Hi guys First post on the group. I've got a video blog here about Electronics Engineering: http://www.alternatezone.com/eevblog/ Not something most people are into, but I have a niche audience of 500+ regulars.
I'm new to video blogging so I'm after constructive comments on the quality of my blog, the tools and techniques I use etc. Blog #22 is the one to watch, it's where I talk about my blogging experience so far. I use Wordpress on my own website, with the iTunes plugin and use Feedburner to generate the iTunes version. I host the low res 320x240 (500Kb/s) MP4 on my website (about 45MB each episode), but I figure this is not a practical long term solution if I get more popular. The high res version (640x480 2000Kb/s) I upload to my Youtube channel, and I embed the Youtube link into my Wordpress logs. About 150MB each. Blogs I limit to 10min each to meet the Youtube limitation. Occasionally I'll do a 2 part episode. I've set up an account on Blip.tv and am thinking of using that for all my actual hosting, as well as continue to upload to Youtube because, well, you have to have a presence there. Comments on using Blip.tv anyone? Camera is an old 2nd hand NTSC DV Canon Camcorder with external shotgun mic. Adequate video I think, but not helped by my dark workshop lit with two strip fluoro's. Camera angle and height just happens to be my tripods minimum height on the bench in front of me. Seems to work well enough. Editing is done with Ulead VideoStudio 12, but I put minimum effort into this. In fact the whole blog is minimum effort. No script (off-the-cuff as I promote), and I don't go back and film things to correct issues, so just pretty much push a short blog out the door every week. Any feedback appreciated! Thanks Dave.
