could pump out a hefty 1920x1200 to an external monitor. I'm pretty sure you're looking at a new one, but yeah, you should definitely call to find out what that matte is they're talking about. Seems pointless to me. Good luck! Dom Zook GadZook Films http://blog.gadzookfilms.com http://twitter.com/gadzook http://store.gadzookfilms.com On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Irene Duma ir...@strangeduck.com mailto:irene%40strangeduck.com wrote: Thanks. It does. Maybe it¹s an older version of the macbook pro. I will email and ask. Irene Duma Strange Duck Media Web Design and Creative Marketing Blogging easy computer tips http://www.strangeduck.com/blog and comedy at http://www.bittertonic.com St. John¹s Address: 12 Allan Square St. John's, NL A1C 4A8 T. 709-726-6178 C.709-699-8205 From: Dom Zook d...@gadzookfilms.com mailto:domz% 40gadzookfilms.com domz%40gadzookfilms.com Reply-To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com videoblogging% 40yahoogroups.com Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:48:25 -0800 To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging% 40yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Macbook pro questions VRM is video RAM, your video card's memory. 512 is great. The video card should be able to pump out full HD resolution to an external monitor. I don't know what the Super is in there for, other than marketing purposes. The 17-inch MBP should offer 1920x1200 resolution, I'm not sure what they are playing at here. This was one of the touted new features. I think macdoc sells mattes to place on the screen? Maybe? That's just a weird resolution, I'm not sure what they mean. The display is shiny. You can't get around it. The new MBP's are only shiny. Hope this helps! Dom Zook GadZook Films http://blog.gadzookfilms.com http://twitter.com/gadzook http://store.gadzookfilms.com On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Irene Duma ir...@strangeduck.com mailto:irene%40strangeduck.com irene%40strangeduck.com mailto:irene%40strangeduck.com irene%2540strangeduck.com mailto:irene%40strangeduck.comwrote: I¹m considering this machine for video editing as I found a great deal at macdoc.com (which is a super shop for those in Ontario) but wondering about some of the specs MacBook Pro 17 2.5GHz 4GB/ 250GB / 512VRM/ Super 1680x1050 Matte What¹s VRM? Is 512 a lot? At this screen resolution, is HD editing possible? Is the super standing for Super VGA
Re: [videoblogging] I'm interviewing Michelle Yeoh later
You forgot to mention Harrison Ford, Gordon Brown, etc. You are the celebrity videoblogger. I have questions: 1) I'm interested why after a)the success of The Fast Runner and b) Kapadia's own films in which he cast Indians as Indians, he cast Michelle Yeoh as an Inuit woman in Svalbard. Surely this was a great opportunity for an unknown Inuit actress? 2) Why did they change the name of the original short story from True North (a much better name) to Far North which doesn't mean anything? 3) Kapadia seems pretty cool - he started out making documentary shorts by himself about the world around him, then went to the Royal College of Art and made bigger shorts - and now he's still making shorts (though I haven't seen them) even though he's a working feature film director. Why does he do it? To keep practicing his art when he's not working on features? If so, why not use little cameras and work on his own like he used to, rather than spend lots of money on a crew - share the films online as part of an ongoing body of work, and have a direct connection with his audience? There's a whole new generation of filmmakers here who are making ongoing documentaries about the world around them and connecting directly. Or does he feel that as a well-known director, he doesn't have an interest in sharing his work this way? 4) Sean Bean. Why? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 18-Dec-08, at 5:20 AM, mikeysizemore wrote: Hi all, So I mess around with pointing video cameras at interesting people from time to time (for my sins I was the idiot who got Spielberg Lucas on Seesmic earlier in the year). Later today I'm interviewing Michelle Yeoh and director Asif Kapadia - I'll be pointing my trusty HG10 at them, but we're sourcing questions via Twitter. As usual with these things it was all very last minute, but if anyone on this list wants to pose a question in the next three hours or so just ask it on Twitter and add the hashtag #FarN at the end so we can track it. More info here: http://www.farnorththefilm.com/2008/12/help-us-interview-michelle-asif/ I hope this isn't spam. I'm hoping to cut the footage with questions from the Twitter stream and Seemic Phreadz etc. No idea how it'll turn out, but fun to play with this stuff. Cheers Mike [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Macbook pro for video editing
Also, it's important to consider the type of storage. If you live in a major western city, you'd be crazy not to also backup onto optical disks and bury them at 4-5 feet, so that your data can survive the electromagnetic pulse that follows a nuclear explosion. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 18-Dec-08, at 12:52 PM, Lan Bui wrote: One more thing to considernis off site archives as well. Have a friend store your old drives and you store old drives for a friend. That way you have backups physically in another location in case of a disaster. -Lan www.LanBui.com (Sent from my iPhone) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Does the Blog format work for Vlogging anymore?
It's a great rant - but you can create your own individual feeds, using services like Feedburner or using the Show In A Box feed generator, that are format-specific. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Pat Cook patsbl...@live.com wrote: Hi everyone: The problem isn't with the blog format itself, but rather with the aggregation protocol used (RSS). I say this because for MONTHS now, I've been wanting to add 3GP versions of my videos so that people with cell phones and other 3G portable devices can subscribe to my videos just like people with iPods can since there are MANY more phones and other devices out there than there are iPods themselves (Mind you, this DOES NOT include the iPhone, which of course can just as easily play anything encoded/transcoded for the iPod itself), but with RSS 2.0 being as (For lack of a better word) archaic as it is, THE ONLY way I know of that this can be done is if a SEPARATE blog is created. It's time for RSS 3.0 to be rolled out (And the sooner THE BETTER). Just my opinion... Cheers Pat Cook patsbl...@live.com patsblogs%40live.com Denver, CO BLOGS PODCASTS AS MY WORLD TURNS - http://asmyworldturns.blogspot.com/ AS MY WEIGHT LOSS WORLD TURNS - http://asmyweightlossworldturns.blogspot.com/ KB0OXD CYBERSHACK | HAM MUSINGS - http://kb0oxd.blogspot.com/ KB0OXD CYBERSHACK | SITE STATION NEWS - http://kb0oxdcybershacknews.blogspot.com/ THE LEFT WING CONSERVATIVE - http://www.geocities.com/theleftwingconservative/ **COMING NOVEMBER 21 - Pat's OTR Podcast - http://backtothefutureradio.blogspot.com/ **AND** THE RETURN OF Back To The Future TV | THE COMMERCIALS (BOTH the iPod Flash Versions) **COMING SOON - Back To The Future TV | THE SHOWS (In iPod Flash) From: schlomo rabinowitz Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 12:01 To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Does the Blog format work for Vlogging anymore? I've never been a fan of the blog format for video (even when putting together the last Vloggercon, I was against making the site in the blog format, but was alone in that thought). Though I ended up not using it for my own personal videoblog site (many hours of discussion with web/dev friends steered me away), I still believe using something like Sweetcron could be an interesting way of showing your work. http://www.sweetcron.com/ Especially when people are putting various sorts of videos on a variety of video hosts. For instance, some people put teasers on youtube and Behind The Scenes on Vimeo. But you want a site that will aggregate all of that content. Anyway, my two cents. Blog is Dead, Long Live the Blog. Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking AIM:schlomochat On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Rupert rup...@fatgirlinohio.orgrupert%40fatgirlinohio.org wrote: I did a video rant about this a couple of weeks ago. I've been thinking about different layouts and ways of presenting things since then. Great thoughts, Ron - particularly what you note how we're comfortable with line-by-line communication in a vertical format, but how it's limited the success of the traditional videoblog - and how daunting it is for a viewer to face a bunch of videos in a line down the page. I've seen this problem when watching people go to my videoblog. It's not just a problem for the viewer, it's a problem for the producer. Reading your post made me realise how much I've forced myself to like the blog format because that's what everyone uses - even though initially I thought it sucked. But when we started out, it was the easiest way to do publishing and podcasting. Now I've totally fallen out of love with the blog format. So much so that I can't seem to drum up the motivation to put any energy into making videos until I can feel good about how I publish them. I've been thinking about the successful shows you mentioned - FU, Ninja, Rocketboom. Wreck Salvage and LoFi St Louis have good new designs, too - which encourage people to browse more freely and don't force the reader to deal with this heirarchy of freshness/ relevance. For me, I think there may be an element of needing more interlinked networking between producers - to allow people to browse outside of your own videos. Jesus, that sounds like a web-ring. But isn't that the best thing about YouTube? That you can choose to see more videos by the same person or jump to something related but made by someone totally different? I don't know. I'm stuck. But it's good to read your thoughts on it. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 10-Dec-08, at 10:05 AM, Ron Watson wrote: Great topic
Re: [videoblogging] A Mashup of Conferences? June 24-27 at UMass Amherst
This sounds like a great idea, Steve. Economies of scale. The ability to be self-contained, but within a wider festival. People have been reluctant to fork out $$$ to travel to a videoblogging conference alone - perhaps this would provide enough incentive. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 17-Dec-08, at 5:12 AM, Steve Garfield wrote: Hi, Are people interested in having a Vloggercon in 2009? I've got an idea. A Mashup of Conferences? June 24-27 at UMass Amherst Bill Densmore out at UMass has reserved the campus for June 24-27 for a conference. 'A Mashup of Conferences' We were talking about calling it something like 'A Mashup of Conferences' and inviting lots of people to co-host their conferences there that weekend. In 2006 he ran Media Giraffe conference on journalism, MGP2006. TOPICS and GROUPS I'd already thought of the possibility of having a Podcamp Amherst out there. He's going to corral the media and education people. What do you think about getting a bunch of Social Media people to join in? I'd help in getting multi media/video production people... Kind of like a pirate ship conference. In addition to social media, video, podcasting I was also thinking about Etsy crafts people, moped riders, and photographers, like that... a wide range... Also, it'd be fun to schedule hikes and social events around it too. LOGISTICS COSTS Ballpark cost estimates are: Meeting rooms: $6K A/V: $2K UMASS has tons of free WiFi LODGING Dorms would be available too for a very reasonable rate as well as hte Campus Center Hotel. Campus Center Hotel FOOD Food would be available at campus center for people to buy. TRAVEL Traveling to UMass BTW, AMTRAK runs to Amherst DC - NY - HARTFORD - AMHERST - MONTREAL LOOKING FOR IDEAS I'm looking for what your ideas on this might be... Interested in organizing, sponsoring, streaming? Leave a comment. Link to blog post: link http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2008/12/mashup-of-conferences- june-24-27-at.html --Steve http://stevegarfield.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Alternate Twitter account for future topics only
Great work, Rick. However, I just created a Twitter bot that uses a complex algorithm to scan current tweets from group members and compare them against the 70,000 existing group posts, thereby calculating what the NEXT topic from the group will be. You can see it at: http://twitter.com/vblist30minutesinthefutureomg Where it estimates that the next new topic will be either: Another reason to hate YouTube or How do I make money out of YouTube? Spooky. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 16-Dec-08, at 8:06 PM, Rick Rey wrote: I created a Twitter bot that announces only NEW topics from the group (no replies): http://twitter.com/vlog It updates every 30 minutes. Props to Rupert for the original idea. If you're looking for something more verbose, check out Rupert's variation: http://twitter.com/videoblogging -- Rick Rey http://rickrey.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Google wants a fast track for it's content from Internet Providers
Sounds like a fittingly overblown made-up scare story to celebrate the anniversary of Murdoch buying the WSJ. Bye, bye Journalism. Hello bullshit. His namesake, alas http://twittervlog.tv On 15-Dec-08, at 6:52 AM, Jay dedman wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Heath heathpa...@msn.com wrote: And here I thought their mantra was do no evil, Umm Net Neturality anyone? Sooner or later this will happen and I fear it will be the death knell for the little guy http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20081215/tc_nm/us_google From Jay Rosen: Okay, here's the Google rep slamming the Wall Street Journal story http://is.gd/bJGj and Lessig calling it a fairy tale http://is.gd/bLN7; -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] AVCHD playback on Mac
iMovie 08 will import them. On 12-Dec-08, at 7:19 PM, Renat Zarbailov wrote: Is there a free add-on to the Quicktime player on a Mac to be able to play AVCHD files? I have 2GBs of AVCHD files to send to a Mac illiterate friend of mine, who is on a Mac. I converted those files to .mov, the result weighs 9GB of .mov files. The problem is how to send them to him. If there's an add-on I will send those AVCHD files via filemail.com Any help is highly appreciated... Thanks Renat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Youtube adds search to embedded videos
YouTube's focus has always been firstly on building themselves as a network, then on the user, with creators coming in a poor third. You can see this in everything - from their codec video quality to site structure to the way their player embeds and the watermark. On 11-Dec-08, at 8:04 AM, Jay dedman wrote: Rick rey has an interesting take on youtube adding search box to embedded videos. http://blog.rickrey.com/post/63100432/regarding-the-new-youtube- search-box-in-embedded-videos I don't like it. It's further proof that YouTube is a technology company, not an entertainment company. They are sacrificing the quality of the user's experience for a small bump in usability. Not to mention, it's kind of a slap in the face to content creators who work hard to keep viewers engaged. It's just one more distraction on top of the umpteen others we're up against to keep your attention. This is another data point when choosing what video service you really like. are they supporting you as a creator, or are you supporting them as a network? Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] No blogging: different visual creations
One of the options I'm considering is still using my WP backend, and having a front page which was big image map with various hotspots leading to different videos, categories pages - either a picture that I could either draw scan make amendments to, or a collage I'd make in Illustrator/Photoshop. I've made some sites for clients like this - eg http:// www.sydneyraewhite.com - it'd be like a manual version of your drag drop desktop idea, Jay. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 11-Dec-08, at 8:00 AM, Jay dedman wrote: this one is aimed at Heath: http://www.redbucketfilms.com/ if you want to go back to coding html, people are still having fun building visual websites. probably not as helpful if you post often, but why not? I remember when ZeFrank started, he was just building is site by hand. http://www.zefrank.com/ I cant be sure, but it looks like he moved to a CMS...but still looks different. jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Disposable Film Festival
Submissions already closed. We're weirdly disorganised about these things in our community. Most filmmaking communities are sharing information about festivals and competitions all the time - and all other opportunities for getting your films seen by a wider audience and getting useful awards/prizes. So many of the people here are making stuff that would take this kind of festival by storm. If I'd known about the DFF, I would have submitted my films and I hope I'd get something in - but it doesn't occur to me to look. Can other people reply with other similar festivals/comps that they know about, and we'll make a wiki page with submission dates? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 11-Dec-08, at 7:55 AM, Jay dedman wrote: Not sure I like the word Disposable, but interesting all the same. http://disposablefilmfest.com/about/ The Disposable Film Festival was created in 2007 to celebrate the artistic potential of disposable video: short films made on non- professional devices such as one-time use video cameras, cell phones, point and shoot cameras, webcams, computer screen capture software, and other readily available video capture devices. With people everywhere posting videos online, we felt the time was right to draw attention to the creative potential of this new mode of filmmaking. Far beyond its initial roles for video blogging and documentation, the DFF offers a forum to display how disposable media can be used for creative purposes. The DFF hosts screenings, competitions, and other events to showcase the best work within the disposable genre. We want your Disposable Films. So, shoot 'em, cut 'em, and send them in. -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Disposable Film Festival
Well, I'm afraid we must now stone you to death. Sorry. The thing is, I think we're all so used to getting our stuff distributed, watched commented on, that we don't give the same amount of thought to festivals, etc that other filmmakers do. (If they didn't get their stuff shown at festivals, it wouldn't get seen at all) So it never occurs to any of us to share this info here. When I used to make short fiction films, I used to have a huge list of festivals and all their submission dates in my diary. I know it's a different deal - but as DFF shows, there are clearly opportunities for our clips to enjoy international fun frolics. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 11-Dec-08, at 9:36 AM, schlomo rabinowitz wrote: I guess this one is my fault, Rupert, as I know these folks and have helped them in the past. I think I share a fair amount here, but some of it slips through the cracks! One of the organizers shoots and edits all the video at chow.com He's one of us! Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking AIM:schlomochat On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Rupert rup...@fatgirlinohio.org wrote: Submissions already closed. We're weirdly disorganised about these things in our community. Most filmmaking communities are sharing information about festivals and competitions all the time - and all other opportunities for getting your films seen by a wider audience and getting useful awards/prizes. So many of the people here are making stuff that would take this kind of festival by storm. If I'd known about the DFF, I would have submitted my films and I hope I'd get something in - but it doesn't occur to me to look. Can other people reply with other similar festivals/comps that they know about, and we'll make a wiki page with submission dates? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 11-Dec-08, at 7:55 AM, Jay dedman wrote: Not sure I like the word Disposable, but interesting all the same. http://disposablefilmfest.com/about/ The Disposable Film Festival was created in 2007 to celebrate the artistic potential of disposable video: short films made on non- professional devices such as one-time use video cameras, cell phones, point and shoot cameras, webcams, computer screen capture software, and other readily available video capture devices. With people everywhere posting videos online, we felt the time was right to draw attention to the creative potential of this new mode of filmmaking. Far beyond its initial roles for video blogging and documentation, the DFF offers a forum to display how disposable media can be used for creative purposes. The DFF hosts screenings, competitions, and other events to showcase the best work within the disposable genre. We want your Disposable Films. So, shoot 'em, cut 'em, and send them in. -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [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] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] No blogging: different visual creations
I love the vlogwall. And not just because it's a wall of me. On 11-Dec-08, at 9:56 AM, @sull wrote: back when i was playing with the showinabox people, one of my propositions was to utilize your wordpress rss feed (or other xml flavor) using the simplepie wordpress plugin (parser) and then build templates however you want and inject whatever data from the feed that you want. this was an alternative to staying within the confines of the wordpress theming engine. an example of this is located here: http://videobloggers.org/vlogwall/ although this is not using the wordpress feed, instead using a mefeedia feed. the nice thing about it is that you can leave your blog as is and have an alternative presentation of your content made available to visitors. i also like just uisng the flash player + playlisting approach with some javascript api usage to handle contextual content and comments etc. sull On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:43 AM, J. N. P. zen...@art.com.pt wrote: Hi! I had a project last year that actually didn't went forward enough to go public, but i had started building the concept and tried the geeky details of it. What i ended up doing was: 1) The wordpress was used to create the content with the categories and tags and from that i extracted various things: 1.1) (video) RSS per categorie; 1.2) archives with the videos on it just as wordpress show content by categories; 1.3) the wordpress view of things is the second way of watch/search the content (very blog like always) 2) But i took the various RSS and with those i created a first page that is actually the Jeroen FLV player ( http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Media_Player ), because that playes is very flexible and is capable of being feed with our RSS wordpress... I think you can build a nice TV like that. In alternative you could just use the play lists from blip and use the blip player, but doing it the other way you can integrate the flash player in such a way that when you are playing a particular video you end up with that wordpress post/article also showing up somewhere in a frame, so that you can still have comments and such. This concept is nothing new and unfortunately i never build it up completely to test it further but i hope some day i will have a new project to build and test it further and hopefully add more to this conversation theme. thats my 2 cents of Euro. ;) Rgds, ZN On Dec 11, 2008, at 17:20 , Jay dedman wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Rupert rup...@fatgirlinohio.org wrote: One of the options I'm considering is still using my WP backend, and having a front page which was big image map with various hotspots leading to different videos, categories pages - either a picture that I could either draw scan make amendments to, or a collage I'd make in Illustrator/Photoshop. I've made some sites for clients like this - eg http:// www.sydneyraewhite.com - it'd be like a manual version of your drag drop desktop idea, Jay. im looking forward t what people come up with. http://www.vbs.tv/ is another example of making the page looks interesting. (though i hate the autoload video). the whole background image is part of the actual function of the page. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] NYT article about what we know
That should get another few hundred people putting videos on YouTube, thinking it's going to make them rich and famous. On 11-Dec-08, at 10:53 AM, Jay dedman wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:54 PM, schlomo rabinowitz schl...@gmail.com wrote: Here's an article in today's NYT that probably doesnt tell you anything you dont already know: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/business/media/11youtube.html? _r=2ref=todayspaper One creator profiled in this article says: Mr. Williams, who counts about 180,000 subscribers to his videos, said he was earning $17,000 to $20,000 a month via YouTube. Could that possibly be true? that's over 200k a year. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Does the Blog format work for Vlogging anymore?
I did a video rant about this a couple of weeks ago. I've been thinking about different layouts and ways of presenting things since then. Great thoughts, Ron - particularly what you note how we're comfortable with line-by-line communication in a vertical format, but how it's limited the success of the traditional videoblog - and how daunting it is for a viewer to face a bunch of videos in a line down the page. I've seen this problem when watching people go to my videoblog. It's not just a problem for the viewer, it's a problem for the producer. Reading your post made me realise how much I've forced myself to like the blog format because that's what everyone uses - even though initially I thought it sucked. But when we started out, it was the easiest way to do publishing and podcasting. Now I've totally fallen out of love with the blog format. So much so that I can't seem to drum up the motivation to put any energy into making videos until I can feel good about how I publish them. I've been thinking about the successful shows you mentioned - FU, Ninja, Rocketboom. Wreck Salvage and LoFi St Louis have good new designs, too - which encourage people to browse more freely and don't force the reader to deal with this heirarchy of freshness/relevance. For me, I think there may be an element of needing more interlinked networking between producers - to allow people to browse outside of your own videos. Jesus, that sounds like a web-ring. But isn't that the best thing about YouTube? That you can choose to see more videos by the same person or jump to something related but made by someone totally different? I don't know. I'm stuck. But it's good to read your thoughts on it. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 10-Dec-08, at 10:05 AM, Ron Watson wrote: Great topic, Heath! I've been doing online video since 1998, and I was very excited with the explosion of digital video in 2005. It was awesome! I dabbled with wordpress and the blog format for a while, but it was obvious to me rather quickly that the long vertical videoblog (and blog, for that matter) was a dead end in terms of viability. It's daunting to scroll down a page and see an hour of video. It makes the small, short flicks and turns them into a day long endeavor. I think the traditional blog format is great for RSS feeds and for archival purposes, but as far as presentation of content, it's not good for holding people's attention. If you're content is very special or totally rock solid, you can hold an audience, but you are fighting against a faulty design. There are 2 ways in which the traditional blog layout fails for video blogging. Story telling and Community. --- Story Telling --- I took a critical look at a person from this list's new project, and that's what I found to be the critical fault in the presentation of content. He had all this great content, a really sweet, honest and appealing vibe, beautiful theming, but it all went out the window when I scrolled down the page and saw 15 5 minute videos all presented as a running commentary - essentially a very long monologue. I have no doubt that the content was personally appealing (although I couldn't watch it because of bandwidth constraints - :-( ) but when I saw that scrolling list, it just seemed like a Herculean task to go through it. I really was intrigued by the vibe set up by the site and my personal belief system, but when I saw the layout of the content, I was turned off. I didn't want to watch that much on one topic. When you post 30 things on one page, it devalues all of them. It triggers the idea of a lack of quality - like this thing couldn't stand on it's own so he put 30 on one page. I suggested that he set up in a landscape format (as opposed to portrait, or blog) which would embrace his theme, keep relevant content on the page at all times, be an efficient use of space and would let each video (or 2) be it's own story. I could actually see myself watching all 15 videos with this kind of layout if the content was good with some clever storytelling. Leave me with a cliffhanger, or give me a text based teaser to draw me into the next video. --- Community --- Also, this kind of a layout creates a dialogue. I watch it then I talk about it. It's the give and take, the interaction with the viewer that we're all looking for. Let me watch a video and digest it. Then I'll comment on it. The traditional blog format reminds me of online tit for tat email communication that I find becomes 2 dueling monologues. When you create a series of communication, or a series of argument, there is a critical loss of context. We forget what we were talking about. The discussion becomes about the minutia or the meta, and the greater understanding or message is lost. It quite literally is the presentation of parts - the parts are greater than the whole. I don't think it works well for online communication, and I don't think it works well
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Dropping frames, long firewire?
I want to Favorite this sentence. On 8-Dec-08, at 6:04 AM, liza jean wrote: way back in 1980 when i was working on the computer animation for TRON we had frame drop problems every time the electroplating factory sharing the same power grid with us turned their machines on or off. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: YouTube alternatives - vlog review.
I liked the look of the site, too. But I really wanted a comment section. You say you want to talk to people and find out what their first memory is... which is great. This is exactly the kind of project that gets people involved and talking. But you don't have a facility for conversation or involvement on the site, which is really what a lot of vlogging and social media is all about - and this would surely benefit from it. There are a bunch of Joomla commenting extensions that should be fairly easy to install. Just google for Joomla comments. Disqus have one - I use that on my Tumblr blog and it works well and took about five minutes to set up. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 8-Dec-08, at 1:22 PM, myfirstmemorydotorg wrote: I really don't have the urgency or energy to set up any forums or commenting system, so the site will probably stay as it is. ... frankly, I like to actually talk to people and find out their first memory a lot more than I like promoting the vlog. I would like to collect more memories than viewers... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] YouTube Embed Customizer
Good work! On 8-Dec-08, at 5:46 PM, Jake Ludington wrote: I know Twitter Vlog has a great script for building a high quality version of a YouTube embed. I took it a slightly different direction and make it easy for you to autostart videos, make them loop, and/or embed the high quality version without needing to add the individual parameters each time. http://www.jakeludington.com/youtube-code-generator.phtml Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Presenting stills in video
I'm too tired to remember the name, but I saw a British TV documentary last year that took old archive photos and subtly animated elements in the background or foreground. So parts of a photo behind or in front of people which were sky or grass or sea would be replaced by video of the same. Was done very well - not drawing too much attention to itself - so there'd be a slight shimmer on the sea, or a slight blowing in the grass. Then sometimes a slight Ken Burns effect was added, but with a 3D effect created by splitting the foreground, middleground and background elements into separate layers and animating them appropriately. Creating a slight feeling of tracking towards the subject rather than just zooming. I expect a slight grain/flicker was added to the image to make it seem like a video GV rather than a still, too. People who weren't film- savvy might not even have noticed. It definitely brought a little life to old pictures and blurred the boundary between them and the film/video clips they were intercut with. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 7-Dec-08, at 9:17 PM, Brook Hinton wrote: There's a clever section in Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea that uses a physical set, tricky camerawork and speed control to deal with archival photos in an historical background segment. I don't think it's online though. 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] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] YouTube alternatives - vlog review.
Vimeo's quality is better and their community is better (but smaller) and they support HD. Blip allows you to link to the original mp4 file, which is necessary for podcasting and syndication via things like iTunes. Also, their flash Show Player allows you to embed high quality mp4 files rather than crappy quality flv. YouTube has many more people watching, but don't be fooled into thinking that that translates into lots of viewers for you unless you have a commercial/viral proposition. Also, their community stinks, it's full of haters and the video quality has always been bad. They're finally, after 3 years, sorting out widescreen playback and a higher quality option. But they'll never fix the attitude problem. It's different on your own blog or at the other services. And you still have to work at promotion. If you don't have the patience for something simple and labor-saving like TubeMogul, don't expect people to magically flock to your videos just cos they're on YouTube. On 6-Dec-08, at 8:00 AM, myfirstmemorydotorg wrote: Hi y'all! I am a newbie in this vlog-whatchamacallit thing, so please be kind and forgive me if this is a stupid question. I have been uploading at YouTube, and I am curious why so many other people use Blip or Vimeo or such other services. Is it the quality? Because in my mind, the social functions and the masses of people that are on YouTube make it the only option for me. I also don't have the patience for multi-site distribution through TubeMogul or otherwise... That said, you guys and gals wanna tell me what you think of http://www.myfirstmemory.org? Thanks! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] VloMo08
Well, I funked it again. Big life changes. This month is for watching, I hope. Well done to everyone who did it - even those of us who didn't make the 30. On 4-Dec-08, at 4:36 PM, Mike Moon wrote: I just wanted to give a big shout out to those that were able to complete VloMo08 (a video per day for the month of November). It certainly wasn't easy, but if you completed it, wear it like a badge of honor. Wo0T! Thanks a bunch for those that gave it a try. Sometimes life just happens. Maybe next time. I couldn't be happier with all the new content we have to watch. It was great to see some of the _pioneers_ dust off the camcorders and shoot some vlogs. Everyone is pretty busy and might not be able to watch the thousands of videos that were produced in November, so here's my vlog that capsulizes my month. With directors commentary of course. :) http://mikemoon.net/vlog/2008/11/30/reflection-on-vlomo08/ Keep those cameras rolling folks. Shoot some video, save the moment forever. I'm not sure where it originated (Clintus maybe?), but VLOG ON BITCHES! Mike http://vlog.mikemoon.net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Mobile Video
I was a finalist in the Nokia mobile filmmaking competition for Pangea Day, and they flew the five of us to LA from all over the world. The guy who won was from South Africa - Eduardo Cachuco. This was his winning video, of kids playing an old arcade machine in a township outside Johannesburg: http://share.ovi.com/media/PangeaDay.film/ecachucho.10002 He told me that online video - even YouTube - is hard to watch in South Africa because of the connection speeds. You have to wait ages for everything to load and buffer. Even in the capital, Jo'burg, where he lives and works. The telecom company has a monopoly on internet connections and there's no connection or government regulation to increase speeds. Crazy - must be hurting their economy at some level. Anyway, I wonder whether this has increased the amount of mobile video being watched and made because it's not noticeably slower than their 'broadband'. The same in South Asia South East Asia. There's lots of mobile filming action there - a significant number of entries for the competition were from India and Indonesia, for example. Nokia have pushed mobile filmmaking in the Southern Hemisphere for much longer than they have here - this was the first year for the mobile filmmaking competition in the Northern Hemisphere, but it's been running successfully in Asia Australasia for three years. They're certainly upping the ante in pushing storytelling using their devices. But the N Series have been 3G devices - so haven't been available in the US until recently. USA can be amazingly backward in adoption of new tech, weirdly - not sure what the reasons for not adopting 3G early are, but presumably it got caught up in commercial/ regulatory nonsense. Apple's refusal to add video is just stupid - they're saving it as a treat to convince people to buy a new iPhone in 2009. Frustrating. Nokia's video is good (tho colors aren't great and low light is terrible) - and they even have a built-in editor. But I can't help feeling that Apple's implementation interface would be easier higher quality. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 27-Nov-08, at 7:24 AM, Jay dedman wrote: We call them cell phones in the US, but Mobile video is becoming pretty interesting...especially outside the US. South Africa particularly has some stuff going on. a conference called, Mobile Active, just occurred last month: http://www.mobileactive08.org/ Then there's this project that is getting kids to connect to each the through video on their mobile phones; http://www.thegrid.co.za/ Here's a documentary they are making: http://www.vincentmaher.com/?p=779 what I dont get is why it seems to difficult to do cell video in the US. is the N95 the only game in town? my iPhone is cool...but only seems to do video if I jail break it. weird. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Defending Videographer's Rights in Court
Renat, How many of these shows have you watched? Are you watching them now, all the time, while you prepare this? Because you should be. Look how silly the people in the show look. That's going to be *you* in the box. However justified you feel now - however ridiculous you think the opposition's correspondence is, you *will* come off looking bad, too. Perhaps shrill, irrational, emotional - you're obviously very upset about all this, to the point where you want to humiliate them publicly, and the show will play that up, and they will try to get you worked up in your testimony. Certainly, you won't get a chance to slowly and carefully lay out the correspondence to make your case on TV. All that stuff will be cut - it's boring. This is not paranoia - it's the way Reality TV really works. I have first hand experience from the production side. Irina just backed me up. Really - imagine how you'd feel about it if you get there and you're suddenly not winning as easily as you imagined (which is usually what happens in court cases, as in politics). Your ex-clients will have better lawyers advising them what to say. Most of the plaintiffs on these shows are made to look like fools. And it's not like you're a widow who's been wrongly evicted. As a videographer of models, your case is hardly going to tug on the nation's heartstrings. Finally - this I just don't understand - it seems you want to humiliate these people on TV, and yet you rejected Jay's suggestion to blog about your experience as public whining? You'd rather get 2 and a half minutes of supposed national broadcasting and totally forfeit control over how you look in public? And you're asking for advice on how to do this on the *videoblogging* list? The whole point of which is to reverse that power structure? And where is this going to go when it's been broadcast - once, during daytime, to bored housewives and students? Nowhere. It'll be broadcast and disappear. Do you even know how many people watch this show, and what the demographic is? Should your client really be shaking in their boots about being 'exposed' on this show? How many of their potential business partners are ever going to see it or even know about it? My point is, I just can't believe that you'd be willing to trade control of your image and reputation for such weak rewards. YOU have the power to make your own video about your case that will show up in all their search results if you do it right. YouTube and other video sharing sites are often heavily weighted so that they often feature in the top 2 pages for any search result. Make an entertaining video of the correspondence from *your* side. Humiliate them in a way that's viewable by all their clients, 24 hours a day 7 days a week via Google. Not once on a cable channel on a Tuesday afternoon in January in a place that's set up as a freakshow and then disappears for ever. That's all these things are - freakshows. And you're volunteering to be a freak? If none of this makes any sense to you, just ask yourself what the benefits of this are - if you take away the idea that it will drive traffic to your site (it won't) and your certainty that they will come off looking worse (they won't). It's all downside and risk. Except for a free trip to LA. If you count a trip to LA as upside. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 24-Nov-08, at 12:15 AM, Renat Zarbailov wrote: Good looking out Irina, Thanks so much! It's written in the producers letter that they guarantee the payment should I win the case. As far as ridiculness of the correspondence I exchanged throughout the last couple of weeks with the defendant; this must be televised... I will though ask the producer to provide the lodging and food money upfront before he sends the airline tickets. The only thing that may come in the way of doing it on TV is the delay of serving the lawsuit to the defendant or her not wanting to do it at all regrdless of the incentive she receives with the TV approach. Renat --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Irina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: renat, i know a good friend who was a producer for one of the judges' shows his job was to make sure the show was as ridiculous and insane as possible, even if it meant humiliation and horror for the participants, even if it meant kind of lying to them just do not think the producers are on your side in any way and like someone else on this list said, get the money in advance tell them to send you a check tell them you dont have any credit cards or any extra money do NOT agree to re-imbursement make them buy the airline tix for you and pay for the hotel for you etc. the re-imbursement can take up to six months to one year On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 5:34 PM, liza jean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: who owns the music on these videos
Re: [videoblogging] my blog post links
You can change it in Settings Permalinks. Personally, I like the post number format. It keeps the URL short, which means I don't need to shorten it to a TinyURL in emails, on this list, or on Twitter. I can't think of many occasions I've found a human readable link useful. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 20-Nov-08, at 8:25 AM, quintanomedia wrote: now that I fixed the digg problem. I noticed that most of my links for each post look like this http://www.quintanomedia.com/?p=443 how come it doesnt have the title of my post in the url? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Fwd: YouTube: An Insider's Guide to Climbing the Charts--New from O'Reilly
Funny - I was just Twittering this morning about how there aren't many people making videos or writing about how to make money out of online video or how companies should do vlogging. I got sent a message by a company that makes something called Tube Toolbox - which is basically spam software for YouTube. It'll friend everybody on YouTube and email everyone on earth with your video and make it go like viral and stuff. If that's your thing, Google it. I ain't gonna link to it. They've also set up a YouTube message board community to pimp their software. Lots of people saying Watch My Video! There might be some good stuff in there, but I was too depressed to stay. From the book description: Both Alan and Michael recognize there are thousands of creative, intelligent people on YouTube. They've crafted a solid technology book filled with media production techniques along with thought- provoking tips on professionalism, networking--and, as they put it, being a better citizen of the planet Earth. They seem to have written a book about YouTube without ever having watched any videos or read any comments. Some days I start to like YouTube and post about some of its cooler new features here. Today is not one of them. It makes me laugh to read all that. It seems to me that we tried to start something open and positive here. But in terms of viewers, audience, numbers, popularity, opportunity - call it what you will - we lost the first battle to a monumental closed corporate mecca full of dross and hate. R Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 20-Nov-08, at 10:41 AM, schlomo rabinowitz wrote: For those who have some money to burn, here's a new book from OReilly Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking AIM:schlomochat -- Forwarded message -- From: Sara Peyton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:00 AM Subject: YouTube: An Insider's Guide to Climbing the Charts--New from O'Reilly To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you cannot read the information below, click herehttp://www.oreillynet.com/pub/ec/1068 . [image: O'Reilly.com] http://www.oreilly.com[image: For Immediate Release] http://press.oreilly.com/ CONTACT: Sara Peyton (707) 827-7118 [EMAIL PROTECTED] *YouTube: An Insider's Guide to Climbing the Charts* --New from O'Reilly *Make a Splash on YouTube* [image: YouTube: An Insider's Guide to Climbing the Charts] http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596521141/ *Sebastopol, CA*Thousands of people post to YouTube http://youtube.com each day with hopes of taking videos viral, but few understand how to make that happen. But if you want to be visible on YouTube or even go viral, then you've come to the right place. YouTube: An Insider's Guide to Climbing the Chartshttp://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596521141(O'Reilly, $29.99) written by YouTube veterans Alan fallofautumndistro Lastufka http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3420 and Michael W. Dean http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3220, provides easy-to-read instructions on getting a video of your cause, song, commercial, or unique point of view noticed by thousands. You don't need money or corporate backing to go viral, explains Alan. You simply need a very good, or very bad, video and the know-how to get viewers to your video--both of which you will learn how to do in this book. Both Alan, one of the Top 100 Most Subscribed Comedians on YouTube and someone who makes a successful living off of the site, and Michael, a seasoned filmmaker, recognize there are thousands of creative, intelligent people on YouTube. They've crafted a solid technology book filled with media production techniques along with thought-provoking tips on professionalism, networking--and, as they put it, being a better citizen of the planet Earth. Unlike any other book on this topic, YouTube: An Insider's Guide to Climbing the Charts http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596521141 also includes interviews with YouTube stars LisaNova, Hank Green (vlogbrothers), WhatTheBuckShow, nalts, and liamkylesullivan, as well as current YouTube staff. With this new book, you'll learn about: - Storytelling and directing - Shooting, editing, and rendering - Creating your very own channel - Broadcasting user-generated content - Re-broadcasting commercial content - Cultivating a devoted audience - Fitting into the YouTube community - Becoming a success story Alan and Michael share their understanding of viral marketing and what they know about getting your work on everyone's YouTube radar. And, once you read this book, so will you. *Advance Praise* Let me begin by making an observation that the authors are too humble to make for themselves: This book will change your life. --John Green, YouTube channel vlogbrothers * For a review copy or more information please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please include your
Re: [videoblogging] my blog post links
Obviously I can't say for sure, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. Google's pretty smart at reading post titles, and the URL doesn't seem to give any extra weight. My posts come at the top for popular phrases even with a short URL. Not sure they could rank any higher, really. Example: google Night Life in Twin Peaks - the name of one of my recent videos and also a track in the Twin Peaks soundtrack from 1991 - 317,000 results, and my post is #2 after the Last.fm page for the soundtrack, despite the name not being in the URL - and ranking above all the other results *with* the name in the URL. Obviously,this doesn't prove anything by itself, but you can try it with lots of my post titles - same thing. Even when I use popular phrases as post titles. I wouldn't sweat it. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 20-Nov-08, at 11:25 AM, Jay dedman wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can change it in Settings Permalinks. Personally, I like the post number format. It keeps the URL short, which means I don't need to shorten it to a TinyURL in emails, on this list, or on Twitter. I can't think of many occasions I've found a human readable link useful. someone can correct me if im wrong, but i think human readable URL's help with searches. jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Football chalkboard
Screencasting is *definitely* the way to go with this. You can get the video to play at whatever resolution you want and then use a program like Magic Pen - which allows you to draw on your screen - to draw over the top of it. You can use your spacebar to start and stop the video, your arrow keys to scan backwards and forwards, and your mouse to draw over the places you want. Then if you want to add text over the top, you can import the screencast into an editing program and just lay the text over the top. Magic Pen is a Mac app. But a quick Google for 'PC draw on your screen' brought up this free Microsoft app called ZoomIt which allows you to draw on live video. Looks pretty good, actually. Then you just need to use a screencast to record the results. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897434.aspx Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 19-Nov-08, at 1:40 PM, J. Rhett Aultman wrote: Worth the money is kinda a new slogan for me. I finally broke down and bought CS4, and the process of the main editing for a roller derby bout was reduced to 25% of its original time using Premiere Elements. Seriously...8 hours versus 2! Ideally, I'd like to find a way to do it with the tools I have, though. It seems there'd be a way. Maybe I'll ask around at Creative Cow. -- Rhett. I dunno, your screencasting solution is a great one. Plus, buying a tool that just does that one thing sounds like wasted money. Of course, I think you want to do it a lot, so the money may be worth it. Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking AIM:schlomochat On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:31 PM, J. Rhett Aultman [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I went looking for a YouTube video to illustrate, but I couldn't find one. So, basically, let me see if I can describe better. Let's say I have a still-shot of some players about to make a play. I want to draw on that, illustrating how the players are about to move, and I want my process of drawing on it to be recorded as a video or animation. Something like, say, After Effects, is good for letting you draw a line an then set keyframes to animate it, but what I want is to be able to draw and have the whole drawing process recorded. The cheap DIY way I can think to do this is with a screencast program. I'd load the still image up in something like Photoshop, run the screencast program, draw on the image with the paintbrush, and then I could crop the video so nobody saw I was using an art program. But there's got to be an easier way. -- Rhett. I think you¹re actually after two separate things... The first is to layer two feeds (video/graphics/animation) onto each other in real-time, being able to control either video independently of the other. The second is an animation tool to animate your drawing - I don¹t know your john madden example, so I hope I understood right! For the layering/playback I think you¹d have to look at some other apps outside adobe for that, I¹m sure there¹s something out there that broadcasters use. It¹s probably not right for what you¹re looking for, but it gives you an idea of what can be done: I use Modul8 (for visuals), one of its features being that you can add a layer onto a playing video, onto which you can draw. Whether you¹re drawing or not, the rest of the playback is unaffected... you can stop/play/rw/etc the underlying video just like always. If you find an app that can do something similar then you probably wouldn¹t need to pre-draw and get something to automatically animate your drawing? -- David Terranova www.davidterranova.com | blog.davidterranova.com | www.rebelrave.tv From: J. Rhett Aultman [EMAIL PROTECTED]wlight%40weatherlight.com Reply-To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.comvideoblogging%40yahoogroups.com videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:36:49 -0800 (PST) To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging% 40yahoogroups.com videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [videoblogging] Football chalkboard Maybe a bizarre question, but one that was popping in my mind as I'm shooting sporting events these days. Let's say that I wanted to do a chalkboard kinda like John Madden uses when he's explaining football plays in instant replay. What would be nice is to basically just draw on the video and have some tool turn my real-time drawing into an animation. I have Adobe CS4 but I honestly can't think of a way to do that. Anyone got a good idea for this one? -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed
Re: [videoblogging] Football chalkboard
I think I must've missed the point of what you're trying to do. Would not my suggestion of a screen drawing program like ZoomIt/Magic Pen and a screencast be a million times easier, better looking and higher quality than taking screengrabs and drawing over them in skitch/photoshop and editing them into the video? Much more like a video chalkboard, and the drawing would be animated rather than just stuck on? On 19-Nov-08, at 7:25 PM, J. Rhett Aultman wrote: Doing it over a still would be fine. The flow would be video plays, stops on a still, I draw on the still, then the video starts again. I'll have to check this Skitch out. -- Rhett. Jay dedman wrote: Let's say I have a still-shot of some players about to make a play. I want to draw on that, illustrating how the players are about to move, and I want my process of drawing on it to be recorded as a video or animation. Something like, say, After Effects, is good for letting you draw a line an then set keyframes to animate it, but what I want is to be able to draw and have the whole drawing process recorded. The cheap DIY way I can think to do this is with a screencast program. I'd load the still image up in something like Photoshop, run the screencast program, draw on the image with the paintbrush, and then I could crop the video so nobody saw I was using an art program. But there's got to be an easier way. Im not sure how easy it is to write over moving video. Kent Bye sent me this tip: Well, I haven't found an easy way to do it over moving video. But what I have done is used Skitch to take a screengrab, and then record the annotations via skitch. That's what I did on this video: http://www.ebbandflow.tv/blog/index.php/2007/03/10/metavlog/ It'd also be possible to take a black screen grab the size of the screen, annotate the black screen with Skitch. And then composite it over the video using something like the Multiply Blend mode. You could either watch the video on the side, and try approximate the locations of the annotations. Or just do some generic annotations, and then resize and move around the composited movie. There's also ways for Adobe After effects to record mouse trackings and animate them, but that's really difficult to do with any fluidity. -Kent. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Defending Videographer's Rights in Court
Seems like a very bad deal to me. I don't see what you get to gain - how they guarantee the payment any more than a regular court does. And sounds like 'court costs' get covered by the loser. Are there extra TV court costs that you wouldn't be liable for otherwise? Also seems to me that the company would stand to get more publicity out of it than you - they're trying to raise their profile, no? Every time I see someone on one of those shows, nobody comes out of it looking good. Which is how it is in court, more or less - but usually the humiliation takes place in relative privacy. Court is almost always a stressful, horrible experience to go through. Why add the extra stress of TV bullshit and national exposure onto that? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 19-Nov-08, at 3:24 PM, Renat Zarbailov wrote: Today I received a DHL letter from Judge Joe Brown. Asking if I want to fly to LA to tape the hearing. The producer of this show promises in this letter that they will pay for travel and all expenses associated doing it this way, and guarantee the appearance fee for appearing on this program. Also, if I win the case they guarantee that I receive the money awarded by the arbitrator within 30 days, plus the court costs (I need to find out what that means). Whereas if I win the case traditional court way, the payment from the defendant is not guaranteed by the court in a timely fashion, if ever. Has anybody in the vlogging community ever done lawsuits televised? Should I go for it? Renat --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone! Over the past three months I completed three 2-minute videos for a startup DJ company, who never paid a penny for my work, promising me that when they will start getting paid for their gigs in night clubs then they will pay me for each completed video. Within these three months I shot 8 events for them, each one requiring at least 4 hours of shooting. They started pressuring me lately to deliver four more completed videos within a week or so. Since they never paid for any of my work I told them if they wanted speed they would have to pay $600 per completed video with a week turnaround from the shoot day. This escalated into a dispute and now I no longer want to deal with them. I asked them kindly to remove these three videos I created from their web site, myspace, youtube, and vimeo. They are refusing to do so claiming that these videos belong to them. I offered to let them keep them online if they would pay $300 per each video so we part our ways peacefully. And now we are having a dispute over who owns these videos. All of the agreements we made among us were verbal and never in writing. On Monday I want to file a lawsuit in small claims court to have these videos pulled of the web or for them to pay up. Has anyone in our vlogging community ever dealt with a similar situation? If I were to contact Youtube/Vimeo for video removal request, what do they ask for to proof video ownership? Should I also file for reimbursement for the time I spent shooting these 8 events? Basically it comes to 32 hours of very hard work running around in the clubs shooting small clips. I offered them these source video files at $100 per each event, so they could use them by hiring another editor, they refused. So I will gladly have to purge them all. After the court, of course. Also, there's no copyright mention in the end credits of all three videos, the last two list my name as camera/editing. They're claiming that their glamorous company provided exposure for my video skills. I never wanted exposure by shooting and editing their videos. I even did not put my name in the end credits of the first video, which proofs that. They approached me for help, not the other way around. Here are these three videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8x5B-h08Hs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGRiB35h7Pw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcIbVFu6_PE This DJ company never invested into any of the video production (props, special video preparation or anything). They just had a stable (yes, stable, :) that's what it says in their recent press release) of girls DJ for them, without paying them either by the way. I have seen many of their graphic designers and photographers come and go, which slowly started making sense to me that they just want to parasite off other people's energy and skills. I would truly appreciate any input you may have regarding this situation or content ownership before I head out to court to fight for my rights. Thanks everyone! Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Web Hosting
I've asked around on Twitter about this. A lot of people use and like Dreamhost, and they have various nice things like automatic Wordpress installation. If you need a bit more, people seem to like MediaTemple. If you want to go green - in light of the data-centers-polluting-more- than-airlines-by-2020 thing - Dreamhost offset their power use with carbon credits. For properly green hosting, AISO.net is the biggest solar powered host, I think, based in California. When my payment period is up with my current host, I'm moving to http:// solarenergyhost.com which is a solar hydro powered host using AISO's servers but based in Vancouver. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ On 14-Nov-08, at 11:24 AM, Lil Peck wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:11 PM, bmilam52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hostgator blows. I need a new web host for my blog. I'm sick of trying to get into my blog and always running into a problem. What's a good host that some of you use? I use seekdotnet.com. It isn't perfect -- no host is, but so far, of all the ones I have tried over the years. this one has been the best. Lil [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Traditional Media Scares the Shi* out of me As I Type
Nothing I ever hear about TV executives' approach to the internet ever gives me any hope. Apparently, none of them ever use the internet. And if they do, they're so busy being threatened that they adopt a confused and contemptuous attitude before they've even clicked on the first video. I read two great posts by Steve Bowbrick yesterday about trying to change this mindset at the BBC. He's blogger in residence for six months at the BBC. Which is a great idea - someone from outside to blog about life inside. First, his thoughts about how and why they need to move on from the broadcast mindset. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/11/ moving_on_from_the_broadcast_e.html But more importantly for you to read out there in hell, Jeffrey: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bowbrick/2958508580/ A whiteboard image of the obstacles to sharing with typical reactions in quotes just like those you just repeated from Silverman. The obstacles are grouped under Rights; Culture; Expectations; Competitive Instincts; Regulation. The quotes associated with the obstacles are: Rights: Impossible to untangle Expectations: It'll just be a bunch of pornographers Culture: We don't do that sort of thing Competitive Instincts: We compete in primetime - why should we cooperate here Regulation: They'll never let us do that Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 13-Nov-08, at 5:01 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They're totally ignoring all the great content that's out there by independent producers. Direct quote from Silverman: we don't want cat pissing in toilet videos associated with our brand. and only we can do something like heroes. -Original Message- From: Jay Dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:52:58 To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.comvideoblogging@yahoogroups.com Cc: videoblogging@yahoogroups.comvideoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Traditional Media Scares the Shi* out of me As I Type Can you be more specific about their approach or lack of understanding? Jay On Nov 13, 2008, at 7:01 AM, Jeffrey Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently at the Monaco Media Forum, watching Michael Wolff interview Ben Silverman of NBC/Universal and the Director-General of the BBC. These guys don't get it. At all. It's all top down. They have know idea what's out there, and they really can't be arsed to look. I am so pissed off right now. Discuss. -- Jeffrey Taylor Mobile: +33625497654 Fax: +33177722734 Skype: thejeffreytaylor Googlechat/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://twitter.com/jeffreytaylor [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] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Traditional Media Scares the Shi* out of me As I Type
They come from a different culture, and are almost certainly entirely surrounded by yes men and people who are similarly uninformed. The good thing about physical conferences is that you're sharing the same room. You've got nothing to lose by fighting to get to the front and telling them. On 13-Nov-08, at 6:49 AM, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: It's just infuriating. Just plain infuriating. Both these top executives have massive, multi-purpose staff and they''re STILL in a bubble. NBC is starting a digital studio instead of cutting a deal with the well-established Epic-Fu franchise. It just steams me up. 2008/11/13 Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nothing I ever hear about TV executives' approach to the internet ever gives me any hope. Apparently, none of them ever use the internet. And if they do, they're so busy being threatened that they adopt a confused and contemptuous attitude before they've even clicked on the first video. I read two great posts by Steve Bowbrick yesterday about trying to change this mindset at the BBC. He's blogger in residence for six months at the BBC. Which is a great idea - someone from outside to blog about life inside. First, his thoughts about how and why they need to move on from the broadcast mindset. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/11/ moving_on_from_the_broadcast_e.html But more importantly for you to read out there in hell, Jeffrey: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bowbrick/2958508580/ A whiteboard image of the obstacles to sharing with typical reactions in quotes just like those you just repeated from Silverman. The obstacles are grouped under Rights; Culture; Expectations; Competitive Instincts; Regulation. The quotes associated with the obstacles are: Rights: Impossible to untangle Expectations: It'll just be a bunch of pornographers Culture: We don't do that sort of thing Competitive Instincts: We compete in primetime - why should we cooperate here Regulation: They'll never let us do that Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 13-Nov-08, at 5:01 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]thejeffreytaylor%40gmail.comwrote: They're totally ignoring all the great content that's out there by independent producers. Direct quote from Silverman: we don't want cat pissing in toilet videos associated with our brand. and only we can do something like heroes. -Original Message- From: Jay Dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] jay.dedman%40gmail.com Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:52:58 To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com Cc: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Traditional Media Scares the Shi* out of me As I Type Can you be more specific about their approach or lack of understanding? Jay On Nov 13, 2008, at 7:01 AM, Jeffrey Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] thejeffreytaylor%40gmail.com wrote: I'm currently at the Monaco Media Forum, watching Michael Wolff interview Ben Silverman of NBC/Universal and the Director-General of the BBC. These guys don't get it. At all. It's all top down. They have know idea what's out there, and they really can't be arsed to look. I am so pissed off right now. Discuss. -- Jeffrey Taylor Mobile: +33625497654 Fax: +33177722734 Skype: thejeffreytaylor Googlechat/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]thejeffreytaylor% 40gmail.com http://twitter.com/jeffreytaylor [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] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Jeffrey Taylor Mobile: +33625497654 Fax: +33177722734 Skype: thejeffreytaylor Googlechat/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://twitter.com/jeffreytaylor [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Traditional Media Scares the Shi* out of me As I Type
As Bowbrick says, The broadcast era is coming to an end. The network era is well under way. Only openness can keep the BBC relevant through the transition. Their loss. On 13-Nov-08, at 7:06 AM, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: We tried. But Silverman was surrounded by staff the moment he walked off stage. Strong bubble. 2008/11/13 Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] They come from a different culture, and are almost certainly entirely surrounded by yes men and people who are similarly uninformed. The good thing about physical conferences is that you're sharing the same room. You've got nothing to lose by fighting to get to the front and telling them. On 13-Nov-08, at 6:49 AM, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: It's just infuriating. Just plain infuriating. Both these top executives have massive, multi-purpose staff and they''re STILL in a bubble. NBC is starting a digital studio instead of cutting a deal with the well-established Epic-Fu franchise. It just steams me up. 2008/11/13 Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] rupert% 40fatgirlinohio.org Nothing I ever hear about TV executives' approach to the internet ever gives me any hope. Apparently, none of them ever use the internet. And if they do, they're so busy being threatened that they adopt a confused and contemptuous attitude before they've even clicked on the first video. I read two great posts by Steve Bowbrick yesterday about trying to change this mindset at the BBC. He's blogger in residence for six months at the BBC. Which is a great idea - someone from outside to blog about life inside. First, his thoughts about how and why they need to move on from the broadcast mindset. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/11/ moving_on_from_the_broadcast_e.html But more importantly for you to read out there in hell, Jeffrey: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bowbrick/2958508580/ A whiteboard image of the obstacles to sharing with typical reactions in quotes just like those you just repeated from Silverman. The obstacles are grouped under Rights; Culture; Expectations; Competitive Instincts; Regulation. The quotes associated with the obstacles are: Rights: Impossible to untangle Expectations: It'll just be a bunch of pornographers Culture: We don't do that sort of thing Competitive Instincts: We compete in primetime - why should we cooperate here Regulation: They'll never let us do that Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 13-Nov-08, at 5:01 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] thejeffreytaylor%40gmail.com thejeffreytaylor%40gmail.comwrote: They're totally ignoring all the great content that's out there by independent producers. Direct quote from Silverman: we don't want cat pissing in toilet videos associated with our brand. and only we can do something like heroes. -Original Message- From: Jay Dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] jay.dedman% 40gmail.comjay.dedman% 40gmail.com Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:52:58 To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging% 40yahoogroups.comvideoblogging% 40yahoogroups.com videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging% 40yahoogroups.comvideoblogging% 40yahoogroups.com Cc: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging% 40yahoogroups.comvideoblogging% 40yahoogroups.com videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging% 40yahoogroups.comvideoblogging% 40yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Traditional Media Scares the Shi* out of me As I Type Can you be more specific about their approach or lack of understanding? Jay On Nov 13, 2008, at 7:01 AM, Jeffrey Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] thejeffreytaylor% 40gmail.comthejeffreytaylor% 40gmail.com wrote: I'm currently at the Monaco Media Forum, watching Michael Wolff interview Ben Silverman of NBC/Universal and the Director-General of the BBC. These guys don't get it. At all. It's all top down. They have know idea what's out there, and they really can't be arsed to look. I am so pissed off right now. Discuss. -- Jeffrey Taylor Mobile: +33625497654 Fax: +33177722734 Skype: thejeffreytaylor Googlechat/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]thejeffreytaylor% 40gmail.comthejeffreytaylor% 40gmail.com http://twitter.com/jeffreytaylor [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] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Jeffrey Taylor Mobile: +33625497654 Fax: +33177722734 Skype: thejeffreytaylor Googlechat/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]thejeffreytaylor% 40gmail.com http://twitter.com/jeffreytaylor [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Jeffrey Taylor Mobile: +33625497654
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Traditional Media Scares the Shi* out of me As I Type
I feel it's important for two reasons - wasted opportunities and wasted time: 1) it's just a terrible wasted opportunity for a company like the BBC to not Get It. they could do so much good. even for a big US network - they have the resources to create fantastic content, networks and opportunities if they Got It. 2) all the time they're banging on down the other path, they're driving the creation of closed interfaces and hardware - solutions which will impede the progress of independents in reaching a wider audience. eventually this will break down, but it might take many years - all wasted time. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 13-Nov-08, at 11:28 AM, @sull wrote: Why do they NEED TO GET IT? Why do we feel like we NEED THEM TO GET IT? Co-Existing not feasible? Is this about getting picked up by the old suits or is this about Independents being able to leverage technology to publish their works and fins a market? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Traditional Media Scares the Shi* out of me As I Type
Thanks for posting, but it and the comments that followed were just annoying. Totally misses the point. One day soon someone will come up with a video interface that truly brings internet TV to the couch for more than just geeks, which shows more than just badly encoded 5 minute YouTube funnies and stolen archive clips. Then some money will come. And not the kind of money that they extort for TV. On top of that, the video content will be densely interwoven with a mass of other videos and media and text pages and social networks. All of which provide their own monetisation opportunities. Adverts will be related to the content in some way. It won't just be advertisers having a single one-way chance to interrupt your favourite shows for five minutes every quarter of an hour to fire shouty messages at you that are totally unrelated to what you're watching, hoping that some of their shit sticks next time you're out shopping. Thank god. I don't even really care about this that passionately - I don't intend to make my living from internet TV or a web 2.0 startup. But all this seems so obvious to me that I'm just amazed when other people rail against it as if online video is just some kind of passing fad. Whatever. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 13-Nov-08, at 10:01 PM, @sull wrote: of interest... http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/13/online-video-wheres-the-money/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Traditional Media Scares the Shi* out of me As I Type
I totally totally totally agree with this. As much as I totally totally totally disagree with the loser on Techcrunch. This is what I've been banging on about for the last year and a half to anybody who would listen. Couch/internet convergence and a pointer remote. Bring it on. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 13-Nov-08, at 10:49 PM, @sull wrote: wow, just noticed this new post on rrw. synchronicity. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/netflix_ceo_thinks_the_time_is.php On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:34 AM, @sull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm watching netflix on TV with http://www.roku.com And soon you can use your TiVo to access the netflix VOD catalog. Personally, i'd like to see netflix become more involved with distributing independent net video. I always admired Red Envelope, which was shut down recently ( http://www.indiewire.com/biz/2008/07/netflix_exits_a.html). But since they want to focus on digital media distribution technology, then tapping into the content found on the web seems obvious and the time is ripe. It could bolster their catalog in a positive way by simply having current content. So more than NBC, CBS, BBC etc... I want to see netflix dig in. besides, their name jives :) On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:01 AM, @sull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: of interest... http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/13/online-video-wheres-the-money/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Traditional Media Scares the Shi* out of me As I Type
We are clearly geniuses. Somebody should be paying us massive amounts of money for our ideas. ;) On 13-Nov-08, at 10:57 PM, @sull wrote: I agree, Rupert. I had written an additional 2 paragraphs about TV as it is and tonights experience trying to sit down with no interruptions, no puter... just sit down and watch some show i never heard of (Life on Mars - weird!). And it was intolerable with all the commercial breaks. I felt like i was getting way off-topic with a rant. and there ya go talking some on that point. Now i'm reading this rrw netflix article after i was mentioning netflix. even used the word ripe! maybe it was me who invented YouTube! ;) @sull On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:42 AM, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for posting, but it and the comments that followed were just annoying. Totally misses the point. One day soon someone will come up with a video interface that truly brings internet TV to the couch for more than just geeks, which shows more than just badly encoded 5 minute YouTube funnies and stolen archive clips. Then some money will come. And not the kind of money that they extort for TV. On top of that, the video content will be densely interwoven with a mass of other videos and media and text pages and social networks. All of which provide their own monetisation opportunities. Adverts will be related to the content in some way. It won't just be advertisers having a single one-way chance to interrupt your favourite shows for five minutes every quarter of an hour to fire shouty messages at you that are totally unrelated to what you're watching, hoping that some of their shit sticks next time you're out shopping. Thank god. I don't even really care about this that passionately - I don't intend to make my living from internet TV or a web 2.0 startup. But all this seems so obvious to me that I'm just amazed when other people rail against it as if online video is just some kind of passing fad. Whatever. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 13-Nov-08, at 10:01 PM, @sull wrote: of interest... http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/13/online-video-wheres-the-money/ [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] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Buy this song
Just like making every letter and image clickable does not mean every webpage is now a useless mess of adverts, so making every pixel in a video clickable will not mean that videos become a useless mess of adverts. It creates the possibility for us to create endlessly networked videos without using text, where moving people and things and parts of the frame will be clickable in just the same way that words and graphics are. Web pages have moved from CLICK HERE blue underlined links to quiet intuitive links - words that only highlight when you roll the mouse over them and the coolness of the New York Times site where you can double click any word on the page to get a definition or history. In the same way, hypervideo will soon move away from having visible overlays to tell you that you can Click here - you'll be able to tell what you can click by rolling your mouse over a person or a thing. But we're just at the beginning, so there'll be some mess to begin with. When it's mature though, we won't be able to believe that we ever watched inert TV and videos. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 12-Nov-08, at 1:02 PM, schlomo rabinowitz wrote: Just for conversations sake, what do you like about video is the new webpage? Sure, we already have banner ads on videos, what other webpagey thing would you be excited about on your videos? I really hope New Cinema will not want to be Old Webpage. Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking AIM:schlomochat On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Adriana Kaegi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that is the greatest thing i heard today video is the next webpage! yehh that makes me smile! --- On Wed, 11/12/08, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]schlomo %40gmail.com wrote: From: schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] schlomo%40gmail.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Buy this song To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 3:45 PM Well that just depressed me. Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking AIM:schlomochat On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:34 PM, sull [EMAIL PROTECTED] sulleleven%40gmail.com wrote: In other words, video is the new webpage. On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 2:57 PM, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] schlomo%40gmail.comschlomo%40gmail.com wrote: I agree; I think some viewers will click and purchase. I also predict that videos on the youtubes will be obscured with dozens of little text boxes. All of them linking/selling/contextualizing the video to death so that the video is just the delivery mechanism for these little boxes of commerce and comments. I'm only kinda kidding. But I do kinda believe it. Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking AIM:schlomochat [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] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Bid for Placement on YouTube
I don't have any more of a problem with this than I do the Sponsored Ads on Google. Like Brook, I filter them out, but a lot of people don't - so Google make billions of dollars of profit from them and from Adsense ads on other sites. As I noted here before, Google's revenue and profit were up a third and a quarter respectively in Q3 2008 largely off the back of these things. You're wrong if you think YouTube popular and featured videos aren't already gamed and bought. It's a stinking den of corruption in there. You should see the kind of bullshit tricks that 'viral' production and advertising companies pull to get their videos featured. This is just making an honest and open auction of it. If I had a client or a video that I think should get top billing for a niche subject, instead of trying to orchestrate some kind of incredibly spammy and unethical view-ramping campaign (and risk getting caught and deleted), I could just buy a sponsored slot. On a site where something like 10 hours of video are being uploaded every minute, that's about as organic and fair a way of buying attention as I can imagine. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 12-Nov-08, at 3:38 PM, sull wrote: interesting. imagine this together with crowdfunding efforts. you can tap your network/community to raise money to get your video noticed. maybe it's an important video message, or for promoting independent artists or for local political campaigns etc etc. i see nothing wrong with this. it is, afterall, almost 2009. we should be ready to accept such net video concepts. @sull On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 5:07 PM, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Ok, I promise to stop emailing the list for the rest of the day. I know I've been kinda talky today. BUT! I thought you may want to read about how you can pay for placement on the Youtubes. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ youtube_puts_placement_of_user.php Personally, this makes my stomach queasy, but you may be into paying for placement. Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking AIM:schlomochat [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] wordpress internal server error - wtf?!
Wordpress is sensitive to whether you include a www before taxiplasm.net or not. Try both ways. Failing that, I'd reinstall the wordpress files by FTP. That won't replace the database, and I would think that if it were a database problem, you'd be getting a Database Error, not a 500 Internal Server Error. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 11-Nov-08, at 2:53 PM, Brian Gonzalez wrote: so for over a week now, every time I try to sign into wordpress I get this message of *ERROR 500 -Internal Server Error -An internal server error has occured! Please try again later. *WTF?! -I've tried to reset my passwords but it still won't log me in -any ideas? thanks. -- Brian Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] 210-683-6027 taxiplasm.net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] wordpress internal server error - wtf?!
The other thing you can check while you wait is your .htaccess file - a likely culprit. Might have got changed by some kind of upgrade on your host server. Log in to your FTP program, make sure Show Hidden Files is on, and rename your .htaccess file to something else - disabledhtaccess, for instance - then try again. If it works, you need to tell your host and ask them what to do. But I would really download the latest version of Wordpress and upload all the files to your server (except the wp-content folder, obviously). Then try that. Third suggestion - and you could try this first - delete your plugins from your wp-content folder (or move them or rename them to make them inactive) - a plugin problem could cause this, I guess - perhaps one of your plugins is out of date. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 11-Nov-08, at 5:52 PM, Brian Gonzalez wrote: the expiration date isn't until January, but I just renewed it right now based on your suggestion. I guess I'll wait and see if it has any effect. On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:34 PM, David King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some other possibly obvious stuff - - is your domain/web hoster paid up? - did you check with your hoster? It could be a server problem that has nothing to do with your site/wordpress setup. David Lee King davidleeking.com - blog davidleeking.com/etc - videoblog twitter | skype: davidleeking On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Brian Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED]taxiplasm%40gmail.com wrote: I have not. should I? how (considering I can't sign in)? On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED]jay.dedman%40gmail.com jay.dedman%40gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Brian Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED]taxiplasm%40gmail.com taxiplasm%40gmail.com taxiplasm%40gmail.com wrote: so for over a week now, every time I try to sign into wordpress I get this message of *ERROR 500 -Internal Server Error -An internal server error has occured! Please try again later. *WTF?! -I've tried to reset my passwords but it still won't log me in -any ideas? thanks. -- Brian Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] taxiplasm%40gmail.com taxiplasm% 40gmail.com taxiplasm%40gmail.com 210-683-6027 taxiplasm.net I think Markus and Jen Simmons might have run into this problem. Did you try updating WP recently? Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 -- Brian Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] taxiplasm%40gmail.com taxiplasm%40gmail.com 210-683-6027 taxiplasm.net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Brian Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] 210-683-6027 taxiplasm.net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Stock Footage: Conference Audience Reaction Shots
If you set up a corporate sales conference videographers group with a subsection for stock footage of real salesmen's faces which can be edited so that it seems they're approving of things they've never actually heard about at conferences they didn't attend, count me in. It sounds fun! On 11-Nov-08, at 9:21 PM, Tim Street wrote: I'm cutting a demo reel of someone's speech at a corporate sales conference and I need audience reaction shots. The footage I have was shot this last year and from the sound of the laughs and applause I would guess there are 500 to 1000 people in the audience that would be dressed in business attire or business casual. Would any of you happen to have any HDV audience cutaways of laughs, smiles or applause I could use? Contact me off list if you do. Tim Tim Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://1timstreet.com/blog http://twitter.com/1timstreet [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] The Death of the internet as we know it....
This is the only point I was going to make. You're all doing a fine job of debating the other politics. But make no mistake: your videos are melting the ice caps. A McKinsey study this year estimated that data centers will be bigger polluters than airlines by 2020. See: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/data-centers-are-becoming- big-polluters-study-finds/ or http://tinyurl.com/datapollution Streaming video and audio make up 20%+ of all internet traffic. Half of that (10%+ of all traffic) is YouTube. P2P makes up 40%+. It's a resource like anything else. You can switch to Solar Powered hosting - via someone like AISO.net or SolarEnergyHost.com Dreamhost use the more debatable carbon credits. But none of your video hosts like Blip or YouTube or Vimeo are green in any way, as far as I know. Correct me if I'm wrong. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 10-Nov-08, at 3:00 AM, Adrian Miles wrote: On 10/11/2008, at 1:36 AM, Jay dedman wrote: Limiting the size of my video is NOT like polluting less with a gasoline car. It may be nice to keep videos small so anyone around the world can watch it, but this is NOT a proper scientific comparison. no it's not, and like all analogies it breaks once it's pushed. On the other hand broadband is a material infrastructure, and those cables are derived from petrochemicals, and the power we need to drive google and our server farms etc really are polluting. I mean this quite literally. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Twittervlog Guide To Videoblogs
VloMo has prompted me to finally do what I've been meaning to do for ages - do a regular slot talking about and showing the videoblogs I subscribe to. You can watch the first episode here: http://twittervlog.tv/?p=501 I'm using the Blip player to play a playlist of my links followed by episodes of the shows I'm talking about. You can press play, lean back and watch it all through, even in Full Screen if you want. This first week, I've covered the regular high-production-value weekly/daily videoblogs I watch regularly - Epic Fu, Beachwalks, Lo- fi Saint Louis Lo-fi Sessions, Wreck and Salvage Ryan Is Hungry. From next week, I'm going to move onto individual artists - well known and less well known. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv
[videoblogging] One week into VloMo...
...and we've made over 250 videos between us. Contrary to people's concerns earlier in the year about the activity on this list and the decline in posting rates, it seems videoblogging is alive and well in 2008. Vlog on! Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/
Re: [videoblogging] Defending Videographer's Rights in Court
I agree with Jay's suggestions. But try to use reasonable language when you're blogging about them. And give them a right of reply in the comments - actively ask for it. Writing about it will get you worked up, and will make you want to say inflammatory things. Instead, try to make yourself sound like the most reasonable person on earth. It'll still show up as negative on their Google searches, and you'll be calling them out for bad behaviour which they'll hate, but people reading it will side with you more if it's not a raging flame. It makes it harder for them to rebut. And it puts you in a better position for negotiating with them later. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 On 9-Nov-08, at 4:32 AM, Jay dedman wrote: On Monday I want to file a lawsuit in small claims court to have these videos pulled of the web or for them to pay up. Has anyone in our vlogging community ever dealt with a similar situation? If I were to contact Youtube/Vimeo for video removal request, what do they ask for to proof video ownership? Kris gave a great rundown of your options IMHO. You got to take some responsibility here for doing work for free without a contract. This kind of situation asks for trouble. I think going to small claims court would be more trouble than its worth. might feel good for the revenge factor if you want to put in all the time and expense. Here's the blogging way of justice: 1. --Blog about your experience with this company. Write a post that tells the story and provide links to their site. If they wrote you emails saying they would pay you, include them verbatim. Unless they are a fly by night company, they will hate that you're post will show up in their google reputation. 2. --Get your friends to link to this post. Deepen their bad reputation online with more links. Also, this will warn others who may come after you. 3. --It wouldnt hurt sending youtube and other sites an email saying that those videos are your work (especially if they have your name). It's why the shitty DMCA was written. They can of course write back to possible have them reinstalled, but your making them work for it. Sorry to hear you got screwed on thisi job. I bet you wont let it ever happen again. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] VIDEO_TS
Try http://handbrake.fr/ Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 5-Nov-08, at 9:50 PM, DeVictor or DK wrote: Hi, can anyone tell me how to take the files in that folder and convert it to video streaming on YouTube (or similar services)? Please respond directly to my email, and thanks for your help. D.K. in L.A. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] VloMo news - very active group on Vimeo
It's day 3, but it's never too late to join - there's so much good stuff being made. Around 40-50 participants so far. For those who haven't found it, there's a very active VloMo group on Vimeo http://vimeo.com/groups/vlomo Also: I made a video to tell everyone how it all works: http://tinyurl.com/introtovlomo And Frank made a video to show 6 cool features of the Mefeedia Channel: http://tinyurl.com/vlomo08channeltutorial Rupert http://twittervlog.tv
Re: [videoblogging] VloMo news - very active group on Vimeo
Thanks :) I use iShowU, a Mac app, for screencasts. http://store.shinywhitebox.com/ Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 3-Nov-08, at 8:44 AM, Matthew Milam wrote: I've been meaning to ask -- how do you record your screen for your videos? (The last one you uploaded was pretty good) Matthew From: Rupert Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 10:37 AM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: [videoblogging] VloMo news - very active group on Vimeo It's day 3, but it's never too late to join - there's so much good stuff being made. Around 40-50 participants so far. For those who haven't found it, there's a very active VloMo group on Vimeo http://vimeo.com/groups/vlomo Also: I made a video to tell everyone how it all works: http://tinyurl.com/introtovlomo And Frank made a video to show 6 cool features of the Mefeedia Channel: http://tinyurl.com/vlomo08channeltutorial Rupert http://twittervlog.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] BlipTV videos not playing (anyone else see this?)
What a drag. These things happen occasionally at most of the video sites, and then get resolved. As far as my videos are concerned, you can almost always find other copies of them at Vimeo and Ovi, but of course that doesn't address the problem at Blip. Glad that Charles says it's resolved now. I have to say, over time I've found Blip more reliable than all the other video sites in terms of downtime and problems. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 3-Nov-08, at 11:05 AM, michaelaivaliotis wrote: This has been plaguing me for the past 2-3 days. Some videos on BlipTV just simply don't play for me. Specifically this affects my own videos but I've also noticed it on other videos as well. For example i can't watch Ruperts video: http://twittervlog.tv/?p=470 The Flash player simply shows a black window. I can't watch the source video either, so it's not isolated to the flash player. I've tested this on a Mac and PC. I've also had a friend of mine test this so I know it's not my service provider. The problem is also intermittent. Sometimes it will play and sometimes it will not. When it doesn't play all you get is a black box inside the player window with a spinning throbber. I've contacted BlipTV but they don't know what the problem is. Am I crazy? has anyone else noticed this? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] twitter.com/videoblogging shows messages from this group
Hah! No - I'm not that crazy! I use the amazing http://Twitterfeed.com - it takes the RSS feed of this group and posts the latest tweet every 30 mins. I've been using it for the last 18 months or so with Twittervlog - so I can send a video from my phone to Blip, who autocrosspost it to my blog, then Twitterfeed automatically picks up the feed and posts it to Twitter. Lots of bloggers and vloggers do the same. Saves having to manually tweet your latest posts. As long as you don't do it so often that it feels like a spambot. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 2-Nov-08, at 8:08 AM, Lisa Rein wrote: rupert - u are entering those by hand into the twitter account, correct? just wanted to confirm. this is an interesting application of twitter :) thanks, lisa http://www.twitter.com/lisarein srly rupert u da bomb On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know a lot of people have unsubscribed from this list because of the sheer volume of emails, so I thought I'd create a Twitterfeed for us. That you can follow: http://twitter.com/videoblogging and keep up with discussions in the light way that Twitter allows without having to clog up your inbox, scroll through the digest or check the web page. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv -- http://geekentertainment.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Lisa Rein http://onlisareinsradar.com http://www.lisarein.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Vlomo08 - How to add your feed to the Channel
You just need to add your feed once to the channel. After that, every video on that feed during November will automaticall show up in the VloMo channel. Here's a five step guide to adding your feed: 1. Sign up or Log in at http://mefeedia.com 2. Go to the channel at http://mefeedia.com/channels/vlomo08/ and click Join Channel 3. Click Add Videos at the very top right of screen and add your feed to mefeedia. 4. When it's added (or if Mefeedia tells you it's already been added) click the link to go to the feed's page on Mefeedia. 5. On the feed's page, click Add To Channel on the right hand side, then choose Vlomo08 from the pulldown menu and Add. If you have problems, email me at rupert at twittervlog dot tv or frank at mefeedia dot com Rupert http://twittervlog.tv
Re: [videoblogging] Vlomo08 - How to add your feed to the Channel
As far as I can see, that URL contains the specific video IDs. So you have to actually click the Theater View link to see the latest. Thus you have to link to the Mefeedia channel, and tell people to click Theater View. So it's two clicks away from your blog. I have to say, this is a vast improvement on what we've ever had before in terms of aggregating a group project automatically on the web from multiple video sharing sites - and without using tags. And it's brilliant to be able to subscribe to that feed in an RSS reader or video aggregator like Miro, iTunes or FireANT. But as far as embedding on your blog, there's no embeddable player at the moment to handle all the different video sites in a playlist. There might be a way to make a JW Flash Player play a playlist made from the Mefeedia feed including MP4 files, but I don't know how to do that. If anybody does, could you help? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 31-Oct-08, at 6:56 AM, Kath O'Donnell wrote: thanks Rupert. I have a question - for my blog. if I link to the url for Watch in Theater View - does this auto update each visit/day with the new videos or are these numbers the video ids. just wondering if there's a showplayer link I can add to my blog post/facebook page which then plays the most recent videos on mefeedia. and if there's an embed for this player to use on external sites? I'll try it again tomorrow to see if the numbers change. (just playing atm) http://www.mefeedia.com/bigplayer.php? globalids=12051658,12057862,12050793,12057637,12051659,12021323,12009233 , 12029877,12032120,12022938,12001494,11988041,11995520,11988043,12001495, 12051660,11988044,11988046,11995936,11988047,11988048,11981742,11961423, 11961503 2008/10/31 Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You just need to add your feed once to the channel. After that, every video on that feed during November will automaticall show up in the VloMo channel. Here's a five step guide to adding your feed: 1. Sign up or Log in at http://mefeedia.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: VloMo08 - Videoblogging Month 2008
The Mefeedia Twitter widget on the Channel page will show all tweets that contain VloMo08. There's also a panel on the Channel page that shows recent activity comments Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 30-Oct-08, at 1:33 AM, Matthew Milam wrote: Would a message that I send through Twitter be on this board? Or would I still have to post the message in the group first? Matthew From: Frank Sinton Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 2:25 AM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: [videoblogging] Re: VloMo08 - Videoblogging Month 2008 Hi all - we just had a complete relaunch, and are working through a bunch of issues, mainly to do with the logged in version of the site. We should have all issues resolved by EOD tomorrow. Apologies for those who are trying to join and can't. Also, we did switch over from username to email for login. Both should work, though, so am checking into that too. On the plus side - the channel now has Twitter integration, so it will show any Tweets with vlomo08 in it. Since a lot of discussions are happening at Twitter, we thought it would be more useful to leverage this instead of launching another, closed discussion board... Regards, Frank http://www.mefeedia.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Cheryl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mefeedia won't even let me log in. I've only ever logged in with my username. Now it insists on an email address. OK. So I tried all three email addresses I might possibly have signed up with. I know my password. Nothing. It doesn't accept any of them. Yes I could create a new account. But the old one already has my feeds associated with it, and I already have friends assigned. Really, I'm trying to participate, honest. Mefeedia isn't letting me. Maybe by November it will let me in? Cheryl --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert rupert@ wrote: VloMo-istas, please join the fun now by adding your feed to the channel here: http://www.mefeedia.com/channels/vlomo08 Note the Twitter integration and cool Watch in Theater View option. Further developments coming, particularly the limiting of posts to just those published during November. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 29-Oct-08, at 11:08 AM, Rupert wrote: All right, then. 24 hours later and a massive 21 votes have been cast. The most popular shorthand name / tag - though with only 33% - is: VloMo08 A suitably brief tag for our Twitterholic world. So it's VloMo - or Videoblogging Month. Or Vlogging Month, if you can bring yourself to say that. Whatever, call it what you want when you describe it. But the tag and the channel and all official things will be in the form VloMo08. As I've already said, we will *not* be using Ning this year. We'll be using Mefeedia, which will be much better for watching, aggregating, commenting and archiving. We'll have a channel at http://mefeedia.com/channels/vlomo08 And you'll be able to put the feed for that channel into Miro or iTunes or whatever reader or aggregator you choose. Mefeedia are sorting this, adding some extra features just for us. For free, in the middle of a busy time for them (they've just relaunched the site), so please be patient. In the next couple of days, you'll be able to go to the channel and add your feed. I'll post here and on Twitter as soon as it's fully up and running. Hurray! If you're thinking about joining in and worried about the commitment, don't fret it. Allow yourself half an hour per day and just post some video - any video, however small, on any account. Doesn't have to be what you usually do, or up to any high production standards. Join in, it'll make the watching more fun, too. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv [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: VloMo08 - Videoblogging Month 2008
I just had another wee problem that I emailed Frank about because I was just going through adding the feeds of all the people who have said here that they're going to participate. There was a slight error with an Add to Channel link. If you have the same problem, please be patient, it's been reported :) Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 30-Oct-08, at 11:35 AM, Frank Sinton wrote: Hi all, The issues Mefeedia.com was having with sessions / login are fixed now. You are now able to join the channel and add your feeds: http://www.mefeedia.com/channels/vlomo08 We added a Find a Feed search box at the bottom of Feeds in this Channel - if you are unsure if your feed is in Mefeedia yet. In terms of including videos, as long as the publishdate in your MRSS is between Nov 1, 2008 and Nov 30, 2008, it will show up in this channel! Feeds are read at least once a day - hope to speed this up for the event. Regards, Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Cheryl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't have to be shot same-day. There really aren't a lot of restrictions. If you can't post every day, then you post when you can, no one will say you're not participating... Just post as often as you can! Cheryl --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Frank Carver frank.carver@ wrote: 2008/10/30 Susan kitykity@: does it have to be video shot that day? I have such a huge backlog of videos... especially after Budapest... and I'm going to be on vacation for a week out of this month where I won't have Internet access... I hope it doesn't have to be shot that day. I'm planning on having a go but the only way I can make it is if I don't have to spend time actually shooting every day. As far as I understand it, none of the other such challenges (videoblogging week, semanal, etc.) have required same day shoot and post. Anyone else? Frank. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: VloMo08 - Videoblogging Month 2008
All sorted. I just added 20 feeds of all the people who have said Yes so far on this list. You can see them all at http://www.mefeedia.com/channel/vlomo08 Try out the Theater View (link at top of latest videos), and check out the Twitter panel and the Activities/Comments panel. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ On 30-Oct-08, at 11:43 AM, Rupert wrote: I just had another wee problem that I emailed Frank about because I was just going through adding the feeds of all the people who have said here that they're going to participate. There was a slight error with an Add to Channel link. If you have the same problem, please be patient, it's been reported :) Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 30-Oct-08, at 11:35 AM, Frank Sinton wrote: Hi all, The issues Mefeedia.com was having with sessions / login are fixed now. You are now able to join the channel and add your feeds: http://www.mefeedia.com/channels/vlomo08 We added a Find a Feed search box at the bottom of Feeds in this Channel - if you are unsure if your feed is in Mefeedia yet. In terms of including videos, as long as the publishdate in your MRSS is between Nov 1, 2008 and Nov 30, 2008, it will show up in this channel! Feeds are read at least once a day - hope to speed this up for the event. Regards, Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Cheryl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't have to be shot same-day. There really aren't a lot of restrictions. If you can't post every day, then you post when you can, no one will say you're not participating... Just post as often as you can! Cheryl --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Frank Carver frank.carver@ wrote: 2008/10/30 Susan kitykity@: does it have to be video shot that day? I have such a huge backlog of videos... especially after Budapest... and I'm going to be on vacation for a week out of this month where I won't have Internet access... I hope it doesn't have to be shot that day. I'm planning on having a go but the only way I can make it is if I don't have to spend time actually shooting every day. As far as I understand it, none of the other such challenges (videoblogging week, semanal, etc.) have required same day shoot and post. Anyone else? Frank. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] VloMo08 - Videoblogging Month 2008
I meant to say - please check if your feed is there, and if it's the right one. Apologies if I've missed anyone. I couldn't work out which was the right feed for you, Pat. People I added to the channel who were already in the Mefeedia database: Susan, Cheryl, Verdi, Krystian, Robert, Jay, Ryanne, Brook, Kath, Schlomo, Mike Moon, Gena, Heath, Clintus. People whose feed I had to add to Mefeedia: Jeffrey (via Blip), Mike Sizemore (via Blip), John Cardenas (via Youtube user RSS feed) David Lee King and David Howell and I were already listed. So that's 20 already. Hurray! Keep signing up! :) Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 30-Oct-08, at 12:24 PM, Rupert wrote: All sorted. I just added 20 feeds of all the people who have said Yes so far on this list. You can see them all at http://www.mefeedia.com/channel/vlomo08 Try out the Theater View (link at top of latest videos), and check out the Twitter panel and the Activities/Comments panel. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ On 30-Oct-08, at 11:43 AM, Rupert wrote: I just had another wee problem that I emailed Frank about because I was just going through adding the feeds of all the people who have said here that they're going to participate. There was a slight error with an Add to Channel link. If you have the same problem, please be patient, it's been reported :) Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 30-Oct-08, at 11:35 AM, Frank Sinton wrote: Hi all, The issues Mefeedia.com was having with sessions / login are fixed now. You are now able to join the channel and add your feeds: http://www.mefeedia.com/channels/vlomo08 We added a Find a Feed search box at the bottom of Feeds in this Channel - if you are unsure if your feed is in Mefeedia yet. In terms of including videos, as long as the publishdate in your MRSS is between Nov 1, 2008 and Nov 30, 2008, it will show up in this channel! Feeds are read at least once a day - hope to speed this up for the event. Regards, Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Cheryl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't have to be shot same-day. There really aren't a lot of restrictions. If you can't post every day, then you post when you can, no one will say you're not participating... Just post as often as you can! Cheryl --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Frank Carver frank.carver@ wrote: 2008/10/30 Susan kitykity@: does it have to be video shot that day? I have such a huge backlog of videos... especially after Budapest... and I'm going to be on vacation for a week out of this month where I won't have Internet access... I hope it doesn't have to be shot that day. I'm planning on having a go but the only way I can make it is if I don't have to spend time actually shooting every day. As far as I understand it, none of the other such challenges (videoblogging week, semanal, etc.) have required same day shoot and post. Anyone else? Frank. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] VloMo08 - Videoblogging Month 2008
Done! On 30-Oct-08, at 12:49 PM, pepa garcía wrote: how can i add my feed? (http://pepa.blip.tv/rss) thanks i.a. pepa http://pepa.tv http://teleperra.com On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I meant to say - please check if your feed is there, and if it's the right one. Apologies if I've missed anyone. I couldn't work out which was the right feed for you, Pat. People I added to the channel who were already in the Mefeedia database: Susan, Cheryl, Verdi, Krystian, Robert, Jay, Ryanne, Brook, Kath, Schlomo, Mike Moon, Gena, Heath, Clintus. People whose feed I had to add to Mefeedia: Jeffrey (via Blip), Mike Sizemore (via Blip), John Cardenas (via Youtube user RSS feed) David Lee King and David Howell and I were already listed. So that's 20 already. Hurray! Keep signing up! :) Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 30-Oct-08, at 12:24 PM, Rupert wrote: All sorted. I just added 20 feeds of all the people who have said Yes so far on this list. You can see them all at http://www.mefeedia.com/channel/vlomo08 Try out the Theater View (link at top of latest videos), and check out the Twitter panel and the Activities/Comments panel. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ On 30-Oct-08, at 11:43 AM, Rupert wrote: I just had another wee problem that I emailed Frank about because I was just going through adding the feeds of all the people who have said here that they're going to participate. There was a slight error with an Add to Channel link. If you have the same problem, please be patient, it's been reported :) Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 30-Oct-08, at 11:35 AM, Frank Sinton wrote: Hi all, The issues Mefeedia.com was having with sessions / login are fixed now. You are now able to join the channel and add your feeds: http://www.mefeedia.com/channels/vlomo08 We added a Find a Feed search box at the bottom of Feeds in this Channel - if you are unsure if your feed is in Mefeedia yet. In terms of including videos, as long as the publishdate in your MRSS is between Nov 1, 2008 and Nov 30, 2008, it will show up in this channel! Feeds are read at least once a day - hope to speed this up for the event. Regards, Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging% 40yahoogroups.com, Cheryl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't have to be shot same-day. There really aren't a lot of restrictions. If you can't post every day, then you post when you can, no one will say you're not participating... Just post as often as you can! Cheryl --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging% 40yahoogroups.com, Frank Carver frank.carver@ wrote: 2008/10/30 Susan kitykity@: does it have to be video shot that day? I have such a huge backlog of videos... especially after Budapest... and I'm going to be on vacation for a week out of this month where I won't have Internet access... I hope it doesn't have to be shot that day. I'm planning on having a go but the only way I can make it is if I don't have to spend time actually shooting every day. As far as I understand it, none of the other such challenges (videoblogging week, semanal, etc.) have required same day shoot and post. Anyone else? Frank. [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] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: VloMo08 - Videoblogging Month 2008
Sorry - URL broke between email and Yahoo. On 30-Oct-08, at 1:57 PM, Frank Sinton wrote: http://www.mefeedia.com/channels/vlomo08 Original URL from Rupert was wrong. Regards, Frank --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, John Cardenas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HTTP 404 Not Found The page you requested could not be found. --- On Thu, 10/30/08, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: VloMo08 - Videoblogging Month 2008 To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008, 2:24 PM All sorted. I just added 20 feeds of all the people who have said Yes so far on this list. You can see them all at http://www.mefeedia .com/channel/ vlomo08 Try out the Theater View (link at top of latest videos), and check out the Twitter panel and the Activities/Comments panel. Rupert http://twittervlog. tv/ On 30-Oct-08, at 11:43 AM, Rupert wrote: I just had another wee problem that I emailed Frank about because I was just going through adding the feeds of all the people who have said here that they're going to participate. There was a slight error with an Add to Channel link. If you have the same problem, please be patient, it's been reported :) Rupert http://twittervlog. tv On 30-Oct-08, at 11:35 AM, Frank Sinton wrote: Hi all, The issues Mefeedia.com was having with sessions / login are fixed now. You are now able to join the channel and add your feeds: http://www.mefeedia .com/channels/ vlomo08 We added a Find a Feed search box at the bottom of Feeds in this Channel - if you are unsure if your feed is in Mefeedia yet. In terms of including videos, as long as the publishdate in your MRSS is between Nov 1, 2008 and Nov 30, 2008, it will show up in this channel! Feeds are read at least once a day - hope to speed this up for the event. Regards, Frank http://www.mefeedia .com - Discover the Video Web --- In videoblogging@ yahoogroups. com, Cheryl cheryl.colan@ ... wrote: It doesn't have to be shot same-day. There really aren't a lot of restrictions. If you can't post every day, then you post when you can, no one will say you're not participating. .. Just post as often as you can! Cheryl --- In videoblogging@ yahoogroups. com, Frank Carver frank.carver@ wrote: 2008/10/30 Susan kitykity@: does it have to be video shot that day? I have such a huge backlog of videos... especially after Budapest... and I'm going to be on vacation for a week out of this month where I won't have Internet access... I hope it doesn't have to be shot that day. I'm planning on having a go but the only way I can make it is if I don't have to spend time actually shooting every day. As far as I understand it, none of the other such challenges (videoblogging week, semanal, etc.) have required same day shoot and post. Anyone else? Frank. [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] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: VloMo08 - Videoblogging Month 2008
I'll add a better description to the channel page. I've added your whole YouTube channel's RSS feed to the channel already, John. You'll see yourself at the top of the list of feeds in the channel. So all the videos you publish at YouTube will be shown in the VloMo08 channel. The channel doesn't work on tags, it works by displaying everything in its members' feeds. Though you should add the VloMo08 tag anyway. On 30-Oct-08, at 2:39 PM, John Cardenas wrote: ok then all what I have to do is join the channel vlomo08 and everytime I post a video in my youtube channel...with the tag vlomo08...it is gonna be added there...right? JohnDkar --- On Thu, 10/30/08, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: VloMo08 - Videoblogging Month 2008 To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008, 4:06 PM Sorry - URL broke between email and Yahoo. On 30-Oct-08, at 1:57 PM, Frank Sinton wrote: http://www.mefeedia .com/channels/ vlomo08 Original URL from Rupert was wrong. Regards, Frank --- In videoblogging@ yahoogroups. com, John Cardenas johndkarfilms@ ... wrote: HTTP 404 Not Found The page you requested could not be found. --- On Thu, 10/30/08, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: VloMo08 - Videoblogging Month 2008 To: videoblogging@ yahoogroups. com Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008, 2:24 PM All sorted. I just added 20 feeds of all the people who have said Yes so far on this list. You can see them all at http://www.mefeedia .com/channel/ vlomo08 Try out the Theater View (link at top of latest videos), and check out the Twitter panel and the Activities/Comments panel. Rupert http://twittervlog. tv/ On 30-Oct-08, at 11:43 AM, Rupert wrote: I just had another wee problem that I emailed Frank about because I was just going through adding the feeds of all the people who have said here that they're going to participate. There was a slight error with an Add to Channel link. If you have the same problem, please be patient, it's been reported :) Rupert http://twittervlog. tv On 30-Oct-08, at 11:35 AM, Frank Sinton wrote: Hi all, The issues Mefeedia.com was having with sessions / login are fixed now. You are now able to join the channel and add your feeds: http://www.mefeedia .com/channels/ vlomo08 We added a Find a Feed search box at the bottom of Feeds in this Channel - if you are unsure if your feed is in Mefeedia yet. In terms of including videos, as long as the publishdate in your MRSS is between Nov 1, 2008 and Nov 30, 2008, it will show up in this channel! Feeds are read at least once a day - hope to speed this up for the event. Regards, Frank http://www.mefeedia .com - Discover the Video Web --- In videoblogging@ yahoogroups. com, Cheryl cheryl.colan@ ... wrote: It doesn't have to be shot same-day. There really aren't a lot of restrictions. If you can't post every day, then you post when you can, no one will say you're not participating. .. Just post as often as you can! Cheryl --- In videoblogging@ yahoogroups. com, Frank Carver frank.carver@ wrote: 2008/10/30 Susan kitykity@: does it have to be video shot that day? I have such a huge backlog of videos... especially after Budapest... and I'm going to be on vacation for a week out of this month where I won't have Internet access... I hope it doesn't have to be shot that day. I'm planning on having a go but the only way I can make it is if I don't have to spend time actually shooting every day. As far as I understand it, none of the other such challenges (videoblogging week, semanal, etc.) have required same day shoot and post. Anyone else? Frank. [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] [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]
[videoblogging] Please help new people find VloMo08
It would be great if those of you who are users of all the video sharing sites could tell them about VloMo. I'm thinking of Viddler, Dailymotion, Revver, Blip, YouTube, etc. Most of them have official blogs and contact forms. Other users, too - Clintus just set up a group at Vimeo which users and staffers have joined. I just saw a tweet from Ryanne saying she was writing an article about VloMo for HTMLTimes.com, which is brilliant. Can you think of anything similar - blog comments you could leave, quick emails you could send to newsletters or anyone who might be interested? It would be a lot better and more effective if promotion comes from different participants. And those of you who are involved with things like Semanal or video user groups elsewhere, tell them about it. It's a great opportunity to see a lot more work by all sorts of different people. Rupert
Re: [videoblogging] Final Cut Pro for PCs
I would seriously recommend using Sony Vegas. Try the basic version on a 30 day trial. It's got tutorials with it. I much prefer it to Premiere or Avid. Unless you're doing serious high-end work, the basic Sony Vegas will do everything you need, with multiple tracks, for about $60. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 30-Oct-08, at 6:43 PM, Kris Boustedt wrote: Apple has not built a Windows-compatible version of Final Cut, and likely never will -- it sells too many Macs. :-) On the Windows side, however, there is Adobe Premier Pro, Sony Vegas Pro and Avid Media Composer...among a few others, but those are the most comparable to FCP, it seems. Adobe Premier Pro: http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/ Sony Vegas Pro: http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/vegaspro Avid Media Composer: http://www.avid.com/products/Media-Composer-Software/index.asp -- Kris Boustedt | First Sight Productions [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 206.354.5031 Filmmaker | Editor | Apple Certified Trainer Associate Faculty, Shoreline Community College http://www.firstsightproductions.com On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Miranda Leitsinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Wondering if there is Final Cut Pro for PCs? Or is there only Adobe Premier? Appreciate any guidance! Best Miranda [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Revision 3 cuts back on shows including Epic Fu
Great post. On 29-Oct-08, at 8:42 AM, Drew wrote: What concerns me most of all is that we really need companies like Revision3 to succeed. The independent content creator, and in turn, independent production companies and studios, are really being overshadowed by the efforts of the Hollywood studios and entertainment conglomerates. For example, look at the lineups at Digital Hollywood and the NewTeeVee Live conferences -- there was a terrible lack of independent content creators sitting on panels alongside people from LucasFilm and Hulu. This is a major concern I have too, maybe the biggest issue on the table. I don't really think of Revision3 as independent. They are new, like a new cable station, but they have been trying to emulate an old model of TV and they are owned now by investors, so their #1 mission is likely to sell to a mainstream entity. This is going to be an uphill battle if rumors are true that this setback happened not due to an economic meltdown, but because they did not receive their next, anticipated round of funding. In case anyone didn't notice, the people who you tend to think of as independent, like Kevin Rose, for instance, has no control whatsoever over the company and apparently no say even. From his blog post, we can infer that he didn't even know about the layoffs until he was told by Jim, without discussion. Maybe Kevin should be more involved, that might help. Not sure. Nevertheless, setting aside Rev3, what is starting to happen is that Hulu and iTunes for instance are becoming so popular, that they are starting to control the programming for the masses. ***Hulu is a place where MOST people are not allowed to distribute.*** Same old game as before. Because Hulu is becoming so popular, it's starting to divide and this is destructive not only for independents, but for the future of media in general. Why cant Hulu continue to curate their favorite content in the same way, but allow anyone to distribute on a back channel like iTunes? Probably because they believe in a business model that will not include open and democratic media. It's their right to be closed, but it's a decision that hurts the world for no gain and its gross. When people say things like Hulu is for professional content while YouTube is for User Generated Content, the world is suffering even more and becoming further divided by a stark line between the two. The biggest threat of all is coming in tandem as Comcast started capping internet plans. Anyone who says this wont effect how much we can do online is naive. Their first cap- plan structure seems somewhat uninhibited right now but this doesn't mean they wont start tweaking the cap amounts once everyone accepts the reality in due time. While its easy to compete with CBS and Disney because now we use the same open distribution channels, it will be hard to compete with Verizon and Comcast, due to the amount of overhead needed to build out an alternative system. My hope is that a teenager will singlehandedly invent a new way to transfer data faster, without fiber - one that may cost almost nothing in terms of technological infrastructure. I'm certainly not going to sit around and wait for that to happen. What's to be done? At least a few things, I think: #1 Four years ago, I promoted the idea of saving up your coins for a year, buckling down, and investing in your own video company for a year. At the time, I thought a year would be enough but didn't understand how long it would take for a supportive marketplace to arise. Now, I'd say is an even better time to do it. If you can spend a year, starting right now, you may have an advantage due to a weak marketplace and the continuing growth in online audience demand. The market may be much stronger in a year when you are ready to monetize. If you can't do that, join another team who can. #2 Find the talent, dont assume you are the talent. This may be the biggest problem the independents suffer from. If you think you are really good on camera, there is probably someone who could do the job better. If you think you are a great story teller and that tons of people will enjoy your writing, you might be fooling yourself. Build a creative team of people who you think are better than you. #3 Start an iTunes/Hulu/Joost competitor. We know you dont need any overhead. A few talented programmers and UI developers should find a very open space. I remember before iTunes came out with their podcasting client, Rocketboom was getting slammed by literally 1000's of new and experimental audio and video distribution aggregators, most of which quickly faded away post-iTunes. It seems like there is room again for a new spirit and a better interface. #4 Be careful about the conversations you have: dont let this separation become more defined. Bring it all together in a way that people understand this is about
Re: [videoblogging] This is kind of kick ass
Some people get considered celebrities because they go to parties and look pretty in magazines. If somebody does something that I consider art and you consider not clever enough to be art, or just the product of someone with too much free time, what does it matter? Is anybody losing out? Is other art devalued? I'm not so comfortable with drawing a line between what's acceptable or 'professional' enough to be considered art and what's not. I think that's key to what a lot of people do here and how it's seen by the outside world. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 29-Oct-08, at 10:40 AM, sull wrote: anybody is an artist... nobody is an artist... On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:49 AM, David Terranova [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: He also has a lot of free time by the looks of it. Some people just have the free time part, yet get considered as artists by making [time-consuming but not-so-clever] gimmicks. Nothing wrong with that. It¹s just fascinating who gets considered artists sometimes. I don¹t really know much about this guy, so I may be wrong in including him in this generalization... -- David Terranova davidterranova.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] VloMo08 - Videoblogging Month 2008
All right, then. 24 hours later and a massive 21 votes have been cast. The most popular shorthand name / tag - though with only 33% - is: VloMo08 A suitably brief tag for our Twitterholic world. So it's VloMo - or Videoblogging Month. Or Vlogging Month, if you can bring yourself to say that. Whatever, call it what you want when you describe it. But the tag and the channel and all official things will be in the form VloMo08. As I've already said, we will *not* be using Ning this year. We'll be using Mefeedia, which will be much better for watching, aggregating, commenting and archiving. We'll have a channel at http://mefeedia.com/channels/vlomo08 And you'll be able to put the feed for that channel into Miro or iTunes or whatever reader or aggregator you choose. Mefeedia are sorting this, adding some extra features just for us. For free, in the middle of a busy time for them (they've just relaunched the site), so please be patient. In the next couple of days, you'll be able to go to the channel and add your feed. I'll post here and on Twitter as soon as it's fully up and running. Hurray! If you're thinking about joining in and worried about the commitment, don't fret it. Allow yourself half an hour per day and just post some video - any video, however small, on any account. Doesn't have to be what you usually do, or up to any high production standards. Join in, it'll make the watching more fun, too. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv
Re: [videoblogging] blip tv showplayer
I think Blip's player totally rocks my world. The fact that it plays H264 MP4s means it's only necessary to upload one file, and it's easily visible in top quality by the majority of people (even those without Quicktime). The only drawback of the Blip player is that there's no link to a thumbnail image for your feed to use. Using Vpip or Blip's old legacy player, you get an image in your feed that places like Mefeedia can insert on each episode. Without the thumbnail, those services just show a default blank image for each episode. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 29-Oct-08, at 11:29 AM, Heath wrote: Last night I started playing around again with the showplayer from Blip.tv I have to say I was really impressed, you can put your h.264 mp4 video's in the showplayer now, (not sure how long that has been a feature for them), but it's not just that, they are doing a really good job of making a player that is very easy to use and very functional. I have been a Vpip guy for a bit now, but I am giving the showplayer a very hard look, with auto cross posting and a ton of features, if you haven't looked at blip or their showplayer, I would suggest you do Heath the artist formally known as The Batman Geek www.?.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: This is kind of kick ass
Thank God for Valdez's free time: http://wreckandsalvage.com/pure-salvage/good-morning/ On 29-Oct-08, at 12:15 PM, valdezatron wrote: I found all of his work be pretty refreshing. He's taking the approach that can be found in all disciplines of understanding the materials and exploring the essence of the medium. Obviously much of the work plays on the use embed feature. He takes something created for the purpose of sharing/distribution and manipulates it into something unintended, unexpected. I also like the play on perceived motion. I've seen this done on Super 8 film by Canadian filmmaker John Porter in the early 80's. As seen on this list, someone can tell you how this is done technically. It isn't exactly revolutionary yet it requires an artist to explore its possibilities. One other thing, I've never understood the too much free time statement. It's such an ugly, judgmental thing to say. It makes no sense. Most people are driven to make art or videoblogs or play golf or whatever because they're driven by it not because they don't have anything to do. I've gotten this statement a few times in the past so this isn't directed directly to you David. Also it's something I only hear applied to art. I'm trying to imagine walking up to somebody playing with their kid in the park and saying You've got too much free time on your hands. Other artists I like in this area: Oliver Laric http://oliverlaric.com/ Spirit Surfers http://spiritsurfers.net And Jay Dedman pointed to this brilliant morsel this morninghttp:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVm_HJ_ax8oeurl Aaron Valdez Wre [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Revision 3 cuts back on shows including Epic Fu
Further to what Rox said about collective action, it seems to me that all the things Drew set out in his post would be much more easily achieved by an organised association or union or company of independent producers. Those of you who produce shows and treat it like a business. You know who you are. You've got businesses to protect and the regular distribution deals are not doing it for you, and the big media studio money is going elsewhere. I'm stunned that Kevin Rose didn't have a seat on the board at Rev3. I totally agree that if we let big media electronics companies design the interfaces and hardware that people will use to watch Internet TV, the game will be up for independent commercial producers and the general public. They'll shut us out. Drew was right to say that A few talented programmers and UI developers should find a very open space. It's not rocket science to come up with an alternative open platform, but it does take commitment over a long time and therefore needs the backing of serious content providers. Why start from scratch? Why not organise and help promote and improve an open independent-friendly rival to iTunes Hulu like Mefeedia? More than anything, though, I think collective action by small production businesses is a great way to go. You all know each other. You're all smart. And you're not competitors. Why not get organised? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 29-Oct-08, at 8:42 AM, Drew wrote: What concerns me most of all is that we really need companies like Revision3 to succeed. The independent content creator, and in turn, independent production companies and studios, are really being overshadowed by the efforts of the Hollywood studios and entertainment conglomerates. For example, look at the lineups at Digital Hollywood and the NewTeeVee Live conferences -- there was a terrible lack of independent content creators sitting on panels alongside people from LucasFilm and Hulu. This is a major concern I have too, maybe the biggest issue on the table. I don't really think of Revision3 as independent. They are new, like a new cable station, but they have been trying to emulate an old model of TV and they are owned now by investors, so their #1 mission is likely to sell to a mainstream entity. This is going to be an uphill battle if rumors are true that this setback happened not due to an economic meltdown, but because they did not receive their next, anticipated round of funding. In case anyone didn't notice, the people who you tend to think of as independent, like Kevin Rose, for instance, has no control whatsoever over the company and apparently no say even. From his blog post, we can infer that he didn't even know about the layoffs until he was told by Jim, without discussion. Maybe Kevin should be more involved, that might help. Not sure. Nevertheless, setting aside Rev3, what is starting to happen is that Hulu and iTunes for instance are becoming so popular, that they are starting to control the programming for the masses. ***Hulu is a place where MOST people are not allowed to distribute.*** Same old game as before. Because Hulu is becoming so popular, it's starting to divide and this is destructive not only for independents, but for the future of media in general. Why cant Hulu continue to curate their favorite content in the same way, but allow anyone to distribute on a back channel like iTunes? Probably because they believe in a business model that will not include open and democratic media. It's their right to be closed, but it's a decision that hurts the world for no gain and its gross. When people say things like Hulu is for professional content while YouTube is for User Generated Content, the world is suffering even more and becoming further divided by a stark line between the two. The biggest threat of all is coming in tandem as Comcast started capping internet plans. Anyone who says this wont effect how much we can do online is naive. Their first cap- plan structure seems somewhat uninhibited right now but this doesn't mean they wont start tweaking the cap amounts once everyone accepts the reality in due time. While its easy to compete with CBS and Disney because now we use the same open distribution channels, it will be hard to compete with Verizon and Comcast, due to the amount of overhead needed to build out an alternative system. My hope is that a teenager will singlehandedly invent a new way to transfer data faster, without fiber - one that may cost almost nothing in terms of technological infrastructure. I'm certainly not going to sit around and wait for that to happen. What's to be done? At least a few things, I think: #1 Four years ago, I promoted the idea of saving up your coins for a year, buckling down, and investing in your own video company for a year. At the time, I thought a year would be enough but didn't
Re: [videoblogging] VloMo08 - Videoblogging Month 2008
VloMo-istas, please join the fun now by adding your feed to the channel here: http://www.mefeedia.com/channels/vlomo08 Note the Twitter integration and cool Watch in Theater View option. Further developments coming, particularly the limiting of posts to just those published during November. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 29-Oct-08, at 11:08 AM, Rupert wrote: All right, then. 24 hours later and a massive 21 votes have been cast. The most popular shorthand name / tag - though with only 33% - is: VloMo08 A suitably brief tag for our Twitterholic world. So it's VloMo - or Videoblogging Month. Or Vlogging Month, if you can bring yourself to say that. Whatever, call it what you want when you describe it. But the tag and the channel and all official things will be in the form VloMo08. As I've already said, we will *not* be using Ning this year. We'll be using Mefeedia, which will be much better for watching, aggregating, commenting and archiving. We'll have a channel at http://mefeedia.com/channels/vlomo08 And you'll be able to put the feed for that channel into Miro or iTunes or whatever reader or aggregator you choose. Mefeedia are sorting this, adding some extra features just for us. For free, in the middle of a busy time for them (they've just relaunched the site), so please be patient. In the next couple of days, you'll be able to go to the channel and add your feed. I'll post here and on Twitter as soon as it's fully up and running. Hurray! If you're thinking about joining in and worried about the commitment, don't fret it. Allow yourself half an hour per day and just post some video - any video, however small, on any account. Doesn't have to be what you usually do, or up to any high production standards. Join in, it'll make the watching more fun, too. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: It's that time again... NaVloPoMo 2008
Hurray! It wouldn't be the same without you, Brook :) On 28-Oct-08, at 8:44 AM, Brook Hinton wrote: 1. The na / national thing always bothered me a LOT. But it is late, and many won't get the word that it has changed from navlopomo (if it does) - so I suggest a) an agreement on a new, non-nationally-exclusive name/tag and b) everyone using BOTH tags (navlo - and whatevervlo -). 2. Invlopomo is a little awkward. How about GLOVOPOMO (global vlog posting month)? 3. I thought I was out, but I'm in for this year. The stupid concept I've come up with requires me to NOT do anything in advance of the actual day - no shooting, no nothing - which, since I'm not a talk to the camera vlogger, means Im out of my mind. 4. Just to repeat, for emphasis - GLOVLOPOMO08. That's my vote. Of course it could be misconstrued as standing for Gloves Love Post Modernism instead of Globa Vlog Posting Month, but that's a risk worth taking. 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] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: It's that time again... NaVloPoMo 2008
The thing is, it's not Navlopomo in isolation. It springs from NaBloPoMo, which itself springs from NaNoWriMo. Both those things have been going on for years in a very international way, but haven't changed their names. Once something gets shortened, I don't think it matters what it stands for - it's the aims that count. I don't think any of the non-US vloggers minded it being NaVloPoMo last year. And more than anything, I think it'd be confusing to change names at this point. Although if we did, I'd prefer a total change to something that doesn't sound so stupid. All my non-geek friends last year thought that the name was dumb, and got in the way of describing what it is. I mean, if you're going to have an acronym, make it a nice sounding short one, and make the name itself punchy. National Blog Posting Month or National Novel Writing Month just sound lame, let alone their shortened versions. If I could do it all again, I'd choose International Month of Online Video - IMOV. Unless there's a big weight of opinion on Twitter or here for one particular name, though, let's keep it as Navlopomo. If you feel strongly about doing otherwise, get petitioning! Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 28-Oct-08, at 12:26 AM, Cheryl wrote: Last year there were several comments that it should be called International Vlog Posting Month (InVloPoMo) or International Vlogging Month (InVloMo). Because so many participants are outside the U.S. Not trying to start trouble - just pointing out there's still time to rechristen it so the name is more inclusive (and possibly easier to pronounce). And I'm SO in. Cheryl --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last year, we had around 60 people signed up, and around 30-40 people posted videos regularly. By the end of the month, we'd made over 1000 videos. It was a last minute suggestion, that seemed like insanity, but it turned out to be an incredible month of inspired collaborative fun. Not everybody managed all 30 days - I did 23, I think - but it didn't matter. We all committed to the intention, and then watched each other's videos every day, commented and made video responses. One video per day, every day in November... that's all you have to do :) It can be any type of video. Nothing is too small. In fact, the key is to stop yourself from being too ambitious. Details to follow of how we're setting it up at Mefeedia. NOW - WHO'S IN? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] twitter.com/videoblogging shows messages from this group
I know a lot of people have unsubscribed from this list because of the sheer volume of emails, so I thought I'd create a Twitterfeed for us. That you can follow: http://twitter.com/videoblogging and keep up with discussions in the light way that Twitter allows without having to clog up your inbox, scroll through the digest or check the web page. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv
Re: [videoblogging] twitter.com/videoblogging shows messages from this group
Don't worry if you see nothing there now - it takes half an hour to update. Another thing that being on Twitter allows us to do is take this conversation out of the list more - and use Twitter tags to aggregate tweets and discussions around a subject. So if you're posting a message here about an issue or event, you can start your subject line with #navlopomo2008 or #pixelodeon, say, and the tweeted version of your message can then be easily found along with other tweets on the same subject. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 28-Oct-08, at 9:59 AM, Rupert wrote: I know a lot of people have unsubscribed from this list because of the sheer volume of emails, so I thought I'd create a Twitterfeed for us. That you can follow: http://twitter.com/videoblogging and keep up with discussions in the light way that Twitter allows without having to clog up your inbox, scroll through the digest or check the web page. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: It's that time again... NaVloPoMo 2008
Do it! It'll be like the Vlog Love Boat :) On 28-Oct-08, at 7:06 AM, Susan wrote: Oh man, and I just figured out how to say NaVloPoMo... ;) I'm going to be on vacation in November, one week on a cruise ship and avoiding Internet access, but if the group doesn't mind time-released posts, I'd still like to participate. :) Susan http://vlog.kitykity.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Cheryl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last year there were several comments that it should be called International Vlog Posting Month (InVloPoMo) or International Vlogging Month (InVloMo). Because so many participants are outside the U.S. Not trying to start trouble - just pointing out there's still time to rechristen it so the name is more inclusive (and possibly easier to pronounce). And I'm SO in. Cheryl --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert rupert@ wrote: Last year, we had around 60 people signed up, and around 30-40 people posted videos regularly. By the end of the month, we'd made over 1000 videos. It was a last minute suggestion, that seemed like insanity, but it turned out to be an incredible month of inspired collaborative fun. Not everybody managed all 30 days - I did 23, I think - but it didn't matter. We all committed to the intention, and then watched each other's videos every day, commented and made video responses. One video per day, every day in November... that's all you have to do :) It can be any type of video. Nothing is too small. In fact, the key is to stop yourself from being too ambitious. Details to follow of how we're setting it up at Mefeedia. NOW - WHO'S IN? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: It's that time again... NaVloPoMo 2008
Having said all that... How about just plain old Videoblogging Month? #videobloggingmonth2008? Opinions please. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 28-Oct-08, at 9:37 AM, Rupert wrote: The thing is, it's not Navlopomo in isolation. It springs from NaBloPoMo, which itself springs from NaNoWriMo. Both those things have been going on for years in a very international way, but haven't changed their names. Once something gets shortened, I don't think it matters what it stands for - it's the aims that count. I don't think any of the non-US vloggers minded it being NaVloPoMo last year. And more than anything, I think it'd be confusing to change names at this point. Although if we did, I'd prefer a total change to something that doesn't sound so stupid. All my non-geek friends last year thought that the name was dumb, and got in the way of describing what it is. I mean, if you're going to have an acronym, make it a nice sounding short one, and make the name itself punchy. National Blog Posting Month or National Novel Writing Month just sound lame, let alone their shortened versions. If I could do it all again, I'd choose International Month of Online Video - IMOV. Unless there's a big weight of opinion on Twitter or here for one particular name, though, let's keep it as Navlopomo. If you feel strongly about doing otherwise, get petitioning! Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 28-Oct-08, at 12:26 AM, Cheryl wrote: Last year there were several comments that it should be called International Vlog Posting Month (InVloPoMo) or International Vlogging Month (InVloMo). Because so many participants are outside the U.S. Not trying to start trouble - just pointing out there's still time to rechristen it so the name is more inclusive (and possibly easier to pronounce). And I'm SO in. Cheryl --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last year, we had around 60 people signed up, and around 30-40 people posted videos regularly. By the end of the month, we'd made over 1000 videos. It was a last minute suggestion, that seemed like insanity, but it turned out to be an incredible month of inspired collaborative fun. Not everybody managed all 30 days - I did 23, I think - but it didn't matter. We all committed to the intention, and then watched each other's videos every day, commented and made video responses. One video per day, every day in November... that's all you have to do :) It can be any type of video. Nothing is too small. In fact, the key is to stop yourself from being too ambitious. Details to follow of how we're setting it up at Mefeedia. NOW - WHO'S IN? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Vote for a name - NaVloPoMo 2008
I agree. We need to decide and avoid confusion. Videobloggingmonth2008 is too long, and i hate the word videoblogging because of the negative connotations among non-geeks. I've created a poll here in the Yahoo Group. You can each choose one or more names. Vote! http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/surveys?id=2115573 Rupert http://twittervlog.tv PS We're not using the Ning site this year, Schlomo, we're going to be using a channel at Mefeedia, where we all add our feeds and sit back and watch. And comment. Or take the channel's feed and put it into Miro, or iTunes or Google Reader or whatever. So we can call it whatever we want :) On 28-Oct-08, at 11:07 AM, schlomo rabinowitz wrote: But it's not my call really. I just want an agreed upon way to facilitate the finding/viewing of the month of videos. On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Cheryl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last year on my Half Way Day post, 2 people outside the US said they wished it were named International to reflect that we're not all in the US. I think videobloggingmonth2008 is good. Except the tag is so long. I also like just VloPoMo08 or VloMo08 - but not schlomo08 ;) Cheryl --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging% 40yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having said all that... How about just plain old Videoblogging Month? #videobloggingmonth2008? Opinions please. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 28-Oct-08, at 9:37 AM, Rupert wrote: The thing is, it's not Navlopomo in isolation. It springs from NaBloPoMo, which itself springs from NaNoWriMo. Both those things have been going on for years in a very international way, but haven't changed their names. Once something gets shortened, I don't think it matters what it stands for - it's the aims that count. I don't think any of the non-US vloggers minded it being NaVloPoMo last year. And more than anything, I think it'd be confusing to change names at this point. Although if we did, I'd prefer a total change to something that doesn't sound so stupid. All my non-geek friends last year thought that the name was dumb, and got in the way of describing what it is. I mean, if you're going to have an acronym, make it a nice sounding short one, and make the name itself punchy. National Blog Posting Month or National Novel Writing Month just sound lame, let alone their shortened versions. If I could do it all again, I'd choose International Month of Online Video - IMOV. Unless there's a big weight of opinion on Twitter or here for one particular name, though, let's keep it as Navlopomo. If you feel strongly about doing otherwise, get petitioning! Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 28-Oct-08, at 12:26 AM, Cheryl wrote: Last year there were several comments that it should be called International Vlog Posting Month (InVloPoMo) or International Vlogging Month (InVloMo). Because so many participants are outside the U.S. Not trying to start trouble - just pointing out there's still time to rechristen it so the name is more inclusive (and possibly easier to pronounce). And I'm SO in. Cheryl --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging% 40yahoogroups.com, Rupert rupert@ wrote: Last year, we had around 60 people signed up, and around 30-40 people posted videos regularly. By the end of the month, we'd made over 1000 videos. It was a last minute suggestion, that seemed like insanity, but it turned out to be an incredible month of inspired collaborative fun. Not everybody managed all 30 days - I did 23, I think - but it didn't matter. We all committed to the intention, and then watched each other's videos every day, commented and made video responses. One video per day, every day in November... that's all you have to do :) It can be any type of video. Nothing is too small. In fact, the key is to stop yourself from being too ambitious. Details to follow of how we're setting it up at Mefeedia. NOW - WHO'S IN? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: iphone compression in imovie and fcp
After our call, JD fiddled around a bit more and came up with the answer to how to set up your Sequence so that you don't *have* to output a full resolution version. Turns out FCP - certainly version 5, which he has - doesn't automatically understand how to handle HDV from a Canon HV20, so you need to make sure you have the right settings for the non-square HDV pixel aspect ratio, the anamorphic setting and the View as square pixels setting. He blogged his settings here: http://www.socialmedia.biz/2008/10/fixing-distorte.html This way however you choose to export it, it'll come out looking right. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 26-Oct-08, at 3:30 PM, Michael Verdi wrote: I don't think I properly explained how I do this so I'm making a screencast right now. It's pretty simple - no messing with sequence presets plus you create an archive of your work in the process. I'll post it this evening and I'll post back here when it's up. - Verdi On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rupertyou should take 1 minute and record this here: http://videoblogginggroup.pbwiki.com/#Compression Hate to see this solution lost. Jay On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I just spent an hour or so on AIM with JD, making it work. So that he can just export once instead of exporting at full resolution and then exporting again smaller. The problem is that the HDV frame size is 1440x1080 (4:3), with an Pixel Aspect Ratio of HD (1440x1080). But the video itself is widescreen - 1920x1080 (16:9), so it's being squeezed in a sort of anamorphic. But Final Cut (version 5) didn't seem to understand this properly. When exporting, it was treating it as if it was a 1440x1080 4:3 movie. We hacked it by creating a new sequence that was 1920x1080 with square pixel aspect ratio. Then checking the Anamorphic setting on the clips, and turning off the setting in the Canvas that says View as Square Pixels. There must be a way of setting it so that both sequence and clip are the same, and so that Final Cut knows that it's effectively an anamorphic sequence and clip. Any ideas on this would be gratefully received. At least for now JD's getting an easy export of his movies. Bloody aspect ratio and anamorphic issues must waste more time than anything else. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 23-Oct-08, at 2:17 PM, JD Lasica wrote: First, thanks, Rupert and Michael V. for the quick and incisive responses. I learned a lot today! This is quite interesting (to me, anyway). When I followed Michael's method of exporting a .dv file in FC Pro, opening it in QuickTime Pro, then exporting it as an .mp4, the resulting file was actually a quarter-inch shorter than the version I exported directly as an .mp4 in iMovie 6. (Unless I'm doing something wrong. Michael, you said: export a full resolution copy from FCP -- does that mean Export as DV Stream? That's what I did.) Rupert, thanks much. The Aspect Ratio is set to 0. Where do I look to see if my Clip and Sequence are both checked as Anamorphic - or not? I'm new to FCP and don't see the word Anamorphic anywhere ... thanks! jd [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://graymattergravy.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Revision 3 cuts back on shows including Epic Fu
Here's Steve's post from the Smashface blog http://blog.smashface.com/2008/10/epic_fu_and_revision3_parting.html If anybody deserves to score another distribution deal, it's them. I look on Epic FU as a blueprint for the future of television. They have loyal fans because they're doing good work - in their content and their engagement with their audience. It must be awful to have to let go of people who have given so much to the show - I know Rick Rey's been working hard for them for a long time. I hope they can afford to weather the storm until they find a less flaky distribution partner. On 27-Oct-08, at 1:22 PM, Heath wrote: Just saw this now, probably a bit of old news for some, but sad nonethelessSteve and Zadi are great people and I am sure this is a kick in the gut in many ways... http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/27/revision3-cuts-back-on-shows-and- staff/ Hopfully Steve and Zadi knew about this before hand and were making some deals.. Heath http://batmangeek.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Revision 3 cuts back on shows including Epic Fu
I agree. Who knows what's going on behind the scenes at Rev 3. Perhaps they have a cashflow crisis, perhaps they had investments which have tanked. Who knows. They know they're mad to let go of these two shows - particularly after all the promotion they did when they signed them up - and I don't believe the shows have performed less well than predicted in terms of audience - so it must be because they simply can't afford to keep them on. I also find it hard to believe that there's a dearth of online advertising. I know it's a different market, but Google announced a 26% increase in net profit in Q3. And a 31% increase in revenues. Is that a flight to quality? Who knows. On 27-Oct-08, at 1:47 PM, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: It's not personal, but anybody that drops lucrative demographic audiences Epic Fu's and shows with high publicity value like Wine Library TV needs to have both their head and their strategy examined. I haven't fully flushed this out in my brain, but I just wonder if the media buyers (on the client and agency side) are thinking that traditional media buys is some sort of flight to quality in the same sense that investors are doing a flight to quality with more traditional meat-and-potatoes stocks and commodities like gold. I'd like to hear what everyone else has to think about this (my instinct is that media buyers need the direct relationships and alpha consumer recommendations that are part and parcel of online video now more than ever), and I'll come back with more developed thoughts later. 2008/10/27 Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just saw this now, probably a bit of old news for some, but sad nonethelessSteve and Zadi are great people and I am sure this is a kick in the gut in many ways... http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/27/revision3-cuts-back-on-shows- and- staff/ Hopfully Steve and Zadi knew about this before hand and were making some deals.. Heath http://batmangeek.com -- Jeffrey Taylor Mobile: +33625497654 Fax: +33177722734 Skype: thejeffreytaylor Googlechat/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://twitter.com/jeffreytaylor [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Help getting hyperlink in QT .mov in separate browser window
Enclose the URL with and and then add a space and T_blank
before the curly bracket.
Thus:
{href:http://www.maximusspasalon.com T_blank }Maxium{endHREF}
Any reason the printed name Maxium is different from MaximusSpaSalon?
Not a typo?
There's a different - and often more elegant - way to add clickable
links in Quicktime movies, if you have Adobe GoLive - or even Adobe
Photoshop. You can create clickable invisible hotspots in the
Sprite Track which can sit invisibly over Logos or Text in your
movie, thus making those graphics clickable but without a great big
blue text link appearing in your nice Quicktime movie.
Also, you can use the Sprite track to make the whole frame of the
movie clickable between certain time periods.
Rupert
http://twittervlog.tv
On 24-Oct-08, at 5:25 AM, Bookmarts wrote:
Finally learned how to create a hyperlink of my Credits in a
QuickTime movie, by using this
html code sequence:
[00:00:00.000]
{textBox: 0, 0, 50, 160}Makeup by Richard Calcasola at
[00:00:02.000]
{textBox: 0, 0, 50, 160}click here:
{href:http://www.maximusspasalon.com}Maxium{endhref}
[00:00:08.000]
But, cannot figure out how to get that link to open in a separate
browser window when
clicked on while viewing the movie. The code a target=_blank
should work if I knew
where it should appear. Regardless of where I enter it in the html
string it does not operate
as it should.
Any help is appreciated.
Michael
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] It's that time again... NaVloPoMo 2008
Last year, we had around 60 people signed up, and around 30-40 people posted videos regularly. By the end of the month, we'd made over 1000 videos. It was a last minute suggestion, that seemed like insanity, but it turned out to be an incredible month of inspired collaborative fun. Not everybody managed all 30 days - I did 23, I think - but it didn't matter. We all committed to the intention, and then watched each other's videos every day, commented and made video responses. One video per day, every day in November... that's all you have to do :) It can be any type of video. Nothing is too small. In fact, the key is to stop yourself from being too ambitious. Details to follow of how we're setting it up at Mefeedia. NOW - WHO'S IN? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv
Re: [videoblogging] Fw: [podcasters] NaPodPoMo: National Podcast Post Month Nov. 1-30
Thanks, Pat - I was going to post about NaVloPoMo later today, but you've pre-empted and prompted me. Hope you're up for it! On 24-Oct-08, at 12:15 PM, Pat Cook wrote: From: Jen Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 10:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [podcasters] NaPodPoMo: National Podcast Post Month Nov. 1-30 Greetings Fellow Podcasters, It's that time of year again. No, not Fall, NaPodPoMo! From November 1-30th we'll be participating in the annual event which is the National Podcast Post Month. Last year was the first time a month long daily podcasting marathon had ever been attempted on such a large scale. By the time it was all said and done there were 50 ambitious podcasters who participated in NaPodPoMo. The conversations are already happening on the NaPoPoMo Ning site so swing on by to add your voice. http://napodpomo.ning.com The rules for the November 1-30th NaPodPoMo are simple: .Post audio in any form every day That's it! Feel free to be creative. You can post a traditional podcast or use Utterli, BlogTalkRadio, TalkShoe, etc... Some folks have even incorporated video into their posts. There is no time limit. Got a one minute tip show or an hour long diatribe? As long as you post audio every day, it all counts. The site is open for new registrations. Tell your friends and start training now for the podcast marathon that is NaPodPoMo. http://napodpomo.ning.com Remember, hydration is key ;-D Cheers, Jennifer Navarrete http://twitter.com/epodcaster -- Morning BrewCast http://morningbrewcast.com/blog -- Living the Dream http://jennifernavarrete.com Visit National Podcast Post Month at: http://napodpomo.ning.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: It's that time again... NaVloPoMo 2008
YA On 24-Oct-08, at 12:52 PM, mikeysizemore wrote: Hey Rupert, Yeah I'm in. Delurking for this one. I think I have as much fun reading the stuff on this mailing list as I do watching the content you all produce. Roll on November :) Mike --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last year, we had around 60 people signed up, and around 30-40 people posted videos regularly. By the end of the month, we'd made over 1000 videos. It was a last minute suggestion, that seemed like insanity, but it turned out to be an incredible month of inspired collaborative fun. Not everybody managed all 30 days - I did 23, I think - but it didn't matter. We all committed to the intention, and then watched each other's videos every day, commented and made video responses. One video per day, every day in November... that's all you have to do :) It can be any type of video. Nothing is too small. In fact, the key is to stop yourself from being too ambitious. Details to follow of how we're setting it up at Mefeedia. NOW - WHO'S IN? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Playboy deeps the conversation
Just scrolling down through those pictures makes me depressed. On 24-Oct-08, at 1:07 PM, Jay dedman wrote: Not. http://www.playboy.com/arts-entertainment/features/bloggers/ Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] It's that time again... NaVloPoMo 2008
Brilliant! But it's not about success. It's about being number one. On 24-Oct-08, at 1:13 PM, schlomo rabinowitz wrote: As usual, I'll try... and maybe this year I'll succeed! On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last year, we had around 60 people signed up, and around 30-40 people posted videos regularly. By the end of the month, we'd made over 1000 videos. It was a last minute suggestion, that seemed like insanity, but it turned out to be an incredible month of inspired collaborative fun. Not everybody managed all 30 days - I did 23, I think - but it didn't matter. We all committed to the intention, and then watched each other's videos every day, commented and made video responses. One video per day, every day in November... that's all you have to do :) It can be any type of video. Nothing is too small. In fact, the key is to stop yourself from being too ambitious. Details to follow of how we're setting it up at Mefeedia. NOW - WHO'S IN? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] It's that time again... NaVloPoMo 2008
NaVloPoMo: Clean out your pipes. On 24-Oct-08, at 1:04 PM, Jay dedman wrote: One video per day, every day in November... that's all you have to do :) It can be any type of video. Nothing is too small. In fact, the key is to stop yourself from being too ambitious. I have plenty of clips clogging up my pipes...so this is a good time to clean out. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: It's that time again... NaVloPoMo 2008
What? That the world is going to end on November 2nd? Looking forward to more cookery and French cultural instruction from you this year, Mr Taylor. Your carbonara has been a regular feature in my kitchen all year. On 24-Oct-08, at 1:40 PM, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: In. And I just got a piece of news that could make it verry interesting. I should be able to divulge by then. 2008/10/24 Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] YA On 24-Oct-08, at 12:52 PM, mikeysizemore wrote: Hey Rupert, Yeah I'm in. Delurking for this one. I think I have as much fun reading the stuff on this mailing list as I do watching the content you all produce. Roll on November :) Mike --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging% 40yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last year, we had around 60 people signed up, and around 30-40 people posted videos regularly. By the end of the month, we'd made over 1000 videos. It was a last minute suggestion, that seemed like insanity, but it turned out to be an incredible month of inspired collaborative fun. Not everybody managed all 30 days - I did 23, I think - but it didn't matter. We all committed to the intention, and then watched each other's videos every day, commented and made video responses. One video per day, every day in November... that's all you have to do :) It can be any type of video. Nothing is too small. In fact, the key is to stop yourself from being too ambitious. Details to follow of how we're setting it up at Mefeedia. NOW - WHO'S IN? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Jeffrey Taylor Mobile: +33625497654 Fax: +33177722734 Skype: thejeffreytaylor Googlechat/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://twitter.com/jeffreytaylor [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] It's that time again... NaVloPoMo 2008
India! Yes! There were lots of Indian submissions via Nokia phones to the Nokia Pangea Day mobile filmmaking competition. Mobile video from you...? On 24-Oct-08, at 1:57 PM, Kath O'Donnell wrote: I'll try. it sounds like I might be in india most of nov. so without my mac s/w. so they'll prob be clips cut together of driving to work again lots of shaky video out taxi windows ;) Details to follow of how we're setting it up at Mefeedia. NOW - WHO'S IN? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Fw: [podcasters] NaPodPoMo: National Podcast Post Month Nov. 1-30
Most people hated Ning last year, and it made it a real pain in the ass to view and archive things. So this year we're doing it at http://Mefeedia.com Frank is working on tweaking some things for us. They just launched a new site. Go check it out. Our channel will be: http://www.mefeedia.com/channels/navlopomo2008 Everybody adds their feed to that channel, and any videos on those feeds will show up in the channel. It's more reliable than using Tags. (tag your videos anyway - navlopomo2008) Mefeedia are going to set it up so that only videos shot in November show up, and so that we can filter by day. I think we'll have a cool Theater View as well, for a lean back big screen experience. At the bottom of the channel you can see all comments (those on Mefeedia) and activity. So we can comment and discuss there. On each video page there's a link back to the original post on your blog. There's a feed for the channel, so you can subscribe to all Navlopomo videos in Miro, FireAnt, iTunes, AppleTV, whatever you like. Low maintenance, maximum features. The only thing it doesn't have is a discussion forum, but almost all the discussion happens in the comments and in the videos themselves anyway. And I like it better that way. I think it's going to rock. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 24-Oct-08, at 2:24 PM, Mike Moon wrote: Rupert, how are things looking for NaVloPoMo message forum? I will be participating in NaVloPoMo again this year. Should be a hoot. Mike http://vlog.mikemoon.net --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Pat - I was going to post about NaVloPoMo later today, but you've pre-empted and prompted me. Hope you're up for it! On 24-Oct-08, at 12:15 PM, Pat Cook wrote: From: Jen Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 10:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [podcasters] NaPodPoMo: National Podcast Post Month Nov. 1-30 Greetings Fellow Podcasters, It's that time of year again. No, not Fall, NaPodPoMo! From November 1-30th we'll be participating in the annual event which is the National Podcast Post Month. Last year was the first time a month long daily podcasting marathon had ever been attempted on such a large scale. By the time it was all said and done there were 50 ambitious podcasters who participated in NaPodPoMo. The conversations are already happening on the NaPoPoMo Ning site so swing on by to add your voice. http://napodpomo.ning.com The rules for the November 1-30th NaPodPoMo are simple: .Post audio in any form every day That's it! Feel free to be creative. You can post a traditional podcast or use Utterli, BlogTalkRadio, TalkShoe, etc... Some folks have even incorporated video into their posts. There is no time limit. Got a one minute tip show or an hour long diatribe? As long as you post audio every day, it all counts. The site is open for new registrations. Tell your friends and start training now for the podcast marathon that is NaPodPoMo. http://napodpomo.ning.com Remember, hydration is key ;-D Cheers, Jennifer Navarrete http://twitter.com/epodcaster -- Morning BrewCast http://morningbrewcast.com/blog -- Living the Dream http://jennifernavarrete.com Visit National Podcast Post Month at: http://napodpomo.ning.com [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: Help getting hyperlink in QT .mov in separate browser window
Yay! Hypervideo (of a sort) for the win!
Glad you got it working. Thanks for telling how.
Rupert
On 24-Oct-08, at 3:41 PM, Bookmarts wrote:
Rupert:
Michael here again, this time with very good news. My friend and I
fiddle a bit with the
code you suggested and found one change which gave the results we
wanted. All it
required was the inclusion of an A before the http. Like this:
{HREF:Ahttp://www.maximusspasalon.com/ T_blank}Maximus{endHREF}
Thank you for helping us get to the point where we could experiment
and get it to work.
Michael
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Enclose the URL with and and then add a space and T_blank
before the curly bracket.
Thus:
{href:http://www.maximusspasalon.com T_blank }Maxium{endHREF}
Any reason the printed name Maxium is different from MaximusSpaSalon?
Not a typo?
There's a different - and often more elegant - way to add clickable
links in Quicktime movies, if you have Adobe GoLive - or even Adobe
Photoshop. You can create clickable invisible hotspots in the
Sprite Track which can sit invisibly over Logos or Text in your
movie, thus making those graphics clickable but without a great big
blue text link appearing in your nice Quicktime movie.
Also, you can use the Sprite track to make the whole frame of the
movie clickable between certain time periods.
Rupert
http://twittervlog.tv
On 24-Oct-08, at 5:25 AM, Bookmarts wrote:
Finally learned how to create a hyperlink of my Credits in a
QuickTime movie, by using this
html code sequence:
[00:00:00.000]
{textBox: 0, 0, 50, 160}Makeup by Richard Calcasola at
[00:00:02.000]
{textBox: 0, 0, 50, 160}click here:
{href:http://www.maximusspasalon.com}Maxium{endhref}
[00:00:08.000]
But, cannot figure out how to get that link to open in a separate
browser window when
clicked on while viewing the movie. The code a target=_blank
should work if I knew
where it should appear. Regardless of where I enter it in the html
string it does not operate
as it should.
Any help is appreciated.
Michael
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: iphone compression in imovie and fcp
So I just spent an hour or so on AIM with JD, making it work. So that he can just export once instead of exporting at full resolution and then exporting again smaller. The problem is that the HDV frame size is 1440x1080 (4:3), with an Pixel Aspect Ratio of HD (1440x1080). But the video itself is widescreen - 1920x1080 (16:9), so it's being squeezed in a sort of anamorphic. But Final Cut (version 5) didn't seem to understand this properly. When exporting, it was treating it as if it was a 1440x1080 4:3 movie. We hacked it by creating a new sequence that was 1920x1080 with square pixel aspect ratio. Then checking the Anamorphic setting on the clips, and turning off the setting in the Canvas that says View as Square Pixels. There must be a way of setting it so that both sequence and clip are the same, and so that Final Cut knows that it's effectively an anamorphic sequence and clip. Any ideas on this would be gratefully received. At least for now JD's getting an easy export of his movies. Bloody aspect ratio and anamorphic issues must waste more time than anything else. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 23-Oct-08, at 2:17 PM, JD Lasica wrote: First, thanks, Rupert and Michael V. for the quick and incisive responses. I learned a lot today! This is quite interesting (to me, anyway). When I followed Michael's method of exporting a .dv file in FC Pro, opening it in QuickTime Pro, then exporting it as an .mp4, the resulting file was actually a quarter-inch shorter than the version I exported directly as an .mp4 in iMovie 6. (Unless I'm doing something wrong. Michael, you said: export a full resolution copy from FCP -- does that mean Export as DV Stream? That's what I did.) Rupert, thanks much. The Aspect Ratio is set to 0. Where do I look to see if my Clip and Sequence are both checked as Anamorphic - or not? I'm new to FCP and don't see the word Anamorphic anywhere ... thanks! jd [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Fw: [podcasters] NaPodPoMo: National Podcast Post Month Nov. 1-30
Yay! They're relaunching the site today, so there'll be problems no doubt today as things get shifted around. On 24-Oct-08, at 4:37 PM, Sull wrote: been having some problems getting mefeedia to load. i'll try to get some vids out to the channel. On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most people hated Ning last year, and it made it a real pain in the ass to view and archive things. So this year we're doing it at http://Mefeedia.com Frank is working on tweaking some things for us. They just launched a new site. Go check it out. Our channel will be: http://www.mefeedia.com/channels/navlopomo2008 Everybody adds their feed to that channel, and any videos on those feeds will show up in the channel. It's more reliable than using Tags. (tag your videos anyway - navlopomo2008) Mefeedia are going to set it up so that only videos shot in November show up, and so that we can filter by day. I think we'll have a cool Theater View as well, for a lean back big screen experience. At the bottom of the channel you can see all comments (those on Mefeedia) and activity. So we can comment and discuss there. On each video page there's a link back to the original post on your blog. There's a feed for the channel, so you can subscribe to all Navlopomo videos in Miro, FireAnt, iTunes, AppleTV, whatever you like. Low maintenance, maximum features. The only thing it doesn't have is a discussion forum, but almost all the discussion happens in the comments and in the videos themselves anyway. And I like it better that way. I think it's going to rock. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 24-Oct-08, at 2:24 PM, Mike Moon wrote: Rupert, how are things looking for NaVloPoMo message forum? I will be participating in NaVloPoMo again this year. Should be a hoot. Mike http://vlog.mikemoon.net --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging% 40yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Pat - I was going to post about NaVloPoMo later today, but you've pre-empted and prompted me. Hope you're up for it! On 24-Oct-08, at 12:15 PM, Pat Cook wrote: From: Jen Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 10:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] podcasters%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [podcasters] NaPodPoMo: National Podcast Post Month Nov. 1-30 Greetings Fellow Podcasters, It's that time of year again. No, not Fall, NaPodPoMo! From November 1-30th we'll be participating in the annual event which is the National Podcast Post Month. Last year was the first time a month long daily podcasting marathon had ever been attempted on such a large scale. By the time it was all said and done there were 50 ambitious podcasters who participated in NaPodPoMo. The conversations are already happening on the NaPoPoMo Ning site so swing on by to add your voice. http://napodpomo.ning.com The rules for the November 1-30th NaPodPoMo are simple: .Post audio in any form every day That's it! Feel free to be creative. You can post a traditional podcast or use Utterli, BlogTalkRadio, TalkShoe, etc... Some folks have even incorporated video into their posts. There is no time limit. Got a one minute tip show or an hour long diatribe? As long as you post audio every day, it all counts. The site is open for new registrations. Tell your friends and start training now for the podcast marathon that is NaPodPoMo. http://napodpomo.ning.com Remember, hydration is key ;-D Cheers, Jennifer Navarrete http://twitter.com/epodcaster -- Morning BrewCast http://morningbrewcast.com/blog -- Living the Dream http://jennifernavarrete.com Visit National Podcast Post Month at: http://napodpomo.ning.com [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] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] iphone compression in imovie and fcp
This is such a common problem. I see it driving people mad all the time. Usually if there's a difference between iMovie and FCP when using the same export settings, the problem is not in the Export settings (which are the same), it's in the Sequence settings. Chances are there's an anamorphic or distortion setting that's out of sync between your Sequence and your Clip. Two things to check - first that your Clip and your Sequence are both checked as Anamorphic - or not. Then double click on your Clip in the Timeline so that it opens in the Viewer. Click the Motion tab, and check the Distort settings. Chances are that this is where the problem is. The Aspect Ratio setting under Distort should be set to 0. If it's not, it means FCP has distorted your clip to fit the sequence. Probably because the sequence is Anamorphic and your clip is not. So create a new sequence with *exactly* the same settings as your clip, copy all the clips in your edited sequence over to the new sequence - you'll see they're distorted. Go through them and change the Distort Aspect Ratio settings to 0 to return them to normal. (You can speed this up with an Attribute copy and paste - change one clip, copying it and Paste Attributes... onto all the other clips with just the Distort setting checked.) Hope it works for you. Usually does. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 23-Oct-08, at 11:32 AM, JD Lasica wrote: Hi, I've been experiencing a strange problem. I shoot my videos in HD on a Canon VH20 at 1440x1080 (and output the finished works at 480x270). When I output the finished video in iMovie (as mp4, .mov or .m4v for the iphone), they turn out fine. When I output it in Final Cut Pro, they turn out fine in .mp4 but distorted (squeezed and deeper) when I export in either: QuickTime Conversion iphone (where it's all done automatically) QuickTime Conversion QuickTime Movie I asked my FCP tutor about this yesterday and he couldn't track down the problem. Could the culprit be FCP's Audio/Video Settings? Or do I need to change something on my camcorder? Thanks, O Wisdom of the Mailing List! jd lasica ourmedia.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
