Re: [videoblogging] Re: Video: Your day in moments

2009-01-05 Thread Rupert
On a related note, the marvellous Mary Matthews just made a video from pictures people took at midnight on Jan 1st. http://videopancakes.blogspot.com/2009/01/project-midnight.html On 4-Jan-09, at 8:11 PM, Kevin Lim wrote: Adrian, Looking forward to it :) Archive.org seems to generate

[videoblogging] Re: Video: Your day in moments

2009-01-04 Thread Susan
Remember these, Jay? http://vlog.kitykity.com/?cat=14 Hope life is treating you all well :) Susan --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman jay.ded...@... wrote: Steve Garfield pointed out this new Flickr group: http://flickr.com/groups/mydayyesterday/ Shoot video throughout a day in

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Video: Your day in moments

2009-01-04 Thread Kevin Lim
Hey Jay, Adrian and Susan, I like the interval approach for otherwise lengthy videos. Chunking is a good idea; like a moving thumbnail. In a way, mydayyesterday flickr group bootstraps flickr into something like 12second.tv. In addition, I know users can drop photos as comments, but can they

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Video: Your day in moments

2009-01-04 Thread Adrian Miles
what you need is something that pulls a frame out of video at nominated interval, sets its duration, and edits them together to get a poster movie (a sort of micro poster movie). So you could, for example: tell the app to grab a frame at every 5 minutes, for that frame to have a duration

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Video: Your day in moments

2009-01-04 Thread Kevin Lim
Adrian, I think the (1) micro-thumbnail poster approach is more viable than the (2) interval video approach, because I can still scrub through my captured video anyway. A lot of web video service can generate thumbnails, but does anyone know of a desktop app that can do that? Perhaps an

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Video: Your day in moments

2009-01-04 Thread Adrian Miles
applescript can do it, don't need SMIL if you don't want to. I'll ask a former student of mine who is doing a lot of web video stuff, might be able to get him to make something On 05/01/2009, at 2:30 PM, Kevin Lim wrote: I think the (1) micro-thumbnail poster approach is more viable

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Video: Your day in moments

2009-01-04 Thread Kevin Lim
Adrian, Looking forward to it :) Archive.org seems to generate thumbnails from uploaded video as independent jpegs, which I've stitched together as a cover poster for previous videos. A quick and dirty way might also be to simply grab a screenshot of video thumbnails generated from within your