Re: [videoblogging] Brief history of video compression

2010-01-09 Thread forestmars
Joly MacFie wrote: Forest - are you suggesting that flash is more cpu-intensive than baseline h.264? Is that so? I was referring to the flash player in general and wasn't suggesting the flash container itself requires significantly more resources on the client side. (Also, flash is a

[videoblogging] Twin Camera

2010-01-09 Thread Michael Sean Kaminsky
A company called Ion has released a dual lens camcorder so you can record yourself and the action all in one go. https://www.ionaudio.com/content328504 I have enough cameras, so unless this one is cheap I don't think I can swing it. But I bet I could make something simliar from rubber bands, my

Re: [videoblogging] Twin Camera

2010-01-09 Thread Steve Rhodes
Gizmodo has a photo http://gizmodo.com/5442841/ion-audio-twin-video-camera-has-two-lenses-to-capture-the-action-and-your-reaction And here's a video from ION http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSGA6u9NYpE Unfortunately, the actual video from the camera is just brief shots -- Steve Rhodes

Re: [videoblogging] Twin Camera

2010-01-09 Thread Kevin Lim
Wow, it's Charles Trippy Alli Speed! This dynamic duo has been producing Youtube vids (many interactive ones) almost everyday. It's be so suitable for the kind of videos they shoot, but I wonder if it's everyone's cake. The low-distortion mic and dual cameras aren't going to make it cheap for