Re: [videoblogging] Presenting stills in video
here is a snap shot of a fish i made into 3d http://blip.tv/file/575096/ here is a nother one http://blip.tv/file/521984/ done with photo shop and afer effects On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:51 AM, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm too tired to remember the name, but I saw a British TV documentary last year that took old archive photos and subtly animated elements in the background or foreground. So parts of a photo behind or in front of people which were sky or grass or sea would be replaced by video of the same. Was done very well - not drawing too much attention to itself - so there'd be a slight shimmer on the sea, or a slight blowing in the grass. Then sometimes a slight Ken Burns effect was added, but with a 3D effect created by splitting the foreground, middleground and background elements into separate layers and animating them appropriately. Creating a slight feeling of tracking towards the subject rather than just zooming. I expect a slight grain/flicker was added to the image to make it seem like a video GV rather than a still, too. People who weren't film- savvy might not even have noticed. It definitely brought a little life to old pictures and blurred the boundary between them and the film/video clips they were intercut with. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 7-Dec-08, at 9:17 PM, Brook Hinton wrote: There's a clever section in Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea that uses a physical set, tricky camerawork and speed control to deal with archival photos in an historical background segment. I don't think it's online though. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Dropping frames, long firewire?
way back in 1980 when i was working on the computer animation for TRON we had frame drop problems every time the electroplating factory sharing the same power grid with us turned their machines on or off. you might want to isolate your power supply - a dedicated circuit? or you might want to separate your cables - put the firewire a few feet away from the power cables. back in the day we took our ribbon cables to a place that wrapped them in a copper braid for electical shielding. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Adam Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amazingly, this problem decided to solve itself. I have no idea how or why, but I have no more latency issues. Thanks for the help, universe. On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 5:25 AM, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Troubleshoot: Have you tried the setup with a shorter firewire with the same (or different) results? If the problem solves itself with shorter firewire, then some kind of amp in the line may be just the thing. Peter @ Gotham Sound can probably lend you one for an hour to see if that solves your issue. Do you have the capacity to run one or both Windows Vegas on the internal hard drive? if so, try one, the other then both on the internal drive, see if that solves the issue. If that doesn't work, try the setup having moved the firewire so it runs perpendicular as it crosses the power cables. I don't think your cable run fits the problem you describe - rather, the bad result of such interference would be electromagnetic 'futz' to the picture and/or audio. That said, I would run audio / video cables so they make perpendicular crossings of power cables (and avoiding power cable coils altogether) in any and every event as a preventative measure. Better to make a longer electrical run than a longer firewire run... Jan On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Adam Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I'm running into some frame drop issues with a live capture setup I'm doing. I'm running a 25' firewire alongside some power and HDMI cables, from my HV30 shooting in SD to Vegas Pro on a Vista 64bit PC. I'm running a couple fast SATAs, one running the software and windows, and one capturing the media. And all other programs are shut down. Questions: Is the length an issue? Is there a possibility of interference from the other cables being next to it? Is there a way around either of these? Do I need some sort of amplifier for the firewire? This is probably a question for another forum, but I know a lot of you folks have messed with this sort of stuff before. Halp. AQ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 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] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Dropping frames, long firewire?
I want to Favorite this sentence. On 8-Dec-08, at 6:04 AM, liza jean wrote: way back in 1980 when i was working on the computer animation for TRON we had frame drop problems every time the electroplating factory sharing the same power grid with us turned their machines on or off. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Dropping frames, long firewire?
Hi Rupert et all, you have to check this video story on youtube. very nice experiment too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8rJ1WML60Yeurl=http://blog.centopeia.com/ i am just watching some episodes of it and i warn that its not the same because it seems there is only one story after all. Rgds, ZN On Dec 8, 2008, at 15:20 , Rupert wrote: I want to Favorite this sentence. On 8-Dec-08, at 6:04 AM, liza jean wrote: way back in 1980 when i was working on the computer animation for TRON we had frame drop problems every time the electroplating factory sharing the same power grid with us turned their machines on or off. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [videoblogging] Presenting stills in video
that sounds very interesting. as is the topic. On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:51 AM, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm too tired to remember the name, but I saw a British TV documentary last year that took old archive photos and subtly animated elements in the background or foreground. So parts of a photo behind or in front of people which were sky or grass or sea would be replaced by video of the same. Was done very well - not drawing too much attention to itself - so there'd be a slight shimmer on the sea, or a slight blowing in the grass. Then sometimes a slight Ken Burns effect was added, but with a 3D effect created by splitting the foreground, middleground and background elements into separate layers and animating them appropriately. Creating a slight feeling of tracking towards the subject rather than just zooming. I expect a slight grain/flicker was added to the image to make it seem like a video GV rather than a still, too. People who weren't film- savvy might not even have noticed. It definitely brought a little life to old pictures and blurred the boundary between them and the film/video clips they were intercut with. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 7-Dec-08, at 9:17 PM, Brook Hinton wrote: There's a clever section in Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea that uses a physical set, tricky camerawork and speed control to deal with archival photos in an historical background segment. I don't think it's online though. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Online Journalism Grows Up
Hey all Now all you Citizen Journalist whose work is only online can be eligible for a Pulitzer! http://www.pulitzer.org/new_eligibility_rules Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Joomla Video Hosting and Social Network
Hey there, so you are using JomSocial. Did you also try Community Builder and if so, any feedback? Have you considered having people contribute video, and if so, how? Cheers, MyFirstMemory.org --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joomla as Video Portal --- Here's something that I don't know if any of you know about. http://hwdmediashare.co.uk From the website: hwdVideoShare is a powerful video gallery for Joomla that allows you to display video media in an organised and managable layout on the Internet. hwdVideoShare can handle the uploading, server-side processing and playback of large video media in all popular formats. I'm looking at this for the 'large project' I've been talking about for the last year or so, but it's an alpha release right now, and the current styling is not very good. The developer seems to be the bomb, though, he's making it happen real quick and has a great reputation for delivering outstanding support very quickly. From what I can see, that's an understatement. I'm not sure which direction I'm going to go, but this is a possibility. There is also a real nice video tool for joomla, called All Videos Reloaded: http://allvideos.fritz-elfert.de/ Very cool stuff. Joomla is becoming much more robust, and is really starting to embrace media and social networking. Check out my old standard: http://k9disc.com . If you goto Main MenuConnectDisc Dog Cantina to see a brand spankin' new Social Networking component, JomSocial, in action. I think it looks pretty slick and has been well received by the disc dog community. I'm not real happy with the organizational structure, but I'm about ready to wrap it into that 'large project'. More on the 'large project' --- I'm in the process of creating a dog sport community, not unlike k9disc.com - but BIGGER - that will feature pay to play instructional video, a facebook-esque social network, affiliate vendor support, and online magazine. If anyone is interested in discussing Joomla as a media/social network platform, I'd be happy to engage in that conversation. I've been buried in the application for a few months now, and have a lot of information to share. I think Joomla has been overlooked and is under-appreciated application by this community, and would really like to see a little focus put on it by some of you serious video geeks. I sure could use someone to bounce ideas off of. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: YouTube alternatives - vlog review.
Hi Jay, thanks for your kind review. After a wait-a-minute moment, I realized who you were. Not too long ago you gave me some encouraging advice about vlogging and I set this up. It's done on Joomla. You are right about the context. I tried to dress up the YouTube channel, but it's true, you can only do so much. My hope is that someone will see a video in the wild, will see the watermark and will head over to www.myfirstmemory.org for more. I really don't have the urgency or energy to set up any forums or commenting system, so the site will probably stay as it is. If I could do one thing, I would like to find an easy way for people to send me their video so I can put it in the series... This, and the fact that I don't think I will ever do any high-quality video, lead me to think that YouTube is fine for now... frankly, I like to actually talk to people and find out their first memory a lot more than I like promoting the vlog. I would like to collect more memories than viewers... Cheers, MFM --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a newbie in this vlog-whatchamacallit thing, so please be kind and forgive me if this is a stupid question. I have been uploading at YouTube, and I am curious why so many other people use Blip or Vimeo or such other services. Is it the quality? Because in my mind, the social functions and the masses of people that are on YouTube make it the only option for me. I also don't have the patience for multi-site distribution through TubeMogul or otherwise... I checked out your videoblog: http://www.myfirstmemory.org/ cool project: aksing different people their first memory. and nice layout...did you code that page yourself? or is that a service? And yes, some of us post on sites like Vimeo or blip because the quality of compression is better. Also, blip hosts your original file and lets you cross-upload to archive.org so there's a double backup. also, it's easier to talk with sites like blip if there's an issue because they will actually respond. all depends on what is most important to you. When I checked out your site, it looks important that people see the videos in context of your page...versus someone finding in the wild on Youtube. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Re: YouTube alternatives - vlog review.
I liked the look of the site, too. But I really wanted a comment section. You say you want to talk to people and find out what their first memory is... which is great. This is exactly the kind of project that gets people involved and talking. But you don't have a facility for conversation or involvement on the site, which is really what a lot of vlogging and social media is all about - and this would surely benefit from it. There are a bunch of Joomla commenting extensions that should be fairly easy to install. Just google for Joomla comments. Disqus have one - I use that on my Tumblr blog and it works well and took about five minutes to set up. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 8-Dec-08, at 1:22 PM, myfirstmemorydotorg wrote: I really don't have the urgency or energy to set up any forums or commenting system, so the site will probably stay as it is. ... frankly, I like to actually talk to people and find out their first memory a lot more than I like promoting the vlog. I would like to collect more memories than viewers... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Presenting stills in video
Yep, that's awesome. Definitely going to do some photoshopping and move individual elements like this. On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 6:07 AM, RANDY MANN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: here is a snap shot of a fish i made into 3d http://blip.tv/file/575096/ here is a nother one http://blip.tv/file/521984/ done with photo shop and afer effects On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:51 AM, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm too tired to remember the name, but I saw a British TV documentary last year that took old archive photos and subtly animated elements in the background or foreground. So parts of a photo behind or in front of people which were sky or grass or sea would be replaced by video of the same. Was done very well - not drawing too much attention to itself - so there'd be a slight shimmer on the sea, or a slight blowing in the grass. Then sometimes a slight Ken Burns effect was added, but with a 3D effect created by splitting the foreground, middleground and background elements into separate layers and animating them appropriately. Creating a slight feeling of tracking towards the subject rather than just zooming. I expect a slight grain/flicker was added to the image to make it seem like a video GV rather than a still, too. People who weren't film- savvy might not even have noticed. It definitely brought a little life to old pictures and blurred the boundary between them and the film/video clips they were intercut with. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 7-Dec-08, at 9:17 PM, Brook Hinton wrote: There's a clever section in Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea that uses a physical set, tricky camerawork and speed control to deal with archival photos in an historical background segment. I don't think it's online though. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: YouTube alternatives - vlog review.
Rupert, you are right. Right right right. What I was also thinking in the beginning is to not have anything significant below the fold in the site... and with syndication and tag cloud added, there wasn't much space. And so I guess I stuck with that mentality. I just wish there was a way to embed the comments section from YouTube, just like we can embed the video... Perhaps I could add a link to discuss this memory, which would point to the comments section of my channel (easier?) or each video (harder). Any other ideas? Cheers, MFM --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I liked the look of the site, too. But I really wanted a comment section. You say you want to talk to people and find out what their first memory is... which is great. This is exactly the kind of project that gets people involved and talking. But you don't have a facility for conversation or involvement on the site, which is really what a lot of vlogging and social media is all about - and this would surely benefit from it. There are a bunch of Joomla commenting extensions that should be fairly easy to install. Just google for Joomla comments. Disqus have one - I use that on my Tumblr blog and it works well and took about five minutes to set up. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 8-Dec-08, at 1:22 PM, myfirstmemorydotorg wrote: I really don't have the urgency or energy to set up any forums or commenting system, so the site will probably stay as it is. ... frankly, I like to actually talk to people and find out their first memory a lot more than I like promoting the vlog. I would like to collect more memories than viewers... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: YouTube alternatives - vlog review.
.. frankly, I like to actually talk to people and find out their first memory Set up live video conferencing for real conversations. Some systems like MeBeam http://www.mebeam.com/ are extraordinarily easy for everyone to use. Other systems like FlashMeeting http://flashmeeting.open.ac.uk/home.html are a bit more involved to use, but record sessions, etc. Their OpenLearn server is open for anyone to use. John Leeke www.HistoricHomeWorks.com
Re: [videoblogging] Online Journalism Grows Up
Great news !!! --- On Mon, 12/8/08, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [videoblogging] Online Journalism Grows Up To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 3:48 PM Hey all Now all you Citizen Journalist whose work is only online can be eligible for a Pulitzer! http://www.pulitzer .org/new_ eligibility_ rules Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo. tv - finally moving to wordpress http://hatfactory. net - relaxed coworking AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] YouTube Embed Customizer
I know Twitter Vlog has a great script for building a high quality version of a YouTube embed. I took it a slightly different direction and make it easy for you to autostart videos, make them loop, and/or embed the high quality version without needing to add the individual parameters each time. http://www.jakeludington.com/youtube-code-generator.phtml Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Joomla Video Hosting and Social Network
I dabbled in CB, but it looked so clunky. It just didn't have the functionality of JomSocial. Keep in mind that there was a problem integrating CB with the bridge that I was using back in the day (2006). The fact that the bridge was un-maintainable killed that off pretty quick. I just never really saw the 'community' part of it. It always struck me as a great profile enhancement instead of a 'community builder'. Does that make sense? Contributing video means having the ability to utilize a WYSIWYG editor, or doing some simple tagging. I'm having a hard time getting people to add avatars when there are size constraints. I did have some luck with people submitting video in the forums, but some is the key. JomSocial will allow for automagic parsing of video URLs, and I'll probably have to hack the plugin to allow blip embeds. Had to do that for a couple forum applications and Media Wiki, so nothing new there... Allvideos Reloaded is a really wonderful plugin that automates video embedding, but Stan just told me that the developer is MIA since July. It'll get co-opted though, as it's the best video add on to Joomla I've found. Seyret looks promising as a video solution for Joomla, but the developers have been dragging their heels on supporting 1.5, and I would have pursued Drupal if it were not for J1.5. I think that HWD Mediashare might be the killer app for Joomla. It's ugly and clunky right now, but the forums are very active and their moving on porting to a smarty template, which could bode well for them and multimedia on Joomla. My 'large project' will feature pay to play video quite heavily. Whether or not it's just a blip pro account for streaming (I Think the blip player is the best looking player I've ever seen...Image is everything...), downloadable video or local hosting we offer will depend on the next few months of development. Check out this link for an example of a pay to play instructional video via streaming blip: http://k9disc.com/index.php?/Links/ I'd love to talk more about this. Any feedback? more questions? peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Dec 8, 2008, at 3:55 PM, myfirstmemorydotorg wrote: Hey there, so you are using JomSocial. Did you also try Community Builder and if so, any feedback? Have you considered having people contribute video, and if so, how? Cheers, MyFirstMemory.org --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joomla as Video Portal --- Here's something that I don't know if any of you know about. http://hwdmediashare.co.uk From the website: hwdVideoShare is a powerful video gallery for Joomla that allows you to display video media in an organised and managable layout on the Internet. hwdVideoShare can handle the uploading, server-side processing and playback of large video media in all popular formats. I'm looking at this for the 'large project' I've been talking about for the last year or so, but it's an alpha release right now, and the current styling is not very good. The developer seems to be the bomb, though, he's making it happen real quick and has a great reputation for delivering outstanding support very quickly. From what I can see, that's an understatement. I'm not sure which direction I'm going to go, but this is a possibility. There is also a real nice video tool for joomla, called All Videos Reloaded: http://allvideos.fritz-elfert.de/ Very cool stuff. Joomla is becoming much more robust, and is really starting to embrace media and social networking. Check out my old standard: http://k9disc.com . If you goto Main MenuConnectDisc Dog Cantina to see a brand spankin' new Social Networking component, JomSocial, in action. I think it looks pretty slick and has been well received by the disc dog community. I'm not real happy with the organizational structure, but I'm about ready to wrap it into that 'large project'. More on the 'large project' --- I'm in the process of creating a dog sport community, not unlike k9disc.com - but BIGGER - that will feature pay to play instructional video, a facebook-esque social network, affiliate vendor support, and online magazine. If anyone is interested in discussing Joomla as a media/social network platform, I'd be happy to engage in that conversation. I've been buried in the application for a few months now, and have a lot of information to share. I think Joomla has been overlooked and is under-appreciated application by this community, and would really like to see a little focus put on it by some of you serious video geeks. I sure could use someone to bounce ideas off of. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com [Non-text
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Joomla Video Hosting and Social Network
Sorry about not checking out your vids/site before. I'm on a cel modem in rural Michigan. Not a lot of speed or bandwidth to play with. Are you running J1.5 or 1.0? If you are on 1.5, are you running in Legacy mode, or can you run in legacy mode? If you are running in legacy or 1.0.x, try out Seyret: http:// www.joomlaholic.com/ Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Dec 8, 2008, at 3:55 PM, myfirstmemorydotorg wrote: Hey there, so you are using JomSocial. Did you also try Community Builder and if so, any feedback? Have you considered having people contribute video, and if so, how? Cheers, MyFirstMemory.org --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joomla as Video Portal --- Here's something that I don't know if any of you know about. http://hwdmediashare.co.uk From the website: hwdVideoShare is a powerful video gallery for Joomla that allows you to display video media in an organised and managable layout on the Internet. hwdVideoShare can handle the uploading, server-side processing and playback of large video media in all popular formats. I'm looking at this for the 'large project' I've been talking about for the last year or so, but it's an alpha release right now, and the current styling is not very good. The developer seems to be the bomb, though, he's making it happen real quick and has a great reputation for delivering outstanding support very quickly. From what I can see, that's an understatement. I'm not sure which direction I'm going to go, but this is a possibility. There is also a real nice video tool for joomla, called All Videos Reloaded: http://allvideos.fritz-elfert.de/ Very cool stuff. Joomla is becoming much more robust, and is really starting to embrace media and social networking. Check out my old standard: http://k9disc.com . If you goto Main MenuConnectDisc Dog Cantina to see a brand spankin' new Social Networking component, JomSocial, in action. I think it looks pretty slick and has been well received by the disc dog community. I'm not real happy with the organizational structure, but I'm about ready to wrap it into that 'large project'. More on the 'large project' --- I'm in the process of creating a dog sport community, not unlike k9disc.com - but BIGGER - that will feature pay to play instructional video, a facebook-esque social network, affiliate vendor support, and online magazine. If anyone is interested in discussing Joomla as a media/social network platform, I'd be happy to engage in that conversation. I've been buried in the application for a few months now, and have a lot of information to share. I think Joomla has been overlooked and is under-appreciated application by this community, and would really like to see a little focus put on it by some of you serious video geeks. I sure could use someone to bounce ideas off of. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] YouTube Embed Customizer
Good work! On 8-Dec-08, at 5:46 PM, Jake Ludington wrote: I know Twitter Vlog has a great script for building a high quality version of a YouTube embed. I took it a slightly different direction and make it easy for you to autostart videos, make them loop, and/or embed the high quality version without needing to add the individual parameters each time. http://www.jakeludington.com/youtube-code-generator.phtml Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
