[videoblogging] Online video editing sites
Hi folks, Haven't popped in here for a while. We're running a story on video editing for nonprofits. I wanted to make passing mention of some online alternatives, except most have bitten the dust in the past 3 years: Eyespot folded. Yahoo purchased Jumpcut and then closed it. Cuts is gone. Videoegg went into the advertising game. Onetruemedia is more about dumbed-down video montages. So what's left? 1. Jaycut.com 2. Motionbox.com 3. Moviemasher.com That sound right? Anything else that's easy to use and smartly done (and isn't simply an entertaining mashup tool)? thanks! jd lasica founder, socialbrite.org
[videoblogging] 'Why vlogging is better the blogging'
For those interested in the use of videoblogging in corporations, I have 2 short video interviews with 2 Cisco execs: http://bit.ly/8EXiye cheers, jd -- JD Lasica in the San Francisco Bay Area Twitter: @jdlasica ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Socialbrite.org: Social tools for social change Socialmedia.biz: Social strategies for business
[videoblogging] iphone compression in imovie and fcp
Hi, I've been experiencing a strange problem. I shoot my videos in HD on a Canon VH20 at 1440x1080 (and output the finished works at 480x270). When I output the finished video in iMovie (as mp4, .mov or .m4v for the iphone), they turn out fine. When I output it in Final Cut Pro, they turn out fine in .mp4 but distorted (squeezed and deeper) when I export in either: QuickTime Conversion iphone (where it's all done automatically) QuickTime Conversion QuickTime Movie I asked my FCP tutor about this yesterday and he couldn't track down the problem. Could the culprit be FCP's Audio/Video Settings? Or do I need to change something on my camcorder? Thanks, O Wisdom of the Mailing List! jd lasica ourmedia.org
[videoblogging] Re: iphone compression in imovie and fcp
First, thanks, Rupert and Michael V. for the quick and incisive responses. I learned a lot today! This is quite interesting (to me, anyway). When I followed Michael's method of exporting a .dv file in FC Pro, opening it in QuickTime Pro, then exporting it as an .mp4, the resulting file was actually a quarter-inch shorter than the version I exported directly as an .mp4 in iMovie 6. (Unless I'm doing something wrong. Michael, you said: export a full resolution copy from FCP -- does that mean Export as DV Stream? That's what I did.) Rupert, thanks much. The Aspect Ratio is set to 0. Where do I look to see if my Clip and Sequence are both checked as Anamorphic - or not? I'm new to FCP and don't see the word Anamorphic anywhere ... thanks! jd
[videoblogging] Re: iphone compression in imovie and fcp
Rupert wrote: You can find it in your Browser in FCP - the list of all the clips sequences. Either scroll across to read the detailed settings for each clip sequence, or ctrl+click on them individually and choose Item Properties. Actually, that's the first place I looked. :~) But I didn't know Anamorphic was a heading. OK, both the sequence and the movie file are unchecked, so not Anamorphic. Something else is the culprit. I just tried the ipod compression trick in FCP -- and it didn't work. It comes out squeezed, just as with the iphone conversion. Ah, well, back to the drawing board. Or the Verdi workaround. jd
[videoblogging] title stretching bug
Hi folks, I'm sure this has come up before, but I missed the answer and it's driving me crazy. I'm still using iMovie HD (6.03) on a Mac Pro, and shooting HD video on 2 camcorders. But whenever I add a title of any kind, it stretches and distorts: http://www.socialmedia.biz/images/2008/08/06/trivalley_type.jpg I've tried checking and unchecking all the preferences in iMovie (including Automatic DV pillarboxing and letterboxing), to no avail. The only solution that has worked so far is to do a Save As and copy the entire 10-gigabyte movie to another version, but that's a waste of time and space. Does anyone know the solution? (I did a Google search but came up empty.) thanks! jd ourmedia.org
[videoblogging] Re: title stretching bug
Rupert, you're a genius. I uninstalled Flip4Mac, relaunched iMovie -- and the bug disappeared. Wow! I wish all my problems could disappear that easily. (Maybe you should become a therapist, R, and work your magic there.) :~) thanks! jd
[videoblogging] Independent Television Festival
I suspect a few members of this list would be intested in the Independent Television Festival, now in its third year: www.itvfest.org I interviewed the founder, AJ Tesler, at Digital Hollywood: http://www.socialmedia.biz/2008/05/independent-tel.html The deadline for submissions is this Wednesday, May 21. And as AJ points out, this is for independent producers who have a thematic series that they've devised, whether for the Web or TV. jd lasica
Re: [videoblogging] footage wanted
Perfect. Thanks Jan! jd On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:10 AM, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://blip.tv/file/45482 - sound mixer in situ http://blip.tv/file/3511 - http://blip.tv/file/27945 - behind the scenes lots of flavors. I can get back to the original footage if that helps. Jan [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] footage wanted
For a producers screencast we're putting together in the next 48 hours for Bid4Vid.com, we need a 4-second clip of: - a videographer recording footage, or setting up a video recorder, in an office setting or - 3 to 4 second shot of a film crew (trailing behind or from the front) and - a short clip of a sound engineer or lighting specialist (just someone at sound controls or setting up lights). Contact me offline and we'll discuss how to credit you or make a payment. (Ordinarily I'd shoot this myself but I'm under the weather and on a tight deadline.) Thanks! JD Lasica for Bid4Vid jdlasica at gmail[.]com
[videoblogging] re: LED lights
Hi Markus, No, the lowlife who stole my Canon Digital Rebel didn't return it, so I need to buy a new digital camera, but that's for another list. :~) If you're in the market for an LED light, I discovered that the DV Estore (www.dvestore.com) in Washington state sells them for $299 plus $8 shipping. jd lasica realpeoplenetwork.com ourmedia.org
[videoblogging] LED lights
Hey, Has anyone here ever used LED lights on a video shoot? I'm thinking of ordering the LED Micro Light Panel (from http://www.litepanels.com/, click the link at top left) for $349 to use in conjunction with my Canon HV20. Hate to buy them without seeing them in action, though. Are they blindingly bright? Certainly the specs are impressive ... thanks! jd lasica realpeoplenetwork.com socialmedia.biz
[videoblogging] Re: HV20 Camera Noise
Hey, Josh. I bought my HV20 in December and have edited and posted only 3 videos so far, like this one: http://www.realpeoplenetwork.com/2008/01/charlie-firesto.html To tell you the truth, I haven't heard any camera noise, but the few videos I've shot have all been in noisy environments. One reason I bought the HV20 was because of reviews that talked about the good sound quality from the built-in mike. So, thanks for the heads up, I'll keep an eye on it. Need to buy a lapel mic anyway ... jd lasica www.realpeoplenetwork.com
[videoblogging] looking for speakers - bloggers event in SF south bay
Looking for videobloggers: The Community Media Center is planning a panel on new media with a focus on videobloggers or bloggers who incorporate videos into their text blogs. Details: Where: SF Peninsula, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Silicon Valley area When: Dec. 10 I spoke there a few months back with Dan Gillmor (The Media Center's a nonprofit) and it was a good time. If you haven't done a panel before, no sweat, they're happy with anyone who can exchange tips on the subject of video and blogging. Send an email to exec director Elliot Margolies elliot at communitymediacenter.net. jd lasica ourmedia.org
[videoblogging] download YouTube and other .flv videos
There have been lists of sites that let you download YouTube (and other sites') flv videos on this mailing list. I spotted the most comprehensive list I've seen in the book Googlepedia, and republished it here: http://www.socialmedia.biz/2007/11/download-and-wa.html jd ourmedia.org
[videoblogging] re: Amanda's Out... It's a Pterodactyl Souffle over there!
It was, shall we say, an uneasy marriage of videoblogging culture and traditional media. Lots o' forehead bumping. I hope Amanda does well in her new pursuits! jd http://www.realpeoplenetwork.com
[videoblogging] sound levels in movies
Question: I'm nearly done with a political mashup that combines a lot of news clips. Some of the sound volumes on the clips are pretty low. There *must* be a way to bump up the sound levels, but I haven't found it. When I open the clips in Quicktime, they are already at the maximum sound level. When I bump up the level in iMovie to the maximum (150%), they're still not loud enough. I have QuickTime Pro, iMovie, Final Cut Pro and Audacity ... so far haven't discovered the trick. Anyone here know? Thanks! jd realpeoplenetwork.com
[videoblogging] Re: sound levels in movies
That seems to have worked, Sean, very cool! I thought the Levelator was just to level audio volume, but even with no adjustment settings, it pumped up the volume. thanks! jd Sean Bohan wrote: JD - Run the audio track through Doug Kaye's Levelator ( http://www.gigavox.com/levelator)? I am not an expert with it, but have had some success with multiple audio sources in podcasts. On 9/12/07, JD Lasica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question: I'm nearly done with a political mashup that combines a lot of news clips. Some of the sound volumes on the clips are pretty low. There *must* be a way to bump up the sound levels, but I haven't found it. When I open the clips in Quicktime, they are already at the maximum sound level. When I bump up the level in iMovie to the maximum (150%), they're still not loud enough. I have QuickTime Pro, iMovie, Final Cut Pro and Audacity ... so far haven't discovered the trick. Anyone here know? Thanks! jd realpeoplenetwork.com
[videoblogging] re: Josh Wolf Is Running for Mayor of San Francisco
Chuck Olsen got a sneak preview of Josh's announcement the other day: http://blogumentary.typepad.com/chuck/2007/06/josh-wolf-for-s.html Josh blogs his candidacy here: http://www.joshwolf.net/blog/?p=350 And I have a new 8-minute view interview with him about jail time, journalism and Stephen Colbert (before he made his announcement): http://www.blip.tv/file/291900 jd lasica ourmedia.org
[videoblogging] The Power of Collaboration
I'm helping to enlist participants for a panel for the Web Video Summit being put on in San Jose, Calif., in late June. Here's an early description: The Power of Collaboration Video-making begins as a solo act. But more and more producers are discovering the benefits of working in a team setting with participants spread out around the world. We'll look at these collaborative workflows to explore how and why people connect with each other. Often, the high-impact, high-quality works they produce not only make a creative statement but have the potential to generate revenue. Anyone on this list who does collaborative video work and might be interested in taking part, please email me off-list. thanks! jd jdlasica at gmail.com
[videoblogging] Re: Vloggercon 2007
Has anyone suggested doing an online poll (with vote fraud prevention mechanisms in place), with 4 or 5 possible locations for the next Vloggercon, so members of this list could vote? :~) jd lasica
[videoblogging] Re: Ourmedia 2.0 - Shiny and New
You know, we almost didn't pull the switch on Ourmedia's relaunch because we still have so much to do. But we figured, let's be transparent and go public and keep developing the site (while taking down our now in alpha! sign). :~) I was hoping we'd have our new channels flying by now. It'll happen within the next week or two. A lot of great possibilities here: showcasing mash-ups, showing off long-buried videos in the Internet Archive, adding in indie music and podcasts, and lots more. We'll see where the users want to take channels. Keep in mind we're still a community-minded project and we want to highlight open media projects, widgets, open-source software and more. Markus would certainly welcome help from anyone who wants to kick in some ideas or coding help. jd vlog: realpeoplenetwork.com
[videoblogging] Videoblog event Wed. night
For anyone here who lives in the Bay Area, or who knows someone out here who'd like to get into videoblogging, there's a cool event tomorrow night in Palo Alto with ryan and michael: Title: All You Need to Know About Videoblogging Where: the nonprofit Community Media Center, 900 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, Calif. When: 7:30 pm April 18 What: Ryanne and Michael will take you on a magical tour of the new genre. They'll show a number of different styles of videoblogs from the thousands that are popping up on the internet. Videoblogs are short-format videos that are often first-person narratives and serials. They'll share tips on production, equipment, web publishing, and promotion. Co-sponsor: Ourmedia is a co-sponsor of the event, which is part of a series of public conversations and workshops presented by the Media Center about new trends in media and communications technology. Cost: $8 admission; students get in for free. More info: For more information about this event, or about ongoing classes and video programming produced at the Media Center, go to www.communitymediacenter.net or call 650-494-8686. jd videoblog: realpeoplenetwork.com
[videoblogging] Re: Need clarification on YouTube
The Personal Media Learning Center has a comparison of video hosting services' Terms of Service here: http://www.ourmedia.org/node/283309 TechSoup has more here: http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/internet/page6106.cfm Know your rights! jd lasica ourmedia.org
[videoblogging] Revlogging redux
Just a quick note to let you know that we listen to the community and put some time into tweaking our UI to make it clear whenever we revlog a video from elsewhere on the Ourmedia home page. Markus Sandy of Outhink's development team dove in and added some new functionality to our editing tool suite so that whenever we point offsite to a cool video elsewhere, we have a short bit of text explaining what this is or why we liked it, along with changes to our standard wording. It now says Revlogged From: and says Producer's page rather than Member's page. (As before, we don't touch the media or put it on our servers.) We sent a note to United Vloggers last night telling them we featured one of their clips, and they replied a short time later saying they were already getting lots of inbound traffic and appreciated the shoutout. We'd like to do this more often in the coming weeks and months, so that Ourmedia isn't just about media on the Internet Archive's servers but also about highlighted socially meaningful or creative videos on other sites as well. One idea is to give users the ability to create channels or playlists of media regardless of where the media files actually are hosted. NewTeeVee may be posting something about all this in the coming days. Thanks for the good feedback and input, everyone! And send me links to any videos for which you'd like to get wider visibility. jd lasica co-founder, Ourmedia.org
[videoblogging] Attributing your work with CC licenses
How should vloggers attribute their work when using Creative Commons licenses? And how should people who revlog your work credit you? Some interesting insights from CC General Counsel Mia Garlick in this entry I just posted to the Spinflow blog: http://www.spinflow.org jd lasica Ourmedia.org Socialmedia.biz
[videoblogging] Re: Is Creative Commons just bullshit?
Jan wrote: Nothing stopping YouTubers from putting a cc license in and around their works. We don't NEED to have point-of-upload cc options to claim 'em. Do we? Naw. And Jay wrote: you are absolutely correct. it would of course be easier if yoiutube et al helped educate people by offering the choice in their process. But anyone could insert a video post-roll of the CC license. While I agree with the sentiment -- and indeed, that's exactly what I've done, uploaded my videos to YouTube with CC post-rolls -- I think we should all keep in mind that by uploading to YouTube, you're agreeing to their Terms of Service, which supersedes any conditions you may or may not include as part of your video. In other words, if you include a Creative Commons noncommercial license when you upload to YouTube, YouTube still has the right to license your video to its business partners to show off on their sites. As attorney Colette Vogele told me in a different context: Creative Commons licenses are essentially nonoperational on Yahoo! Video. Same goes for YouTube. (TOS comparison: http://www.ourmedia.org/node/283309) Perhaps the members of this list, together with Creative Commons, should launch a petition campaign to persuade YouTube to include CC licenses as an option when we upload to YouTube. jd lasica ourmedia.org socialmedia.biz
[videoblogging] re: Terms of Service
sull wrote: great idea, jay/jd. maybe some kind of meter or cc type of logos for the various groupings would be helpful too. You mean like a graphic icon, 1-10 sliding scale, showing how producer-friendly a site really is? That would be pretty cool. Any graphic artists in the audience? :~) jd socialmedia.biz ourmedia.org
[videoblogging] send me links to your cool videos
We're doing something different with Ourmedia: We'll be using our front page to point people to the coolest grassroots video regardless of where it resides. The videos don't have to be on our site, they don't have to live on the Archive's servers. We'd like to showcase a new lead video just about every day. All I need is a url of the page with the accompanying metadata, and a url of where the video lives. (Some with Flash, this is often impossible, alas.) We'll input the title of the work and your name and link directly to your blog/site and to the file's hosting site. It would help if you sent along a screenshot (320x256 or so), but that's not required. I'll drop you an email when your video gets featured. Doesn't have to be new, just well done and engaging. QuickTime or MPEG4 would be best, but WMV, Flash or Real work too. Oversize vids (widescreen), etc., won't work with our current setup. Questions? Lemme know. thanks! jd JD Lasica Ourmedia.org jdlasica at gmail (dot) com
[videoblogging] video showcase
Does anyone have an example of a video showcase page that they think is pretty cool? I'm not talking about services like video hosting sites that display thumbnails of your uploaded videos. I mean a video display page (of thumbnails or larger images) that you maintain on your videoblog, showing a dozen or couple of dozen of your favorite videos. Anyone? thanks! jd realpeoplenetwork.com
[videoblogging] re: gumby IP question
I promised I'd ask an attorney friend about our friend Gumby, and Andrew's idea of dusting him off and remixing him for the 21st century. Here's what she says: This Gumby Problem is a lot like the Peter Pan case I worked on (and eventually settled) at Stanford last year. The problem is: what happens to trademarked characters once the copyrighted work falls into the public domain. (I'm assuming here that Gumby is in fact in the PD.) In the Peter Pan case, it's absolutely clear that the original story was in the public domain (published 1911). So our client used the characters and made a sequel to Peter Pan that is set in this century. Our client had the characters act differently, put them in new modern situations, and even challenged the idea that growing up is necessarily a bad thing. The Peter Pan copyright owner claimed both copyright and trademark infringement. There are cases that state pretty clearly that the characters also fall into the PD when a copyright expires, so the copyright question is, in my opinion, fairly clear (though we fought about it in the Peter Pan case). The TM question is trickier because generally a TM lasts as long as it is not abandoned by the owner and is properly used to identify a good or service. You can still parody the mark without infringement or dilution concerns (thanks to our First Amendment), but you always need to keep an eye out for whether you are using the mark in a manner that will cause customer confusion (infringement) or whether you are possibly diluting the Gumby mark. (Dilution claims stem from either blurring [e.g., causing a famous mark to lose some of its distinctiveness due to use of a similar marks] or tarnishing [e.g., associating a famous mark with unpleasant or unwholesome products/services] the mark.) I hope this is helpful! Best, Colette Vogele San Francisco SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Re: Trademark/Copyrights Question
Hi Andrew, it's too bad your email query didn't get more thoughtful responses here. I suspect it's because it's largely a legal question, and most of us aren't lawyers. Be that as it may ... You're right: varioius early versions of Gumby are indeed in the public domain. Here are 8 PD gumby cartoons: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002VKLQK/103-5161085-4495048?v=glancen=130 To your larger question about creating derivative works: I'm no attorney, but my understanding is that - you're free to make derivative works from any work in the public domain, including these Gumby cartoons - you could copyright your specific work but not Gumby's likeness, since he has been re-copyrighted. So your scenario of giving away Gumby likely wouldn't work. - trademarks are a whole nuther ball of wax. There are lots of examples of copyrighted works enterting the public domain, and then corporations trying to exercise retroactive claims over the use of such works. They can't. Still, it's a somewhat murky area of the law -- which is what these corporatons are counting on. I wouldn't assume that a simple answer has been worked out -- it's not in their interests to provide clearcut answers. Shall I ask my lawyer friends to weigh in? :~) jd lasica realpeoplenetwork.com YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Re: Video mashup mania
Steve of Elbows asked: With that in mind I have a question about this mashup stuff. Is there any particular partnering organisation that was the primary driving force for this mashup stuff, does one of them have such things as one of its core aims? I dont know if Im wording the question right, I guess I am interested in whether this is something that will be expanded upon in future, and whether its in the form of a new website/service/social network thing, or as part of an existing thing like ourmedia? Because I want to know who the right people and groups are to talk to about this in future. Well, yes. Outhink, which sponsored this mashup event, is intent on creating a rich and deep mashup marketplace and remix center for both licensed and unlicensed works: video, music, audio, etc. Ourmedia will be helping with the effort. I'm very excited about the possibilities here. I know sull has previously said he's jazzed by the idea, and now Steve of E. has expressed an interest in this emergent phenomenon. If there's anyone else who wants to get involved with the mashup movement, give me a holler. It will take some time, but I think it'll happen by fall or thereabouts. jd lasica 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] Video mashup mania
Two weeks ago there was what I think may turn out to be a significant milestone in the world of video mashups. It didn't receive any mention on this list (because we've all been running around like crazy), but I thought some of you may want to know about it. Shortly before the South by Southwest Music Festival, Outhink, IODA (the Independent Online Distribution Alliance) and Ourmedia joined forces to sponsor a video mashup event. Five indie music labels agreed to have one of their bands' songs used as the music track for a video mash-up. I invited a half-dozen videobloggers from this list to participate, and Ryanne Hodson, Josh Leo, Steve Garfield, Annaliese Rittershaus and I wound up producing 2- to 5-minute video shorts. The rules were minimal: grab whatever video footage or photos you've shot, or public domain or CC-NC licensed material, and mix into a visual collage that works with the music. We then showed them to the bands and labels, and they were blown away. So was I. I was especially fascinated by the three different treatments of the same song by three vloggers. As I told The Herms, why pay a director $100,000 to make a music video when you can get talented vloggers to do it free, or cheap? Outhink hopes to facilitate a media remix marketplace that brings together different constituencies -- say, a band looking for a talented remix artist could come to a site to check out his past mashups -- and, eventually, there should be a commercial marketplace for these kinds of talents. Check them out on the Outhink Media Showcase site: http://www.outhink.com/mediashowcase/showcase.htm or on my blog here: http://www.newmediamusings.com/blog/2006/03/mashups_showcas.html jd lasica ourmedia.org realpeoplenetwork.com 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] SXSW
Michael created a SXSW page for videobloggers on node101: http://node101.org/community/index.php/SXSW06 You get an error when you save the page but it will work. Who else in the vlogosphere is coming? Who knows Austin? Where are the hot dining/drinking spots? jd lasica On 3/6/06, Michael Verdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I set this up: http://node101.org/community/index.php/SXSW06 You get an error when you save the page but it will work. -Michael On 3/6/06, Irina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: btw, http://upcoming.org/event/61589/ On 3/5/06, JD Lasica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before we get to Austin, wouldn't it be a good idea if we create a page where we can put our contact info, availability and an easily accessible page to see where we're going to get together? I'd sure rather do that than scrolling thru hundreds of emails I get each day to identify an email from a fellow SXSWer. So: Can we create a page, on node101 or a wiki or Ourmedia or on someone's personal site, where we can post: Name Dates in Austin Contact info Availability Venue ideas I'll start: JD Lasica Sun March 13 to Thursday March 17 Cell: 858-353-1865; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Available: Mon, Tue, Wed dinner/ cocktails Venue: I'll defer to Michael and others. jd On 3/5/06, Irina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey, i think we should get together in austin, that sounds like a good idea. On 3/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all sorry I've been quiet but I'm in Vegas right now finishing up a shoot and heading back home this evening. I'm catching up on these emails, but I'm in agreement with all in this thread. Thanks for keeping it moving!! Maybe we should get together in sxsw for a little face-to-face? I'll be there for the whole time. schlomo I can do a PDF this weekend. I was planning on doing two versions, one for the $2,500-$5,000 levels and one for $500-$1,000. I don't really want the Intels and Proctor Gambles to worry about the lower end of the tier. Those teetering between $1,000 and $2,500 could get both flyers (one page each). jd On 3/1/06, Ted Tagami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'I'll review the list again for components. We will need a PDF version of this too perhaps? Got word back from Creative today. Looks like we will be talking in the next week or so. They are interested in pushing the zen players and video cams.. On 3/1/06, JD Lasica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. Does the lack of silence on the sponsorship page on the wiki mean that everyone agrees with the components of each tier now? http://www.vloggercon.com/private/index.php?title=Sponsorship_tiers If so, then the only thing we need to finalize are the names of each tier. I agree with Ted on the final descriptions: Go big for $500 and be a Megabyte Sponsor For $1,000 you can be a massive Gigabyte Sponsor At $2,500 you can be an enormous Terabyte Sponsor and for only $5,000 you can be our unspeakably huge Petabyte Sponsor And when we need shorthand (like in the category headings on the website, of course), we shorten them to: Megabyte Gigabyte Terabyte Petabyte Thoughts? Anything else to work out at this point, or can we begin haranguing potential sponsors? :~) jd -- Ted Tagami Principal, Universus Networks U N I V E R S U S . N E T -- Me: http://michaelverdi.com RD: http://evilvlog.com Learn to videoblog: http://freevlog.org Learn to videoblog in person: http://node101.org 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] 3 pix
3 pix of videobloggers at today's New Communications Forum panel on vlogging podcasting, in Palo Alto, CA: Eric Rice: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdlasica/107127673/ Zadi Diaz: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdlasica/107124348/ More Zadi: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdlasica/107127675/ more info: http://www.newcommblogzine.com/?p=422 jd lasica http://www.realpeoplenetwork.com 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] Re: grass roots bootleg protection
Tonight, after Markus recounted the episode of people videotaping a band performing on a public street and the band manager (stupidly) trying to prevent anyone from uploading it, I asked an attorney friend about the legalities involved. I got more than I bargained for -- another entry in the burgeoning Digital Media Learning Center that Ourmedia is creating. http://www.ourmedia.org/learning-center Here's the latest entry: http://www.ourmedia.org/node/176541 Just one of a series of questions related to capturing public images that we need to address. jd lasica ourmedia 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] Re: help with Ourmedia
Deirdre Straughan wrote: Is it still true that I also need to register at IA? Probably I did that many moons ago when I first registered on Ourmedia, but I don't remember whether I did, and I have no way of knowing except to go back and try to figure out what username-password combo I might have used back then. And I thought that limitation was supposed to be fixed long ago? In the interests of fairness I'd love to get a clip hosted by Ourmedia onto that page, but for the moment I stand defeated in my attempts. Hi. Yes, when you register at the Archive and then at Ourmedia (or vice-versa), your Archive email address gets saved on your Ourmedia account settings page. They need to match (the registration emails you use at both sites), otherwise Ourmedia won't be able to communicate with the Archive side of things where the media is stored. I know it's of little solace, but we'll be melding these dual registration systems into one (finally!) by spring. If you've spent time at other video hosting sites, you know that uploading video over the Web is an iffy proposition (one interruption and it stops and doesn't resume). That's why we offer Ourmedia Publisher, a downloadable tool that should be used for any file bigger than 20MB. If your upload is interrupted by Internet traffic, it resumes where it left off. Still, you're absolutely right that the site needs a major usability overhaul, and we've begun that process. We're always happy to help with any problems you may be having by emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] Often, we're able to plop in your identifier and the media will appear within moments. If you've tried that (we're overworked and understaffed -- but unlike youtube and other for-profits, we're all volunteers and all unpaid), you can email me directly: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some of the performance issues we've had can be tied to our current server. We've been promised bigger, better servers by two partners since last November. They have yet to deliver, but we should have new servers in 4-6 weeks. Kath O'Donnell wrote: I'm using the upload tool for windows. for some reason it doesn't upload the tags or copyright settings and a couple of other optional settings, so I need to edit them on the page once it's finished uploading and I have the final page url. but I just thought that was the tool being a little buggy. I usually end up editing something anyway once I see the published page even if this bug is not there, just to tidy up how it looks so it's not a problem for me. You're absolutely right, it's a bug that's been bugging me for months. :~) Alas, no coders have volunteered to fix it. But it's at the top of our to-fix list. I think IA will be around longer than most of the other free uploading spaces atm. and apart from a few test personal videos most of my content is archival/documentation of arts/muisc events or projects so I don't want to have to reupload them all again in 5 years. That's what we believe, too. The Archive will be around, possibly for generations, while the vast majority of the 97 video hosting services that have followed us in the past 11 months won't be. Meantime, after we fix our current usability and reliability issues, we have an ambitious slate of projects to advance the open media/participatory media movement in the months ahead. As always, we'd love to hear from volunteers who want to help out in moderating, coding and designing the site. Thanks for your patience. There'll be good news ahead. Hope to see you all at Vloggercon in June!! JD Lasica Executive Director Ourmedia.org, a nonprofit project to advance grassroots media 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] Elisabeth Shue
One of the side benefits of being a citizen journalist/vlogger is that you sometimes run into opportunities you wouldn't normally have if you weren't lugging along a camcorder. Such was the case Friday night when I asked actress Elisabeth Shue to say a few words about Creative Commons. Here's the short writeup on my vlog: http://www.realpeoplenetwork.com/2006/02/actress_elisabe.html (the video is available in mp4 or m4v) (For you kids, Shue starred in such films as Leaving Las Vegas, for which she won an Oscar nomination for best actress, The Karate Kid, The Trigger Effect, Back to the Future 2 and 3, Cocktail, etc.) I also did a short video interview with her husband, filmmaker Davis Guggenheim: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdlasica/101814333/ again, available in mp4 or m4v And I created a Flickr photo gallery of screen shots from Elisabeth's video shoot: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdlasica/sets/72057594067082114/ As well as a BitTorrent gallery: http://www.prodigem.com/torrents/torrent_1329.html Ain't vlogging fun? :~) jd lasica http://www.realpeoplenetwork.com 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] Re: I am a videoblogger (rasta version)
i'm informed that the link below doesn't work for all. Try this: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/50018 jd On 2/16/06, JD Lasica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thought some of you would get a kick out of this video that went up at dailymotion yesterday: http://www.dailymotion.com/register/e8406eced56cec7d50e6eb97e/50018 It's by musician Ralph Buckley. Michael Verdi, Ryanne Hodson, Josh Leo, Steve Garfield, Josh Kinberg and Jay Dedman make brief unsolicited cameos. Sing along to the reggae beat: _Don't forget your RSS fed ..._ Pretty fun stuff. A year from now maybe we'll be able to do a collaborative music video that consists of more than screen shots. jd lasica www.realpeoplenetwork.com 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] I am a videoblogger (rasta version)
Thought some of you would get a kick out of this video that went up at dailymotion yesterday: http://www.dailymotion.com/register/e8406eced56cec7d50e6eb97e/50018 It's by musician Ralph Buckley. Michael Verdi, Ryanne Hodson, Josh Leo, Steve Garfield, Josh Kinberg and Jay Dedman make brief unsolicited cameos. Sing along to the reggae beat: _Don't forget your RSS fed ..._ Pretty fun stuff. A year from now maybe we'll be able to do a collaborative music video that consists of more than screen shots. jd lasica www.realpeoplenetwork.com 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] Re: Josh Kinberg's Presentation of FireAnt at Under the Radar
Moments after Josh made his formal presentation, I sat down with him to talk for four minutes about FireAnt and online video: http://www.archive.org/download/JDLasicaJoshKinbergonimprovingtheonlinevideoexperiencehiquality/josh_kinberg.m4v(H.264 m4v)or http://www.archive.org/download/JDLasicaJoshKinbergonimprovingonlinevideo/josh_kinberg.mp4(MPEG-4)jd lasica SPONSORED LINKS Individual Fireant Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Re: Podsafe Music
another source of podsafe music, of course, is Creative Commons' ccmixter: http://www.ccmixter.org/ if you have a commercially supported podcast, just pay attention to whether the music is licensed for commercial or noncommercial use. jd lasica ourmedia 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] re: http://youare.tv/
Josh, nice spending time with ya this week, but when you write: let's cut the guy a break. He's listening and interacting here. That's the first step. Legaleze like Terms Of Service agreements are hard to write. Nobody knows what to do here, and paying lawyers to do this gets expensive... and the lawyers can often come up with some draconian stuff anyway. Usually people just copy TOS from other sites just to get it up and get going. They often don't think about it and the users don't often read it. Not so fast. Look at Ourmedia's Terms of Service: http://www.ourmedia.org/rules The first line says: 1. You own your own material. Ourmedia claims no intellectual property rights over the material you provide to our service. Simple, straightforward. Who wrote it? Me, someone with no law degree. Sure, a lawyer reviewed it afterward, but what your enterprise stands for has to come down from the top. Too many of us don't bother to read site TOS because we're trusting, or think it won't affect us. We need to get educated and push back whenever we see outrageous terms such as these. Public exposure, criticism and even ridicule are the first steps toward that end. If I recall correctly, members of this list pushed back at BlipTV over its original TOS, and they quickly revised them. Let's see what YouAre.tv does in response. But I'd be surprised if they follow Ourmedia's example. jd lasica ourmedia 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] Real People Network
Thought some of you would be interested in this. I've been blogging since early '01 and videoblogging for a year or so, and have been reluctant to launch yet another blog.But I've become convinced that there's value in creating a vlog that's focused almost entirely on the videoblogging phenomenon. So I spent the holiday weekend scratching out css code from the ground up and came up with this: http://www.realpeoplenetwork.com I realize that some of the design decisions (featuring apple's video iPod, natch) will rub some vloggers the wrong way. I also think a year from now, a heck of a lot of us will be using H.264. Be that as it may, this is just one more pebble in the growing vlog pond. Real People Network is geared mostly for newcomers to the vlogging world, who don't know about rss, or bittorrent, or how to find free video. The ability to download photos via BitTorrent is an interesting touch. This is version 1.0, so I'll be adding info about other devices that play blog video. You'll find plenty of broken links over the next week or so, but the design's essentially done. I've only been able to test it on a PC (firefox and ie) and 15-inch Mac Powerbook (firefox and safari), so if you see anything that looks funny in other displays, please let me know. Looking forward to seeing some of you at Macworld next week! jd lasica ourmedia http://www.newmediamusings.com http://www.darknet.com 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] H264
Someone pointed to Om Malik's report on Google Video, where a reader left this comment: In my ideal world, all forms of digital video would be Quicktime and encoded in H264, because nothing out there, at this time, comes even close to even hoping to touch H264's image quality at the lowest bitrates, it kicks insane butt, it blows me away. That's been my experience as well. The image quality of everything I encode in 'movie to ipod' (m4v) is MUCH better than what I get in any other codec, the file size is the same or smaller, and I haven't seen any problems with distorted aspect ratio. I'm launching a videoblog next week and at this point expect to encode in both m4v and mpeg4. Can anyone point me to any stats on what % of PC/Mac users can play H264/m4v video on their computers (I assume they need to have QuickTime 7)? I'll guess: a small % of all users, but a fair number of video aficionados. What % can play MPEG4? (presumably a very high percentage - apple says QT6 has been downloaded 350 million times) thanks! jd lasica ps -- apple's FAQ about h264 is here: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/technologies/h264/faq.html 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/
[videoblogging] re: all the secrets revealed
Hmm, I'm not sure why anyone would be touting this guy ... http://vblogsecrets.com/ Seems like a really bad infomercial. I wouldn't buy a $97 video from these folks if they threw in a Pamela Anderson highlights reel as a bonus. We can do better, packaging this movement through Node101, Ourmedia and other outlets -- from the people who started the movement and know what it's really about, not some huckster. We know vlogging is about to explode. That's a given. Let's share our knowledge and learnings in an informed, inclusive way. How about creating a Node101 series of videos, if that's not already in the works? I'll volunteer to supervise the project. jd lasica Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- AIDS in India: A lurking bomb. Click and help stop AIDS now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/VpTY2A/lzNLAA/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] Free video isn't stealing
It may be that I'm in an unforgiving mood from two straight days of downpours, but I laid into a NY Times writer today for suggesting that that the only video available for his video iPod comes from Hollywood. Anything else you can find online must come from stealing. http://www.newmediamusings.com/blog/2005/12/free_video_isnt.html Free video isn't stealing. Maybe if we repeat it enough times, the message will sink in. jd lasica http://www.newmediamusings.com 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/
[videoblogging] Re: SXSW Interactive
I'm moderating a panel on Darknets at sxsw on March 14, and Dave Toole will be a panelist, so that's 2 more in the vlogging corner ... we should definitely do a get-together! jd lasica 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/
[videoblogging] holiday videos
If I may inject a note of non-seriousness into the discussion: At Ourmedia we're inviting folks to submit holiday videos loosely related to Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, whatever. If we get a handful we'll package them onto a holiday greetings page. OK, I'll go first: http://www.archive.org/download/We_wish_you_a_puppy_Christmas/bobbywewishyou.mp4 And Steve G., your Hanukkah Wrapping vid would work ... http://app.vblogcentral.com/movies/2798.mov jd lasica 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/
[videoblogging] Audacity preferences
Hi all, I'm trying to digitize audio off of a microcassette cassette recorder onto a Powerbook G4 using Audacity. Should be simple as hell, right? Well, I've spent the past 6 hours trying to do this, and I'm totally frustrated. Google also proved useless. So I'm turning to the wise minds in this group. I would have expected several options in Audacity Preferences to select from. But there's only one: Audacity Preferences Audio I|O Recording Device: Built-in Audio This lets me record live sounds, but nothing else. I have a 1/8 jack running from the recorder's Ear (headphone) jack to the G4's headphone jack. So: how do I record sound off an attached device? I had the same problem last year, and an Audacity rep wrote back: This is a limitation of the mac audio controls - there isn't a way to choose inputs from within an application. You will need to use Apple's Sound and Midi Setup utility to choose the Line input as the system default. You may also have to select the correct audio device on the Audio I/O tab of the preferences. Well, I don't even see a Sound and Midi Setup utility in Tiger, and the Midi Setup utility offers no choice of a Line input. Arrrgh! Thanks for any help! I need to do this on Sunday. jd lasica 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/
[videoblogging] Re: encouraging uploads
Hi folks, Thought a few of you might be interested in meeting Daniel Hengeveld here. He's with Participant Productions (participantproductions.com, the socially conscious production company behind the recent films Good Night, and Good Luck, North Country and the upcoming Syriana. Daniel can tell you what he's up to, but I know that they're trying to encourage grassroots videographers to publish some of their works on participate.net, and they're trying to reach out to the videoblogging community to collaborate on some civic-minded projects. jd lasica ourmedia 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] Zadi and Ourmedia
Zadi's Karmagrrl blog and Ourmedia are finalists -- in the same multimedia category, no less! -- in the international Best of the Blogs competition announced today. http://www.newmediamusings.com/blog/2005/10/ourmedia_a_best.html Incidentally, today Ourmedia upgraded from a 2GB to a 4GB bandwidth pipe, so you should see immediate improvements in the site's performance. jd lasica ourmedia 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/
[videoblogging] Re: Ourmedia status (was: Weird OurMedia.org error message:)
Boy, I really hate these weird-ass default Drupal error messages. We've changed dozens of them since launch -- trying to translate Drupalese into English -- but haven't caught them all. As for new servers, we should hear something this week. Will let you know. Great to see Jay and Ryan, and Mike from Blip, at the Open Media Developers Summit over the weekend! jd lasica ourmedia Can't create a new thread (errno 11); if you are not out of available memory, you can consult the manual for a possible OS- dependent bug Every other site I visit is fine. Anyone ever seen this before? 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/
[videoblogging] video iPod, H.264 and more
I just posted a review of my video iPod in which Steve of Elbows figures prominently. :~) http://www.newmediamusings.com/blog/2005/10/lovin_my_video_.html Also has some answers to Steve's conjecture about H.264 settings. jd lasica ourmedia 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] Re: Archive.org, Fair Use Doctrine
B Yen wrote: Suppose I use archive.org to upload a digitzed video of something off a major network. Is this allowable under Fair Use Doctrine? B Yen, see Ourmedia's fair use guidelines page: http://www.ourmedia.org/rules/fair-use At Ourmedia (which uses archive.org's servers), we won't let you republish a news telecast because you find it newsworthy, but we will allow transformative uses (commentary while piecing together news outtakes) or reproductions of certain kinds of news footage. jd lasica ourmedia 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/
[videoblogging] editing audio in iMovie
A quick question: I put together an 11-minute video about mashups on Ourmedia. I converted the original formats (WMV and Flash) into QuickTime, then imported them into iMovie HD, and then in most cases extracted the audio (so that the sound would continue over the Titles between video clps). Here's the vid: http://www.archive.org/download/JDLasicaMashupsintheMiddle/mashups.mp4 BUT I didn't see a way to trim/delete the portions of an audio track I wasn't using. (Couldn't find the answer in iMovie Help.) According to this page about iMovie4 ... http://www.cap.nsw.edu.au/techtalk/imovie.htm ... to edit out unwanted audio, I should see a box labeled Edit volume at the bottom of the page. I have iMovie5, and there's no equivalent Edit volume control that I can see, and when I mouse over an unwanted portion, it doesn't turn into an arrow that lets you delete that portion, it simply lets you turn down the sound to zero. So: - Is iMovie5 less capable than iMovie4? If not, how do you trim out unwanted audio? - OR is the answer that turning the audio down to zero is essentially the answer, and that these unheard portions of the movie project do not increase the file size once it's converted into a codec like mpeg4? thanks! jd lasica 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/
[videoblogging] MPEG-4 settings
Today I spent a little while experimenting with MPEG-4 settings. Because some people prefer MPEG4 to QuickTime, I've been hoping to do more of my video in mp4, but I've never been pleased with the default settings. So, I thought I'd ask the wise people on this list for some advice or pointers for MPEG-4 compression settings for publishing a video for display on Ourmedia. (And, yes, I know all about Michael Verdi's PDF primer on Video compression with 3iv ... http://www.ourmedia.org/node/42835). (1) The application. I generally edit video on my Mac (OS 10.3.9) with imovie HD 5.0.2. I also have a Sony Vaio desktop PC. So I'm open to using a different application (I have Final Cut Pro, for eg, but haven't had time to learn it), if that would be advisable. But I think I'm probably fine with what I've got. (2) The settings. When I choose Share (to encode the video), under Options/MP4 Export settings, I see ... Video: On a hunch, I chose MPEG-4 Improved (rather than MPEG-4 Basic) Data rata 256 kbps (this was pre-entered) Image Size: 320x240 QVGA Frame rate: 12 (i use 15 when there's more movement in the video) Key frame: every 75 frames (used this from a prior tutorial from Ryan) Audio: Audio format: AAC-LC (Music) (that's the only choice given for MPEG-4 Improved) Date rate: see below Channels: Mono/Stereo Output sample rate: 44.1 kHz Encoding qality: best (upped it from better) Streaming: Enable streaming? yes maximum packe size: 1450 bytes maximum packet duration: 100 ms optimize for server? yes I encoded an eight-minute video at 15fps, 64 kbps audio, mono, and it came in at 27.8 mb: http://www.archive.org/download/JDLasicaRUSiriusonpodcasting/RU_Sirius.mp4 I was happy with the video quality but unhappy with the audio. So, I tried again, at 12fps, 96kbps audio, mono, and it came in at 40.8 mb. I was still happy with the video quality but still unhappy with the audio. I adjusted it to 128 kbps audio, stereo, and it came in at 44 mb. I was happy with the video and audio quality. And I'm happy at how fast the video starts playing. Here it is: http://ia300112.us.archive.org/0/items/JDLasicaMondoGlobosRUSiriusonthepodcastingphenomenon/RU_Sirius_new.mp4 But I'm wondering if I should play with any of the other settings above to reduce the file size without compromising audio or video in any significant way and without reducing the window size. For example, I need a primer on things like MPEG-4 Improved vs MPEG-4 Basic, data rate, key frame, etc. We're creating a knowledge base/learning center on Ourmedia, so I'm hoping that any information shared on this list about this topic can be shared on Ourmedia as well. thanks! jd exec director, Ourmedia 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/
[videoblogging] Re: Speed of Ourmedia/IA
Skullcrew, I could be off here, but could the problem be that you didn't check the Fast Start checkbox (or streaming, or whatever it's called in your QT version) when you compressed your video? You're right, it took 4:17 to load on my PC ... but when it began, it was fully loaded. That suggests to me that QT didn't do its progressive download here. Any QuickTime experts in the crowd? That sound reasonable? The Internet Archive's performance has actually gotten better lately. jd co-founder, ourmedia Is it my videos or is the archive just running slow? This video I just posted last night still takes forever to even start playing. It is only 45mb, which in video terms to me, doesn't sound that bad. http://ia300102.us.archive.org/3/items/ NickStankusWalmartGumRunwithJon/WalmartGumRunwithJon.mov Has anyone experienced this issue? I guess I cannot complain for a free service. Is there something that I need to modify on my IA homepage to make the videos stream better? Thoughts? nixter out. =X http://www.skullcrew.com http://www.angryshirts.com YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] video citizen journalism
Some video citizen journalism that's perhaps of interest to some on this list ... http://www.newmediamusings.com/blog/2005/08/7_videos_from_b.html Twelve short video interviews of attendees at the recent BlogHer conference. jd New Media Musings Darknet.com Ourmedia.org SPONSORED LINKS Individual Fireant Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] new videoblogging page
I've been wrestling with the question of how to showcase the blog videos I've been creating in recent weeks. Do I really want to create another blog for that? (I already have 3 blogs -- 4, if you count the one i have at ourmedia.) I finally decided, no. I'll blog about my videos as part of my regular weblog. And I'll create a page to showcase them. So far, they all fall under the heading of citizen journalism. I'm no Steve G., but then, who is? :~) Any thoughts on how to improve this? http://www.newmediamusings.com/blog/videoblog.html I need to add an RSS subscription icon, for one thing... jd lasica http://www.newmediamusings.com http://darknet.com/ YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
