So much to say I actually started to write an email twice, but I had to stop.
It's brilliant! I don't know where you get these crazy ideas from but keep it up! ;) I like Peter's idea btw... but I can expand on it GREATLY... this could well be only the tip of the iceberg. I say, save the source if you have the space on your servers. Why? Think about in the future creating "blip projects".... think flickr groups... but it's not about simply sharing... they're PROJECT groups... they're about collaborative editing and organizing... either rough cut editing online (with original source videos!)... using blip's future online editing tools... or by downloading clips, editing and reuploading to the blip projects. Maybe... you just want to embrace the remix... Or maybe you steal apple's "rip, mix burn" slogan. And you adopt a strategy, of "Shoot, upload, mix, publish!" "Blip Projects" would be descrete groups... like a pbwiki... or say this yahoo group... that can be public or private... or many stages inbetween. They could be used to collaborate... say... a "vloggercon project" for vloggers to upload raw footage to share publicly, organize and collaboratively edit. ....or what about offering some white label version of this to podtech or rocketboom and others with "correspondents in the field". They got the correspondents go out in the field... covering CES, and macworld and they're to damn busy in the field to do any editing... they're not sleeping... they may be in bed... with each other even... but they're not sleeping... because it's CES... so they upload the footage to their "Podtech CES Project on blip.tv" so the podtech editors who are well rested can organize, grab source and edit together shows. But that's not it... no. not by a long shot... because... what if you were in a war zone and wanted to vlog... and you had limited resources, editing time, software, tech, and broadband.... say you had a blog and it was called Alive in Bagdad and you needed some collaborative space to upload and share raw footage with your co-conspirators state-side with their fancy macbooks, and their broadband and editing software.. But wait that's not it!? What if you were in the bush in africa... like literally in the bush... shooting all this amazing footage of wild dogs, and elephents and lions and rhinos!? Oh... wait, that's wildcast.net! It's not like you'd have a broadband connection in the bush, nor a mobile editing station... maybe you'd upload some raw clips via sat phone and blips intro & outro tool would be GREAT for that! Slapping an intro... a title sequence and an outro on it, transocding it to flash an mp4 and posting it all to your vlog... at wildcast.net But also may you could also upload some raw footage, some audio clips, some voice over material and what not to "Project Wildcast on blip.tv" and your conspirators in London could mix together some superb shows. But wait... maybe you're on the road... maybe you're covering a presidential campaign with three other people... maybe that of John Edwards? You're not all on the road at the same time.... but you need to be able to collaborate with your compadres to share the load... maybe you need some place to upload raw footage for your conspirators to edit and post? And let's not forget the original idea either... the idea of just having simple intro's and outros. Maybe you've got a video cameraphone... maybe it's a Nokia n70, or a N93 or N95 and let's say you shoot some footage of someone getting tazered in a library in california... or maybe you're on vacation and a tsunami hits... I don't know... use your imagination... The point is you can just hit the old share this video button on your phone... and you send your footage off to blip... you key in a title... "i just saw something that might change the world"... and 30 minutes or an hour later there it is, a post on your vlog... titled... "this might change the world" and there's your clip... not in 3gp format as you shot it, but in a very shareable and viewable flash... and a nice mp4... So what if maybe this ONE video clip of some kid getting tazzered at a library might not actually change the world... yeah, probably not, but maybe... just maybe the aggregate... of thousands and thousands of people just like you... doing the same thing... civil servents of the camera... doing their civic duty... shining camera's into all the dark but also quite often wonderful corners of the world... and sharing those videos with the click of a button... not in realtime but web time... that sort of ubiquity, that instant access, press button simplicity to shoot and share something with potentially the entire world... maybe the aggregate of thousand and thousands of people will.. maybe, one day change the world... maybe like an idea that's time has come... in some sense it already has. That or maybe you're just some guy who has a sub $100 digital camera that takes some nice 320x240 video in AVI format... eww... and doesn't like nor care about editing. Maybe you just want to shoot random clips of things like cats... or dogs chasing their tails... or sunsets or clouds or hot air balloons... and press the send button. Maybe you don't want to have to transcode them to MP4... and add a title sequence... or throw your creative commons licensce on the outro. Maybe you just want to point and shoot, upload it and "forget about it"... and just now that it'll be on your vlog in a nice easy and viewable flash and mp4 format... and what is so wrong about that? Making vlogging more accessible to more people... more people... less boundries... less necissary technology... more simplicity. Maybe video blogging won't ever be free to really be art until it is as simple and free as a number two pencil... and when video is as cheap as words... maybe only then it'll be then be free like those words that we throw around so cheaply... to become the texts, the novels, the books and words that inspire a revolution... or pacify a nation... or once again... change the world. Maybe there's a direct inverse relation... between the cheapness and accessibility of a thing... the number of people whom have access to it... and it possibilities to be a medium of greatness. Heh... and btw Jackob of vimeo made the mistake of posting both their business plan and what a video goes through after youupload it to vimeo to flickr. Direct from the whitey boards in the heart of the college humor labs. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jakob/352221793/ You should totally "steal" that... especially the "biz plan". They nailed it! It's briliant! LOL Keep rocking blippers! And keep rocking vimeo'ers too! -Mike, he of many cheap words. mefeedia.com mmeiser.com evilvlog.com intermediated.com On 1/10/07, Peter Van Dijck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, users control with sensible defaults sounds right. How about something > like this: > > By default, the original file gets the prepend and append, and the flash > file too, and those are the versions you make publicly available. Include an > option to prepend-append to existing videos I uploaded earlier. > > The original file stays available too (at .../original/...), and make that > available to the content creator, but not to the public, *unless* the > content creator checks the "for appended videos, make unappended unchanched > version available to public" checkbox. > > At any time, the content creator can switch prerolls/postrolls and re-do the > append operations for 1 video or all videos. This way I can change my intro > and attach it to all future videos, or to *all* videos. > > That'd be my personal preference. > > Peter > > > > > On 1/10/07, Steve Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Interesting, > > > > So long as its always under the full control of the creator, Im not > > sure people will even think of it as an altered video modified by you. > > Indeed if people use the features to put titles, credits, license > > info, or adverts into their video, they might not want the 'original > > unaltered' video to be available at all? > > > > For me, if its under the users control, its more like a simple form of > > 'online video editing' that you are offering, will be fascinating to > > see what others think. > > > > Cheers > > > > Steve Elbows > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com>, > > "Mike Hudack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Soon, soon, and my apologies for the sneak peak there :) We've still > > > got some more testing and debugging to do before we can really release > > > it to the public. > > > > > > Let me ask everyone a question about how we implement this feature, > > > actually. In order to do this right we have to create copies of your > > > original uploaded files which include your custom intros and outros. > > > This means that we would no longer be displaying your original, > > > unaltered, unchanged video file to the public. We would instead be > > > displaying a version of your video file which includes our own > > > modifications. > > > > > > How do we do this correctly, without upsetting people? One primary goal > > > of ours is to always, always, always make your original video file > > > available somewhere. It's very important to us. But how do that in a > > > user-friendly way, and do we make it available in cross-posts? Do we > > > only make the modified file available in cross-posts? How about > > > cross-uploads to Archive.org? > > > > > > Yours, > > > > > > Mike > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com> > > > > > [mailto:videoblogging@yahoogroups.com<videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com>] > > On Behalf Of Peter Van Dijck > > > > Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 3:51 PM > > > > To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com> > > > > Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Blip adds Intros & Outros > > > > > > > > I have been WAITING for that forever, please make it live as > > > > soon as you can > > > > :) > > > > > > > > Peter > > > > > > > > On 1/10/07, Mike Hudack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hah! Dude. You're hitting that prematurely. Sorry, but it's not a > > > > > public feature yet, and it's a mistake that you saw it. But soon! > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > > From: > videoblogging@yahoogroups.com<videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com> > > > > > > <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com> > > > > > > > [mailto:videoblogging@yahoogroups.com<videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com> > > > > > > <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com>] > > > > > On Behalf Of Bill Cammack > > > > > > Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 2:07 PM > > > > > > To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com<videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com> > > > > <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com> > > > > > > Subject: [videoblogging] Blip adds Intros & Outros > > > > > > > > > > > > Blip's done it again! :D > > > > > > > > > > > > http://blip.tv/prefs/video_parts/ > > > > > > > > > > > > <blockquote>You can now use blip.tv to automatically > > > > insert intros > > > > > > and outros into your videos. You can use these intros and > > > > outros for > > > > > > your own branded content or for pre-roll or post-roll advertising > > > > > > that you sell yourself.</blockquote> > > > > > > > > > > > > Sweet! What'll they think of next? :D > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Bill C. > > > > > > http://ReelSolid.TV > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Find 10000s of videoblogs and podcasts at http://mefeedia.com > > > > my blog: http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/ my job: > > > > http://petervandijck.net > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Find 10000s of videoblogs and podcasts at http://mefeedia.com > my blog: http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/ > my job: http://petervandijck.net > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
