[videoblogging] Re: Cloverfield hand held major movie

2008-01-28 Thread influxxmedia
That said, I am curious about CLOVERFIELD and do hope that it's good. If only because I've always loved giant monster movies but have always secretly wished for one that had some legitimate scares... FWIW, Wil Wheaton has a good review of CLOVERFIELD on his blog. Gives it an enthusiastic

[videoblogging] Re: HV20 Camera Noise

2008-01-31 Thread influxxmedia
Not used the HV20 per se, but used many miniDV palmcorder types back in school days. What you are describing does sound like tape whir/whine. This is the problem with smaller consumer-type cameras, even really good ones like the HV20. So compact the mic is right there next to the tape

[videoblogging] Re: HV20 Camera Noise

2008-02-01 Thread influxxmedia
That Rode mic looks pretty sweet. Not least because it has 1/8 mini jack, bypassing the need for a converter like the BeachTek. Good to get endorsements from many people. What sort of battery life does it get? adam

[videoblogging] Re: HV20 Camera Noise

2008-02-01 Thread influxxmedia
Just came across this on DVCreators.net Looks remarkably similar to the Rode many people were raving about. http://www.dvcreators.net/the-sennheiser-mke-400-shotgun-mic/ --To give you an idea of the size, it's physical length and width is that of your pinky finger. Yes, that's one amazingly

[videoblogging] Re: QuckTime 7.4 and FCP 4.5HD Disaster

2008-02-05 Thread influxxmedia
Yes, yes and yes. I had a 'no-brainer' FCP project that should have been a couple hour render take all day. QT7.4 caused a memory leak in FCP4.5 that required me keep an eye on iStat, watching the memory consumed, but not released by FCP. Once it got near to maxed out I had to quit the

[videoblogging] Re: Does the file size of video matter anymore?

2008-02-05 Thread influxxmedia
I still keep my video at 320x240. Unless there is a really good reason, I'm doing some real high art lets say (which I'm not), there is no reason to waste that much bandwidth. The bandwidth is not free and it is not limitless. Someone somewhere has to pay for it, and I dont see the point of

[videoblogging] Re: Home grown blog (was TrafficGeyser.com)

2008-02-07 Thread influxxmedia
I'd never really considered making a living at this (take a look at my content and you'll know why) but if I could, for sure I'd jump at it. Either way, recently I have been thinking about building my own blog site, more for aesthetic reasons than control, but control would be a handsome

[videoblogging] Re: Home grown blog (was TrafficGeyser.com)

2008-02-08 Thread influxxmedia
Well, I don't have that kind of cash to dedicate to a site design. Yet. But it is not a bad idea. You are absolutely right when you look at TIME == MONEY and we can all be putting our time into more productive ventures. I absolutely have ZERO plans of monetizing my site or work, and the

[videoblogging] Re: Home grown blog (was TrafficGeyser.com)

2008-02-08 Thread influxxmedia
Hey, that WP/SIAB tutorial was great. Makes it seem very straighforward. I would be tempted to give it a whirl. But as was discussed earlier it is also the time. Still might be worth putting away some coin to pay a WP dude to do it. Great suggestions, thanks everyone Or jump into

[videoblogging] Re: Home grown blog (was TrafficGeyser.com)

2008-02-08 Thread influxxmedia
Dudesyou guys are spoiling me :) Thanks for the link. A ton. adam --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Meade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 7, 2008 3:53 PM, influxxmedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But here's my problem. I'm a graphic designer with intermediate web coding

[videoblogging] Re: Home grown blog (was TrafficGeyser.com)

2008-02-08 Thread influxxmedia
Okay, I really got no excuse now. Thats wicked. Thanks a million. This groups rocks!! --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also ran across this site: http://wpcustomization.com/

[videoblogging] Re: Interesting video interview about the future of online video advertising

2008-02-13 Thread influxxmedia
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: URL hotspots in the video is also essential for product placement for new tab opening when the end-user clicks on it. What are your thoughts on this? This will be the future of web video for sure. Adobe Media

[videoblogging] Re: High Quality Flash

2008-02-13 Thread influxxmedia
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson k9disc@ wrote: = iTunes won't take that FLV file will they? iTunes is all mp4, isn't it? Chris iTunes uses MP3, MP4(H264), MOV or DRMed m4v (video) or m4a (audio)

[videoblogging] Re: HD quality on YouTube

2008-02-13 Thread influxxmedia
I believe this is true. The nudie video looked very good indeed. YouTube limits uploads to 100MB (does it still work that way, been a while) so they are not limiting DATA RATE. The nudie vids were 10mins long which is quite long, but if you encode down to H264 at a pretty high quality

[videoblogging] Re: High Quality Flash

2008-02-13 Thread influxxmedia
I'll chip in with my 2 cents here as it varies from the populace it seems. To export 16:9 FLV from anamorphic DV (your 720x480) your final video size will need to be 854x480. It sounds like VisualHub may do this for you. I do my encoding in Telestream Episode, as it does batch encoding to a

[videoblogging] Re: Good cheap FLV encoder for Windows...

2008-02-14 Thread influxxmedia
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend of mine would like to create higher quality FLVs on his windows machine. Any suggestions? Sorenson Squeeze http://www.sorensonmedia.com/products/?pageID=1#ppc2 adam

[videoblogging] Re: Good cheap FLV encoder for Windows...

2008-02-14 Thread influxxmedia
Riva looks nice, better than FFmpeg (could that be any less user friendlyugh. How about a simple how to...) But one thing to bare in mind with these is what version of FLV they encode to. In the documentation there is little mention of it, however Riva APPEARS to encode to Flash7 FLV.

[videoblogging] Re: LED lights

2008-02-14 Thread influxxmedia
So is the rule of thumb to connect all devices THEN power up. Can we connect a DV cam to a CPU already on, then power up the cam? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Brook Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firewire sucks. A client's HV20 just fell victim to a fried port. Unless you have a

[videoblogging] Re: HD quality on YouTube

2008-02-14 Thread influxxmedia
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Woolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm fairly certain this doesn't work anymore, unfortunately. We've tried a half dozen methods to get better encoding quality on YouTube and none of them work anymore. In fact, YT seems to have a consistent problem

[videoblogging] Re: Poll results for videoblogging

2008-02-15 Thread influxxmedia
Bill do you do a lot of studio work? If so you might be interested in the Red Rocks Micro 35mm Lens adapter/focus rails and the BlackMagic Intensity card. These items let you use much better glass on the front end and capture the 1080p uncompressed signal to FCP via HDMI. For a fraction of

[videoblogging] Re: LED lights

2008-02-20 Thread influxxmedia
Yikes. That makes zero sense. I had no idea about the FW drives. I just shut down my mac at night, often leaving the drived powered up. Could this be contributing to the fairly high failure rate of FW drives (3 of the 7 drives I've owned have failed. 0 of the 5 ATA drives have failed. 0 of

[videoblogging] Re: How do I create SWF files with media player skin

2008-02-20 Thread influxxmedia
You need to use the FLVPlaybackComponent in F8. In the component inspector there is a field for SKIN. Default is set to NONE. CLick and choose one of the built in skins from the list. Also, you can choose for the controls to AUTOHIDE HTH adam --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Darren

[videoblogging] Re: sanyo xacti e1 LCD Screen issue

2008-02-21 Thread influxxmedia
That's the OFFICIAL repair shop? Wow, i'd say thats a good enough reason not to purchase equipment from Sanyo. No Xacti in my future thats for sure... adam By the way, the official Sanyo repair shop in the US is http://www.skokieservice.com/. one of our cameras is currently there being

[videoblogging] Re: Videoblogging Course

2008-02-24 Thread influxxmedia
Lesson 2 and Lesson 8 are all that would interest me. Sounds like a bit of a cheeky price if they are just using your book as the text for the class. I have been stung by that before. Many years ago, I paid heavily for a class where they sat me down with the manual of the software for 8

[videoblogging] Re: sxswi anyone?

2008-02-24 Thread influxxmedia
Another year, another SXSW I will be missing. I jst happens my wedding anniversary is the same week as SXSW and I cannot convince my wife that heading out to Texas for a week to attend geeky seminars and independent film screenings is the most romantic way to celebrate. I looked into