[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] Record live video via firewire
Both sony vegas and pinnacle studio will do live to hard disk with no tape. Neither of them have wonky timecode issues either. For under $100 you're in business either way. Jake Ludington Http://jakeludington.com On Nov 17, 2008 2:14 PM, Adam Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the tape problem can be remedied by just having a tape in the deck, you don't have to actually record to the tape. I know mac is better at this sort of thing, but we're already invested in PC hardware unfortunately. On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 4:37 PM, J. N. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Adam, I don't know a... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
RE: [videoblogging] How to create a link within a .wmv?
Using QuickTime Pro I now know the html code necessary to create a link to a url from within a .mov video, but can someone explain how to do the same in a .wmv video? I only use macs and have no experience with Windows programs but surely there must be a means to create this type of link for WindowsMedia Player. You would need to use Windows Media File Editor, which is Windows-only and part of the Windows Media Encoder. Steps on how to do it are here: http://www.jakeludington.com/project_studio/20051004_windows_media_enhanced_ podcast.html Sony Vegas also includes support for adding links to Windows Media files, but is not free. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
Re: [videoblogging] Bid for Placement on YouTube
I know many of you would be opposed to buying ads to get your content noticed, but what makes this auction process different? You are effectively buying an ad. I know Gary V has purchased google adwords to promote some of his content, depending on his motive buying placement on YouTube might also make sense. If you have a crappy video, no amount of money will get people to watch it. Buying an ad can be the only option for a great video to escape obscurity. As for Brooks' comment re: ignoring ads, someone must click on them because they pay me quite nicely. This will be no different. Some people will ignore promoted videos, some people won't. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com On Nov 12, 2008 4:44 PM, @sull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: good point. but there must be some value in featured spots. maybe they have some metrics to share. On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Brook Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My eyes automatically... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
RE: [videoblogging] Mini DV tape to FW 800...new Macs
I find it also strange. The Macbook only has USB 2.0. NO firewire. http://www.apple.com/macbook/specs.html I know many hard drives are now using USB 2.0but come on. whats the thought process here. I was editing on FCP using the Powerbook G3...which was slow slow slow. The Macbook is plenty powerful for editing video. A key part of the thought process is - people aren't buying camcorders with 1394 connections (yes this is a generalization). If you look at the best seller list for camcorders on Amazon, which admittedly skews through the inclusion of several versions of the Flip, almost none of them use 1394 because they are HDD or flash media camcorders. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] Re: McCain on Blip = a Shame
Terms of Use and elsewhere on the Blip.tv website, the following content is prohibited on Blip.tv: If you see a video that specifically violates the Blip terms of service, bring it to the attention of people at Blip, not the hundreds (thousands?) of people here who don't work there. And please bring this back around to something that has anything to do with video blogging. We're getting beat over the head with politics everywhere. It would be nice if we could reduce the list noise and stay on topic. I'm sure there are Yahoo groups where whining about the McCain campaign would be popular (or the Obama campaign, if that's your thing) - this isn't one of them. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] Viewing My Video on Real Player Windows Media Player vs on DVD on a TV monitor
Whereas the televsion monitor showed a pleasing pan of the scene, Real Player and Windows Media Player are not able to maintain solid images of people during the panning with many multiple images blurring and shaking the moving picture. This is the exact same clip from the raw footage. Any explanation or solution? Or have I done something wrong? Some important details are missing here - Are you looking at exactly the same file in all cases (as in, are you playing the DVD back on your computer and comparing that to playback of the DVD in your DVD player)? Is the TV screen an interlaced screen vs. your progressive screen on your computer? I'm guessing you're seeing interlacing artifacts on the computer but not on TV. Also the monitor's refresh rate vs. the TV refresh rate can make a difference depending on what type of content you have (is this 29.97 fps or 24p?) Jake Ludington http://jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] Licensing Deals
Has anyone struck a licensing deal where you still own your videos but you are getting paid for someone else to use them? Common Craft has done this with a bunch of their In Plain English videos: http://commoncraft.com/work Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] Re: Video Goes Underground
Both. And exclusivity or very limited availability is a very well used art selling technique. So is death of the artist, but I don't see that as a viable long-term strategy. ;) Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] Blogger Blogspot, blogging from China? (for Aug. 1 solar eclipse)
What to do? I need experts on this list to figure out a solution/ strategy. I leave in a week. My solution to making sure I had access to everything while I spent six weeks in China was remote desktop. I found very few places I couldn't get to (and am guessing that many things will be fixed for the Olympics, but having that as a backup was priceless. It meant having a computer on at home in the US, but it was worth it. Another thing. Can I upload videos to Blip.tv, without much trouble? (are there bandwidth issues? I know someone in New Zealand, who has trouble watching videos hosted in the US). I uploaded videos from China to several services with no problem. I like the email w/attachment (picture or video) solution. I have no idea about cellphone accessibility in China, anyone know? It's not 3G but service seems to be everywhere. I'm sure there is coverage, but what about data email attachments? I have a contact in China (travel agent who speaks good English, who is making a lot of travel arrangements for me: hotel w/Internet access, etc), who is researching the pre-paid SIM card (which includes a good data package). Anytime I wanted real data service I reverted to Internet access from a PC because it was slow otherwise, but there were a couple of times where I looked up sites from the back of a cab to get the cab driver written addresses for where I wanted to go. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
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?
I've heard a lot of talk of Extended Warranties in this thread so I just want to throw in that people should never buy extended warranties. Manufacturing defects will appear within the manufacturer warranty period. The only reason anyone offers an extended warranty is because it's a guaranteed money grab. People buy extended warranties because they believe that the odds are in their favour that they'll save money in the long run. This is categorically incorrect. The complete opposite is true. I was of this same opinion and am for most products. Having said that, I bought one on a laptop once and it paid off. The laptop died due to a heat issue. I got it replaced without hassle. Because the entire laptop cycle had revved, I got a newer laptop with current features. The second laptop died too and that was replaced by the warranty as well, again with a newer laptop with better features. The lesson learned was I'll never buy Toshiba again, but if I hadn't had the extended warranty, they would have repaired my existing laptop, not replaced it. I also purchased the AppleCare on an iPhone and had it pay off by having the iPhone swapped out no questions asked. I still don't buy extended warranties for most things because in many cases they are overpriced, but in the two cases I've cited here, I'm definitely ahead of the game for buying them. An extended warranty is an insurance plan. They are betting most won't pay off to come out ahead. If you buy it, you're betting it will pay. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] Twitter on Windows Mobile phone?
I know this is off topic, but I figured a lot of people here might use twitter. I wanted to know if anyone with a windows mobile phone can suggest a good app for twitter on it. I've been through their FAQ on clients, but there's too many to go through. Any Suggestions? Good app? No. If you've got unlimited text, it's easier to just turn on SMS. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] $14 DIY steady cam
I've built one. It works. Not as good as a $500 (or more) unit ..but better than nothing. I'll respectfully disagree and say that using nothing is better. I built one back in 2004 when that page first surfaced online. If you really need to split the difference between steadycam and nothing this one is far better: http://www.instructables.com/id/Improved-Steadicam-for-under-40-dollars!-Als o-boom/ Jake Ludington Still one day to enter the $5k+ HP Dragon Giveaway: http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] FrameByFrame - Free Stop-Motion Software
http://web.mac.com/philipp.brendel/Software/FrameByFrame.html I use iStopMotion for my animations (great for intros to vids!), but that costs. FrameByFrame is free! For those that don't want to buy a Mac to use FrameByFrame, Stop Motion Animator works reasonably well for Windows: http://www.clayanimator.com/english/stop_motion_animator.html It's not sexy like the Mac stuff, but what Windows app is? Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] Re: Other Tube Mogul-like Options
It should either be A) be an opt-in service that these sites provide and not something that's automatically generated and/or You opt in when you agree to the terms of service for each site. As with most things, if you don't like the terms, there are plenty of alternatives. B) allow you to insert your own RSS feed as the subscription options. Which would be an interesting way for most of the sites to have an upsell. Use us for free on our terms, pay a monthly fee and we'll give you more control. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
[videoblogging] HD quality on YouTube
This link is NSFW, but anybody have any ideas how to get higher bitrate encodes out of YouTube. The video quality is amazing compared to everything else on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/nudisthdtvcom Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
RE: [videoblogging] Re: HD quality on YouTube
I think you can download a program to upload files larger than 100mb's. However it is only for a PC... MACs are left out. A while ago, I tried to upload a Flash file, and YT still compressed it again. It looked awful. Has YT changed this recently? Apparently you have to do some trickery to get it to work, which is kind of lame. Following the steps in the tutorial here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=08NI4cy4zik You get a pristine looking video at under 1 minute, down to slightly better than YouTube results at 4 minutes. Apparently over 4 minute videos won't work. I don't think you actually need the tool the guy recommends, you just need to know the right command line hashes for FFMPEG (meaning you should be able to use FFMPEGX or WinFF or SUPER). Licensing a copy of the On2 codec probably wouldn't hurt either. If you click the More link in his description for the video, he definitely has a bunch of great looking footage posted (relative to the way other YouTube vids look at least). Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] Good cheap FLV encoder for Windows...
A friend of mine would like to create higher quality FLVs on his windows machine. Any suggestions? WinFF - it's not massively bloated and slow like Super. http://www.topdrawerdownloads.com/download/104928 And it still readily exposes all the command line goodness if you need it. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] youtube prerolls
Here's a question for the YouTuber's in the group, especially those who are partners. Have you ever uploaded videos to YouTube that included your own sponsor prerolls built in? Yes, although I generally run them following a brief intro. Does YouTube care if you do that? I'm not sure if it complies with their terms of service or not, but I decided that because they make money off my videos and I don't that I didn't really care. :) Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
the best way to promote your videos is by sending it to people you know, who know you, special interest groups, friends at social networks. it may be time consuming, but more personal and direct and free. what do you think? That's true up to a point. I'm acquainted with several thousand people both in person and via email, but I'd like to think that there are many people I've never met who might be interested in the stuff I post online. Those are the people I really want to reach, because it's comparatively easy to get people who are aware of me to watch something. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] Re: Does the file size of video matter anymore?
Absolutely. People don't understand that compression is as much of an art as filming or editing. They also don't understand that sometimes you have to shoot with your final output format in mind, which means tighter shots, better light and less movement if you're compresing to iPod size for instance. Compression is most definitely an art, but if you're willing to wait for it, you can shoot whatever the heck you want and make it look good (assuming you pay attention to lighting and keeping things in focus). It's the big sizes that are hard (1920x1080, 1280x720), not the iPod sizes - it's far easier to make stuff look pretty at small sizes. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] Re: Does the file size of video matter anymore?
I have an HV20, and it's pretty much overkill for internet productions. The good thing about it is that recording in 1080/60i, it's easy to green/bluescreen and do smooth slow motion effects. Another good (GREAT) thing about shooting in HD is that you get a crispness of picture that you can't get from shooting in SD. It's like moving from taking still images with your cell phone to taking still pictures with a digital camera - there's all this detail you never had before. Even if you end up compressing your files and reducing the resolution, you get detail you could never have with an SD camera. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
I don't think SEO will get you video views. but it can get people to your site. (Whether they stay there or and whether they watch you videos is another question.) 10 ways to get more people to your show without paying anyone for SEO: 1) Be Interesting. If you're boring, no one will link to you and links still matter. 2) The title tags on your pages should be topic relevant as should your post title. If your post title is My Cool Show Episode #363-A, Google won't find you. 3) Write a descriptive 200-250 words about each video you post. If there are supporting details that should be summarized in text, summarize them. 4) Have an email list for people to subscribe to in addition to your RSS feed. Most people still don't get RSS. 5) Embed your video on your page - don't count on people to download it - their time is valuable and by the time the video finishes downloading, they might have forgotten all about it. 6) Digg, Stumble, and bookmark your own stuff when appropriate. If you wouldn't vote for your own content, why should anybody else? 7) Use descriptive tags to help search engines know what your content is about. Your posts are only as good as their supporting metadata. 8) Post articles and/or guest blog on related topics - be an expert in your topic area and get seen beyond your own little corner of the universe. 9) Subscribe to your video blog in every service you can find - there are many sites that won't start tracking you unless you have subscribers. 10) Send out press releases when you do something big - especially if you can make it an interesting story that news outlets might pick up. 11) Get a playboy model to talk about you: http://www.jakeludington.com/life/ Yes, this all takes work, but so does anything worth doing. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
I've investigated that .. and it's beyond me .. but, currently, that page shows up on the first page of a Google search .. good enough for now. I apologize for my post - I had the mistaken impression that you were attempting to get more traffic. As for not liking QuickTime - I don't really like QuickTime, but 100 million iPod owners is a hard market to ignore. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
My experience with Google is that it does not matter what text you have on your site .. if no one is linked to your site Google will not list your site in ANY position. The more folks who link to your site the higher you will rank. http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org Not to pick on you, but both of those sites are horrible from an SEO perspective. :) Each of those video posts you have should live on an individual page, with an appropriate title. For instance, create a separate page title Why Serenity was more fun than Star Wars and provide more background details than the one sentence description. And for the love of god offer some format other than Real - many people still hate RealPlayer and you can't put those videos on an iPod :) Embed the video (use Blip if you want more control) and offer a download as a second alternative. RSS feed? Where is it? :) You could double your traffic without even breaking a sweat. Oh yeah, and on my top 10 list I should have mentioned, have a sitemap and list it with Google Webmaster tools. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
To further explain: I have a friend who I wrote a webpage for: http://halkoltinshow.com and then I submitted this page to Google and various other search engines .. and I waited .. and waited .. for months .. with zip for results. For better results in the future - the domain is actually a subdomain of your site and reasonably unrelated - parking the domain differently might have resulted in a different outcome. The site has 2 pages, which might imply some passing fancy, not something authoritative that Google should care about (and again there's almost no text on the pages for Google to crawl). You don't have a sitemap (submitting might help but is largely useless as stuff tends to get sandboxed). FINALLY I had someone post a link to this page on their website .. and within 10 days (maybe less) it showed up on a Google search .. this after it had been up for about six months! Which likely didn't hurt. Had you posted a link to it from one of your pages, so that Google could find it, that might have helped too. ;) Again, I offer this with every attempt to be helpful, not critical. Getting found online isn't easy, but there are many ways to make it easier. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] Re: HV20 Camera Noise
For the Solo Video Practitioner: Your statements here are why I advocate simply keeping the camera (a small camera) within 3 feet of the speaking subject for the solo practitioner who wants good sound. I would disagree with this for the HV20 - get an external microphone and you will get better sound. Get a microphone that works well within 3 feet of you or less, put it on a stand outside the range of your shot, do some testing then forget about it. The videos will sound better. If you have the option to record straight to your hard drive and skip the tape, even better. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] HV20 Camera Noise
- does your HV20 camera make this much noise? Yes. - what do you do to stop the camera noise? Use an external microphone or capture direct to hard drive and skip the tape. - what kind of shotgun works well with the camera? I don't have a shotgun to recommend, but a Canon rep told me that even buying their cheap hotshoe microphone makes a big difference in cutting down on that tape noise because it's not integrated in the camera body. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
[videoblogging] HDV to Square Pixel Video [was: Re: Blip.tv and 1.33 aspect ratio
I have been looking for a workflow which will allow me to move quickly from my HDV video (Sony FX1) from the non square format to square format for the web, Blip etc. I use Vegas pro 8 for NLE and I wish to end up with video encoded to various web flavored formats. I realize I can convert the video in the editor. I'm looking to find an optimal work flow that involves the least personal attention after editing (while encoding) because it seems to be very compute intensive. A semi random search for Nirvana in the encoding world looks like it will be very time consuming. I have high hopes of finding some sage advice here. Nothing about editing and publishing HD video is quick. :) My current editing strategy is to go from HDV to 1280x720 30p video using Sony Vegas and then uploading the result to Blip. I think it takes about 10 minutes for every minute of video I publish. You can do it faster, but not if you want to end up with video that looks good. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] Re: cool job in nyc: Etsy
I'd give my eye teeth for that job. Living in Iowa has it's downsides. So escape - Iowa's a lovely place to visit your relatives. ;) Jake former Iowan Ludington http://.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] New Video Camera Recomendations?
Has to be 720p or 1080p. Has to record to hard drive or cards. I hate tapes. I'd like it to have 3 ccds but not essential. Low light awesomeness would be nice. Has to accept wide angle lens attachment. Has to be decent at recording audio. Anyone go to CES and see anything I should keep an eye out for? Anyone have a favorite camera that they are loving right now? Panasonic HDC-SD9 fits your requirements (low light awesomeness being a bit subjective ;) Also the new VIXIA camcorders from Canon are just around the corner, although they use CMOS instead of 3CCD configuration. Downside - none of these ship until March. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
[videoblogging] Blip.tv and 1.33 aspect ratio
Anybody (possibly the Blip folks on the list) know why Blip.tv doesn't properly convert a 1.33 aspect ratio file (1440x1080 for those keeping score) to a 16x9 formatted flash file? It ends up as a squished 4:3 file instead. 1280x720 and 1920x1080 both come out looking as expected, but are 1:1 aspect ratios, which makes sense. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
RE: [videoblogging] Re: Blip.tv and 1.33 aspect ratio
Repost your question here: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/blip-users/ Will do. What kind of file do you have that has the dimensions of 1440x1080? Every HDV camcorder on the planet records at 1440x1080. :) 16x9 = 1920x1080 or 1280x720 or 640x360 or 480x270 or 320x180 16x9 also = 1440x1080 displayed with a non-square pixel aspect ratio. It also equals the less common 1280x1080 displayed with a non-square pixel aspect ratio. And let's not forget our dear friend 960x720. If only aspect ratios were as simple as you describe them here. :) What do you have that plays back 1440x1080? Windows Media Player, iTunes, RealPlayer, VLC, and the list goes on. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] Re: Blip.tv and 1.33 aspect ratio
Right - was just going to say that it sounds like HDV. You have to compress that first into some sort of quicktime or wmv, converting it to square pixels in the process so that it's one of those resolutions that Bill said - 1280 x 720, 640 x 360, etc. But that doesn't really address my question. I know I can convert to a square pixel resolution using my editing software. I *can* also opt to output a WMV, MOV or MPEG file with non-square pixels (I'm not saying this is the right way to do things, just pointing out the option). My question was why can't Blip do that for me? Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] Re: Blip.tv and 1.33 aspect ratio
You have to get the answer from the blip guys but I don't think the intent is for you to upload your full rez video. You compress your video and they host it (plus lots of other features). If I upload 1920x1080 or 1280x720 both are available for download at full rez and look correct in their Flash altered version, which leads me to think that it's a settings issue on their encoder. :) Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] Re: Blip.tv and 1.33 aspect ratio
Verdi, that's my point, exactly. My Canon HV-20 shoots 1440x1080. This is why I asked Jake what he has that's going to play it back. There's no reason that I can think of that blip should support those frame dimensions. I'm not asking them to support 1440x1080 at 1.33:1 on the Web, I am asking why they don't convert 1440x1080 1.33:1 properly. Big difference. The Blip encoder (apparently) assumes the video is 4:3 or some approximation of that and outputs a 4:3 file instead of respecting the aspect ratio of the video. You'd have the same problem with a video shot with one of the standard def camcorders that records a 720x480 widescreen mode. With millions of devices shooting files of these dimensions, I'm not asking for a fringe case exception to the rule. Jake, if all those media players play back your 1440x1080 file in the correct dimensions (meaning that if you filmed a square, it looks like a square, and not a rectangle in Windows Media Player, iTunes, etc), then I don't see what the problem is. The problem is inconsistent experience. And you make my point as to why Blip (or anyone else) should do the conversion correctly. Let's say I opt to leave my file at 1440x1080 because I want to deliver a pixel for pixel consistent experience with what I shot. If I make my RSS delivered file 1440x1080 1.33:1 the people who download the video will get the experience I intended because there media player will handle the file correctly because Blip merely hosts the file. The people who watch it on the Web will get a squished 4:3 experience. I'm not knocking your desire to have a file hosted in those dimensions. :) I'm trying to understand what the benefit is to you of having a file like that hosted. There are many potential benefits, one being more bits per pixel than stretching the 1440x1080 image to 1920x1080. There's a reason HDV records to 1440x1080 instead of 1920x1080 - at the required compression rate to fit on a MiniDV tape it looks better and you get efficiencies of encoding. HDV is not the only video medium that does this - many television shows are delivered this way (although you'd likely never know it), which doesn't make it right but is also an indication that I'm not simply being obtuse. For example, if someone posted that they were trying to get blip to host 60x200 videos, I would assume they were trying to make videos that fit as banner ads. Which would be an entirely different scenario. I'm not asking for support of dimensions not native to camcorders. If a camcorder shot at 60x200, then yes, they should support it. I have options of outputting a finished file from at least a half dozen programs that all result in a 1440x1080 1.33:1 file. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] Re: Blip.tv and 1.33 aspect ratio
Good arguments, however, neither 1440x1080 nor 720x480 Anamorphic are meant to be viewed (as you stated in your other post, so I'm not telling you anything new) in those dimensions in square pixels. Since blip delivers video to computers, which use square pixels, IMO, there's no reason they should cater to anything other than 16x9 or 4x3 formats. One more time, with feeling: I'm not asking them to present non square pixels. I'm asking them to convert non-square pixels for the Web. As you say below: How come videos are expected to be formatted at television sizes (4:3 and 16:9)? I'm expecting them not to be and you're telling me I shouldn't. ;) And because I'm feeling snarky, from the Blip site: We're sending our top shows directly to the television set with Internet video on demand. And that's just the start. We believe that your show should be indistinguishable from a show on a broadcast network in terms of how people find and watch it. We're working hard to make this happen. More snark quoting Blip on the issue of formats: You shouldn't have to choose between great quality Flash video and compatibility with iTunes. Your videos should work everywhere, no question. That's why blip.tv supports every video format under the sun, from Flash 8 (much higher quality than most Flash video) to Quicktime (for the all-important iTunes) to DivX and 3gp (we think cell phones are cool, too). That sounds like a utility knife to me. ;) I think you bring up an interesting discussion. How come videos are expected to be formatted at television sizes (4:3 and 16:9)? other question is What is the benefit to a company to accommodate people that choose not to conform? If I'm an average video guy who just wants to make video, how would I know whether I'm conforming or not? I have a vision, my camera shoots at this resolution, I can output files in the same resolution from my video editor, so how am I *not* conforming? Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] This is gonna cause problems
Lithium Batteries Banned From Checked Bags http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=205206 086 I was unable to find any exceptions, will keep looking. But holy First sentence of second paragraph: Instead, passengers will be required to take loose batteries with them in carry-on baggage, packed in plastic bags. Which basically makes this a non event. :) Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] Wikipedia Hypocrisy (was... Scoble...)
Many of us don't use hosting services and don't want to for much of our work. Net neutrality then impacts us. If you're not using a hosting service, what are you using? Or do you mean you are paying a monthly fee for Web hosting but not using something like Blip? Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] Wikipedia Hypocrisy (was... Scoble...)
in the U.S. are in their cubicles, a time when no one normally watches television. Of course they're going to come to someone like you. You know the space. You will give them information to be more competent in this space. Just because they approach you doesn't mean they support you. Paying for my knowledge is not the same thing as supporting me, true enough. I don't see anything as simple as an us vs. them or good vs. evil battle. There is room for everyone to play in the video pool. But they also link to me and occasionally re-distribute me, which does directly or indirectly support me. And it's typically a different they asking for advice than the one's linking. Getting a video on MTV (with permission from me) is good for my brand. Getting on the tech page of the BBC or any major newspaper site is good for my brand. Those places have audience I may never reach otherwise, which has value to me because new people are seeing what I do. This is no different than being a indie creator in the sea of content and getting link love from Engadget (both pre and post AOL buyout), or Lifehacker, or Make, or Boing Boing, or FARK. Those places all have readers/viewers who might never see what you do if you didn't get that link, and while they may all be independent of Corporate Media, they are all businesses that exist in part to make a profit. As far as the NYT goes, I don't see the logical connection there. Old Media is dying. We are killing them. They'll do what they have to do. I am not a killer of anything, so please don't include me in your 'We'. :) Old media isn't dying. There will be business casualties who don't figure out how to take what they are doing and make it fit with what people want - simple laws of supply and demand in effect. Those old media companies who adapt will continue to thrive, those that don't will be replaced by a company that gets it, possibly an indie upstart or a different old media company. They already dropped their 'special' pay to play Op Ed stuff, didn't they? Why? Because it wasn't profitable. It didn't fit the space. And I dropped forums from my site several years ago because they were more hassle than I wanted. A business decision, not a sign of death. Streaming video allows them to sell ads. If nobody watches it, nobody gets paid. Give it up for free and you get more viewers. If nobody buys the oranges in the fruit stand, the fruit seller doesn't get paid either, however, if he gave it away for free he'd simply go broke. Your statement makes the leap of faith that no indie video maker (not Corporate Media) wants to get paid for what they do. I happen to need an income of some kind in order to meet my basic needs of food, shelter, new video equipment, luxury suite at the Bellagio, etc. (maybe you are independently wealthy?) as I assume is true of most people on the list. If I can get paid to make video or blog or anything else that I happen to enjoy, I'll actively seek ways to get paid to do something I enjoy, rather than doing something I hate and making the thing I enjoy a sideline. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] My Amends To Robert Scoble
I am always wary of people that distrust Wikipedia as it reveals a lot. It might simply reveal that they actually fact-checked more than one article and found Wikipedia to be packed with inaccuracies. In some cases, attempting to participate in Wikipedia and correct those accuracies is shut down by the powers that be in the Wikipedia hierarchy, even with irrefutable scientific proof in hand. Blindly trusting Wikipedia is just as stupid as blindly trusting anything else. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] Re: My Amends To Robert Scoble
Why advertising is a dangerous way to go if you're interested in true things. Somehow I've managed to sleep well at night getting paid by advertisers for 6 years. Then again, I'm largely trying to help people be less frustrated with their computers, not change the world. One big reason big media rings so false: advertisers control content. There is a big difference between advertisers controlling content and advertisers abandoning a sinking ship (which is what I was talking about), although there could be parallels. Controlling content might mean having a show about training puppies that gets Purina to sponsor and then suddenly switching your show to being the puppy snuff film of the week. Likely Purina would pull the financial plug on sponsoring the abuse of animals, and the show switching from training animals to killing them would be a good sign that it's also a sinking ship. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] Wikipedia Hypocrisy (was... Scoble...)
There are powerful interests that are trying to get, control and crush nearly each and every person in this community, and the thing that we're all gathered around, distributed media. But it's not real live little people like Scoble, or Jay, it's giant fake people like ATT, Verizon, Comcast, WB, NBC, etc. Those companies don't care about crushing anyone in this community. They care about increasing shareholder value. When any little indie publisher gets big enough to be noticed they bust out their wallets and offer up a big fat check. If you don't get big enough to get noticed, they will simply keep on ignoring you. And in some cases, the very companies you complain about will give you free publicity by promoting your stuff with no strings attached. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] My Amends To Robert Scoble
And just to bring things back to the topic at hand. This is exactly the kind of nit picking of emails that I feel has brought the group down. Where was the comment on everything else I brought up? This kind of stuff only starts flame wars. I was validating your point by not commenting on things I agree with. ;) I have no interest in starting a flame war. Jake Ludington
RE: [videoblogging] Wikipedia Hypocrisy (was... Scoble...)
They care about crushing distributed media, just as power companies care about crushing distributed power. We are here because we believe in distributed media. Please do not use the universal 'We' to sum up everyone on the list. I'm here to get help with videoblogging and help others. My beliefs have nothing to do with my participation/lurking on the list. We're not targets at a personal level. We're targets at a conceptual level. And the corporate media is coming after the concept of distributed media. I get contacted regularly by people in mainstream media companies who want my involvement in projects because of my background in independent online publishing. They aren't trying to target anything conceptual that I'm doing; they want to understand it. Corporate media is trying to figure out how to embrace what the little guy is doing in a way that maintains their relevance while not eroding shareholder value in the process. If I had to guess, I'd say their going have their way with net neutrality, flood the tubes with content then price us out of the game. That way they get us to put our money into their wallets and we just go away. That must be why NYTimes.com decided to offer their product for free - to flood the tubes and make us go away; not because they realized they could make more money doing things the way indie publishers were already having success. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] Re: My Amends To Robert Scoble
Hint: eventually sponsors and employees get the message and move money away from a company that isn't getting community support. And, worse, it definitely demoralizes the employees and makes them far less willing to take risks on behalf of the community. I think this is BS too. If you think that's BS, you've never made your living solely from advertising. Advertisers do turn away when they perceive they are associating their brand with something negative or failing. If the advertisers turn away, the employees stop getting paid, lose their jobs, etc. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] Making a living with videoblogging
Been join this group awhile and really enjoy various interesting topics. I am currently consider doing videoblogging full-time but not sure if this can make enough for a living. What would be the best way to make a decent living as videoblogging? Get couple of major sponsors? doing freelance videographer on the side?... Any suggestions would really appreciated...(so I can make up my mind.) This is greatly over simplified but here goes: **Grow Your Own Organically** Do whatever you're currently doing for income and work on building up a catalog of consistent, high quality video blog posts. Without great content you'll have an incredibly hard time getting anyone to associate their brand with you. Build an audience and build a relationship with that audience. After you've got a track record, put together a portfolio and start approaching companies you think would be compatible with your audience about sponsorship. **Videoblogger for Hire** If you're willing to do video for someone else, you might have a slightly faster path (with many variables that could get in your way). A huge number of currently popular online text publications want to get into video. The people writing articles often have too much to do or don't really want to do video and everything else on their plate. If you produce high quality video, you can pitch doing a video blog for a popular site in your topic niche. This potentially has the benefit of leaving someone else in charge of finding the sponsors leaving you more time to focus on making video - it also gives you a built-in audience for the videos. **Alternative Revenue Streams** You don't necessarily need a sponsor embedded directly in your videos, there are other paths to generating advertising revenue from the pages on your site, like contextual and display advertising. The tricky part about that is getting people to your site to see your videos (as well as the ads). There's an excellent chance that all the various places you post your videos (YouTube, Metacafe, Revver, Blip, etc, etc) will get more video views than your actual site, which means no one is seeing the ads. This is by no means an all inclusive way to get paid for video blogging, but my suggestions are based on personal experience making a living blogging for the past 6 years. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
[videoblogging] Heath's vlog rocks and why no embed? [was Re: My Amends To Robert Scoble]
To anyone out there (including Robert), I would recommend checking out Heath's vlog. I personally like it from a technique angle. I still use iMovie whenever I edit and so I can appreciate the use of simple lighting and production techniques to make a clean, simple piece. Makes you think. . . I'll second that, Heath's got great style without overstating anything on the production side. For the second part - this is a question I've got for many vloggers (except for the ones who do embed) - why don't more people embed a flash player in their page? I get the whole subscription thing, so I don't need the hard sell on RSS... However, much of the online video I watch (I suspect this is true of most people not on this list as well) is in the form of someone sending me a link telling me to check something out. I find it highly frustrating to arrive at a page and then have to wait for a video to download in order to watch it. Maybe it's my short attention span, but I want instant gratification. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] Re: Why i must leave Blip
So does anyone know of any blip-like sites that loiez could probably try until either blip or french telecom get their collective acts together? Baring in mind that Loiez uses widescreen HD, even sometimes super widescreen in his work. DivX Stage6 might be a good choice, although I don't see anyone getting fast upload speeds when putting HD video on the Web. If I put out a 5-10 minute 720p file, it often takes 10 minutes (which was Loiez's gage for too long in his original post) to upload on any connection, which is to be expected for high def video. If you post big files, you can expect to wait longer to upload them. And then expect the service you upload them to will take longer to convert the file to their generic Web display format. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] Re: Forget Apple TV - What about the Nintendo Wii ??
Biggest problem with Wii is minimal storage, whereas 360 and PS3 have drives. I've been working on various content delivery to the devices (Xbox is exception- no browser), and I've loved downloading media The Xbox 360 has no browser, but you can stream to it via Windows Media Connect if you have either WMP11 or Zune software installed. So if you can get your video on someone's computer, getting to their television through the Xbox 360 is relatively easy: http://www.jakeludington.com/xbox/20060321_easy_divx_to_xbox_360_streaming.h tml IIRC, I think PS3 and XBox now support DiVX flavors. It's a step in a direction where many people aren't looking (don't rule out future of DS and the current support on the PSP). Xbox supported DivX through some convoluted steps up until Dec 4, 2007. Now it's easy. Maybe Apple can get into gaming? Heheh, yeah right. :) Maybe Apple can buy Nintendo and figure out how to get enough Wii consoles into the consumer pipeline. They do both make shiny white hardware. ;) Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] best format to upload to youtube
have tried to upload a 20 and 30 min video of less then 100 mb to youtube and i keep getting a message video is to long but it gives me the code? can anyone help me get those videos up on youtube? YouTube has two maximums - 100MB and 10 minutes. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
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] Progressive vs Interlace Cameras for the Web
For action filming, wouldn't 720 progressive scan, even at its lower resolution, be sharper than the 1080 interlace? Yes, 720p is much better for action filming if you are truly getting 60 progressive frames per second. In general, wouldn't 720 progressive have a better look on the web in the first place? Now, when I compress my DV I deinterlace anyway. Am I getting a true progressive image? If you're de-interlacing your video, you are converting fields to frames, effectively combing the top and bottom fields to a single frame. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
RE: [videoblogging] CES/Tradeshows and Access
A question for those vlogging at the CES. Did you just turn up and do it, or is it better to go for press credentials? Have you had any problems with companies not wanting to be put on video - on the one hand it could be good publicity, on the other you could be a competitor. Having toted around a camera at this years CES and in the past for shows like Comdex, I found almost everyone wants to be on video. Having a tripod-mounted camera out meant companies we didnt want to talk to were hounding us for coverage (could have been because we were shooting HD). I always cover shows as press because it provides a better level of access to information but I dont think theres anything preventing people from covering the show if you arent official press. Most of the companies at a show like CES paid an insane amount of money and just want their voice heard. On a broader note, has anyone experience of the difference between a public show like the CES and closed trade only shows. Im not sure specifically what you are referring to, but shows like Digital Experience and Showstoppers, which are press only events around the CES tradeshow, are more valuable for getting stories than the actual show floor. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com http://www.PodcastingStarterKit.com Im giving away my Xbox 360: http://www.jakeludington.com/5xbox360.phtml YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [videoblogging] wmv from quicktime, for free
For those like me trying do make wmv, and don´t want to touch win machines (I think quicktime pro is needed) http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/flip4mac.mspx That particular app is a plug-in to QuickTime for playback. If you want to create WMV, you need to purchase on of the Flip4Mac authoring tools. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com http://www.PodcastingStarterKit.com I'm giving away my Xbox 360: http://www.jakeludington.com/5xbox360.phtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] CES/Tradeshows and Access
I'm referring to trade only shows - e.g., where manufacturers are exhibiting and retailers are attending - ie., no public. Having attended that type of show as a retailer, those shows are lame because its a room full of vendors trying to get you to sell their product. The only story is how many units did company X get orders for. Of course, everything depends on your focus. If you are covering a particular industry for trade press, those types of shows might be very interesting to your viewers. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com http://www.PodcastingStarterKit.com Im giving away my Xbox 360: http://www.jakeludington.com/5xbox360.phtml YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Play WMV in QuickTime Player
I realize most people aren't using WMV for videoblogging, but Flip4Mac and Microsoft just announced a free version of their WMV plugin for QuickTime: http://www.jakeludington.com/downloads/20060110_flip4mac_adds_wmv_to_quicktime_player.html http://tinyurl.com/a6o38 Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com Im giving away my Xbox 360: http://www.jakeludington.com/5xbox360.phtml SPONSORED LINKS Individual Fireant Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [videoblogging] PAL vs NTSC Cameras for vlogging...does it really matter?
Thanks Paul, All: That was helpful. I didn't think it mattered if in the end it ended up online. However, your point about previewing on TV seems relevant. My partner in Kenya has also mentioned the use of a DVCam Deck (I think because he too has a background in TV). Do you know if DV Deck's typically accept one format or another? I am travelling to Kenya next week and hoping to film some of my trip for eventual posting. DVCam is a distinctly different tape and camera format than the MiniDV format standard to most digital video cameras. DVCam is a Sony format found in many of their high end cams. You can get a MiniDV compatible deck for about $1000. Sonys GVD-1000 has a small screen, FireWire in, composite and S-video out, and some slick onboard editing features. The decks are essentially a DV camera without the lens. The decks add a ton of life to your DV camera if you do a ton of tape transfer because youre not relying on the motor in your camera for all the import functions. Heres a shopping.com link with a handful of prices for the GVD-1000: http://www.shopping.com/xFS-Sony-GVD-1000~NS-1~linkin_id-3068035 Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com http://www.sync2play.com YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [videoblogging] PAL vs NTSC Cameras for vlogging...does it really matter?
Vincent, Unforunately, I have only limited experience of dv decks, I have used one before in Video Production Class, I didn't notice whether it had any relevance to pal or ntsc. But when exporting into Final Cut, or Imovie, one has to set wether it is DV pal or DV ntsc, I am only guessing but I think that setting is only for burning to a DVD for viewing on TV. But for vlogging, I don't see any problem. I could be wrong. You have to capture as PAL or NTSC so the software uses the appropriate setting. If you capture NTSC video as PAL the video will not play at the appropriate speed. The DV decks, like the GVD-1000 are available as either PAL or NTSC. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com http://www.sync2play.com SPONSORED LINKS Individual Fireant Typepad Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [videoblogging] PAL vs NTSC Cameras for vlogging...does it really matter?
Hi, I am considering buying a camera and am curious if it really matters which format I use if my video is going to end up online. I will be filming in Kenya, which is in the PAL half of the world and my friends tell me I should get a PAL camera. Does it really matter? regards, vincent SPONSORED LINKS Individual Fireant Typepad Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [videoblogging] such a Simpleton! Compression
On Behalf Of Joseph Puentes Well for the life of me I can't seem to find the Save Movie button and options to do the other and NTSC 768. [in fact that whole row is missing I see the menu items -file-edit-view- like in the tutorial and I see the row of items below that has undo, redo, tasks, collections and that window, BUT the row with Save Movie Send Record is completely missing). You can get to Save Movie one of two ways: 1) File Save Movie File 2) On the toolbar below File, Edit, View click on the button that says Tasks and expand the Finish Movie section. You can also reveal the Tasks list from View Tasks. Jake Ludington Author - Easy Digital Home Movies http://iMakeMedia.com http://www.jakeludington.com http://www.sync2play.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/u8TY5A/tzNLAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] Getting More Traffic . . . How?
As to sharing with the world . . . I'd like to share with more of the world. I'd love to have a conversation about strategies for gaining viewership. Are there plans for a vlogging index that could guide viewers toward the types of vlogs they want to see? Can we develop more sophisticated linking practices? What's next for Mefedia? I wrote this specifically about podcasting, but the same rules apply for video blogs: http://www.jakeludington.com/project_studio/20051028_12_ways_to_promote_your _podcast.html Non-breaking URL: http://tinyurl.com/95rnh Like any 12-step program, it takes work, but it will work. Jake Ludington http://www.PodcastingStarterKit.com http://www.jakeludington.com http://www.sync2play.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] Why I chose M4V temporarily
Dude, m4v is nothing other than mp4 encoding at default settings preset by Apple. m4v is a myth. It is not a format. It is simply a file extension pulled out of the ether, but not a different file type. You could name it mp4 or mov as that would more accurately define the file type and you wouldn't have to screw with the mime settings on your server. This is not entirely accurate. The M4V saved out by Save for iPod defaults to H.264 with AAC audio. The M4V files available for sale through iTMS are VRML Media video, which makes M4V a wrapper format of some kind, which allows Apple to add DRM. Renaming the file from M4V to MP4 works for playback in QuickTime, but does not work for playback in other places where MP4 is normally supported because the files aren't recognized by all MP4 codecs. Jake Ludington http://www.PodcastingStarterKit.com http://www.jakeludington.com http://www.sync2play.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] Why I chose M4V temporarily
That's because its h.264. You need an h.264 decoder to view it... hence QT 7. Thanks Captain Obvious! ;) My point is, changing the file extension doesn't mean it will play back with *all* H.264 decoders, because it won't. Jake Ludington http://www.PodcastingStarterKit.com http://www.jakeludington.com http://www.sync2play.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] Why I chose M4V temporarily
On Behalf Of Joshua Kinberg You're correct, but it does solve the mime-type issue on the server side. If you specify a mime-type associated with M4V, it will work correctly as is. You don't need to swap the extension, simply put this in your .htaccess file: AddType video/mp4 .m4v Although I've also seen it suggested that this is a correct method: video/x-m4v .m4v Jake Ludington http://www.PodcastingStarterKit.com http://www.jakeludington.com http://www.sync2play.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- AIDS in India: A lurking bomb. Click and help stop AIDS now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/9QUssC/lzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] DivX - Shameless Plug
This puts a standard mpeg-4 based playback in the quicktime player, windows media player, consumer electronics devices. The converter is very easy, just drag and drop, or you can export from quicktime pro directly to DivX. Jim, The major disadvantage I see to DivX at this point is no playback support on PSP or iPod. Yes it's perfect for PC or Mac playback and the file sizes make it interesting as a solution for software PVRs but the ideal scenario is one format for everything. MP4 comes closer than anything else at this point because it is supported on the two devices everyone wants to own in addition to being supported on all the desktop platforms. If you can get your Codec on major portable devices, then you're on to something. Jake Ludington http://www.PodcastingStarterKit.com http://www.jakeludington.com http://www.sync2play.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] Re: Microsoft
Im interested to see what content is on their media portal thing that you can access through the XBox360. It's mostly a collection of movie trailers, game trailers, music videos and a handful of short films. Jake Ludington http://www.PodcastingStarterKit.com http://www.jakeludington.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/2jUsvC/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] free FTP client for Windows XP?
Filezilla: http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/ Jake Ludington http://www.PodcastingStarterKit.com http://www.JakeLudington.com -Original Message- From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jonny goldstein Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 5:54 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: [videoblogging] free FTP client for Windows XP? I'm looking for a free FTP program for Win XP for my students to upload their vids to a server. Thanks for any help! Jonny G. Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] How Old is Dick Cavett?
It's breaking the rules! Sure, old media might have guidelines about how to conduct an interview or ask questions, but does new media have to? My friend once did an interview with the vocalist from the band Plaid Retina, it consisted of one question, and then ended. The question was: Why do you sing like a girl? Rules of common courtesy and good judgment are older than old media. Leading off with an entirely irrelevant and possibly antagonistic question and expecting to get the attention and respect you want isn't a relationship building strategy. You become know as the asshole with the camera instead of someone worth talking to. If you expect people to talk to you openly, you're expecting that person to trust you on some level. Trust for most people means not portraying them in a bad light. I'm referring to all people here, not just famous ones. If the new media rules are about showing disrespect and acting without consideration for the feelings and opinions of others, new media will be quickly marginalized like the circus side show that is reality television. Jake Ludington http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com http://www.jakeludington.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] How Old is Dick Cavett?
From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randolfe Wicker Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 3:41 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] How Old is Dick Cavett? Leading off with an entirely irrelevant and possibly antagonistic question and expecting to get the attention and respect you want isn't a relationship building strategy. You become know as the asshole with the camera instead of someone worth talking to. Well, forgive me for being curious. That question was driving me crazy. I thought Dick Cavett was in his eighties. When I guessed his age as being 75, I was being very kind. I object to this nonsense about being ashamed of one's age. One of the first things I'll voluntarily tell you is that I am 67 years old. I'll happily become known as the asshole with the camera. I've always asked the hard and unexpected questions in interviews. That's why my early radio interviews got rave reviews in the New York Times, The Herald Tribune and Newsweek Magazine. You can get his age from IMDB.com. In the context of the roundtable leading up to your question, how was his age relevant? You set the question up as being tough before you asked, which likely put his guard up. What was your next question after the age question going to be? Im not saying dont ask tough questions and Im not even specifically referring to that question, rather the discussion in general of new media being all about sticking it to the man. Jake Ludington http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com http://www.jakeludington.com YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [videoblogging] How Old is Dick Cavett?
My next questions for Dick Cavett would have been: What are you doing now? and Have you encountered age discrimination in our youth oriented media? Both of those would have been fascinating to have answered. Not sure about the age discrimination, but you can find a fair amount about him online. IMDB.com again being a good place to start. Dan Rathers screw up aside, everyone (gross generalization) in the new media should take a lesson from the old media and do some background research on whatever it is they are covering as a citizen journalist. Being an amateur doesnt mean going in uninformed. Jake Ludington http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com http://www.jakeludington.com YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [videoblogging] Tivo to Computer
This is good for PC's , any Mac love out there? You didn't scroll down. Oh wait, Mac users don't have a scroll wheel. :P Jake Ludington http://www.mediablab.com http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] Tivo to Computer
Mac aside, even the tivo desktop for PC doesnt yield a file ready for editing. It is DRM protected. DirectShow Dump deals with the .tivo file extension problem Im not sure what the Mac equivalent is: http://prish.com/etivo/tbr.htm Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com SPONSORED LINKS Individual Fireant Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [videoblogging] Tivo to Computer
Mac aside, even the tivo desktop for PC doesnt yield a file ready for editing. It is DRM protected. This might help with the Mac problem: http://www.topsight.net/article.php/20050620123435317 Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com SPONSORED LINKS Individual Fireant Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [videoblogging] Re: Archiving high-quality orginals?
I've been wondering about this as well, but I very much want to archive the uncompressed DV. Currently I've been buying hard disks every time I need more storage space, obviously this isn't the best long-term solution... or is it? it's getting cheaper and cheaper... One reasonably cheap solution is to output the edited file back to MiniDV tape. If you buy in quantity, tapes run about $2.50-3.00/each which translates to much less than the $0.50/GB of data required in hard disk storage. It's also more practical because the tapes aren't volatile the same way a hard drive is. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] Mac compatible webcam?
I just bought a Creative webcam that said on the box it was only windows compatiblel. Being the cocksure mac owner I am, I figured it would just work anyway. It very much did not, and I haven't found a lot of cameras that DID say they were compatible with OSX, other than the obviously overpriced iSight. What webcams are the mac users here using? I know you can just plug in your firewire, but I'm thinking of buying them for another project I am doing where I would have to install them in various places, which may be PC, might be mac, but I want to at least do the development on my computer using the same camera I install on PCs. Am I out of luck? The iSight is most definitely not overpriced. It's got the best image of any Webcam on the market and well worth the extra dollars over Creative or Logitech. iSight also works with PCs, making it compatible for what you want to do. One option before you give up on the Creative is to try the USB Webcam drivers from sourceforge: http://webcam-osx.sourceforge.net/ Their list of supported cams is hosed at the moment, but it might work. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] RSS for a non-blog page
I'm trying to build a feed for a page that is not a blog - its a static HTML page, but every now and then I want to add a video to it. Its this page here. http://www.eyesteelfilm.com/channel.html I've tried to use RSS tools like RSS Writer, but I find them a bit hard to understand. For example, in RSS Writer - its asking me for items. What does this mean? I've tried another called Feeder - same deal. Are the items basically the movies I want to be downloaded from the feed? So each time I add a movie, I have to manually edit the feed? The items are the individual content postings in the RSS feed. Each time you have a new item (in your case this might be a movie and a brief description of the movie) you would need to create a new item for your movie. So yes, you do need to manually update your feed with each new item, just like you manually update channel.html each time you add something to the page. I went through a tutorial on this for FeedForAll related to podcasts, but the premise is the same for video blogs: http://www.jakeludington.com/ask_jake/20051023_podcasting_from_iis_server.ht ml If that link breaks use this: http://tinyurl.com/c25f7 Jake Ludington http://www.mediablab.com http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] Re: Videomaker's Vidcaster.Net - Seen but not Seen
LOL. Seems to me it has already happened, as it was bound to. A technology can either be a big success or can be a nice little community - not both at the same time. Technologies dont create communities, people do. Its up to the people in a community whether they nurture it through changes or abandon the community for something else. Jake Ludington http://www.mediablab.com http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com SPONSORED LINKS Individual Fireant Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [videoblogging] Re: Videomaker's Vidcaster.Net - Seen but not Seen
In the NerdTV Show #6 Interview with Dave Winer, http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/shows/ , Dave talks about how Netscape first took his idea of RSS and didn't compeletely implement it and then Dave released a new, better version with his features added to Netscapes' implementation that became the standard. It's the third or fourth guy that often becomes the standard. What exactly is being innovated that no one is getting credit for? Distribution format? Compression standards? The idea of a recurring show? I guess Im unclear whats being usurped by the capitalists who arent giving credit? And that I know of, no one submitted a white paper or thesis as a standard for video blogging that could be co-opted by someone else. Did I miss something? J Jake Ludington http://www.mediablab.com http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com SPONSORED LINKS Individual Fireant Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Andrew Baron interview on The Chris Pirillo Show
Andrew made an appearance on The Chris Pirillo Show Thursday evening. Here's the juicy goodness: http://www.thechrispirilloshow.com/help/20051030_andrew_baron_on_rocketboom. phtml Tiny URL to prevent broken link: http://tinyurl.com/bxo4a Jake Ludington http://www.mediablab.com http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] cleaning out the junk
This is the same thing I want to do to my laptop. I want to do video, and not much else. I want the HDD space for videos, a browser, an aggreator, a file converter, and a movie maker(maybe two, QT and MS Moviemaker). I don't know squat @.exe's, etc. Any ideas out there? I wouldn't concentrate too much on eliminating Windows components, although you can certainly cut down on some of them. The space savings you'll achieve are minimal. One place to free up space is to delete all the archived uninstall folders for various service packs and hotfixes. These are located in the Windows directory and will show up in Blue. The folder names look like: $NtUninstallKB873339$ The only thing these folders do is provide a roll back for patches. In most cases you'll never need them. Removing Optional Components Go to Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel. Click on the button for Add/Remove Windows Components. Browse through the list and uncheck things you don't need (don't remove Networking components, Update Certificates or Windows Media Player). Uninstall Extra Programs Scan through the Add or Remove Programs list for apps you don't need. Laptop vendors frequently install games and trial versions of stuff you won't ever use. If you really don't plan on doing anything but video with your laptop, uninstall things like IM clients. What will have a bigger impact on your video editing experience is making sure your system is optimized for capture and editing. Awhile back I put together a hit list of 8 things to do to help prevent dropped frames during video capture. All are good for optimizing for video in general: http://tinyurl.com/77qvq Jake Ludington http://www.mediablab.com http://www.jakeludington.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] cleaning out the junk
From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett Gaylor Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 3:53 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] cleaning out the junk Anyone got any mac tips like this? I find that since I started videoblogging, my hard drive is ALWAYS full. Anyone got any Mac voodoo? Aside from the old trash preferences/permissions/zap the pram type thing... What I suggested isnt really a way to free up space. Sure, you might save 1GB by uninstalling apps and deleting excess files, but that doesnt solve the real problem. If your drive is full, there are only four things that work (Mac or Windows): 1) Buy more hard drive space and archive the stuff you dont need 2) Burn DVDs of stuff you dont currently need immediate access to 3) Backup files to DV Tape 4) Delete files you no longer need If you are subscribed to a bunch of video blogs, a good place to start would be your subscriptions. If you watched something and want to keep it, archive it somewhere. If you dont want it anymore, delete it. Jake Ludington http://www.mediablab.com http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [videoblogging] Paid itunes videos
So how do you get your videos on itunes so folks can pay a buck or two to seem them? If you're a musician the place to go is TheOrchard.com. http://www.theorchard.com Jake Ludington http://www.mediablab.com http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] How do I rip songs from garageband.com
On garageband.com it says download the mp3 when I hit the button it just plays in anther window. I want to be able to download and use it on my vids. I tried recording while the song is playing, but it won't let me record it. So how do you record or download a song. Also does garageband use the creative commons thing? If there is a better site to get music from please pass it on to me. Thanks. Try right-clicking (ctrl+click) and Save Target As. Garageband.com does permit music to be used in podcasts (which probably included video) - not sure what the individual licensing terms of songs may be. If you are searching specifically for Creative Commons music, creativecommons.org is the place to look. They have a search engine specifically for that purpose. Jake Ludington http://www.mediablab.com http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] Jacob Appelbaum Is Up
I am now convinced that exporting FCP or iMovie edited video to a new best quality DV file then importing that video to iDVD 5 then best quality burning a disk image then ripping an mpeg4 with HandBrake is the ONLY way I can figure out how to achieve good quality video at less than one MB per minute that I can produce with very little hocus pocus and no special incantation ceremonies. I am compelled to ask what your exact settings are throughout this process. Compression isn't new ground - there is over a decade of study on using QuickTime alone. When you say you are trying to achieve good quality video at less than one MB per minute, what does that mean? Do you have a target resolution and bit rate you are aiming for? Are you attempting to get specific smoothness or sharpness? Are you doing things to blur the background to save pixel weight? There are very proven methods for getting small file sizes, but it's unclear what your target is, other than one MB per minute. Jake Ludington http://www.mediablab.com http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] Re: Easy video editing software?
There is also a support site for WMM2 users: http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net as well as a tun of stuff at the M$ web sites. The minute you want to try to do something fancy or to tweek a bit of video faster than it can handle it will crash. When that starts to happen to you I can recommend Ulead Studio 9. I got a free 30 day trial from one of my computer magazines disk but you can download a copy as well. Windows Movie Maker has some seriously cool features coming in Windows Vista (not that it helps right now) and better stability. Still, I don't think Microsoft ever intends it to compete directly with the broader market of video editors the way Apple effectively lifted the finger to Adobe and Avid with Final Cut Pro. One very natural upgrade path when you outgrow WMM2 is to use Premiere Elements. It's got most of the Premiere Pro features for about $100 (big missing feature is HD, which is a non-feature for most people at this point). Jake Ludington http://www.mediablab.com http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] Jacob Appelbaum Is Up
1. chose the image, 2. then Destination File Format MP4 file, Codecs MPEG-4 Video/AAC Audio, Browse button to the destination folder and name the movie I'm about to rip xyz.mp4. 3. Click on Picture Settings... button and reduce the size to 320 x 240 also might trim if there is extra wasted dimension. I only know of HandBreak allowing this capability. 4. Close Picture Settings dialog box 5. Audio sample rate change to 24000 Hz bitrate change to 64 kbps. Leave languages as they are. 6. Video change Framerate to 10 fps, encoder is FFmpeg, Change radial to Target size to 1 mb per minute of footage. Length is above in the Title popup so set the amount accordingly. Leave constant quality at 50%. Make sure 2-pass encoding is checked. 7. Press Rip and it will be done in a few minutes. That's all there is to it. I am using the target size to determine my bit rate instead of vice versa. So far they look great at one MB a minute. I couldn't figure out how to do FFmpeg encoding any other way - especially two pass encoding. Might I ask which front end you are using for ffmpeg? If you use ffmpegX all those options are readily available. http://homepage.mac.com/major4/ You also need to download the individual encoding bits here: http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/MacOS/mpeg2enc http://sourceforge.net/projects/mplayerosx/ Just start with your source file and configure each of the options you describe above without the need for a DVD intermediate. It'll save you a ton of time. :) Jake Ludington http://www.mediablab.com http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Videoblogging book is cancelled
Chris Baudry wrote: I am interested in the what does this mean? part of the initial message. Does it mean that from the publisher's perspective it's too early and the market is too embryonic? What it means is the books on podcasting already in the channels aren't meeting sales projections which means taking a risk on a book with a smaller market doesn't make any sense from the publishers financial investment perspective. It doesn't mean there's not a market for it, but it does mean there's limited interest in the topic in traditional channels. One approach you could take is to contact the people at a company like No Starch, which tends to take risks on books with cult followings and more niche topics. The advantage to that route is getting access to the traditional retail channels (through O'Reilly, ironically) and if negotiated correctly, you could easily retain the electronic distribution rights. Jake Ludington http://www.mediablab.com http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] Get HandBrake
-Original Message- From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Garfield Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 5:30 AM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Get HandBrake It would be better if it went from step 1 directly to step 5. The intermediate steps 2-4 shouldn't be needed. The handbrake app is really meant to take you from from DVD to mp4. It looks to me like it uses FFmpeg or XviD as it's compressor so I think you could just use one of those instead. Am I right? You are correct. That's a painful series of steps to accomplish mp4 compression that is no different than using FFmpeg or XviD immediately after step 1. You should never need to effectively rip a DVD to get your final movie output, unless you started with a shiny disk to begin with. Jake Ludington http://www.mediablab.com http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] feedburner numbers
This is a total noob question, but I have to ask it. On my Home Movie Night thing, I've got the feedburner readout showing how many folks are subscribed to me video blog. It was up to 13 a few days ago, but now has dipped to 7. Is there something that I'm supposed to be doing to confirm folks, or am I doing something wrong to turn them away? Is it because I'm only going to be updating weekly and folks lost interest already? From the FeedBurner stats explanation: An approximate measure of the number of individuals for whom your feed has been requested in the last 24 hours. Circulation is inferred from an analysis of the many different feed readers and aggregators that retrieve this feed daily. Circulation is not computed for browsers and bots that access your feed. Circulation is calculated by matching IP address and news reader combinations, and then using our detailed understanding of the multitude of readers and aggregators and bots on the market to make additional inferences. A drop in numbers likely means a subscriber hasn't opened their feed app in the past 24 hours. Jake Ludington http://www.mediablab.com http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] second request: itunes:block tag
Has anyone successfully used the itunes:block tag? Where the heck in the feed do you place it so the ENTIRE thing does not show up? ... and is the /itunes:block necessary? If you want to block the entire feed, you need to put it somewhere in the channel definition like this: itunes:block / Jake Ludington http://www.mediablab.com http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] Re: Open Vlog on FOSS
Yeah the upload function in WordPress is kinda funky. I have never been able to use it to upload a large video file. I did cange the file types and sizes it accepts but it doesn't seem to work. I can't figure it out. There was something on the WP support blog about that function being problematic with certain hosts, so maybe it's my host. I haven't looked too deeply into the problem. It would be handy if it worked. It's very possible you are butting up against the maximum upload default of either PHP or Apache. PHP has a default file size limit for HTTP uploads defined in the php.ini file on your server. Apache as a different upload limit by default. If either threshold is crossed, the file you are attempting to upload will fail without any obvious explanation why. Jake Ludington http://www.mediablab.com http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] Re: Open Vlog on FOSS
PHP should throw an error in $_FILES['userfile']['error'] letting you know what went wrong (1 for upload larger than the php.ini limit, 2 for upload larger than the maxsize HTML attribute limit). Whether Wordpress actually checks these values is another matter. But that's a bug in Wordpress, not a fault of PHP. :o) That of course presumes we're all geeky enough to dig into the PHP error logs. ;) Jake Ludington http://www.mediablab.com http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] Poster Movie vs. jpg Visibility-Windows Compatible QuickTime Movies
Did that fix the white box on the Dedman post? Also, keep in mind that setting target=quicktime launches a new browser window for Windows users (not the desktop QT player). If you use target=myself it will play in the same window as your jpg image. Jake Ludington http://www.mediablab.com http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] Poster Movie vs. jpg Visibility-Windows Compatible QuickTime Movies
So Windows users don't have a player with their QuickTime? They do, but the default behavior of Internet Explorer is to launch a new browser window with the QT file when target=quicktime is used. Jake Ludington http://www.mediablab.com http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] Poster Movie vs. jpg Visibility-Windows Compatible QuickTime Movies
So Windows users don't have a player with their QuickTime? They do, but the default behavior of Internet Explorer is to launch a new browser window with the QT file when target=quicktime is used. And as I apologized to Taylor offlist, my coffee hadn't kicked in yet. :) The correct way to get the QT application to launch is using target=quicktimeplayer which he had in his code and I inadvertently shortened to quicktime. So in a more correct summary of the situation, to get IE to display the JPG image correctly, you need to use the object tag: object classid=clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B codebase=http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab; height=240 width=320 And for his particular case, you need the following param entries to make IE work: param name=src value=http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2399/1362/320/JayDedman2004.jpg; param name=href value=http://ia300130.us.archive.org/3/items/jayin2004onvloggingbmov/jayin2 004onvloggingb.mov param name=target value=quicktimeplayer param name=autoplay value=false param name=type value=video/quicktime height=240 width=320 Firefox seems to work without any of that. Jake Ludington http://www.mediablab.com http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] Re: Poster Movie vs. jpg Visibility-Windows Compatible QuickTime Movies
Andrew, how do you have a list of shows revealed in your iTunes Directory page and yet only one post on your cover? Is that a feedburner trick? That should be dependent on how many items you display in your feed. For instance, if you have the number of items set to 15, the last 15 items will be available to any RSS reader. Jake Ludington http://www.mediablab.com http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] Re: my new video blog about old home movies
Just curoius what you're prefered method of digitizing Super-8 film is? I have some films in Super-8 that I shot in the late 1970's. This is likely the best method for consumer level transfer: http://www.moviestuff.tv/wp_xp.html Not cheap, but effective. The other alternative is recording the film with a DV cam set up side-by-side with the projector. Jake Ludington http://www.mediablab.com http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] Windows Movie Maker for WMV's
The WMV that I created on my editing machine is pretty big for 4 minutes of material, clocking in at 16 megs. I thought that I'd give Windows Movie Maker a spin to handle the compression to WMV. Here's one of the things that I don't understand. According to the Help menu on my in Windows Movie Maker, I've got version 5.1 installed, but the Microsoft website seems to talk about 2.1 being the newest version. If you look below the copyright notice which is below the indication of version 5.1 you should see Windows Movie Maker v 2.1.2046 or something similar. It depends somewhat on the version of Windows XP you are using (Home, Pro, Media Center) The problem with the one installed on my machine is that the export operation has a wizard that I can't seem to shut off. It lists its 768 kpbs as being for LAN instead of for Broadband as mentioned in the Free Vlog tutorial. No biggie, I figure it's the same thing - right? The problem is that I have virtually no other options to adjust, including output size which seems locked at 640 x 480. Technically you can import other profiles by dropping them into the folder where output profiles are stored. A bit of a hack, but it works. Another option for much greater control is to use the free Windows Media Encoder. Jake Ludington http://www.mediablab.com http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
