[videoblogging] Re: Multimedia
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, elbowsofdeath st...@... wrote: Are all the various ways that people can share different media on the web providing a good foundation and all we need is a nicer way of presenting and interacting with this stuff? I still daydream about better ways to mix microblogging, photos, video music conversations together on the web, but actual concrete ideas about how to do this seem to evade me. Dream on! That's the quest. Since I ain't code proficient I'm not about to redesign the web but it's the mix that matters -- and how to DISPLAY the mix. In my daily blog existence I post a lot of audio ---now using this cute flash generator http://flash-mp3-player.net/players/maxi/generator/ I post slideshows either as powerpoint ---using slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/ ---or as image slideshows (when I use Picasa slideshow tool) http://www.tools4noobs.com/picasa/ or as pdf presentations, using Sribd http://www.scribd.com/ and videos of course from all over... but to pull it together I've tried networking video http://videoactiv.blogspot.com/ and audio http://leftclickblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/audio.html into channel aggregates. But ultimately I tend to believe it's not the site per see that matters but the RSS feed. Thats' where the magic happens. I think thats' the key direction that will over time likely bear the best fruit. It's so easy to mix and match feeds rather than websites. dave riley
[videoblogging] New Bloggertube Blogger template for video
I'm pretty much a dedicated Blogger user although i can use Wordpress and um and er about changing over every so often. I'm in one of those periods of contemplation at the moment when I came upon this new template for Blogger http://www.bloggertube-demo-dantearaujo.blogspot.com/ which I'm going to give a whirl.It was produced late last year. I currently use a Blogger adaption of a WP theme -- Hemingway -- and I like it http://ratbaggy.blogspot.com/ but Bloggertube is flashy... I wonder? dave riley
[videoblogging] Re: New Bloggertube Blogger template for video
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman jay.ded...@... wrote: Dave, if you use this Bloggertube template, send us the link. Jay It runs by linking to the video page not by embedding the video so I'd need to redo all my posts to make it work as intended. The template has a Facebook style operation, though and is very sprightly to operate. I'll mull it over though, but maybe that's a bit too much pizazz and busy-ness for little ole me. dave riley
[videoblogging] VLMC for Windows nopw available
VideoLAN Movie Creator is a non-linear editing software for video creation based on libVLC and running on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X! It is a free software distributed under the terms of the GPL v2. http://trac.videolan.org/vlmc/ DOWNLOAD: ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/testing/vlmc/vlmc-0.1.0.exe
[videoblogging] Re: VLMC for Windows now available
VLMC Demo on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02vdwNsvbZI
[videoblogging] Re: vlog research - low income/urban
The complication is that while there are programs to teach video at school, uploading and sharing online isn't necessarily something schools want to incorporate as part of the program. There are practical, legal [eg:release authority]and ethical [eg: videoing minors ] issues at stake.As far as I know this cripples a lot of direct and formal educational interface with Web 2.0 prospects and hampers separate community projects for the same reason.(eg: it would be standard that any video project would have in place from the start a set rule of procedure). So there are two issues here as maybe 'videoblogging' does not reflect something that while very buoyant, is offline. Here in Australia there are some exciting initiatives formatted by making video cameras available to Indigenous children in isolated Aboriginal communities -- but these same locales won't necessarily have web access. I nonetheless expect major creative advances of some consequence as video is being used as a expressive tool among kids whose first language isn't English and who don't necessarily embrace White Australia's preference for writing and reading. Video is also more culturally useful because it is more in sync with a verbal tradition rather than a literal and printed one. dave riley
[videoblogging] Announcing the Miro Video Converter!
http://www.mirovideoconverter.com/ Today we are launching the new Miro Video Converter, which I think it, by far, the easiest way to convert almost any video to MP4, Theora or for a specific device like an Android phone, iPhone, iPod, or PSP. The goal of Miro Video Converter is to give people an easy, fast, and intuitive way to convert videos. Most video converters out there have dozens of baffling settings about how to encode the video. Miro Video Converter is all about trying to do less- it has virtually no features. Just pick your file and choose what format or device you want to convert it to. It works. For fans of open-source freedom, the application is especially important because it's the only simple desktop application we know of that encodes the latest, high quality Ogg Theora videos. And here's a closer look at our beautiful Miro Video Converter logo, by our designer Morgan Knutson. As you can see, he did a great job building on the style of the Miro logo that Jon Hicks made with us a few years ago. PS: New version of Miro released today too...
[videoblogging] Re: Blogger FTP Phase Out
I use Blogger as I prefer that to Wordpress because its very much more free...and easily and enjoyably hackable., and free. I've never used Blogger's video service on a regular basis as it was so restrictive -- esp unembeddable elsewhere and not share able because of that. For video I use Blip Tv and have set my account to automatically post to my Blogger blog -- or blogs, as I post video to several Blogger blogs selectively.(I have a few blogs i administer though). I can also copy /paste the video to a blog post and on a couple of my blogs I use/embed the BlipTV show player which I can engineer so that it 'shows' selected programs. The mistake people make I think is to approach their video from a blog POV rather than via hosting service issue as video is easily shareable and transportable in a way singular blogs are not when it is hosted on sites like Blip. I don't use ftp but I guess if I did, I'd go with Wordpress as there is less reason to stick with blogger (it being free) -- but i'd still use Blip's services. Migrating from Blogger to Wordpress on wordpress.org from Blogger is a simple one click operation but I doubt that applies to Blogger ftp blogs. As a point of FYI -- Vodpod has extended its blog posting options with some new aps http://vodpod.com/ and it is a useful supplementary way to aggregate and share your vids and keep em archived and networked. dave riley --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, robdparrish hoppervi...@... wrote: Hey everybody, I just got word that blogger is phasing out the use of FTP on blogger blogs. Blogger will now require users to host blogs on google servers. This means that folks will need to do some sort of re-direct work so that all the old links will still work. OMG! Not what I feel like doing. So, I'd be interested in hearing how folks have migrated their blogs from one service to another. Should I head over to wordpress? How much of a pain is that? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Rob
[videoblogging] Re: Blogger FTP Phase Out
http://www.shoutmeloud.com/ftp-blogspot-to-wordpress-migration-professional-service.html Few days back I informed you about Blogspot will stop their support for FTP publishing and from last few days I have been busy migrating many blogspot blog to Wordpress which is using FTP publishing for blogspot blog. We have already migrated over 50+ blogspot blog to Wordpress and till now every one is happy about their move to Wordpress. If you not sure why Wordpress, read my post on 8 reasons why self hosted wordpress blog is better than blogspot. Infact one of our client has written a post about my service on her blog. You can read about it here : Blogspot to Wordpress migration experience. Few days back one of my client Mahendra also wrote a post on Shoutmeloud about his experience on Moving to wordpress. You can see a long list of testimonial on my blogspot to Wordpress migration service page.
[videoblogging] Kommienezuspadt
Tom Waits - Kommienezuspadt Komme nie zu spät means never be late. But hey the clip is great for reasons that creep up on you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewvkauIMmbQ There' editing and in music video mode it is so often totally extraneous. I think this presentation is beautiful. (Albeit with deference to Abbas Kiarostami wo ith his very thoughtful commentaries on shooting video in cars (see his Ten). I was thinking that the train carriage was a great place to do stuff -- interview someone, deliver a monologue or simply muse...) dave riley
[videoblogging] Launching: Video on Wikipedia Fighting back for open codecs!
A word fromk MIRO: Today we're launching a project with the Open Video Alliance to promote video in Wikipedia articles. It's called: Let's Get Video on Wikipedia! http://www.videoonwikipedia.org/ This is a concept that I had thinking about and trying to nudge towards reality for a long time; I'm thrilled that we're finally there. There's a bunch of interesting aspects, but perhaps the heart of it is a chance to bring open video to mainstream users and strike a blow for freedom. Wikipedia is the most popular site in the world that posts video exclusively in open formats (specifically, theora). The steadfast commitment that the Wikimedia Foundation has to open information, tools, and formats, is amazing. They truly put their values first. By encouraging more people to post videos in Wikipedia articles, we can bring theora video played in html5 to a very large audience. Currently, there are very few wikipedia articles that have videos (here's one that does: Polar Bear). We hope that this campaign will bring thousands more to the site and show people how great theora can be. HTML 5 video, which plays without Flash, is a wonderful step towards a more open web but if it depends on proprietary codecs like h.264, we will still be stuck with a gatekeeper for online video. What else makes this a great campaign? 1. Having a video in a Wikipedia article can bring topics to life in a way that photos and text alone can't do. It's an incredibly engaging medium. Think about the difference between reading about a cheetah's top speed and actually seeing it run. 2. We've worked hard with folks at Wikipedia to simplify the process of posting video to Wikipedia and we've got it down to 5 pretty simple steps. So now, for the first time in a truly human-usable form, here is: how to post a video to Wikipedia. 3. Sh. If you look around that site, you'll notice a reference to a new Miro product that is in a usable beta form but not quite ready for a full launch. Look for a launch announcement very soon. 4. If you watch a video on a Wikipedia article but you aren't on a browser like Firefox or Chrome, it will play in a Java player (it's pretty awkward) but it will also point you to Firefox, so that you can get a better browser. Another win for openness! 5. We've created a nice gallery of videos that are being submitted to Wikipedia in a Wikipedia Miro Community site so you can see what people are posting. There's a lot more to come from this campaign, so make sure to follow Open Video Alliance on twitter and become a fan of the project on facebook. http://feeds.getmiro.com/~r/miroblog/~3/-hhNFp5JYjc/
[videoblogging] Re: seminar filming?
Another complication with 'workshops' is that they are often held in much smaller rooms-- such as in a college. This may be a plus of course, but once you have the participants packed in, along with any furniture -- which may include tables -- your ability to rove will be constrained and similarly your line of camera sight may be obscured as the speakers speak in turn, so that you may be shooting the back of someone's head. This is doubly so if the penchant to create an intimate chat circle is used. During conferences the transitions in the agenda may be so short that it's hard to deal with the sudden rush of people moving from room to room, taking up any positions as they please. Lesson:check the layout of the room,and the likely position of all participants, before you do your setup. I've never shot video in these circumstances but I've been confronted with audio recording issues. dave riley --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Joly MacFie j...@... wrote: My method has been to run a recorder off the board, but also mainly to have a Zoom H2 set on 2 chan surround somewhere fairly central.
[videoblogging] Re: seminar filming?
I've been involved in a bit of conference coverage primarily using audio recording and workshops are the most difficult challenge of any of the setups. So it's not just capturing the video. If there is a lot of audience participation -- as in a true workshop -- then you have to capture the voices no matter where they are located especially if it's a hand about microphone. So that's lesson one -- if there is a roving mic, plug into the sound system for your audio input. If there is no roving microphone at all your only option is to move to close quarters with every speaker. So maybe a single very active video photographer is the way to go during any interchange. But mic pickup in these events is very hard to do without being a tad disruptive with your presence and I doubt there will be many participants who'll appreciate such proximity of a camera. Another way its done is mic-ed speaker and a floor mic on stand, That was is easy peasy but thats' not very workshoppy. dave riley --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Joly MacFie j...@... wrote: I recently got a flipHD and, while it's not much cop in the low light music things that are my usual stock in hand, it works well in a seminar setting. I bought a monkeypod and ball head which enables me to be quite flexible with placement. It gives a nice clean 720p
[videoblogging] Microphone options...a perennial question
I shoot with a Canon MD 120 mini-dv video camera which suits my needs admirably. But I want to improve my audio input. In some instances I use a rig I've developed from a Minidisc recorder and its own plug in power microphones(of which I have several). I run the MD audio into the camera in real time. But this rig can be cumbersome at close quarters when switching from on to off mode as I have to monitor two devices -- camera and recorder. So I have two options I think but I'm not sure how they play out. 1) Get some sort of small pre-amp so I can still use my plug in power mics. 2) Get a new microphone with its own power and plug it into the Mic in jack. All I want is to improve my audio and my audio control so that my microphone options are customizable. I don 't have a mic shoe but I'm willing to tape it anywhere I want. So I wonder if anyone has had any experience of pre-amping mics for small video operation? All I'm after is a unit that maybe houses one AA battery with input and output feed -- a sort of bulge en route between the microphone and the camera. I also live at the cheap end of the market -- my second Canon MD 120 camera cost me no more than $AUSD15. So poverty is a deciding factor in my purchasing power. dave riley.
[videoblogging] Re: Seeking Channel Player embed code.: Bl;ipTV YouTube
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert Howe rup...@... wrote: I'm not exactly clear why the Playlist player won't do it for you? It could -- but then I'd have to grab each episode from each channel I wanted to feature. But you are correct in what you say and I'll have to approach each 'show' to get their channel player as a embed option. I covered the option for now with -- For more information and to view earlier episodes ,click on the 'Guide and details about this episode ' icon. But a much bigger problem is YouTube -- I cannot find an embeddable channel player worth embedding. Does anyone have any suggestions BASED ON THEIR OWN EXPERIENCE? I find it hard to believe that the official export code is so bad. dave riley
[videoblogging] Seeking Channel Player embed code.: Bl;ipTV YouTube
As an experiment in video packaging I want to showcase a few online channels on the one web site. The best way to do this is to embed each channels' show player. So I was seeking some assistance is obtaining the following DIY: * YouTube channel players are packaged as gadgets. The standard one on offer is simply terrible -- 5 episodes and very small screen. So I'm looking for the embed code that will deliver for a working YouTube channel. Those I've tried amongst those listed don't work or maybe there is knack to getting them to work. Any suggested code sources? Recommendations? *BlipTV channel players are simply the best. But many BlipTV channels only offer as default player the 'latest episode'. I want the latest episode AND a selection option in the right side panel. Maybe the code can be hacked, but is there an easy way to get the code for selected channels? I can create one for customized playlists by selecting content, but I wanted code specific to selected whole channels. That is the player you are offered on each channel's show page. Otherwise I'll have to approach each channel directly and request them to supply episode listing as a embed code option dave riley
[videoblogging] Re: New media -- new ways of seeing the political and social universe.
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert Howe rup...@... wrote: Some projects by people in this group that focus on subjects outside the personal in a low budget but skilled way: I always value your recommendations Rupert and often go through those video sites listed on your own.You are right about Shadow Lands -- it is highly skilled video production, but I guess I'm trying to arrive at the POV that today skilling up is much easier than of yore as the tools are on hand and so accessible without having to train up in a big way. I mean they're no longer the province of specialists. I come from audio work and video tools, at a base DIY level, are so darn easier in comparison, as is the means to share. But I'll surf your recommendations, Thanks. I'm having this running argument with people who are in print -- hard copy -- media and not web oriented much at all and they simply have no idea of the mammoth potential that digital video online offers us. And while the web apes the off line stuff, they aren't going to recognize what potential may exist. Even community television producers I know cannot see the web's possible future. dave riley
[videoblogging] New media -- new ways of seeing the political and social universe.
I'm looking for online documentary recommendation but stuff that keeps within the 10 minute format.I'm not after news shows per se -- but POV internet video There are two internet video streams I really appreciate that are hallmarks for me: # Shadow World by David S. Kessler http://dskessler.com/shadowworld/ http://shadowworld.blip.tv/ which is an extraordinary exercise in cinema verite . Does anyone know sites as good as Kessler's that work a similar focus? Kessler writes:The process is fairly straightforward. I walk the streets under the El tracks, and tripod in hand, mostly concentrating on the play and power that the El structure has on the buildings and streets below. I stop at points where I feel that its impact is the strongest, allowing the trains and the tracks to be the one reoccurring character that forces itself into each moment. The people I talk to are all strangers. I try to let them steer the conversation. There isn't much (if any) prying to get them to tell me their stories. The intent is to appreciate that moment of interaction - whether something is revealed to me, a stranger, or not...The moments I capture are boiled down to three to four minute episodes. # Albatv http://albatv.blip.tv/ which is a product of the mass scale push in Venezuela to democratize the media.I like AlbaTV because its in mixes amongst it all and doesn't have 'journalistic' pretensions.It's very plebeian video -- in Spanish. AlbaTV shoots a lot of the activist stuff like I'm engaged with but it does it much better than I have done as it works much closer to its subjects whereas I'm hampered by journalese. As the Venezuelans say, it's Video communication without intermediaries:Alba TV plans to construct a different communication model, antagonistic to the dominant model of social communication, a task that can not be delegated but must be undertaken directly... because in this model of communication there can be no intermediaries. I'm interested in accessing examples of engagement with web video that suggests a new way of seeing the world of everyday political and social reality without necessarily being a skilled end product. There's a lot of videoblogging personalised stuff but I was interested in material that was more outward looking but wasn't just 'news'. I'm unaware of resources that monitor web video by genre and report on trends, review and make recommendations. The scale of the video universe is so large now you really need a guide book that can see beyond each online aggregator. However, the potential power of the short online video grab packaged in a series, as Kessler has done, seems very large indeed. There's a difference about shooting for the web -- which is not about trying to ape television or play film schools. dave riley
[videoblogging] Re: Videoblogging social network
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Sullivan sullele...@... wrote: I agree. I also think mailing lists are quite sufficient for the discourse. This complication of what platforms? crops up all the time when , in effect, the preferred remedy -- one that's customized, almost boutique -- is a combination of platforms tweaked to suit. At the moment I'm exploring how far I can push wikis -- easy to use wikis like Wikspaces -- and I'm thinking that if you embed elements in the wiki -- pages, flash media, Yahoo discussion groups -- you can at least pull many elements into the one address and make it a working hub. Of course with wikis the community rules via a strong measure of consensus. So if an element is working for you -- such as a Yahoo discussion group -- why put it aside? Why not build on it by aggregating other features. I hate the add-ons available on Yahoo. dave riley
[videoblogging] Re: How do you consume video?
My habits keep changing. I now use Miro for video and audio.I'm a dedicated listener to podcasts as I can walk and listen while mobile any time so I download selected programs from the feeds I subscribe to and sync them to my mp3 player. I've been listening like that for years. I listen to several hours of audio each week that way -- walking the dogs, shopping,commuting, etc.I'd never watch video in a mobile device. For video, because more bandwidth is at stake, while I may subscribe to feeds, I prefer to check each episode out on an online flash player first before I watch -- online -- the rest. So I'm real interested it what's on offer for the first minute or so of an online video as that's the clincher for me. Thats' a habit learnt from surfing the uneven quality of stuff on YouTube. I like Miro because I can subscribe to any number of feeds , check content as a listing and/or go to the originating site. It also searches across platforms and will capture torrents. I used to subscribe to video feeds in my Google Reader but found the interface a bit cumbersome so I now prefer Miro as my video media aggregator.(Although Google Reader usually will give you a flash player to view if one is part of the originating (full) feed.) As for being dedicated to specific channels or feeds -- I'm only really into a couple where I don't want to miss an episode. Since I like to select videos for online presentation I also use VodPod to aggregate videos in selected channels which I usually align with blogs or the like I work on. Vodpod is also useful on your own video site for presenting best of or recommended videos by others or themes or special series. Great tool. So in terms of feeds -- I personally think the whole 'podcast' thing of feed and automatic late night downloads a la Dave Winer and Adam Curry -- is now a bit passe given the attributes of flash player technology.Even when I pull in audio from other sites to showcase I have a few hacks I use to ensure I can post it with a flash player option. And when I showcase other sourced video --say in a blog post -- I also aggregate it on Vodpod so I have an in sync channel.If I don't use Vodpod I nonetheless will always dedicate a page/link to video such as this example: http://kickbike.blogspot.com/search/label/Video as I'm convinced that the web essence now is multimedia and text alone will not suffice. [In the same way, any mixed bag of audio I showcase on a site, I'll usually capture that in a separate feed and offer a flash player channel with that audio aggregated.] Another habit of mine now is that if I'm trying to learn a new computer program or even a domestic DIY or a physical skill I always look to online video as my instructor of first choice as I've learnt to value the quality of the tutorials available online in video format. So if I'm learning a video editing program or building and outdoor gazebo or whatever -- I'd prefer to watch the how-to online in video format. This example -- CrossFit -- http://www.crossfit.com/cf-info/excercise.html is a great example of using online videos to teach skills. dave riley
[videoblogging] Re: How do you consume video?
As if I wasn't loquacious enough! ... I also make a habit of watching the videos my 'network' of friends recommends on Facebook. dave riley
[videoblogging] Re: Video library management
I've started to use this free download to tag my library http://www.itagsoftware.com/ and it seems to work fine. In fact I'm amazed at its power and capacity for what is a simple program. It more or less functions in the same way as online folksonomy and will give you a tag cloud to review when searching. AVI files only I think. Once you've tagged each file -- easy peasy -- you select which folders you want to have included in your search. It also offers a groovy time line slider which will allow you to view files by the creation date(indpendent of data you enter). So if I created video files in 2008 I can slide along the time line and with it progress through the year and I'll get files added to my search results. You can also geo-tag. dave riley
[videoblogging] Re: Best Editing software for cutting out words?
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Jones david.jo...@... wrote: Perhaps it actually takes less time overall to relax and prepare or reshoot each scene to get it right, than trying to slice'n'dice that stuff in editing? As they say in radio: forget about the hardware. Focus on to whom you address your words. Imagine someone you are talking to: your mother, your best friend, your partner, the workmates, your registered muse or whoever and focus on explaining your POV to that very specific audience. And place that audience -- singular or plural -- in a specific location and line of sight as you would if you were talking to a lamp post. Even yourself! -- by putting a mirror out of shot to one side and behind the line of camera sight.Given my theatrical vent and my ready ease talking to the bathroom mirror -- this isn't as stupid as it sounds. Remember though to make it to one side not directly above the camera -- or right behind the lens [so that you can remake the last sequence of SUNSET BOULEVARD with Gloria Swanson looking directly into the camera. Just think:I'm ready for my close up Mr De Mille.] Another approach is to be someone else -- adopt a persona that takes you outside yourself with its umms and errs.Go up pne manic notch or two. Rule the world. Become the ring master at the circusPerform. That's what theatre is all about: pretending. If you wanna know hard times do a radio interview live to air where as the person who is being interviewed you speak into empty silent space and the interviewer just let's you prattle on. And you have no face in front of to register how you are going in way of delivering your POV. I hate'em! dave riley
[videoblogging] Re: Best Editing software for cutting out words?
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, ratbagradio ratbagra...@... wrote: As they say in radio: forget about the hardware. They also say in radio: write out your script! because unless you are master of your domain you can fall victim to so many traps and mistakes. Unless you have cue cards that's not very viable in video production but it is the norm nonetheless for most of television and especially news reporting. There's even of course reading style in sync with writing style with cute little tricks for page layout...and inflexion. But if you are going to improvise then you'd need full prep as to what you are going to say and to whom you intend to say it.So it's a big ask when you decide to wing it and it's no wonder the umms and errs can creep in. The best way round is to go do some Improv training or Theatresports. Some handy techniques there. Even your everyday stand up comic goes out on stage fully prepped and scripted only with a very small margin of improvisational change each night and often with palm cards. I used to do Punch and Judy and it was totally scripted performance which was only added to when some thing really good came up or was suggested. Other techniques I've used and rely on is to write out Mind Maps and visualize the presentation that way. Online I now use Mindmeister: http://www.mindmeister.com/ People I know before giving a lecture will lay it out first in Powerpoint because it anchors their mind and gives formatted order to their presentation. Even when they don;t use projection they mentally visualize their presentation slide by slide . I think that's a great ideabecause it's all about being in control of your material. dave riley
[videoblogging] Re: Best Editing software for cutting out words?
Obviously what you do works extremely well so why fiddle with it? Forget about the umms and errs and simply leave them in . And strive for a greater focus. If you umm or err -- what are you looking for during the umm? The next point? The next word? You obviously know your stuff. If there is a hesitancy deal with that there rather than with the edit. I always find inasmuch as I have any feel for it -- when the umm sets in I'm looking for audience approval as I've lost it in real time or in my mind. I've lost them in my head rather than trying to communicate with some other human being. In your case, here's a suggestion, pick out a generic comment-or and direct your words to that person or stereotype. Also you've obviously got the character -- as per the banner header -- so play up to that a few notches and I reckon the umms will go.Even look at that for character inspiration Nothing builds confidence and loquaciousness than being someone else.(I used to do theatre with psychiatric patients and young children and it is a truism that being someone else builds confidence in a snap. ) What improv teaches you is how to bridge from A to B with transitional fill and cues. I do a bit of public speaking and that format is a restricted time limit so you have to rehearse in your head the argument you have to deliver from a few dot points often on paper.(I do however now use Mindmaps everytime) So if you have 4 minutes to deliver a point well what is the fastest way to get through A, B and C? And there in row two is someone nodding off and over on the left is another picking their nosebut that's' the response that you rely on -- the laughter too when you can get it. Absent unfortunately from video... When you do it cold through a sterile lens you can't be a Marlon Brando and drown in an artificial character -- you have to speak to someone the same way that they do it -- since you're an Australian -- on Playschool. I used to write a weekly newspaper column and could happily proceed to write it if I had just two ideas to rub together as an excuse to begin to write.But it still took me two hours to write it! But you know your stuff and it's surely formatted in your head before you open your mouth. Really what you need is an audience -- someone imaginary to talk to. And honestly Dave you are so good at your delivery the hesitancies are so far a secondary issue. Just imagine a person you are talking to FOR REAL and I reckon the hesitancies will disappear.. You are too good, and you videoblog is too inspiring, to worry about these side issues. To deliver -- such as # 27 -- a 10 minute monologue 'off the cuff' is a huge ask for anyone. If you think you are caught why not chop it up into chapters and pace yourself by taking a breather between chapters. Have a sip of water. Look down at the ground. Crank up the camera ---then in the edit fade in and out between segments. OR slow down. When you are on stage, at the lectern or in shot -- time races and you don't recognise that you can afford to slow down even pause between points as you collect and arrange your thoughts.You don't have to fill every moment with talk. And in the silence you arrange your next few points. Slowing down also enables you to undercut hypo-ventilation which promotes shallow breathing and when you hypo-ventilate you can become confused and often lose control over the order of your presentation. Anyway:There's too much passion in your videoblog for a few umms and errs to matter one iota. Ride the tiger... dave riley
[videoblogging] Re: Best Editing software for cutting out words?
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Jones david.jo...@... wrote: At present I have to edit each clip individually which is a step I'd rather not have to do. I use VideoStudio 12 for my put together but for sharp slice and dice editing I use VirtualDub which will allow you to slice and edit or add 'frame by frame' so to speak. So if you import your piece into VD you can delete the umms. You won't have to do it clip by clip either as VD will aggregate a succession of clips or edit the whole project if you want to. Just make sure to use interchangeable file format -- such as AVI -- that will import into both VD and VideoStudio. You can get VD here: http://www.virtualdub.org/ and the manual is now free here: http://rapidlibrary.com/index.php?q=virtualdub+pdf+manual and a few other sites or online help here: http://www.virtualdub.org/virtualdub_docs.html My VirtualDub bookmarks (with links to video DIY) are here on delicious http://delicious.com/ratbagradio/virtualdub But can't you drag down the audio in VideoStudio by creating a clip around your target audio edit using the Cut (Ctrl C?)option, then dragging that clip's audio to low or switching it to mute? Or copying the whole audio segment and editing it in a program like Audacity to bring down the audio at those sections and normalise it for the rest? That's a bit cumbersome perhaps as dragging down audio for short sections is always problematical. However, the problem with editing audio in an audio editor is that you have to go by sound cues and it isn't so easy to target your spots as it is with video editing. In comparison to audio, video editing is an easy DIY. Nonetheless, when I've edited audio for radio or podcasting -- when a speaker umms and errs -- I used to take it out but now I leave it in. Editing such hesitancies is such a pain and inevitably you'll end up cutting the speech into staccato segments where words are clipped and cadence is lost. And for long speeches or interviews, it takes too much time and too much effort. If you do it in video and take out the umms and errs by deleting video you'll also get a succession of short video disjunctions. Radio and TV journalists get around this complication by switching to third person reportage and summarizing the speaker before leading into a meaty sound grab. OR you work very hard when you are shooting or recording to RELAX the speaker or ma clarify sharply your questions so that they have less cause to stumble over their words. However You know...s have to go! dave riley
[videoblogging] Re: YouTube versus Blip.TV quality
Is there a feature by feature comparison available anywhere broader than the one on Wikipedia? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_video_services The entry is very useful but maybe there are a few columns of interest missing such as posting to off site urls, aggregation options, channel players, RSS feeds, etc. On regard to sites, I've just gone back using the Miro player -- the old Democracy Player on my desktop -- http://www.getmiro.com/ and the visual experience is excellent.Top quality tv. As well, the platform isn't as clunky as it was a few years back. It still has a great access open philosophy to its services.So if you are touting your feed don't forget Miro. dave riley
