Re: [videoblogging] Apple laptop
well if you're doing anything above domestic or consider yourself anywhere above the categories of novice and/or amateur then final cut pro/studio. if you will do a lot at home or in the one place highly recommend second monitor. an appropriate closing Adrian Miles School of Media and Communication Program Director B.Comm Honours vogmae.net.au On 18 June 2010 14:49, RatbagMedia ratbagra...@gmail.com wrote: But what would I need to consider IF I wanted to run my video editing needs on a Apple laptop? I'd be new to laptops anyway and was thinking I'd make a big break to a new format entirely... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Shooting In Public
I think the crazier bit are all those people who at some point sign releases for this material. Or if in the airport shows there is some chance that they don't have to if they get deported/have committed criminal offence and this somehow suspends their rights (anyone know?) then am intrigued. If they go to court then their stories can not be broadcast before the court case is completed, if they get turned around, then would have thought there would still be something potentially illegal without a release? an appropriate closing Adrian Miles School of Media and Communication Program Director B.Comm Honours vogmae.net.au On 9 June 2010 12:30, David Jones david.jo...@altium.com wrote: Reminds me of the Border Security programs we have here in Australia. They shoot these people in the customs area at the airports and make everyone look like a criminal on national TV. But if you shoot something (or even use your phone) in the customs area of the airport you will be arrested and fined. Crazy. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Shooting In Public
not sure why a conversation between an officer of the state and a citizen would be deemed private. But hey, I'm on the other side of the planet an appropriate closing Adrian Miles School of Media and Communication Program Director B.Comm Honours vogmae.net.au On 9 June 2010 13:50, compumavengal compumaven...@earthlink.net wrote: a person may not willfully intercept what it calls oral communications. It defines oral communications as any conversation or words spoken to or by any person in private conversation. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: WebM Project
hi all I've kept out of this, but comments below, sorry Tom, Linux is open source (it was written, quite recently in the history of unix, because there was *no* open source unix), but unix is not open source, never has been. Proprietary all the way as far as I know: http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix/history_timeline.html Funnily enough unix had its own standards argument which was why they introduced Open Standards. This did not mean free or non commercial. it meant agreed standards, much like H.264 and MPEG4. I will keep out of this now, 90% of what is getting written is either wrong in fact, bordering on tabloid, or just hyperbole (much like this sentence really). Regarding Doomsday. 1. There are hundreds of similar examples (got any beta domestic video tapes under your bed?). 2. The issue was they picked a technology that was not the future and was minor. 3. there are thousands of open source projects that have died, and will die, those that survive do so because they reach a critical size, ie they are minor and will go nowhere. 4. Same argument for the Doomsday project, if they had got the technology right, then it would have continued/survived (just as yes, I can still just manage to get my domestic beta video tapes onto other media). The issue for survivability is uptake. In 1993 on the web most in media did not see it as having a viable commercial future, if it remained only for hobbyists/geeks/tech types they would have been right. Mosaic was invented, (http existed well before Mosaic, we used Lynx to view webpages) and the web very quickly became compelling. If mosaic - a graphical browser - had not come along, well, who knows but the internet could have remained a small, busy, vocal place for academics and geeks. On 7 June 2010 17:56, Tom Sparks tom_a_spa...@yahoo.com.au wrote: the open source community are only one who can keep project going for decades eg: unix started in 1969 and is still going today cheers Adrian Miles http://vogmae.net.au [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] files
biggest mistake is to set manual keyframes. make them automatic (also known as natural), will produce better compression results and generally smaller file sizes... an appropriate closing Adrian Miles School of Media and Communication Program Director B.Comm Honours vogmae.net.au On 7 June 2010 14:44, Tom Dolan tomjdo...@gmail.com wrote: Thanx for taking the time to explain that Adrian, I guess I'll select 'quick start' when I convert. I use Quick Time Pro to convert from iMovie to a QT movie which I then upload to YouTube, blip and a few others. My files have been very large, even after following the advice of a very popular vid-blogger. I don't like the resolution that he apparently finds acceptable. But thru trial error just the other day, I discovered a combo of selections that reduced my file size to about 1/3 size with ok acceptable rez. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] files
Flattening the movie interleaves data through the file structure. The aim (from memory) is to have key data up front so the player gets it first and doesn't have to wait for it to arrive. I don't know what data this is but imagine it would be things like: duration frame rate gamma volume metadata (who, when, etc) Actually, that's what fast start does. I think flattening only interleaves the data so that it is 'packed' into the file format in the most efficient way for playback. For fast start the object is to let the video be able to begin playing before all the media has arrived (aka fast start). This was (and is) an innovation as in the early days of video, unless you were using RTSP, the entire media file would have to be delivered before it could play. With long and large files this was a nuisance. It might sound obvious, but it wasn't at the time. (Imagine being able to start reading a very large Word doc in Word, that was online, before all the pages had arrived, that's what flattening - and fast start - help to achieve). an appropriate closing Adrian Miles School of Media and Communication Program Director B.Comm Honours vogmae.net.au On 7 June 2010 10:21, Tom Dolan tomjdo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Can someone tell me the meaning of: Flattened movie or video file? I'm looking into different ways to compress for the web from iMovie and occasionally I see this term. Thanx Tom Dolan tomjdolan.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Markvoort
and there is something in the grace of a Bresson who recognised the most intensely personal (and religious) are beyond representation and should be presented as such. (This is a big debate in things like the holocaust where there is rich debate as to whether something of such a scale is devalued by being represented within a story, it is also a tradition in things like negative theology which work on the premise that the sacred is byeond representation because it is beyond any ordinary scale). sometimes less can be more. an appropriate closing Adrian Miles School of Media and Communication Program Director B.Comm Honours vogmae.net.au On 29 April 2010 10:06, taoofdavid65 taoofda...@gmail.com wrote: There just needs to be a limit though. I'm sure people care but there are things that, at the risk of being exploited, should be left private. Granted, this is coming from a reformed Social Media whore. Not everyone needs to know everything. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Markvoort
or just not watch as you suggested :-) an appropriate closing Adrian Miles School of Media and Communication Program Director B.Comm Honours vogmae.net.au On 29 April 2010 11:33, David Jones david.jo...@altium.com wrote: People can theorize all they like. Publish and be damned is often the easiest solution! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re:adding click through url to movie
not forgetting that you can do this in QT if that is the format you want to present in. No need to special servers, etc. an appropriate closing Adrian Miles School of Media and Communication Program Director B.Comm Honours vogmae.net.au On 28 April 2010 00:15, Bill Vick headhun...@gmail.com wrote: Julian - I've looked at several services that provide URL click throughs. It usually means being hosted on their servers and after looking at several of them the one that looks like the best solution for me is Veeple at http://www.veeple.com/. Not cheap but one of the best implementations I've seen. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] short-film ideas using a 360 degree lens
hi http://www.z360.com/what/ is a 2001 QTVR interactive pano narrative. perhaps worth a look? On 15 February 2010 18:46, Tom Sparks tom_a_spa...@yahoo.com.au wrote: I seen 1000's of these panorama videos [1][2] I am trying to think of a story/drama that would make a 360 degree lens worth using Currently I am think of a docudrama/LARP[3]/reality tv style vampire hunt are there any ideas you can think of? [1] http://gardengnomesoftware.com/pano2vr_sample.php?demo=video [2] http://www.eyesee360.com/videowarp/flash/ [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_action_role-playing_game tom_a_sparks [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Remember when it was all 320x240?
hi all On 11/02/2010, at 8:13 PM, adammerc...@att.net wrote: Also there is the question of bandwidth and I've had this argument with several people, and I'm often in the minority. But i believe my position so I stand by it. Bandwidth is not free, contrary to popular opinion. Someone somewhere is paying for it. We wil all pay for it if the ISPs want to throttle their networks thanks to every tom dick and harry publishing HD video of their son on a swing, thus choking up the networks with unnecessary bits. your content may very well warrant the higher quality. Thats your choice. Miine does not. Thats my choice. really want to second this. In a world where sustainability really is an issue network sustainability (which includes bandwidth) *is* significant. You can't pump big video into most of the world. For some projects that does not matter, but for many it does. I remember teaching Masters students in Norway who scoffed at what I showed them in QuickTime for compression and editing, pointing out that downstairs they had Avids, 3 chip cameras etc. Half of these students were on scholarships from the developing world. I asked them so, when you go home and out to a school, do you want everyone to be able to shoot and edit and publish video for a $30 bit of software, or do you want to tell them that they can only tell their stories when they learn how to use, own, maintain, an Avid? Every one of them shut up and started playing. Today I could have the same conversation with them about bandwidth. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au/research/contact-me/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Remember when it was all 320x240?
hi Rupert On 11/02/2010, at 9:36 PM, Rupert Howe wrote: Certainly, in my book this is another big reason why it's not OK to tell people they shouldn't be shooting in low resolutions. If you don't need to use HD (and why do you need to use HD for personal / family videoblogging like Adam I do?) then using it is akin to using a gas guzzling SUV to do the school run. and frankly expresses a similar attitude to everyone else out there :-) In some contexts of course hi res is what you need - if my doctor is going to look at online images of my body then hi resolution and integrity of data is essential! But yes, it is what I think of as bandwidth pollution. If you don't need to use that much, don't. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au/research/contact-me/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Remember when it was all 320x240?
hi all absolutely disagree. On 10/02/2010, at 6:49 PM, David Jones wrote: If you follow that logic to its logical conclusion, then why have a video blog at all?, why not just an audio podcast? Or at least why not 160x120 for even more bandwidth saving and speed? if you follow that logic to its logical conclusion then why be online at all and instead be in a cinema, or project via some hi-rez system against a wall in an installation? it is a wrong argument as it is like saying because I'm a painter and I can have a 4 metre square canvas anyone who chooses to paint miniatures, or even small canvases, isn't really doing painting. (Or if I write a novella instead of a novel I'm not really a writer, etc.) There are deliberate creative, aesthetic, technical, theoretical, practical reasons for choosing scale in these ways so that choosing to be small is recognised not as a default condition of all that the technology allows but a deliberate creative decision. Like choosing to write a haiku when I could also have written a short story. Or a novel. It also ignores the entire role of constraint to creative practice and art (there is no art without constraint, pixel dimensions does not have to be a constraint, but it does not follow from this that you must therefore only go for the highest current available pixel dimensions). For example things like Daniel Liss' seven maps or Will Luers' 217 Views of the Tokaido Line work because of constraint - of rules and of composition. Particularly with Will's project the scale is essential precisely because it is not big, it is about Japan, the small, the miniature, the everyday (think Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon or of course what Will's work directly refers to). Finally in my own work I take a different view as I think of the computer and the network as the medium for the work, in which case it lives in a complex ecoystem and visual field with other windows, other applications, other attentions. So my video should not take over your screen in the same way that I despise any app on my computer that assumes it has the right to all of my screen, all of my attention, etc. I don't think of the computer and the network as just a clever delivery device to get my video onto other screens at full resolution but as something small that sits there in amongst your email, photos, and the 12 apps you're currently running and flipping between. All power to full screen video, but please don't make an argument that this is the only way to approach video online. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au/research/contact-me/
Re: [videoblogging] video chat
hiave used Skype on mac to video chat within Australia and Australia to Britain and Australia to Israel with no problems. On 04/02/2010, at 10:17 AM, Tom Dolan wrote: Anyone have experience with video chat? How about Skype with a Mac? I've held off with Skype because some say there are issues w/Mac's. Any advice on this topic would be welcome. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au/research/contact-me/
Re: [videoblogging] 2010 the year of the tablet?
hi Steve On 12/01/2010, at 3:42 AM, elbowsofdeath wrote: So, is this going to be the year that the tablet form factor finally takes off? And if so, will it have many implications for vlogging? potential to be breakthrough product/platform. Large enough screen to give decent 'cinematic' (for want of better term) experience, suitable for intimate viewing (like ipod/walkman for music), and if it is network aware then potential for smarts in the media. The heart of the matter is to be able to move from it just being a dumb viewing device. This is the killer aspect of course for the iPhone since apps and their access to the phone's smarts (data, GPS, voice, etc etc) shift it into a different category of device. So here's hoping :-) cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] 2010 the year of internet TV videoblogging
sort of like a Steenbeck? :-) On 19/01/2010, at 10:16 AM, Richard Amirault wrote: I would LOVE to edit with a touch screen. just seems like it'd be more fun and direct. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] avoiding/cleaning hum noise
hi also don't forget the value of an atmos track for these situations. Record the room silent and then lay that beneath everything else. (No room is actually silent and this is standard practice.) On 27/01/2010, at 12:54 AM, Jay dedman wrote: I would like to know how you manage to record a sound with minimum hum in a room environment. I have a good microphone that I use for my filming, but I always get a huge hum sound if I film inside. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Re: IMovie conversion options?
hi Cheryl am not yet clear on what your'e doing do apologies if comments don't help On 24/12/2009, at 4:17 AM, Cheryl Benson wrote: - making imovies with titles and exporting to a readable codec by other sites such as tubemogul, blip etc., not just youtube which is in the options on the mac, and save it to a file on my computer under movies to upload later when ready (the apple tech told me I could only upload imovie project extension to youtube) i have QT pro so can export to lots of formats, not sure what the options are without QT pro but you can export to mov which all video services will read, ideally you'd compress using H.264 (or an ipod preset). - the imovie is .rcproject extension, the apple tech had me put it through QT, may have tried itunes as well. Anyway, I checked, it shows in the QT file (and my movie project file) but with the imovie extension rcproject, not QT, which I think is .mov ? (what the original format was), I thought it gets changed to mpg4 from within iMovie you can export to mov, if in doubt just use one of their presets, eg to iPhone/iPod. - thx for posting the video I have watched it a few times, and will have to watch it a few more, as it seems I did everything already stated, obviously not though, the extension is still wrong. I was able to change the extension of a transferred VHS in quicktime, from watchng that but not the imovie project. don't change the extension of the iMovie project, that's a file just for imovie. changing the extension of that will just cause problems, it'd be liking changing a .doc to .pdf by changing their extensions and wondering why it was not now a PDF and why Word was grumpy with it :-) - why 1 hour for 5min.30sec video to convert, that to me is unacceptable for several reasons, do I have too much memory used up on the mac? In wmm, it makes it in a few minutes and you save it where ever you want on your computer. Uploading time with wmm vid;s is relatively short btw, tubemogul takes longer. who knows? It probably shouldn't take that long but by the above description you're not doing something right so it it might not be compressing but might be transcoding, then compressing, etc. You can save it where ever you want on the computer, though I imagine if you are using Apple's automatic tools then yes, the tools probably expect the media to be somewhere specific. if you're happy to use a dialog box to tell a web site where the video is, then you can save it anywhere. I am on blip and a many other uploading sites, thanks, that is one of the reasons I use tubemogul. again thx for the video and input, have watched it a few times, and don't see what I am missing (or the apple rep) yet, I keep at it as able, and report back after another try. hope some of this helps. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Video website payments and accountability
nah :-) personal videoblog full of baby shots, imagine http://loobylu.com/ on video. The early posts with the babies, there, Johnson and Johnson written all over them :-) But seriously, most advertising we are familiar with grew up with mass media so it is very generalist and needs to be a shot gun - scatter and hope a couple of pellets land. But ideally they want things to be very highly targetted, so if you have very specific content then it can carry very specific ads, and this is worth paying for. And it is hard to think of *any* subject that could not carry advertising. Whether you think it is tasteful, or appropriate, is a different question :-) On 17/12/2009, at 9:27 AM, Jay dedman wrote: Yeah, advertising probably lends itself to specifics. So your videoblog is about hacking electronics (generalization) so its probably easy to figure out what the ads will be. Someone posting personal stories about their life to share with family and friends seems less obvious or helpful to advertisers. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Video website payments and accountability
My only advice here is a) you have to sign an agreement to host your stuff through the service b) a standard clause in all such agreements is the one that says these terms may change So what you think you signed up for will change (quite quickly, there are projects that map the changes in user agreements and they generally change *a lot*). On 16/12/2009, at 10:36 AM, caminofilm wrote: Recently a fellow filmmaker contacted me about 5min.com. He had concerns about them putting his videos on other sites like Bukisa.com and Watchdoit, something that wasn't discussed when he gave permission for 5min's to use his vids. There are only two sites that I would recommend to video producers with regard to ad revenue. Youtube and blinkx. Other sites (like blip.tv) despite running ads in my videos, have never returned one cent! As an Australian, dealing with these online video sites (based in locations as diverse as Israel and the US) what legal recourse to I have to checking a video sites accounting practices, and withdrawing my content? cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Online video portfolio
hi all yes, the first one I saw had no video support and was going to get in touch about it, then hey presto, new version out with very nice video support. While lots of us use CMS for all sorts of things if you're the only contributor then things like WordPress are becoming a bit like Word for simple wordprocessing. There's just a ton of stuff there when realistically most of us want just a small part of it. This makes things like Stacey interesting as they step in between the big CMS's and hand coding. This is an interesting development in the ecology of CMS's. On 14/12/2009, at 3:35 PM, sull wrote: I've been playing around with it over the past week. New version was just released. Good stuff. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Online video portfolio
download and look at the default installations, have video examples. just include a video file in the folder named nxn.mov where n is the dimensions and it is embedded automatically. As Jay said, for portfolio projects it is very simple, quick, and effective. On 14/12/2009, at 6:53 AM, Joly MacFie wrote: Have you seen any examples of a video implementation, or is it just for images? cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Dickens and videoblogging
hi nice points Adam. I'd push them a bit further. Dicken's didn't write novels. He wrote serialised pieces for serial publication that were later turned into novels. This makes his example even more relevant in the terms you point out. On 05/12/2009, at 4:11 AM, Adam Quirk wrote: Dickens expanded the social/economic scope of the novel while expanding its linguistic resources with no regard for class status or stylistic propriety. Ultimately, he allowed the reader to regard more of the life around him by allowing it to be important enough to get into a novel. He thereby expanded the audience of the novel itself. In a sense this is exactly what videoblogging has done for film and television. By showing the audience more of the world around them, you show that all those minor details and in-between moments are actually important enough to document, thereby decreasing the threshold of importance and allowing more people behind the curtain of storytelling. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] tutorials new video bloggers and amatuer video producers
I cut out the writing bit and just think supportive comments. It's even faster. :-) On 03/12/2009, at 1:47 AM, Rupert wrote: It's easy - skip all that filming/editing/publishing bullshit. Now I just record things with my brain, and then write supportive comments to myself. It saves hours. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] tutorials new video bloggers and amatuer video producers
hi Jay OK, I don't get what you mean :-) With video on mobile phones, YouTube as a dominant media platform (in the way that network TV never ever managed) I'm not sure what you mean by 'normal! 2009/12/2 Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com Its always good to see more tutorials. I feel we have another five years until this technology really becomes normal in society. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo Day 19
Sorry to hear about the chickenpox, assume kids not adults? And commiserations re the funeral. Am I the only one who gets confused between the clouds and videoblogging list for these conversations? Just by the content I had just assumed this was on artists in the clouds :-) On 27/11/2009, at 3:17 AM, Rupert wrote: Glad you picked this up, Jay - have been meaning to find the time to reply to you properly, Adrian - and will! Combo of family funeral, deadlines and chicken pox have meant time is rather squeezed. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo Day 19
Hi Rupert yeah, with you all the way here. Observational, revelling in the ordinary exceptional. Deleuze in Cinema One talks about how cinema is a machine and so indifferent to what it records, any instant is the same as any other (as opposed to the history of the pose in painting and early photography which tries to make the 'instant' recorded a privileged moment). But because it is automatic then, inevitably, it will record privileged instants by accident. I really like this, and I think a lot of video work blogging is more a video of the pose. Manufacturing significance instead of just looking, finding, and when finding something you think is worth sharing, sharing it. This is the value of blogging, even of some aspects of twitter, where gems arise within the everyday. In some ways I think it is also a 'slap in the face' to some aspects of direct cinema and the like since a lot of this work shot enormous ratios and then made very elegant structures through their editing, whereas the sort of work that videoblogging participates in is much closer to the everyday life world of and for all of us. It gets its texture not from one amazing 2 hour film cut from hundreds of hours of being in an institution but from 30 seconds sliced out of today that will sit amongst lots of other slices. So yes, a big reinvention but with this sort of shift. Would you agree? Or do you have quite a different take and see it as much closer to these traditions? (On the other hand a camera in your phone is pretty much Astruc's Camera Stylo isn't it?). On 21/11/2009, at 12:56 PM, Rupert wrote: For me, this has been the most important aspect of videoblogging - it's most unique contribution to film art. I'm being delberately grandiose about it, because Jay's video reconnected me today like a sharp slap to the face. However pretentious you may think this sounds, I really believe that it's carrying forward and reinventing the tradition of observational documentary filmmaking that can be traced back through Direct Cinema, Cinema Verité and Kino Pravda all the way to the Lumière brothers' first films. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Re: NatVlogMonth
hi Cheryl I added it, including embed code, and I assume Michael has admin privileges to approve it. :-) On 02/11/2009, at 5:55 AM, cherylcolan wrote: I tried to add Adrian's video (first in the monthly game) but I don't know if it worked. The form expanded like you said, but there isn't really any embed code on his site, so I put the video URL there again.
Re: [videoblogging] Re: november 1
personally I'd treat the 90 secs as max... On 29/10/2009, at 12:48 AM, miglsd27 wrote: Are the the 90 seconds a top limit? Can I make less?
Re: [videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo 2009
1 minute is a very nice constraint, might have missed conversation but others: size? format? do we care? On 22/10/2009, at 2:11 AM, Rupert Howe wrote: This was my instinct, too. Or at most two minutes. I've been doing this other project with one minute videos, and it works really well. You can fit quite a lot into a minute. What do other people think? cheers adrian miles
Re: [videoblogging] NaVloPoMo 2009
I'm happy to do the 1st On 20/10/2009, at 2:40 AM, Rupert Howe wrote: What do you think? Are there 30 people out there who are up for this? If you're up for it, reply here. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] NaVloPoMo 2009
I'll do the 2nd then, you should get 1st since, well, just cos On 20/10/2009, at 9:31 AM, Rupert Howe wrote: Great! I had taken the 1st for no other reason than I didn't think anybody else would want to - but I'm happy you want to do it :) R cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Re: FTC rules on blogger Payola
two wrongs don't make a right and if you want this to happen to perhaps the best way is bottom up, so if bloggers acted ethically then I think you are in a much stronger position to ask and expect it of others. But if someone won't do it until the other does then you've got exactly the issues we face with nuclear weapons, global warming etc where one side will not actually do the ethical thing simply because someone else won't either. On 09/10/2009, at 3:28 AM, Ron Watson wrote: I'd like to see disclosure on the Today Show when one of NBC's musicians performs, or when a movie comes out that they review that was produced by a GE subsidiary. I'd like to see disclosure on large clients of GE, or reporting on investments of GE Finance on CNBC. I'd like to see disclosure on Pentagon PR hacks doing their daily rounds on the Sunday shows. Disclosure of ADM as an advertiser on stories about GM foods from every network. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] FTC rules on blogger Payola
On 07/10/2009, at 12:40 AM, Jay dedman wrote: You dont know the US very well. Criticism stands on complete anger that the government would regulate the web at all. well, a lot of existing media law applies already, certainly outside of the US where free speech provisions are not as strong. But a lot of this stuff seems quite confused. For example quite a few years ago an Australian businessman (with international reputation/profile) successfully sued a US publisher over their online service for defamation in Australia. Existing media law handled it, a) the service was actually subscription based b) they did sell it in Australia even though it it originated in the States so c) it was deemed to be published here and they certainly had a company here d) they did defame the individual. --Who's going to keep track? Who pays for this supervision? More bureaucracy. Perhaps other bloggers? Who ensures the press reveals such conflicts of interest? --Bloggers especially feel it's an attempt to limit their ability to take on big power by entrapping them in legal limbo by silly lawsuits. --it starts by regulating disclosure. what will be next? It'll get to the point where an individual person needs so much paperwork and legal help to blog that only big companies can afford it...thus taking away why the web has been cool. that is an argument that equates 'rules' and 'regulations' with not having to understand your obligations. try to get a gun licence in nearly any western democracy *except* the united states if you want to experience bureaucracy, but that is not a criticism of gun control, just that yes, there is a role for government in managing and overseeing and policing some things, and having a communications authority suggest that if you blog, and if you are being paid by a third party for your opinion but not revealing that, then there's a problem. Precisely because the web is a *publishing* environment. Any reputable paper will point out if a journo went on trip x as part of a junket, and clearly understands the difference between reportage, opinion and advertorial. I don't think bloggers, on the one hand, can call for the same rights and privileges as the press, but then not want to actually be held to reasonable ethical standards. --The web is global territory. So if you (in England) dont disclose something on your blog, will the FBI come after you? Will they then get Scotland Yard to arrest you? no, US law does not apply in Britain, and vice versa. This a brief rundown of worries. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] FTC rules on blogger Payola
ah yes, but presumably Blair at least left a court to determine this? in which case it is still reasonable to think that an English court is not going to extradite an English citizen for cash for comment in their blog :-) or can we expect extraordinary rendition for cash for comment bloggers? On 07/10/2009, at 2:19 AM, Rupert Howe wrote: Slightly beside the point, but sadly since 2003 the UK has had a one- sided Extradition Act in which the USA can demand the extradition of anybody without presenting prima facie evidence. Although the UK, of course, doesn't have the right to demand extradition of US citizens under the same terms. It was fast tracked through parliament in the name of fighting terrorism - though it has of course been used more often to extradite non-terrorist suspects. Another lovely part of Blair's proud legacy as W's bitch. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au
[videoblogging] blog payola
of relevance: http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/mummy-bloggers-spit-the-dummy-over-nestles-spoilt-milk-20091007-gmcd.html cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Re: eBooks and vLogs
pretty much has to be downloadable as you want all the media to be included in the pdf (doesn't have to be put plays best). however if i were to do this now I'd probably be making an iPhone/ touch app that was actually a book with video in it. see Mark Amerika's Immobilité (http://www.immobilite.com/extras/) for an idea. On 12/09/2009, at 9:13 PM, Adriana Kaegi wrote: this is good, i was just wondering what format to deliver my upcoming book in and an interactive quicktime would be great, is it downloadable?a cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Re: eBooks and vLogs
I've used pdf to make movie books. Even been able to embed/include interactive QuickTime in them. On 12/09/2009, at 12:48 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: redux. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Re: What Randy mann Said in the Videoconference last night.
interesting points. :-) the other side of this of course is that some do both, but that one practice might not need to come into the other (if that makes sense). the web as most of the 2.0 stuff shows, is ideal for serial practice/ production, small pieces, loose connections. about networks, joins, pathways and bite sized up to snack sized. this can and should work really well in doco, but as noted in some of the comments, a lot of doco practice is still about much larger scale works. So for me the questions are: 1. what would a web native video doc be? (Seth Keen is answering this one way, Florian Thalhofer another.) 2. how might this be combined with trad. doco? 3. blogs are already documentary, so what needs to change (in us or the maker) to think of it more formerly as documentary in the video mode? On 04/09/2009, at 9:18 AM, Jay dedman wrote: And to flip it aroundwhat barriers keep videobloggers from working on longer projects like documentarians? Rupert and I were just talking about it and he sent me this list ( http://videoblogginggroup.pbworks.com/Barriers): cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au
[videoblogging] QuickTime X
hi all from the blurb: QuickTime X takes Internet video streaming to new levels with support for HTTP live streaming. Unlike other streaming technologies, HTTP live streaming uses the HTTP protocol — the same network technology that powers the web. That means QuickTime X streams audio and video from almost any web server instead of special streaming servers, and it works reliably with common firewall and wireless router settings. HTTP live streaming is designed for mobility and can dynamically adjust movie playback quality to match the available speed of wired or wireless networks, perfect whether the video is watched on a computer or on a mobile device like iPhone or iPod touch. This relates to conversation here recently able multiple bit rates, the above is a great idea as RTSP uses odd ports and causes firewall hell. On the other hand the usual problems will remain, if I want high quality but have low bandwidth these sorts of solutions give me no options. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Annotating Youtube
from memory the startime attribute in quicktime embed does something similar: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/embed2.html#starttime On 20/08/2009, at 11:28 AM, Roxanne Darling wrote: Thanks - both tips are very cool! cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Video hosting for low bandwidth
just some history on this stuff, QT did this quite a while ago (years), don't remember what they called it. Basically you compressed 2 or 3 or 4 times and you embedded a single QT movie which knew of the others. The QT client sent info like data rate, connection speed, etc and on that basis the single QT movie worked out which of the mutliple versions to send. QT probably still does it, don't know. It did not work mainly because it removed choice. I might be on a slow connection and happy to have small bits of this and that but since I'm a mad (insert passion here) fan I really do want to be able to choice the hi rez video of my favourite thing even if it means a 5 hr download. As a consequence the de facto standard became to compress 2 or 3 bandwidth versions and provide links to each (much like Apple still does for movie trailers) so that the user decides based on their interest. If the system below doesn't let me say 'No, I really will wait 5 hours because I really want that content or No, I know I have a fast connection but I really only want the small version then there are problems. On 18/08/2009, at 1:57 AM, Lauren Galanter wrote: Just a bit of info about adaptive streaming, it's gaining a lot of momentum. At work we use the Move player (which ABC uses to stream full episodes, / www.movenetworks.com). Each video gets simulcoded to multiple profiles which each have different video/audio bitrates and display sizes, all the way from postage stamp 32kbps to HD 2000+kbps. We then hacked things to make it appear that the video is playing in our own branded player so it's a seamless UEX. Then the users' bandwidth and CPU power is dectected on-the-fly to play a certain profile. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] wordpress themes
http://www.press75.com/ have several video specific themes On 02/08/2009, at 10:33 PM, Jay dedman wrote: What wordpress themes would you recommend for video blogging? I'm thinking of buying Thesis theme but don't know if it's best to video blog? cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Re: [Artists in the Cloud] Storytelling software
not quite, what it does is: 1. allow you to apply multiple tags to individual clips 2. these tags can have boolean conditions attached (eg find clips that don't = this) 3. you can also constrain based on number of views (eg this clip can only be presented 3 times) 4. the tags can have time code, so when cliip A is selected a search is done for matching clips (based on any or all arguments you write using boolean searches), but you can have this search done when Clip A loads, at 10 seconds, at 30 seconds, all of these. generally you view a main video window with thumbnails below of clips that match the arguments, select thumbnail below and that becomes main clip and the arguments this has are now run... the tags can be thought of as like links (or edits) but instead of a clip having one link to another it now can have a multitude, this can produce work that is highly linear to very cloud like, and combinations in between. It is probably one of the more robust, and certainly easiest to use, systems for making multilinear video. On 01/08/2009, at 2:51 AM, Michael Verdi wrote: I didn't see anything that couldn't be done with simple html. It would then have the added bonuses of being indexible and searchable instead of being dropped into a giant flash box. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] looking for apprenticeship/volunteer opportunities
perhaps you should let people know where you are? What you can do? :-) On 29/07/2009, at 12:16 AM, Roshani Kothari wrote: I would like to apprentice and volunteer with some film projects, so I can improve my video skills. Please let me know if you need any help or if you know about any opportunities. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Compression best practices
one other issue is that for some of us compression is as interesting a creative variable in web video as depth of field, aperture, etc. Sometimes fully auto is good, othertimes you want manual control... On 20/07/2009, at 11:34 AM, Brook Hinton wrote: Heywatch would be great except... all that time UPLOADING an uncompressed (or dv or whatever you use) file to use as a source. Have to subtract that from the time saved by outsourcing the compression to them. Of course if you have access to really fast uploading that's another matter but even on my deluxe dsl account upload speed maxes out at about 500k. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Let's chat about the Open Video Conference....
reminds me of the early days of making interactive QT blog posts where I'd have it works on OS 9 on Mac, latest QuickTime, no promises for anything else :-) the point was the experimenting rather than reach. On 02/07/2009, at 11:02 AM, Jay dedman wrote: Ive heard other people say they may just do video experiments with a warning: you must use Firefoc 3.5 to see this project. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Opera Unite, a game changer?
indeed. every domestic computer for several years can be a web server, on os x just tick a box and anything in your sites folder is now live online. always imagined a future where instead of server farms there would just be lots of small servers everywhere, where if your server breaks for a day or 2 then the sky really isn't going to fall. main reasons this has not happened: 1. when infrastructure rolled out they assumed we were consumers not creators or sharers so bandwidth down much greater than up 2. while computers can be web servers at click of a checkbox little has been done on the domestic end to teach/show/build apps that utilise this, i think because the ISP industry was invented and took on this role 3. tech managers are terrified of the idea of everyone's computer being their server, because i). falls outside of existing management models ii) distributes skill and expertise away from professional silos, iii) the idea of everyone being a peer in a technical, institutional and cultural environment falls too far outside of existing paradigms. hopefully it will change. For example telephones and their history of implementation and use show a way, but I'm not optimistic only because of how conservative, entrenched and powerful existing practices are. On 17/06/2009, at 6:50 AM, Heath wrote: An interesting idea, being able to share files, photo's etc all within a web browser. It could have tremendous potentional for video...I am curious to see what happens.. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Wordpress 2.8
Jay how is this different to 2.7 where I update and install plugins within the browser via WP admin screens? On 12/06/2009, at 2:47 AM, Jay dedman wrote: This is old news for some here, but we should record this benchmark in the Wordpress evolution. With this latest update, WP has made it very easy to find and install plugins and themes--right in the browser. So the barrier to running and maintaining your own blog has come WAY down. It's basically as easy to play with as a Blogger/Tumbler blogexcept you have access to a lot more themes and functionality made by the community. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Wordpress 2.8
ah, so you can search/see/install themes the same as with plugins? that's very nice. wonder if it also knows about theme updates?? On 12/06/2009, at 12:04 PM, Jay dedman wrote: Basically, once you set up Wp on your server...there's no more FTP. It allows for a lot more playing around and experimentation. Just turn things on and off. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
[videoblogging] this could make some changes...
new iPhone shoots video and has some touch editing... http://www.apple.com/iphone/iphone-3g-s/video-recording.html cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Interested in a critique group
thanks for sharing this Verdi useful for some our teaching practices in our media program On 04/06/2009, at 11:33 AM, Michael Verdi wrote: Here's the process we used http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2003/10/toward_a_proces.php Actually it was only steps 1 - 4. We use this at my theater in the process of creating a work but it can also be used on completed works if you think of the feedback as stuff to consider the next time you start a project. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Artists and Healthcare
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18802 (all you need to know) as someone who lives in a country with universal health care I remain shocked and bemused that the world's richest nation can't get their head around something as basic as this. On 26/05/2009, at 11:13 AM, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: This morning, I tweeted a link to a Diary from the Daily Kos ( http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/5/25/735194/-R.I.P.-Jay- Bennett ) about the death of Jay Bennett, known for his collaborations with Wilco and the subsequent lawsuit he was filing. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Frequency of Distribution
there is also something called stretch film which if it became viable could be relevant here. I only know of one person who actually made something like it (using LiveStage Pro). the idea (comes from stretch hypertext) is that you have, say, a 2 minute version of the work, but at any point you can 'stretch' it to make that sequence or content area longer by getting more material, and so on until you may (in theory) view all the footage for that sequence. Bit like svg for video I guess. On 24/05/2009, at 5:56 AM, Bill Cammack wrote: I think it really does require a tiered approach, which would be similar to what you're saying... Small clips, tagged and warehoused, and then making larger programs out of the smaller clips. Not necessarily like a playlist function like YouTube uses, but focusing information into interesting enough segments to inform your blog readers and subscribers that there IS much more material if they choose to go check it out... but that if they're *not* interested, they won't be pelted with several updates every day, just to get the media out the door. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Frequency of Distribution
I think as Bill describes in his more recent post, imagine you've got heaps of short clips, each more or less about the same thing. Instead of editing them into works, or publishing them as single clips, imagine a cloud of clips, with for instance tags. (Simplest model.) Then you could use this to make individual works, while also letting all clips with a tag become separate works. On 21/05/2009, at 10:33 AM, Kath O'Donnell wrote: Jay Adrian, thanks for the examples of video tagging. Seth Keen's work looks very cool. I always thought mpeg7 would be used for this but haven't heard much about it anymore ( only looked into it years ago for some facial recognition stuff which didn't end up happening). I shoot way too much video ( take too many photos). most of it would be classed as dross to anyone but me (Adrian :) ) but I've found I've looked back on it and found bits I've missed etc or seen things in a different light after time, so I like having the extra video. ( my videos are really just for me/family/friends) it would be cool to tag it like on flickr though (but I must admit I only do basic tagging on flickr too - not down to subject of individual shots). one of the early videoblogging projects was for tagging clips wasn't it? I forget the name of it. started with M I think? cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Frequency of Distribution
hi all Jay and I (he's currently in Melbourne, god bless 'im) were talking about similar stuff yesterday. Seth Keen has a system that partly does this. it is intended for more curatorial sorts of things, but relies on tags to collect clips. I've built similar, now defunct, things ages ago, and people like, I think it was Aasmund Garfors in Bergen, and also Jon Hoem (also Bergen) were playing with. It is not that hard, it is the move from video as 'filmmaking' (lot of edits, relative high ratio of takes to kept footage, etc) or video as 'careful' (due to legacy of cost, access, technology barriers, etc) to video as homemovie or as snapshot. We shoot heaps, just like with a camera we photograph heaps. flickr provided a way for us to easily archive, publish, share, tag, and collectively harness/use our snapshots. but at the moment in video the smallest 'unit' remains the entire show or program or clip, rather than the parts. (On the other hand while we're all hung up on being storytellers it also means we're hung up on keeping our parts tightly joined otherwise our story might be broken. There is a tension there between the sorts of things that might come from 'clouds' of clips versus the usual corridor of shot A will always be followed by B.) On 20/05/2009, at 9:05 AM, Renat Zarbailov wrote: Your thoughts?? cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Frequency of Distribution
this works for me too, though in don't know if it is about being more in the moment or the benefit of constraints to creative practice On 20/05/2009, at 2:53 PM, Brook Hinton wrote: Everyone's different about shooting ratios and frequency and what works for them, but I've found quite an opposite situation: when I place an arbitrary limit on my shooting - e.g., ok, you can only shoot ten minutes during the next two days, or for this particular journey into the world, or you have one tape for the month etc. - I get much more interesting material. Something about intensity of focus, about being aware of the change that's occurring when I press the button. I'm more in the moment, and do more with the moment. It doesn't jibe well with the fast pace and high output culture of the webular world though. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Frequency of Distribution
Yep, but in some contexts we don't want or need to do this. eg observational doco, ethnography. And we can also think about how on one hand having a constraint like editing in camera etc is highly productive (in Melbourne we have, or had, the white gloves festival which was film, one roll, all had to edited in camera, well not edited but you know what i mean). But on the other hand you can also think about how working like that could also come from a time when film was expensive so you didn't just shoot. Now that video is disposable the tension is both what to do with it all (and how), and also how do I not just shoot dross. On 21/05/2009, at 1:15 AM, Adriana Kaegi wrote: i edit as i shoot so i spend less time actually editing. focus is key. a cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Frequency of Distribution
quoting myself (on strike today so diligently not doing work...) there was a hypercard stack made by an anthropologist/ethnographer years ago that let her add video and then in effect tag it (it was before we had tags) so that observational footage could be restructured in multiple ways. And after 15 minutes of Google: http://orion.njit.edu/merlin/tools/c25/index.html (all the programming architecture of QT comes from hypercard) On 21/05/2009, at 9:53 AM, Adrian Miles wrote: Yep, but in some contexts we don't want or need to do this. eg observational doco, ethnography cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Is This Legal?
the larger issue will be what you then say about the developer. filming in public, of things that are public, except where explicit invasion of privacy is concerned, is generally OK. (though this varies country to country of course, but I'd think in your case in the US filming in public is OK, but as I mentioned, what you then go on to say is where the pointy end of media law might matter). On 10/05/2009, at 8:45 PM, Jay dedman wrote: Is is legal to show someone else's private house on TV and/or online without their permission? I am doing a video about a developer who bought up several houses in one area with the intention of demolishing them and turning the residential neighborhood commercial. Area residents are not amused. I don't think he will be either when he sees the video. I am not a lawyer, but nothing you plan to show sounds illegal. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] MP4/MOV Converter To FLV
doesn't QT pro transcode to flv? On 09/04/2009, at 8:21 AM, darbycoin wrote: So question 1: is there a setting I'm missing in FFMPEG so that the video resizes with the player. And/or 2: Is there another FLV encoder out there for mac that might suit my needs? cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] REPLY: Promoting the .mov option online
do you mean when you also turn auto keyframes on in QuickTime rather than manual keyframes you get better and smaller using flv? Or are you comparing auto keyframes to manual keyframes? On 01/04/2009, at 6:06 AM, quietleader wrote: For example, some of the videos I post are filmed from the back of a moving Vespa. With the background changing constantly and quickly, I make use of the auto keyframe feature in Sorenson Squeeze which inserts keyframes when needed rather than simply at a fixed interval. With that feature turned on, my (On2 VP6) .flv video is both better quality and smaller file size than the equivalent video in H.264. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Re: breakthrough for open video on the web
absolutely, it is a disaster otherwise. imagine a page where you want several videos, they will all download, i only want one, why should I pay (bandwidth *does* cost) for 5 when I only want ot see one, let alone the impact this has on my cache, computer, home network, other users, viewing stats, etc. one solution would be image that links to page with video that it just excludes interesting possibilities with multiple videos, unless I'm missing something. the argument I would use is simply sustainability, why serve a pile of video that is unwanted? bandwidth waste is waste none the less. On 19/03/2009, at 8:30 AM, Jay dedman wrote: There is pretty intense debate right now how this should be handled. Should it be a user choice that he enables on his browser that would not download all videos? cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Progress Update on the Unnamed Artistic Video Org.
hi Jeffrey On 11/03/2009, at 7:09 AM, thejeffreytay...@gmail.com wrote: I've shared a document with you called Unnamed Online Video Art Organization - The Plan: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dns7ws9_98g6cpvqgkinvite=569849030 It's not an attachment -- it's stored online at Google Docs. To open this document, just click the link above. --- have added a bit to the doc. Hi Everyone Just a quick update on the progress of the planning document for the as-yet unnamed non-profit organization for artistic online video. First and foremost, if you got this mail and have no idea what I am talking about, please take a look at the doc or ping me for the lowdown. So here's what's new: 1. Lots of collaborators of all shapes, sizes and types. We're glad you're here and really want you to contribute to the planning process! 2. Identity Crisis - We're looking for a name for the org so we can get a small online presence going and start creating a visual (logo). We've got some great candidates for names already, but we could use your word skills to come up with more. We'd like to put 10 candidates up for a vote soon, so time is of the essence! 3. Who are you? - We've added a section to the doc. in which people can list who they are and what skills they can bring to the table as this org gets going. This little census will be a big help, so please add yourself as soon as you can. 4. Etc. Etc. We've taken steps to broadly define online video art, and have gotten more precise with the org's purpose. Take a look and tell us if you agree or disagree. There's also some possible activities that we need to add to the org's scope, and any additions and feedback would be most helpful. There's more, but you'll have to look at the doc to see. Finally, just a reminder that anyone is welcome to come and collaborate. If you're having trouble inviting collaborators or have an allergy to google docs, please ping me and I will help in any way you can. Thanks to everyone for their time. The more we collaborate, the more we bring ideas to reality. Cheers, Jeffrey cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Real Media captioned files
see if videocue helps; http://www.telestream.net/video-cue/overview.htm On 26/02/2009, at 9:46 AM, RICHARD wrote: I have a client that has some archival Real Media files with captions that appear below the video in Real Player. They now want to re-encode the videos to post on Youtube, with open subtitles/captions. If I can get the Real Media caption file (SMIL .rt text file, from what I’ve read), can I use that file to superimpose subtitles/captions actually on the video? Is there any easy way to do this, or an application that can do this automatically? cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Really Great Article on Media Trends and the Curation Economy
highly recommend you read Ted Nelson's original stuff from the 60s on hypertext and micropayments. He had a similar system except it also allowed for quotation and applied to all content. Ted's stuff won't help you build it but it might help solidify the ideas? On 12/01/2009, at 5:50 AM, Milt Lee wrote: That article was excellent. I've been contemplating a technology that would make all this happen much sooner. Suppose (and I'm sure many people have) that you had a system where folks could give you a few cents every time they looked at a video. Let's say you have a site with 10 videos that anybody can watch, and then you post 20 or 30 or 100 more that it costs anywhere from 1 cent to 10 cents ( or more) for people to watch. And on your site you have a little button that takes folks to another site where they buy credits - $ 5.00 or $ 10.00 at a time. Then they come back to your site, and click on a video that they want to watch, that costs 2 cents. They watch it and they are happy, and you've made two cents. Now when you reach a certain threshold - say $ 10.00, the Flick Bank deposits the money in your paypal account. You can let it gather if want. (Maybe the Flick bank pays interest??) The way this starts is that somebody puts together the Flick Kicks Bank, and starts signing up artists. Then Flick Kicks starts promoting the idea that people should get paid for their work. The problem that has held this back - that has stopped this process of mini-micro payments is that up until now, merchant account or Paypal, have charged $ .30 a transaction plus 2.7%. With this new system, Flicks has to pay for the transaction - but only once. So even though $ 5.00 represents 200-250 transactions, there's only one charge at the beginning and one that the artist pays, when they get their money. Anybody want to help me build this? cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Video: Your day in moments
A similar project that I do with students are 'sample movies'. the idea is that a film/video camera (and/or sound recorder) are sampling machines (eg 25 fps) so we make this literal. You use your video camera and you then sample for a similarly defined interval. eg 5 seconds every 5 minutes for an hour. Sometimes the hour is nominated (eg from 5pm), sometimes not. There is no editing, no additional soundtrack. Some of the works are beautiful, some mundane. But it is a good exercise to get them to think about simple content, simple rules for the generation of content, and how to frame/compose the everyday so that it looks decent. On 05/01/2009, at 3:04 AM, Jay dedman wrote: Shoot video throughout a day in your life, then put it together and upload it the next day. Don't add any music or sound effects, just use what the camera recorded. It's easy. DO IT. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Video: Your day in moments
what you need is something that pulls a frame out of video at nominated interval, sets its duration, and edits them together to get a poster movie (a sort of micro poster movie). So you could, for example: tell the app to grab a frame at every 5 minutes, for that frame to have a duration of a second, and to paste it to the poster movie. (I had a project that did this using applescript that worked reasonably well at the time). You could of course grab a frame very minute, for half a second and so on. This would build a small movie that just had stills (though there's no reason you could not tell it to grab a second of video every 5 minutes, which in many ways would be more elegant) and when you played it you'd get a sense of the material. part two would be to make sure that each clip you take (the fragments) has enough data that when clicked on it would take you to that point in the actual clip. On 05/01/2009, at 2:13 PM, Kevin Lim wrote: I've recently shared a 17min demo of how / why I do record my life as completely as possible [3], and as you can guess, cataloguing and searching through lengthy videos is still something I'm researching. Right now I've tried tagging keyframes using services like Viddler, but I might resort to using a thumbnail generator with hourly intervals so I can quickly browse through them (as inspired in this email thread). cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Video: Your day in moments
applescript can do it, don't need SMIL if you don't want to. I'll ask a former student of mine who is doing a lot of web video stuff, might be able to get him to make something On 05/01/2009, at 2:30 PM, Kevin Lim wrote: I think the (1) micro-thumbnail poster approach is more viable than the (2) interval video approach, because I can still scrub through my captured video anyway. A lot of web video service can generate thumbnails, but does anyone know of a desktop app that can do that? Perhaps an Applescript / Quicktime SMIL guru here? cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] A colors question
different gamma of the different monitors. macs trad. are brighter than PCs, and if you don't turn the knobs then your monitor might also be too much of one color (like your colour tv set). on a mac system preferences - display always let you build a custom profile or use a preset. no idea on pc. personally I don't bother since you can't go around determining everyone's monitors for your work :-) (but if you were editing for publishing/tv then it does matter...) On 30/11/2008, at 1:45 AM, Heath wrote: I have recently begun playing around with creating websites and I have noticed that the appearance of my site, the colors, is different on my laptop vs my desktop. Why is this? Does anyone know? What about when you are doing color correcting in your video, if I edit it on my laptop is it going to look different when played back on a desktop? I think yes Any thoughts or suggestions please let me know cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Trailer Hunger
Ah, Steve McQueen, video artist and Turner Prize winner (http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/history/mcqueen.htm ), his first feature. By all accounts extraordinary. I don't know about France or the US, but like McQueen I remember Bobby Sands' hunger strike. On the news every day, what I remember is the debate about whether there should be intervention or not (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Sands ). I also think a future direction of narrative cinema will be this more poetic cinema. The cinema of attractions (the blockbuster hang on to your seat SFX thrill fest) is a fin-de-siecle sort of thing as popular cinema increasingly gets like opera (big, grand, expensive, indulgent and while significant, perhaps not terribly relevant in the scheme of things). When anyone can do FX on their own computer (witness the rise of fan feature films, for example remakes of Star Wars (URL: http://www.smh.com.au/news/film/film-fans-put-themselves-in-the-picture/2008/02/19/1203190819018.html /) then what compels and justifies cinema going is not the spectacle but its elegance (artistry, poetry, style). well, at least I can hope... On 27/11/2008, at 10:22 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why i am thinking that is born in the spirit vlogging ?? http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/hunger/trailer cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Making QT reference movies on a PC
it's Adrian :-) once upon a time you could do this pretty automatically in QT, you could compress 4 different versions and then embed a reference movie which would auto select from the 4 based on the users bandwidth. This turned out to be a bad idea, because users wanted the choice. For example, I might be on dialup, but I'm really into mountain biking so I'm happy to wait 5 hours for that high quality file of that race. On the other hand don't give a toss about cats so the 12 fps highly compressed 56k dialup version is just fine thanks. When we started using ref movies we quickly realised that making these sorts of decisions on behalf of your users was a BAD idea. not sure if it has changed so it now is less about bandwidth and more about platform (to iPod, web, AppleTV, etc) On 25/11/2008, at 10:29 PM, wazman_au wrote: hi adam, the pc version hasn't been updated since about 1999, nearly 10 years ago. i have it and the connection speed options don't seem to take account of modern-day internet connections. i have contacted the maker of XMLToRefmovie but it has not been updated for years and the old version does not work any more due to file system changes or some such. cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Making QT reference movies on a PC
if you want a reference movie to point to urls then: 1. open QT player pro 2. under file open the open url field 3. enter the full valid url to the video file online (eg http://blip.tv/someweirdstuff.mov) 4. the video opens 5. file save as and choose reference movie 6. this refernece movie, when opened, will always resolve to the url. hope this helps On 25/11/2008, at 12:46 AM, wazman_au wrote: Does anyone have experience of this? I want the reference movie to point to URLs on the web (ie Blip), but QT Pro only lets me create a ref movie for iPod purposes that points to files in the same folder. cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Making QT reference movies on a PC
ah, you need: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/refmovies.html which includes a link to the MakeRefMovie utility, no idea how it goes on PC. see: http://developer.apple.com/quicktime/quicktimeintro/tools/ On 25/11/2008, at 11:25 AM, wazman_au wrote: Unfortunately that option only creates a reference movie pointing to a single URL. I want a reference movie pointing to several alternative URLs depending on the user's connection speed. cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Web Hosting
dreamhost, reasonably reliable, cheap, have a green policy and also host NGO content for free. On 15/11/2008, at 6:11 AM, bmilam52 wrote: I need a new web host for my blog. I'm sick of trying to get into my blog and always running into a problem. What's a good host that some of you use? cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] The Death of the internet as we know it....
On 10/11/2008, at 1:36 AM, Jay dedman wrote: Limiting the size of my video is NOT like polluting less with a gasoline car. It may be nice to keep videos small so anyone around the world can watch it, but this is NOT a proper scientific comparison. no it's not, and like all analogies it breaks once it's pushed. On the other hand broadband is a material infrastructure, and those cables are derived from petrochemicals, and the power we need to drive google and our server farms etc really are polluting. I mean this quite literally. (For example that source of all things accurate, wikipedia, suggests Google may use 20 megawatts and is building a huge server farm next to a hydro dam, which I think might at least be green power.) So i do mean that an attitude that treats bandwidth as not actually requiring physical resources (things to be made and powered) is akin to making motor cars with bloody big engines because oil is cheap. in the US, we've been spoiled by advertised unlimited bandwidth...and now that we're taking full advantage of it, the broadband companies are crying crocodile tears. I'm sure they are, but the point of my argument is that at some point there should be some equity in use, just because I want to do video blogging and use a lot of bandwidth does not mean that my neighbours, who use a fraction of my bandwidth, should cross subsidise me. Unless a) I can't afford it (a social democratic argument) or b) I'm recognised as a significant cultural producer so should be supported in this (as happens in a variety of western European countries, god bless 'em). The real issue is the relationship between broadband customers and the broadband companies here in the US. it is one of distrust, fear, and anger. The Comcast incident where they just started filtering bit torrent secretly is a great example. No conversation. That's a political argument about telecommunications policy, but doesn't change the argument that perhaps there does need to be some equity in use and cost of that use? In the US, we are not talking about a situation where there are many small broadband operators locally who talk to their customers. Sounds like here, we have two enormous telcos that dominate the internet market, the rest just pick up the scraps. We have 3 faceless broadband conglomerates. If they have real limitations, then they need to open up and be transparent. What it feels like is a creation of false scarcity, like the diamond industry purposely keeping shiny shiny objects off the market to raise their value. It might be false scarcity, though I'm pretty sure it is just bad business. The telco's think that providing content will make them money since people will pay to get this content. At this point the telco has moved from being a telco to being a media provider. Unfortunately they aren't (yet) really media companies, so their model is very old school. Buy exclusive rights and those on our network get to view it. Our networks are built on this model, with plenty of download and bugger all back channel to send data out. It physically defines us as consumers. But now everyone is using lots of data, from all over, games, video, whatever. So now they are trying to work out how to get an income stream from this, and the simplest is to charge for the data. Now, I can't speak for these companies, but as I said earlier all the data that gets moved around does get paid for, and so if big company x has agreed to pay N cents per gigabyte, and that's their business plan, this will be based on how many gigabytes their customers will use. But if the web explodes around this then their spreadsheets are screwed. Now, I provide the content over my pipes to my customers, that's a cost I control, but if these customers are now getting all this content from over there, I have to pay for that. I don't agree with this, but it is just old skool business still thinking they're in the business of shipping stuff, it's just now bits, and working out how to charge for it. I think this is a step in the right direction since now they're just thinking about data rather than product. In terms of the points at http://stopthecap.com/talking-points/ sorry, this is how most of the rest of the world has been operating from the beginning. some of the suggested rates and penalties are crazy, but I would suspect (given the United State's faith in the free market) that it will open opportunities for more sensible plans or b) if they all do the same thing I would have thought some anti-trust legislation would have kicked in? I think we should be able to get heaps of bandwidth and this infrastructure is fundamental to what this century is, I also think if you leave it to private industry then these are the problems we end up with. cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator
Re: [videoblogging] Re: The Death of the internet as we know it....
will do, Channel 31 is Melbourne only (which is where I am). but apart from telling me to watch it, can you give me a pitch? :-) On 11/11/2008, at 1:00 AM, liza jean wrote: hey, look for The Daredoll Dilemmas on your Aussie airwaves early next year. we are told by an avid fan from Kilcunda that C31 from Melbourne will be airing our show, late at night. and he is trying to sell it to some larger stations there. cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] The Death of the internet as we know it....
careful, them be unamerican views there ;-) On 11/11/2008, at 1:10 AM, Jay dedman wrote: agreed. we have a real problem in the country where loud mouths preach and praise the Free Market, but what we really get is subsidized corporatism. Comcast, TimeWarner get huge subsidies and access to public land to lay down their pipes. Broadcast/Radio get monopolies over public airwaves. Since they are private companies, all information is hidden. No dialogue possible unless they are publicly shamed. This is a political problem in the US that citizens must come to a consensus on. Thomas Frank's The Wrecking Crew does a beautiful job detailing the destructive paradox of the Free Market movement in our country. cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] The Death of the internet as we know it....
indeed, and after January I'd hope they'd be even more like American views :-) On 11/11/2008, at 12:09 PM, schlomo rabinowitz wrote: Actually, they are pretty american views to me, they just don't remind me that they are in the newspapers:) cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] The Death of the internet as we know it....
Not sure I have tthis right but if it is a monthly cap then this is the norm here in Australia and always has been. Has been one of the reasons why I argue very strongly for proper compression and also other aesthetic requirements in videoblogging. I get 8GB a month, but have the advantage of a university job during the day. A feature film is around 500MB, so that's 16 features a month, which if you're a AV professional is not much, but for the majority is probably in the ball park. However, I am going to poke the possum here (colloquial Australian expression, stir up things if you like). I don't understand why there is an attitude where bandwidth is treated as infinite and not a finite resource. It is a finite resource. Data and digital duplication of our material is trivial, but transferring that to other places is not. For example, even in Australia the majority of our schools have quite poor bandwidth, and if I want my work to be viewed in regional Australia (and for that matter parts of rural United States) then I have to be aware that bandwidth is constrained. Now bandwidth might be fast or slow, but it does have a width, and it is a material infrastructure with its associated costs. Just as with telephony there are international, national, and local agreements about how much a byte costs, and while the telcos might make lots from it (or not), the pipes are not infinite. Treating it as infinite leads to what I teach my students is bandwidth pollution. Emails with stupid large attachments, videos that run to gigabytes. First industrialised world bandwidth arrogance is the internet equivalent of cheap oil (the analogy is simply if oil is finite, but cheap, then there is little incentive not to use it, in spite of it's inevitable disappearance and of course the pollution it is causing). The solution then becomes simply adding more. More cables, more electricity to run it all, and presumably more time for us to actually view all this extra material (I know, that's facetious). Here in my state we used to (20 years ago) think that water was infinite, and you pretty much got it for free. Then they started charging for it, on the reasonable basis that a) some people used more than others so if you had a swimming pool and fancy garden why shouldn't you pay more? and b) it required expensive infrastructure which needed to be paid for and c) it might encourage water conversation. We are now in a major and prolonged drought with substantial water restrictions. The governments response is to spend billions on desalination and pipelines (bigger fatter pipes) instead of spending the same money on ways to reduce our demand for water. I live on the driest continent on earth yet outside my window right now are English style gardens with roses, azaleas and fuschias. The point? Bigger pipes is like cheap oil is like infinite bandwidth. It supports an economy (of mind, of practice and of institutions) which thinks the answer is simply more, not less. Compress properly, think about length. Sustainability applies here as much (if not more given the energy demands of the net) as the real world. And the model of I should have as much as I want translates poorly outside of very specific cultural and political economies. On 05/11/2008, at 7:42 AM, Heath wrote: I just did another post about this from another communications company but now another big dog in the US is going to start limiting bandwidthAT T...I am telling you all, this is going to stiffle most video on the web, at some of these limits watching one movie over Netflix will put you over for the month. Things like VloMo, will go awayit's scary.its real scary cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] The Death of the internet as we know it....
but aren't they also paying commercial and appropriate rates for the bandwidth they need? cheaper than our retail rates, but companies don't pay $n a month for all the bandwidth they want? (Not disagreeing but not sure how a company that pays for all their bandwidth is comparable?) On 07/11/2008, at 3:15 PM, Ron Watson wrote: I'd totally agree with you adrian, IF, and that's a serious if, the same multimedia companies (lets not kind ourselves that they are simply bandwidth providers) were not ramping up their own multimedia streams that make ours look silly. cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] final cut pro
mac only, for PCs I'm not sure of the variety but wikipedia has: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_editing_software and google throws up; http://video-editing-software-review.toptenreviews.com/ On 31/10/2008, at 12:35 PM, Miranda Leitsinger wrote: Can anyone tell me if there is Final Cut Pro for PCs? Or is there only Adobe Premier? cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] This is kind of kick ass
can also be done using a tween track in (I imagine) Flash and definitely in QT On 30/10/2008, at 12:19 AM, Jay dedman wrote: http://www.gogle.com/20y.html I would love to know how this is done. cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Help getting hyperlink in QT .mov in separate browser window
hi Michael
QT text tracks:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/texttracks.html
QT HREF tracks:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/hreftracks.html
however if you just want one bit of text with one link you can
probably do this much more easily with the demo version of eZedia QTi:
http://www.ezedia.com/products/eZediaQTI/
On 24/10/2008, at 11:25 PM, Bookmarts wrote:
Finally learned how to create a hyperlink of my Credits in a
QuickTime movie, by using this
html code sequence:
[00:00:00.000]
{textBox: 0, 0, 50, 160}Makeup by Richard Calcasola at
[00:00:02.000]
{textBox: 0, 0, 50, 160}click here:
{href:http://www.maximusspasalon.com}Maxium{endhref}
[00:00:08.000]
But, cannot figure out how to get that link to open in a separate
browser window when
clicked on while viewing the movie. The code a target=_blank
should work if I knew
where it should appear. Regardless of where I enter it in the html
string it does not operate
as it should.
Any help is appreciated.
cheers
Adrian Miles
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
bachelor communication honours coordinator
vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Audio visualization
quartz composer, free as part of developer tools with os x On 03/10/2008, at 7:18 AM, Adam Quirk wrote: Does anyone know of any software that can do live visualizations of audio files, like iTunes or Windows Media Player does? The stuff that looks cool when you're sober and really cool when you're not? cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
[videoblogging] Some Triptych Templates
hi all I have just made three triptych templates for those interested in experimenting a bit. Each is a QuickTime movie that loads other movies via an associated XML file. You can download the template and customise the content to display the video that you wish (as long as it is QT compatible). They are designed for 320 x 240 video, and the third one also provides for a soundtrack. The first one just plays video, no control. The second one adds controllers for all three videos. The third retains the controllers and allows for a soundtrack which cannot not be stopped. They all loop continuously. There are more on the way but not for a few weeks. http://vogmae.net.au/drupal/doing/triptych1 http://vogmae.net.au/drupal/doing/triptych2 http://vogmae.net.au/drupal/doing/triptych3 have fun, and errors and problems just email me, they've been done in a bit of a rush so I might well have overlooked some things cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Some Triptych Templates
anything that is a text editor rather than a word processor. On OS X it's hard to go past TextWrangler (http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/ ) but I'll have to defer to others on PC to suggest preferred text editors. (a word procesor is not about editing text files but making documents for pages so will insert hard breaks and how knows what else, and of course will want to save it in some sort of format rather than just text.) On 29/07/2008, at 10:33 PM, Gabriel Soucheyre wrote: which soft will you recommend to use to open the xml file ? (please, give as much advice as possible since I'm far from bing at ease wth web softs) cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Some Triptych Templates
trés bien! :-) On 29/07/2008, at 11:07 PM, Gabriel Soucheyre wrote: randomly i tried . textedit and it works !!! cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice about setting up site with downloadable video
i'm in australia and use them. you get what you pay for. some downtime (very little but you always think its a big deal when it happens) and cheap. Like their attitude: carbon neutral efforts, donations to charity, free hosting for registered not for profits, happy to put my money to a company that behaves like that. On 30/07/2008, at 1:52 PM, Mark Shea wrote: Do you use dreamhost for your hosting? I'm based in Australia, so if I go offshore, I want it to be with someone I'm not going to have hassles with and someone with good support if I do! cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice about setting up site with downloadable video
dreamhost also have a nice model where your storage and bandwidth keep going up incrementally. not sure how busy you'd hve to be to run into problems but i use a fraction of my storage and bandwidth per month On 30/07/2008, at 2:16 PM, Mark Shea wrote: Great to know Adrian. I am loading a few downloadables at overlander.tv and if the whole plan works, I know where to move when I chew up my current bandwith limits cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Interest in a mailing list re online cinema of the experimental/video art/etc. persuasion?
am interested but perhaps could use the exisitng (and silent) vlogtheory yahoo group, as I'd expect most of that membership to be also interested... of course the name might not work :-) On 16/06/2008, at 7:49 AM, Brook Hinton wrote: Howdy Videoblogginglistfolk. I'm considering starting a list for folks making or interested in work made for the web (or using the web as a venue) that is coming from an experimental film / video art / installation direction. The list would focus on aesthetics and theory as well as tech help, economics/ sustainability, and anything else about online cinema art and its relationship to its offline context. Would love to hear from anyone who would be interested and also any cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] fw: Mobile Videos: a Cybermohalla Ensemble discussion
Can't speak to the reception of the work then (also check out the other works), but Ivens is, well, an international monument in documentary and a demi-god of film in the Netherlands (and probably the Benelux countries to boot). This is the sort of work that influenced figures like Chris Marker. On 14/06/2008, at 7:47 PM, Kath O'Donnell wrote: thanks to both of you Rupert Adrian! I watched the film - I loved the reflections in the water and shadows. (similar bicycle shadows) I was wondering what people would have thought of him filming back then. cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Re:From Mac *TO* PC -- Should I Switch?
Late entrant On 13/06/2008, at 12:12 PM, Brook Hinton wrote: When you buy a mac you are not primariiy paying for hardware. You are primarily buying a specific type of functionality and a specific manifestation of a computing experience, wrapped in a piece of industrial design. On a secondary level (primary for some), you are buying compatibility with a set of applications from apple and other manufacturers that work together in a particular way on macs (and in some cases are not available for windows). Hardware is just the base. Which is why if you only care about hardware power (and especially if you care about it in a bang for the buck way), and assuming you like Windows ok, you should not get a mac. friends sometimes ask me about buying computers, and they refuse to consider a mac because they think it is more expensive. As has been discussed here the difference is minor, if it exists at all. But what always intrigues me is that these friends regularly drive old european cars (they can't afford new ones). I point this out and they have all these answers which, at the end of the day, boil down to recognising the value of exemplary design. I then point out that that is what the mac is doing, and just like that clapped out Renault out there, it just does what it does in a way that is not just about getting from A to B. I think Brook nails this pretty well here, some of us want our computers to be hammers - we like our PCs - some of us like our computers to be Giustaforza torque wrenchs (sorry, struggled to find a tool analogy) - we like our macs. and we shouldn't forget Umberto Eco's essay comparing PCs and Macs to Protestantism and Catholicism! cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] fw: Mobile Videos: a Cybermohalla Ensemble discussion
Joris Ivens, Rain http://www.ivens.nl/film29-5.htm, 1929, 12 minutes. On 14/06/2008, at 7:03 AM, Rupert wrote: Descriptions of rain are usually about how people run for shelter, leave what they are doing. cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Newbie Question - Add Youtube to Wordpress Page - That's It?
On 19/05/2008, at 3:41 PM, Usuff Omar wrote: Newbie question. I know nothing about video blogging. Working on first principles, the way I'd do it would be to create a wordpress page and embed a youtube video in it. Would that be the way to go? Would there be other ways to do it? blip.tv, and a variety of other third party hosts. It is also common to embed the video and host it yourself, using vPIP, Embed QuickTime (google them) and a variety of other plugins (the two listed work with wordpress) rather than wordpress page i is more commonly done with a post, if you're trying to video blog Also, what's the ballpark length of text on the wordpress page? 300 words? 700words? Too short, and it seems the blog is hardly worth reading, too long and the attention fades. no answer, depends on quality of your writing. there are exceptional blogs of ver brief posting, and ditto for very long. Exceptional here is in the eye of the beholder - with the long tail et al you don't have to aggrandise/aggregate audience share to be successful (unless you're treating this as an old media space, then yes, brief, mention sex liberally, and so on) :-) I intend putting up footage of laughter clubs in action, discussing what produces fake laughing vs real laughing. There's already quite a lot of videos of laughter clubs on youtube (also under laughter yoga.) if you want to repost youtube stuff then you can embed it into yor wordpress blog on a post by post basis. give credit where appropriate. cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Newbie Question - Add Youtube to Wordpress Page - That's It?
blip doesn't take your copyright, and you can get it to auto post to your blog which is nice. On 19/05/2008, at 6:15 PM, Usuff Omar wrote: Is blip.tv the one to go with? cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Links to website inside video
ezedia QTi will do this very easily, you can use the demo version for free if it is just one link. I seem to remember that Andreas (www.solitude.dk) may also have written a small script that you could use to do this too. Adrian Miles 2008/4/30 Bookmarts [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I know this has been discussed in the past, and I should have paid attention to it then, but I did not and now need to know how to create a link inside a video to a website. For example, if there is an acknowledgment of a supporting company and you want to make that company's website accessible from the credits in the video how is that link created? I use Final Cut Express, a Mac, and QuickTime to create my videos. Thanks, Michael http://www.poetryvlog.com (now in its second year) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Ideology
I would have thought this extended way beyond the video blogging community and could reasonably be asked of the community in general, where the video community is a smaller mirror of the larger one. On the other hand you're using community to equal audience, I think the video community (and most other communities) can be reasonably tolerant (but never as tolerant as they like to think) whereas the video blog audience is an entirely different beast. And if you're doing this to aggrandise audience, you get what you ask for IMHO. :-) On 21/03/2008, at 8:19 AM, terry.rendon wrote: But what does that say about that online video community that particular groups of people feel the need to create niches because people can't talk about politics, religion, homosexuality, etc. without vile things being said? cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Ideology
because for for most communities outside of North America tolerance is probably understood and experienced to be something that is largely free of religion, I live in what I regard as a (sometimes) tolerant society, and religion plays quite a small role over all. An important one, but quite small, and compared to the United States experience pretty much trivial. so for me a tolerant community certainly allows the expression of religious expression, but being Australian I think I'm pretty cool about anyone doing anything until they get dogmatic about it. Then we pretty much tell 'em to piss off. :-) But religious tolerance here I think is minor compared to issues around gender, multiculturalism, and aboriginality. On 23/03/2008, at 4:48 AM, terry.rendon wrote: Fair enough. I also finding hypocritical that groups that claim to be for tolerance but seem to have zero tolerance when it comes to religious expression and speech and cry foul every turn. cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Videodefunct
On 19/02/2008, at 6:12 PM, Sull wrote: The project certainly has been influenced by Adrian Miles work with vogs and his writing on softvideography http://vogmae.net.au/drupal/ thinking/softvideo03 and the VD collective are similarily interested in exploring video on the Internet moving beyond being single-channel and linear like a version of TV and Cinema on the web. just correcting something in Jay's original post. Seth is a colleague of mine in the media program at RMIT, David Wolf completed his masters under my supervision, and Keith Deverell, the third amigo of VideoDefunct, shares an open plan office with me (and vice versa) at RMIT, and we regularly discuss this stuff. (So only David's been student of mine :-) ) cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
