Re: [videoblogging] external hard drives for editing?
To get the best of both worlds, I use one of these: http://www.sharkoon.com/html/produkte/docking_stations/sata_quickport_pro/index_en.html?id=2 It allows me to hot-plug any SATA drive, and provides both USB2 and SATA connections. They even make one with USB3. I have a stack of regular internal 1TB and 2TB hard drives beside my editing PC and just plug and play. Best of all, my data is not held hostage to their hardware. If this adapter dies, I can always put the same hard drive in a standard USB drive enclosure available from any PC store and carry on with no change. Anyone else do anything like this? Frank. On 16 April 2010 19:12, Robert Millis mil...@hudsonstreetmedia.com wrote: I should add that Western Digital *internal* drives have always performed very well for me. On Apr 16, 2010, at 1:55 PM, Robert Millis wrote: The MyBook drives seem to be a good option for archival use, but I have to say ghat I've never had them perform well for use when editing. The Fantom drives and some Lacies have been best on my system. So if you think you might push some of the editing to an external, I recommend those options. - Rob Sent from my Robphone On Apr 16, 2010, at 1:27 PM, Mark Villaseñor videoblogyahoogr...@tailtrex.t v wrote: David Lee King: I'd like to move to doing more editing of videos and music off of an external hard drive... Hi David: Well, for whatever its worth, I'd suggest NOT editing directly from an external but rather using one (or more) for archival purposes. Lots of reasons for this yet suffice it to say; unless you utilize Firewire or perhaps USB 3.0 cutting speed flow may be affected (depending on your system, of course). Although Western Digital has been poo-poo'd on the Net, it's worth noting that EVERY hard drive manufacture has failures. WD's, however, are by and large dependable drives used by mainstream industry players for this reason. That said; the Western Digital 1TB/2TB My Book Essential drives are fine for archrivals. We use the 1TB model (RAD emulated in quad - split, 2 2) because XP only recognizes up to 1-Terabyte, but one could theoretically partition the 2TB unit to overcome this XP issue. These units can be had for as little as $99/$149 US, respectively, via online sources. Even so one may be able to find lower pricing by shopping around. Hope this helps. Mark Villaseñor, http://www.TailTrex.tv Canine Adventures For Charity - sm http://www.SOAR508.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
On 4 February 2010 21:46, David Jones david.jo...@altium.com wrote: I just discovered my blog site has been completely copied! Good to hear that you resolved this. Interestingly, video blogs should be particulatly good at preventing things like this. Scraping and subsituting text is relatively easy, but dynamically altering the content of a video/audio stream is _much_ harder. Maybe what we should all learn from this is to include a bit more personal placement in the videos themselves. I'm not talking in your face here, but (for example) if you were to hand-write your eevblog url on a piece of card and stand it somewhere on an often-visible bench or shelf in your lab, it would be virtually impossible to remove from your videos, especially if you occasionally change the colour, shape, or handwriting. That, together with the occasional mention of your site while you are speaking to the camera should pretty much ensure that attempts to scrape your site will be pointless. Let's use the tools we have, and spare a moment of pity for poor text bloggers who have no such defences :( Frank. http://www.makevideo.org.uk/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Day 30: 30 Day 30 People 30 Videos
2009/11/30 Rupert rup...@twittervlog.tv: I'm psyched to see this. Today is my last day at my job. I've been saving the last two weeks worth of videos to watch in one go to celebrate. Congrats to everybody for making their video and making this happen. I'm really impressed, too. Well done everyone! What I'd really like, though, is to edit together the whole thing into one video as was suggested at the start. I tried earlier in the month, but was unable to download several of the entries from their various video hosting sites. Does anyone have the requisite download-fu to grab all of the videos and place them into a single sequence? I realize that the interactive and looping entries would need to be dumbed down for this sort of presentation, but I'd still love to bable to watch the whole game from start to finish. Any thoughts? Frank.
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Navlopomo day 24 now available
Thanks Michael! 2009/11/25 Michael Verdi michaelve...@gmail.com I posted it to the miro site. It just made a text link at the top of the thumbnail that links to the video file. Also there is a button that takes you to the original blog post. - Verdi On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Frank Carver frank.car...@googlemail.com frank.carver%40googlemail.com wrote: Thanks Kath, Maybe its time I finally looked into how to post videos to a sharing service such as blip.tv. Up until now I have never needed anything more than placing the video on my server and linking to it in a blog post, so I have happily avoided all of the blips and vimeos and youtubes of the world. Sigh. 2009/11/24 Kath O'Donnell alia...@gmail.com aliak77%40gmail.com hi Frank, sorry I can't recall seeing the embed field in previous uploads, but I tried it now with another blip video using the othe other url in the blip dashboard list. eg if I use the permalink for url= http://blip.tv/file/id I don't see the embed field it fills in all the video details from my blip post. if I use the episode details url=http://blip.tv/dashboard/episode/id then it does see the embed I have to fill in all the details - it looks like this page hasn't recognized it's a video you u might have to paste the blip embed code?? I haven't tried a .wmv file so not sure if that's related? also, if I use the direct link .flv file as the url then it uses that nice player which keeps a snapshot of the video as the background, but you need to enter all the description/tags etc manually (just paste from blip). can't recall having to enter embed code using this method though.. hth kath 2009/11/25 Frank Carver frank.car...@googlemail.comfrank.carver%40googlemail.com frank.carver%40googlemail.com However, I am having trouble with the form to add a video to the 30 days videobloggers miro community. The form insists I put something in a field named embed, but I have no idea what to put there. Can anyone who has done this already give any hints? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv [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/
[videoblogging] Navlopomo day 24 now available
I have not had time to put it in a blog post, yet. That will have to come later. For now, here's a direct link: http://makevideo.org.uk/video/2009-11-24-change.wmv I was intrigued by all the chopping and changing in recent videos from Mike Moon and David Lee King, but I wanted to pick that up and show that change is a vital part of survival. And I wanted to celebrate Darwin, today at least. Phew! Good luck Trine. Frank.
[videoblogging] Re: Navlopomo day 24 now available
2009/11/24 Frank Carver frank.car...@googlemail.com: I have not had time to put it in a blog post, yet. That will have to come later. Later is now. Blog post available at: http://www.makevideo.org.uk/2009/11/24/navlopomo-2009-day-24/ However, I am having trouble with the form to add a video to the 30 days videobloggers miro community. The form insists I put something in a field named embed, but I have no idea what to put there. Can anyone who has done this already give any hints? Thanks, Frank.
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Navlopomo day 24 now available
Thanks Kath, Maybe its time I finally looked into how to post videos to a sharing service such as blip.tv. Up until now I have never needed anything more than placing the video on my server and linking to it in a blog post, so I have happily avoided all of the blips and vimeos and youtubes of the world. Sigh. 2009/11/24 Kath O'Donnell alia...@gmail.com hi Frank, sorry I can't recall seeing the embed field in previous uploads, but I tried it now with another blip video using the othe other url in the blip dashboard list. eg if I use the permalink for url= http://blip.tv/file/id I don't see the embed field it fills in all the video details from my blip post. if I use the episode details url=http://blip.tv/dashboard/episode/id then it does see the embed I have to fill in all the details - it looks like this page hasn't recognized it's a video you u might have to paste the blip embed code?? I haven't tried a .wmv file so not sure if that's related? also, if I use the direct link .flv file as the url then it uses that nice player which keeps a snapshot of the video as the background, but you need to enter all the description/tags etc manually (just paste from blip). can't recall having to enter embed code using this method though.. hth kath 2009/11/25 Frank Carver frank.car...@googlemail.comfrank.carver%40googlemail.com However, I am having trouble with the form to add a video to the 30 days videobloggers miro community. The form insists I put something in a field named embed, but I have no idea what to put there. Can anyone who has done this already give any hints? [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: OMG I'm so excited to be here + feedback much appreciated
Listening to your video again there seems to be two basic sound problems. The most annoying (to me, at least) is the machine noise. This is typical of on-board microphones on tape camcorders, particularly where the camera is some distance from the talent and has turned up its gain to get a reasonable level of voice. As several people have already suggested, the solution to this is to separate the microphone from the camera, and get it closer to your voice so it does not need so much gain. You can do this by using a clip-on lavalier microphone, but be careful to put it where it does not rub or brush against clothing, hair or jewellery, so that you do not just replace machine noise with a different sort of noise. You could also use a directional shotgun microphone either mounted on the camcorder or (generally better) mounted on a separate stand or boom so you can get it as close as possible without being in shot. Given that you seem to like presenting in a head and shoulders close up, you could even try a desk microphone at waist level. The second sound problem seems to be the echo (reverb). This usually occurs in hard spaces where the sound bounces off walls, floor and ceiling as well as coming direct from the mouth of the speaker. Bringing the microphone closer to the voice should help this a bit, but you may also want to consider making the room more soft when recording. It is possible to buy special sound-absorbing foam from recording studio suppliers, but almost any form of fabric or soft furnishing can help reduce echoes. Experiment with your space, trying things such as a few towels or blankets draped over drying racks behind the microphone/camera, placing cushions, pillows or bean bags in corners, and recording in a room with a carpet, curtains and some soft seating. We have some much better sound engineers on this list than me, and I'm sure they will have other suggestions. The most important thing to do though is to learn to listen for this sort of thing. Get a reasonable set of closed cup headphones and listen to your recordings without looking at the pictures. Try and ignore what's being said and listen to the background and the way it sounds. After a while you will find it very easy to spot potential sound problems. I hope this helps, Frank. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] 2nd Navlopomo chain...?
2009/10/22 Rupert Howe rup...@twittervlog.tv wrote: It's just been suggested to me that since some people have missed out, maybe we should start a 2nd calendar - have a second 'competing' chain. I reckon it could already be half filled with people who have missed out - maybe we'd have to seek out people to fill the remaining spaces. Or maybe not. The first one filled up in less than a day. What do you think? I have been mulling this over for a while now, and I have come to the conclusion that I don't like the idea of separate chains (much as I don't like the idea of imposing extra rules on length, format, content or whatever.) Surely the point of this exercise is to inspire and empower creators to share and work together rather than to constrain, limit and separate. Just because someone happened to check their email in time to get an original slot should not mean that they become part of some sort of founding clique, and that people with other time zones or email practices are relegated to a B team. If we are not all of equal value here then it is not the community I thought it was. My suggestion is simple. Rather than one video from one person each day the game should be _at_least_ one video from one person each day. Now that we have one name in each slot, we have great freedom. Newcomers should be free to add their name to any slot they like, or even just wait for inspiration to strike during the process itself. This is the real world, and it's very likely that a few of the original slots will not result in a video, or at least not in enough time to keep the flow moving. More participants means more flexibility and more chance of achieving something great. During the semanal project I part-built some software to allow people to individually curate and publish paths through the hundreds of videos which accumulated during the year. Something like that could add an extra dimension of interest to this project too. Please don't tie down vital creativity with rules to suit some imagined and (probably non-existent) viewer. Let something beautiful emerge! Thanks, Frank. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo 2009
I'll take the 24th. Thanks, Frank. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Keeping tapes
2009/10/5 Pete Prodoehl ras...@gmail.com I put my 20+ year old box of audio cassettes to good use... And you can see some of the results here: http://www.mkepunk.com/ That's really cool, Pete. Any idea on license terms for these MP3s, though? By implication they are free to listen, but is it OK to use them in derived works? Or commercial projects? Do you (or the original artists) want attribution? etc. Thanks, Frank.
Re: [videoblogging] Magma
2009/8/5 Andrew Baron and...@rocketboom.com: I wanted to for sure return to my roots to get the word out and get your sincere feedback before we go live in the next couple of weeks. Well, one thing struck me immediately. In with all the freely-available media there's a bunch of stuff from the restricted Hulu, un-watchable outside North America. While I can see why you have included it, I would *really* appreciate some way of telling from a thumbnail whether I might actually be able to watch the video, rather than having to play a guessing game and click through to the magma page for each video. IMHO an ethical aggregator should highlight unrestricted, community-sourced video, and at least warn viewers of potentially restricted sources. Otherwise it certainly looks interesting. Frank.
Re: [videoblogging] David Lynch's Interview Project
2009/5/15 Rupert rup...@fatgirlinohio.org: Here's a sample of one 5 minute film from David Lynch's new 121 part videoblog Interview Project I can see why you like it Rupert. Reminds me of some of your work. A very interesting project indeed. Frank
[videoblogging] (slightly off topic) viewing stored videoblogs and other audio/video on a mac
Recently, my sprawling collection of computer hardware has expanded to include my first mac, a shiny new white macbook. After playing with most the installed software and adding a bunch of free sttuff (including, in this case, VLC, Perian and flip4Mac) I decided to explore enjoying some of my huge archive of video and audio. I have of the order of a terabyte of stored media which resides on several network-accessible drives. If I connect to server in the Finder and browse around, I am able to play any of the files simply by clicking on them. One of Quicktime, iTunes, or VLC opens up and everything works. This is a bit clumsy, though, so I thought I'd look for a more pleasant interface. First I gave FrontRow a try. Despite my best efforts all I could find were a bunch of internet trailers for movies I am not interested in. I could not even find a way to tell it where to look for media. So I gave up. Then I tried boxee, which I had seen mention of during the videos for VloMo last year. This also initially gave a load of unwanted movie trailers, but I did find some sort of setting which allowed me to browse to some stored media and set it as a source, but whenever I tried to access it I just got a baffling Error 2: share not available. So I uninstalled that one. I then tried a bunch of google searching for terms such as mac media center and found a bunch of possibilities, all of which seemed to imply that they do largely the same as FrontRow. On may various Windows boxes I have easily been able to use MediaMonkey (which is my current preference), RealPlayer and even Windows Media Player to index my media across multiple network drives and provide easy searching and browsing. I'm surprised that this seems so hard to find on my otherwise easy-to-operate mac. Can any of you experienced Mac users help me out? I'm sure there must be some fundamental mac-ness which I am missing here. Thanks, Frank
Re: [videoblogging] Semanal: completed
2008/12/17 Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com: I want to give a big shout out to everyone who stuck with http://semanal.org/. A dedicated group of folks posted a video per week for a YEAR. Yikes! is it over? I thought we had until the end of the year, and I still have a few weeks of videos to catch up with. I was planning to do a bunch of videos over the next week or so and slide them in under the bar :( Frank.
Re: [videoblogging] weird request for XP users
From: Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com I have windows xp, and today I tried to download a video file from the web onto my desktop as a shortcut. The file went through a synchronization process, which to me, should have meant that the video file would have been viewable offline if I clicked a desktop shortcut. However, the video simply became embedded on my desktop without a shortcut, so that it wants to play everytime I come out of sleep or hibernate or restart my computer. There's no way to delete it, and I can't find the file anywhere on my computer. It's not as if it's listed under desktop files, it's just part of my desktop now. It's an mp4 file, if that helps. What to do? Personally, I'd rather offer help than stoke the Mac/PC flames. My guess is that your friend actually downloaded some sort of HTML wrapper rather than the video itself, and it is this web page which has been set as the desktop background using active desktop (one of Microsoft's sillier ideas). It should be possible to right click on the desktop, select the properties menu item, then the Desktop tab, and browse for some other background image. Let us know how she gets on, Frank.
Re: [videoblogging] VloMo08
On 05/12/2008, Mike Moon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to give a big shout out to those that were able to complete VloMo08 (a video per day for the month of November). It certainly wasn't easy, but if you completed it, wear it like a badge of honor. Wo0T! Complete agreement!. I have now watched all the videos which appeared on the VloMo08 mefeedia feed, and it has been a great journey. The feeling of being a part of that and making my own videos to share every day was even better. Well done everyone! Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Introduction: newbie -- being intimate
I always wanted to see podcasters record stories with people. Shorter snippets. Maybe audio diaries. Maybe just a bunch of natural sounds? Give me a good 10 minutes of something I cant hear on the radio. Fuck the radio format. There was a little bit of this, but the podcasting swell didnt seem to go in that direction. And don't forget the fragmented nature of many people's time. I simply don't have the time to dedicate to even a half-hour podcast show, let alone a feed-catcher full of long-format stuff, but grabbing a minute or two of videoblog here and there is much more easily achievable. Back in 2004 or so I subscribed to a whole bunch of interesting short-format audio stuff: people reading short stories; sound effects; jokes; quizzes; soundscapes; short language lessons and so on. Most of them have long since faded away, but some of that sort still exist. My daughter is enjoying Coffee Break Spanish http://coffeebreakspanish.libsyn.com/, and I notice that PodQuiz http://www.podquiz.com/ is still going strong. Anyone else got any recommendations?
Re: [videoblogging] Re: VloMo08 - Videoblogging Month 2008
2008/10/30 Susan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: does it have to be video shot that day? I have such a huge backlog of videos... especially after Budapest... and I'm going to be on vacation for a week out of this month where I won't have Internet access... I hope it doesn't have to be shot that day. I'm planning on having a go but the only way I can make it is if I don't have to spend time actually shooting every day. As far as I understand it, none of the other such challenges (videoblogging week, semanal, etc.) have required same day shoot and post. Anyone else? Frank.
Re: [videoblogging] Re: twitter.com/videoblogging shows messages from this group
Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 10:10:26 PM, Josh Paul wrote: Also nice, in that we can find fellow videobloggers on twitter. Just look at who follows 'videoblogging'. Um. I would like to add videoblogging to my follows list, but it's a while since I last did anything with twitter and I can't work out how to just add another user by name. Can anyone who has done this give any hints on how? Thanks Frank (efficacy on twitter) -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: twitter.com/videoblogging shows messages from this group
Thanks everyone who answered. The bit I was missing was the need to hand-craft a URL. I tried the various search options but nothing seemed appropriate. 2008/10/29 Pat Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just go http://www.twitter.com/ and sign in. If you don't have an account or have completely lost the info. to it, you can sign up for a new one. Once you've done this, just go to http://twitter.com/videoblogging and click the FOLLOW button. It's really a simple process.
Re: [videoblogging] Indecision - an interactive hyper-videoblog post
Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 10:50:54 AM, Rupert wrote: I just used YouTube's new Annotations tool to create a little interactive videoblog story, created very quickly with my phone. Exciting that this kind of thing is possible so easily. You can only see it on YouTube - here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtQg_LCq_T8fmt=18 Thoroughly delightful. An interactive Rupert Rant! -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] A bit of help?
Saturday, July 19, 2008, 11:21:58 PM, Ron Watson wrote: I'd like to get some off list advice on cleaning up a pitch for a broadcast TV show. I'm getting ready to make the pitch via a conference call after a chance personal meeting at dinner a few weeks ago. I sat down next to a TV producer who deals in our kind of stuff and the conversation was magic. It kind of blind sided me. I'd like to follow up on that with her co-workers, and have created a website as a presentation to supplement the conference call. I need some advice on language and presentation. I've gotten some good advice already from a friend, but could use some more eyes. Alex Epstein at http://complicationsensue.blogspot.com/ has written a lot of useful stuff about pitches. I guess it works, because he has had a fair amount of success. Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] New video podcast member
Thursday, April 24, 2008, 12:15:46 AM, jjonasz wrote: My video podcast is called Tea Tips with Dr. Tea, check it out at: www.teatips.tv Your videos look interesting, but when I went to look for a feed to add to my feed reader I could not find it. You seem to have plenty of special buttons for different services, and I could even find two feeds of text blog articles available from the top of your site. However I can't see a link to a regular feed of video enclosures. Do you have such a thing? -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
[videoblogging] problems with my wordpress blog
I don't suppose there are hundreds of people desperate to interact with my video blog at makevideo.org.uk, but just in case ... I have had some sort of problem with my Wordpress installation which started giving 500 errors. To keep the site working, I have now switched off all the plugins and themes I was using while I look into upgrading and fixing the problem. This has two main effects. The first is that the look of my blog has changed back to the original bland Wordpress blue theme. The second is that I had to turn off the anti-spam plugin - last night I was deluged with spam comments, so I have now switcedh comments to full moderation. I'd still love anyone to leave a comment, but please be aware that they will all be hand-checked by me before appearing in public. I hope normal service will be resumed as soon as I get a few more hours to properly upgrade the installation. Sigh. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Brighton NaVloPoMo screening
Tuesday, January 8, 2008, 8:09:43 PM, beth_tilston wrote: If there is anyone within throwing distance of Brighton (UK) who hasn't heard of the screening we are holding here on Saturday, please have a look at http://navlopomo.pbwiki.com/Brighton+NaVloPoMo+Screening+Details. You can sign up to attend the event here - http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/388676/ Rupert, Robert Croma, Jay, Ryan and myself will all be there, so it'll be a real vlog love-in. Come and join us. I'm hoping to turn up for this. Does anyone know if there is anything (meetups, lunch, whatever) planned for before the actual showing? I will be driving down that morning and would hate to find that I have missed a chance to chat with videoblogging folks in the flesh. If there is not yet anything planned, should we arrange something? -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Movies v TV (was...My Amends...)
Friday, December 28, 2007, 7:39:14 PM, Brook Hinton wrote: WHAT good tv? As an aside, I have been watching episodes of the old Max Headroom drama series from the 1980s over the last few days and they are so much part of this discussion of old vs new media and advertsing-driven content that it's scary. Once you get past the 80's haircuts and the grunge-punk sets it's fascinating and thoughtful stuff. A world where turning a TV off is illegal, ad minutes are traded instead of stocks and shares, and death is just another way to stop channel-hopping. I don't know if the episodes are available to buy, but I found two full series available via bittorrent. See also: http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/M/htmlM/maxheadroom/maxheadroom.htm http://www.theora.org/faq/#15 -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
Re: [videoblogging] USB Microphone Preamp (24-Bit/96kHz) with 48V Phantom Power for Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista
Sunday, December 2, 2007, 12:56:36 PM, David King wrote: Hmm.. that's true - it's basically a fancy volume knob. Cool idea! On Dec 2, 2007 5:05 AM, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CEntrance Inc. MicPort Pro - Compact USB Microphone Preamp (24-Bit/96kHz) with 48V Phantom Power for Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista This seems like a pretty cool device for those of us who have or want to use condenser mics that require 48V power. While it is designed to be used between the condenser mic and a computer, based on my reading of its specs, you could use this to interface a pro condenser mic with your video camera, and obviate the need to put a more expensive mixer in the signal chain in order to power the mic. Maybe I'm mistaken, but this doesn't look at all suitable for on-camera use (unless you have a camera with a powered USB input - something I have never encountered myself). Essentially this device seems to be a standard USB bus-powered preamp, just in a cylindrical casing with an XLR on the end. The giveaway is that the phantom power must come from somewhere, and this device has no battery. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Mac for videoblogging and podcasting?
Wednesday, November 21, 2007, 5:42:27 PM, Steve Watkins wrote: Fan noise seems about the same for both. I cant really hear the fan when on low speed and recording with the built-in mic, let alone an external one, though your mileage may vary depending on what sort of mic it is. That sounds encouraging. Wednesday, November 21, 2007, 6:45:04 PM, Steve Watkins wrote: Time to get the video effects ableton live out and try to recover the weird me that used to exist more before I started ranting on the net. Ah. Do you use Ableton Live on the Mac, too? I'd not really thought about that. I have been spending some time using a Lite version (which came free with my external preamp) on my Windows XP box and find it great fun. I guess stocking it up with virtual instruments and effects does count as heavy CPU load, though. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Mac for videoblogging and podcasting?
Sunday, November 18, 2007, 3:37:24 PM, Steve Watkins wrote: I got a Mac Mini when Tiger came out. I was impressed by it, and it was indeed very very quiet compared to all the PC's Id had. I then went on to get a Macbook, and it was the same, almost silent in normal operation. They are far from silent when under heavy CPU load though, so for example when you are encoding video, the fans will turn it up a notch or two and will be quite audible. I also liked the fact that Apple doesnt put fans on the bottom of their laptops, unlike many PC laptops of the time, so I could put it on my lap or bed etc, without worrying about blocking the fans. Thanks Steve, that's helpful. Do you think that something such as recording a USB or firewire signal from an external audio input using a multi-track audio application (Garageband?) would also count as heavy CPU load? That's probably the case where the noise would be most significant/ -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Mac for videoblogging and podcasting?
Sunday, November 18, 2007, 3:46:49 PM, RANDY MANN wrote: i use a mac book for every thing. Thanks Randy. Do you find that it is effectively silent in normal use for recording and playing audio and video? Or do you ever hear any fan noise on voiceovers/podcasts and stuff? -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
Re: [videoblogging] Mac for videoblogging and podcasting?
Sunday, November 18, 2007, 5:52:24 PM, Sull wrote: Whatever you buy new today, will be fine for quality audio/video production. A desktop is usually a better option... but if you like the advantage of mobility, then i'd go with a Toshiba or Macbook Pro. I'm intrigued by the suggestion of a MacBook Pro. Maybe I'm missing something, but the apparent advantages (10% more CPU, 20% more screen pixels, a bit more RAM and drive space) don't seem to justify the roughly doubling in price, especially given the reduced portability and battery life of the pro. As for macbook fan noise and temperature... I installed this and it has made a huge difference: http://www.lobotomo.com/products/FanControl/ By implication, therefore: before you started using this software your MacBook was noisy. Was it noisy enough that you could hear it on a recording from a nearby (good quality) microphone? -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
[videoblogging] Re: Mac for videoblogging and podcasting?
Monday, November 19, 2007, 6:33:22 PM, Stormy Knight wrote: I have used a Mac exclusively since mid '84. I've done some video and audio work and the video/audio specs stuff you requested it will do and lots. That's good to hear. I was a bit worried about L cuts and editing the ASF files from my camera - I have several Windows editing programs which can't handle those, and it's very hard to tell what formats software will read. However, you will get sound noise, both from the Mac itself and from anything less than using a professional mic. I have got a good mic. In fact, it was buying a decent large diaphragm condenser mic that prompted this exercise in the first place. It's so much more sensitive than my old mics that it picks up every noise in the room. If you are just thinking of buying a Mac to eliminate noise, buy the freestanding soundsoap at http://xserve1.bias-inc.com:16080/products/soundsoap2/ for roughly $129 USD and save yourself a couple of thousand dollars. I guess that's roughly similar to what I do now. I use the noise removal tool in Audacity and a few VST plugins for gating, equalising and compressing. Using these tools has a noticeable effect on the signal, though. I was hoping that by eliminating/reducing the majority of noise in the first place, I would be able to use much less aggressive noise removal settings. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
[videoblogging] Mac for videoblogging and podcasting?
I hope this is not too off-topic, but I can't seem to find answers after several attempts at searching, and I know that a bunch of people on this list use Macs for their video and audio work. I have never used a Mac of any sort. In fact, I have never even seen one running up close. We have no apple stores around here, and I don't know anyone locally who has a Mac which I could play with. I have seen plenty of touch-feely ads, and read a lot of subjective discussions and rants, but I am completely unfamiliar with the unspoken and unwritten assumptions about Apple products which are probably pretty obvious if you use one for a while. I have plenty of computers, running a variety of Windows and Linux/Unix operating systems, but they are all noisy. Whenever I try to record any sound or video here in my office there is always the hum and rush of fans in the background. With this in mind I am considering getting another computer, probably something portable, so I can use it in quieter places. I don't really want to risk a lot of money on this exercise, so I want to take a no bells and whistles approach and use a bottom of the range model if at all possible. So my puzzlement boils down to a few questions: 1. Is the current lowest-priced MacBook (2GHz Core 2 Duo with 1GB RAM) and the included software suitable for my videoblogging and podcasting needs? I don't tend to use a lot of fancy features ... For video: straight and L cuts, occasionally a dissolve, mixing of location sound, music and voice, import of JPEG images, and some sort of lower-third titling would do the job. I record either on a Mini-DV camcorder or on a flash-memory camera which produces ASF files. For audio: mainly just assemblng a selection of alternate takes into a sequence, and linking them together over a substrate of music or background sound. Source material is either MP3 or WAV recordings from a generic MP3 player/recorder, or direct into the computer through a mic preamp. 2. Are the current generation of MacBooks silent/cool in use? This is the bit that's really hard to find out. I've been all over the apple web site and found lots of stuff about how intuitive and arty the whole experience is, but nothing about whether or not you can hear cooling fans running when recording and editing, or whether if you use a laptop actually on your lap it is comfortable or too hot. 3. Alternatively, can anyone recommend a low-cost, easily portable, silent/cool brand of ordinary PC which I can use with the software I already have? Many thanks in advance for any help and suggestions. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?
Tuesday, November 13, 2007, 1:34:37 PM, Rupert wrote: People will not watch shows on a computer. Do you know anybody who watches anything on a computer? I think it might be useful to distinguish between watching on a computer, and watching on-line. I hardly ever watch anything on-line. There's something about the in-web-page experience that simply does not work for me. On the other hand, I watch quite a lot on my computer screen. There are a several reasons for this; here are a few I can think of right now: * The rest of my family would prefer to watch other stuff on the TV in the lounge. Likewise I am not at all interested in watching kids shows, soap operas and medical dramas. So we agree to differ, and I get the PC. * The stuff I want to watch is not available on regular TV. No, it's not *that* sort of stuff. Mostly what I am interested in is either independent internet video or old TV from the 1960s onwards - I have been having great fun watching *all* the available episodes of Doctor Who ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_who ), for example. I'm currently part way through Tom Baker ... To show that I'm not a complete cheapskate I did buy a boxed set of The Tomorrow People ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tomorrow_People ) * I have become mildly addicted to the extra meta information you can get when watching something in a PC media player. I get twitchy if I can't glance at a progress indicator to see how far through I am, and love the ability to pause and look up on the web something which occurs to me while watching. For these sorts of reasons, I'm not especially interested in a set top box. We don't even have cable, satellite, or digital TV, so we only get the regular five channels. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
Re: [videoblogging] What is a journalist--Defined
Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 7:02:50 PM, Jay dedman wrote: I do agree that it's trubling to read for financial gain or livelihood. does this mean you must get paid by a commercial company? can you just get donations from the community? can you have a day job and blog at night? In some ways this is the flip side of all the discussions we have had here about non commercial vs commercial use of creative commons liceneced resouces. Note that the finacial gain clause specifically does not say as a livelihood or for financial gain AND livelihood. The conjunction is or, which implies that mere financial gain on its own is enough. If showing content on an ad-laden web page counts as commercial use of material for licensing purposes, it's certainly reasonable to think that any site which earns from ads, sponsorship, or whatever would count as financial gain. Maybe those odd nickels and dimes from Google adsense count for something, after all ... -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Documentary Feature Film Looking for Vloggers
Sunday, September 9, 2007, 7:34:20 PM, sankaprods wrote: When making a feature film (for theatrical release) you need full resolution video, not web video. Now I'm puzzled. Your manifesto communique page at http://www.manifestotv.com/communique/?page_id=27 explicitly states: Do not alter the format of the video, send it in it’s original resolution. and makes no mention of any requirement for full resolution video (whatever you may mean by that) Does your response to Jay imply that you are simply not interested in footage from the many of us who shoot and edit at sizes more useful for digital distribution? I set my camera to record at 320x240. Would you reject my efforts out of hand? Jay's point is still valid. The future of TV is not one size fits all, and if you are interested in videoblogger footage, why not allow for direct digital transfer? -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re:cell phone website? question??
Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 8:14:10 PM, Steve Watkins wrote: I do not know anything about wml, from the little I have read I expect it will slowly dissapear as full browsers become more common in phones. I guess what format video it supports is again more of a question of what each different phone supports, rather than there being a video format that is supported by all devices that have wml capability. My job at the moment is building web applications to support selling and serving content (music, videos, ringtones, pictures, etc.) - mainly to mobile phones. Along the way I've learned a few things about WAP, WML and phone capabilities. The first thing is that phone browsers and phone capabilities are *very* different from each other. In the web world most people don't even worry about the differences between Mozilla, IE and Safari; in the world of mobile browsers, it's common to support many tens of different configurations for different types and models of phone. The second thing is that most phones in the world are really dumb. A large proportion have no data access at all. Of the ones which do have data access, the great majority connect over slow GPRS or an equivalent, and only support basic WAP. Hardly any phones even support MP3, let alone video. Of the phones which do support any kind of video, it's almost always 3gp, but each phone has its own quirks of what sizes and formats it will support. We use a pretty complex transcoding service to prepare video and audio content for delivery to mobile phones. It's complex because it has to detect and support the capabilities and quirks of so many different handsets, and it needs continual adjustment as new phones appear and old ones split into updated and original versions. WML is not actually too bad to work with. It's essentially a very reduced subset of XHTML, with a few cunning extras to avoid the need for JavaScript in common cases. It has the technical advantage of using reduced bandwidth, and the psychological advantage of reduced expectations. It's quite feasible to write a really useful WAP application which just uses simple text, forms and links with the occasional small image, people don't expect fancy graphics, fonts, layout and animation. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
Re: [videoblogging] Vloggercon? (was Re: Tuesday FlashMeeting)
Friday, February 23, 2007, 2:39:26 AM, Jay dedman wrote: forget 2 days. lets meet for a whole week... I want to meet everyone's family and kids. let's talk about an idea and have a whole week to mull it over. I love the idea of this, but the costs of travelling long distance by air can be pretty steep for just one person. Justifying the expense of bringing a whole family can be tough. Friday, February 23, 2007, 10:11:16 AM, Deirdre Straughan wrote: this part needs a LOT of advance notice as the US government is such a PITA about letting foreigners in these days. The last time I looked, the Canadian government was less nutty about this stuff, and as far as I know it's also no big deal for folks from the USA to go to Canada. So why not hold this event in (say) Toronto, which is pretty much as easy to get to as NYC. Just a thought. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
Re: [videoblogging] Re: FireAnt.tv video thumbnails
Friday, February 9, 2007, 11:28:23 PM, Joshua Kinberg wrote: Although I agree with you Josh, why is class=media-thumbnail better than rel=thumbnail in this example? (It's consistent?) The only reason is that rel is not valid XHTML attribute for img So why not wrap the image in an anchor tag which _does_ support rel: a href='mythunbnail.jpg' rel='thumbnail'img src='mythumbnail.jpg'//a Then it will show fine in browsers, be XHTML compliant, and easy to scrape while generating a feed. Thoughts? -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
Re: [videoblogging] Re: First John Edwards. What Happens Next?/video regulation
Friday, December 29, 2006, 7:01:55 PM, J. Rhett Aultman wrote: Another interesting question to pose has to do with the regulation of money going to political ads. Does this even extend to the Internet? Can political candidates exploit lapses in campaign expenditure regulation to pay video bloggers for time on their blogs? What about advertisement storms on YouTube and the like? I guess if you live in the USA it's sometimes easy to forget, but the modern economy is global. As US politics moves into modern media and the internet, then the rest of the world gets a say. If it's OK for the USA to intervene in Iraqi politics, is it OK for people outside the USA to intervene in US politics, too? Sure, non-US-citizens don't actually get a vote, but US presidential elections have been becoming less and less about individual votes for years. It's all about how much money and media each faction can wield, and how it is used to shape the voters into voting one way or another. In the past, this was mainly a domestic thing. Pretty much the only people who cared who occupied the White House were the people of the USA. But that's all changed. The USA is now such a a big player on the world stage that everyone on the planet is affected by what the USA does. US Politics used to be the playground of American business lobbies and corporate interests. They have worked tirelessly for years to ensure that they can manipulate the political process just by spending money. Spend more money, get more influsnce. But think about it. How much money could (for example) China or a coalition of Moslem oil states put into political campaigning for the upcoming US election? Would they care at all about the FCC or campaign contributions, impartiality, journalistic ethics or traditions of political integrity? As a US voter, you have NO WAY of telling who or what domestic or foreign interests are funding, producing or editing anything that you read, hear, or view. Whatever rules used to pretend that there was any sort of impartiality are worthless. Scary? -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
Re: [videoblogging] Re: video conference
Friday, December 15, 2006, 7:52:25 PM, Markus Sandy wrote: ok, i scheduled a video conference for Fri, 15 Dec 2006 19:30:00 GMT Umm. is that right? I just checked your link and it says it starts in 20 hours (at 1700 GMT on Sat 16th) -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
Re: [videoblogging] Vlog Week: URLs and such
Wednesday, April 5, 2006, 8:56:25 PM, Pete Prodoehl wrote: Andreas Haugstrup wrote: Steph, Your server is not configured for opml files. The file is being sent as text/plain where it probably should be sent as text/xml or something like that. I use text/xml for the mime-type. Also, the feed may or may not be valid, depending on who you ask... URL:http://validator.opml.org/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mortaine.com%2FVideo%2FVlogWeek.opml URL:http://www.kbcafe.com/rss/rsv.aspx?xml=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mortaine.com%2FVideo%2FVlogWeek.opmlSubmit1=Validate%21 Hmm. The top one says it's invalid OPML, and the bottom one says it's valid XML. No disagreement there. From a practical point of view I was unable to get it to load into Juice (a.k.a iPodder), which I believe is still the most popular open enclosure fetcher. It just reported 0 feeds imported. Can anyone who has managed to import it export a more compliant one? -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Vlog Week 2006!! April 3-9!!!
Friday, March 31, 2006, 8:50:33 PM, Andreas Haugstrup wrote: Everyone will be able to see videos immediately by going to technorati and mefeedia tag pages (because waiting for a human curate the videos sucks). During the week these two places are the best place to go. *After* the week a place with all the videos might make sense, but it's still gravy (the tag pages at technorati/mefeedia still work). OK, I've posted my first video for the week and been to look at it at mefeedia. It seems to have no tags associated with it. I've also looked at the videobloggingweebk2006 page at mefeedia, where my video seems not to be listed. But I can't work out how to tag my video at mefeedia. When I go to my list of videos ( http://mefeedia.com/feeds/363/ ) All I seem to get is a list of links and descriptions to my original blog pages, plus a small amount of metadata about my feed. Where is the mefeedia metadata about each post? How do I apply a tag to a particular post? This is baffling me, because from the way it has been casually mentioned here a few times, I assumed it would be a simple process. Help! (and thanks in advance) -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Vlog Week 2006!! April 3-9!!!
Tuesday, April 4, 2006, 4:29:14 PM, Devlon wrote: From your feed page, at the end of hte post item text, you should see some text like My Tags: Click to tag javascript://. If you click the 'click to tag' you should be able to enter in tags. No? Um. No. All I can see is two links Download and Blog this. See the screenshot at http://www.makevideo.org.uk/images/mefeedia.png -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Week of Vlogging Dangerously
Friday, March 31, 2006, 4:17:37 PM, Stephanie Bryant wrote: How: Post to the videoblogging group under this subject line that you're going to participate, with a link to your vlog. I'll try to set up an RSS webpage with all the week of vlogs. I haven't done any videos for a while, and I was beginning to feel the need again, then along comes a challenge like this. I'm very busy with a new full time job. I've got a family with young children to look after. I've got no idea what I'm goig to make video of. In short. I'm in too. Yargh! -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Are any of you Vloggers on the Myspace Film side?
Sunday, February 26, 2006, 2:39:39 AM, Jay dedman wrote: but for whatever reason, MySpace still seems like a dead end. doesnt seem like it will last. I like to think that media we create will last...so it means something in the future. I wonder if MySpace has that kind of longevity. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=1650209page=1 Unfortunately, longevity is not the point. Longevity is the kind of thing that concerns the middle-aged rather than the teenagers who form the backbone of a service like MySpace. Most children and young people live in a kind of eternal now, where it is assumed that things will be like this forever. It's not usually until a little later in life, when you have experienced change, felt loss and begun to ask yourself the definitive adult question should we have children yet? that longevity becomes a driving force. As a real example of this, one of my college students (aged around 17) while talking about styles of clothing, casually expressed that, in comparison to fashions from the past (say the 1980s and 1990s), today's fashions would probably last forever. When I probed a bit deeper, the explanation was that today's styles are ordinary, whereas the others were just wierd. This attitude, that the the strangeness and change was all in the past and things will just remain as they are from now on, goes a long way in trying to understand both the success of observably transient phenomena such as MySpace, and failure of the many attempts to interest young people in politics. Keeping people in this passive, unquestioning, state is good news for advertisers and governments, so many cultures have developed elaborate ways of delaying the onset of adult responsibility. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] external hard drive
Friday, February 24, 2006, 6:41:07 AM, kelly belly wrote: I have a Maxtor One Touch 300GB that I've been using for a while now. It hasn't given me any problems (knock wood). I have had more failures with Maxtor drives than any other sort, including a 250GB One Touch which gave up on me last year. I've decided not to buy them any more despite the usually tempting prices. Each time this happens I usually lose some video footage - the trouble is it is just too big to back up to anything other than another hard drive (except possibly to DV tape as data, which I will admit I have never tried, only having got a DV camera relatively recently). -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Pricing Media (difficult question)
Wednesday, February 15, 2006, 9:17:10 AM, robert a/k/a r wrote: Any clever pricing peeps reading? Yeah, it's a difficult question, can media be released without adverts and then be released with adverts? Can media be released on the Internet with adverts be re-released on the Internet with different adverts? Is there even such a thing as re-release on the Internet? Interesting thoughts. I someone has asked me yesterday I guess I would have just said that the adverts would potentially be different every download, different times, different viewers or whetever. I'm so used to Google ads now that the idea of an advert which is somehow fixed to a media object seems somehow wierd. I guess that the Rocketboom ad scheme will attach the ad to the downloadable media. But that's because they talked about total number of views over time and included it in the sales pitch. They could just as easily sell first run (say, downloads within 24 hours of release) and repeat advertising separately, at separate prices, if they wanted to. For all those online services which want to automatically add whetever is their best match (i.e biggest paying :) ) commercial message to any media, just like services like iFilm already do with pre-roll ads, the ads are quite a separate thing. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Podfading
Tuesday, February 7, 2006, 7:23:11 PM, Pete Prodoehl wrote: Are there any abandoned videoblogs yet? :) Anyone remember Rupert Howe who shot to a moment's fame after posting intense thoughts about the bombings in London last year? He did a videoblog fade soon after. He's just one memorable example. I have plenty of other feeds in my feed reader who haven't posted for months. Another way to look at it, though, is that because the vlogosphere has so few scheduled shows, there's hardly any chance of fading, merely some (potentially very) long gaps between posts. On one of my mostly-text blogs, which used to be pretty busy, I only post occasionally now (maybe once every six months or so). The blog is still there, old posts still get visits, it's still a blog. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Where I've been...
Friday, February 3, 2006, 8:23:39 PM, Susan wrote: My downward slide started with my most recent videoblogging presentation at the apple store. ...Then I got another email this week saying they want me to run my presentation pretty much just on the Mac platform. My fault, I guess, for thinking I belonged in an Apple store. I must admit I have always been surprised by how so many people have got involved with Apple stores. Maybe it's because I've never been in one (the only one I have ever seen, in Amsterdam, was closed when I went past), but it just seems plain strange to sit in the pocket of a particular company with particular products to market. It may not reassure you but I can't see the odd alliance with Apple Stores lasting very long. There's not enough in it for them. Videoblogging has been a love-hate thing with me. I love to do it, but I hate the fact that it's hard to find people in my area that I can hang out with, that I can discuss videoblogging with. They're just not here. I'm sure this describes most of us. Don't be put off by the loud voices from a few large metro areas. Most vloggers have never met another vlogger, and those that did, probably made a big journey to do it. I met a few last October at Vlog Europe, but I've never met any here in the UK. It's a lonely hobby, but we kind of make up for it by sharing our videos. Sure--I have my new friend Greta--and she's having fun with it, making maybe a post a week--but the passions not there, know what I mean? Plus--she's on a Mac. It's like Spain Spanish and Mexican Spanish. We share a similar interest, but not a similar platform. Well, maybe I'm lucky then. I don't know anyone with a Mac so at leats I don't have that problem. I have a bunch of PCs with various operating systems, but I've never used a Mac. Everywhere I have worked or studied has been exclusively Windows, Linux or Unix. So that leaves me where I am today--a little crushed inside, without a camcorder to vlog with at all, and with a vlog that I truly love but don't have the means to update, not counting old home movies I have. Still got any editing software installed? Why not try a few remixes? They can be great fun, and a really good workout for your editing skills, and best of all, no camera required! As an aside, I don't know how much you would consider spending on videoblogging, but I have done almost all my vlogs using a small, cheap camera which records MP4 to little flash memory cards. Even the lowest price Firewire DV cameras around here are at least 200 pounds (roughly 350 USD), but my little solid state camera was only about 45 pounds (admittedly, plus the cost of an SD card), so I could get three of them for the same money and still have change. To me that's cheap enough to just chuck in my pocket and not worry too much about all the problems that can happen with the complicated mechanics of a modern tape camera. Thanks for letting me rant, guys... I just seriously need some kind of pick-me-up right now. *virtual hug* -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] REMINDER - LO-FI SAINT LOUIS RERUN MONTH! - NEED A FEW GOOD VLOGGERS!
Monday, January 23, 2006, 12:22:06 PM, Bill Streeter wrote: I'm rerunning 28 videos that I've posted in the last year in February. A different one each day. I would like to have each introduced by a different vlogger. I've gotten about 14 volunteers so far, so I need a few more. You can do it how ever you want as long as you keep it under a minute and introduce the video that I assign to you. You can promote your own vlog if you want or promote something else, it doesn't matter. If you want to do one email me at bill[at]webfu[dot]com. I'll bite. Pick a video and let me know the URL so I can watch it and get going. Do you have any format preferences (size, frame rate, container, codec, compression settings ...) ? -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] MovieWorks Deluxe? (was Re: Windows Movie Maker
Monday, January 23, 2006, 3:55:06 AM, Sean Gilligan wrote: Has anyone tried MovieWorks Deluxe? http://www.movieworks.com/movieworksdeluxe.html Apple recommends it in their Creating Video Podcasts on Windows tutorial: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/videopodcasts_win.html I've just looked round their web site and it does look like a funny little application. It struck me as being kind of half way between Quicktime Pro and After Effects. It's not really a traditional timeline-based system. And I'm not sure I believe all their claims about how it works just as well on a PC. There's a distinct lack of PC examples on the site, and given how Quicktime on a PC seems to be missing things that are assumed to be there on a Mac (DV input, AAC output, etc.) it seems very likely that the PC version will have some differences. I'd love to hear if anyone has used it. If they are being recommended by Apple they will probably get a bunch of sales anyway. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: camera suggestions ?
Saturday, January 21, 2006, 12:59:20 PM, Bill Streeter wrote: This is kind of an issue with me. The DVX 100 has 24p but I find 24p to be over rated when it comes to getting a film look. When people talk about getting a film look on video they're talking about getting a film transfered to video look. If you are really interested in getting video to look like it came from film, there are a whole load of factors you need to take into consideration. There's too much to cover in a single post here, but I have collected a bunch of URLs that might help: http://www.tvtechnology.com/features/Tech-Corner/f_rf_technology_corner.shtml http://www.urbanfox.tv/production/filmlookindex.htm http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=432433seqNum=6rl=1 http://www.stormforcepictures.com/howto-getthatfilmlook.php -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: accurate count of viewers per episode
Saturday, January 21, 2006, 6:22:22 PM, duncan wrote: you could place an invisible image near the end of your movie, one that has to be downloaded from your site. the amount of hits for that image file should roughly equal how many times your movie has been watched. the viewer has to be online when they watch the film for it to register a hit All schemes like this fail when played on a portable player, or on any quicktime player which doesn't honour such daftness (VLC, for example), or anyone who watches a transcoded version, etc.. And just like every other circulation count, it fails if more than one person watches a particular showing. In practice you'd probably get more useful results simply counting downloads. The bottom line is that trying to force a model based on this sort of thing being countable is barking at the moon. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] the lamest format (it's not Flash video)
Friday, January 20, 2006, 6:38:30 AM, Joshua Kinberg wrote: In fact, the Flip4Mac plugin may provide a better viewing experience for Mac users than the woefully out-of-date wmv plugin. Just because you have to download it separately now doesn't mean that will always be the case. I'm sure it will begin to be bundled with other downloads and Microsoft products. And don't forget all those messages to this list from Mac users telling PC folks how they should use Quicktime because the player is a free download. Sauce for the goose, folks. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: experience with DIY steadicams?
Thursday, January 19, 2006, 6:42:30 PM, Devlon wrote: In a pinch a collapsed tripod does the samebut doesn't quench the thirst ;) Which brings up the question: does anyone know of any good ideas for some way of steadying a camera without a tripod screw (like a lot of small digital cameras which happen to do video)? An unstabilised video can end up a bit unpleasant: URL: http://www.makevideo.org.uk/2005/09/08/vlogwalk-from-home-to-suffolk-college/ -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] re: Thinking outside the box...
Friday, January 6, 2006, 1:49:18 PM, Ron Watson wrote: If there is no money in media then there is no sense in controlling it, is there? But if there's no money in the media itself, then that leaves the field wide open for people and organizations willing to spend money to achieve other aims: politics, evangelism, propaganda and advertising. Have any of us got the clout to go up against any of _those_ bankrolls? -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Why is DivX so hard?
Friday, January 6, 2006, 3:13:49 PM, Pete Prodoehl wrote: This is just a personal opinion, but I tend to look down on companies that do releases like that. I know that Mac OS X and Linux operating systems have less users than Windows, but it always comes off as an afterthought type of insult: Windows now! Mac later, Linux ever more later... But if the alternative is making all those PC users wait while the minority versions are developed, wouldn't that be just as bad (or worse)? One of the open-source software mantras is release early, release often. The idea being that the sooner you can get _anything_ in the hands of real users, the sooner you can begin learning about how the product is really used, what's most important, and how it can be improved. If it makes you any feel any happier, consider the PC users as the guinea-pigs - testing the software so that the wrinkles have been ironed out by the time it is made available to the Mac/Linux cognoscenti ;) -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] IDEA: Yule Vlogs
Thursday, December 22, 2005, 12:45:37 PM, Its A Mystery and So Im I wrote: I was thinking to myself that it would be great to see vlogs from folks featuring their own rendition of the popular Yule Log fireplace that you see on TV. Can you recommend a link to some of this popular Yule Log fireplace that you see on TV - I'm having trouble imagining what you mean. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- AIDS in India: A lurking bomb. Click and help stop AIDS now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/9QUssC/lzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Credits Maker
Wednesday, December 21, 2005, 9:36:07 PM, Ian Mills wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew of any programs that you use to make credits (as in the long scrolling text you see at the end of movies) and which are free. dont say movie maker or fcp. since i have movie maker but i dont like how the credits are laid out on those and i dont have final cut pro...as I dont have a mac (yet..) or have access to one. It depends a bit on how long your credits are. Either way, don't forget the low-tech solutions: 1. Write or print out your credits onto a long piece of paper (or a wall, whiteboard or other large surface. Then film the piece while moving either the camera or the surface. 2. Make a tall, thin image in a paint program containing all your text and pan down it using your video editing software. Some editing software can also pan across vector files such as WMF, Illustrator, or Flash. 3. Make your credits in your favourite text layout program, then do a screencast (ie. record what appears on the screen or in a window) as you manually scroll down the document - the free camstudio software is good for this. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Sound editor features (was Re: New poll for videoblogging)
Friday, December 9, 2005, 6:04:25 PM, Pete Prodoehl wrote: Perhaps you could add your notes to the Audacity page? The whole idea is to get different opinions from different people. :) If you don't feel comfortable editing a wiki, email me your review and I will add it. Thanks for the offer, Pete. It's not really that I'm uncomfortable editing a Wiki (I'm kind of a Wiki old hand, having been using and creating Wikis for several years). My main problem is that I simply don't have enough experience of big name audio editing software to know what features might be missing from Audacity. I don't even know what audio-editing software other people are using. For example, a lot of people here seem to be using Macs with GarageBand. How does that differ from Audacity? What does it offer that Audacity doesn't, and what does Audacity offer that GarageBand doesn't. I can't help, because I've never used a Mac or GarageBand. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- 1.2 million kids a year are victims of human trafficking. Stop slavery. http://us.click.yahoo.com/.QUssC/izNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Sound editor features (was Re: New poll for videoblogging)
Friday, December 9, 2005, 4:46:13 PM, Pete Prodoehl wrote: Awesome... I've added links for many of the apps listed so it'll be easier for people to add reviews, and I also wrote up my review of Audacity: http://www.voxmedia.org/wiki/Videoblogging_Software Cool. In your review of Audacity, though, would you (or anyone else with the relevant experience) like to add a bit more detail about the things it _can't_ do. I've never used any audio-editing software that cost money (unless you count the trivial apps that sometimes come as part of a video editing program), and to me Audacity feels pretty powerful. I guess I'm a newbie to the field of audio editing, and I'm finding it tough to imagine what useful features other programs might provide that audacity lacks. For example, I was amazed to find that Audacity can play tracks I have already recorded while I'm recording another one. I've never used any software that could do that, so I didn't even think to look for it. What else am I missing? What super features do others have that make Audacity look dumb and clumsy in comparison? -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- AIDS in India: A lurking bomb. Click and help stop AIDS now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/9QUssC/lzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] New poll for videoblogging
Thursday, December 8, 2005, 2:07:41 PM, videoblogging@yahoogroups.com wrote: Best video editing software o Sony Vegas o Final Cut Pro o Final Cut Express o Pinnacle o Adobe Premiere o Adobe Premiere Elements o iMovie o Windows Movie Maker o Avid DV Express o Ulead o Video wave o Avid Free DV o Roxio Videowave o Magix o Video Explosion problem 1, it's missing plenty of names - Ulead make at least two distinct products (VideoStudio and MediaStudio Pro) - Pinnacle make at least two distinct products (Studio and Liquid) - What about the rest of the Avid lineup? - What about Let's Edit and Edius from canopus - I use and love Serif VideoPlus 4 - I own and occasionally use ArcSoft ShowBiz - I own and occasionally use Cosmi Video Editor - I can't see any of the open source video editors there - Does Quicktime Pro count as a video editor - What about AfterEffects and all the other Compositors? - and I'm sure there are plenty more. And there isn't even an other choice in the poll. problem 2, best for what? - If you need to read or write certain formats, the choice is limited - if you only have one particular platform, the choice is limited - if you want to work in HD, the choice is limited - if you want to burn a DVD, the choice is limited - many other things act to narrow down the choice. In short, I'm not sure a poll like this can ever get any useful results. Anyone want to rephrase it? -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- 1.2 million kids a year are victims of human trafficking. Stop slavery. http://us.click.yahoo.com/WpTY2A/izNLAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Rec. Host Provider??
Thursday, December 8, 2005, 10:08:39 PM, Jeffrey wrote: Can anyone recommend a plug in for Video? Um, to do _what_ with video, exactly ? -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- 1.2 million kids a year are victims of human trafficking. Stop slavery. http://us.click.yahoo.com/.QUssC/izNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Porn --and possible solutions
Sunday, December 4, 2005, 2:47:21 PM, Nerissa (TheVideoQueen) wrote: Why the LET PEOPLE PICK A CATEGORY argument will fail: Not everyone will tag their videos correctly ... And what about the ambiguous videos? ... Definately. POSSIBLE SOLUTION #1: Let your community regulate itself and ban members for misbehaving. Use the Craigslist.org model. Allow your visitors to flag the posts. This solution will work, but only in the way that it will POSSIBLE SOLUTION #2: Restrict adult category to a separate category requiring different service agreements and viewership agreements. What worries me about both these approaches is that (despite your mention of ambiguous videos above) they both assume that (a) the only thing people are concerned with is porn, and (b) that somehow there is an objective definition of what porn is. Neither of these assumptions really hold up in the wider context of a global internet and varying world cultures. Not that you are the only one to fall foul of this misunderstanding - the much-lauded Yahoo mediaRSS specification embodies the same naive assumptions. May I propose a POSSIBLE SOLUTION #3: STEP 1: informative (rather than evaluative) tagging. Tagging is growing in popularity enormously - everywhere I look on the web these days I tagging systems. This is enormously useful and valuable. However, there is an (IMHO) unfortunatel trend toward evaluative rather than informative tagging. Evaluative tagging is the kind used by the watchthis tag on deli.icio.us, for example. I subscribe to this tag feed, and have seen plenty of things on it that I would not have tagged in that way. Informative tagging on the other hand is the kind that helps a potential audience understand the nature of the content before being exposed to it. Tagging a piece with a location, author, participants, length, format, etc. are a common form of informative tagging, but so would contains tags such as nudity sexual violence Christian evangelism, capitalism, swearing, flag burning. The advantage of informative tagging is that it allows each viewer to construct his or her own filters appropriate to his or her own culture and views. This avoids the problem of global definitions and allows people to potentially reject anything they don't want to see, be it porn, advertisments, George Bush, or whatever. STEP 2: trust relationships in tagging. Current tagging systems are essentially anonymous and untrusted. The value they have is based generally on weight of numbers. The more people who tag a particular item with a particular tag, the more likely it is assumed to be valid. It might be better (particularly for items with relatively few tags or taggers) if somehow the potential viewer could assign trust levels to particular taggers. If (for example) I really trust Jay Dedman's taste, then I can give his tags more weight than someone I have never encountered. This becomes particularly important when tagging is used to filter out unwanted material. STEP 3: a quarantine process. The problem with tagging as a filter mechanism is that (at present) it's only realistically possible to filter for positives. I can already ask several services to give me a feed of all items tagged with java AND software AND development, for example, but asking for all items NOT tagged with Microsoft is crazy talk. The main problem is that there is always a delay between an item appearing and it accumulating enough tags to be useful. Current systems add new items to a feed or category only when an appropriate tag is applied, but an exclusive feed that worked in the same way would never add any items. A quarantine process would certainly slow down the immediacy of items appearing in categories and feeds, but could provide a better quality of exclusion. If newly released or discovered items are somehow quarantined by filter software until they have accumulated a certain weight of tags, then it makes much more sense to consider the idea of selecting all items without certain tags. I'm assuming that this sort of quarantine would be a user option on directory and feed browsing software, to allow users to adjust their own criteria and delays. Comments? -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/I258zB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Porn --and possible solutions
Sunday, December 4, 2005, 6:58:38 PM, Enric wrote: What worries me about both these approaches is that (despite your mention of ambiguous videos above) they both assume that (a) the only thing people are concerned with is porn, I don't see that assumption. This is to deal with an issue that has come up recently in several places related to videoblogs. Other issues can be dealt with seperately. Because one issue like porn or violence, etc. is dealt with does not exclude dealing with other issues seperately. My point is that trying to put a special solution in place just for whatever one group unilaterally defines as adult content is highly likely to be ignored or circumvented by others with different views. And it still doesn't address the big problem of how to avoid stumbling on stuff that you, personally, would prefer to avoid. On the other hand, if a solution is developed which allows: + anyone to produce whatever they think is acceptable, + anyone to host/publish whatever they think is acceptable, + anyone to tag items with as much detail as they wish, + anyone to configure their filters to see only the things they want to. We might actually be able to have both the freedom to produce what we want, and the freedom to consume what we want. there is an objective definition of what porn is. A determination does not have to be 100% correct to be useful. 99% or even as low as 90% determination can often be more useful than no determination. If the FDA determines that a drug that kills 3% of it's users should be banned even though it's useful for 97% of the others, it can still be a valid determination. But in the drug case, I'd rather know the details and make up my own mind. Wouldn't you? Neither of these assumptions really hold up in the wider context of a global internet and varying world cultures. Should cannabilism films be allowed because some cultures had or have that practice? What I'm trying to get at is something like the idea that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I want every _receiver_ to be able to decide what is objectionable, and thus what is filtered out and what is left visible FOR THEM. Surely it's up to me if I consider cannibalism, or gun-toting policemen, or bare breasts, or whatever, objectionable and don't want to see them. Why should I be forced to abide by _your_ categorisations rather than my own? I do think that predetermining a video as adult by the hosting owner or a proxy is a good method as long as appeal is allowed. If people are looking to put up porn, there are locations that specificaly host them. I hope it's pretty obvious that no two people's classifications are going to be identical. Would you wish to broadly label a whole source as adult if their rules allow the occasional item in which is OK with them but objectionable to you? By all means have specialist source/host sites with their own rules. Likewise, by all means have specialist aggregators and directories with their own rules. But the point is that they will be _their_own_ rules. Which may not be your rules, or my rules. So we will still need a tagging/filtering system. So why not think about building a system from the start which addresses the whole problem? -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/I258zB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: WARNING: Firefox 1.5 does not to scroll QT
Friday, December 2, 2005, 6:00:56 AM, Eric wrote: I'm a nazi and pushing those who view my vlog to update to Quicktime 7 and apply the fix with the plugins, I really like the new h264 codec, its very good. Don't forget that VLC ( http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ ) will play h264. It sometimes has problems on my system with some audio codecs, but h264 video itself now plays fine. Personally I avoid Quicktime as a player wherever possible. Quicktime (whatever version) seems not to care _at_all_ about keeping audio and video synchronized, and drifts into unusability within about 20-30 seconds. It's not a pure performance issue, as other players can handle much higher data rates on the same machine without problems. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Porn on mefeedia??
Friday, December 2, 2005, 6:42:08 AM, Deirdre Straughan wrote: My suggestion on the porn: Have a ratings system, so that everyone who submits a feed has to tag it rated G rated X or whatever. If a feed is rated X, replace any thumbnails with Adult Content or some such in a graphic. If someone clicks on an X-rated feed, make them go through a pop-up stating that they are over 18 (unless you start doing credit card verification - which I don't recommend - that's about the most protection you cna realistically offer). I don't think it would work leaving the categorizing to the submitter. I can imagine plenty of reasons why someone might (deliberately or accidentally) mis-categorize something. The way the net seems to be going at the the moment is to use the power of the numbers. I'd suggest a system where anything can be tagged with anything by anybody, but certain tags are standardized/promoted and processed as specially significant. So even if the original submitter rates a piece as mild humour, many others might rate it as violent porn. Directories and aggregators could then make sensible decisions based on the weight of public opinion. Oh, and _please_ folks, let whatever system is developed apply tags/ratings to _individual_items_ rather than whole feeds. However tempting it may seem to simplify the problem by blocking/allowing a whole feed, in practice items in a feed vary wildly. Perhaps some sort of quarantine or moderation queue for feeds that have had items tagged with these kinds of attributes. That way worried readers/viewers can wait until more sturdy individuals have had a chance to look at stuff. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/I258zB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Question about plug adapters UK Vloggers
Monday, November 28, 2005, 7:22:22 PM, Beth Kanter wrote: Now, my question is - if you had one free day in London to vlog ... What would you pick? Now, that's a hard question. It largely depends on what sort of vlogging you prefer. Sure, you can do the tourist thing (London Eye, Buckingham Palace, etc.), but I always feel that there are already hundreds (or even thousands) of cameras already recording that stuff. Everyone knows what these well-known icons look like, or can find out very easily from any travel book or home video. But every picture is seen through layers of assumptions. Tourists come with assumptions based on a mixture of how things work at home and the glossy images of landmarks and visual cliches. Locals come with assumptions based on not having anything else to compare it with. As a thoughtful videoblogger, you are free to seek out, explore and challenge these assumptions. My top suggestion would probably be to concentrate not so much on London itself, but on your personal and detailled reactions to all the everyday things that catch you unawares. Look for small things which differ from your expectations, ask yourself why, and delve into the implications. To do that, I'd suggest that you try and avoid the headline attractions and go anywhere that locals go. Travel on ordinary busses and trains. Visit local shops and stores to check out what is for sale and for how much. Buy and read local newspapers and magazines. Follow your nose and see where it leads. That way you should end up with a video record that is uniquely yours; a trip, and your reflections on it, that nobody else could have produced. As a side benefit, it will probably be cheaper, too! I know this is all vague, but I hope it helps... -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Spirit can not be spoken for
Sunday, November 27, 2005, 4:04:28 AM, Randolfe Wicker wrote: Sorry to say that I disagree with you. Star ratings are actually very important and should be allowed. That is especially true when the star ratings are accompanied by text critiques. I trust the judgment of many over the opinions of the anointed few. To me the point is more fundamental. A star system or any other form of single rating is at best _evaluative_ without being _informative_. In most cases it's ao much worse as to be effectively useless of even deceptive. The problem is fundamentally this: the author of the rating has to choose one single axis on which to rate a piece. But this axis is probably not the one that any given reader wants to know. Worst of all, most reviewers don't even make clear _what_ axis they assumed was most significant. Sunday, November 27, 2005, 8:09:32 AM, Eric Rice wrote: For example, what does Peter think is cool? I want to know. I want to look at his personal list of favorites, see how he ranks them. If I'm giving trust to Peter as a filter, then his rankings really really matter. To *me*. So we have Eric looking for ratings on coolness. (whatever that means). Sunday, November 27, 2005, 3:16:11 AM, Randolfe Wicker wrote: I have been talking about the need for people to direct us to really important vlogs. Let me take a stab at doing this here. I hope you will indulge me and look at these two links. Randolfe implies some sort of rating on importance. (whatever that means). In the past I've read messages on this list that seemed to prefer rating on quality, brevity, most personal, most professional, best editing, most local, most entertaining and as many other hard-to-define things as you can think of. Take a look at the star ratings on Amazon (for example) and see if you can guess what aspect the authors of the ratings were considering. Now look at how the ratings polarize. Good ratings vie with each other to get better. Bad ones get worse. Few are left in the middle. It's a natural process. Nobody has seen or read everything. So when you encounter something you like, you give it a good rating. Then, a bit later, you encounter something you like a bit better, or your opinions change, so you give another item a higher rating. Then guess what, a bit later you find something you like even more. So you have to give that an even better rating. Soon, you find yourself giving everything you like top marks. And the same effect happens at the bottom end of the scale. There's always something you will dislike more. But fewer of these ratings get published, for fear of hurting people's feelings. Don't get me wrong. I'm wholeheartedly in favour of reviews. The more description and evaluation and the broader the range of reviewers and opinions the better, especially when they is qualified (I thought the camera work was very professional, but I found myself skipping quickly through what seemed a dull message. If you are looking for a short, punchy and exciting piece, look elsewhere) But I feel quite strongly that attempting to assign a single universal number to anything is deluding both yourself and potential readers. Let them read the review and make their own mind up which aspects are important to them. Don't con them into thinking that you both understand what they want to know, and can grade it on their own scale. In short. I'm with Peter. Bring on the reviews, but leave the fools-gold of ratings at home. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Spirit can not be spoken for
Sunday, November 27, 2005, 4:56:25 PM, Randolfe Wicker wrote: It is not the actual star rating that is revealing on Amazon. It is the text accompanying the rating. Someone might give a book a one-star rating and in writing about the book say something like exposes like this one on the high rate of theft in Columbia do a disservice to the country. So, if you are planning to take a trip to Columbia, you would take that One-star rating as a good reason to buy the book so as to be aware of the dangers lurking for tourists. But that's my point. If the usefulness of the star rating of a book, video, gadget or whatever ranges from ignorable to deceptive, why bother with it at all? If there were just a bundle of reviews, maybe with tags to group/sort by, wouldn't that be at least equally effective? Sunday, November 27, 2005, 5:12:43 PM, Joshua Kinberg wrote: Its also the fact that you can rate the reviewer and let other users know that you found the review helpful or not. This type of feedback promotes trust in the system. People who are considered good reviewers rise to the top of the reviews. This, on the other hand is a much more effective use of a rating system. The implied axis of the rating is the accuracy of the review. Both the person assigning the rating and the person reading it have similar expectations. I'm still thinking about what I might consider an ideal rating system. At the moment, I think it might be something akin to tagging (so you can mark the axis of a rating with an arbitrrary keyword/phrase) and probably be _relative_ rather than _absolute_. Each reviewer should be able to add as many of these ratings as they feel the item needs. So I would hope to be able to say stuff like this video is funnier than that one, or the sound quality was worse than that other one. in some kind of machine-readable format. This should allow review authors to say exactly what they mean, and also allow review readers to sort/group by the factors they are actually interested in. Thoughts? -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] for the new people on this group
Wednesday, November 23, 2005, 3:00:58 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: podcast is utterly the worst word that could have ever come out of audioblogging and now videoblogging. i absolutely despise it. why? because any term that references a specific product from a specific company that is in no way exclsuive to what it is is wrong and confusing. Maybe I'm being naive here. Or maybe it's a British vs American cultural thing, but to me the name podcast has already transcended the name iPod. And I never felt particularly that podcast implied iPod. The way I have always looked at it was that Apple decided to co-opt the existing, but bland, word pod, and use it to coin a new, simple term for the more clumsy but popular MP3 Player. They particularly needed to do this, otherwise the ability of their player to play MP3 files would be seen as it's major purpose, rather than Apple's aim of playing their own DRM format. So the community wins. We now have a new, simple, pronounceable word pod that describes a portable media player without reference to any format, medium or manufacturer. Hurrah! Best of all, the community is free to invent new words to describe things such as the process of subscribing and distributing media for such a player: podcasting. Now, Apple (for whatever reason) like the prefix i. So _their_ media player is called iPod. In the same way that their notebook computer is called iBook. I don't know what it's like where anyone else lives, but around here the overwhelmingly popular name for a media player is still MP3 player. That's what seven-year-olds ask for for their birthdays. Apple's iPod range are just seen as (expensive and pretentious) examples among many. Bottom line, I'm happy to use podcasting and podcast, and to distinguish as appropriate where medium or format is an issue :- MP3 podcasting, Quicktime video podcast, PDF podcast, or whatever. In most cases though, it's much simpler and just as understandable to just say podcast. To simply add 'video' to podcast becomes a very simple way to extend what people already know. wrong.. most people know podcasts as being internet radio... audio! so, in essence, your saying adding video makes sense to prelude an audio term. video radio anyone? Umm. Wasn't the word video itself merely some sort of contraction of vision and radio ? -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: mov in to wmv
Saturday, November 19, 2005, 6:11:05 PM, Joshua Kinberg wrote: Shameless plug... tell people to download FireAnt, and then it doesn't matter what codec or video format you use. So does FireAnt for Windows include Quicktime now? Last time I looked I still needed to download and install Quicktime before it would play .mov files. The PCs I use at my local college will (just about) allow me to run FireAnt (now that it runs on Windows 2000), but they still won't let me install Quicktime or iTunes. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/u8TY5A/tzNLAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Looking for the perfect host site....
Tuesday, November 15, 2005, 11:25:11 PM, LeanBackVids.com wrote: In my opinion, there is nothing better than paid hosting. If planned and maintained, you do not have to worry about about links going bad since they live on a domain you own and control. As long as I continue to renew my domain name, I can be certain that my video links will be valid. Who knows what will happen to the free services. Of course I wish them the best, but I would have no control if they went dead or changed their linking structure. But the other side of the coin is that if anything happens to you, and you stop paying for the paid service, all your media will just vanish. And this will happen. Even though the internet is relatively young, and has a young person's assumption of immortality, everyone who uses the internet _will_ die someday. And most of them will die before they want to or expect to. Do you have a will? Have you set up a trust fund to pay for hosting your content? Or would you prefer that it die with you? For all their faults, the free services do attempt to provide some solution for this problem. Archive.org, ibiblio, blip.tv and so on have as part of their stated mission to keep media available regardless of what happens to the original author. This topic may be morbid, but ignoring it will not make it go away. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Premiere Elements 2: insanely great...
Wednesday, November 16, 2005, 7:22:27 PM, dnadig wrote: I know this question comes up here pretty often, and I myself have asked it at least once. I just bought PE2 to replace Pinnacle, which was just not working for me for a number of reasons. I can understand that. Pinnacle Studio is aimed at a particular type of use. Premiere (even the Elements version) is much more a general purpose editor. I have used the full version of Premiere in the past (although I stopped upgrading at version 5.1) and liked it a lot. It's really damn good. Not, it's not Premiere, but then again it's 90 bucks. Really designed for the kind of stuff I am playing with and what I see most folks doing. It's also the only low-budget program I've seen that natively outputs to AVI, WMV, and quicktime. This interests me a lot. I'm assuming you are using a PC, so I'm desperate to know if it can output iPod compatible Quicktime (using the AAC audio codec). So far I have not found _any_ PC video editor (other than Quicktime Pro, which is hardly an editor in the same way) which can produce Quicktime with AAC. If Premiere Elements can't output Quicktime with AAC, then it seems to have pretty much the same range of output formats as Ulead VideoStudio, Ulead Media Studio Pro, and ArcSoft ShowBiz. I'm still irritated at Adobe for not making a download and tryout version available for PE2. The only available tryout still seems to be version 1. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Is there someting wrong with blip.tv, or is it just me?
I've noticed over the last few days that all the feeds I get from blip.tv are just dribbling in. At first I thought it was a network problem, but data transfer from other sources is still at my full broadband rate. Blip.tv seems to be choking the data transfer to something like 4kb/sec per feed, which is taking ... ages ... Is this happening to anyone else? -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Is there someting wrong with blip.tv, or is it just me?
Monday, November 14, 2005, 9:41:59 PM, Markus Sandy wrote: yes, I've felt the same way over the weekend but it appears to have been due to firefox/mac (for me) ... don't know if that applies for you Frank, aren't you on windows? I am, and to complicate the issue, I'm mainly seeing the problem in iPodder, which I use to fetch enclosures from the 120+ videoblogs that I subscribe to. Enclosures from other sources typically come in much faster, up to my broadband rate of 230kB/sec. The trouble is that the blip feeds (of which there are now quite a few) run so much more slowly that they are eventually the only ones left in the download queue, and I have to wait hours for the last few blip.tv enclosures to saunter in. This is all despite several PC restarts. I even restarted my firewall/gateway machine, just in case, but no improvement. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Is there someting wrong with blip.tv, or is it just me?
Monday, November 14, 2005, 10:11:03 PM, Mike Hudack wrote: Did you get my e-mail off-list? Let's see if we can't run a couple tests to see whether there's a routing problem between you and blip. I did. I even replied to it. I guess you didn't get the reply (or is it hiding in your junk folder?) Anyway. I'm up for some tests. What do you suggest? -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Free video converter to Flash format to test
Thursday, November 10, 2005, 9:10:13 PM, Chris Baudry wrote: The http://vencoder.pacificwhistle.com/ has just been updated. You can now download a free Flash Movie player (PC or MAC). Please check. I tried this yesterday and again today, with no luck. From Firefox, all I ever seem to get after selecting any file and clicking upload is an alert box saying The document contains no data. From Internet Explorer: If I upload a WMV or mov file I get an IE error The page cannot be displayed - Cannot Find server or DNS error If I upload an mp4 file the browser just sits there for ages with the globe spinning, but saying done at the bottom. Has anyone got this to do anything? What do I need to do? -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Green Screen Tips
Monday, November 7, 2005, 5:55:12 PM, Will wrote: Is anyone doing any chroma keying using a green screen in your production? If so - do you have any advice on where to purchase an affordable green screen? I don't really know what you mean by affordable, but I have seen a few on the web recently: + Ulead offer a blue screen for $14.99 URL: http://www.ulead.com/vs/extra.htm + Serious Magic offer a green screen for $19.99 URL: http://store.seriousmagic.com/seriousmagic/stores/1/upgrades.aspx#sectAccessories -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Green Screen Tips
Monday, November 7, 2005, 7:49:15 PM, Frank Carver wrote: I don't really know what you mean by affordable, but I have seen a few on the web recently: Oh, and if you buy the MediaSuite version of Pinnacle Studio you get a green/blue screen included in the package. The latest version 10 is around $120: URL: http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/uk/Products/Consumer+Products/Home+Video/Studio+Family/Studio+MediaSuite+version+10.htm But, many suppliers are still selling off the old version 9 at around $50, for example URL: http://www.provantage.com/buy-7pinh016-studio-media-suite-version-9-pinnacle-systems-home-movie-making-210100426-shopping.htm A green screen with free editing software :) -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Newbie - starting up with questions
toy who wants to start making Vblogs and experimenting all over the place. NO information is too basic for me, as I am just starting. Even any tips on shooting the film would be great also. Thanks for everyone's help. A common suggestion here is to start by recording a simple 2-3 minute piece to camera introducing yourself and your hopes and plans. Then you can use this to try out the process of getting the video into the computer, trimming/editing it, converting it to a format suitable for the web, and posting it. That way you won't feel too stressed by the amount of travel video you have to wade through. Just like any skill, really. Practice on simple stuff so you can learn quickly. Then do the complicated stuff once you have got to grips with the basics. Don't forget to check out www.freevlog.org for plenty of tips and tutorials, and feel free to come back to this list with more questions. Good luck. I look forward to your videos. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Sony release PSP media manager and mention video blogs
Thursday, November 3, 2005, 9:24:03 PM, Steve Watkins wrote: Just got an email from Sony saying that they now have some (PC only) software thats $20 and actually allows you to manage your PSP files, encoding transfers ina sane way. More info here: http://tinyurl.com/7bmzn Russell Beattie also reviewed it on his blog recently: URL: http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008673.html -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Software to generate XML text file to download a vlogger's entire archive?
Thursday, November 3, 2005, 10:38:15 PM, Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen wrote: Why not just go to the blog? Blogs provide monthly archive pages (most do anyway) or some other way of browsing the content. That way you don't have to sit and wait because you're only downloading the video you want to watch. Except that: (a) a lot of videoblogs embed auto-staring videos in the archive pages, so if your intention is to download them you have to keep stopping the [EMAIL PROTECTED] things from playing. I few months ago I wanted to watch *all* of Rocketboom, and the embedded players got tiresome real quick. In the end I reverse engineeered their URL naming scheme and wrote a litte Ruby script to try one, wait a random amount of time between 2 and 10 minutes, then move on to the next. Hacky, but it worked. (b) a lot of blogging software has archive navigation that sucks. Finding the first video post is often effectively impossible, and most archives don't have any way of simply stepping forward to the next one. This is extra difficult in mixed-media blogs, too. In my opinion any blog with a show concept or a natural ordering or sequence ought to provide some way for people to start from the beginning and catch up at their own rate. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Let's stake our claim by cross-promoting vlogs
Wednesday, November 2, 2005, 1:07:23 PM, Deirdre Straughan wrote: FYI, this has been proposed before, but I don't know what happened to the repository of trailers. Gabe at xolo.tv also often calls out for promos to share on his vlog, but the main problem seems to be a lack of promos to show. I would not be surprised if one significant problem is that there are so few show concept videoblogs at the moment. It's both tricky and slightly pointless to make and share a promo if you have no idea what video you might do next. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Freevlog instructions on setting up a blogger account
I'm a big fan of Freevlog. It's a great repository of useful stuff, and it has obviously helped a lot of people take their first steps into vlogging. However, I have a suggestion for a small change/enhancement to the instructions for setting up a blogger account, and thought I'd run it by the group for comments. First, I'm not a Blogger user. I guess there are a lot of people around the world who might be interested in videoblogs who are also not Blogger users. Second, I have been seeing a lot of new vlogs recently where the creator has set up a Blogger blog where comments are restricted to only Blogger users. One effect of these two things is that I have been unable to add my comments to help encourage these new videobloggers. Another effect is that (presumably because of the wording fused by Blogger) these new users often seem to feel that they have somehow chosen a safer or spam free option. This is of course nonsense - there's plenty of spam from inside the Blogger community. For a sad example see URL http://johnnybranch.blogspot.com/ : a new videoblog with just one comment, which is thinly-veiled spam.) Please could the instructions on setting up a Blogger account at Freevlog be modified to include an explanation of what these choices mean, and that restricting comments to Blogger users is hardly ever a sensible choice. Thanks, -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: top feedburner vlogs.. steve garfield gets bumped by the boob
Monday, October 31, 2005, 6:20:35 PM, Christopher Ivanyi wrote: But honestly, I could never ever put up a video, if I knew no one would watch it -- that would be an excercise in futility? I can understand how you would feel like that, but can you explain how it could even be possible to know no one would watch it ? Who can say what might become popular or desirable next month, next year, next century ... The only certain way of knowing that no one will watch your videos is to keep them to yourself. And I truly believe that almost everyone would want to have as large an audience as possible, I know I would. Honestly I don't want that. What I want is an audience that is as interested and involved as possible. I'd much rather connect with ten new friends through my videos than 1 passive consumers. Large audiences would scare me. Everybody is different, I guess. It's always a bit risky to make sweeping generalizations. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Making Quicktime on a PC
Folks, I've been having some discussion with Ryanne Hodson after she put up a really useful Quicktime on a PC tutorial screencast URL http://freevlog.org/wordpress/index.php/2005/10/25/create-a-quicktime-mov-from-windows-movie-maker/ I was puzzled by the choice of IMA 4:1 as an audio codec. This seemed strange to me, because all the recommendations on the list up to now have been for either AAC or MP4A. The problem is that Neither Ryanne nor I have either of those as options on any of the random mix of PC video software that we have to hand. I'm worried that us PC users may not be able to make sensible standard Quicktime movies (that play on an iPod, for example) Has _anyone_ successfully used a PC to create a Quicktime movie using recommended settings for an iPod, or to use any of the settings suggested by Verdi on 25 October 2005 in the size/quality shootout. For example: Settings. Let me start with H.264. Video 320 X 240 15fps Automatic keyframes restrict bit rate to 355kbits/sec compressor quality high Better quality (multi-pass) Audio Format - AAC Sample rate 24 kHz Bit rate 24kbps Fast Start enabled Does purchasing Quicktime Pro for PC allow you to do this? Does Quicktime Pro for the PC offer a working export to iPod option? Can ffmpeg or any other third-party software do this on a PC ? I know there must be PC users creating Quicktime on this list, please help! -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Creative crisis (I'm stuck)
Wednesday, October 26, 2005, 2:09:09 AM, tractionman_swe wrote: Don't really want to show stuff like: this is my home, this is my pet frog, this is where I work and so on. Not because I'm afraid to show things like that. It's just that I find my everyday life to be, well kind of dull and I doubt that anyone would like to see it anyway. I know that several people have replied to this already, but I thought I'd comment on this particular bit. One of the most astonishing things to me about videoblogs is the way that they can show what life is really like elsewhere. TV is neck-deep in Hollywood glossiness and all the cliches and conventions that accompany it. What's missing is information about real lives. Sure your life seemms dull TO YOU. You see it every day! I bet your life is different to my life, though, in ways that might surprise and interest both of us. For example, I really enjoyed An introduction to South Range URL http://twocarpenters.blogspot.com/2005/10/introduction-to-south-range.html from two carpenters because it shows somewhere very unlike where I live. The little things like they have no postal delivery (so no letter boxes on the houses, I guess), there seem to be no fences between the gardens (how does that work?), most of the houses seem to be made of wood rather than brick, and they have a snowmobile route to get across town. I'd have left comments and questions there but the blog is set up to only allow comments from Blogger users, and I'm not a blogger user. Shame. In short, why not try telling people a little about your life. You might be surprised just how interesting your dull life can be. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: blip.tv stats
Thursday, October 27, 2005, 10:56:47 PM, David Meade wrote: On 10/27/05, Bill Streeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This brings up another question. That is somewhat related I think... Is there a way to redirect a request for a media file that I host to the page that the media file is posted on without breaking the RSS feed? I've been getting a lot of people linking directly to my video files and would like to at least make people aware that there is a larger site that they could find other things of like interest. You mean you want link previously published to be valid but redirect to another location? Sure you can do that. How to do it would depend on the webserver setup ... but most can set up a redirect pretty easily. I'd worry that it would break expectations more than it would be useful. If I see a URL ending in .mov, .mp4, .wmv or whatever, I'm most likely to juct click save as and dump it to my hard drive for later viewing. I'd be pretty annoyed to come back later and find that this .mov file doesn't play in my player. I'm geeky enough to maybe sometimes look inside and realize it contains HTML rather than the movie, but even then I'd just delete it. In the real world, people link to media, and they want the media they link to to stay linked. If it doesn't, you run the risk of copying and re-hosting instead - losing even the implicit connection with your site of the hosting URL - is that what you want? -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] QuickTime (and anything else) can make small files
Tuesday, October 25, 2005, 1:48:17 PM, Verdi wrote: URL: http://michaelverdi.com/codec/256_H264.mov (481KB) URL: http://michaelverdi.com/codec/256_3ivx.mov (561KB) URL: http://michaelverdi.com/codec/384_H264.mov (725KB) URL: http://michaelverdi.com/codec/384_3ivx.mov (729KB) The point of this discussion, for me, was to point out what I feel is an often repeated and unfair criticism of QuickTime, by Windows users. Namely, you can't make QuickTime clips as small as Windows Media. As you can see from these comparison clips, you certainly can. Thanks. That's excellent news. I've tried many times with what I have, but never been able to get anything approaching the size and quality of these using Quicktime. I've wanted for a while to put up a feed of QT versions of my files, but at typically 2-3 times the file size it simply didn't seem feasible. I'd certainly use these if I could, though. Can you post more details of the tools/settings that you used to make them? And for a bonus question, are they likely to be iPod compliant? -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] QuickTime (and anything else) can make small files
Monday, October 24, 2005, 8:40:02 AM, Verdi wrote: I compressed some files to compare. Windows Movie Maker didn't give me many options so I went with the 768kbps, 320 X 240 30fps preset. Windows Media Player says it's 705kbps when it's playing back which pretty much meshes with the math (it's 1.3MB). This file is URL: http://michaelverdi.com/codec/wmv.wmv OK, I can see where you are coming from, but I have a few comments from the other side of the fence. First, Windows Movie Maker doesn't give much control over this stuff, so (as recommended a few times here before) I strongly suggest you download a free copy of Windows Media Encoder. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default.aspx It gives all the flexibility anyone could want in creating Windows Media files. Second, While I can see that the examples you chose seem to give equivalent quality, they are all at much higher bit rates (and thus larger sizes) than I would normally use for my WMV files. 1.5MB for 15 seconds works out at about 6MB/minute. I much prefer my WMVs to be more like 2MB/minute. To that end I have re-encoded your source AVI at 256kbps and 384kbps (more common WMV bitrates) for comparison. To me there seems little by way of difference in quality between these and your much larger files, but I'm certainly not a video quality expert. http://www.makevideo.org.uk/direct/source-256.wmv (552KB) http://www.makevideo.org.uk/direct/source-384.wmv (775KB) Both are 320x240 15fps and use Windows Media 9 audio and video codecs Can anyone match their size with your Quicktime skills and software so we can compare quality at these rates? I know so little about producing Quicktime files that I have so far been unable to do so myself. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Aggregator based videoblogging financial model
Friday, October 21, 2005, 6:44:59 AM, Deirdre Straughan wrote: I am in the process of re-branding my site as Countries Beginning with I, as the closest thing to an overarching theme I can think of, but there is plenty of stuff on my site that doesn't even fit in with that. In iTunes and other aggregators I've tagged my videos as travel, which is kind of misleading since, for me, Italy isn't travel! If you are re-branding for the iTunes/iPod market maybe you should consider going the whole way and calling your site- iCountries :-) -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Vlog programming models - shows? (was: Aggregator based...)
Friday, October 21, 2005, 8:00:07 PM, Dave Huth wrote: I'm trying something like this right now on my vlog. I've been thinking a lot lately about show formats and talking to other vloggers about it in the flashmeetings and through e- mail. I completed a short film this year and have broken it into 15 serial segments. I'm releasing them every few days in order. I've been watching these, and very mysterious they are too. My only suggestion woule be to please cut down on the duration of the introductory message that appears on each snippet. Once you've seen it a few times it sure becomes tedious. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Putting your name on your work is legitimate!
Tuesday, October 18, 2005, 4:20:20 PM, Josh Leo wrote: true dat...now if that wiki could be easily printed...that would be cool Out in the wild world of open source software development there are plenty of projects that edit their documentation on a wiki and use an automated process to scrape all/some pages of the wiki for changes and build one or more new, neat, printable, documentation sets. In short, it's a solved problem. If people think this is a good idea I'm sure we could do it too. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] What are the key benefits of Quicktime as a format ?
Monday, October 17, 2005, 9:59:14 PM, Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen wrote: Not really an argument to use MP4. All the Cool Shit(tm) will certainly never be used if the format is phased out. Wince we are at the cutting edge, working on making Cool Shit easier and/or promote it is what we should do. I'm really hoping nobody takes the following as a jab. I'm not really a quicktime user - I don't use it at all beyond starting up the QT player when I find a mov that VLC won't open - but I don't have any axe to grind. However, there's something about this that plain puzzles me. I know that there are several people on this list who sometimes use these advanced QT features (for me, anything beyond a mov containing one video and one audio stream, playing unadorned, counts as advanced). I'm hoping that someone will be able to answer. The advanced QT features that I have encountered so far seem a strange and ad-hoc bunch - features added seemingly as the whim of the developers took them. For example, interactivity in QT movies seems little more than a toy - I've not yet seen an example even as capable as the games on a typical Disney DVD. Is there even a spec for all this stuff that a third-party player manufacturer could use to make sure the player works with *all* QT files? Quicktime is certainly not the ultra simple video format that we desperately need for videoblogging to take off (a.k.a the MP3 of video). That would need at least to completely pin down the choice of codecs and define rigorous but expandable metatdata - to make it so that all files of the same file type play the same on all devices. Neither does Quicktime seem the ultimate interactive downloadable application platform. From what I've seen, creating the same kind of mouseover-triggered alternate-play thingies that appear here from time to time is both easier and better supported with tools in Flash, and Flash offers a huge array of extra features including a proper programming language built in. Whenever I've wanted to put interactive content on the web, Flash has seemed the natural choice. So what _is_ the attraction of Quicktime? Please remember - I'm not trolling here. I'm genuinely interested in the answer. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: More Questions About viPods
Saturday, October 15, 2005, 5:37:01 PM, Rich Hand wrote: The next deal iTunes should make is with the geek side of TV. Think about all the SciFi channel shows that would be downloaded. This kind of effect definately happened for me. I happened to read a bit about a show called Firefly that I had never heard about which has never aired on TV here (at least on any of the channels we get). I downloaded a couple of episodes from the internet and loved the show, but got fed up with watching a lurch-and-stutter version. So I bought the DVD boxed set. If i'd been able to download a legit version that was guaranteed to play nice, I'd have probably paid to do that too. Everyone wins. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] More Questions About viPods
Saturday, October 15, 2005, 3:27:23 PM, Gena wrote: If they can't get folks to watch for free on a full size TV why do they think people will pay to watch the same crap in a little small square? Let's say the show has a cult following of about 7 million. Not enought to make TV jump for joy. If 1.5 million really love the show they would be happy to plunk down $1.99 that is $2,985,000. Many people here seem to be forgetting the long tail all over again. Please remember that one of the keys to this is TIME. A program broadcast on TV is just available once, when it is actually playing. A program on a service like iTunes is available for _years_. OK, so 1.5 million people love a show and buy it as it is released. Then some of them mention it in conversation to others who have never heard of it, or have forgotten it, or weren't interested the first time, or whatever. Given time, these things spread. Sales continue. New markets open. It's naive to assume that publishing via download is much at all like publishing by broadcast. As a simple example, imagine you are talking late one night, and one of your friends casually mentions some classic scene from a Simpsons cartoon. You can vaguely remember it, but between you all you can't quite agree on _exactly_ what happened. Would _you_ pay $1 or $2 to both enjoy the episode again and solve that argument then and there? Have you seen how much money people pay for mobile ringtones and other ephemera? -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] BBC free access the archive!
Friday, October 14, 2005, 8:57:04 PM, Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen wrote: That's why the quote said: '*UK* users can now download BBC footage for use in their own films - without paying a penny.' It is only fair. After all they are the ones who are sponsoring the BBC. Friday, October 14, 2005, 9:35:21 PM, Andy Carvin wrote: There appears to be no technical means of blocking non-UK residents - I just set up a free account without any problems - but the webpage certainly makes it clear: Content provided under the Creative Archive Licence is only available to residents of the United Kingdom. Saturday, October 15, 2005, 1:45:24 AM, Beth Kanter wrote: Does the license spell out what happens if non-UK citizen uses it? Not that I would test British copyright laws or anything. This edges on something that has fascinated me for months now. There seems to be a strange discontinuity between the ideas of UK resident and TV licence payer. The BBC seems to be explicitly making its material available to the first of these disjoint groups, instead of (the apparently more suitable) second group. Sure these groups largely overlap, but THEY ARE NOT THE SAME. The BBC TV licence service doesn't like to admit it, but there are people in the UK who do not pay a TV licence fee. Usually this is because these people have no TV. My suggestion (which seems on the surface, to me, to be a better one all round) is that this material instead be limited not to UK residents but to TV licence payers. This has several potential advantages: 1. It realigns the responsibilities and the logical basis of the limitation. 2. Crazy and unworkable geo-ip schemes need not apply. Simply use the existing TV licence number as a login. 3. It opens the possibility of selling UK TV licences outside the UK! Currently the UK TV licence costs roughly GBP 10 (that's about USD 18) per month. That sounds like a frickin' good deal for access to the whole BBC back catalogue, if they were to open it up. The BBC wants cash. You lot want content. Let's all lobby the BBC to do the right thing. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
