[videoblogging] Premiere Question: Missing frames?

2009-04-26 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Hey, all. I've been using Adobe Premiere for the last few months to produce roller derby DVDs, and I've had this nagging issue that I can't seem to resolve on my own. I figured maybe someone here has seen it and knows what it might be. Basically, when I capture footage, it looks fine. In

Re: [videoblogging] YouTube will lose half a billion dollars this year

2009-04-09 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
I had assumed that they're trying their absolute hardest not to lose half a billion dollars and that they haven't been able to make it work yet. But perhaps you're right and they are indeed shackled by a GM-like existing situation with YouTube and don't know how to fix it. First off, having

Re: [videoblogging] YouTube will lose half a billion dollars this year

2009-04-08 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
I think you're painting online video with an incredibly wide brush here, and it's pretty distortionary. These questions were once asked about text online, too, and the answer is that any of a number of business models have arisen. Content that has been worth money and isn't value-added through

Re: [videoblogging] YouTube will lose half a billion dollars this year

2009-04-08 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
ads don't work with ephemeral content. Surely that's exactly where they do work? Most of the media we consume is ephemeral - TV, newspapers, online news, we see adverts alongside those things as they stream into our lives. On-demand video is largely different from that, isn't it? it's

[videoblogging] Football chalkboard

2008-11-19 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Maybe a bizarre question, but one that was popping in my mind as I'm shooting sporting events these days. Let's say that I wanted to do a chalkboard kinda like John Madden uses when he's explaining football plays in instant replay. What would be nice is to basically just draw on the video and

Re: [videoblogging] Football chalkboard

2008-11-19 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
- finally moving to wordpress http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking AIM:schlomochat On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:36 PM, J. Rhett Aultman [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Maybe a bizarre question, but one that was popping in my mind as I'm shooting sporting events these days. Let's say that I wanted

Re: [videoblogging] Football chalkboard

2008-11-19 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
wouldn¹t need to pre-draw and get something to automatically animate your drawing? -- David Terranova www.davidterranova.com | blog.davidterranova.com | www.rebelrave.tv From: J. Rhett Aultman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Date

Re: [videoblogging] Football chalkboard

2008-11-19 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
it. Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking AIM:schlomochat On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:31 PM, J. Rhett Aultman [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I went looking for a YouTube video to illustrate, but I couldn't find one. So

Re: [videoblogging] Football chalkboard

2008-11-19 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Doing it over a still would be fine. The flow would be video plays, stops on a still, I draw on the still, then the video starts again. I'll have to check this Skitch out. -- Rhett. Jay dedman wrote: Let's say I have a still-shot of some players about to make a play. I want to draw on

Re: [videoblogging] Football chalkboard

2008-11-19 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
stuck on? On 19-Nov-08, at 7:25 PM, J. Rhett Aultman wrote: Doing it over a still would be fine. The flow would be video plays, stops on a still, I draw on the still, then the video starts again. I'll have to check this Skitch out. -- Rhett. Jay dedman wrote: Let's say I have a still

Re: [videoblogging] The Death of the internet as we know it....

2008-11-04 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Yeah...the idea that there is competition at all in broadband is kinda silly. The barriers to entry are high and the market is best modeled as an oligopoly. Don't expect meaningful competitive levers. Expect cartel behavior. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com im not sure its the death of

Re: [videoblogging] who are the Green Video Bloggers?

2008-07-30 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Amy and I did a good 23 episodes on the topic. When my grandmother passed away in April, it was a harbinger of personal life chaos, though...involving a cat dying of cancer, funny rules regarding me getting my MS, etc. Anyway, we'll return to it someday. It's at

Re: [videoblogging] A Vlogger's Voice

2008-06-21 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
I've put Freetime and Greentime on hold and I'm now working with the Broward County Derby Girls (http://www.bcdg.net) to produce video for their various needs. This will ultimately mean making a video podcast highlighting their bouts, but we're still working out some critical components of

Re: [videoblogging] Popcorn popping, the truth

2008-06-12 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
That's certainly a way to do it. That is, after all, how the cooking application of microwaves was discovered in the first place. Alternately, you could just heat the table, but it'd have to be pretty hot. I work in cellphone development. There is definitely not enough energy in a handful of

[videoblogging] Working with multiple cameras

2008-06-01 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Hey, gang. Thanks for the input on camcorders that work well in lower light. I'm very pleased with my new Sony PD-170. So, now I have two camcorders, and this means that, light conditions permitting, I'm doing more multiple-camera stuff. I just got done stitching together most of the

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Looking for comments on Canon GL-2

2008-05-11 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
FYI, there have been a bunch of reports about the casette loading mechanism going faulty with the GL-2. It could just be a bad factory run that's cleared out or something. I considered the GL-2, but I'm settling on a Sony PD-170 because of the strong reports of its powerful performance in low

[videoblogging] Canon XL-1 How many hours is too many?

2008-05-09 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Hey, all. I've been lucky and think I have a lead on an inexpensive used Canon XL-1. This is the first pro-level camera I've been able to afford, and the price is amazingly right. So, I'm feeling a little buyer beware. Most pro cameras have some sort of counter that tells you how many hours of

[videoblogging] Low light action shooting

2008-04-22 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Hey, gang. Yeah, yeah...I know that I post on here only when I have questions. I'm bad. Anyway, I'm currently exploring a new project that could involve a lot of low-light shooting, and I'm trying to assess my various options. By low light, I'm talking about a level of ambient lighting you

Re: [videoblogging] Low light action shooting

2008-04-22 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
with great color. It even has certain built-in color modes that can give night scenes a real edge. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 On 22 Apr 2008, at 16:40, J. Rhett Aultman wrote: Hey, gang. Yeah, yeah...I know that I post

Re: [videoblogging] Low light action shooting

2008-04-22 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Could you give some examples of what you're referring to when you're talking about levels and gradients in post? Are there techniques that have worked particularly well for you? -- Rhett. You can shoot at 15fps, which is what you'll end up with very likely on the web anyway. That'll give you

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Low light action shooting

2008-04-22 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
@yahoogroups.com, J. Rhett Aultman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd be for web production as well as possibly DVDs at something better than 320x240, most likely, and this footage will be the mainstay of a piece that could run 15-60 minutes. I'm considering an XL-1 if I have to...even buying a used

Re: [videoblogging] Re: 1000 True Fans

2008-03-04 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
So, what do you do when you have zero true fans? -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime I think this is just about right on. I've estimated I have about 300 of what Kevin Kelly calls true fans, and I am earning about 1/3 of my living with my self-publishing (in print and eBooks).

Re: [videoblogging] Net-Neutrality

2008-02-14 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
All the libertarian ideals are great, but practical reality has produced the likes of Ron Paulwho is stridently anti-abortion. there's goes my rights! He is personally against abortion because of his experiences as an obstetrician, and yet his Constitutional ideals prevent him from

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Net-Neutrality

2008-02-13 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
@yahoogroups.com, J. Rhett Aultman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah...I didn't understand the assertion, either. Game theory absolutely can be used to demonstrate when multiple parties will collaborate or collude. In fact, game theory models explain at what level of personal gain a party can

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Net-Neutrality

2008-02-13 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
, J. Rhett Aultman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem I see here is externalities. If the costs of externalities were baked into every transaction, this would be true. All too often, it's not. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime

Re: [videoblogging] Net-Neutrality

2008-02-13 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Bell is not an example of an entity in a free market. Bell obtained a government-enforced monopoly through the patent system and government regulations and licensing that (effectively) prevented other companies from entering the market to compete against Bell. In some countries (like in

Re: [videoblogging] Net-Neutrality

2008-02-13 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
I would tend to agree, too. Just look at the history of rural electrification to see the failure of private industry and market forces to electrify rural areas, a critical step in providing the society we now enjoy. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime

Re: [videoblogging] Net-Neutrality

2008-02-13 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Meanwhile, in terms of education, medicine, and pretty much everything else, public run is a synonym for crappy and busted. You can select an equal number of targets where privatized implies an equal quagmire. The magic of market forces has nothing at all to do with hoping people act for

Re: [videoblogging] Re: National Protests of Scientology by Anonymous this Sunday

2008-02-09 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
First off, it's a false binary to say psychiatrists become the good guys by anything I say. This is, in fact, buying Scientology's argument. They offer true mental health and oppose psychiatry; I oppose them, therefore I am pro-psychiatry. It doesn't follow. I could easily protest both

Re: [videoblogging] Re: National Protests of Scientology by Anonymous this Sunday

2008-02-08 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Having watched Steve Fishman's video deposition in full, I can no longer support this point of view. I guess I should first off mention that I have no love for the Catholic church in its current incarnation, so even given what I'm about to say, there is no inherent hypocrisy. There are three

RE: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?

2008-02-04 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Sure...because nobody ever made good videos but suffered from a lack of promotion. Making good videos and assuming the world will beat a path to your door is like opening a restaurant without advertising it. Good food or not, nobody knows you're there. -- Rhett.

Re: [videoblogging] Whole Foods TV

2008-01-15 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
I would say not to count on Whole Foods to do this. I like them, and regularly shop at the one a quarter mile from my home, but my perception of working with them on doing a video has told me that they're happy to carry a greenwashed product as long as you buy it. Here's my story. Back around

[videoblogging] Sales Recepts - Fair Use?

2008-01-15 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
In light of what I mentioned about Whole Foods, I'm curious about something. What is the legal status of a sales receipt or the information printed on it? Can it be argued to contain copyrighted or protected information? Is it a public document? Is it *mine* once I have it? Does display of

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Sales Recepts - Fair Use?

2008-01-15 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
that *may* be an issue. For example, coupons, advertisements and store promotions. Michael --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, J. Rhett Aultman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In light of what I mentioned about Whole Foods, I'm curious about something. What is the legal status of a sales receipt

Re: [videoblogging] Making a living with videoblogging

2007-12-27 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
My first piece of advice would be to not have high expectations. There are a number of people on here making good scratch from their videoblogs, but I'm not sure how many of them actually expected they'd be able to make a living of it. It seems to be something you kinda have to fall

Re: [videoblogging] Best sport ever

2007-11-26 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Sweet. Now if only I could convince some people to start a hovercraft polo league with me... -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime This has very little to do with videoblogging, so I'll keep it short. When Hunter Thompson was still alive, one of

[videoblogging] Spamming via Trackback?

2007-10-15 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Since Greentime is supported in (a very, very tiny) part by Google Ads, we did not feel right installing Akismet to handle our spam for us. I've gotten pretty good at weeding through Greentime's spam, but I came across something I haven't seen before. It looks like someone's trying to spam via a

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Spamming via Trackback?

2007-10-15 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, J. Rhett Aultman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since Greentime is supported in (a very, very tiny) part by Google Ads, we did not feel right installing Akismet to handle our spam for us. I've gotten pretty good at weeding through Greentime's spam, but I came across

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Spamming via Trackback?

2007-10-15 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
on the filter's algorithm. Just a guess, though. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime it really blows my mind when the comment spam gets thru my typepad comment captcha -- how do they do that? On 10/15/07, J. Rhett Aultman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[videoblogging] Acoustic echo control

2007-10-08 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Hey guys! You guessed it. We're back with another production-related question. We've been learning to use this new condenser boom-mounted mic in our videos and we love the freedom it's offering us, but we're also noticing that it picks up a fairly heavy amount of acoustic echo when our

Re: [videoblogging] Embedding vs. Not

2007-10-07 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Call us mercenary, but the numbers don't lie. Our audience seems to prefer embeds, so we give them embeds. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime Brook Hinton wrote: I'm curious what others feel about the experience of watching video embedded in

Re: [videoblogging] On the off chance someone has this USB Mic...

2007-08-23 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
I haven't used that one, but I do have a Blue Snowball USB mic and I love it. Cheap, good, and rugged. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime Jarod Dixon wrote: Looking to see if anyone has used the R0de podcaster usb Mic for voice overs and

Re: [videoblogging] Please help me with Green TV, Lori Lake

2007-08-23 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Hi! I can't help you with website design, as I'm up to my elbows in my own work, but I have been trying hard to foster better community and solidarity among green video bloggers. I'd like to link you from my project, Greentime (http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime). Perhaps if you like the

Re: [videoblogging] Hiss from audio mixer

2007-08-07 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Rob Danielson wrote: Hi Rhett-- The sensitivity (output) of the SE1 is 10mV/Pa which is the lower-end of condenser mics but still acceptable. Noise of 17dBA is acceptable. It seems to want at least 44 volts phantom. It doesn't sound like you are getting just mixer or camcorder preamp

[videoblogging] Hiss from audio mixer

2007-08-06 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Guys, We've been trying to improve our sound setup, but to no avail. I'm mildly desperate for advice. Most of the time, we've been using a Shure handheld microphone. Sounds great, but looks stupid unless you're in the field. So, we tried to upgrade. We bought an SE Electronics SE1A

Re: [videoblogging] Owning a television...

2007-08-03 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
I have three televisions, one of which is HD. I sometimes (very rarely) use the HDTV as a monitor for my laptop, but that's a minimal use case. I watch TV a pretty fair amount and own a TiVO. In fact, it was via my TiVO that I found Rocketboom and got inspired to videoblog. I have also

RE: [videoblogging] Owning a television...

2007-08-03 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J. Rhett Aultman Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 2:49 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Owning a television... I have three televisions, one of which is HD. I sometimes (very rarely) use

Re: [videoblogging] Owning a television...

2007-08-03 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
It's worth noting that, despite the fact that I watch a lot of television, I'm generally not focusing on it. Between my job, my doctorate, Greentime, Freetime (still technically active), the ever-impending-event (was my wedding, now it's Dragon*Con), gym, garden, baking and brewing, etc, etc, I

Re: [videoblogging] new ways to distribute your shows

2007-07-31 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
What makes these sites a preferable choice to other places offering similar features? Places like Veoh have offered these kinds of syndication, and Blip.tv also has similar features. Why would I want to use these sites over others? -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime

[videoblogging] Blank tape detected in Premiere

2007-07-30 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Guys, When I dump a tape to Premiere, it sometimes stops in the middle of the capture process and says capture stopped because blank tape was detected. I've become used to this as a minor glitch that occurs once in a blue moon. Lately, though, it's been happening a lot. It seems to crop up

Re: [videoblogging] Blank tape detected in Premiere

2007-07-30 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
I am using Scene Detect. If I turn it off, though, won't I have to go in and split out all the scenes by hand? I haven't noticed a problem with it mis-detecting scene boundaries, only with it thinking that it's hit blank tape or something. I'll try getting more religious about what tape brand I

Re: [videoblogging] The Vloggies (was Re: irina gone)

2007-07-24 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
I strongly agree with this. I realize it's business as usual for more traditional media businesses to use award shows as a way to scratch the backs of their VIPs and biggest stakeholders, but I find something like that entirely disingenuous in the case of PodTech and the Vloggies. Not only

Re: [videoblogging] The Vloggies (was Re: irina gone)

2007-07-24 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
For what it's worth, Freetime is profoundly unpopular, and we still won a People's Choice for Best Documentary, so this isn't necessarily true. Also, having the Vloggy definitely improved our viewership, as we went from being completely unknown to being only moderately unknown. -- Rhett.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: irina gone

2007-07-24 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
No offense, but our Vloggy has meant a lot to us. In fact, it's the only positive regard we ever got from Freetime. It's also the only time that project ever got linked by anyone else's blogs. If we hadn't had that modicum of success in getting even the most rudimentary audience, I probably

Re: [videoblogging] The Cult of the Amateur

2007-07-12 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Anyone who promotes their book on Coast to Coast AM with Georgy Noory is already on my list of windbags who just enjoy the sound of their own voices slightly more than they enjoy the sound of cages being pointlessly rattled. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime

Re: [videoblogging] Is Blip DOWN?

2007-05-08 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Looks it to me. Their site is timing out and all the material on my blog that loads through them is stalled out. At least when I hosted my own videos, the blog and videos all went down together. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime what

[videoblogging] My iPod format is wrong?

2007-05-03 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Gang, I've had some complaints from my viewers that the .m4v files we generate for distribution on iTunes are not compatible with video iPods. We're finding this horribly confusing because we generate them with Quicktime using the Movie to iPod exporter. Could I trouble someone to pull up

Re: [videoblogging] Re: My iPod format is wrong?

2007-05-03 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
transfer to ipod? Strange! Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, J. Rhett Aultman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gang, I've had some complaints from my viewers that the .m4v files we generate for distribution on iTunes are not compatible with video iPods. We're finding

Re: [videoblogging] Re: My iPod format is wrong?

2007-05-03 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, J. Rhett Aultman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for a little sanity checking, Steve. I really will need to follow up with the user in specific and see what's going on, because we've been pretty sure that, at least for the recent episodes, things were fine

Re: [videoblogging] Re: My iPod format is wrong?

2007-05-03 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, J. Rhett Aultman wlight@ wrote: Well, I'm not using 640x480 videos. I generally render my NTSC avi into a 320x240 MOV file first, then transcode the 320x240 MOV into a 320x240 FLV and a 320x240 M4V. Since I'm not allowed

Re: [videoblogging] Need advice on how to conduct an interview for use on a blog.

2007-04-09 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Hi, can anyone recommend any books or articles, etc, that give advice on how to conduct an interview with a guest. I am looking for tips on things to do, and not do during an interview with a guest, from the perspective of being the host. OK, thanks, Ed. Creative Cow Magazine covered this

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Josh Wolf to be releases

2007-04-03 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
I can't stop to watch the video at work...what happened? The Wiki for his blog now reads: Josh Wolf is an independent journalist and blogger who finked on his friends when he agreed to testify and turn over unpublished video out-takes to a federal grand jury investigating a July, 2005 anti-G8

Re: [videoblogging] Dreamhost vs blip.tv?

2007-04-03 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Yes. Making QT my main format caused no end of headaches from people telling me they had trouble with QT, so I decided to go with Flash. Dreamhost also offers their own Flash transcoder, but I felt that Blip.tv offered more in the way of social support, such as serving as the mouthpiece of

Re: [videoblogging] vbweek is canceled!

2007-03-31 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Heath, with us launching Greentime, we haven't had the time to be able to even think about VBW, but we'd love to consider another week. Personally, I'd love to do a green video blogging week. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime Heath wrote: Just

Re: [videoblogging] Alternative to Videoblogging Week

2007-03-29 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
I recognzine only one soverignty, and that is the nationless nation of Subgenii. I recognize only one propaganda, which I interpret in the rings of smoke which emerge from the face of the Great Piped One. 13013 be his number, Dobbs be his name. An orange is nothing but a juicy pumpkin. --

[videoblogging] Greentime, the new green video blog.

2007-03-28 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
http://planet2025.tv http://crowdabout.us --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, J. Rhett Aultman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, everyone. Amy and I have been rubbing our heads together over the last month or so, and we've launched a second video blog. This one is going to be much

Re: [videoblogging] Greentime, the new green video blog.

2007-03-28 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Whoops...wrong recipient. Sorry about that, everyone. J. Rhett Aultman wrote: Hey...I hate to stound dim, but I accidentally deleted the email explaining how I can sync up my Planet2025 show with my main RSS feed. Could you resend it? Also, you'd mentioned desiring my input as a mobile

Re: [videoblogging] A question about viewership habits....

2007-03-27 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
In my experience, one-time mentionings in blogs and such is good but will not yield a lasting viewer base that one would expect. Freetime did start to take off after The Vloggies, which was in part because of iTunes featuring it and part the bloglove, but a big reason why is because TV Tonic

Re: [videoblogging] Apple TV

2007-03-25 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
What resolution should we be resizing to if we want to work with Apple TV? Gary Rosenzweig wrote: On 3/25/07, Tim Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So has anyone got your mits on an Apple TV yet? Just vlogged about it at MacMost.com:

Re: [videoblogging] Green Vlogging?

2007-03-22 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
How green is video-blogging itself? Do personal computers and video cameras grow on trees? Or, are they made out of petro-chemicals? What is the carbon footprint of the equipment used to product a videoblog? Does that include the internet infra-structure? Where can I buy carbon credits to

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Green Vlogging?

2007-03-22 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
will generate in a lifetime. And dont even get me started on biofuels. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, J. Rhett Aultman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How green is video-blogging itself? Do personal computers and video cameras grow on trees? Or, are they made out

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Green Vlogging?

2007-03-22 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
or China, where poor people melt it down and expose themselves to many harmful chemicals :( Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, J. Rhett Aultman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve, The fever pitch, in a lot of ways, is already here, and it has been for a while. Plenty of so

[videoblogging] Greentime, the new green video blog.

2007-03-21 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Hey, everyone. Amy and I have been rubbing our heads together over the last month or so, and we've launched a second video blog. This one is going to be much closer to a true blog than Freetime because it's going to be mostly about us and our lives. The premise of the new video blog, called

Re: [videoblogging] Re: YouTube sued for 1 billion dollars.....(Insert doctor evil laugh)

2007-03-13 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
I don't follow your logic. You say that if they put out more good shows, we would watch them on TV instead of viewing their good clips online. If we're already getting the good stuff online, by this logic, wouldn't making a good show just mean it would end up being posted and viewed online? --

Re: [videoblogging] Re: YouTube sued for 1 billion dollars.....(Insert doctor evil laugh)

2007-03-13 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
cable tv last April (just get internet) because i am fedup with the force feeding of crap i dont want. So netflix fills in the void and I'm also very interested in any new VOD service like Joost etc which i can also take advantage of. Anyway On 13 Mar 2007 09:11:05 -0700, J. Rhett Aultman

Re: [videoblogging] Re: YouTube sued for 1 billion dollars.....(Insert doctor evil laugh)

2007-03-13 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
in the void and I'm also very interested in any new VOD service like Joost etc which i can also take advantage of. Anyway On 13 Mar 2007 09:11:05 -0700, J. Rhett Aultman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't follow your logic. You say that if they put out more good shows, we would

Re: [videoblogging] How often do you post new videos?

2007-03-13 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
We do shows that last anywhere from 2 to 15 minutes, but because of our extremely busy schedules and because there's often a fair amount of editing involved, we're doing good if we get out a post every other week. We're considering a quality over quantity step, though, where we post more like

Re: [videoblogging] Vlog Fade

2007-02-26 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Anyhow... just remember that the time you, as a vlogger, are investing in creation, there are others who are also investing their time in watching. This is a really good reminder. I don't think my viewers expect high regularity, but I am past-due for a post. The next post slated for release

Re: [videoblogging] Vloggercon? (was Re: Tuesday FlashMeeting)

2007-02-22 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
What about discussing marketing plans for vlogs? I think there are a number of us who are trying a number of things, and having a forum to riff on what's worked, what hasn't, etc, might be useful. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime I would like to see a better way to find vlogs,

Re: [videoblogging] Vloggercon? (was Re: Tuesday FlashMeeting)

2007-02-22 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
We can get cheap tickets to NYC and can stay with a friend there, so it gets our vote, too. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime Anne and I definitely need to get out to NY.if this is a vote, that's what 'd vote for. -- Devlon Mike Hudack wrote: NYC! NYC! NYC!

Re: [videoblogging] Re: viewer feedback

2007-02-09 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
It makes me feel good to hear this. I often feel like, when I just ask people to email us or to friend us on MySpace, that I'm screaming into the void. I know I have an audience, because FeedBurner stats show the subscribers. I also, as far as I can tell, have never grown my audience through

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Videobloggers YouTube Group - Anyone Interested?

2007-02-08 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
I'm also already on YouTube (freetimevlog), and I'd happily join any groups going. I need that networking! :) -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime Robyn Tippins wrote: I'm on YouTube already, so if you set up a group and invite us I'd certainly join you. Of course, I'm a social

Re: [videoblogging] Mooninites take over Boston

2007-02-01 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
/societal response to the threat of terrorism, which is for another group and which I keep on prolonging here. sorry. goodnight. On 1 Feb 2007, at 21:38, J. Rhett Aultman wrote: This is just a basic story of some dumbasses putting things where they don't belong and the cops having to diffuse

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Mooninites take over Boston

2007-02-01 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
hauntingly stupid ... they were just doing their jobs, following orders. I want to see interviews with executives who approved this debacle. That would be a laugh riot. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, J. Rhett Aultman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sincerely doubt the charges that end up sticking

Re: [videoblogging] iPhone flash youtube comments from Steve Jobs

2007-01-29 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Steve Jobs is a captain of industry in a monopolistically competetive market. True to form, he is plying his own flavor of monopoly, no different than Microsoft. Apple deals in a monopolistic package and it always has. It's just been such a cute monopoly with such a good line of marketing BS about

[videoblogging] New camera...suggestions?

2007-01-28 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
It's becoming clear that Amy and I are getting increasingly serious about Freetime and the places we can take video production for the web. After a lot of thinking about it, I'm starting to think that it's time for me to roll my pennies and consider getting a new camera. I've been using a

Re: [videoblogging] SUNDANCE

2007-01-27 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
We are at Sundance right now and just spent a long, tiring day yesterday trying to get here, get the feel of the town, meet some people, and fail miserably at getting a ticket via a waitlist. I stayed up late into the night on an editing session of VERY rough footage, and the post is uploading

[videoblogging] Audio too quiet when I use mono.

2007-01-27 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Guys, Our first Sundance video is stalled from being released because of a critical issue that I don't know how to fix! I bought us a new mic to use on the road...it's a handheld Shure that uses an XLR input. I step that down to the 1/8 plug on the camera. The audio sounds beautiful in the can

Re: [videoblogging] Audio too quiet when I use mono.

2007-01-27 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
then thinks these signals represent the two channels of a stereo sound... which is very much not the case! Hope this helps. -- xo philip http://swordfight.org On 27-Jan-07, at 10:54 PM, J. Rhett Aultman wrote: Guys, Our first Sundance video is stalled from being released because of a critical issue

[videoblogging] Custom player skin

2007-01-23 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Hey, guys. We're considering putting our videos of last year on a CD so we can give them out to people we meet. Since our videos end up in 320x240, we can't make a DVD and have it look decent on a TV. We'd like to have some DVD-like features, though, like menus and whatnot. We thought it'd be

Re: [videoblogging] camcorder recommendations

2007-01-21 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Yeah. The Panasonic GS line...you get 3 chips and some of them even offer full manual control over the aperature and shutter speed and focus and whatnot. My GS-150 seems a little thirsty for light, but otherwise, it's not done me wrong. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime Randy Mann

Re: [videoblogging] Thumbnails into Democracy?

2007-01-18 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Good question. I use their Brodcast Machine software, but redirect it through Feedburner, and that seems to be quashing my thumbnails, too. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime Anybody using PodPress WordPress know how to get thumbnails to show up in Democracy? -- Bill C.

Re: [videoblogging] Sundance?

2007-01-18 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Any Vloggers heading to Sundance this weekend? We'll be at Sundace for the tail-end of the festival next weekend. Will you guys still be there? We should totally do a joing vlogging session if you will! -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime

Re: [videoblogging] Are you learning another language?

2007-01-16 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Anyway: Are you learning another language? If so, what are your tools? How do you do it? Are there others who are documenting their attempts to learn a new language on a videoblog? I struggle with trying to learn Japanese. I do okay at it, but I don't have any regular conversation partners,

[videoblogging] Martin Luther King Day posts

2007-01-15 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Hi, all. I know I promoted a post here two weeks ago when I made a little New Year's video card, but you'll forgive me for doing it again so soon. I felt moved this year to make something for Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Day. My workplace declared it a company holiday, and with some free time

Re: [videoblogging] more iPhones coming?

2007-01-12 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Don't want to be rude, I may be wrong, but I'm not thinking that apple is trying to go after making converts of businesses. The thing is, the cellphone business is a pretty low-margin business, and this is actually the highest-yielding market segment. If I had to guess. I'd guess apple is

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Sprint WiMax in Chicago by year end, and Nokia + SixApart = mobile video sha

2007-01-11 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
it. -Mike On 1/10/07, J. Rhett Aultman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't think you were ignorant. Sorry if I gave you that impression. I was just not understanding why Jobs is touting Cingular...which is basically because they played ball with his company...so I was noting the business dog

Re: [videoblogging] Recommendations for lav mic and lights?

2007-01-11 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
There are some wonderful starter light sets available on Amazon. I bought this one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/BAJB80/102-4970784-2736168 For the price, it's amazing. 1250W is great for many applications. If you want to see us using the new light kit to make the endless white void

Re: [videoblogging] FM as transmitter/receiver combo for cheap wireless mic?

2007-01-09 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Hm...I use a wireless lavalier microphone I bought on eBay that's intended for DJs or people giving presentations. I think I spent $80 on it, and I think it uses FM on one of the commercial bands (not sure, though). It's not perfect, but a little noise gating on the editing console cleans it

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Sprint WiMax in Chicago by year end, and Nokia + SixApart = mobile video sha

2007-01-09 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
First off, he's touting Cingular because Apple signed a deal with Cingular. There need be no reason above that. Business partners stand up for each other. Secondly, he's touting Cingular because Cingular is the biggest of the US networks, so it made sense to strike on that iron. Finally, he's

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