When I had my Powerbook G4, now Lea's pride and joy, I used a Logitech Communicate STX. The cam is about $49 US. I used a couple plugins to get it working like a champ in ichat and skype. When I get home, I'll fire off an email to you with what it needs to get up and working.
David http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I started watching earlier today, but got interrupted. Happy Birthday! > > It's like the iSight was built for you, Schlomo. Very few people > could make films as entertaining as that with their MBPs. I bet no > one else's MBP iSight videos will get shown at Pixelodeon next year. > > And it feels different somehow that it's on Facebook... sorry - "the > Facebook". Nicer forum for it than just a mass video sharing site or > a blog. (that reminds me - I saw on Viddler they're giving away > iPhones to people who make 30 second MeToday videos this month.) > > What you say makes total sense to me - the immediacy and satisfaction > of it. It's been low maintenance creative fun for me to snap stuff, > cut it occasionally in the phone and just send it off. You only > have to worry about what's in front of the camera - you haven't got > half your brain in the future, thinking about downloading, > compressing, uploading, posting, etc and whether what you're shooting > is worth the effort down the line. So it just frees you to just Do > Stuff. The little creative muscles need flexing as well as the big > ones. > > Not that mine would be as fun as yours, but I'd love to be able to do > it. God DAMN, i wish i could afford a Macbook Pro (the phone i use > was a free upgrade btw, and the phone plan is pretty average - all > data goes via regular wifi). I am in webcam hell with this > Powerbook. The other night i had to use my big old XL1 DV camera as > a webcam for the flashmeeting - and then it ran out of battery. And > I'd left the power cord somewhere. > > Anybody have a Powerbook with a webcam that actually works well? > With iChat, etc? Care to let me know what it is?? > > Rupert > http://twittervlog.tv/ > http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ > > > On 6 Jul 2007, at 18:26, schlomo rabinowitz wrote: > > Hey all > > Lately my small life has become consumed with making videos on the > Facebook. I'm not sure why.. you dont get stats, you cant see who has > been > watching them, and you don't get an RSS feed. In fact, all you can do is > record into the web browser and tag it with your friends names if > they are > in the video-- you cant even make up your own tags!! > > But its become a very intimate connector for me. It's like Ruperts > Twittervlog, but without the expensive camera and monthly phone plan. > > Blip.tv used to have a similar feature early-on that only worked in > Safari. > I remember using it in a similar way, but the Facebook version is really > well done and should be abused by all videobloggers! > > Its strange, but for some reason I enjoy making these sorts of videos > this > way, but on my personal site I want to make stories in a different way. > With the In-Browser Recording, I like to just communicate in an instant > messenger sort of way. Does that make sense to anyone else? It's the > immediacy of the process that I enjoy (again, it helps me understand why > Rupert and Steve get excited about their phones) > > Anyway, here are the couple I've done: < > http://www.facebook.com/video/?id=880965647> > > I encourage you to make some of your own! Right now! > > Schlomo > http://schlomolog.blogspot.com > http://weknowhow.tv > http://winkshow.com > http://hatfactory.net > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
