Re: [videoblogging] Looking for feedback and support! Web series goes LIVE!

2009-06-06 Thread Jay dedman
I believe this is a first for a narrative scripted web series, a LIVE four camera production, that will be sent out worldwide, streaming on June 25th at 7pm (pst), which will include a live chat with cast and crew after, plus a few other surprises. For people in the SF Bay Area, they can even

[videoblogging] XML to HTML

2009-06-06 Thread Jay dedman
I have a friend who wants to export an old blogger blog. The file comes out in XML. He does NOT want to import it into another blog...but instead wants to save the old posts as html or txt files. Anyone have any experience saving a blog this way using the export files that Blogger spits out? Jay

Re: [videoblogging] Forget politics, check out the tech

2009-06-06 Thread Jay dedman
I could be wrong but this kind of thing seems like what will be able to be done with the new canvas and video elements in HTML5. And instead of the whole thing locked into one giant opaque, proprietary Flash movie, it'll be there in the source code of the page - open to be searched, remixed,

Re: [videoblogging] XML to HTML

2009-06-06 Thread t. whid
He could try mirroring it as it currently is using wget... here's a tutorial: http://fosswire.com/post/2008/04/create-a-mirror-of-a-website-with-wget/ I've used this technique to archive old WP blogs that I don't want to keep up-to-date with security fixes. Not certain it would work with

Re: [videoblogging] trouble with embedding flash

2009-06-06 Thread Jay dedman
Hi All, I have a client who wants to run the videos from my site and embed the player into her site. It runs one video after another automatically. I am not sure how to build a swf object to do this, or if has to be done this way. I have several actionscript files that go along with this flash

Re: [videoblogging] XML to HTML

2009-06-06 Thread Jay dedman
He could try mirroring it as it currently is using wget... here's a tutorial: http://fosswire.com/post/2008/04/create-a-mirror-of-a-website-with-wget/ I've used this technique to archive old WP blogs that I don't want to keep up-to-date with security fixes. Not certain it would work with

Re: [videoblogging] XML to HTML

2009-06-06 Thread t. whid
The wget technique would allow him to archive it as-is offline, it should pull down and link all relevant files -- probably would take a bit of prodding and pushing to make it perfect. Of course it wouldn't be plain text -- it would retain the blogger templates, etc. So it depends on what he wants

Re: [videoblogging] Forget politics, check out the tech

2009-06-06 Thread Jay dedman
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: I could be wrong but this kind of thing seems like what will be able to be done with the new canvas and video elements in HTML5. And instead of the whole thing locked into one giant opaque, proprietary Flash movie, it'll

Re: [videoblogging] XML to HTML

2009-06-06 Thread Jay dedman
The wget technique would allow him to archive it as-is offline, it should pull down and link all relevant files -- probably would take a bit of prodding and pushing to make it perfect. Of course it wouldn't be plain text -- it would retain the blogger templates, etc. So it depends on what he

Re: [videoblogging] XML to HTML

2009-06-06 Thread Markus Sandy
On Jun 6, 2009, at 7:55 AM, Jay dedman wrote: Good idea. But I think he wants to take his blog offline...so just have a version of his posts local on his computer. It is an interesting quandry since Ive never considered wanting a blog archived in txt format. Jay it might be slow, but

Re: [videoblogging] Open Video Ideas

2009-06-06 Thread Richard (Show) Hall
(I posted this on the blog too). Great Video Michael, I've been teaching this digital media class the last three semesters, and technology is a huge barrier to creativity. First, we only have PCs, so we can't go with FCP, so we go with Premiere Pro, which is functionally find, but has all sorts

Re: [videoblogging] XML to HTML

2009-06-06 Thread Jay dedman
Good idea. But I think he wants to take his blog offline...so just have a version of his posts local on his computer. It is an interesting quandry since Ive never considered wanting a blog archived in txt format. it might be slow, but how about save as (on each page) This is actually a good

Re: [videoblogging] XML to HTML

2009-06-06 Thread Markus Sandy
On Jun 6, 2009, at 10:09 AM, Jay dedman wrote: Good idea. But I think he wants to take his blog offline...so just have a version of his posts local on his computer. It is an interesting quandry since Ive never considered wanting a blog archived in txt format. it might be slow, but

Re: [videoblogging] trouble with embedding flash

2009-06-06 Thread sjs Productions
yes, I will host the videos on my site. She has very limited download bandwidth available to her via her web hosting service. I was hoping to be able to keep the xml playlist on my site as well so I can upload changes as needed. On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com

Re: [videoblogging] trouble with embedding flash

2009-06-06 Thread Jay dedman
yes, I will host the videos on my site. She has very limited download bandwidth available to her via her web hosting service. I was hoping to be able to keep the xml playlist on my site as well so I can upload changes as needed. Others more qualified than me can speak to the deatils of what

[videoblogging] Metraoblogging model for videoblogs

2009-06-06 Thread Jay dedman
Some of you may know Metroblogging: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroblogging Started by Sean Bonner and others in 2003, they helped bloggers in different cities around the world start a local blog. They would then sell ads on that blog to help pay the bloggers. More info here:

RE: [videoblogging] XML to HTML

2009-06-06 Thread Rambos Locker
You could use a Site Ripper or Offline browser like http://www.metaproducts.com http://www.metaproducts.com/ . I use this to ripper an entire site or just potions of it to my hard drive. It can be configured to just rip jpegs, text, mp3 or the lot. The entire website can then be accessed from your

[videoblogging] Re: Windows Movie Maker---New Version

2009-06-06 Thread Gena
When I first started doing web videos I was using WWM2. It was fine if I kept it to straight cuts and titles. If I wanted to cross fade or do anything else that SOB crashed like a frat house after a party. There are probably some of my prior rants about it still in the archives. I tried to get

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Windows Movie Maker---New Version

2009-06-06 Thread David King
I had much the same experience! I had to teach some wmm classes - when it crashed ( it always did), I told the class to expect that, it's just what the software does. I really like my mac :-) David Sent from my iPhone On Jun 6, 2009, at 8:11 PM, Gena compumaven...@earthlink.net wrote: