[videoblogging] camtwist:free program to add effect to your webcam
It's kind of fun---in addition to adding effects to your webcam streaming video, you can also splice in video clips live into blogtv--a work around for their lack of a built in feature to cut to canned clips. Here's a cheesy but fun example Scott Stead and I did last night to add effects to a video we created for seesmic (after a few glasses of wine) Example of camtwist in action: http://tinyurl.com/26th5z Mac Download of Camtwist here: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/24275/camtwist Not sure if there is a PC version.
RE: [videoblogging] camtwist:free program to add effect to your webcam
Here's a cheesy but fun example Scott Stead and I did last night to add effects to a video we created for seesmic (after a few glasses of wine) Example of camtwist in action: http://tinyurl.com/26th5z If you want a much more complex way to use Camtwist, check out what Chris Pirillo is doing at http://live.pirillo.com. Camtwist powers a large portion of it. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
Re: [videoblogging] camtwist:free program to add effect to your webcam
Hi everyone: On Dec 12, 2007 9:37 AM, jonny goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mac Download of Camtwist here: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/24275/camtwist Not sure if there is a PC version. Too bad there isn't a PC version as all there would be needed I imagine would be a virtual driver and a GUI to pick the camera or other video device to capture from. The virtual driver could be used by streaming applications or (In the case of BlogTV shows) ActiveX controls to stream what's captured by the virtual driver to viewers on the net. With enough CPU, there should be little or no loss of quality at all. Just my opinion Cheers :D -- Pat Cook Denver, Colorado PODCASTS - AS MY WORLD TURNS - Blogger Page - http://asmyworldturnstv.blogspot.com/ BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/20453 AS MY WEIGHT LOSS WORLD TURNS (NEW VIDEO PODCAST!!)- http://asmyweightlossworldturns.blogspot.com PAT'S REAL DEAL VIDEO BLOG - http://patsrealdeal.livejournal.com/ PAT'S HEALTH MEDICAL WONDERS VIDEOCAST - http://patshealthmedicalwondersvideocast.blogspot.com/ YOUTUBE CHANNEL - http://www.youtube.com/amwowttv/ THE PAT COOK SHOW - http://www.livevideo.com/thepcshow THE PAT COOK SHOW (Video Podcast) - Blogger Page - http://thepctvshow.blogspot.com/ - BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/19924
[videoblogging] Re: camtwist:free program to add effect to your webcam
Yeah thats pretty much how camtwist works, it shows up in apps as if its a camera. The reason there are more of these effect programs on the Mac is Quartz Composer, which enables a wider range of people than hardcore C++ etc programmers, to make new effects. This tech has been around since OS X Tiger but is improved in Leopard, and now enables effects in ichat without the need for 3rd party apps to add this functionality. Maybe there is a PC equivalent, Im guessing that similar stuff is built into some chat apps, and perhaps bundled with certain webcams, but theres possibly not a nice 'virtual driver' version that would work with your chat app of choice - hopefully Im wrong on this and someone will chime in with a solution. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone: On Dec 12, 2007 9:37 AM, jonny goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mac Download of Camtwist here: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/24275/camtwist Not sure if there is a PC version. Too bad there isn't a PC version as all there would be needed I imagine would be a virtual driver and a GUI to pick the camera or other video device to capture from. The virtual driver could be used by streaming applications or (In the case of BlogTV shows) ActiveX controls to stream what's captured by the virtual driver to viewers on the net. With enough CPU, there should be little or no loss of quality at all. Just my opinion Cheers :D -- Pat Cook Denver, Colorado PODCASTS - AS MY WORLD TURNS - Blogger Page - http://asmyworldturnstv.blogspot.com/ BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/20453 AS MY WEIGHT LOSS WORLD TURNS (NEW VIDEO PODCAST!!)- http://asmyweightlossworldturns.blogspot.com PAT'S REAL DEAL VIDEO BLOG - http://patsrealdeal.livejournal.com/ PAT'S HEALTH MEDICAL WONDERS VIDEOCAST - http://patshealthmedicalwondersvideocast.blogspot.com/ YOUTUBE CHANNEL - http://www.youtube.com/amwowttv/ THE PAT COOK SHOW - http://www.livevideo.com/thepcshow THE PAT COOK SHOW (Video Podcast) - Blogger Page - http://thepctvshow.blogspot.com/ - BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/19924
[videoblogging] Re: Point Of View mounted cameras.
Some of the challenges I face are water droplets on the lens, Cheap, Quick and dirty solutions... RainX on an inexpensive but quality filter. UV would be my first suggestion ... cheap. Some problems with this ... backlight especially at night can reveal the silicon ... it is a Test it First for the application. Next is forced air across the lens plane ... think of those places where you walk into an open doorway and pass through a curtain of air ... used this to shoot straight up into a rain storm. Will really work best on a stationary camera position, but some creative thinking might overcome that limitation. The speed/velocity of this air has to exceed the force of the rain or water spray ... I used a Squirrel Fan and a funnel to channel the air into a narrower outlet. My friend is giving me a small Orik (spelling) portable vacuum, I think it is battery operated ... reversing the motor on something like this with a tube and flange is one idea that comes to mind to attempt a backpack device. sun direct into the lens, Didn't your mom tell you not to look at the sun? This is the hardest to overcome ... A ND filter maybe in combo with a pola. A lens shade or hood is really the ticket, but it can add drag and stabilization difficulty, bit like sticking a cup out the window of a moving car ... could add a couple of vent holes MAYBE. Now you could try to make it work for you ... Star filter for example ... gives a pattern ... Gradient (Think CSI Miami) But these are not cheap cheap, so your next problem will mean costs of broken filters. http://www.tiffen.com/color_grad_filters_pics.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db4M3x8EJ9U damage from wipeouts Crash Cams - on movies there is a crash camera housing ... weight is an issue ... could look into modifying a couple of teh small pelican cases ... I love this companies stuff http://pelican.com/home.php lots of footage to edit as the cams are turned on and left running till the battery runs flat or the tape or SD card fill up. WiFi - to edit deck/DVR combo. http://ls.cinematography.net/read/?forum=cml-hd-prosumer (member site, donation accepted - well worth it) I will look at your site later. But the quick peek, I am impressed.
[videoblogging] Re: camtwist:free program to add effect to your webcam
Cool. I was going to ask if anybody who is experimenting with live video, was using effects, or had started to consider what their ultimate live setup would consist of. Reason I ask is that Ive always been interested in VJ tools for live video, being used for other applications. I am rather interested in systems that could aid an individual, enabling them to control a 'live personal tv station'. Now for most people doing that sort of thing, I imagine they dont have too many over the top needs, but all the same I am interested in the possibilities for controlling multiple camer feeds, effects, video clips, etc. Especially when coupled with some relatively cheap hardware, such as midi controllers or ipod touch the appropriate software, which can be more fun or better at controlling certain parameters live. I just went overboard and got one of these extremely wonderful and flexible controllers: http://www.jazzmutant.com/ Its a joy, and besides using it to control music,it has such potential for controlling things built using the (free) Quartz Composer on the Mac, opening up a lot of potential for realtime video stuff. If only I wasnt so darn shy, Id be all over live video, but for now I will just experiment and hopefully have something that may be of use to others at some point (the stuff I do in Quartz wont have to be used with the expensive jazzmutant). Im just finally getting a blog together and will post a link once theres some content, it will mostly document the experiments. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, jonny goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's kind of fun---in addition to adding effects to your webcam streaming video, you can also splice in video clips live into blogtv--a work around for their lack of a built in feature to cut to canned clips. Here's a cheesy but fun example Scott Stead and I did last night to add effects to a video we created for seesmic (after a few glasses of wine) Example of camtwist in action: http://tinyurl.com/26th5z Mac Download of Camtwist here: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/24275/camtwist Not sure if there is a PC version.
[videoblogging] CamTwist:P-Vybe Clicker Test
Ron sent videoblogging@yahoogroups.com a message on Facebook. Here's a quick test of Camtwist I did about a month ago for facebook. You can see how painfully slow our cel connection is. The affect is called take on me... brings back memories... Cheers, Ron To reply to this message, follow the link below: http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=748145435k=Y5D55WP5RVZMYKCDQGV2R [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] student vlogging at leedsvlog
Hi all I'm teaching a short course on videoblogging at Leeds College of Art in the north of England -its just a couple of weeks but there are twenty students they should be posting 5 movies each by Wednesday next. It's at: http://www.leedsvlog.org/vlog/ i was just peeping some f the work done over here. I encourage everyone to check out a couple videos. we all know how being new and getting comments is good for inspiration. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Video: http://ryanishungry.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/jaydedman Photos: http://flickr.com/photos/jaydedman/ RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9
[videoblogging] taxes on videos in France
French government wants to taxe the videos on internet Crazy Sarkozy http://tinyurl.com/yq2r7e Loiez D. http://www.loiez.org skype:ultimcodex
[videoblogging] Re: CamTwist:P-Vybe Clicker Test
Thats one thing that irkles me about Quartz Composer, people redistributing effects without crediting the original author. Here is the blog of the original creator of the Take Me On effect, and others: http://www.samkass.com/blog/page4/page4.html Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron sent videoblogging@yahoogroups.com a message on Facebook. Here's a quick test of Camtwist I did about a month ago for facebook. You can see how painfully slow our cel connection is. The affect is called take on me... brings back memories... Cheers, Ron To reply to this message, follow the link below: http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=748145435k=Y5D55WP5RVZMYKCDQGV2R [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] taxes on videos in France
english? On Dec 12, 2007 2:33 PM, Loiez D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: French government wants to taxe the videos on internet Crazy Sarkozy http://tinyurl.com/yq2r7e Loiez D. http://www.loiez.org skype:ultimcodex [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: CamTwist:P-Vybe Clicker Test
Is it people like me that irk you or people like camtwist? Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://pawsitivevybe.com/vlog http://pawsitivevybe.com On Dec 12, 2007, at 2:42 PM, Steve Watkins wrote: Thats one thing that irkles me about Quartz Composer, people redistributing effects without crediting the original author. Here is the blog of the original creator of the Take Me On effect, and others: http://www.samkass.com/blog/page4/page4.html Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron sent videoblogging@yahoogroups.com a message on Facebook. Here's a quick test of Camtwist I did about a month ago for facebook. You can see how painfully slow our cel connection is. The affect is called take on me... brings back memories... Cheers, Ron To reply to this message, follow the link below: http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=748145435k=Y5D55WP5RVZMYKCDQGV2R [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: CamTwist:P-Vybe Clicker Test
Oops sorry I didnt consider that ambiguity in what I was saying. I meant people who are releasing apps or packs of quartz composer effects, that dont bother to mention that they didnt make the effects themselves. Im sure many effect creators are not wishing to police their effects redistribution too heavily, or get insane amounts of credit, but jsut like vloggers, I assume attribution may mean something to them. I havent ever really thought about whether people who use the efects in their vids should give props to the effect creator. People sometimes mention the tools they use, which is always nice, but I dont think its a requirement by any means, although again its really down to the creator of the effects to put terms on its use. Quartz Composer is nice because people can look inside and see how the effects are made, if they like, but as usual it seems this, like video, is often confused for a free-for-all where anybody can use the stuff for any purpose, no matter how commercial or not, without considering whether they might need to ask for the right to use stuff. Personally I released a few half-baked leopard ichat quartz composer effects, and I dont expect any credit for them for any use at all, but in the future when I do more Quartsz Composer stuff, I will be attaching liberal, but not public domain, terms to them. I wont want people to be selling software with those files included, unless they at least ask me so I can give permission if I choose, on a case by case basis. Camtwist is free so they arent in that legue, but all the same I didnt see any mention that others wrote the original effects, so I posted to their forum about it. Previously I forgot to say that the link to your video didnt come through, so I havent actually seen it, I recognised the effect by its name. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it people like me that irk you or people like camtwist? Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://pawsitivevybe.com/vlog http://pawsitivevybe.com On Dec 12, 2007, at 2:42 PM, Steve Watkins wrote: Thats one thing that irkles me about Quartz Composer, people redistributing effects without crediting the original author. Here is the blog of the original creator of the Take Me On effect, and others: http://www.samkass.com/blog/page4/page4.html Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson k9disc@ wrote: Ron sent videoblogging@yahoogroups.com a message on Facebook. Here's a quick test of Camtwist I did about a month ago for facebook. You can see how painfully slow our cel connection is. The affect is called take on me... brings back memories... Cheers, Ron To reply to this message, follow the link below: http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=748145435k=Y5D55WP5RVZMYKCDQGV2R [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] TRANSLATION: Taxes on videos in France READ THIS
Here's what the article says in English after a quick and dirty non-machine translation: This Wednesday, the Senate debated an amendment which would provide the installation of a tax on revenue generated from the broadcast of video content on the internet. The revenues from video-sharing platforms like Dailymotion and YouTube will be directly targeted. In addition, the tax could impact every internet user who offers videos on the internet. This amendment, part of finance law-changes for 2007, was already voted in by the National Assembly last December. Most notably, it provides for a 2% tax on the advertising revenue of sites that broadcast under the banner of free or pay for works or cinematic/audiovisual documents. The no-cost broadcast of content watched by internet users will also be reconsidered. This measure has caused a firestorm among those under threat. The young Association of Internet Public Services (ASIC), composed of major players on the web such as Dailymotion, Google France, PriceMinister, Yahoo! et AOL, believe that this amendment will open a terrible door in the French internet sector and in technological development within the country. We can't allow the adoption of a tax that handicaps the free diffusion of information and the sharing of content created by internet users, declared the two co-presidents of ASIC, Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet et Giuseppe de Martino.If it is now natural to reflect on new modes of financing of the cultural industry, to tax the creations of internet users seems particularly unnatural. The ISP's, brought together under the AFA, are also coming in and denouncing the lack of preliminary debate and consultation with the professionals conerned. If this amendment is passed by the commision of Finance in the Senate, it will be presented for approval by the Senate on the 17th of December and will be enforced as of the 1st of January, 2008. On 12/12/2007, Loiez D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: French government wants to taxe the videos on internet Crazy Sarkozy http://tinyurl.com/yq2r7e Loiez D. http://www.loiez.org skype:ultimcodex -- Jeffrey Taylor Mobile: +33625497654 Fax: +33177722734 Skype: thejeffreytaylor Googlechat/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://twitter.com/jeffreytaylor [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] TRANSLATION: Taxes on videos in France READ THIS
Thx my friend United vloggers All the world needs guy like you Loiez Le 12 déc. 07 à 22:22, Jeffrey Taylor a écrit : Here's what the article says in English after a quick and dirty non- machine translation: Loiez D. http://www.loiez.org skype:ultimcodex [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: TRANSLATION: Taxes on videos in France READ THIS
So any idea if this ammendment is likely to pass? In cynical mode I am wary that a spectre of unfair tax doom for the free video masses is being waved around by industry, when they are actually worried about a tax on their advert revenue. Free stuff, made for free, watched for free, with little expectation of profit or money changing hands, cannot be taxed, the only way to do that would be to require all video creators to have a license to vlog, and I dont know how that could even be considered as practical in a youtube, daily motion etc age. So, just like when the loud calls for protest from time to time in the USA, whenever the spectre of regulation of the net in one kind or another rears its ugly head, I suspect that its more about protecting freedom for business to profit, than any wider freedom for the everyman. Regulation the the net sounds like a horror, but does no regulation of internet advertising sound like a joy to anybody but those who profit most from such things? Steering back towards this tax issue rather than regulation, I dont understand why a special tax is needed. Surely any profit made by either creators or services, should already be classed as income and taxed accordingly? Is there some loophole that companies are using to avoid paying a fair tax in France that has caused this ammendment to be proposed? Or are there other factors at work, such as a tax system that attempts to directly tax a specific area in order to subsidise other projects in the same field? Eg are they intending to use the revenues from this tax, to fund the traditional projets of defending their own culture, language etc? Some time ago Casey (I think) posted about some Canadian proposal, which caused me to read a little on their system of promoting home-made content. Im sure it happens in many countries, as part of a response/defense to the USA's huge success at cultural media exports. (including cheap stuff that local creators cant compete with). I beleive there was recently a short discussion about this sort of thing on the Videoblogging Europe mailing list, some suggestions that Europe and elsewhere need to get better at exporting their culture via media etc. But I digress, as usual. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jeffrey Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's what the article says in English after a quick and dirty non-machine translation: This Wednesday, the Senate debated an amendment which would provide the installation of a tax on revenue generated from the broadcast of video content on the internet. The revenues from video-sharing platforms like Dailymotion and YouTube will be directly targeted. In addition, the tax could impact every internet user who offers videos on the internet. This amendment, part of finance law-changes for 2007, was already voted in by the National Assembly last December. Most notably, it provides for a 2% tax on the advertising revenue of sites that broadcast under the banner of free or pay for works or cinematic/audiovisual documents. The no-cost broadcast of content watched by internet users will also be reconsidered. This measure has caused a firestorm among those under threat. The young Association of Internet Public Services (ASIC), composed of major players on the web such as Dailymotion, Google France, PriceMinister, Yahoo! et AOL, believe that this amendment will open a terrible door in the French internet sector and in technological development within the country. We can't allow the adoption of a tax that handicaps the free diffusion of information and the sharing of content created by internet users, declared the two co-presidents of ASIC, Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet et Giuseppe de Martino.If it is now natural to reflect on new modes of financing of the cultural industry, to tax the creations of internet users seems particularly unnatural. The ISP's, brought together under the AFA, are also coming in and denouncing the lack of preliminary debate and consultation with the professionals conerned. If this amendment is passed by the commision of Finance in the Senate, it will be presented for approval by the Senate on the 17th of December and will be enforced as of the 1st of January, 2008. On 12/12/2007, Loiez D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: French government wants to taxe the videos on internet Crazy Sarkozy http://tinyurl.com/yq2r7e Loiez D. http://www.loiez.org skype:ultimcodex -- Jeffrey Taylor Mobile: +33625497654 Fax: +33177722734 Skype: thejeffreytaylor Googlechat/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://twitter.com/jeffreytaylor [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: CamTwist:P-Vybe Clicker Test
The author replied in their forum, he got permission from the effect creators, and apparently they are credited in the readme and somewhere in the settings for effects, so I was dumb and not looking in the right places, and so it seems this app is actually a shining example of people doing the right thing by giving credit where its due. So sorry for waffling about this, me wrong again lol, ah well. If anybody has any ideas for anything theyd like to do in CamTwist or some other QC-based video effects, I might be able to help with customising or creating enw quartz compositions to achieve this. Are there many people on this list doing live shows, or shows that involve talking to other people via video chat, that would have any interest in this stuff? Id like to be of some small use, but if its not really on-topic I'll save it for elsewhere. Cheers Steve Elbows
