Re: [videoblogging] Flickr adds video - max length 90 seconds?
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:30 PM, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My jailbroken iPhone has a video recorder that is really just a proof of concept: it records 5 seconds of video, no audio. Useless, but pretty damn exciting! Yeah, that's the last I heard of it. Would have hoped they'd build on it by now. But wasn't that 5 seconds at 1600x1200 or some such insane resolution? -Mike mmeiser.com/blog -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [videoblogging] Re: What Video Format is Suitable for Large Screen Viewing (at a conference)
Caution: don't count on a good (or any) internet connection on the day, have your media downloaded to a computer and a flash drive, too. The first step in such a process is to find out what options you have at the venue, and work within those constraints, with backups on backups (as above). Good luck! Jan --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, jocelynford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am producing a short video for a conference on the Olympics and media freedom that takes place in Paris next week. The video will be viewed on a large screen. It doesn't need to be great quality (I'm a newbie, so it won't be!) But it should be watchable. I have recorded the interviews in mp4 on a Sanyo C40 xacti, using a Sandisk card. I can use either moviemaker or powerdirector6 software to edit. I'd like to know what format to use for the best possible quality images on a big screen. If I use videoconverter I can convert to wmv, flv, mpg, mp4, avi. With powerdirector I can save it as .mpeg1, .mpeg2, .avi., divX, avc .mpeg4. I also have powerdirector options like write back to dv tape/hdv tape (I would need to confirm whether the organizers have tape, and the appropriate screening deviceI don't) and media max (whatever that is!) Other options: I can upload it to youtube. I recall reading about a trick that made youtube less fuzzy on bigscreens, but don't know what it is. I'd appreciate any advice! jocelyn U.S. public radio/Foreign Correspondents Club media freedoms committee beijing Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] seen anything like Kewazinga?
Recently left agency-land for a startup and we are planning the kind of videos we want to produce. Along with videoblogs, we are looking to shoot videos of movements that are part of our programs. I ran across this in my research http://kewazinga.com/ - that had a pretty interesting setup where they combined shots from a couple of different angles (think bullettime) into one flashplayer. (on the site click the link for Hyperlive) The Kewazinga guys are out of business but I was wondering if anyone here had seen any other companies doing something similar? -- Sean W. Bohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.seanbohan.com Athletes' Performance E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.athletesperformance.com Located in Tempe, AZ: Carson, CA: Las Vegas, NV: Gulf Breeze, FL www.coreperformance.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Let's watch a video
Just stumbled across that weirdly rude and aggressive thread about Lumieres from January that bore my name without me knowing. Very depressing. Almost as depressing as coming back to this group after six months to read about Wikipedia again. Anyway, since videoblogging outside this list is very rarely depressing, I thought I'd share something nice and sunny from the outside world. I always wish that this list would turn me on to stuff I haven't seen, the way that Twitter does. I searched and can't see any mention of it thus far on the list - Bill Streeter's launched a new site called LoFi Sessions, where he shoots musicians in whichever room they choose in the St Louis City Museum - one take, live sound, acoustic. It's great. Go over there and give him some comment love. http://lofisessions.com/
[videoblogging] Lumieres
Just to follow up, I think Lumieres are a wonderful thing. I think Andreas Brittany should get massive kudos for it. Rox didn't deserve the rudeness. She'd just seen a Lumiere of mine which credited Andreas after he'd first announced Lumieres, before he ever mentioned Brittany. No fault. And Rox corrected it quickly. She's too good a person to be treated roughly and not given the benefit of the doubt like that. An apology wouldn't have been out of order. Anyway, I remember not agreeing with half the manifesto, the bits with A B's wider issues and opinions (whether they were playing devils advocate or not). But that doesn't stop me making Lumieres, or Lumieres with sound, or Lumieres with one or other of the rules broken. They're too much fun, and they can be wonderful ways to capture scenes and moments and get inspired. To frame a scene like a photograph in a way that you otherwise might not. And I don't think the presence of the manifesto implicates you in any sort of opinion that you don't yourself hold, just because you make a Lumiere and it gets posted on videoblogging.info. So. No need for politics or conflict. If you want to sign up to Andreas Brittany's rousing call to arms, you can. Equally, manifestos are just as powerful when bent and broken as they are when conformed to. Just ask Andreas' compatriot, Lars Von Trier. I'd like to see a lot more Lumieres again :)
[videoblogging] Mike Hudack
Hey everyone, I recently posted a video interview with Blip.tv's CEO, Mike Hudack. For those of you who haven't met him in person - he's charming, well-spoken and on-point. I thought this list might have a particular interest in seeing the interview. You can check it out at www.pathbreaker.tv. Here's to meta-media - a leader in the democratization of media on what it's like to do what he does. Enjoy. ~devon -- I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps. I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a savage harvest, hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails, I want to eat your skin like a whole almond. I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body, the sovereign nose of your arrogant face, I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes, and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue. - Pablo Neruda http://www.karenscape.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Something to talk about?
If this has happened to you or you know someone it has happened to, vlog it, spread the word, especially in a campaign year. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/us/14drug.html? pagewanted=1_r=1no_interstitial Only the first page is below With the new pricing system, insurers abandoned the traditional arrangement that has patients pay a fixed amount, like $10, $20 or $30 for a prescription, no matter what the drug's actual cost. Instead, they are charging patients a percentage of the cost of certain high-priced drugs, usually 20 to 33 percent, which can amount to thousands of dollars a month. The system means that the burden of expensive health care can now affect insured people, too. No one knows how many patients are affected, but hundreds of drugs are priced this new way. They are used to treat diseases that may be fairly common, including multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, hemophilia, hepatitis C and some cancers. There are no cheaper equivalents for these drugs, so patients are forced to pay the price or do without. Insurers say the new system keeps everyone's premiums down at a time when some of the most innovative and promising new treatments for conditions like cancer and rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis can cost $100,000 and more a year. But the result is that patients may have to spend more for a drug than they pay for their mortgages, more, in some cases, than their monthly incomes. The system, often called Tier 4, began in earnest with Medicare drug plans and spread rapidly. It is now incorporated into 86 percent of those plans. Some have even higher co-payments for certain drugs, a Tier 5. Now Tier 4 is also showing up in insurance that people buy on their own or acquire through employers, said Dan Mendelson of Avalere Health, a research organization in Washington. It is the fastest- growing segment in private insurance, Mr. Mendelson said. Five years ago it was virtually nonexistent in private plans, he said. Now 10 percent of them have Tier 4 drug categories. Private insurers began offering Tier 4 plans in response to employers who were looking for ways to keep costs down, said Karen Ignagni, president of America's Health Insurance Plans, which represents most of the nation's health insurers. When people who need Tier 4 drugs pay more for them, other subscribers in the plan pay less for their coverage. But the new system sticks seriously ill people with huge bills, said James Robinson, a health economist at the University of California, Berkeley. It is very unfortunate social policy, Dr. Robinson said. The more the sick person pays, the less the healthy person pays. Traditionally, the idea of insurance was to spread the costs of paying for the sick. This is an erosion of the traditional concept of insurance, Mr. Mendelson said. Those beneficiaries who bear the burden of illness are also bearing the burden of cost. And often, patients say, they had no idea that they would be faced with such a situation. It happened to Robin Steinwand, 53, who has multiple sclerosis. In January, shortly after Ms. Steinwand renewed her insurance policy with Kaiser Permanente, she went to refill her prescription for Copaxone. She had been insured with Kaiser for 17 years through her husband, a federal employee, and had had no complaints about the coverage. She had been taking Copaxone since multiple sclerosis was diagnosed in 2000, buying a 30 days' supply at a time. And even though the drug costs $1,900 a month, Kaiser required only a $20 co-payment. Not this time. When Ms. Steinwand went to pick up her prescription at a pharmacy near her home in Silver Spring, Md., the pharmacist handed her a bill for $325. Health insurance companies are rapidly adopting a new pricing system for very expensive drugs, asking patients to pay hundreds and even thousands of dollars for prescriptions for medications that may save their lives or slow the progress of serious diseases. There must be a mistake, Ms. Steinwand said. So the pharmacist checked with her supervisor. The new price was correct. Kaiser's policy had changed. Now Kaiser was charging 25 percent of the cost of the drug up to a maximum of $325 per prescription. Her annual cost would be $3,900 and unless her insurance changed or the drug dropped in price, it would go on for the rest of her life. I charged it, then got into my car and burst into tears, Ms. Steinwand said. She needed the drug, she said, because it can slow the course of her disease. And she knew she would just have to pay for it, but it would not be easy. It's a tough economic time for everyone, she said. My son will start college in a year and a half. We are asking ourselves, can we afford a vacation? Can we continue to save for retirement and college?
RE: [videoblogging] Something to talk about?
With the new pricing system, insurers abandoned the traditional arrangement that has patients pay a fixed amount, like $10, $20 or $30 for a prescription, no matter what the drug's actual cost. Instead, they are charging patients a percentage of the cost of certain high-priced drugs, usually 20 to 33 percent, which can amount to thousands of dollars a month. The system means that the burden of expensive health care can now affect insured people, too. No one knows how many patients are affected, but hundreds of drugs are priced this new way. They are used to treat diseases that may be fairly common, including multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, hemophilia, hepatitis C and some cancers. There are no cheaper equivalents for these drugs, so patients are forced to pay the price or do without. Insurers say the new system keeps everyone's premiums down at a time when some of the most innovative and promising new treatments for conditions like cancer and rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis can cost $100,000 and more a year. What insurers don't say is that this is designed to recoup costs from their failed investments. Insurers take the premium money and invest it, they make money off of that large pool and pay for the services out of the investment cashflow. When the market tanks, people have to cough up more money to keep the ponzi scheme afloat. But the result is that patients may have to spend more for a drug than they pay for their mortgages, more, in some cases, than their monthly incomes. ... But the new system sticks seriously ill people with huge bills, said James Robinson, a health economist at the University of California, Berkeley. It is very unfortunate social policy, Dr. Robinson said. The more the sick person pays, the less the healthy person pays. Traditionally, the idea of insurance was to spread the costs of paying for the sick. This is an erosion of the traditional concept of insurance, Mr. Mendelson said. Those beneficiaries who bear the burden of illness are also bearing the burden of cost. Kind of defeats the whole purpose of insurance, doesn't it? The friggin' reason we pay insurance is to protect us when we get really sick. It's to protect us from catastrophic bills as a result of catastrophic illness or injury. And often, patients say, they had no idea that they would be faced with such a situation. It happened to Robin Steinwand, 53, who has multiple sclerosis. In January, shortly after Ms. Steinwand renewed her insurance policy with Kaiser Permanente, she went to refill her prescription for Copaxone. She had been insured with Kaiser for 17 years through her husband, a federal employee, and had had no complaints about the coverage. She had been taking Copaxone since multiple sclerosis was diagnosed in 2000, buying a 30 days' supply at a time. And even though the drug costs $1,900 a month, Kaiser required only a $20 co-payment. Not this time. When Ms. Steinwand went to pick up her prescription at a pharmacy near her home in Silver Spring, Md., the pharmacist handed her a bill for $325. It happened to me too. Went in to have skin cancer removed from my back (I was 33 years old at the time..) I was insured and referred. When I had the growth removed I was socked with a $1000 doctor bill as I was getting my wallet out to pay a copay. Needless to say I was shocked AND pissed off. There must be a mistake, Ms. Steinwand said. So the pharmacist checked with her supervisor. The new price was correct. Kaiser's policy had changed. Now Kaiser was charging 25 percent of the cost of the drug up to a maximum of $325 per prescription. Her annual cost would be $3,900 and unless her insurance changed or the drug dropped in price, it would go on for the rest of her life. I charged it, then got into my car and burst into tears, Ms. Steinwand said. She needed the drug, she said, because it can slow the course of her disease. And she knew she would just have to pay for it, but it would not be easy. It's a tough economic time for everyone, she said. My son will start college in a year and a half. We are asking ourselves, can we afford a vacation? Can we continue to save for retirement and college? This is extortion, plain and simple. For profit medicine is extortion. We need to cut the dead weight - cut out the middleman. People should not have to suffer and die for Insurance companies poor investment strategies. Healthcare should be a human right. Cheers, Ron [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Flickr adds video - max length 90 seconds?
I think it is... not sure as I have no idea how to even get the video off my darn iPhone! Its a cool proof of concept; nothing much more. On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:35 AM, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:30 PM, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]schlomo%40gmail.com wrote: My jailbroken iPhone has a video recorder that is really just a proof of concept: it records 5 seconds of video, no audio. Useless, but pretty damn exciting! Yeah, that's the last I heard of it. Would have hoped they'd build on it by now. But wasn't that 5 seconds at 1600x1200 or some such insane resolution? -Mike mmeiser.com/blog -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Mike Hudack
Fantastic interview! I really enjoyed it! I went ahead and signed up so I can check out new videos as they come in. Sheila --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Devon White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everyone, I recently posted a video interview with Blip.tv's CEO, Mike Hudack.
[videoblogging] Fwd: Death sentence for Afghan journalist
let me know if any of you would like to do a video interview -- pls read below -- Forwarded message -- Not long ago, another alumnus sent out an email about a young Afghan journalist who was sentenced to death for blasphemy and other crimes against Islam. The sentence for the journalist, Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh, was handed down after a cursory trial in sharia court, in which Parwez was denied any legal representation. That case is scheduled to be appealed in Kabul in the coming weeks. His brother works as a journalist for an international media development organization, the Institute for War Peace Reporting (IWPR). IWPR's Afghanistan Country Director, Jean MacKenzie, will be in New York and Washington in late April and would be available for interviews or meetings if any of you would like to know more about the case. She'd likely be able to put folks in touch directly with Parwez's brother, Yakub Ibrahimi, for interviews on the upcoming appeal as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://geekentertainment.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
