Re: [videoblogging] Video contest: $25,000 top prize! Enough for you and your favourite charity.

2008-04-22 Thread Rupert
Great. I'll enter, for sure. But two suggestions: 1) Consider changing the way it works asap so that the second stage and overall winner is NOT decided by number of views and votes. It's way too open to being gamed. And those with lots of friends and existing internet fan bases will have

Re: [videoblogging] Video contest: $25,000 top prize! Enough for you and your favourite charity.

2008-04-22 Thread Rupert
also, your mac.com email address advertising a microsoft competition is the funniest and most subversive thing I've seen in ages. good work! On 22 Apr 2008, at 12:31, Rupert wrote: Great. I'll enter, for sure. But two suggestions: 1) Consider changing the way it works asap so that the second

[videoblogging] Mad Mooloolaba - The Movie

2008-04-22 Thread Rambos Locker
This is something completely different to my usual Videos, it’s about Clubs sharing the “Aloha” and having a great time. Very moody, entertaining and different. I think you might like this one Rox, partly inspired by BeachWalks, but with a crazy touch. Shot this with a Canon TX1 partly SD and

Re: [videoblogging] Videoblogging Week 2008

2008-04-22 Thread Richard (Show) Hall
Maureen and I are in Maureen: http://richardswife.com/?p=21 Richard: http://richardshow.org/show/2008/04/22/vlog-week-2008-day-1-frog-fantasies/ ... Richard On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Josh Leo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It all starts tomorrow... Are you Ready? On Wed, Apr 2,

[videoblogging] Low light action shooting

2008-04-22 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Hey, gang. Yeah, yeah...I know that I post on here only when I have questions. I'm bad. Anyway, I'm currently exploring a new project that could involve a lot of low-light shooting, and I'm trying to assess my various options. By low light, I'm talking about a level of ambient lighting you

Re: [videoblogging] Low light action shooting

2008-04-22 Thread Rupert
I guess it depends on what you're using it for, and what resolution you need. If you need DV, you could shoot on a 3CCD Sony or Canon prosumer camera - my XL1 is pretty good in low light, and I think the more expensive Sonys and Panasonics aren't bad, either. I mean, it's going to look

Re: [videoblogging] Low light action shooting

2008-04-22 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
I'd be for web production as well as possibly DVDs at something better than 320x240, most likely, and this footage will be the mainstay of a piece that could run 15-60 minutes. I'm considering an XL-1 if I have to...even buying a used one will basically be a very serious investment...but it'll

[videoblogging] Re: Low light action shooting

2008-04-22 Thread Heath
Most digital still cameras will shot short or longer video clips. Often for as long as you have space on your flash drive. But it sounds like you need a real video camera. I just bought the Panasonic DVX100B, I upgraded from a Panasonic PV-GS180, I did a comparriosion shot with my new

Re: [videoblogging] Low light action shooting

2008-04-22 Thread Rupert
So all digital stills cameras have a movie mode. Good ones - like a $400 Canon Powershot - has a movie mode that will shoot very good quality video and sound for as long as the memory card will take. Slap an 8GB SD card in a Canon Powershot and you'll get over an hour of continuous

Re: [videoblogging] Low light action shooting

2008-04-22 Thread WWWhatsup
You can shoot at 15fps, which is what you'll end up with very likely on the web anyway. That'll give you plenty of exposure and the blurry look is not unpleasant. You can also do a lot with levels and, even, gradients, in post. Joly People here have a history of doing amazing things on

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Low light action shooting

2008-04-22 Thread Rupert
Possibly he needs a real camera for this... but in my experience real cameras often can't match the low light performance of a little pocket camera. Sometimes the sound is even better from an in-camera mic on a pocket stills camera than it is from an in-camera mic on a DV camera. And

Re: [videoblogging] Re: slightly off topic, what did you use to build website?

2008-04-22 Thread Rupert
I forgot to say thanks, Brook - this tip for NVU was perfectly timed for a client who needed an open source web editor. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 On 16 Apr 2008, at 23:26, Brook Hinton wrote: Another option for a program

[videoblogging] Re: Videoblogging Week 2008

2008-04-22 Thread Steve Watkins
Could someone help me with a feed issue? I setup my site in a hurry, using wordpress vPip, and mefeedia gives me errors when I try to add the feed. This one is the vPip feed for quicktime:

Re: [videoblogging] Low light action shooting

2008-04-22 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Could you give some examples of what you're referring to when you're talking about levels and gradients in post? Are there techniques that have worked particularly well for you? -- Rhett. You can shoot at 15fps, which is what you'll end up with very likely on the web anyway. That'll give you

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Videoblogging Week 2008

2008-04-22 Thread Christian Wach
Hi Steve, On 22 Apr 2008, at 18:50, Steve Watkins wrote: Could someone help me with a feed issue? I setup my site in a hurry, using wordpress vPip, and mefeedia gives me errors when I try to add the feed. This one is the vPip feed for quicktime:

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Low light action shooting

2008-04-22 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Sound won't be an issue. For the record, this is for roller derby, and I'll probably be mixing together sound gathered in different ways, and a commentator voice will be some of the most featured sound. The idea of buying a really nice still camera and using its video feature is compelling. I

[videoblogging] Re: Videoblogging Week 2008

2008-04-22 Thread Frank Sinton
Hi Steve, The vPIP Quicktime feed worked fine. It is here: http://www.mefeedia.com/feeds/37130 The Wordpress feed didn't contain media elements, so won't work in Mefeedia or iTunes (well, you can add it to iTunes, but won't play any episodes). Also, we have a users group here in case anyone

[videoblogging] Re: Low light action shooting

2008-04-22 Thread Heath
No doubt and I did not mean to imply that a real camera is better, it's excatly like you said, different cameras for different situatuions. I love my cannon SD100 for stuff, I shot a heck of a lot with it and my Kodak before it. And that is the reason I put the real in quotes as there are

[videoblogging] Re: Videoblogging Week 2008

2008-04-22 Thread Heath
You may want to burn your wordpress feed with feedburner and then set that up as your main feed. It could also be another plugin issue causing the problem. If you need to know how to set up a feedburner feed check out Freevlog.org, they walk it through step by step heath

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Videoblogging Week 2008

2008-04-22 Thread schlomo rabinowitz
From what people have been telling me for the last year, Feedburner is not all that. Personally, I'm not seeing that much activity from them since being acquired by Google. Does anyone have any thoughts on that? If I was starting a new feed, and am not a feed newbie, I would try to have the feed

[videoblogging] Re: Videoblogging Week 2008

2008-04-22 Thread Heath
the main benifit I see with Feedburner is like in a case like mine where I switched from blogger to wordpress, people would have had to update their feedreaders, etc, people may not have had the right feed, they may not have known, etc... Of course David Meade did post something I think that

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Videoblogging Week 2008

2008-04-22 Thread schlomo rabinowitz
Absolutely agree with you re: keeping the feed to keep the subscribers. I know I would lose many/most of them if I changed it. Heck, I probably wouldn't follow myself if I changed it! On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the main benifit I see with Feedburner is

[videoblogging] Cozmo TV

2008-04-22 Thread schlomo rabinowitz
Have any of you played with this?: http://cozmo.tv/ Seems like it could make a nice viewing experience to aggregate all of the Videoblogging Week videos. Just put in an rss feed (like the one Mefeedia makes) and sit back and watch. It also has a button on the lower right that brings you to the

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Videoblogging Week 2008

2008-04-22 Thread David Meade
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course David Meade did post something I think that takes part of the need away for those things, I need to look into it more. Yeah I just wrote up a how-to on editing the .htaccess file so that you can move your feed around

[videoblogging] Technorati tardiness?

2008-04-22 Thread John Coffey
I've never had much to do with Technorati till videoblogging2008 but I've learned much the last day. First, it hadn't updated my blog in 5 weeks even though I've posted 3 times since then. I had them ping my site several times to get me up to date but my post from 9 hours ago is still not in

[videoblogging] Re: Cozmo TV

2008-04-22 Thread Frank Sinton
Looks cool - will have to give it a try. thanks! The main problem I have had with these type of things is that they support Flash-only. At Mefeedia, we even created a basic experience like this ourselves, but canned it because of the non-Flash support. I'd be interested to see what they

[videoblogging] Re: Videoblogging Week 2008

2008-04-22 Thread Steve Watkins
Thanks very much Frank and Christian :) I guess the errors I got when I tried were in themselves erroneous! Still my url for the feed that works is stupidly long, which probably doesnt help. I really need to pay more attention to this stuff, Ive been slack, but then again Im deliberately

Re: [videoblogging] Technorati tardiness?

2008-04-22 Thread Andrew Baron
Many who have depended on Technorati have moved onto Google Blogs: http://blogsearch.google.com/?hl=entab=wb On Apr 22, 2008, at 4:12 PM, John Coffey wrote: I've never had much to do with Technorati till videoblogging2008 but I've learned much the last day. First, it hadn't updated my blog in

Re: [videoblogging] Digest Number 5081

2008-04-22 Thread hamish
Anyone into video blogging at http://en.oreilly.com/webexsf2008/public/content/home in SF wona meetup? Am just in town from the UK. Hamish http://visionontv.net http://hamishcampbell.com http://www.undercurrents.org

[videoblogging] Video Elements theme for Wordpress

2008-04-22 Thread quietleader
I was wondering if anyone has experience using the Video Elements theme: http://www.wpelements.com/2008/04/09/introducing-the-video-elements-wordpress- theme-v10/ Any thoughts or comments about the Video Elements theme in general? Thanks and regards! W.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Videoblogging Week 2008

2008-04-22 Thread Richard (Show) Hall
I tried it on iTunes 7 on a power book and, I got the dreaded exclamation point meaning the feed is broken (in my world anyway). To clarify, the feed is: http://www.mefeedia.com/tags/videobloggingweek2008/rss2.xml I should be able to select advanced/subscribe to podcast, enter that and away I

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Videoblogging Week 2008

2008-04-22 Thread schlomo rabinowitz
It worked for me; I even got your video! On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Richard (Show) Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried it on iTunes 7 on a power book and, I got the dreaded exclamation point meaning the feed is broken (in my world anyway). To clarify, the feed is:

[videoblogging] Re: Videoblogging Week 2008

2008-04-22 Thread Frank Sinton
I just tried it and it worked. Yes, in iTunes: Advanced - Subscribe to Podcast and there you go! We are working on an alternative interface too, but running into IE issues. Will let you all know! --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It worked for

[videoblogging] My 200th post

2008-04-22 Thread Heath
I just realized after I uploaded and posted my latest video, that it is my 200th post. In a way the video I ended up posting is fitting as it is a bit of a new begining for me http://heathparks.com/blog1/?p=266 Vlog on! Heath http://batmangeek.com http://heathparks.com

Re: [videoblogging] Video Elements theme for Wordpress

2008-04-22 Thread Jay dedman
I was wondering if anyone has experience using the Video Elements theme: http://www.wpelements.com/2008/04/09/introducing-the-video-elements-wordpress- theme-v10/ Any thoughts or comments about the Video Elements theme in general? we started picking apart how it works here: