[videoblogging] Re: External hard drive problems ?
Brook, thanks for the pointers. It's my understanding that Lacie G-Tech both format drives only for the Mac. One problem has been happening. The new G-Tech drive mounts when the computer starts and then, at random unpredictable times, it drops off and I get a improper device removal notice. I guess that is the same as unplugging it or turning if off without unmounting it. To have it remount, I just turn it off and then back on again it remounts without any problem. Maybe, my problem is related to iMovie since it frequently required relaunching when I am creating a new file. iMovie also opens more slowly when you go into it. There are no playback problems so long as I am in the two internal drives with any of the videos playing. Thanks again for your imput. Randolfe Wicker Hoboken,NJ --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Brook Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make sure the drives are formatted Mac HFS+. Video will not work reliably if they are formatted for both mac and windows, even if they mount. Make sure you have the computer set to never put hard drives to sleep in your preferences. (And avoid MyBooks, which ignore this setting). Make sure you never fill the drive up beyond 80%. Make sure every firewire cable is good. They can go bad. Make sure no cable is more than 14.5', Ideally much much shorter, especially if you are using multiple devices. Make sure every firewire device in the chain is on. Make sure every port is good - on the drives AND on the computer. Make sure your video is in a format your software likes. It's a lot of work, but that's the usual firewire troubleshooting list. It's rarely the drive unless you've been unplugging it or turning it off without dismounting it. ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: External hard drive problems ?
That's really good to know. I just shuddered when I heard how expensive data recovery costs. Then a friend told me his girlfriend had spent quite a sum because that was the only way to recover irreplaceable photos, etc. I guess that also underscores the importance of having all your data backed up somewhere. Thanks for the tip. Hope I never have to use it. Randolfe Wicker Hoboken, NJ --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jarod Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a side note - Discovered a nice trick for data recovery on a drive that Mac and PC won't read or recognize... Linux. Plugged a drive that must have had something important corrupted up to a Suse 10.3 box via USB 2 external enclosure and it mounted fine. I was able to recover data very easy. Probably won't work every time, but worked in my case a month ago. Knowledge is good. Jarod. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Brook Hinton bhinton@ wrote: Make sure the drives are formatted Mac HFS+. Video will not work reliably if they are formatted for both mac and windows, even if they mount. Make sure you have the computer set to never put hard drives to sleep in your preferences. (And avoid MyBooks, which ignore this setting). Make sure you never fill the drive up beyond 80%. Make sure every firewire cable is good. They can go bad. Make sure no cable is more than 14.5', Ideally much much shorter, especially if you are using multiple devices. Make sure every firewire device in the chain is on. Make sure every port is good - on the drives AND on the computer. Make sure your video is in a format your software likes. It's a lot of work, but that's the usual firewire troubleshooting list. It's rarely the drive unless you've been unplugging it or turning it off without dismounting it. ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: External hard drive problems ?
I've heard so much conflicting testimony about Lacie external drives. Your point that it appears on all the external drives is something I hadn't thought of in exactly that way. The internal drives play everything without any problem. It's time consuming and sometimes confusing when you have to continually shift clips--in my case, JPOP music videos--from some external drive to the one 500 GB internal drive that has space since the first internal drive is filled up with my applications. Thanks again. Randolfe Wicker Hoboken, NJ --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for this list, Brook - that's really helpful. I've had problems with Lacie drives. And yet I've still bought more. My initial thought about your problem is that given that it repeats on all your drives, regardless of manufacturer, it's something to do with your computer - your ports or some software problem, or a cable, or a setting. On 16-Sep-08, at 12:31 PM, Brook Hinton wrote: Make sure the drives are formatted Mac HFS+. Video will not work reliably if they are formatted for both mac and windows, even if they mount. Make sure you have the computer set to never put hard drives to sleep in your preferences. (And avoid MyBooks, which ignore this setting). Make sure you never fill the drive up beyond 80%. Make sure every firewire cable is good. They can go bad. Make sure no cable is more than 14.5', Ideally much much shorter, especially if you are using multiple devices. Make sure every firewire device in the chain is on. Make sure every port is good - on the drives AND on the computer. Make sure your video is in a format your software likes. It's a lot of work, but that's the usual firewire troubleshooting list. It's rarely the drive unless you've been unplugging it or turning it off without dismounting it. ___ 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]
[videoblogging] Re: External hard drive problems ?
That's not beside the point at all. I'm now realizing how fragile data is. My old PC crashed twice in years past. Since I got my Mac a couple years ago, I've been splendidly complacent. Some friends who work as professional video editors producing documentaries for Cable Channels tell me that every drive eventually fails. Now, they work on them all day, every day. Do drives age fail when they are just being used for storage? Mechanics have told me that a car sitting at the curb deteriorates just-as/even-more quickly than one that's driven a lot. It's something I haven't researched. I've been working with video since 1970. I discovered that even different brands of VHS tape differed in their life-expectancy. (TDK VHS tapes played 20 years later while others did not.) I know digital images are supposed to last forever but none of us are going to live long enough to check that declaration out. I'd hate to one day go to my back-up files and find they had deteriorated. One final note, Lacie suggests not using their drive with Time Machine as a back-up on video files because something in the formatting causes a lag when they are played. Thanks for the thoughts. Randolfe Wicker Hoboken, NJ --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Terranova [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Slightly besides the point, but I strongly advise to avoid Lacie (each one I¹ve owned has failed)... G-Tech is a much more solid option... //-- DAVID TERRANOVA d a v i d t e r r a n o v a . c o m From: Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:59:44 -0700 To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] External hard drive problems ? Thanks for this list, Brook - that's really helpful. I've had problems with Lacie drives. And yet I've still bought more. My initial thought about your problem is that given that it repeats on all your drives, regardless of manufacturer, it's something to do with your computer - your ports or some software problem, or a cable, or a setting. On 16-Sep-08, at 12:31 PM, Brook Hinton wrote: Make sure the drives are formatted Mac HFS+. Video will not work reliably if they are formatted for both mac and windows, even if they mount. Make sure you have the computer set to never put hard drives to sleep in your preferences. (And avoid MyBooks, which ignore this setting). Make sure you never fill the drive up beyond 80%. Make sure every firewire cable is good. They can go bad. Make sure no cable is more than 14.5', Ideally much much shorter, especially if you are using multiple devices. Make sure every firewire device in the chain is on. Make sure every port is good - on the drives AND on the computer. Make sure your video is in a format your software likes. It's a lot of work, but that's the usual firewire troubleshooting list. It's rarely the drive unless you've been unplugging it or turning it off without dismounting it. ___ 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] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] External hard drive problems ?
I've been having problems with the external hard drives on my Mac. When my two 500 GB internal drives filled up, I bought a LaCie 1000 GB external drive. It started playing videos stop-and-go once I got up to 650 GBs used. I bought a second Lacie 1000 GB drive and found it wouldn't mount when my computer turned on. Then I bought a Lacie 2000 GB drive which turned out to be defective which I got replaced. At the Apple store, the genius said that Lacie external drives were no longer the best since they had changed their internal drives. He suggested we buy a G-tech 1000 GB external drive which I did and now it has the same irregular playback problem I had in the others. So, I've spent $450 + $400 + $500 + $350, a total of $1700 in external drives only to find I will have to use most of them for storage and back-up and continually shift the video I want to edit and export to my camera and DVDs back to the two 500 GB internal drives in my G5 Mac. We thought it might be the ram so I added 4 ram to the 2 already there. That helped a little bit. Then I upgraded to Leopard from Tiger because someone suggested it was my operating system. I'm beginning to think the only way to have lots of GBs (4000) available for use is to spend some $6000 more on a new Power Mac. Does anyone have any suggestions? Have you had similar problems? Finally, at one time I was afraid I'd have to pay to have the data retrieved from one of my one-terabyte drives by Tech Serve discovered they charged $1800 to do so. I managed to retrieve the data without that expense--which was a small relief an advertisement against using any external drive larger than a one terabyte because it would cost $3600 to get the data off of a two terabyte drive. Yuk. Videoblogging can become a very expensive hobby.
[videoblogging] Re: Americans Turn to Online Video
The number of people who post videos online fails to differentiate between those who do so regularly and seriously versus those who shoot a few nonsensical videos post them only now and then. There is a huge number of people who only put a few videos online and then simply stop posting or disappear. I'm amazed at the large percentage of people who I subscribe to at various sites who literally go 6 to 9 months without posting one new video and the equally large number of users who simply no longer exist. Do some research of your own. Check out other videos by a user, look at when they joined how many videos they post. Most people do it on a whim, get no response lose interest. In fact, consistent posters who have real video skills frequently go for weeks/months between posts. So this 10 million figure is totally misleading. Sometimes, people make their videos private so only certain people can view them. I suspect a disproportionate number of people posting videos on the Internet are teenagers who have grown up in the new video age. They are the ones who appear to have made MySpace so big. Actually, the number of serious content producers are few and far between. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Brook Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's 14 percent of those shooting their own video. It's all in the actual (short and easy to digest) report: http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/Pew_Videosharing_memo_Jan08.pdf Brook On 1/10/08, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh is it 14% of the 22% who shoot some video? Even so that would still be getting on for 10 million people? Are there really that many people posting videos? If so I admit to being shocked, Id have thought the net would seem a bit different if there were that many, but maybe my sense of reality on this isue is all wrong. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins steve@ wrote: Nice to hear such things. I cant quite believe some of those number sthough. If 14% of Americans posted soe video online, isnt that like 42 million people or something? Surely thats not right, and its either a bogus number of badly explained there, could be 14% of some smaller subset of Americans? Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Baron andrew@ wrote: According to net measurement firm Nielsen Online, some online video sites have doubled their audience since the strike began at the end of October. In September and October, Crackle enjoyed an audience of 1.2m users which doubled to 2.4m in November and December, it found. Some 22% of Americans now shoot their own videos, with 14% of them posting at least some of that video online. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7180889.stm [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
[videoblogging] Re: How not to manage a tech meltdown: Operator11
I've been so busy that I missed Jonny Goldstein's latest tech meltdown. I always get a kick out of watching Jonny working madly at getting his latest platform/technology/whatever to work. It's like watching Riff Raff work the controls in the Rocky Horror Show :-)...or like watching one of those old/new space-travel movies with the pilot trying to stablize the disintegrating spaceship :-). I emphasize with Jonny in these situations. I always enjoy the ride and the adventure when Jonny is captian of the ship. Hope to join the next adventure... Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, jonny goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whoops, didn't mean to imply I wasn't going to do the show. Anyway, we did it with blog tv and it was a technical cluster()(*^^*%$# of epic proportions. Ended up with a good last half hour though. Thanks fto everyone who hung in there through the tech hell. Jim Long and Loic were fantastic. Next week, I will do it from my studio which has way better connectivity than we had last night, so it should be a hell of a lot smoother. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, gerry tejeda gerrytshow@ wrote: Are you kidding me! No Jonny or New Media Jim tonight. I cleared my schedule so I could view this landmark LIVE interview. Don't worry Jonny you'll make it happen one way or another. The Par-TAY must and WILL continue with or without Operator 11! GerryT The Gerry T Show Where Mating Dating Always Come Together http://TheGerryTShow.Blip.TV http://GerryT.com Jan McLaughlin jannie.jan@ wrote: Oh Christ, Jonny - and you had such a FINE, fine interview set up. Lots of other live platforms out there - go for it! Jan On 11/28/07, Bill Cammack billcammack@ wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, jonny goldstein spamjonny@ wrote: Great example of how NOT to manage things when your alpha social web platform implodes. Operator11, which I have had great experiences with in general, is a live streaming video platform. As of last night, their site has been down. Their forums are hosted on the same server apparently, so there's no info there. Their blog, which is still up, was last updated in October. No news there. They don't owe me anything. They are a free service in alpha. But it would be in their interest to keep their users in the loop about what's going on, rather than leave us to stew in uncertainty. It's very easy for us to jump to another platform. Anyway, I hope they resolve their tech woes and I hope if they have future tech difficulties they keep their community better posted on what is going on. That's not good AT.ALL. :/ I just checked, and the site is still down. Not like how Twitter goes down and tries to fake you out with a picture of a bird! :D Down as in: Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at operator11.com. Well... you may have to resort to blogtv to do your show tonight. I know that defeats the purpose of having your show archives on operator11. -- Bill Cammack http://BillCammack.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- The Faux Press - better than real http://feeds.feedburner.com/diaryofafauxjournalist - RSS http://fauxpress.blogspot.com http://wburg.tv aim=janofsound air=862.571.5334 skype=janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] - Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Fighting spam on YouTube?
With 101 vlogs on YouTube and always interested in feedback, I get several emails about comments every day. It is really a bummer to go read a comment on a video you particularly like and are anxious to get some intelligent reaction to, only to find some spam add promoting supposedly hot vid sites like Camaholics. Making a video, spending hours editing it uploading it is really like having a thankless unpaid job since only about one in a hundred viewers bothers to leave a comment or give you a rating. I have alternately clciked the block this user box, then clicked OK and then clicked the delete as spam option. I'm wondering if doing the work of block this user is worth the extra effort in a general sense. I'd like to think so. However, they seem to put up the ads for the same sites over and over using different names. Does anyone with greater technical knowledge have any ideas about this? Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ www.RandyWickerReporting.Blogspot.com
[videoblogging] FILMMAKERS PROTEST NYC RESTRICTIONS ON FILMING: UNION SQUARE, FRIDAY, 6:30
Anyone who shoots video in NYC should turn out tomorrow, Friday, at 6:30 PM in Union Square in NYC to protest the proposed restrictions that would require insurance permits to film in NYC. This is a very serious attack on everyone with a video camera. Here is a link to the story: http://www.pictureny. Here is link to the facebook posting: http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.phpeid=2876121213 Hope to see all of you in the NYC area there tomorrow. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ 07030 201-656-3280
[videoblogging] Re: Myspace/Blip Connection
I've just discovered that all my postings from Blip go to my blog on MySpace instead of to the section titled videos. You are right. Some good friends told me that my videos weren't going to MySpace. I really don't have time for spending much time on MySpace or in FaceBook. More seriously, when Google bought Blogger, your user name was changed to be your email address so for two months none of my videos got onto my main site www.RandyWickerReporting.blogspot.com I got that fixed. I don't know if it is possible to transfer my videos from my blog into my videos on MySpace or now. Maybe, you could make a short video telling people clicking on videos that your videos are in the blog box. I don't know if this should be fixed at Blip and/or MySpace. I'm amazed at how video hosting sites do such a poor job explaining how to use their facilities and features. YouTube is outstanding in that regard. However, I understand you can get a free program somewhere with which you can download better quality video when you want to copy it onto DVDs etc. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, paulvideoprez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been looking to move video to myspace from their location on blip.tv While they do move, they seem to go into bulletin and/or blog. Not to video. I believe this means they will not be circulated and seen as videos, and lose their visibility there. Am I correct? All and all, this seems unsatisfactory.
[videoblogging] Re: Advice on an affordable/portable monopod.
I couldn't agree with Bill Streeter more insofar as monopods are inexpensive and really help stabilize video, especially when zooming --which magnified each movement. I have two actually. I couldn't resist buying one very new and unique one which is an affordable step down from those things you put around your body to get steady pictures while running with someone, etc. It's Manfrotto #560B and is made in Italy. It is the first monopod that havs three small feet and a ball swivel which allows you to follow a moving person with an even slow steady motion while they are walking or running. I had to pay $159.00 at BH. The salesman told me that it had only been out a few weeks at the time (I'm guessing since the beginning of this year). He also said that he's sold one to every person he had shown it tol They don't work on commission there I'm glad he showed it to me. He knew I was working with a $2000.00 Sony AIU larger camera and a HC42 Sony mini-DV. I have the tiny Samsung to literally carry in my pocket which is great in bright light close up sound but my favorite is the HC42 which is now developing problems because of such heavy use. I sent it off for repair last December they fixed it under the warranty I had purchased. But it took them a full month to return it to me. I bought a new Canon Mini-DV that takes a plug-in mike yesterday which takes a plug-in mike yesterday because I want to decent small camera with a plug in mike while my HC42 is off for repair. It only cost $279. ZR800 is the Canon model number. I haven't opened it up and started working with it yet. I discovered a few other things about plug in connectors for my Sony HC42 that I never knew existed. I'll make that a different posting. I've been so busy filming great stuff, I haven't had time to even check my email for days at a time. I hope to be able to make one of the Flash Conferences on Sat Tuesday but have just been too busy taking care of a dyi8ng friend and other pressing things. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ 07030 Find my vlogs using Randolfe as a search at Blip, Veoh and/or YouTube. 201-656-3280 --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Streeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes monopods are a great and deceptively simple solution. I think a lot of people dismiss them because the concept is so simple. I use a bogan which is a really good brand and you can get one for like $30 from BH or someplace like that. I love it, and never leave home without it. Bill Streeter LO-FI SAINT LOUIS www.lofistl.com www.billstreeter.net --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jonathan Bloom jonathan@ wrote: Does anyone have any advice on a good affordable and portable monopod? I did some video at VON and it turned out a little shaky and one of our viewers suggested I get a monopod. -- -Jonathan Bloom http://thenameiwantedwastaken.com
[videoblogging] Good subject to vlog!
We know the power of our video cameras to capture events and spread the word through the Internet. I've seen video shot while skinheads were attacking people who were assembling for the first Gay Pride March there. Anyone with relevent footage should post those videos. Anyone traveling to or living in Poland should do interviews and vlog them. Meanwhile, here is a bulletin from Human Rights Campaign: Please circulate widely: PETITION POLAND: HANDS OFF HUMAN RIGHTS Send a message to Poland's government that it must respect all human rights for all. Sign the petition below! In recent months and years, Polish leaders have threatened criminal sanctions against lesbian and gay activists and organizations, have tried to restrict freedoms of expression and association, and have even threatened violence against LGBT marchers. Human Rights Watch and Campaign Against Homophobia (Kampania Przeciw Homofobii, Poland's central LGBT group) ask for YOUR signatures on the attached petition demanding an end to homophobic attacks. KPH will present the petition to Polish authorities at Warsaw's Equality Parade on May 19, 2007. Send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] by NOON EST (5 PM GMT) ON FRIDAY, MAY 18 letting us know you will sign on. Give your NAME, COUNTRY OF ORIGIN, and any other identifying information you want included. PLEASE also let us know if you are signing on as an individual or an organization! PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS WIDELY! And please sign the petition by writing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --and stand up for human rights in Poland! POLAND: Hands off Human Rights The President of the Republic of Poland Lech Kaczynski ul. Wiejska 10 00-902 Warszawa, Poland Dear President Kaczynski, We urge you and your government to stop your attacks on the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. Such attacks betray Poland's long, proud record of struggling for human rights. Upholding equal rights for all will help build a freer future. Your government has declared it will fire gay teachers, and impose criminal penalties on anyone who promotes homosexuality or any other deviance of a sexual nature in education establishments. This blatant violation of basic rights could deprive students of potentially life-saving information about sexuality and about HIV/AIDS. Members of your government have accused organizations working on LGBT people's human rights of pedophilia, and threatened them with criminal investigations. A legislator in your governing coalition said that gays who demonstrate should be bashed with a baton. In 2004 and 2005, when mayor of Warsaw, you yourself tried to ban Gay Pride marches, saying that public promotion of homosexuality will not be allowed. Your words and actions have contributed to a climate where violence against LGBT people is toleratedor even encouraged. Such words and acts threaten democracy. This month, the European Court of Human Rights condemned your attempts to ban Gay Pride marches in Warsaw. The court praised a pluralism built on the genuine recognition of, and respect for, diversityincluding genuine and effective respect for freedom of association and assembly. Last month, the European Parliament, motivated by events in Poland, passed a resolution On Homophobia in Europe. It condemned discriminatory remarks by political and religious leaders targeting homosexuals. It voiced solidarity with, and support for, fundamental rights activists and defenders of equal rights for LGBT people. It called for an official EU investigation of what is happening to LGBT people's rights in Poland. Do not isolate Poland by promoting intolerance and hate. Defend all human rights for all people, regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity. Scott Long Director Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Program Human Rights Watch 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor New York, NY USA 10118 Tel. +01 (212) 216-1297 Fax +01 (212) 216-1876 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * * * * * * * * Un pajaro de papel en el pecho Dice que el tiempo de los besos no ha llegado. --Vicente Aleixandre
[videoblogging] LEGALIZE PROSTITUTION NOW!
The Washington escort scandal is a perfect setting for those supporting legalization of prostitution and sexual freedom in general to make their voices heard As someone who has been at different times, a hustler, a john and a madam, I have long had an interest in this field. See Wheelchair Hustler On Veoh: http://www.veoh.com/videos/e777816tM58dj6?searchId=3782331302563995307rank=0 On Blip: http://www.blip.tv/file/23708/ I want to participate in, help organize film a demonstration for legalized prostitution in NYC. If anyone hears of one or wants to join with me in creating one in the next few days and/or helping me video and vlog events like that, please contact me immediately. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ 07030 201-656-3280
[videoblogging] Re: Affordable Video Lights
I discovered a variety of screw-on reflectors at a lighting store in NYC. They screwed on to the inexpensive clamp lights you buy in stores for $6 or $7. I replaced the clamp light socket with a dimmer socket so I could adjust the intensity of the lights. Through experimentation, I discovered (to my surprise) that the screw-on reflector shaped like a cone actually threw light the most evenly. I had a bright circle problem with various bulbs until I tried soft white bulbs. There are also new dawn bulbs with a light pinkish tone which can add color. Two or three of these can light just about anything you want to light. The portability of the lights the ability to turn them up or dim them down makes getting the correct effect very easy. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ www.RandyWickerReporting.blogspot.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jonathan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for GOOD prices on video lighting. These are for when I can setup lights for scenes in my videos. I've been using some mutli-directional floor lamps and now want something better. Keep in mind: I would prefer not having to spend A TON of money on light bulbs since one kit I saw had a 2-3 hour lifespan for the lights. I also need this to be affordable! Thanks very much! -- -Jonathan Bloom http://thenameiwantedwastaken.com
[videoblogging] Podcasters! Our forgotten cousins???
I spent Friday night and today attending PodCamp in NYC. They had about 1,000 people attending. Videobloggers were certainly part of the mix. What amazes me is that PodCamp can attract that many people while out NYC VideoBlogging Group had a grand total of 4 people at the last meeting. Why are there so many podcasters and so few videobloggers? I added a couple videos to my Videoblo0ggingweek2007 series covering the opening night will be adding more shortly. Here are the links about the opening of PodCamp in NYC 2007: PODCAMP NYC OPENS WITH PERFECT PITCH Hundreds of podcasters gathered at NYC's Slate Lounge, 54 W. 21st, to socialize network. With everyone pitching their shows, talents skills to everyone else, John Havens let Laura Allen show everyone how to do a perfect 15-second pitch. The pitch was perfect. Everywhere, people were studying the cards, listening and enjoying the show. LINKS: ON BLIP: http://blip.tv/file/192430/ ON YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOk3CeT6bgY ON VEOH: http://www.veoh.com/videos/v363347PXDK86gw POCAMP NYC (Out-takes) Another short video from Friday night social available at above sites or through http://www.RandyWickerReporting.blogspot.com ---
[videoblogging] Re: YouTube / VBW - Thank you Mark Day!
I've been using the MeFeedia Videobloggingweek2007 page. I couldn't understand why there seemed to be no comments. I lefty a rave for Mark Day told a friend I thought I had a strange sense of humor because the things I found funny didn't seem too popular. My comment on MeFeedia didn't show up on YouTube. I'm glad to see 27 or more comments were posted on YouTube. I use the MeFeedia page so I don't miss videos posted at sites other than YouTube. I think poeple should check out the MeFeedia aggregation and leave some cpomments there on videos they haven't seen elsewhere. It is nice to have everything collected in one spot. We also should encourage people whose posts we might otherwise miss. I had fun covering the Chocolate Jesus non-veiling in NYC for day two. I've been keeping one day ahead, having posted four videos in three days since I'll be attending PodCamp's opening party and event this coming Friday Saturday. I can't imagine doing all that without falling a day behind :-) Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ (One mile fvrom the center of the known world.) www.RandyWickerReporting.blogspot.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Garfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greatest YouTube video ever. On Apr 1, 2007, at 6:14 PM, Steve Watkins wrote: I'll thank you too much as I see youve posted a whole video about the week now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF-X7lNsaOU So... -- Steve Garfield http://SteveGarfield.com
[videoblogging] VH1's 40 Greatest Internet Superstars TV Show
Some of you might have seen Keith Oberman's Kiethe Awards parody of the YouTube Awards Friday evening on MSNBC. They were very funny. Now, there is a new program on VH1 called 40 Greatest Internet Super Stars which airs at 8:00 P.M. Friday nights. Don't know if this has been discussed on the list before. I don't think so. However, I'd be interested in knowing people's reactions and descriptions of what this show is like. I've been buried in emails and editing projects. Here is a trailer published as a vlog by Mr. Pregnant himself on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIME1PSGNaI I know many will be grossed out. Mr. Pregnant's videos vary greatly in quality. However, anyone who thinks this guy is a total fool (which he is in most of his videos) will be surprised at the Lenny-Bruce-like crafty reverse-humor-commentary in his video entitled I Am White. http://youtube.com/watch?v=JD_3auRSJK8 What he really needs is a good editor and someone who knows how to turn laughs into dollars. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker www.RandyWickerReporting.Blogspot.com Hoboken, NJ (One mile from the center of the known world.)
[videoblogging] Re: A question about viewership habits....
Being featured on Veoh may not be as potent as it used to be. Whenever I sign into Veoh, the featured videos that play for me are based on my recent viewing history and coments. This means that I have mostly Japanese Pop videos which consumes most of my viewing time. YouTube is very vacuous. One techie told me a couple weeks ago that he could set a program in his computer to click on his video every few seconds. He said this would put him up on the most viewed YouTube page but he'd only be there for a few minutes. YouTube would check his hits and see they all came from his program. Beyond that, reading comments on YouTube and checking out the profile of the members posting them reveals that 90% (or more) have 0 videos that they themselves have posted. Add to this percentage all those who post clips from commercial shows and you will find that YouTube's audience are overwhelmingly consumers. Most of them are vacuous airheads which is verifiable by the literacy and intelligence of their comments which frequently are simple statements like Cool! and/or I like this. etc. That is why I prefer Veoh Blip. At least most of the viewers there are way above the YouTube crowd. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker www.RandyWickerReporting.blogspot.com Hoboken, NJ (One mile from the center of the known world!) --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good luck with that! :D Are they featuring just one of your videos, or are they planning to rotate them? That might make a difference as far as which of your videos collect hits. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ed Smith edd66@ wrote: Hi I may be able to give you some additional feedback after tomorrow. Veoh.com is featuring my One Minute Motivator series of vids on their site tomorrow. These are short success/motivation vids of less that 2 min and in the vids is a listing of my website to go for more info. Now less than 10% of the general population is into success/motivation, so I expect that only a small percent of the people seeing one of the vids will view the other 7 One Minute Motivators currently listed there, but we will see. Also it is my guess that the bulk of the people visiting video websites are young men, and they tend not to be into success/motivation. So while I am thrilled veoh.com is featuring the One Minute Motivator, I can't help wondering why they picked it given what I think is their viewership. Anyway, once I get some sense of the numbers of views, and then website visits and sign ups for my free email version of the One Minute Motivator, I will come back to the group and share my numbers. Thanks, Ed. On 3/28/07, Bill Cammack BillCammack@ wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Heath heathparks@ wrote: We've discussed this a bit but I had a very personal experiece recently that proved (at least to me) an interesting viewship fact. Being featured somewhere does not mean you will gain a jump in views to your other videos. Recently one of my posts was featured on the Yahoo video page, I was one there for over a day, that video did great numbers by far my most popular video, over 8,000 views which for me...is HUGE. Anyway, I was really pumped but I noticed that while I did gain some subscribers I didn't gain a whole lot of views on my other videos. Being featured was great but unless you are being featured all the time, it doens't appear to mean a thing really. So I am curious, what has been other's experience's? And why is it that it never seems to translate? I mean I know if I see something I like I check out other stuff. Am I alone in that? Is my 15 minutes of fame already up? How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootise roll tootise pop? I need to know! Heath http://batmangeek7.blogspot.com The reason it doesn't translate is that there's nothing to translate. Featuring puts a video in front of someone's face. The way the culture works, if you put it in front of their face, they might click it. That doesn't mean they know or care anything about what they're clicking on. They just want to see what's interesting, OR they like looking at whatever's featured. It's not the same thing as saying to a crowd of people Hey! I have a show about XYZ! Would you all like to watch it? and they say yes and you give them the URL, and they're actually invested in the topic or your character or whatever the draw of the video is. All they want to see is what they want to see right now. The fame part comes from the being selected, not from how many people click on it. It's similar to the reason why paparazzi shows stay on the air indefinitely. There's a large group of people that want to know what's popular
[videoblogging] Multiple copies of postings to this group?
I am getting two, sometimes three, copies of postings to this group. At first, I thought that I might have posted my own message twice. However, then I noticed I got three identical messages from Bill Cammack's posting about personas. I've just changed my manner of getting postings from this group to daily digest. It seems to me that one can spend one's life on the list and/or one can simply keep an eye on the list and have a life outside of it :-) Vloggingly yours, Randolfe (Randy) Wicker www.RandyWickerReporting.blogspot.com Hoboken, NJ (One mile from the center of the known world.)
[videoblogging] Re: Acting Characters
Bill, you raise a most interesting question. A good friend felt that the persona you displayed while reviewing an old movie was totally different than the real you (?) he had seen in short clips of you explaining to me the way to use my camera. Yes, you have to have a persona when you vlog. Jonny Goldstein has various personas he uses in his comedy routines. I am struggling with creating a new, non-serious (or humorously serious) persona for videos with humorous content. Indeed,I even did a recent vlog entitled Glasses as Image http://www.veoh.com/videos/v291145phEY72pz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEEnJ4qX7So http://blip.tv/file/165791/ in which I invited the audience to join me in creating new personas through bizarre glasses I had purchased. What's strange is when two personas you want to create collide. I deleted some footage from the glasses video in which I wore huge black-rimmed glasses and speculated that they made me look like a Michael Musto clone. Then, in my respectable Randy Wicker Reporting drag, I actually stumbled into and interviewed Michael Musto at the Gay Expo this past weekend. I couldn't resist asking him about his glasses as image. He now wears much smaller round black-rimmed glasses. He told me that he stopped wearing the 'big' glasses after reading what people were saying about me on the Internet. I even described the mockery of him and his glasses as having been done by some comedian (I hope that is accurate). He said that it was flattering to be a person that was subjected to characture. I'm going to blend the proper reporter me with the want-to-be comedian me in a confessional video beginning with the interview and than adding a section (introduced by myself looking very respectable but wearing a pair of big white angel wings) 'reporting' that all reporters like to appear as angels but that is not always the case. However, melding two different personas is difficult. I plan to create a second blog which will consist of my humorous videos. You can only be one persona in any series of vlogs. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker www.RandyWickerReporting.blogspot.com Hoboken, NJ (One mile from the center of the known world.) 201-656-3280 --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: @ The Network2 get-together, I showed up late to a conversation about internet personas between Bre, Grace, and a guy whose name I didn't catch, but who was pointed out to me as that guy over there that looks like Hugh Grant. As I was in the process of giving my opinion on the subject, I mentioned the word acting. Now, I didn't mean acting like as in Shakespeare, but the basis of the conversation was personas, which implied to me that we're talking about a particular presentation being made, which is acting. Not only that, but depending on HOW you're making your videoblog or show, I think you're acting merely by looking into a video camera or webcam and interacting with it as if it's a real person you're having a conversation with. I realize that there are people that just turn on the camera and say whatever comes to them in a heartfelt manner, and that's their videoblog. That's not what we were talking about. We were talking about choosing a style of presentation... deciding how to deliver the information as opposed to just having the information and saying it however it comes out. I also feel like it's acting because there's certain information you need to deliver. You have to get from point A to point B, so there's a particular amount of calculation that goes into what you're saying... even if it's not scripted. It's different from stream of consciousness, this is merely a videotaped documentation of how I felt and looked and what I said on this particular day. I also referred to the persona as a character. There are lots of examples of characters on YouTube. You can see the same people in some videos in character and in other videos behind the scenes, apparently being themselves and hanging out with other people. There are also lots of examples of people that aren't attempting to do a character and are just trying to document what they're feeling and thinking. Do _you_ consider yourself acting when you videoblog? Do YOU have a character? If so, how did you select it and what does having a character do for you? -- Bill C. http://ReelSolid.TV
[videoblogging] Re: iTunes trouble and BlipTV feed
I've had repeated trouble uploading .mov Quicktime files to Blip that I've managed to upload without problems at Veoh YouTube. I understand where you are coming from. I use Blip to cross post to my vlog which is the way most people see my videos. The people at Blip are really nice dedicated folks. Let's face it, they give us something for nothing and don't infringe copyrights, etc. They are really at the spiritual center' of the vlogging movement in so many ways. Those really involved in all this have Blips in our heart for Blip.TV :-) However, I know how upsetting ti is when something that has worked so well in the past and that you have come to take for granted suddenly devcelops a bug that threatens to bring down your entire vlogging dreamworld. I haven't even explored features like crossposting that I believe are offerred by sites like Veoh (where I also post). If Ryanne Hodson and Jay Dedman hadn't been volunteering at the NYC ashort-lived Node101 storefront on weekends back in the fall of 2005, I'm not sure I would have ever even gotten my RSS feed up and running. I still haven't figured out how to add a description to it in Feedburner or MeFeedia so I really don't get the subscriptions I might. None of us should put all our eggs in one basket. That is why I post on three sites: Blip, Veoh YouTube. Each site offers something special. Blip is great at crossposting. Veoh has an educated and cultured viewership I've not found elsewhere allows you to publish v ideos of any length. YouTube has the masses--most of whom are mindless consumers. YouTube is like a mammoth garbage dump with crown jewels buried here and there. If you know how to searchg, use subscriptions favorites, etc. and you're willing to settle for low quality videos if you use SnapzPro to capture videos from the Internet, YouTube has real things to offer too. I'd personally like to know more about Google some of the other hosting sites folks use and what their opinions are regarding them. Originally, I stuck strictly with Blip because I thought I might want to use my videos in a commercial documentary. Then I got corrupted by the much greater traffic and reactions I could get to my videos on Veoh and YouTube. At this point, for me, my message is the medium, and I've really stopped caring about ownership rights, etc. I want to share my videos with as many people as I can find to watch them. That said, my heart still belongs to Blip and I'll put up with as many shortcomings as I can before seeking other options. I really hope that day never comes. I would like to see Blip be the next big thing. Vloggingly yours, Randolfe (Randy) Wicker www.RandyWickerReporting.blogspot.com Hoboken, NJ (One short mile from the center of the known world) 201-656-3280 --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, furnitology [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm at a loss. Since last Thursday(3/22)my feed from BlipTV is not being read by iTunes and I can't seem to get a solution. I've done all the trouble shooting at itunes, feed for previous episodes all work. I resubscribed with iTunes advanced drop down-menu and all previous episodes download. I pinged my site an get a message that ping successful. I went to FeedValidator and compared a working episode with my most recent and they do not compare well. Seems information is missing. I have contaced Bliip support and I am told they noticed tag lines missing in feed. It's been siince early yesterday and have heard nothing from blip support. Very frustrating as iTunes is 48% of my viership. Honestly I'm frustrated and BUMMING!!! Help with suggestions would be greatly apprecaitedI've pretty much run the course of my knowledge base. Next would be tp produce a short video and try to download and see what happens, but then that meesses up my other aggrigator feeds which work fine. THanks..Neil
[videoblogging] Re: Tuesday March 20/21st FlashMeeting
This is all too unreal. I signed in this evening and sat there for about ten or fifteen minutes--with no one else there. The entrance said Tueesday Flash meeting- Wednesday. I called a friend and closed the window. Usually I forget or try to sign in on Saturday after it is over, etc. Someone should be there at the beginning of the meeting. At least the sign shouldn't say Wednesday even though the meeting began on time with no one there. This is the second time I've signed in on time, waited a few minutes and then given up thinking it was the wrong time. I actually skipped an anti-Iraqui War demonstration at the World Trade Center, light show and all, because (1) I was exhausted and (2) I could socialize via the flash meeting. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken., NJ --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Enric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meeting in progress, come on in. I'm at VON. Link: http://flashmeeting.open.ac.uk/fm/4de0ca-7758 --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Enric enric@ wrote: The Tuesday March 13th FlashMeeting is on at 5:00pm - 7:00pm PST USA, 8:00pm - 10:00pm EST USA, 0:00am - 2:00am GMT (March 21st). Enter through this link: http://flashmeeting.open.ac.uk/fm/4de0ca-7758 You may also check the FlashMeeting page at flashmeeting.cirne.com for future and past Videoblogging FlashMeetings at: http://flashmeeting.cirne.com/index.php?title=Main_Page (I've put up a page off my domain, cirne.com, since voxmedia.com is acting a bit slow lately. I'll also be updating, voxmedia.) -- Enric -==- http://www.cirne.com
[videoblogging] Snapz ProX users help needed!!
I use the SnapzProX program to capture music videos from the Internet. Then I export them (through iMovie) to my mini-DV camera and then burn DVD's of the musice videos I think are worth saving. Initially, I captured videos at the recommended 8HZ and 15 frames per second rate. Now I have been using 16HZ and the 30 frames per secdond rate which is the best quality of capture. It seems to make everything better. There seems to be a huge difference in quality and sound but not always. Some videos on the Internet (especially from YouTube) are very low quality. I'd like to hear form others who use SnapaZ Pro to capture music videos. I am also wondering how Veoh's Veoh Client software which enables you to download the highest quality video might be used to get better video in this manner. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ. 201-656-3280
[videoblogging] Re: Saturday March 17th, 2007 Videoblogging FlashMeeting
I missed it again. I now have *:00 pm or whatever marked on my calendar for Tuesday. Look froward to seeing yhou there!\ randolfe (Randy) Wicker --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Enric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This coming Saturday, 3/17/07, FlashMeeting is set. The time for entry is 10am - noon PST USA, 1pm - 3pm EST USA, 17:00-19:00 GMT. Enter through this link: http://flashmeeting.open.ac.uk/fm/338344-7757 You may also check the FlashMeeting page at http://flashmeeting.cirne.com for future and past Videoblogging FlashMeetings at: http://flashmeeting.cirne.com/index.php?title=Main_Page Let me know if there's any topics you'd like to discuss on Saturday. -- Enric -==- http://www.cirne.com
[videoblogging] Videotaping Public Meetings
A website with the memorable name www.Hoboken411.com has been in the news lately. The local school board has put unrealistic and illegal restrictions on the videotaping of public meetings of the school boards in Hoboken, NJ. There is an interesting legal history regarding this. The NJ Supreme Court has ruled that taping of suc h public meetings can't be prohibited. In Hoboken, City Council meetings are held in a room only holding a couple hundred onlookers. Accoustics are terrible it is nearly impossible to hear what is being said even by those in the front rows. I've suggested using a shotgun microphone to zero-in on different politicians as they speak and make comments to one another, then broadcasting them on the Internet using www.Hoiboken411.com as a promotional tool. Here's the link to the story: http://hoboken411.com/archives/6244 I was looking at shotgun mikes and the BH salesperson recommended a Rhode NTG-2 Shotgun Condenser mike for $249.00 Does anyone have any experience with these types of microphones? I have a somewhat directional plug-in mike for doing on casmera interviews but am totally inexperienced when it comes to using a shotgun mike. Think I might get charged with breaking the gun laws for walking into Hoboken City Hall with my Sony A1U camera outfitted with a shotgun mike? :-) Vloggingly yours, Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ
[videoblogging] PODCAMP IN NYC ON APRIL 7th ???
Is anyone else in this group planning on attending the PODCAMP 2007 in New York City on April 7th and/or the reception the evening before? It looks like they have a lot of interesting panels and it should be a great place to learn and network. Maybe, we who are mostly focused on videoblogging could connect and work together during this event. I'm certainly going to be there. Vloggingly yours, Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ 201-656-3280
[videoblogging] Re: flash video
Daryl, you mention that you would also have pc accessability while working with flash. Would the new Mac with the Intel chip that can run Windows qualify as pc accessability. I'm planning on buying a second computer. I considered a good pc but then decided the new Mac with the Intel chip would work just as well. I edit with iMovie but like programs like Microsoft Word in the PC. However, since switching to Mac, I view the PC as a slowly dying dinosaur. Is there any reason I should consider getting a top of the line pc instead of a new Intel Mac? Money is not an important consideration. I never worked with video on a PC because my old PC didn't have the strength. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Daryl Urig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rupert, thanks for comments. With flash you can add navigation buttons if you want to have a little more than a video, you can have an interactive video. Also, with flash you can save out a quicktime and still have some of the navigation capabilaties. Coming from a flash perspective, as I am, what kind of file formats would you make available on your vblog site to keep the most viewers happy? I am working on a mac so would probably use Imovie to to video editing, and also have pc accessability. Daryl
[videoblogging] New words for the vlogging world??
I know wse've had spirited debates on vlogging vs videoblogging on this list. I prefer the former but sometimes use the latter when I think the listener/reader might not understand 'vlogging'. A friend who is somewhat hostile to my focus on Internet video called me a vididiot yesterday. He even suggested I might be a vidiact (meaning a video addict). I had to admit I lived in a vidcentric world and participated from time to time in what might be called the vidocracy of the Yahoo discussion group. All languages grow through the creation of new words. Time Magazine created the term yuppie several years ago. Fanvid is an accepted term on the Internet. My friend worried that I might someday become a geek. My response was that I was a slow learner but hoped I might achieve that 'status' in twenty or more years. His response was that geek was not a label to be embraced, that it came from an old carnival term which meant the one who bit off the head of a live chicken. anyone have any thoughts and/or suggestions for new terms we might start using in this new world of videoblogging? Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ 07030
[videoblogging] Re: flash video
Wow, just when I thought I'd finally reached a decision, you have totally changed everything. I started with Mac OX Tiger. In the past, I've had two crashes with Windows that were time consuming and expensive and disastrous. I'm thinking about starting a podcast because I like interviewing. I've also been interested in the discussion about the Windows media center, watching vlogs on the TV, etc. Is there a resource on the Internet that really discusses the Vista versus Mac features in greater detail? Thanks for the quick response and helpful observations. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Randy, I'm a Mac fan and have both PC Macs (PowerPC G4 x2). One of my many freelancing jobs is helping people sort out their computer problems. I don't think the PC is a slowly dying dinosaur. PCs are here to stay because people like what they know. You could look at Mac's transition to Intel as a slow convergence towards a world of oneness where both exist together in a compatible PC world. Macs are now really just smart-looking high-spec PCs, with a slightly different OS. Vista has learnt from and copied OS X in its appearance and functionality.The next computer I'm going to buy is not a Mac - I've had too many hard drive failures on my G4s and my iPod to love Apple hardware any more. It's all about features. I have all the design and editing software I need on Mac already, but what I want from PC is Windows Media Center - integrated TV, HDR, Video on demand, Podcasting, RSS, Music, blah blah blah. This is traditional Mac territory, but Vista has done it better this time. Apple TV is seriously short on features. Rupert http://www.fatgirlinohio.org http://www.crowdabout.us/fatgirlinohio/myshow/ On 15 Mar 2007, at 17:39, humancloner1997 wrote: Daryl, you mention that you would also have pc accessability while working with flash. Would the new Mac with the Intel chip that can run Windows qualify as pc accessability. I'm planning on buying a second computer. I considered a good pc but then decided the new Mac with the Intel chip would work just as well. I edit with iMovie but like programs like Microsoft Word in the PC. However, since switching to Mac, I view the PC as a slowly dying dinosaur. Is there any reason I should consider getting a top of the line pc instead of a new Intel Mac? Money is not an important consideration. I never worked with video on a PC because my old PC didn't have the strength. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Daryl Urig daryl@ wrote: Rupert, thanks for comments. With flash you can add navigation buttons if you want to have a little more than a video, you can have an interactive video. Also, with flash you can save out a quicktime and still have some of the navigation capabilaties. Coming from a flash perspective, as I am, what kind of file formats would you make available on your vblog site to keep the most viewers happy? I am working on a mac so would probably use Imovie to to video editing, and also have pc accessability. Daryl [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: flash video
Thanks Steve, I find what you say especially fascinating. I just wonder how far off is the new Leopard Mac? My current Mac Tiger has two internal 500 GB hard drives, one external 1000 GB (terabyte?) drive and room for one more 1000 GB drive. I really don't have to worry about space since I can always find some stuff to put back on tape. I have been reading comments about Vista. Most focused on Vista's requirement for room. I'll watch Verdi's video. A friend of a friend got Parallel had trouble with it. When he contacted Apple, even though it was/is advertised on their site (in a sidebar), they claim it is not their product and wouldn't help him with it. That was a surprise to me and a bit disappointing. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ 07030 www.RandyWickerReporting.blogspot.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reasons people in general would buy a PC: Cost (I know its not an issue for you but its a large reason that the PC isnt dying out significantly, and that most people I know dont even look at a Mac before buying a PC) 3D gamers probably want better graphics cards than most Macs dont have Certain other specific hardware may not run on Mac They havent seen or dont like OS X, or they dont know that windows works on Intel macs. They dont like Apple for some other reason, or there just doesnt seem to be a Mac with the right spec for them available. For your needs it sounds like a Mac would be a great fit. Parallels desktop will run things like Word very nicely, and if you needed higher performance for video editing or games or something, then Bootcamp works well. The Intel Macs are effectively at least 90% standard PC hardware so the performance should be about the same as an equivalently spec'd PC. Even Vista works mostly fine on the Macbooks, just have to fiddle about with drivers a bit and it really helps if you bung at least 2GB of RAM in whatever Mac you get. Did you ever see the demo Michael Verdi (I think) did of Parallels feature where you can have Windows programs appear in windows as if they were within OSX, with things like dragdrop working. Its wild and really starts to blur the lines. Maybe a good idea to wait till Leopard comes out before buying a new Mac, as I dont think it can be very far away now? Not that Leopard seems to have any 'killer' must-have features from what Ive seen, but inevitably software that needs Leopard will appear at some point. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, humancloner1997 rhwicker@ wrote: Daryl, you mention that you would also have pc accessability while working with flash. Would the new Mac with the Intel chip that can run Windows qualify as pc accessability. I'm planning on buying a second computer. I considered a good pc but then decided the new Mac with the Intel chip would work just as well. I edit with iMovie but like programs like Microsoft Word in the PC. However, since switching to Mac, I view the PC as a slowly dying dinosaur. Is there any reason I should consider getting a top of the line pc instead of a new Intel Mac? Money is not an important consideration. I never worked with video on a PC because my old PC didn't have the strength. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker
[videoblogging] Re: New words for the vlogging world??
Rupert, I agree that we are all filmmakers. Indeed, even some of the old 8mm and hi-8 cameras have created amazing films like 51 Birch Street (and another documentary that someone used to tell the story of his life growing up). However, filmmaker is not specific enough. We're all (mostly) Americans also. Filmmaker really doesn't describe the new no-gatekeepers, even-copyrights-be-damned, relatively- uncensored, free-speech-stage we are using at this time. We are living in a special time, like the 1960s, which some day soon may well be only those warmly-remembered good old days. In the 1960s 1970s, friends and employees used to sit in front of my shop in Greenwich Village and smoke grass openly. Those days are long gone. There were wild strip sex shows all over NYC. No more! You could set up tables on the street (as I did) and demand the local Police be investigated for refusing to investigate a murder or other crime. We are in the Wild West Days of Internet video. Wait and see! The Status Quo folks will soon have your videos deleted for having a few bars of copyrighted music 'intruding' on a scene and/or for your refusal/inability to produce signed (perhaps notraized) releases from people walking by in the background. I think we are media pioneers, people in the street documenting all kinds of things without a permit. Is Josh Wolf just another 'media person'? If he was, he wouldn't be sitting in jail. Loose Cameras and/or Unregulated Media-makers and/or Internet Video Agitators describe us better than filmmakers. Filmmakers have been around since the late 19th Century. We are the new media of the 21st Century. I'd embrace some new term like vidist before I'd embrace filmmaker as a description of myself. My friend said that anyone could create new words. All you have to do is simply throw them out and (sometimes) people will just pick them up and start using them. I think fanvid is an excellent example of that. Fanvids simply did not exist and were virtualloy impossible until videoblogging enabled everyone to participate in the world of Internet video. Vloggingly yours, Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think we're all just film-makers. You don't have to be a 'professional' any more. You're making films. Like a writer writes. Or a musician musicianifizes. To classify according to the distribution method is almost irrelevant, now, because it's the norm. I've quoted it before, but here's Francis Ford Coppola in 87/88: To me the great hope is that now these little 8mm video recorders and stuff have come out, some... just people who normally wouldn't make movies are going to be making them, and - you know - suddenly, one day, some little fat girl in Ohio is going to be the new Mozart - you know - and make a beautiful film with her little father's camera...corder - and for once the so-called professionalism about movies will be destroyed... Forever... Well, forget the Mozart part - we didn't need a Messiah to change people's attitudes, we needed the distribution methods to change. And now it's the norm for films to be shown online, so ideas of labelling us according to blogging, vlogging, web, net or youtube have less meaning. and don't help you find types of content any more. We're just filmmakers. What TYPE of films you make... fiction, animation, documentary, magazine shows, autobiographical, confessional, reality TV, instructional... now that's another matter :-) Rupert http://www.fatgirlinohio.org http://www.crowdabout.us/fatgirlinohio/myshow/ On 15 Mar 2007, at 17:54, humancloner1997 wrote: anyone have any thoughts and/or suggestions for new terms we might start using in this new world of videoblogging? Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ 07030 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Newbie YouTube capture question
Zachary, I don't know what computer you are on. I have a complicated description on how to do this with a PC on my Mac but don't have the URL. I'll send it to you in a video email. I personally use Snapz ProX which costs some money but enables you to capture anything, video or still photo, that appears on your computer screen. I use it all the time because I like to capture JPop Music Videos and then burn them to DVDs (after downloading them into my camera from iMovie). However, the videos on YouTube are not the best quality because they use flash. I get much better captures from videos on Veoh. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Zachary Braiker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this must have been asked many times before, but what's the EASIEST and free way to capture YouTube video and put it into a power point. Thanks guys--i appreciate the advice. Z On 15 Mar 2007 10:55:51 -0700, Mike Hudack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll never forget that train ride, Randy :) -Original Message- From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging% 40yahoogroups.com [mailto:videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging% 40yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of RANDY MANN Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 5:32 AM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging% 40yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] congrats to blip - one to watch ive been watching them for years now ever since that fate full train ride On 14 Mar 2007 17:09:58 -0700, Jen Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED]jensimmons%40gmail.com wrote: Congrats to everyone at blip.tv for being named one of the 100 IP communications companies to watch in 2007 by Pulver! http://pulver.com/pulver100/ http://pulverblog.pulver.com/archives/006604.html - Jen _ Jen Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jensimmons.com http://milkweedmediadesign.com 267-235-6967 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: blog vs youtube myspace
I am surprised that no one seems to have encountered this notice while exploring videos on YouTube. I sent it to myself as an email: Subject: YOU TUBE DISCOURAGES COMMENTS!! You have recently posted several comments. Please wait some time before posting another. I haven't counted the number of comments or the number of comments in a certazin period of time that brings up that notice. I try to leave a rating and a comment on vlogs that show a lot of work ow which contain something really unique. Sometimes, I'll find a remarkable vlog with only one or two tags that has not gotten the number of views I feel it deserves---so, I'll suggest they add more tage words to increasze their viewership. There is a lot of burn out by vloggers. I go through 'dry' periods myself. You knock yourself out to produce something exciting and you get few views and limited feedback. Yes, the level of discussion in most vlogs is primitive. However, I feel morally oblidged to encourage someone I feel has tried hard shown some skills but has otherwise not succeeded over-all. When I've done this, I've frequently gotten very thankful responses from the person making the vlog. That's my idea of what this video-blogging community thing is all about. It is an artist-to-artist or videographer-to-videographer personal thing. I've been surprised at how unwilling some people (even videobloggers) are to make comments. Even in giving ratings, they are demanding and stingey. Most of the ratings I give are 5*'s. Sometimes, I do this because the vlog might have ten ratings with an average of only 3 stars which I feel is unfairly low. Only when a video is ugly and/or violent will I use the hammer of a one-star rating. The best way to build community and encourage people who show promise is to take the time and trouble to give them a pat on the back. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting observation. I don't notice any change. But then again I always got about two comments a week. :) But I'd like to hear from a few vloggers who get more comments. Who are posting about the same amount of videos as they did a year or two ago. The community has changed, it's gotten a lot bigger, I wonder if it's gotten less personal though. BTW, I still leave a couple comments a day too. Maybe a few less come to think of it. I still watch about... 20 - 30 videos a day. Probably a few less then I used to, but I'm far more selective. probably skim about 80 vlog posts (the text) or more a day, but I don't watch them all obviously. Peace, -Mike mefeedia.com mmeiser.com/blog On 3/6/07, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Elbows's link to the old discussion on YouTube brought up something I've wanted to ask for a while. It seems to me, looking around a lot of vlogs, that there are less comments than there used to be. Is this a recognised thing in the blogosphere or vlogosphere? Have other people noticed the same thing? Or am I wrong? I would imagine that a huge attraction for people on YouTube is that there's so much commenting. Even if some of the comments are not very nice. I watch most vlogs while travelling on the Tube or train, so I don't always remember to comment. I'm trying hard to get better at it. Have aggregators and mobile devices reduced interaction? Rupert http://www.fatgirlinohio.org/ http://www.crowdabout.us/fatgirlinohio/myshow/ On 7 Mar 2007, at 00:17, caroosky wrote: Steve, Great observations, especially the fact that we are each experts in finding differences. I'm sure you've heard the phrase, If the only tool you have in your kit is a hammer, every problem you encounter starts to look like a nail. As someone spending a great deal of time thinking about how to build social tools, I'm perhaps all too quick to criticize YouTube's hammer (in this case, their comment feature). In doing this, I'm not about to criticize content creators who use YouTube for what it does best: getting video up on the web and available to a massively large potential audience. I put things on YouTube when that is my goal. When I want to have more control over my files, and need to use the content in many different ways, I've found blip.tv to be an indispensible tool. But if I want to have conversations using video content as the starting point, I wouldn't think of YouTube. This is partly because of an admittedly snobbish opinion of the quality of conversation taking place there, but it's also because I don't think the commenting system they have deployed is good for much else beyond the quick drive-by style comment. This snobbery does not extend to content creators, though. And while I'm making admissions, I will additionally confess that I am wildly idealistic about how our collective community of content creators can mold and shape
[videoblogging] Finding videos that interest you???
Some people seem to think there is no problem finding video content that interests you. You can search via tags, follow similar Videos shown next to the one you are viewing, explore all of a vloggers postings or all their postings in a certain series they've created. And there are always videos suggested by friends. I had an interesting experience on YouTube while looking for Asian music videos. The tag of Asian Music Videos didn't turn up much on YouTube. However, using individual star's names brought up hundreds or thousands, mostly multiples. I've always had a low opinion of fan videos. I thought they were silly things. By accident, I stumbled over some that were actually creative and amusing. Then I used the search term fan videos on YouTube. There were slightly over 10,000 fan videos. However, in the mix were video medleys which were comprised os snippets of up to twenty different performers which were listed by name and song in many of the details. That discovery, using 'fan videos' to explore genres of music I liked turned out to be the most effective search tool I had ever uncovered. I wonder if others have stumbled across unique ways to find similar composite-information video sources?
[videoblogging] Re: video Blogging Week 2007
I don't want to sound a sour note here. However, I think the idea of a video per day during videoblogging week has a serious flaw. I participated a year or two ago.Being retired and having time on my hands enabled me to get several videos ready before the week started. Yes, I posted seven videos in seven days on the theme of vblogging dangerously. Actually, some of the videos I posted I've seriously considered taking down. At least one has been eliminated by YouTube for containing inappropriate material. I would suggest that the them for VlogWeek 2007 be My Best Vlogs. That would be a great opportunity for those of us who have 150 or more vlogs on the Internet to pick the 7 best we've done. I think that would make for a better testimonial to the collectivre power of vlogging than having people churing out a vlog a day, even a 30 second nothing vlog. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ 201-656-3280 --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool! So - what does one do on videoblogging week? Look at what we were doing in 2004. we had no idea: http://www.solitude.dk/archives/vog-week/ you can do better than this. I was building a bridge between what I was doing at public access TV...and this new thing of posting video online. http://momentshowing.typepad.com/momentshowing/2004/06/videoblog_week__2.html Jay -- Here I am http://jaydedman.com
[videoblogging] Re: Tuesday FlashMeeting
I managed to sign in as well for five or more minutes at 7:30 EST. It had the clock running but no one was there. I was disappointed since I had planned my evening around it since it is terribly cold outside in NYC tonight. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Enric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry Heath (and others), I went shopping and just landed at a cafe with wifi. ;) --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Heath heathparks@ wrote: No flash meeting Tuesday? I am signed on but.no one is there, figures the first flash meeting I come to (well the second actually) and no one is thereI am really begining to think you all don't like me.. ;) Heath http://batmangeek7.blogspot.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Enric enric@ wrote: The Tuesday March 6th FlashMeeting is on at 4:30pm - 7pm PST USA, 7:30pm - 10pm EST USA, 0:30am - 3am GMT (March 7th). Enter through this link: http://flashmeeting.open.ac.uk/fm/a8524d-7585 You may also check the Videoblogger Videoconferences page at voxmedia for future and past Videoblogging FlashMeetings at: http://www.voxmedia.org/wiki/Videoblogger_Videoconferences -- Enric -==- http://www.cirne.com
[videoblogging] Re: I am so disappointed in You all.
Josh, you can be critical of emotional responses someone expresses in frustration over pressing issues of life and death. However, you really violate social civility by imputing evil intentions to an expressed passion to do good and save lives. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Josh Leo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't check the group very often, and read maybe 3 emails out of 50, so i probably skipped over your first one I think your methods for motivation are not thought out... Here is what you did: 1. insulted an entire country We Americans deserve to be criticized for spending 1% or 2% of our National budget on foreign aid while much poorer countries like Ireland contribute two or three times that percentage. 2. insulted the videobloggers in that country Saying members of a vlogging community that glorifies the values of sharing and helping seem unconcerned with two billion people who live on $1 a day die by the millions simply because they don't have access to clean water is not insulting them. It is a challenge and wake-up call challenging them to do better. 3. insulted the yahoo group they are members of No one, no group should be offended if basically valid criticism is expressed in a socially impolite way. (You smoke cigarettes! How stupid can you be? Don't you know what they are doing to your body?) 4. claim that all members of the group are only concerned with materialistic matters Most human beings are only concerned with materialistic matters. If you traveled in poor countries saw women sleeping with her four children on the street with only cardboard boxes as covering against the cold, you'd have a more informed understanding of the hostility directed at selfish materialistic Americans. you need to re-think your methodology... I worry that your desire to help charity is equal to your desire to earn hits to popularize your site... This is really an ugly personal attack. Paul does incredible sophisticated vlogs that are largely ignored by the mindless mobs on the Internet. I think there are plenty of people interested in helping charitable causes but the way to get them involved is not to insult them because they didn't respond to your one email We are all interested in helping charitable causes. I set a several fund appeals aside around Christmas intending to send them contributions in varying amounts--Jimmy Carter, the Humane Society, Amnesty International, the Gay Community Center, etc. Actually, the easiest thing in the world is to not act on your own charitable impulses. I hadn't written the checks Paul's frustration and emotional over-reaction at a total, absolute, zero response from the 2,500 or so people on the list motivated me to get those checks written and in the mail. I felt so bad about Paul's zero response, I gave $20 just as a token of support even though I'm not familiar with that charity am very selective about the groups I support financially. Yes, Paul certainly wasn't politically correct socially. I agree that his anger might have been counter-productive. He's not going to be voted most popular vlogger of the year by folks on this list. That said, I respect his genuine good intentions. I don't know how much he will ultimately raise for his chosen charity but his anger reminded me of my own uncharitable negligence. He raised a lot more than $20 for all the causes listed above. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ On 2/17/07, Paul Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, please, please, just read the e-mail, that's all you need to do, please try to be completely un american about this and at least give me some help on this, I don't ask for much, just that you read the f'ing e-mail. All I want is support not money, I rally should be typing this is capital letters, really. JUST DIGG ME FOR f's SAKE, make this popular, not for me, BUT FOR THE CHARITY, that's how thing usually WORK right? And send me any jokes that you feel would make people belly laugh, there is an incentive for you all. But hey, I suppose all that motivates this group is money, or toys (gadgets) or a discussion about being banned from youtube, big deal, I just expected something more from the 1000's of people here, who are selfish enough not to share their success with anyone less worthy. The best way to proceed with this argument is to stop saying hey, I never saw the e-mail and taking steps, personally if you want to, to get these posts to greater media, posting diggs and technoriaties or comments on vlogs etc. This is one of the reasons i got into vlogging in the first place and to be ignored by the great and the Good ha, is just not good enough. I have seen it before in this clique, a community, ha! So log as you can't hold a get together in NY, you are forgotten and ignored. This group IS made up of more people from outside the US
[videoblogging] Re: What really traps new talent (and it's not the gatekeepers)
Bill Cammack's advice to become an editor reflects a truism about the arts in general. The technicians generally earn a living and/or prosper while the artists would-be stars starve. This was the biggest discovery I made while hustling Hollywood Blvd one summer in the late 1950s. The middle-aged men driving new cars, living in great apts, etc. were the lighting technicians, the camera opoerators, the prop managers, etc. Those who aspired to be writers, actors, singers, dancers or performers in general comprised a huge poverty class buried beneath the riches and glitter of the successful few in those crafts. I always advise people starting college with liberal arts majors to be sure to take courses in accounting, etc. because those skills are very important in life even in the arts. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +1 That's a benefit to being an editor... you ALWAYS get paid. :D If you think there are/were A LOT of reality tv shows on television, imagine how many PILOTS people made in order to pitch their shows to a production company! Whether their show is picked up or not, they still had to pay the editor to make the pilot. Same thing with music. If you think there are a lot of rappers (now that they let ANYBODY on the mic... :/ ), imagine how many people bought hours in the studio to put together a demo tape. It used to be really funny, knowing full well that some of the guys were absolute GARBAGE on the mic, and weren't going anywhere... but business is business, so the tapes/CDs got made. At least they had something to take back to the block and pull some chicks with by fronting like they're actually in the industry! :D -- Bill C. http://ReelSolid.TV --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Halcyon halcyon@ wrote: Totally agree! I think that 'quick and dirty video editor' is soon going to be the web designer of the Internet bubble days. EVERY business will need a video commercial/brochure soon -- in the same way every company needed a webpage in 99. Sharpen those imovie skills!!! -halcyon On 2/16/07, humancloner1997 rhwicker@ wrote: Yes, there are people out there who are really dumb. However, I know one enterprising professional filmmaker who shoots auditions for aspiring actresses for a fee---just like the old game of selling photographic portfolios to would-be models. Actually, there is nothing wrong with doing that. I'm surprised move vloggers haven't gotten the idea of just going door to door telling someone that for $200 they'll put up a five minute ad for their bakery (or other business) give them a copy on DVD. For those unable to do it for themselves, $200 would be a great investment if you had a location/hotel/lounge/retial shop with an interesting ambience. Ma, I found this fabulous 'Magic Shop' in NYC with powerful crystals. They said you could get an idea by watching this link on the Internet! I really 'have to have' the big quartz crystal in their window. It's only $395.00! You get the idea. Like that famous old Carvel Man (am I dating myself here?), everyone gets a kick out of seeing hearing themselves in the media--even if it is just on the Internet at YouTube. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ One mile West of the center of the world! --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, leesarbarnes leesarbarnes@ wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, humancloner1997 rhwicker@ wrote: I couldn't agree more with Schlomo on this one. Vlogging removes the gatekeepers but traditional media tries to trap new talent. When you buy into them, you won't feature the really interesting, different and fabulous things in your own life because you have been brainwashed to think most popular is best. New talent is trapped, not by traditional media, but by their limited thinking. Case in point - I met an actress about a month ago at a photo shoot. I go into a studio once a year to get professional pictures done. I love the camera, but the whole of act of cheesing in front of one for hours on end is too rigid for my taste. So, I met this young woman who's an aspiring actress. And I use the word aspiring loosely as she's still trying to get her first gig. She was complaining that she couldn't find an agent to represent her and just couldn't get any breaks. Of course, my video podcasting hat goes on and I start telling her about the benefits to her career if she starts one. That if she could put together a show and broadcast it over the internet, she could amass a following. That people who show that they have a following are 10x more likely to get their break on TV (these are my
[videoblogging] Re: sound/mic help? (SOLUTION!)
Maybe you could wind some sewing thread around it and/or find s rubber washer that would keep it sitting right in the plug. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Halcyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ohmygoodnesss I found something on dvinfo.net. (below) The hot scratchy sound goes away if I pull the plug out 1/16 of an inch. WTF!? What a crappy solution. Now if I'm on location I have to dangle the mic connection and hope that it's working!? ugh. Anyway, thanks for all the help and suggestions!! from dvinfo.net: I've discovered what the problem is with the external mike input on my HD1. Both the adaptor lead supplied with the camera, and the plastic 2.5/3.5 adaptor I've tried can be pushed too far into the jack socket! If they are plugged fully in, then you get lots of electrical noise: if you pull the jack out about 1/16th inch, where there's a natural, but small detent position, then all the mikes work fine. So it's simply a mechanical design problem with the jack socket used on HD1, certainly on the camera I have and from what others have said, on at least some others as well. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: OurMedia, Whose Media? Concerns with CC licenses...
I understand Brian's objection to how his AIB has been revlogged as if he was part of OurMedia and with a misleading political slant given his video via choice of thumbnail a quote taken out of context. I have to admit being technically challenged here. I am just starting to study linking. There is a tutorial called 'Link Love on www.freevlog.org I have to study. I've had many requests to swap links and/or for me to link to another site. I know I'm missing traffic by not having done so. What question arises in my mind is where the dividing line is between a link posted on a site that may have a stated focus. Let's say, in this case, it was called Make Love, Not War was devoted to pacifism. If such a site wanted to put a link to your content on their site you really didn't want them to do so because you held neo-con views, do you have thge right to make them remove your name link from their page? And what about all these embed this video tags on YouTube elsewhere? Once you have allowed that to be with your video, have you consented to allow anyone to embed your video on their site? Hope this question doesn't make me seem technically stupid. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, brian conley brian_conley2005@ wrote: This morning I discovered that the work of one of my projects, Alive in Baghdad, had been posted on the front page of http://ourmedia.com. (I have enclosed a screen capture for your reference.) Not only did noone request the use of our work, or inform us of our inclusion on this site, but OurMedia presents our work in a way that could be significantly harmful to our project. At first glance, the presentation of our work on OurMedia suggests to the average viewer that AIB has a political, anti-war stance and that AIB is a part of OurMedia. In fact this could not be farther from the truth, AiB takes pains to present a balanced view of life in Iraq, that simply shows the experiences and feelings of Iraqis, without adding a political tone. Basicallyin representing AIB, OurMedia selected a thumbnail of a woman with a translated quote underneath that says May God Curse Bush and all those that brought him here. Obviously, this is not a quote that we would choose to have represent us. We worried about including that segment at all and feared that, out of context, separate from our other work, it could cause harm to the public face of the project, bring flamers, etc. However, inside of the entire episode, we felt it was acceptable and was reflective of the situation in Iraq. We care deeply about building a project that gives voice to Iraqi citizensnot towards pushing a political agenda. Such a posting can damage the perceptions of Alive in Baghdad and our future opportunities. Additionally, OurMedia indicates that we are a member of their organizationi.e. you'll notice to the right of the thumbnail, it lists a link titled member page that links to AliveinBaghdad.org. AiB is not, nor has it ever been, a member of Ourmedia. Given our experience, we question whether they actually have 125,000 members Jay @ Markus are addressing the issues and clearing up the misunderstandings, but I agree with you that someone reading that page will get certain incorrect impressions. Until reading the posts here, I didn't realize ourmedia was revlogging at all. I went to the page, saw the lady, saw the caption, clicked on member page and went straight to AiB. I think there's another link that says media page that goes to the AiB permalink for that video. I was looking for ANY member list at all, and couldn't find a list of content creators... you get sponsors partners, so that seemed odd as well. If a group's going to re-vlog material, especially sensitive material like AiB, thumbnail selection is CRITICAL. Until this situation, I would have assumed that the thumbnail used would have been the thumbnail supplied by the content creator. For instance, if you go to a video on blip and select share, you can select the actual thumbnail that the creator uploaded. I would assume that that would be used in the revlog as well. You can't use some automatically-generated thumbnail, because it's completely out of context. You can have a video about cleaning up the neighborhood with examples of what NOT to do in it, and the randomly selected thumbnail is of some guy spraying paint on the side of a wall. People's impression of the video itself, and consequentially, the group responsible for it, is going to be affected by their perception of the out-of-context image representing the video. Also, Markus has already mentioned the link issue. member page makes the person who is certainly not a member of this group think the group is cheating or trying to gain something by sneaking an affiliation with them
[videoblogging] Re: I am so disappointed in You all.
Paul, I think what you are doing is fabulous. I posted a message telling you that this appeal made me realize how important it was that I get my annual donation off to Jimmy Carter whom I trust 'more' than I trust comic relief. I have Jimmy Carter's last appeal on a check-to-write-tomorrow table in my livingroom and will certainly do so tomorrow. Don't be disillusioned by the failure of others on this list to sign on and donate. Like I said, I get dozens of fund appeals. Generally speaking, I usually prefer to give money directly (in hand if possible) to activist instead of giving money to ANY organization. First of all, you have to realize that our rich world stands by while 5 million people (most living on $1 per day) die because they simply don't have clean drinking water. I'm reminded of the observation that if a millionaire gave just one-cent to every beggar in India, he/she would have gone bankrupt without having really done anything to mitigate suffering in the world. There was a wonderful short film on The Sundance Channel this month. I don't recall the title but the film focuses on a boy in the back of a classroom whose teacher tells the class that 'today' she is going to give them the most important lesson they will ever receive in life. When she reaches his desk, she only has one reason for life booklet left. She tells him and the ignorant bully sitting next to him that they have to share the last booklet. The ignorant bully, who isn't even reading the booklet, refuses to let him see it. In frustration, he rushes out of the classroom and through the hallways of the school. In every room, students are engrossed in this booklet The Lessons of life. Finally, he knocks in desperation on the door where the school administrators are having a meeting. His teacher answers the door. he tells her that the fellow sitting next to him in class refuses to share the booklet with him. That's the most important lesson you can learn about life, the teacher replies and then closes the door in his face. It's a wonderful six-minute-long short film. Your complaint makes me think of that movie and how true it all is. People will spend thousands of dollars on gas-guzzling cars, over-priced clothing, lattes at StarBucks, etc. but few will reach into their pockets and make a $20 donation that might actually save human lives. Sad but true! Just to lift your spirits, I'm going to make a $20 donation. Don't know about this group but feel I know what fabulous human being you are and I don't want you to become disillusioned about humanity in general Vloggingly yours, Randolfe (randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ One mile West of the center of the known world. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Loiez D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great idea Paul Loiez and the french vloggers with you Thx for all Loiez Le 17 févr. 07 à 21:28, Paul Knight a écrit : Hi Lovely Lovely Vloggers out there, As some British people know or are aware of, Comic Relief is only a month away, I have been to sainsburys and got my red nose and holographic chocolate and this time, because I was a few months late at starting this rollercoaster of a ride into internet video, I want to do my bit for this wonderful charity. I have started doing a joke a day on my website, http://pjkproductions.blogspot.com and have managed to get a comic relief donate button so anyone, well just this country actually can donate to to this worthy cause directly. The cause is basically simple, instead of Rock Stars doing live aid, you get the best comics from all over the world to do their bit for free to raise funds for African Kids who have been effected by war and famine to kids in this country who are carers for disabled relitives the mentally ill, the kids who are effected by drink and drugs, loads of things like that. I think it is possibly the best Charity event of the year, it culminates in a big show on BBC TV on March 16th this year. Anyway what I am doing is posting a joke a day for the next 30 days until Red Nose Day 2007, I have posted my first today and need a little help with a few things. 1. I want to make this quite popular, in doing so I need to know how to get the message out there, digg might be good, but I have only once been dugg, so if someone could digg me who people listen to that would help. 2. If you would like to send me a joke to use I will credit you, also if you want to tell a joke on video, even better. 3. If you like the idea of giving but you live in the rest of the world besides the UK, you can of course use my paypal donate button, which takes money from anywhere, I will from there pass it on. Many Thanks for any help you can give me. I am getting slowly better. Paul knight That was posted on Friday and nothing so far, I am not asking for money from anywhere out of the UK just need some help, or am I wrong again PJK
[videoblogging] Re: Sites to post videos directly to?
Gena, thanks for the link to the DV Guru review of the 10 sites. Simple thorough guide. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Gena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ed, Before you join any video web host service please check the terms of services (TOS) You don't want to put in a lot of effort only to have someone else own or control your content. Very important - Own your stuff. You have a number of choices. I'll cut to the chase and suggest http://www.blip.tv I'm bias, I like how Blip does things and they have yet to suck my blood without my consent. Having said that, in the interest of fairness and open and equal access to information there are other options. DVGuru has a list of 10 video web hosts sites to be aware of http://www.dvguru.com/2006/04/07/ten-video-sharing-services-compared/ Deidre has a nice list of comparisons between Comparing Video Hosting Services http://www.beginningwithi.com/vlog/test.html This should get you a good start and you can always harvest the archives of the list. Bon Chance, Gena http://outonthestoop.blogspot.com http://pcclibtech.blogspot.com http://voxmedia.org/wiki/Video --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ed edd66@ wrote: Hi I don't have my vids set up on a RSS feed yet, but I want to get them distributed. Can anyone suggest a site such as youtube.com, where I can post vids directly to it? Thanks for your help. Ed.
[videoblogging] TV PC interaction. Technology coming together.
This might be nothing new to many geeks but it was something new for me. I've never seen a TV Show simutaneously involve viewers on the PC except for news shows that ask for you to vote in a poll on their site. Using your computer while you're watching your favorite TV show to interact with both the program and other viewers is a new form of interactive media. I interviewed a friend who was doing it for the first time to get his reactions. I've tried to post it on Blip three times but keep getting this message that You've caught us with our shirts off...etc. If that goes on too much longer, I'll have to run down to their NYC headquarters with a few extras of my own :-) ON VEOH: http://www.veoh.com/videos/v2450246D8nqsdZ?searchId=1181492193747963377rank=0 ON YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx0nJa9D-QU Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ
[videoblogging] Re: sound/mic help?
Jan, thanks for the tips about taking your camera to the store with you when you are buying microphones. I live in NYC want to echo your recommendation of going to a store with a large selection of video equiptment knowledgeable salespeople. I've usually been impressed with the technical knowledge of the staff at BH Photo which is a HUGE store in Manhattan. More importantly, I find that one can hear all sorts of interesting conversations among other customers discussing that is the mike I have or my friend is sorry he bought, etc. People working in video, professionals and hobbyists, are really a friendly group many of them will talk about the advantges and disadvantages they have found using different versions of the mikes on display, etc. Such interactions have helped me greatly in making choices and decisions on equiptment. People on the list here share many of those same qualities. I remember you as the first person to answer my questions about Macs vs PCs, cameras, etc. a couple years ago when i first discovered vlogging. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With regard to the minijacks that plug into your camera and laptop, if camera logistics permit, a 90-degree angled plug is infinitely better than the straight plug - less stress on the input and cable. Failing that, make sure to 'safety' the cable with a bit of tape to the camera. Listening to what you've got, I'm convinced you've got signal level incompatability issues. If there's an audio adjustment in your camera I'd definitely take a tour around the menus and see if that helps. Otherwise, take the camera down to RadioShack or wherever and try a few possibilities. Better than RadioShack would be your local high-end musicians' store, or professional video/sound sales/rental enterprise. These kinds of places are more likely to assist you in trying a few possible configurations and have more options on the shelf. Jan On 2/15/07, Halcyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: freaking awesome info!! Thank you! Thanks Jan and Randy, too! I'll test more with this info and report back. -Halcyon On 2/15/07, bordercollieaustralianshepherd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hal I took a listen to your vid. It is pretty hard to judge this way, but these are my thoughts as I listened. Mic test 1: That mic seemed to transfer the handling noise. Who is it made by? Is it heavy (does it have weight to it) and is the cord hard wired into it? At the very end of this test when you have a solid grasp on the mic the audio is much better Mic test 2: This mic almost sounds like one from radio shack. If it is a RS it is crisp for audio and should work much better then it sounds. I am guessing that this is the same mic as the handheld on test four. Mic test 3: This one has me stumped. What model lavalier? The really sticky thing with Lav's is that clothing and placement really impact the quality. Fabrics all have a texture, some that can screw with you. I don't think that it is the shirt you are wearing, but it may explain some of the muffledness (is that a word?). Placement is as picky. To stay on topic, I'll skip details, they don't apply as best I can tell here. I posted a link to the list a few weeks ago to a great site with audio tips/tricks. I assume this is the same mic used in test 4. Mic test 4 (lav and handheld): At this point I am of the opinion it is the camera's internal audio processing. If it is possible to do a test with the camera's built in mics, I'll take the time to listen to it too. But you can do the compare to get a better idea. Look at the spec sheet that came with the camera and all your mics. If you'll send me the model numbers and or a link with the specs I'll take a look to see if there is any outright wrong compatability issues. The mini jacks are not the greatest when it comes to quality. In that same post I mentioned, is a link to a XLR to mini cable with gold connectors. I think it is about $20. IMO I would buy a connector like this, attach it to your camera and seldom if ever unplug it from the camera. The reason is wear and tear is eliminated on the camera's connector. Longer life. It sucks I know but will help in several other ways... a whirlwind or any other mic cable can be bought at a music store. The quality is much better, shielding, guage of wire etc... (damn I bring it up twice might as well find the URL now... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/message/54103 For your cable: You can make this cable yourself if you have the parts and handy with a soldering iron: With Monster Cable's iStudioLink XLR to 1/8 Mini Plug you can connect your microphone directly to your laptop or desktop computer. This single cable provides you with a fast, flexible
[videoblogging] Re: Vlog Press Kit :: Talking Points
Jan, I've been following several of your links. I'm not that computer literate. When i clicked on the links to subscribe to the delicious feeds, all i got was a page of script with a notice above saying: This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below. What am i doing wrong? I'm on a MacX with a cable connection. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Revisiting what was - but for http://feedburner.com and its capacity to turn RSS feeds into a javascript display of feed results - a dead site. Used The Vlog Press Kit as the guinea pig for upgrading the old blogger account to the new. Actually very pleased with the results. A few things came to mind during the upgrade process. 1) That the delicious tags 'vlogpresskit' and 'vloggersinthenews' are working well. All vlog-related articles are tagged with 'vlogpresskit'. Articles mentioning specific videobloggers are also tagged with 'vloggersinthenews' I've only feeddigested 'vlogpresskit' on the http://vlogpresskit.blogspot.com site. Usually get notice of new articles by combing this list. Some have sent me press releases - which I LOVE and immediately post to the site (thanks Sull). It occurs to me that there may be folks here who'd benefit from subscribing to the feeds. http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/vloggersinthenews http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/vlogpresskit Reminder: Anyone can tag anything with those tags to have them appear in the sidebar of the Vlog Press Kit Site and travel down the RSS tubes to subscribers. 2) A few other editors are inactively involved. I'm looking for a few more to add if you're interested in thinking about the vlogosphere from a journalist's POV and resporting on things of interest. Whereas We Are the Media is by, about and for vloggers, the Vlog Press Kit is by, about and for MSM. 3) There's a link to a Talking Points Memo that was devised long ago. Would it not be interesting to think about this again? http://instantdocumentary.com/vlogpresskit/interview_ticklist.pdf -- The Faux Press - better than real http://fauxpress.blogspot.com
[videoblogging] Re: The audience of ten
I made different vlogs for different reasons. I think I get the biggest kick out of doing a vlog that gives someone I like/admire a lift real or imagined in life. It might promote a small business they are creating or just give them the thrill of having a video about them on the Internet. In the first instance, you have to think that someone selling clothes from a location like Ithaca, New York (Lesbian Sexy Dress Secrets) gets nearly 5,000 hits on YouTube, 991 on Veoh probably the same on Blip (I just discovered you can't get total number of hits on older videos at Blip and/or I don't know how)--you're talking about 7,000 views. Some of those must have been dykes or sho-owners interested in specialty clothing lines. Other times, you put up a vlog like 'Cat Rescue' which talks about an organization which seeks foster parents for cats and dogs who can return them if they don't work out, etc. That has only gotten a couple hundred hits in total so I didn't save all those animals I'd hoped to. Other times, its a real thrill to film a subway musician (Baby Monroe) and put him on YouTube see how appreciative he is about it weeks later. Same goes for artists with strange niches (Beth's Barbie Fashions) making dresses for both dolls and humans out of plastic shopping bags. Not wildly popular but she got a real thrill out of it. I'd say the most important thing about posting video on the Internet about someone's hobby, art or business is the feeling that you have this tiny molecue of power and you're giving that person a little lift. The lift is mostly spiritual emotional (as opposed to economic) but You (or I at least) feel really good about doing it. The second major reason I vlog is to capture share other worlds many people have never seen. It might be just a couple gay teenagers dancing at a Jersey City Street Fair (Gay Love Dancing my second most popular vlog with 22,000 YouTube hits for me and 76,000 for the guy who copied it w/o permission), or a warm and human chat with a troubled transsexual (Samantha Dreams of a Sex Change), or an exploration of NYC's annual Tattoo Convention, or strange street theater at an SM Street Fair. I'm always looking for great new material. I knew nothing about the world of tattooing and SM until I stumbled through them with video camera running. Sometimes, the greatest material is right under your nose. There's a big totally blind dog living in my building. Turns out, it is owned by a wonderful warm loving woman who cares for a couple mixed-race foster children. The youngest one uses the blind dog for a pillow when sleeping. The dog never bumps into anything in the apartment, etc. Now, there is a story to capture! And, yes, sometimes I vlog for petty self-indulgent reasons. I get mad at people who turn me away from a free movie screening because I'm too old to be their target audience--so I film them at their worse and show them to the world for the fools that they are. Numbers matter to me only insofar as they are meaningful. I'm really let down and depressed when a vlog like Cat Rescue bombs. It means that I failed as 'savior of the cats' :-). Otherwise, I've put up a few vlogs recently of a dear friend/roommate (Marsha P. Johnson) that I knew would bomb. However, to her friends and family, it was thrilling to know some footage of her had made it onto the Internet. Then, there are times when you cynically film something just because you have press credentials for a Halloween Parade (Kiss on Kissology) and post it knowing it is going to do well. However, there is no real joy in that because other fabulous footage you shot the same night of people wearing lights as clothing items, colorful marching bands even a montage Human Flesh in NYC (which you thought would fly) bombs. I've actually gotten past numbers at this point. I have more money than time left to spend it. I have been and will continue to hire helpers while I just pursue videotaping for the sheer thrill of it. It's only what makes you feel good that is worth doing. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, R. Kristiansen raymondmk@ wrote: Hey all, Since I started videoblogging, I have had this mantra about focusing on the audience of ten. To treat the audience of my videoblog as a circle of friends. Friends I would want to show what's going on in my life at the point. I have had this mantra because I, for instance, did not want to get lost in some numbers-increasing schemes. I've been thinking a lot about shows over the last two weeks. David had some interesting ideas about audiences and subscribers, especially as it pertains to closed environments, that he shared with the group. This post started me thinking about the ends vs. the means a month ago. I've just recently gotten over blog
[videoblogging] Re: DC Media Makers 2nite
I was thinking that co-ordinating one of those events with one of our Tuesday Saturday Flash meetings might be very interesting. Randolfe (randy) Wicker --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to contact the group @ that time? iChat? Are you planning any kind of feed? Bill --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, jonny goldstein spamjonny@ wrote: When Thursday, February 15, 2007 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Where S.E. Library Branch 403 7th Street, SE (corner of 7th D Street) Washington, DC, dc 20003 Across from Eastern Market Metro Stop (Blue and Orange Lines) Details here: http://dcmediamakers.wordpress.com
[videoblogging] Re: What really traps new talent (and it's not the gatekeepers)
Yes, there are people out there who are really dumb. However, I know one enterprising professional filmmaker who shoots auditions for aspiring actresses for a fee---just like the old game of selling photographic portfolios to would-be models. Actually, there is nothing wrong with doing that. I'm surprised move vloggers haven't gotten the idea of just going door to door telling someone that for $200 they'll put up a five minute ad for their bakery (or other business) give them a copy on DVD. For those unable to do it for themselves, $200 would be a great investment if you had a location/hotel/lounge/retial shop with an interesting ambience. Ma, I found this fabulous 'Magic Shop' in NYC with powerful crystals. They said you could get an idea by watching this link on the Internet! I really 'have to have' the big quartz crystal in their window. It's only $395.00! You get the idea. Like that famous old Carvel Man (am I dating myself here?), everyone gets a kick out of seeing hearing themselves in the media--even if it is just on the Internet at YouTube. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ One mile West of the center of the world! --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, leesarbarnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, humancloner1997 rhwicker@ wrote: I couldn't agree more with Schlomo on this one. Vlogging removes the gatekeepers but traditional media tries to trap new talent. When you buy into them, you won't feature the really interesting, different and fabulous things in your own life because you have been brainwashed to think most popular is best. New talent is trapped, not by traditional media, but by their limited thinking. Case in point - I met an actress about a month ago at a photo shoot. I go into a studio once a year to get professional pictures done. I love the camera, but the whole of act of cheesing in front of one for hours on end is too rigid for my taste. So, I met this young woman who's an aspiring actress. And I use the word aspiring loosely as she's still trying to get her first gig. She was complaining that she couldn't find an agent to represent her and just couldn't get any breaks. Of course, my video podcasting hat goes on and I start telling her about the benefits to her career if she starts one. That if she could put together a show and broadcast it over the internet, she could amass a following. That people who show that they have a following are 10x more likely to get their break on TV (these are my made-up stats, so don't quote me). I told her about Amanda and gave her a Canadian example, Amber MacArthur - both women who used podcasting to jump start their careers in mainstream media. This wanna-be aspiring actress couldn't wrap her mind around what I was saying. She was still asking me about casting agents. She thought I was her connection to Hollywood - wow! So, I broke it down. I asked her what makes her different from all the other wanna-be actresses out there. She couldn't answer me (okay, there's her first problem). I then asked her what would look more attractive to a casting agent - a wanna be actress with a pretty smile or a wanna be actress with a pretty smile and a following of 3- million online fans? Can you believe it, but she still didn't get it. She was asking me if I knew of any video podcasters that could get her to Hollywood. Like I mean, pay her way, put her up in a hotel and connect her with all the cool people in Hollywood. I nearly laughed. If only she knew ;) The Internet in general and video podcasting in particular puts the power of distribution in the hands of many, but sadly, people like this actress will claw away at scarce resources because they can't see beyond the traditional path. Thanks, Leesa Barnes Website - http://www.leesabarnes.com Blogsite - http://podonomics.com Creator - http://www.planakillerpodcast.com Organizer - http://podcamptoronto.org
[videoblogging] Re: Support Free Speech, Production Expenses Covered, Near Syracuse, NY
I'm surprised that you haven't used 'Shooter's List which sends out a daily email to thousands of people in the NYC area. It only costs $40 annually keeps you up on all sorts of things. Once you subscribe, you can advertise for nothing. I put in an ad today seeking a paid part-time helper with my videoblogging. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ One mile West of the center of the known world. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, thebonobo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: due to an increase in urgency, we are now covering expenses. we are looking with someone who has a good- quality Mini-DV camera and can guarantee decent lighting (natural is fine) and sound (onboard is fine, it just has to be very clear). for details, my old post is below: hi. i'm Jeff Diehl, publisher of 10ZenMonkeys.com. you may have heard of my suit against griefer Michael Crook and his DMCA campaign. details here: http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2006/11/01/eff-crook-dmca-lawsuit/ we are in need of an independent producer who can go to a location in or around Syracuse, NY and conduct a simple video session. i can't give too many details here, but if you respond to this note, EFF lawyers will contact you with more info. this video WILL be distributed widely across the webernets and we can offer a prominent production credit, as well as the warm, fuzzy feeling that you've helped EFF's ongoing defense of digital free speech. please respond with an estimate of your expenses and whether you're available by the weekend. -J
[videoblogging] Re: shoulder harness?
There is a fellow on the Internet who sells you directions on how to assemble something like that for round $15 but also sends all the materials cut to order for about $49. If I recall correctly, Adam Quirk or someone else on the list tried it but might have had trouble getting the things to fit together correctly themselves. I personally bought one of the new mono-pods with a ball swivel mount that sits on three small flexible legs. They've ovly been out for a couple months but makes following someone walking very steady. A bit costly at $160 from BH Photo. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, how about this. Anyone rig up any body mounts for small minidv's? So you can walk around, the video turns with your head, but doesnt look like you're a borg, etc? I'd love to ride down the streets of san francisco on a bike with something that would strap the camera to my shoulder with little bounce. my camera weighs only 1 pound (0.6 kg)
[videoblogging] Re: p.s., deduct your video equip $$ on your taxes
I took a lot of my early video expenses off as a business expense because i really did use still cameras to send photos of merchandise to potential customers, etc. I also offerred videotapes of the entire Art Deco lighting business I ran but no one seemed to be that interested. I had a corporation since 1967. There are yearly minimum corporation taxes you have to pay. Setting up a corporation costs thousands of dollars today. Just liquidating my corporation a year ago cost a couple thousand dollars. I was always told I was over-structured but simply remained a corporation year after year. That makes it necessary for you to get Workmen's Compensation. You might have trouble getting group insurance for making some of your projects. The IRS used to be very much on the lookout for people using their hobby as a supposed business. I don't know what the tax laws are today but it used to be that you had to show a profit after three years. Like I said, I'm not an accountant. I have an accountant because, among other things, filing corporate tax returns with depreciation schedules, etc. are outrageous. They did have generous investment allowances for new equiptment which i recall being about $30,000 annually. it was like they were trying to encourage you to invest in a new truck, better equiptment, etc. Still, i wouldn't ever recommend anyone set up a corporation. It is a nightmare owning one. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, T.Whid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My own personal story FWIW, I've been losing money on my outside business as a sole proprietor for years (I'm an artist). My accountant told me that until I'm earning lots of cheese, incorporating is more trouble than it's worth. He also said that as long as I show growth year over year it doesn't matter how much money I dump into it and can continue to lose money for years. It takes a lot of losses and time to grow high-risk businesses (like being an artist or for-profit vlogger). The rewards can be pretty significant if you stick it out. Luckily this year I made a thousands on the biz, mostly from one big grant. I would suggest getting a good accountant that knows your business (in NYC, where I am, it's easy to find accountants that deal exclusively with creatives/artists). You should also be careful about being flip about earning income. You are serious about it, it's a business. On 2/15/07, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The IRS only knows two types of businesses, C-corps and S-Corps. S-Corps are usually the sole proprietorships. States know businesses as profit, non-profit, and LLC. I know many people that have registered S-Corps and haven't had a problem with the IRS. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, wtftoadsoup toadsoup@ wrote: It might be better to form an LLC for your business. Operating as a sole proprietor that loses money sometimes looks just like a hobby to the IRS. here is a bit of information on both entity types http://aridni.com/2007/01/the-lowdown-on-the-llp-and-the-llc-for-any-company/ http://aridni.com/2007/01/the-good-the-bad-and-the-sole-proprietorship/ -- twhidwww.mteww.com/twhid [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] VEOH'S FRIGHTENING NEW WONDER ! ??
I'm rarely impressed. However, the following letter is an understatement of my feelings about discovering a hosting site literally had the ability to read my mind. Dear People at Veoh: I read a rave about your new system on the Yahoo list but didn't give it much thought. Then, when I signed in, I thought you folks had finally discovered decided to feature the fabulous Asian music videos I have come to love so much. Then I realized that you had managed to read the minds of those visiting the sites using some sort of coding based on the videos they had left comments on, etc. and had created a suggested viewing list. I'd always skipped the first page before but this time but this time I found listings of the types of videos I really usually spent hours looking for. To be brief and to the point, it is nearly 3:00 AM and I should have gone to bed two hours ago. However, I found your recommendations were a bottomless pit of gold. I found more interesting videos in the last five hours on Veoh than I've found in the last FIFTY hours sifting through videos here, on YouTube other sites. You people have put the dagger of death into traditional television! Your system makes watching what interests you on the Internet so effecient that traditional TV will never be able to compete. We vloggers who create content always knew the Internet user generated video was the wave of the future. However, the problem was always finding the stuff that interested you. Subscriptions were the first baby step in that direction. However, the system you have installed is really the system of tomorrow. I'm going to post this letter on the Yahoo list tomorrow. I've always liked Veoh but now you have really made me a fan, big time. What's so nice about your system is that it seems to be based on the meta-tags (is that the term) of the videos users have commented on in the past. I'm one of those vloggers who always tries to leave a comment when I feel something is good or a real effort has been put into creating it. Now, the time and trouble I took doing that has come back to me ten-fold because it has enabled you to find videos I just love and that I never knew existed. Keep up the good work. However, it kind of makes your skin crawl to think that Veoh is able to read your mind and know what videos you will like. The age of Big Brother is really upon us. I don't mind Veoh reading my mind. However, I shudder to think of George Bush being able to do the same thing by tracking where I go on the Internet and what I read and/or watch. Every coin has two sides. Thanks for being the bright and shiny side of this new frightening world. Vloggingly yours, Randolfe (Randy) Wicker
[videoblogging] Re: Make Money With a Podcast, the book
I couldn't agree more with Schlomo on this one. Vlogging removes the gatekeepers but traditional media tries to trap new talent. When you buy into them, you won't feature the really interesting, different and fabulous things in your own life because you have been brainwashed to think most popular is best. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is how most of us started, Heath. Just like you: created video, met other creators, been enriched by our collective experiences. On the issue of money: I don't think I know of any example of money-making that did not involve a lot of knocking on doors. These dollars don't knock on my door, I knock on their door. Everyone: Bre with Make Magazine to independent producers like Kent, Andrew, and Tim Street had to go talk to those to hold the pursestrings; not the other way around. Heck, you even need a sponsor to believe in you for Have Money Will Vlog. On your most recent video, you talk about how you just made a video for thelot.com, a filmmaking contest born-and-bred in Hollywood, brewed in an agents office, made because of the hyped buzzwords of User Generated Content (whee!). Personally, I think these contests abuse the very concepts that make podcasting interesting. They strip all of the goodness away and just leave the idea that Hollywood is the best way to be creative. Or something to that effect. Just rubbish. But then, if you, Heath, ran around say DragonCon (or come out to San Francisco for Wondercon!) and interviewed your heroes and your peers; make something interesting for a market you care about and believe in, then I do believe that you will find some money for your work. It won't make you rolling in dough, but it will definitely subsidize your passions. Schlomo http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://webshots.com/is/spotlight http://hatfactory.net http://evilvlog.com On 2/12/07, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And then there is me, who makes no money in fact this hobby only costs me money.but then again I am having fun, I have met new people, shared my passion and learned that the world is truely smaller than we all thought.it's been a life changing experienceso that alone makes it priceless.. Although it would be nice to make money, but doesn't look like that will happen anytime soon ;) Heath http://batmangeek7.blogspot.com On 2/12/07, leesarbarnes leesarbarnes@ wrote: Read the announcement: http://podonomics.com/making-money-with-a-podcast-the-book
[videoblogging] Re: Tuesday FlashMeeting
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Enric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Enric, I really enjoyed the last Flash meeting on Saturday. It is a great help that you put in EST. I would encourage others to participate. However, for those of us in NYC, the timing is terrible since they have the monthly NYC Vloggers meeting tonight at the Art Bar on Hudson Street (around 11th St 12th St) in West Village tonight at 7:00 PM. (Hudson Street turns into 8th Ave. at 14th St for those of you who might be near NYC but not familiar with Manhattan.) Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ The Tuesday February 13th FlashMeeting is on at 4:30pm - 7pm PST USA, 7:30pm - 10pm EST USA, 0:30am - 3am GMT. This is 30 minutes later than the previous ones I've scheduled (I lookeda at when people entered, and most were on 30 minutes in.) Enter through this link: http://flashmeeting.open.ac.uk/fm/688560-7303 You may also check the Videoblogger Videoconferences page at voxmedia for future and past Videoblogging FlashMeetings at: http://www.voxmedia.org/wiki/Videoblogger_Videoconferences -- Enric -==- http://www.cirne.com
[videoblogging] YouTube Video Thieves: How Many Are There?
Someone stole one of my videos on YouTube published it as his own. When I discovered everything, I was furious. A friend filmed me raging and raving at my computer screen. The thief was getting hits at twelve times the rate I was. Instead of getting even, I decided to turn it into a learning experience. This is the story of a video stolen from me on YouTube which now seems destined to be the most popular one I ever published. http://www.veoh.com/videos/v240366JDqsZeYe On YouTube the link is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akk9gKpLtxo On Blip: http://blip.tv/file/147004/ One vlogger suggested that video thieves have greater appeal to potential subscribers because they can cherry-pick from the work of others and end up with consistently better content than that of any single producer. (I may totally redo this video with black-stripe subtitles for easier reading.) Having my video stolen by a master thief made me reconsider rethink several core issues about personal property rights and the real reasons I put videos on the Internet. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker http://www.RandyWickerReporting.blogspot.com Hoboken, N.J.
[videoblogging] Re: how to make a mashup with a youtube video
I have Snapz Pro installed on my Mac. It captures any video playing on the screen as a Quicktime file. I can then import the file from my desktop into iMovie and do with it what I like. I used some in a VHS tape I gave to a few friends at New Years. Previously, I've simply filmed videos setting the camera on a tripod but avoiding lines and getting a really good image is a lot trickier. After you get the video into iMovie, you can use it to burn DVDs. I collect music videos I like that way and make DVDs of my favorite music videos, many of which are Asian music videos which I would have a hard time finding in any other fashion. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ 201-656-3280 --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: around the 26/1/07 Lucas Gonze mentioned about [videoblogging] how to make a mashup with a youtube video that: Any ideas about how I could make all that come together, given that the YouTube stuff is in Flash and probably doesn't even expose the FLV? videodownloader, a firefox extension, should get you the flv, perian I think should play it. with some luck ffmpegx might convert it -- cheers Adrian Miles this email is bloggable [ ] ask first [ ] private [x] hypertext.RMIT URL:http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/admin/briefEmail.html
[videoblogging] Wired article on YouTube
There is an article about you Tube in the Internet version of Wired Magazine: http://www.wired.com/news/wireservice/0,70627-0.html?tw=wn_index_8 Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Link for log sheets for your videos
When you shoot video, it's wise to log your tape. That means putting down the time certain scenes begin and end. This makes it a lot easier to retrieve the exact footage you want when you decide to do your vlog. I read a great little book called The Little Digital Video Book by Michael Rubin. In that book, he gives the link to the log sheet sample that one can get for free from his website. I use these all the time and can't imagine working with video without using a log sheet. So, use this link and/or copy and save it. It is really handy to have. http://www.nonlinear4.com/dv/log.pdf Vlog on! Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Videographer, Writer, Activist Advisor: The Immortality Institute http://www.blip.tv/posts/?user=Randolfe%20Wicker Hoboken, NJ http://www.randywickerreporting.blogspot.com/ 201-656-3280 Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] MySpace Moves Into TV Space
There is an interesting story in Media Post Publications MySpace Moves Into The TV Space 4/18/2006. This is the link for the story: http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm? fuseaction=Articles.sans=42347Nid=19861p=316727 Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Videographer, Writer, Activist Advisor: The Immortality Institute http://www.blip.tv/posts/?user=Randolfe%20Wicker Hoboken, NJ http://www.randywickerreporting.blogspot.com/ 201-656-3280 Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Why would emails fail to go through to the group
I switched to getting packets of messages from the group. For several weeks, I'd try posting a message and it would not appear in the list. I've jsut reposted two or three of the latest. I discovered that in my address book, [EMAIL PROTECTED] came up and I was posting to that address instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] I then tried posting from my Outlook Express to the latter address only to have the mail returned as follows: Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:26:32 -0400 From: Randolfe Wicker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Wired article on YouTube Your message cannot be delivered to the following recipients: Recipient address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reason: Illegal host/domain name found Can anyone explain why this has been happening to me. I finally went to Yahoo, signed in and posted the previous messages from there. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Videographer, Writer, Activist Advisor: The Immortality Institute http://www.blip.tv/posts/?user=Randolfe%20Wicker Hoboken, NJ http://www.randywickerreporting.blogspot.com/ 201-656-3280 Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
