On 1/30/07, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you want to make it even easier for people to go to your site and > comment when they watch your film in iTunes, you can add a clickable > link at the end of your Quicktime video, which people in iTunes can > click on to take them directly to your site. Hardly anyone does this > that I've seen - David Meade does it - see http://www.davidmeade.com/ > archives/344 for an example. I plan to do it, too, as part of my > next project.
I know what you mean, it's rather complex and proprietary technology... then again any mov is proprietary anyway. > You need a copy of something like Livestage or Adobe GoLive to create > a sprite within a QT movie. But you can easily create a free > standard ident page with a clickable link to your homepage by > downloading Adobe's 30 day trial of GoLive and following their > tutorial, then just paste that ident .mov file at the top or tail of > your QT posts. One should not have to go to this much trouble. > I get quite a few iTunes views on the rare occasions I post anything > - it's just something that the average person can understand, and has > already on their PC. I sync it with my iPod and watch most of the > vlogs I watch on the tube. Cool, I always like to here how people watch their media. > And I also find it an easy way of going to the sites of those people > I've subscribed to - just by clicking on the arrow next to the name > in the podcast section. Yeap... it goes to your homepage. I still want my links going right to the original post. Absolutely every other aggregator has it, and it's still like number one on blip.tv and my personal best practices from the good old days. -Mike mefeedia.com mmeiser.com/blog > Rupert > > http://www.fatgirlinohio.org > http://feeds.feedburner.com/fatgirlinohio > > > On 30 Jan 2007, at 12:06, Steve Watkins wrote: > > I admit to using it to watch video. Its not the best experience but I > am not totally satisfied with the other video aggregating apps either, > and as I often have itunes open to listen to music, it seemed > convenient. > > I can certainly appreciate the anger about their non-inclusion of the > accompanying post etc etc, but personally I find that easy to work > round, if I am at all interested in the video I jsut watched, I track > down the original site. Hrrdly an adequate workaround, but it does > work for me. > > I wouldnt be at all surprised if iTunes is used by a lot of people fr > lsitening to podcasts and watching vlogs, because so many people have > it for other reasons, and because although I care deeply about the > stuff thats absent, plenty of people may not. Especially if they are > using it to get content onto the ipod where they arent going to have > access to text & comments & the ability to feedback anyway. > > Cheers > > Steve Elbows > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Meiser" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do people even user itunes!? > > > > I sometimes wonder. Because I find it the worst piece of shit > > experience ever for watching videos. I don't know about anyone > else... > > but I find reading the accompanying post for the video... and going > > and leaving a comment or visiting the original vlog on occassion a > > compelling and essential part of the experience.... but iTunes POS > > interface doesn't have ANY of this important meta info. > > > > -Mike > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
