RE: [videoblogging] Re:From Mac *TO* PC -- Should I Switch?
I can agree that purchase one..maybe two warranties on products can be a wise choice. This is especially true if you are in a financial situation where you shouldn't be purchasing the product in the first place. Or if you're in a situation where wasting your time on downtime would be a greater inconvenience than being out the money. For instance, with AppleCare, the inconvenience on the iPhone might have been $60 had it not paid off. Without it, the inconvenience would have been no phone until the warranty repair turned it around in a couple of weeks (and/or buying another phone). In that case, the potential of losing $60 was lower risk than the risk of being out a phone for 2 weeks. The added bonus of having a new phone in under 15 minutes made the $60 an easy decision. It's just important to remember that either decision you make is a bet and the one that gives you the better odds is the decision of *not* buying extended warranties. Not the other way around. That entirely depends on what you're factoring for. Time is way more important to me than the extra $100 or $200 for bigger ticket items. If I spend $100 to insure against losing both the item and my time, the $100 is a no brainer. Does that mean you should buy an extended warranty for everything? Certainly not. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re:From Mac *TO* PC -- Should I Switch?
Another thing to definitely consider. but getting back to the topic at hand, i'd summarize the conversation as the following: Mac - It's much more expensive but a better value and you'll be very happy PC - You'll be reasonably happy and have more money in your pocket but you'll have a higher learning curve. On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Jake Ludington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can agree that purchase one..maybe two warranties on products can be a wise choice. This is especially true if you are in a financial situation where you shouldn't be purchasing the product in the first place. Or if you're in a situation where wasting your time on downtime would be a greater inconvenience than being out the money. For instance, with AppleCare, the inconvenience on the iPhone might have been $60 had it not paid off. Without it, the inconvenience would have been no phone until the warranty repair turned it around in a couple of weeks (and/or buying another phone). In that case, the potential of losing $60 was lower risk than the risk of being out a phone for 2 weeks. The added bonus of having a new phone in under 15 minutes made the $60 an easy decision. It's just important to remember that either decision you make is a bet and the one that gives you the better odds is the decision of *not* buying extended warranties. Not the other way around. That entirely depends on what you're factoring for. Time is way more important to me than the extra $100 or $200 for bigger ticket items. If I spend $100 to insure against losing both the item and my time, the $100 is a no brainer. Does that mean you should buy an extended warranty for everything? Certainly not. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
[videoblogging] Recommendations for a small camera (Xacti or other) to shoot in India
Hey all, I'm heading to India for my honeymoon and the entire summer and plan to vlog and do some interviews from there. I *do not* plan to bring my macbook. I just want to bring a firewire or usb cable and upload at cafes. It needs to be small, light and easy to travel with and have decent sound. Recommendations? (and it you know of any simple web-based editing tools, let me know!) heather
Re: [videoblogging] Re:From Mac *TO* PC -- Should I Switch?
Macs are not much more expensive. Sorry to challenge that one! Just do a google search and read some of the posts. (Again, we use both in our office. People on this list have agreed that PC's are harder to use.) iMovie and iPhoto and iTunes come free - and Rocketboom used those tools and so did Beach Walks for well over a year before switching to FCP. You CAN produce a professional, highly edited product using the FREE software. (iMovie 6 is great editor - iMovie 8 not so much but that is another thread). Mac monitors have a more humane flicker rate so you won;'t go insane sitting in front of one all day. Already insane? Fine, get a Mac Mini for only and use your old Dell monitor and keyboard and being able to run Mac and PC on that sweet little box. Macs by default have better video cards. Most PC people I know end up upgrading the default card. Makes sense - most office workers (PC's largest target market) don't need good video cards, they are supposed to be writing Word docs and crunching Excel worksheets all day, so why load up a PC with one? But (snark alert) last I checked, this is a list for video creators. Do you tools support you or frustrate you? Here is a side by side chart: http://www.myspace-modifier.com/macintosh/the-mac-is-more-expensive-thats-crap/# Of course Macs are not perfect. No machine, no company, no person is. I've used them for over 20 years and had great response from them. But then when something goes wrong, I call calmly assuming it will be fixed not ranting that it should never have broken in the first place. (Hint hint - how to get good customer service) This message started off with a comparison from a very old Mac to a brand new top of the line Mac. Yes, you are going to spend some bucks taking that route. But that doesn't mean Macs are more expensive. It means you have champagne taste, and I will be the first to raise a glass to that! I always buy the best computer I can possibly afford at each new milestone, knowing it will last me longer. I still have a 12 G4 laptop and it serves as a great bookkeeping and surf-while-watching-TV machine. We just gave a 6-year old eMac running Tiger to a friend for her 3-year old. The thing only cost $899 when it was brand new, it still looks great and performs just fine if you are not in a big hurry. I rarely choose to rant on this list. It's kinda fun to get out of my box though. :-) Aloha and thanks for listening, Rox On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Patrick Delongchamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another thing to definitely consider. but getting back to the topic at hand, i'd summarize the conversation as the following: Mac - It's much more expensive but a better value and you'll be very happy PC - You'll be reasonably happy and have more money in your pocket but you'll have a higher learning curve. On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Jake Ludington [EMAIL PROTECTED]jake%40jakeludington.com wrote: I can agree that purchase one..maybe two warranties on products can be a wise choice. This is especially true if you are in a financial situation where you shouldn't be purchasing the product in the first place. Or if you're in a situation where wasting your time on downtime would be a greater inconvenience than being out the money. For instance, with AppleCare, the inconvenience on the iPhone might have been $60 had it not paid off. Without it, the inconvenience would have been no phone until the warranty repair turned it around in a couple of weeks (and/or buying another phone). In that case, the potential of losing $60 was lower risk than the risk of being out a phone for 2 weeks. The added bonus of having a new phone in under 15 minutes made the $60 an easy decision. It's just important to remember that either decision you make is a bet and the one that gives you the better odds is the decision of *not* buying extended warranties. Not the other way around. That entirely depends on what you're factoring for. Time is way more important to me than the extra $100 or $200 for bigger ticket items. If I spend $100 to insure against losing both the item and my time, the $100 is a no brainer. Does that mean you should buy an extended warranty for everything? Certainly not. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com -- Roxanne Darling o ke kai means of the sea in hawaiian Join us at the reef! Mermaid videos, geeks talking, and lots more http://reef.beachwalks.tv 808-384-5554 Video -- http://www.beachwalks.tv Company -- http://www.barefeetstudios.com Twitter-- http://www.twitter.com/roxannedarling [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Recommendations for a small camera (Xacti or other) to shoot in India
I always recommend Sony. T300, I think it takes 10MP pictures now. Mine is a T100, and it takes 8MP pictures. In fine 640x480 mode, the movies are as good as from a video camera (IMHO), and it's a lot smaller than an xacti, and it's flat so you can slip it in the front pocket of your pants if you want. If you're worried about waterproof, you can go on ebay and find something called a DicaPac, it's a waterproof case for like fifteen bucks. Granted, you won't get audio right out of a bag, but your camera will be protected and you don't have to spend hundreds more for a waterproof camera. I have a Digital Foci hard drive photo/video viewer, and I bring it with me on trips like yours; at the end of the day (or whenever you fill up your card), you can copy your photos/videos to the hard drive, and empty out the card to use over again. I think mine has a 160GB hard drive in it. It's not a big name brand sony or an epson, but it was cheap and it works AWESOME. Hope this helps :) Susan http://www.kitykity.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, scoobyfox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I'm heading to India for my honeymoon and the entire summer and plan to vlog and do some interviews from there. I *do not* plan to bring my macbook. I just want to bring a firewire or usb cable and upload at cafes. It needs to be small, light and easy to travel with and have decent sound. Recommendations? (and it you know of any simple web-based editing tools, let me know!) heather
Re: [videoblogging] Re:From Mac *TO* PC -- Should I Switch?
true, but we're talking about notebook computers. I think we would both agree that Mac notebooks are generally much more expensive (though a better value) than notebook PCs available in Best Buy for example. Macbooks start at 1099 USD, whereas Bestbuy Notebook PCs start at half the price. I think it was a pretty reasonable statement. On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Roxanne Darling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Macs are not much more expensive. Sorry to challenge that one! Just do a google search and read some of the posts. (Again, we use both in our office. People on this list have agreed that PC's are harder to use.) iMovie and iPhoto and iTunes come free - and Rocketboom used those tools and so did Beach Walks for well over a year before switching to FCP. You CAN produce a professional, highly edited product using the FREE software. (iMovie 6 is great editor - iMovie 8 not so much but that is another thread). Mac monitors have a more humane flicker rate so you won;'t go insane sitting in front of one all day. Already insane? Fine, get a Mac Mini for only and use your old Dell monitor and keyboard and being able to run Mac and PC on that sweet little box. Macs by default have better video cards. Most PC people I know end up upgrading the default card. Makes sense - most office workers (PC's largest target market) don't need good video cards, they are supposed to be writing Word docs and crunching Excel worksheets all day, so why load up a PC with one? But (snark alert) last I checked, this is a list for video creators. Do you tools support you or frustrate you? Here is a side by side chart: http://www.myspace-modifier.com/macintosh/the-mac-is-more-expensive-thats-crap/# Of course Macs are not perfect. No machine, no company, no person is. I've used them for over 20 years and had great response from them. But then when something goes wrong, I call calmly assuming it will be fixed not ranting that it should never have broken in the first place. (Hint hint - how to get good customer service) This message started off with a comparison from a very old Mac to a brand new top of the line Mac. Yes, you are going to spend some bucks taking that route. But that doesn't mean Macs are more expensive. It means you have champagne taste, and I will be the first to raise a glass to that! I always buy the best computer I can possibly afford at each new milestone, knowing it will last me longer. I still have a 12 G4 laptop and it serves as a great bookkeeping and surf-while-watching-TV machine. We just gave a 6-year old eMac running Tiger to a friend for her 3-year old. The thing only cost $899 when it was brand new, it still looks great and performs just fine if you are not in a big hurry. I rarely choose to rant on this list. It's kinda fun to get out of my box though. :-) Aloha and thanks for listening, Rox On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Patrick Delongchamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another thing to definitely consider. but getting back to the topic at hand, i'd summarize the conversation as the following: Mac - It's much more expensive but a better value and you'll be very happy PC - You'll be reasonably happy and have more money in your pocket but you'll have a higher learning curve. On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Jake Ludington [EMAIL PROTECTED]jake%40jakeludington.com wrote: I can agree that purchase one..maybe two warranties on products can be a wise choice. This is especially true if you are in a financial situation where you shouldn't be purchasing the product in the first place. Or if you're in a situation where wasting your time on downtime would be a greater inconvenience than being out the money. For instance, with AppleCare, the inconvenience on the iPhone might have been $60 had it not paid off. Without it, the inconvenience would have been no phone until the warranty repair turned it around in a couple of weeks (and/or buying another phone). In that case, the potential of losing $60 was lower risk than the risk of being out a phone for 2 weeks. The added bonus of having a new phone in under 15 minutes made the $60 an easy decision. It's just important to remember that either decision you make is a bet and the one that gives you the better odds is the decision of *not* buying extended warranties. Not the other way around. That entirely depends on what you're factoring for. Time is way more important to me than the extra $100 or $200 for bigger ticket items. If I spend $100 to insure against losing both the item and my time, the $100 is a no brainer. Does that mean you should buy an extended warranty for everything? Certainly not. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com -- Roxanne Darling o ke kai means of the sea in hawaiian Join us at the reef! Mermaid videos, geeks talking, and lots more http://reef.beachwalks.tv 808-384-5554 Video --
[videoblogging] Re: Free Beer to the person who can explain the steps of recording
Save your hair and use Camtasia 5 from TechSmith, export to any web format right out of it without going to any NLE. Always perfect tutorials with menu zoom and all. Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jennifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I've been pulling my hair out for weeks and just when I think I get close to having my 24 minute tutorial online for my team to see...something stops me DEAD in my tracks. I'm trying to record my audio and video (great quality not needed) of my screen (outlook, excel, browser, etc) so that my team can start taking more tasks off my plate. I would prefer to stick with CamStudio for now. I have 20 different people telling me to use 20 different software products and until I can figure out how to use the free one, I'm not going to start plunking down $300 a whack. I've been through every HOW TO RECORD SCREENS video on YouTube, Revver, SHOWMEDO etc and I have come to a few conclusions: 1. CamStudio will work just fine for what I need 2. The AVI file it produces is too large and I heard that it depends on the codec involved. 3. I'm clueless on the best compression method at this point and again I'm under the impression that using the same codec is important. 4. If I export to a SWF, audioacrobat can take it but bloats it up ten time bigger than original 5. If I export it to WVM it's all fuzzy and I lose the ability to see the text. I've redcued my screen reso to 800x600 before recording and tried to keep the end result at 640x480. I've tested both WMV, SWF, FLV and all come with issues. I've tried Reply, CamTasia, Media Manager 9, ViewletCam, Windows Movie Maker, VideoLAN/VLC, QuickTime, Windows Media Encoder, and now I've forgotten and have to start the cycle over again. Why can't anyone say Set the to , and the ___ to and give me a step by step from start to finish? Again, FREE BEER to whoever can explain this. Disclaimer, FREE BEER may be exchanged for cold hard cash.
[videoblogging] Re:From Mac *TO* PC -- Should I Switch?
Most of the active people on this list use Mac, but I would question wheather that everyone on this list has agreed PC's are harder to use.I frequent the DVX fourms and a lot and I mean A LOT of people there use PC's to edit. I know I may not be in your league Rox ;) but I think me and my PC have made some pretty nice videos on occasion...(which is due more to my own limited skill set than my PC.. ;) Heath http://batmangeek.com http://heathparks.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Roxanne Darling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Macs are not much more expensive. Sorry to challenge that one! Just do a google search and read some of the posts. (Again, we use both in our office. People on this list have agreed that PC's are harder to use.) iMovie and iPhoto and iTunes come free - and Rocketboom used those tools and so did Beach Walks for well over a year before switching to FCP. You CAN produce a professional, highly edited product using the FREE software. (iMovie 6 is great editor - iMovie 8 not so much but that is another thread). Mac monitors have a more humane flicker rate so you won;'t go insane sitting in front of one all day. Already insane? Fine, get a Mac Mini for only and use your old Dell monitor and keyboard and being able to run Mac and PC on that sweet little box. Macs by default have better video cards. Most PC people I know end up upgrading the default card. Makes sense - most office workers (PC's largest target market) don't need good video cards, they are supposed to be writing Word docs and crunching Excel worksheets all day, so why load up a PC with one? But (snark alert) last I checked, this is a list for video creators. Do you tools support you or frustrate you? Here is a side by side chart: http://www.myspace-modifier.com/macintosh/the-mac-is-more-expensive- thats-crap/# Of course Macs are not perfect. No machine, no company, no person is. I've used them for over 20 years and had great response from them. But then when something goes wrong, I call calmly assuming it will be fixed not ranting that it should never have broken in the first place. (Hint hint - how to get good customer service) This message started off with a comparison from a very old Mac to a brand new top of the line Mac. Yes, you are going to spend some bucks taking that route. But that doesn't mean Macs are more expensive. It means you have champagne taste, and I will be the first to raise a glass to that! I always buy the best computer I can possibly afford at each new milestone, knowing it will last me longer. I still have a 12 G4 laptop and it serves as a great bookkeeping and surf-while-watching-TV machine. We just gave a 6-year old eMac running Tiger to a friend for her 3-year old. The thing only cost $899 when it was brand new, it still looks great and performs just fine if you are not in a big hurry. I rarely choose to rant on this list. It's kinda fun to get out of my box though. :-) Aloha and thanks for listening, Rox On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Patrick Delongchamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another thing to definitely consider. but getting back to the topic at hand, i'd summarize the conversation as the following: Mac - It's much more expensive but a better value and you'll be very happy PC - You'll be reasonably happy and have more money in your pocket but you'll have a higher learning curve. On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Jake Ludington [EMAIL PROTECTED]jake% 40jakeludington.com wrote: I can agree that purchase one..maybe two warranties on products can be a wise choice. This is especially true if you are in a financial situation where you shouldn't be purchasing the product in the first place. Or if you're in a situation where wasting your time on downtime would be a greater inconvenience than being out the money. For instance, with AppleCare, the inconvenience on the iPhone might have been $60 had it not paid off. Without it, the inconvenience would have been no phone until the warranty repair turned it around in a couple of weeks (and/or buying another phone). In that case, the potential of losing $60 was lower risk than the risk of being out a phone for 2 weeks. The added bonus of having a new phone in under 15 minutes made the $60 an easy decision. It's just important to remember that either decision you make is a bet and the one that gives you the better odds is the decision of *not* buying extended warranties. Not the other way around. That entirely depends on what you're factoring for. Time is way more important to me than the extra $100 or $200 for bigger ticket items. If I spend $100 to insure against losing both the item and my time, the $100 is a no brainer. Does that mean you should buy an extended warranty for everything? Certainly not.
[videoblogging] Re: Free Beer to the person who can explain the steps of recording
You guys rock. I just mounted my video camera (digital camera with video capability) to my forehead. I'm still waiting for qik.com to have a sprint phone. Jennifer Goodwin http://www.internetgirlfriday.com/ www.internetGIRLfriday.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Free Beer to the person who can explain the steps of recording
UGH...just when I thought I was getting somewhere... Now that I've exhausted the FREE route, is there possibly a paid program worth looking into that ELIMINATES the conversion and hoop jumping? Is there really one 'set it', 'record it', 'upload it' solution out there? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re:From Mac *TO* PC -- Should I Switch?
My dear Heath, I do not mean to disparage anyone, especially you. I am merely tired of the mac is more expensive than PC mis-conception. It was true in the 80's, maybe some of the 90's, but not here in the new century, especially when you map components side by side. Most people who disparage Macs have never really used them. Most people who disparage PC's, have used them. I would bet money on that. I'll repeat my first comment in part - I truly admire being able to look at things objectively when group mind goes so strongly in one direction. I was curious to see what I would learn in the thread. And for me I have ended up where I started - an appreciative Mac user. :-) Thank you for speaking up! Love and hugs to you, Rox On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most of the active people on this list use Mac, but I would question wheather that everyone on this list has agreed PC's are harder to use.I frequent the DVX fourms and a lot and I mean A LOT of people there use PC's to edit. I know I may not be in your league Rox ;) but I think me and my PC have made some pretty nice videos on occasion...(which is due more to my own limited skill set than my PC.. ;) Heath http://batmangeek.com http://heathparks.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Roxanne Darling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Macs are not much more expensive. Sorry to challenge that one! Just do a google search and read some of the posts. (Again, we use both in our office. People on this list have agreed that PC's are harder to use.) iMovie and iPhoto and iTunes come free - and Rocketboom used those tools and so did Beach Walks for well over a year before switching to FCP. You CAN produce a professional, highly edited product using the FREE software. (iMovie 6 is great editor - iMovie 8 not so much but that is another thread). Mac monitors have a more humane flicker rate so you won;'t go insane sitting in front of one all day. Already insane? Fine, get a Mac Mini for only and use your old Dell monitor and keyboard and being able to run Mac and PC on that sweet little box. Macs by default have better video cards. Most PC people I know end up upgrading the default card. Makes sense - most office workers (PC's largest target market) don't need good video cards, they are supposed to be writing Word docs and crunching Excel worksheets all day, so why load up a PC with one? But (snark alert) last I checked, this is a list for video creators. Do you tools support you or frustrate you? Here is a side by side chart: http://www.myspace-modifier.com/macintosh/the-mac-is-more-expensive- thats-crap/# Of course Macs are not perfect. No machine, no company, no person is. I've used them for over 20 years and had great response from them. But then when something goes wrong, I call calmly assuming it will be fixed not ranting that it should never have broken in the first place. (Hint hint - how to get good customer service) This message started off with a comparison from a very old Mac to a brand new top of the line Mac. Yes, you are going to spend some bucks taking that route. But that doesn't mean Macs are more expensive. It means you have champagne taste, and I will be the first to raise a glass to that! I always buy the best computer I can possibly afford at each new milestone, knowing it will last me longer. I still have a 12 G4 laptop and it serves as a great bookkeeping and surf-while-watching-TV machine. We just gave a 6-year old eMac running Tiger to a friend for her 3-year old. The thing only cost $899 when it was brand new, it still looks great and performs just fine if you are not in a big hurry. I rarely choose to rant on this list. It's kinda fun to get out of my box though. :-) Aloha and thanks for listening, Rox On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Patrick Delongchamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another thing to definitely consider. but getting back to the topic at hand, i'd summarize the conversation as the following: Mac - It's much more expensive but a better value and you'll be very happy PC - You'll be reasonably happy and have more money in your pocket but you'll have a higher learning curve. On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Jake Ludington [EMAIL PROTECTED]jake% 40jakeludington.com wrote: I can agree that purchase one..maybe two warranties on products can be a wise choice. This is especially true if you are in a financial situation where you shouldn't be purchasing the product in the first place. Or if you're in a situation where wasting your time on downtime would be a greater inconvenience than being out the money. For instance, with AppleCare, the inconvenience on the iPhone might have been $60 had it not paid off. Without it, the
