Re: [videoblogging] Re: Youtube supports HTML5 (No more Flash?)
There's an interesting discussion about Flash, .h264, iPad, etc. on a recent TWIT: http://aolradio.podcast.aol.com/twit/twit0233.mp3 Jan Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:59 PM, proctorjen proctor...@yahoo.com wrote: Vimeo has also added an HTML5 player (though they intend to keep it as a companion to Flash): http://vimeo.com/blog:268 Jen --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman jay.ded...@... wrote: We've mentioned rumors before, but here it is: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/youtube_begins_to_support_html5.php An HTML5 video player will allow videos to be viewed without Adobe's Flashplayer plug-in, videos will load faster and developers will be able to build all kinds of other intriguing features into a media delivery scheme based on the next version of HTML. For now users will need to sign-up the HTML5 preview on Test Tube and they'll need to be using either Chrome, Safari or the Chrome frame in IE. The biggest benefit of HTML5 support is that it frees users from the need to use proprietary plug-ins like Flash player or Microsoft's Silverlight by using a simple bit of code to render video. (Note this caveat regarding the lack of codec consensus, however.) If you've used Google's Chrome much, you've probably seen how often Flash player crashes in that browser. Firefox doesn't deal with Flash well, either. Here's how I understand it: If Google does it right, you wont notice the difference. Video will be beautiful and lovely online. But for developers and creators, the options will multiply because we wont be stuck fucking with the constraints of Flash players. Flash has helped make watching online video easy. Its done its job, thanks. Now go sit in the corner with Real Audio. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: What Randy mann Said in the Videoconference last night.
Great discussion. Have been working on a digitally-based (and world-based) multi-media documentary forever. It keeps shape-shifting, etc., but definitely want it to exist as a documentary motion picture. Here it is, so far: http://depressionstrategies.blogspot.com/2008/12/worlds-longest-open-love-letter.html Using Blip.tv's show player to drag and drop vlog entries around, in and out. It's at a point where I need more brains involved. That stopped me. When I had some money, spent it on an editor / blogger / cinematographer (thanks @Quirk). Stopped for work and frustration at where to go. It will begin eventually. Probably in January when the work dries up. It's really fucking difficult. Jan Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.auwrote: interesting points. :-) the other side of this of course is that some do both, but that one practice might not need to come into the other (if that makes sense). the web as most of the 2.0 stuff shows, is ideal for serial practice/ production, small pieces, loose connections. about networks, joins, pathways and bite sized up to snack sized. this can and should work really well in doco, but as noted in some of the comments, a lot of doco practice is still about much larger scale works. So for me the questions are: 1. what would a web native video doc be? (Seth Keen is answering this one way, Florian Thalhofer another.) 2. how might this be combined with trad. doco? 3. blogs are already documentary, so what needs to change (in us or the maker) to think of it more formerly as documentary in the video mode? On 04/09/2009, at 9:18 AM, Jay dedman wrote: And to flip it aroundwhat barriers keep videobloggers from working on longer projects like documentarians? Rupert and I were just talking about it and he sent me this list ( http://videoblogginggroup.pbworks.com/Barriers): cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Lomography's Ten Golden Rules
That's been my vlog manifesto for years. Nice to see it written down. J Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Rupert Howe rup...@twittervlog.tv wrote: While waiting for all my photos and videos to backup, I followed a link on Twitter from @kmog which took me to Lomography's Ten Golden Rules. Lomography is all about analogue photography. But I like the rules as inspiration for daily mobile videoblogging. - http://www.lomography.com/about/the-ten-golden-rules 1. Take your camera everywhere you go. 2. Use it any time day and night. 3. Lomography is not an interference in your life, but part of it. 4. Try the shot from the hip. 5. Approach the objects of your Lomographic desire as close as possible. 6. Dont think. (William Firebrace) 7. Be fast. 8. You dont have to know beforehand what you captured on film. 9. Afterwards either. 10. Dont worry about any rules. - And now my backup is done. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Wordpress Security
This is -- in part -- why I've given up trying to maintain my WordPress vlogs. :( Jan Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 4:59 PM, elbowsofdeath st...@dvmachine.com wrote: Thanks for the info. If you are getting rid of them via phpmyadmin then there is stuff in the usermeta table that you should also be deleting, otherwise some future users could find themselves with admin rights! Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi michaelve...@... wrote: If you haven't heard yet, there is an attack happening on all versions of Wordpress except the newest - 2.8.4. So you should upgrade your installations. The thing that I noticed on ALL of my sites that were not already running 2.8.4 was that they had hidden admin users on them. The sneaky thing about that is that you may not have any other symptoms besides these hidden accounts and then think you are safe once you've upgraded. The are, essentially, back doors left on your site to be exploited later. So you have to make sure to get rid of them. The process is a little tricky at least it's not a typical WordPress user operation so I've documented two ways to do it in this screencast. http://reports.graymattergravy.com/2009/09/06/remove-hidden-admin-users-in-wordpress/ - Verdi -- Michael Verdi http://milkweedmediadesign.com http://michaelverdi.com Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: My EE Video Blog
I do have less than half a clue and found your vlog of extreme interest. Subscribed. RF is much on my mind of late, too. Perfect timing. Whoo-hoo! :) Jan Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Genacompumaven...@earthlink.net wrote: Wow. I don't have a clue about what you are talking about but I'm glad you are doing these posts. Because those with a clue about electrical engineering are going to find you. Which is why at some point you are going to want to have a video hosting site. Yeah, go Blip.tv, definitely. Or consider YT for the low rez version and the Blip.tv for the better quality video. You could track the stats and see if folks are viewing the low rez version. I suspect some viewers will if they will if there are in countries that have Internet Cafes or slow Internet access. I recently met a lady from Bolivia who wanted to start videoblogging. She has to use an Internet Cafes to upload and they don't necessarily have broadband. Some are on ISDN or Dial-up that is spotty. Welcome! Gena --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Jones david.jo...@... wrote: Hi guys First post on the group. I've got a video blog here about Electronics Engineering: http://www.alternatezone.com/eevblog/ Not something most people are into, but I have a niche audience of 500+ regulars. I'm new to video blogging so I'm after constructive comments on the quality of my blog, the tools and techniques I use etc. Blog #22 is the one to watch, it's where I talk about my blogging experience so far. I use Wordpress on my own website, with the iTunes plugin and use Feedburner to generate the iTunes version. I host the low res 320x240 (500Kb/s) MP4 on my website (about 45MB each episode), but I figure this is not a practical long term solution if I get more popular. The high res version (640x480 2000Kb/s) I upload to my Youtube channel, and I embed the Youtube link into my Wordpress logs. About 150MB each. Blogs I limit to 10min each to meet the Youtube limitation. Occasionally I'll do a 2 part episode. I've set up an account on Blip.tv and am thinking of using that for all my actual hosting, as well as continue to upload to Youtube because, well, you have to have a presence there. Comments on using Blip.tv anyone? Camera is an old 2nd hand NTSC DV Canon Camcorder with external shotgun mic. Adequate video I think, but not helped by my dark workshop lit with two strip fluoro's. Camera angle and height just happens to be my tripods minimum height on the bench in front of me. Seems to work well enough. Editing is done with Ulead VideoStudio 12, but I put minimum effort into this. In fact the whole blog is minimum effort. No script (off-the-cuff as I promote), and I don't go back and film things to correct issues, so just pretty much push a short blog out the door every week. Any feedback appreciated! Thanks Dave. Yahoo! Groups Links
[videoblogging] FS :: Beachtek Adapter DXA-6 XLR with Phantom Power $150
http://www.gothamsound.com/main.shtml?page=ugother Toward the bottom of the page Not mine, but figured somebody might be able to use such a thing @ this reasonable price. Jan Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin
Re: [videoblogging] Re: which videoblogs do you recommend?
Yah, thanks Rupert, for subscribing. Humbled for I think you a great innovator. :) Been spreading more media over @ Facebook since it reaches both HS friends, family film colleagues with ease. Don't much vlog on the vlog (http://fauxpress.blogspot.com) any more. Been mostly going through archives to post to Facebook as I reconnect with previous motion picture collaborators: having recently digitized a bunch of stuff from 80's 90's vhs, 16 and 35mm. Gotta do it, ya know: keep up with the technology. Don't think most of that group are hip enough really to dig RSS etc., but FB reaches the masses I need/want to reach in a less-than-wanker and more-than-a-wallflower way. Been making films for friends a lot, too. Instant documentaries. Art baseball reels among the lab rats. Pretty good results. Would love to do more of that. Jan http://twitter.com/fauxpress Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:01 PM, John Coffeyjimmycrackhead2...@yahoo.com wrote: Thanks Rupert, add a bunch of new ones to my Google Reader now. John Coffey --- On Tue, 8/4/09, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: which videoblogs do you recommend? To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 12:31 PM I have a page which lists the videoblogs I subscribe to, together with an OPML file which contains all their feeds, so you can easily import them all into your feed reader. But I have to say, I've been very slack about both posting and watching for a long time. I have no idea how many people on my list are currently posting. I see fewer and fewer links to videoblog posts in Twitter. Yeah, I know I havent posted a new personal video in quite a while, though Ive been doing plenty of regular video work with my partner, Ryanne. I still record regularly and have a huge archives. I feel in a couple years we're going to get a huge deluge of let's look back videos. Most videos I watch are ones that pop up in my twitter stream. Jay -- http://ryanishungry .com http://jaydedman. com http://twitter. com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Reminder: Open Video Conference in June
This sounds totally great. Just got gainful employment that will take my attention for most of what's going on Friday, but Saturday Sunday, would LOVE to at least hang out if not attend the actual conference sessions. I'll be too brain dead for that by then. I've spots for four folks to stay sleeping on cots; five, with one on air mattress; 50 or more with floor space. It's urban camping. No shower, inconvenient transpo to the city. But there you have it. Call or email off list if interested. Jan Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Gena compumaven...@earthlink.net wrote: Ok, now I feel like Heath usually does because I can't figure out how to swing it $$$ wise (airfare/housing.) I now have the official vlogger pouty face and I don't like it. Heath, you gotta go, even if it is just for Saturday. Whimpering my way to work, Gena --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rambos Locker rambos_loc...@... wrote: You just have to go Heath .. Someone has to wear the Sony Vegas hat ..hahaha Cheers Rambo http://rambos-locker.blogspot.com -Original Message- From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:videoblogg...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Heath Sent: Thursday, 21 May 2009 4:52 AM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: [videoblogging] Re: Reminder: Open Video Conference in June Hmmm I wonder if I should keep up my streak of NOT going to events with other vloggers or should I break trend and go. Seeing Richard and Rupert and a few others may be worth it Heath http://heathparks. http://heathparks.com com --- In videoblogging@ mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.comvideoblogging%2540yahoogroups.com yahoogroups.com, Richard (Show) Hall richard@ wrote: Ok ... not only am I seriously considering going, but I registered, made reservations and everything ... so I am going, and it took me two emails to say so ... see you there ... richard On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Richard (Show) Hall richard@ wrote: I'm seriously considering going. ...peace...richard On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Jay dedman jay.dedman@ wrote: I was told the rooms are about $170/night with the group rate, so I'd be interested in a roomshare if anyone else is. Are people planning on staying elsewhere? I want to make sure I'm where the action is :-) People are staying all over town...usually couchsurfing with friends. I know its expensive to stay in NYC. The hostels are considerably cheaper, but offer much less privacy. You could make a page on http://videobloggin http://videoblogginggroup.pbwiki.com/ ggroup.pbwiki.com/ if you wanted to start a place to find room sharing. The event is at NYU...so Im sure all the after parties will take place in Lower East Side. Jay -- http://ryanishungry http://ryanishungry.com .com http://jaydedman. http://jaydedman.com com http://twitter. http://twitter.com/jaydedman com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 -- Richard (Show) Hall http://richardshow. http://richardshow.org org -- Richard (Show) Hall http://richardshow. http://richardshow.org org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: A Message from Crackle
The lowest common denominator has been known to feed a lot of folks and make a few very, very rich. Jan Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Sheila English sheila_clo...@yahoo.comwrote: LOL Excellent way to read between the lines, Rupert! I agree! Sheila --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert rup...@... wrote: Sounds to me like they're going for more of a We're a Massive Studio and We're Going To Use Our Expensive Domain Name To Show The Same Old Stuff We've Shown On All Our Other Platforms model. On 6-May-09, at 11:16 PM, Sheila English wrote: Sounds like they're going for more of a Hulu model. Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Graspr: How to Censor Your Content
YouTube works for me, Sull. When you push the envelope (as you did with the definition of 'instructional video'), sometimes your tongue gets a paper cut. Ouch. Rock on. Jan Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Michael Sullivan sullele...@gmail.comwrote: looks like youtube removed it. On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 3:41 PM, ~ FluxRostrum fluxrost...@graffiti.net wrote: Re: Graspr: How to Censor Your Content Posted by: Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com kinshasa2000 Date: Fri Mar 27, 2009 1:40 pm ((PDT)) On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:30 PM, ~ FluxRostrum fluxrost...@graffiti.net wrote: Graspr, the Instructional Video Network just deleted my video How to Become a Detainee of the US Government which is actual testimony from a US military interrogator explaining exactly HOW one becomes a detainee. If you'd like to learn how to become a detainee of the US Government I guess you'll have to get that info from a more respectable Instructional Video Network. Is there a direct link to this video somewhere else? Jay ~) I get knocked down, but I getup again, ya neva gonna keep me down http://fluxrostrum.blogspot.com/2009/03/winter-soldier-austin-ronn-cantu.html http://mobilebroadcastnews.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-become-detainee-of-us-government.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYySl9-VP9U http://blip.tv/file/1834958 http://www.howcast.com/videos/155353-How-To-Become-a-Detainee-Of-the-US-Government http://video.yahoo.com/watch/4593911/12295970 http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individualvideoid=2143972140 http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2512949/ http://www.dailymotion.com/video/14358593 http://www.veoh.com/videos/v179045182gBK62hJ http://www.viddler.com/explore/FluxRostrum/videos/31/ http://www.vimeo.com/3449510 http://www.imeem.com/people/q0xQp47/video/nYquzDXL/no-title/ -- Powered By Outblaze Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] The Streamy Awards - The Hollywood Monster?
Point, Rupert. Point. [Wild giggles] Jan Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Rupert rup...@fatgirlinohio.org wrote: Yeah, but the first version was funnier. On 1-Apr-09, at 8:18 AM, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: Oops. last sentence should read: If we want more independents like Zadi and Steve to be recognized for their exemplary work, I think we're going to have to concentrate more on where we agree than on partisan rancor. 2009/4/1 Jeffrey Taylor thejeffreytay...@gmail.com The Streamys were far from perfect, but there were as many steps in the right direction as there were in the same or wrong direction. If we want more independents like Zadi and Steve to be recognized for their exemplary work, I think we're going to have to concentrate more on where we create partisan rancor. 2009/3/31 Michael Sullivan sullele...@gmail.com Are we recreating the Hollywood monster? Well, if the monster is a monster who needs recognition and validation for the work it has labored over, if it is the monster of ideas and creation, then yes. But as long as the internet is free, so is the monster. Our monster is not behind a walled garden, our monster is constantly recreated with a great story, a camera and an internet connection. As long as that is true, and as long as we keep the conversation open, our monster is pretty bad ass. http://www.zadidiaz.com/home/2009/3/31/1st-annual-streamy-awards-once-in-a-lifetime.html And to think i almost posted something insulting! Zadi's post here changed my mind. Cheers! Sull [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Jeffrey Taylor 912 Cole St, #349 San Francisco, CA 94117 USA Mobile: +14157281264 Fax: +33177722734 http://twitter.com/jeffreytaylor http://organicconversations.com -- Jeffrey Taylor 912 Cole St, #349 San Francisco, CA 94117 USA Mobile: +14157281264 Fax: +33177722734 http://twitter.com/jeffreytaylor http://organicconversations.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Video blogging history/evolution
Here are the community's collected links to articles (some of them mainstream) about videoblogging and videobloggers. http://delicious.com/search?context=allp=vloggersinthenewslc=1 Since this comes up, anyone can tag an article in delicious to have it added to the collection :) Jan Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Steve Garfield st...@offonatangent.comwrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, gintaras.miskinis gintaras.miski...@... wrote: Hello, Are there in this group any posts or links to the sources where I could find historical events in video blogging? I tried google'ing, but the most valuable source as I have found is - Jay Dedman's videoblogging book, where, however, I missed history (detailed) chapter... Hi, I've got a couple of recent posts with history in them. Fans, Friends Followers. Building an audience and a creative career in the Digital Age by Scott Kirsner http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2009/03/fans-friends-followers-building.html Interview with Sunny Gault http://stevegarfield.com/Site/About_Me.html Jimmy Fallon talks with Steve Garfield about his new show, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon http://stevegarfield.blogs.com/videoblog/2009/01/jimmy-fallon-talks-with-steve-garfield-about-his-new-show-late-night-with-jimmy-fallon.html --Steve Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Nice way to tell a story
This is certainly one of my favorite things to capture - everyday peoples' stories - on the fly. Everybody's got something GREAT to share. Yup. That's the news I care about. Faux Press! :) Jan Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin 2009/3/20 Michael Sullivan sullele...@gmail.com Love it! It's like NPR radio with photos. nicely done. 2009/3/20 Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com Here's a hybrid of web video that's really effective: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html The NYTimes interviews people about who they are...and overlay it over quality photos. Smart. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 679 . __,_._,__ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: How patience made a good camera
Been having a lot of fun with a jailbroken iPhone -- Qik. Just learning how to shoot with it. Sound's pretty darned good, even at a fair distance in urban exterior setting based on recent test. No editing, but... http://fauxpress.blogspot.com/2009/03/pre-call-from-mean-streets-of-manhattan.html Jan Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 8:17 AM, David King davidleek...@gmail.com wrote: That'd be nice! As an aside, at last weeks sxsw, I didn't see one nokia (though I'm sure they were there) ... But saw many a flip. I think user experience won over upliading convenience for a lot of us! Sent from my iPhone On Mar 21, 2009, at 7:07 AM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Otto ottorab...@gmail.com wrote: All we need is a Flip-like camera that can upload directly to the web. Maybe in a Cel phone? Nokia seems to have made this happen from what I've seen through Rupert's work. Take a video, even edit a little, and then upload from the phone. But again, I havent found the Nokia user experience enticing enough to get one. I wonder if the iPhone will enable video and bring their slick user experience to uploading video. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] How do you screen?
If RichardShow doesn't chime in here soon, you should get in touch with him. He and Maureen watch on TV via iPod. Jan Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:33 PM, schlomo rabinowitz schl...@gmail.comwrote: Lately, I've been using our xbox to stream videoblogs that I collect in my iTunes. It's super easy and I'm loving the big-screenness of it all. Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking AIM:schlomochat On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Jeffrey Taylor thejeffreytay...@gmail.com thejeffreytaylor%40gmail.com wrote: Since moving into a new space, I need to put together a good setup for screening videoblogs. So before I venture forth, I'd like to hear some answers to the following questions: 1. What player/aggregator do you use? 2. Do you watch on your computer, or connect to the TV? 3. What else do you do to enhance your screening environment? Videos showing setups most welcome! Thanks in advance. when we have everything working (like a new bulb)...we download videos using Miro...and use a projector to play videos on our wall while lying in bed. Speakers added to the mix rock it. I sometimes use iTunes because it's nice to use Front Row with remote. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: SHVH - Ojai, CA
I will be there in spirit. Jan On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:53 AM, Markus Sandy markus.sa...@mac.com wrote: On Jan 27, 2009, at 4:27 PM, jimmyjay24 wrote: ...this is your subconscious reminding you that SuperHappyVlogHouse at the OjaiDigitalDojo is a short 10 days away... Hey Jim, Looking forward to seeing you again. (Jim often makes people incredibly delicious, hand-brewed, cups of coffee at SHVH) Updated event info is here: http://digitaldojo.blogspot.com/2009/02/super-happy-vlog-house-2009-next.html or http://tinyurl.com/shvh-ojai also http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1764214/ If you're in the SoCal area next weekend, please drop on by. Regards to all, Markus [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin
Re: [videoblogging] Made the press with my blog post today
Way to go! How did it happen they found your footage? Jan On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:05 AM, quintanomedia aquint...@gmail.com wrote: come check it out.. I made most of the major networks here locally in ny http://www.quintanomedia.com/index.php/2009/01/31/breaking-news-caught-us-airways-flight-1549-being-towed-to-teteboro-airport-on-rte-46/ http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2015298l=4558did=837243661 http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2015333l=9a74cid=837243661 Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin
Re: [videoblogging] Re: feeds into mogulus
Having used a bunch of these services in various applications (including the live broadcast of 35 and VlogEurope 07), I've stuck with Mogulus for my own stuff. Not that I do altogether that much live... That said, I like that I can easily 'go' live and create a storyboard that lives on with material around that 'live' work. I like that I can auto import media via RSS. I like that the vids and their site can be branded. That their pro level exists indicates a commitment to scaling the thing. Should the need arise, it's there. Some comfort in that... If anyone's interested in playing around with two remote location producers working back and forth live, I've been looking for someone to fool around with that interface...let me know off-list. Best, Jan On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 5:11 PM, danielmcvicar danielmcvi...@yahoo.com wrote: I think I found my solution...mix the video and audio, and then advc 110 it into my computer. I been playing with mogulus, I like it. I use Cam Twist to get my webcam (MAC) to read. I'd like to hear opinions about Mogulus, Justin.tv, Ustream and all... What do you think? D --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, danielmcvicar danielmcvi...@... wrote: Hi! I am loking to do a feed from a separate camera through a computer (hopefully Mac) into mogulus. Anyone been doing this? Thanks Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin
Re: [videoblogging] Money will come to you
Keep us posted, for sure, Rupert. Fingers crossed for ya! Jan On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Rupert rup...@fatgirlinohio.org wrote: I'm putting together a project that will hopefully allow people to take a share proportional to their investment. Basically just a limited partnership profit-share model. Robert Croma sent me a great book called My First Movie - interviews with famous indie filmmakers about making their first features. The first interview is with the Coen's. They did this for Blood Simple. Made a trailer, then spent a year going to see small businessmen in NY and Minnesota, getting them to invest. They raised $750,000 this way. Just a limited partnership, with the production company as the general partner. Apparently it was the way lots of NY horror movies were made in the 80s - they got the idea from Sam Raimi, who funded The Evil Dead this way, too. I figure that if it worked in the 80s, with these two guys travelling thousands of miles lugging a 35mm projector around from meeting to meeting, it should be even more possible to do now with an internet crowdfunding approach (combined with the same old real-world presentations to local punters). Paying an accountant and a lawyer to set up the legal structure and contract/terms is more costly than bunging up a ChipIn widget, obviously, and not practical if your budget is very small. With larger budgets and projects, getting the odd $10 ChipIn isn't going to cut it - you've got to go out looking for investors. Even if the majority of them are still only putting in $10, it's an extra incentive - this way it's not just a philanthropic donation - there's actually a (small) chance of a return. And you can help build trust and interest at the same time with total online transparency in your production process and budgeting. My main shoot for this will be in November - details of the project to follow when I'm ready. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 21-Jan-09, at 4:27 PM, Jay dedman wrote: We cringe and argue about money and videoblogging often on this list. (probably because it's important and always in our face) Here's an example of community funded media projects: http://spot.us/pitches/101 David Cohn has done a great job making the site usuable. I've said before that I think the same thing can happen for anyone's videoblog. If you are creating video projects that people care about, they will fund it. You got to hustle just like with anything...but I think it's a great alternative to straight up advertising. Notice that this is more than a Paypal Button on the sidebar. You must actually create a Pitch with a clear explanation of the project, who you are, deliverables, a specific monetary goal, and a timeframe. You probably wont get rich doing this, but you'll make the projects you love and building a body of work. You'll also know if anyone cares since they'll be putting their money where their mouth is. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin
Re: [videoblogging] Yes We Can
And comments are not enabled in the White House blog :( They're headed in the right direction, tho. That's for sure. Jan On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:03 AM, Christian Wach nee...@haystack.co.uk wrote: On 21 Jan 2009, at 02:42, Rupert wrote: the president is a weekly videoblogger. watched the whole thing this morning on a laptop, full screen, via wifi, live. not so long ago, all this was science fiction. noble intentions for sure - unfortunately, the auto-discovery feed link doesn't work and there are no feeds listed on the RSS page. *sigh* Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin
Re: [videoblogging] How to configure a showplayer that allows for a variable first episode?
create different playlists and embed those playlists. Jan On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:06 AM, duckpondpotter duckpondpot...@yahoo.com wrote: My show duckpond tv is a showcase of the musicians that play my concert venue. The player that I use on Blip Tv is one that has the showmorebutton turned off to allow for a seamless stream of my program. My problem is that I have been trying without success to figure out a way that I can change the initial episode freely in order to target specific audiences. In other words, when I am embedding a player with an audience that is fans with, say, Grayson Capps, I would like the initial episode to be Grayson Capps followed seamlessly by the rest of our episodes. I haven't figured out a way to do this without altering all the previously embedded players out there. In other words, when I embed a player with Grayson Capps leading the stream, I don't then want to have every player out there also leading with Grayson. Any help with this would be great. Thanks for all you've done. The support at Blip is truly outstanding. Nick Friedman www.DUCKPONDtv.blip.tv www.myspace.com/duckpondatdusk Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Profit sharing for film crews
All right. I'm getting it. Let's just say - for instance - my dad's one of the top border collie working dog kinda trainers on the planet. Or was when he was doing it full time. He's got a lotta knowhow - having studied for years with Grand champion Highland Shepherd Jock Murray - and I could easily get 10 3-minute pieces of him talking about the old ways. That would appeal to your niche, no? Is THAT what you're talking about? Jan [Snip] Does nobody see what I am seeing here? If you, as a video producer (shoot, cut, encode) were to hook up with people like me and create 50 videos for a rabid community like mine, or more likely 10 videos for me and 10 videos for five other sites like mine, and sold 200 units on each of them at $1 profit per, that's $10K. I think the key is to get hooked up with people who know their niche and have a solid community. They can fill you in on what will do well. I see this as a great hookup for the online video world. It could immediately create all kinds of strong independent media opportunities. It could create a new, non-ad-based media market, where only the passionate play - passionate content creator, the passionate producer/ curator and the passionate viewer. I'd really like to see this happen. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 6, 2009, at 1:38 PM, liza jean wrote: we use e-junkie.com for our digital download provider. monthly rent for your library no matter how many (or few) you sell. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson k9d...@... wrote: I'm kicking around an idea for a pay to play jam session video application. World class disc dog events are held in every region of the country several times per year. The same can be said of agility and flyball tournaments as well as rally-obedience and dock diving. I'd like to sell good footage (or production pieces) a la carte, pay to play-style with revenue share for the talent. I think that's pretty much the concept. I could see 10,000 users on my site when completed. With high quality content, I think it's a sure thing. Training video's $5-10 for 5-10 minutes. Jamming videos 2 minutes - $2-4, or god forbid we make them collectors items! I'll also be bringing in vendors for hard-goods sales - all the vendors and trainers and businesses that service the dog sport community and taking a cut of their sales generated by the site. Big money advertising is an afterthought. So, my question is would any of you be interested in profit sharing for projects such as a training video or jam session (could be 10 great jam sessions in a big contest), and if so, how do we get working together? I know it's not much money straight away, but at $1 profit a video, if you had 30 videos that did 1000 views, that'd be $30k. If the right niche markets were hit with the right people setting up communities and creating content this could be a viable alternative to corporate media. Any thoughts? Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Help! I'm Blogged Out.
I had not the same, but similar problem. Some of this technique may help: http://fauxpress.blogspot.com/2007/03/bloggers-indentified-faux-press-as-spam.html Good luck! Make sure you add a second email account @ gmail so you're notified if someone logs in as you and that email has to authorize any changes. Jan On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:33 AM, David Terranova da...@davidterranova.com wrote: Have you tried deleting blogger cookies? Something may have happened which is confusing your login process. -- David Terranova www.davidterranova.com | blog.davidterranova.com | www.rebelrave.tv From: paulvideoprez paulvideop...@yahoo.com Reply-To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:30:37 - To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: [videoblogging] Re: Help! I'm Blogged Out. Thanks! I have not been able to break through on the problem. It's been a cycle of Blogger sending me a message saying click to to change your password and I respond and get a statement they're sending me a message and I respond to it and it continues. I have found no opening to either obtain and change a password. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com , Jay dedman jay.ded...@... wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:49 PM, paulvideoprez paulvideop...@... wrote: I have an account with blogger. Indeed, that's the sight of my videoblog. Today I could not access it. Blogger would not accept me. I used my standard information which I have written down. I sort of could reset, but that resetting ignors my ongoing, working videoblog. It's a new start with nothing there. Hey Paul-- I'll be glad to help you with your issue offlist. Sometimes Blogger has issues. We'll get you squared away. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin
Re: [videoblogging] Old but true: making living, instead of a fortune
This is IT. THE place to want to be. Ohm. Here's to '09. Jan On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: The 1000 True Fans has been posted before, but I think it's worth reposting. http://trulyfreefilm.blogspot.com/2008/12/1000-true-fans.html Many people on this list videoblog for fun. Others are creatives trying to create for a living (and also possibly for fun). This post is advice for amateur filmmakers though is equally as pertinent to videobloggers. I'm sure many us us already intuitively understand that the web allows us to connect directly with the people who watch our work for basically the cost of our time. Instead of relying on some invisible executive to give us the greenlight, we do what makes sense to us. Artists starting out in this digitally mediated world have another path other than stardom, a path made possible by the very technology that creates the long tail. Instead of trying to reach the narrow and unlikely peaks of platinum hits, bestseller blockbusters, and celebrity status, they can aim for direct connection with 1,000 True Fans. It's a much saner destination to hope for. You make a living instead of a fortune. You are surrounded not by fad and fashionable infatuation, but by True Fans. And you are much more likely to actually arrive there. Anyway...keeping making. Happy New Year. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin
Re: [videoblogging] Re: What am I missing?
I have a cult of personality over here: http://fauxpress.blogspot.com Sound mixer and film stuff over here: http://fauxpress.tv/vlog Free audiobook over here: http://urbanartadventures.blogspot.com Poetry here: http://the-hold.blogspot.com Depression Documentary Test Space: http://depressionstrategies.blogspot.com/ Microblog: http://twitter.com/fauxpress Ongoing video conversation here: http://seesmic.com/video/LgrnSnij82 Shameless self-promotion? I guess. Jan wrote: beinganidiotandputacommaafteralinksonowihavetopostthecorrectone http://www.myfirstmemory.org/ /beinganidiotandputacommaafteralinksonowihavetopostthecorrectone --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, myfirstmemorydotorg myfirstmemory@... wrote: shamelessselfpromotionbutonlybecausetheopaskedforit http://www.myfirstmemory.org, yo! I slowed down because of the holidays, but new memories coming in Jan. /shamelessselfpromotionbutonlybecausetheopaskedforit --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, terry.rendon terry.rendon@ wrote: I used to be a big fan of video blogs/vlogs/web shows (whatever you which to call it). I had some sites I would visit on a regular basis. This is no longer true. Can people recommend new video blogs/vlogs/web shows that I can check out during the holidays? Anything entertaining and fun. Thanks! Terry Ann Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin
Re: [videoblogging] A Mashup of Conferences? June 24-27 at UMass Amherst
Yes. Yes. Yes. Jan On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:52 AM, John Coffey jimmycrackhead2...@yahoo.com wrote: East Coast works for me! Jimmy CraicHead TV Video Podcast about Sailing, Travel, Craic and Cocktails --- On Wed, 12/17/08, Steve Garfield st...@offonatangent.com wrote: From: Steve Garfield st...@offonatangent.com Subject: [videoblogging] A Mashup of Conferences? June 24-27 at UMass Amherst To: Videoblogging videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 8:12 AM Hi, Are people interested in having a Vloggercon in 2009? I've got an idea. A Mashup of Conferences? June 24-27 at UMass Amherst Bill Densmore out at UMass has reserved the campus for June 24-27 for a conference. 'A Mashup of Conferences' We were talking about calling it something like 'A Mashup of Conferences' and inviting lots of people to co-host their conferences there that weekend. In 2006 he ran Media Giraffe conference on journalism, MGP2006. TOPICS and GROUPS I'd already thought of the possibility of having a Podcamp Amherst out there. He's going to corral the media and education people. What do you think about getting a bunch of Social Media people to join in? I'd help in getting multi media/video production people... Kind of like a pirate ship conference. In addition to social media, video, podcasting I was also thinking about Etsy crafts people, moped riders, and photographers, like that... a wide range... Also, it'd be fun to schedule hikes and social events around it too. LOGISTICS COSTS Ballpark cost estimates are: Meeting rooms: $6K A/V: $2K UMASS has tons of free WiFi LODGING Dorms would be available too for a very reasonable rate as well as hte Campus Center Hotel. Campus Center Hotel FOOD Food would be available at campus center for people to buy. TRAVEL Traveling to UMass BTW, AMTRAK runs to Amherst DC - NY - HARTFORD - AMHERST - MONTREAL LOOKING FOR IDEAS I'm looking for what your ideas on this might be... Interested in organizing, sponsoring, streaming? Leave a comment. Link to blog post: link http://offonatangen t.blogspot. com/2008/ 12/mashup- of-conferences- june-24-27- at.html --Steve http://stevegarfiel d.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin
[videoblogging] Embed Video in PBWiki
Anyone successfully embed a video (other than YouRube) in a PBWiki page? Code? Javascript? Argh. Jan -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] What's in your kit?
Great little video! I too learned a few things, which is the downright best. Jan On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:02 PM, David King davidleek...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for sharing - I actually got some good ideas out of that. Certainly confirmed that those cheap construction lights would actually work ok for lighting (I was thinking about getting some). I wouldn't have much to show, really - just a Xacti and a Flip, basically! No kit... Mics and soundboard for music recording ... hmm... maybe I have something to show after all... :-) David Lee King davidleeking.com - blog davidleeking.com/etc - videoblog twitter | skype: davidleeking On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Caleb J. Clark cale...@well.com wrote: I finally had time to use a neck mounted picture-in-picture rig I made to go over what is currently in my kit. I'm sorely lacking a shotgun, wide angle lens, and good audio only recorder. http://www.youtube.com/user/techtrekshow [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Dropping frames, long firewire?
Troubleshoot: Have you tried the setup with a shorter firewire with the same (or different) results? If the problem solves itself with shorter firewire, then some kind of amp in the line may be just the thing. Peter @ Gotham Sound can probably lend you one for an hour to see if that solves your issue. Do you have the capacity to run one or both Windows Vegas on the internal hard drive? if so, try one, the other then both on the internal drive, see if that solves the issue. If that doesn't work, try the setup having moved the firewire so it runs perpendicular as it crosses the power cables. I don't think your cable run fits the problem you describe - rather, the bad result of such interference would be electromagnetic 'futz' to the picture and/or audio. That said, I would run audio / video cables so they make perpendicular crossings of power cables (and avoiding power cable coils altogether) in any and every event as a preventative measure. Better to make a longer electrical run than a longer firewire run... Jan On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Adam Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hey all, I'm running into some frame drop issues with a live capture setup I'm doing. I'm running a 25' firewire alongside some power and HDMI cables, from my HV30 shooting in SD to Vegas Pro on a Vista 64bit PC. I'm running a couple fast SATAs, one running the software and windows, and one capturing the media. And all other programs are shut down. Questions: Is the length an issue? Is there a possibility of interference from the other cables being next to it? Is there a way around either of these? Do I need some sort of amplifier for the firewire? This is probably a question for another forum, but I know a lot of you folks have messed with this sort of stuff before. Halp. AQ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] A Youtube to Blip Transaction
That you broke any amount at all makes you an Interweb star Happy New Year and congrats! Jan On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:15 PM, JAMES HART [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At least Youtube pays something through it's ad share program. I've actually received checks that can pay for my water bill. With Blip, the ad share amount and/or hits is so low that I've yet to break $10 with over 20 videos on the site... James LPE360 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] XLR to 1/8 (3.5mm) cable
If you want something long lasting, have it custom made. Make the measurements before you call. Try Gotham Sound in NYC. Speak to Alex in repairs. They'll ship anywhere. Jan On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello gang, Can anyone recommend a reliable (not HOSA)cable XLR to 1/8 (3.5mm)? My two HOSA ones hit the dust, one a year earlier, the second one today. Such a horrible company, they use inferiour materials for making their products... Don't ever trust it for cabling. I did some searches on SamAsh, BH, Sweetwater, but could not find one suitable for connecting to camcorder XLR mike (Electrovoice the Hammer) to 1/8 (3.5mm). When my first HOSA cable died I did contact BH asking about the Moster cable one they have, but the rep advised me not to get that one because it's not for camcorder connectivity though it did have XLR to 1/8. Any help is truly appreciated... Thanks Renat Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Recording Live audio from different locations
Let's do a Skype conference re: sound Logging on to Skype now. 'janmclaughlin' I'll Twitter when I get someone on for a chat. Follow my twitters @ 'fauxpress' Will try to stay logged in mornings EST USA all during this week. Jan On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:34 AM, Ron Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to sit in on that call... Great stuff. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Nov 15, 2008, at 8:15 AM, Jan McLaughlin wrote: Hi, Brainstorming a bit. Seems to me that you might - via a desktop sharing application and Audacity (or whatever you're using to record audio on your computer) - be able to approach both 'live recording' and 'quality' together. Don't know if desktop sharing would have the same kind of audio compression / latency as Skype. Might be interesting to find out. Tried Gmail's audio / video chat recently and the audio quality was pretty darned good. None of the Skype echo or weird digital hash hesitations. If may be that Verdi and I both have good connections. I have FIOS. Maybe iChat or any other video conference app in combination with CamTwist (Google it), playing back the pre-recorded video in the chat window so you can sync the audio performance to the vid. What OS do each of you have? If the double-ender strategy appeals and you're bound and determined to use better-quality mics, I should think you wouldn't need 'recorders', but only a free recording application like Audacity, and a preamp or other bit of hardware to put between the mics and the computer, in order to get the mic signal where it needs to be to be 'heard' by the computer. Because of your post, I broke out a Shure FP-11 mic to line amp (new from Ebay for $135) and hooked it up with a dynamic headset mic and it's working okay - with a bit more hiss than I'd prefer - but still much better than the on-board MacBook Pro mic and associated computer noise well in the foreground of the background. Podcasters would be well placed to tell you which USB mics would get you the quality you need. I'm certain there are 'good' USB mics out there for well less than $100 a piece. You can certainly pick up a Shure SM57 or two used for less than $100 each. The Shure mic you later mention - the SM7B - for sure isn't in the budget you describe. The SM57's should be plenty good enough for the web, with the added benefit of rejecting most ambient room noise (like echo, refrigerators, air conditioners, traffic and the neighbors' argument). Another idea is that one or both of you may have a video camera handy to use as a mic, attached and recorded to the computer via fireware or USB. There IS the some time problem of camera noise associated with recording audio with inboard mics on video cameras, but it's usually not THAT much of a problem for lo-budge web purposes. Toward the lo-budget side, you can always write the story so that one (or both) of the characer's voice(s) are supposed to be 'futzed' - e.g., EQ'd so they sound as if they're on a telephone. Call me if you want, and I'll walk you through some more ideas. 862-571-5334 Better these discussions held in real time. Texting possibilities without knowing precisely what you have / want is not an efficient use of our time :) Jan On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Richard Amirault [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: - Original Message - From: Dom (snip) The video portion will utilize voice-over while our content plays beneath. We may also use animation or puppets along with our voices. Anyway, you can see that it would be less than ideal to have the voices at different qualities. Are there any tools for recording two audio streams live from two separate locations that don't involve thousands of dollars of audio equipment? Thanks folks! As suggested a double ender will work just fine. How low cost it is depends on what your definition of cost is. You will need quality recorders. A pair of Zoom H-2s will work great. Do not use anything like a digital voice recorder from Olympus or Sony. I'm not sure about the video aspect of this. Will you both need to see the video to comment on it? I would think that this may be a problem. You both need to see the same thing at the same time. Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Recording Live audio from different locations
I concur; here's a year-point-five-old Skype interview that I believe used in-box mics. Maybe Cheryl can chime in here. http://fauxpress.blogspot.com/2007/06/cheryl-colan-sings-rendering-song.html Not too bad. Am sure it's even better now. Then, I have (and had for that recording) FIOS connection. I use Audio Hijack Pro or Conference Recorder to take Skype audio. Probably Conference Recorder since it's integrated into the Skype app. If I'm not mistaken, I referred to the linked-to piece from bordercollieaudtralianshepherd to set mine up. Jan On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 4:22 PM, bordercollieaustralianshepherd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Besides a decent mic there is a need to work with your firewall from what it sounds (no pun) like. A lot of great info can be found on the http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/ The Conversations Network's forums. http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/forum/ mentioned on the site belowwhich is probably where I first discovered this if not on this list or another. The following video has information that's been a Must watch video I've recommended often. Covers system Skype preference settings. Hope this helps From Doug Kaye's Weblog http://www.blogarithms.com/ Skype for Interviews - A How-To Video After years of discouraging the use of Skype for interviews here at The Conversations Network, we're now saying a resounding Yes! Paul Figgiani and I have prepared this audiovisual presentation that covers all you need to know in order to get true broadcast-quality Skype recordings. http://tr.im/dkaye_skype ... --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Brainstorming a bit. Seems to me that you might - via a desktop sharing application and Audacity (or whatever you're using to record audio on your computer) - be able to approach both 'live recording' and 'quality' together. Don't know if desktop sharing would have the same kind of audio compression / latency as Skype. Might be interesting to find out. Tried Gmail's audio / video chat recently and the audio quality was pretty darned good. None of the Skype echo or weird digital hash hesitations. If may be that Verdi and I both have good connections. I have FIOS. Maybe iChat or any other video conference app in combination with CamTwist (Google it), playing back the pre-recorded video in the chat window so you can sync the audio performance to the vid. What OS do each of you have? If the double-ender strategy appeals and you're bound and determined to use better-quality mics, I should think you wouldn't need 'recorders', but only a free recording application like Audacity, and a preamp or other bit of hardware to put between the mics and the computer, in order to get the mic signal where it needs to be to be 'heard' by the computer. Because of your post, I broke out a Shure FP-11 mic to line amp (new from Ebay for $135) and hooked it up with a dynamic headset mic and it's working okay - with a bit more hiss than I'd prefer - but still much better than the on-board MacBook Pro mic and associated computer noise well in the foreground of the background. Podcasters would be well placed to tell you which USB mics would get you the quality you need. I'm certain there are 'good' USB mics out there for well less than $100 a piece. You can certainly pick up a Shure SM57 or two used for less than $100 each. The Shure mic you later mention - the SM7B - for sure isn't in the budget you describe. The SM57's should be plenty good enough for the web, with the added benefit of rejecting most ambient room noise (like echo, refrigerators, air conditioners, traffic and the neighbors' argument). Another idea is that one or both of you may have a video camera handy to use as a mic, attached and recorded to the computer via fireware or USB. There IS the some time problem of camera noise associated with recording audio with inboard mics on video cameras, but it's usually not THAT much of a problem for lo-budge web purposes. Toward the lo-budget side, you can always write the story so that one (or both) of the characer's voice(s) are supposed to be 'futzed' - e.g., EQ'd so they sound as if they're on a telephone. Call me if you want, and I'll walk you through some more ideas. 862-571-5334 Better these discussions held in real time. Texting possibilities without knowing precisely what you have / want is not an efficient use of our time :) Jan On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Richard Amirault [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: - Original Message - From: Dom (snip) The video portion will utilize voice-over while our content plays beneath. We may also use animation or puppets along with our voices. Anyway, you can see that it would be less than ideal to have the voices at different qualities. Are there any tools
Re: [videoblogging] Recording Live audio from different locations
Hi, Brainstorming a bit. Seems to me that you might - via a desktop sharing application and Audacity (or whatever you're using to record audio on your computer) - be able to approach both 'live recording' and 'quality' together. Don't know if desktop sharing would have the same kind of audio compression / latency as Skype. Might be interesting to find out. Tried Gmail's audio / video chat recently and the audio quality was pretty darned good. None of the Skype echo or weird digital hash hesitations. If may be that Verdi and I both have good connections. I have FIOS. Maybe iChat or any other video conference app in combination with CamTwist (Google it), playing back the pre-recorded video in the chat window so you can sync the audio performance to the vid. What OS do each of you have? If the double-ender strategy appeals and you're bound and determined to use better-quality mics, I should think you wouldn't need 'recorders', but only a free recording application like Audacity, and a preamp or other bit of hardware to put between the mics and the computer, in order to get the mic signal where it needs to be to be 'heard' by the computer. Because of your post, I broke out a Shure FP-11 mic to line amp (new from Ebay for $135) and hooked it up with a dynamic headset mic and it's working okay - with a bit more hiss than I'd prefer - but still much better than the on-board MacBook Pro mic and associated computer noise well in the foreground of the background. Podcasters would be well placed to tell you which USB mics would get you the quality you need. I'm certain there are 'good' USB mics out there for well less than $100 a piece. You can certainly pick up a Shure SM57 or two used for less than $100 each. The Shure mic you later mention - the SM7B - for sure isn't in the budget you describe. The SM57's should be plenty good enough for the web, with the added benefit of rejecting most ambient room noise (like echo, refrigerators, air conditioners, traffic and the neighbors' argument). Another idea is that one or both of you may have a video camera handy to use as a mic, attached and recorded to the computer via fireware or USB. There IS the some time problem of camera noise associated with recording audio with inboard mics on video cameras, but it's usually not THAT much of a problem for lo-budge web purposes. Toward the lo-budget side, you can always write the story so that one (or both) of the characer's voice(s) are supposed to be 'futzed' - e.g., EQ'd so they sound as if they're on a telephone. Call me if you want, and I'll walk you through some more ideas. 862-571-5334 Better these discussions held in real time. Texting possibilities without knowing precisely what you have / want is not an efficient use of our time :) Jan On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Richard Amirault [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: - Original Message - From: Dom (snip) The video portion will utilize voice-over while our content plays beneath. We may also use animation or puppets along with our voices. Anyway, you can see that it would be less than ideal to have the voices at different qualities. Are there any tools for recording two audio streams live from two separate locations that don't involve thousands of dollars of audio equipment? Thanks folks! As suggested a double ender will work just fine. How low cost it is depends on what your definition of cost is. You will need quality recorders. A pair of Zoom H-2s will work great. Do not use anything like a digital voice recorder from Olympus or Sony. I'm not sure about the video aspect of this. Will you both need to see the video to comment on it? I would think that this may be a problem. You both need to see the same thing at the same time. Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Traditional Media Scares the Shi* out of me As I Type
Bingo. That's THE question, Jacek. Jan On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:53 AM, Jacek Artymiak [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 7:01 AM, @sull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: of interest... http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/13/online-video-wheres-the-money/ Is advertising the only way to monetize on-line videos that all those bright people in the Valley can think of? I watched one of the Web 2.0 gurus recently admit that the startups need to experiment with new revenue models now, like... e-commerce. -- Jacek Artymiak http://devGuide.net vi(1) Tips: Essential vi/vim Editor Skills, 1st ed. http://www.devguide.net/books/vitips1 devGuide.tv http://devguide.tv Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Lulu.com makes it to Amazon. P.A. Handbook
Bought a .pdf copy a couple of months ago; great stuff. Jan On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Caleb J. Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Merry NY Band. Well it's true for my book about how to be a good Production Assistant at least. If you self-publish a book on Lulu.com (on demand printer) with their free ISBN choice that uses them as the Publisher, but also retains copyright and cancellation with you, it does make it to Amazon in two months or so. (They also have an option I think for $100 where you are the publisher and can do multiple books.) http://www.amazon.com/Production-Assistants-Pocket-Handbook/dp/143575624X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8qid=1226413634sr=8-1 They price it for one penny less then the price I set on Lulu, and I get less of a cut on LuLu. Cleaver. Write a review if you're read it! It's selling about 2 a day online, mostly PDF downloads which are about the same profit as the printed copy: http://www.noendpress.com/caleb/edtech/index.php Caleb (coffee bought from book sales tastes better) Clark Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Ten Tips for Better Audio for Video from BH
Link with a few ideas worthy of consideration. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/find/newsLetter/Better-Audio-in-Digital-Video.jsp Jan -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] iphone compression in imovie and fcp
Ditto what Verdi said. I've been exporting from FCE -- DV stream (for archiving) -- QT Pro -- compress for web for a while now, though not for the reasons you mention, JD. Just seems like QT's compression is faster / better -- for the lack of bells whistles maybe. Delighted to have confirmation of that workaround. Thanks, Verdi. Jan On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Michael Verdi [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hey JD - for some reason FCP has been borked like this back to version 4.5 or whenever they came up with the ipod presets. What I do is export a full resolution copy from FCP and open that in QuickTime pro and then compress from there. QuickTime pro gets it right. Doesn't make sense but that's the way it is. - Verdi On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 1:32 PM, JD Lasica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've been experiencing a strange problem. I shoot my videos in HD on a Canon VH20 at 1440x1080 (and output the finished works at 480x270). When I output the finished video in iMovie (as mp4, .mov or .m4v for the iphone), they turn out fine. When I output it in Final Cut Pro, they turn out fine in .mp4 but distorted (squeezed and deeper) when I export in either: QuickTime Conversion iphone (where it's all done automatically) QuickTime Conversion QuickTime Movie I asked my FCP tutor about this yesterday and he couldn't track down the problem. Could the culprit be FCP's Audio/Video Settings? Or do I need to change something on my camcorder? Thanks, O Wisdom of the Mailing List! jd lasica ourmedia.org Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://graymattergravy.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Vlog a webisodic about vlogging. Sorta.
http://info.break.com/static/live/v1/pages/vlog/vlog.html Spoiler, the last episode is up. Definition of 'vlog' is included so we can talk about it here again. Isn't it time? Jan -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: McCain on Blip = a Shame
Equally chilling. Jan On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:57 AM, Brook Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Censorship means THE GOVERNMENT shuts down your speech. A business has no obligation to provide an open forum, and blip is a business. Supporting free speech policies in video hosting services is a worthy thing, but if blip chose not to host campaign videos, it would not be censorship. If the FBI showed up and told blip to take down the videos, THAT would be censorship. Blip has the right to refuse service to anyone, and a business refusing service is not the same as censorship. A good argument can be made, though, that in the absence of alternative, equivalent platforms such a thing would have the same EFFECT as censorship. I think the limiting of access through private control of speech platforms is a major problem in a democracy/capitalist hybrid. It can certainly be as chilling as censorship, and have the same effect on the ability of all to speak freely in an environment where all can be heard, but it isn't, technically, censorship. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: McCain on Blip = a Shame
By all means: comment. Here's an opportunity to improve the quality of discourse; show 'em there's better stuff going on @ Blip than @ YouRube [sic]. Jan On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 12:47 AM, Roxanne Darling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Must. Not. Censor. Let blip gain market share and follow clever Jay - this stuff can be used to promote whatever agenda you believe in. I support anyone's right to use blip's service and do not see that as an indictment of blip whatsoever. Use the tools. Mash it up. Leave comments. Have fun with what's left of our democracy! Aloha, Rox On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Lisa Rein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm so glad that people finally spoke up about the whole free speech thing! I was catching up on my emails this morning, and was a little shocked by peoples' condemnation of blip. Glad everyone's settled back into a big hug sort of thing. One thing I learned from hanging out with the EFF: popular speech never needs to be protected. -- it's nice to hear people wanting to censor mccain for a change :) But alas, this time we have to step up to protect the unpopular speech of these old lying nut-cases. It feels good actually. Let's hope we're in the position more frequently in the future! best, lisa I hope we can discuss this loudly and with lots of hand gestures next time I see you over a full clay bottle of that crazy liquor you brought to Schlomo's place. On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Adam Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] quirk%40wreckandsalvage.comwrote: Your definition of censorship must be entirely different than Cambridge's then: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=12160dict=CALD This isn't even a slippery slope anymore, it's a full on landslide of muzzling the opposing viewpoint. I just don't understand why anyone would want to be encourage that kind of fascist behavior. If you disagree with someone in an argument, do you hold your hands over your ears when they are talking? On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Michael Schaap [EMAIL PROTECTED] macdocman%40mac.comwrote: Now wait a fucking sec Quirk! What the fuck are u talking about? I never implied any kind of censorship! I just wanted to express my disgust with the fact that my favorite hosting service, run by a fantastic man like Mike, is helping the McCain gang to spread there filth. That's my opinion. Of course these assholes have the right to free expression/speech etc. But if I was Mike i would have kindly requested the McCain campaign to find some other hosting service. BTW - I don't know of any speech laws in Europe. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging% 40yahoogroups.com, Adam Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to assume most Americans are as disgusted by this thread as I am. Having seen and heard and been influenced by European ideas of speech laws, it fucking sickens me to see discussion of banning or censoring certain points of view. I don't give a fuck if John McCain says that liberal democrats are donkey-fucking satanists and that we as a people have to rise up against them to save our culture. He's allowed to say whatever the fuck he wants. Thank god. So-called hate speech laws in Europe are one of the many reasons I'll never move there. As flawed as my government is, I know for a fact, as predicated in the goddamned constitution that I live under, that I can say whatever the fuck I want about whomever the fuck I want, whenever, wherever, and to whomever I want. I only wish other countries had these rights. Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Lisa Rein http://onlisareinsradar.com http://www.lisarein.com -- Roxanne Darling o ke kai means of the sea in hawaiian Join us at the reef! Mermaid videos, geeks talking, and lots more http://reef.beachwalks.tv 808-384-5554 Video -- http://www.beachwalks.tv Company -- http://www.barefeetstudios.com Twitter-- http://www.twitter.com/roxannedarling [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Advice for Indie Filmmakers
My colleague and friend John Murphy was on that panel. Telephoned him with some congratulations. He was just flying out of New Orleans and surprised that I should have heard about the panel so soon. Told him, I'm connected. Thanks for the link, Renat. Jan On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.studiodaily.com/main/topstory/10058.html Sincerely, Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Fwd: Need some camcorder advice?
The director, his assistant and prop master from a recent shoot fell in love with the flip camera. http://www.theflip.com/products_flip_ultra.shtml Don't know how it does in low light, but the advantage of ease of use and low cost would allow a traveler ease of mind. Their site claims excellence in low light situations. What's the budget? Jan On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Steve Garfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I'm in a discussion with a blogger on what vido camera to get. I wanted to check out the new Samsung... but have not had the opportunity. Any advice for a blogger going to Africa who wants a good video camera that handles low light and can easily post to the web? --Steve http://stevegarfield.com Begin forwarded message: You're the third person who brought up a Samsung but others say they're not great at making cameras/lenses compared to Canon. These are the three that Best Buy had. Thoughts? JVC GZMS 100 US Zoom (it has a 35x optical zoom lens), is around the $329 mark. Also the Panasonic 10x zoom S7K. Didn't seem to be as slick as the JVC and the zoom is less...not sure about the quality of the lens compared to the JVC or the Canon FS100 which seemed to be the best deal at $399 in its category. The Canon had a 37x optical zoom or a 48x optical zoom when set a lower quality. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Michael Moore follows the Radiohead model
Great news, really. They begin to 'get it'. Ha! Bwah-hahaha. Yes! The director of the indie movie I just finished mixing (City Island) is putting clips from dailies (bloopers such) online on his blog through YouTube. http://moviestildawn.blogspot.com/2008/09/city-island-empire-diner-moment.html The producers had him cease and desist for about a week during production, but blog comments convinced 'em it was the right thing to do. One producer at a time... The director also wants to break his previous movie (Two Family House) into 10-minute segments and put the whole thing on YouTube - and WILL eventually. The director definitely gets it. Jan On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Moore is putting out his new film, Slacker Rising, on the web through blip.tv (for free). http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080905-michael-moore-skips-box-office-film-heads-straight-to-net.html *Slacker Uprising* details Moore's tour of 62 US cities in an attempt to rally young voters before the presidential election in 2004. Moore says that he originally considered releasing the movie in theaters, as he did with his 2004 film criticizing the Bush Administration, *Fahrenheit 9/11*. However, he decided to go the online route instead as a symbol of gratitude to his fans. I thought it'd be a nice way to celebrate my 20th year of doing this, Moore told the Associated Presshttp://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=12199. And also help get out the vote for November. I've been thinking about what I want to do to help with the election this year. I know Michael Moore and Radiohead have built-in audiences, but it is also getting people used to these new distribution models. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Micro wireless
Another - possibly more interesting / innovative approach to great documentary interview sound might be to record double system. Video 'B-roll' - interesting shots of the subject in situ + separate audio interview with small mp3 / wav recorder. Great audio cause you can always easily keep the microphone close. More interesting video than talking heads would ever-ever-ever give ya. :) Costs more in time to edit, less initial dollar and learning curve investment. Radio and boom mics aren't rocket science, but they hold a lot of secrets to their success, too. Jan On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What percentage of the time do you find yourselves using Radio instead of regular mics, what regular mics do you use? You have XLR inputs on your camera? you know if its Video 101. for personal stuff, i never use any external mics. i just get close...im more worried about getting the moment than the bets audio quality. when we want better quality (work etc)...we obviously use external mics. The wireless mic is the best for a one person interview...especially if they are taking us on a tour. never matters if they turn their heads and dont face the camera. audio is crystal. The shotgun is great when there are multiple people involved...or we cant get a wireless mic on the person. yes, we have a camera that takes XLR, but didnt for a long time. Ultimately, we just try to find the simplest setup that will give us good quality, then we focus on what the hell we're recording to make sure its interesting to us. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] pouringdown on PBS?
Done. Jan On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:28 AM, pouringdownpix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all i certainly don't have the one to five million views per video of some of my esteemed list-mates. or the costumes. and sadly, i don't try for more than one emotion at a time. that's hard. sometimes, though, i try to show exactly what i'm thinking. very briefly. and sometimes, when i'm sort of lucky, it works. and this has given me great happiness. and sometimes in that happiness i remember the revolution at the heart of this stuff. put out in the world what you wish to see. consume what you wish to consume. if you wish to emulate other media forms, if you wish to simply make homemade versions of the stuff that's already out there, more power to you. but, i have a suspicion there's something more interesting to get at. which brings us, finally, to the point. i'm trying to get at something. and it might make it onto pbs here in new york. so go here http://www.thirteen.org/reel13/films/vote-for-saturdays-short and if you like it (some of you know it already) please vote. and maybe, just maybe, this tiny video will elbow its way onto the airwaves where it can toddle around noisily. with love, daniel __ www.pouringdown.tv Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] get a free domain for your blog
Member removed - for spam. Jan On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 2:56 AM, prasad reddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my blog new2look.blogspot.com my site new2look.co.cc http://www.co.cc/?id=147052 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] hi
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Re: [videoblogging] Re: How to promote videos?
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Re: [videoblogging] The Bindlestiffs A Produced VideoBlog?
First and foremost: love, love, LOVE the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus. Bravo for getting them out to a wider audience. Jan On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 3:17 PM, M.J. Loheed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everyone I'm a new to video blogging and I'm kind of looking to migrate away from my current career as a reality TV editor. I wanted to create a video series that was part blog but also produced so that it had a very finished look and feel to it. I guess like many things on the web it isn't purely a video blog nor is it an attempt to make TV fit on the web. It's simply me trying to use my day job skills to help someone else tell their story. The result is The Bindlestiffs a webcast about the real life trials and tribulations of The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus. I'm posting the link, not to promote it here, but to ask does anyone know of other video-blogs doing something similar to this? Production-wise or story-wise? www.thebindlestiffs.com I'm curious to see if anything else like this is being done. Because I'd like to check it out and see if I can make my efforts more effective. Thanks! M.J. Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] The Bindlestiffs A Produced VideoBlog?
Your profile of 'em is excellent. All the best to you and the Cirkus, who kindly lent me a 4'x4' platform for a wedding parade I directed back in 2003 with the Hungry March Band and all of poets of New York. Cool. Jan On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First and foremost: love, love, LOVE the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus. Bravo for getting them out to a wider audience. Jan On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 3:17 PM, M.J. Loheed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everyone I'm a new to video blogging and I'm kind of looking to migrate away from my current career as a reality TV editor. I wanted to create a video series that was part blog but also produced so that it had a very finished look and feel to it. I guess like many things on the web it isn't purely a video blog nor is it an attempt to make TV fit on the web. It's simply me trying to use my day job skills to help someone else tell their story. The result is The Bindlestiffs a webcast about the real life trials and tribulations of The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus. I'm posting the link, not to promote it here, but to ask does anyone know of other video-blogs doing something similar to this? Production-wise or story-wise? www.thebindlestiffs.com I'm curious to see if anything else like this is being done. Because I'd like to check it out and see if I can make my efforts more effective. Thanks! M.J. Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Power of video
It's been all over the talk show circuit in NYC this week. Was surprised how the guest on WNYC from the NY Times reported how The Daily News came down hard on the rider in their articles about the incident. 14 minutes in. Critical Mass was characterized as obnoxious by the Daily News and the NY Times reporter. http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2008/07/30/segments/104759 They talk about a cultural hostility / war between NYPD and Critical Mass. Sounds like a 'control' thing. The organized / unorganized nature of Critical Mass is inherently threatening. They talk about Critical Mass being a ...Laboratory for police work... That Critical Mass is fast, mobile, national, and seemingly growing in numbers power, takes charge of the streets during the course of their rides, makes law order types justifiably nervous. Watched some of the archived YouTube footage of previous rides where video / cell phone cameras are so numerous as to nearly obscure the view of what's happening. That was a 'wowser' moment. Jan On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Adam Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Christian... Adam W. Warner http://indielab.org http://wordpressmodder.org - Original Message From: Christian Wach [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 1:32:38 PM Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Power of video http://uk.youtube. com/watch? v=5cT1xAyWhmo HTH, Christian On 31 Jul 2008, at 17:14, Adam Warner wrote: Is there a news story associated with this? I am completely disgusted. I need to know if this officer is going to be punished for his obvious disregard of human decency! Adam W. Warner http://indielab. org http://wordpressmod der.org _ _ __ - Original Message From: Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] com To: Videobloggers videoblogging@ yahoogroups. com Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 11:18:32 AM Subject: [videoblogging] Power of video Critical Mass in NYC has been a pretty nasty affair with the NYPD. During the Republican National Convention NYCthey arrested hundreds of bikers in mass. There were all these stories of abuse at the hands of cops. With cameras, things are changing: http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=oUkiyBVytRQ eurl= Jay -- http://jaydedman. com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] - - -- Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] lapel mic advice needed
Gimme some time, Deirdre - on a project that will soon leave no energy left for much else besides laundry and sleep. What's your schedule for deployment? Jan On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Deirdre Straughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks! I can probably bump up the budget if I need to, say around $1000, $600 was just a wild guess. My travel could be anywhere (and I hope it will be!) from California to Beijing to Europe to India... On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like you're talking wireless, then. $600 is not a lot to cover two transmitters, two receivers and two lavs, unless you find 'em used. You'll find plenty used these days as certain frequencies in certain areas are NG. Which makes me think that you should definitely have two very different blocks of frequencies in your kit. You'll be traveling around, so you'll need frequency agile transmitter/receivers which have 'blocks' of a bunch of frequencies to which you can shift if a bunch of freqs are in use wherever you are. Let me ask the guys @ the R.A.M.P.S. newsgroup what blocks might best serve such an international lass as you. Are you mostly traveling to certain areas, or do you have to be ready for any city / anywhere? Jan On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Richard Amirault [EMAIL PROTECTED]ramirault%40verizon.net wrote: - Original Message - From: Deirdre Straughan Set = two mics plus the receiver and whatever other stuff I need to make them work. receiver??? Do you want *wireless lavs? If so, do you want both mics working at the same time? They'll need to be on different freqs. unless you connect them into one transmitter. But, I don't know the feasibility of getting a stereo transmitter / receiver (if so .. it's a lot's more $$$) Or maybe you meant mixer (for wired lavs) Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- best regards, Deirdré Straughan living travelling in Italy (and other Countries Beginning with I) www.beginningwithi.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Blip.tv blocked from China? what are my options?
Are you able to access your blogger blog via email message -- post? Is your cell phone working there? Wonder if you could go from computer -- cellphone -- shozu.com -- blog? Jan On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 6:21 PM, byen00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been in China since 7/24, have been blogging over: http://www.calechscience.com/08solareclipse/index.html I found that my websites Jumplive.com, Comet-track.com don't work in China. I just tried to get to Blip.tv, I get the same error message timed out. I assume Blip.tv is up, it is being blocked. My Blogger blogs htp://eclipsechaser.blogspot.com don't work either, it is getting blocked. I really want to use Blip.tv to host my iPod/iTunes video, for an iTunes video-podcast. What are my options? 1) use my own server but I don't get the cool features of Blip.tv 2) any others? Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] lapel mic advice needed
Sounds like you're talking wireless, then. $600 is not a lot to cover two transmitters, two receivers and two lavs, unless you find 'em used. You'll find plenty used these days as certain frequencies in certain areas are NG. Which makes me think that you should definitely have two very different blocks of frequencies in your kit. You'll be traveling around, so you'll need frequency agile transmitter/receivers which have 'blocks' of a bunch of frequencies to which you can shift if a bunch of freqs are in use wherever you are. Let me ask the guys @ the R.A.M.P.S. newsgroup what blocks might best serve such an international lass as you. Are you mostly traveling to certain areas, or do you have to be ready for any city / anywhere? Jan On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Richard Amirault [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: - Original Message - From: Deirdre Straughan Set = two mics plus the receiver and whatever other stuff I need to make them work. receiver??? Do you want *wireless lavs? If so, do you want both mics working at the same time? They'll need to be on different freqs. unless you connect them into one transmitter. But, I don't know the feasibility of getting a stereo transmitter / receiver (if so .. it's a lot's more $$$) Or maybe you meant mixer (for wired lavs) Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] lapel mic advice needed
What's your budget? :) Jan On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Deirdre Straughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My job is increasingly about running around the world videotaping stuff for Sun, and I now have the opportunity to upgrade my kit (see http://blogs.sun.com/deirdre/entry/my_videoblogging_rig for what I currently have). I'd like to add a set of decent lapel mics, but need to strike a balance between quality and size/weight - I don't have a crew to carry equipment for me! Suggestions/experiences welcome. -- best regards, Deirdré Straughan living travelling in Italy (and other Countries Beginning with I) www.beginningwithi.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Exciting News
Will look forward to seeing what author and book are chosen, and what folks come up with for book trailers - a fascinating concept. Definitely keep us apprised. Jan On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Sheila English [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to share some good news. And to let anyone who might be interested in something like this know about it. We are sponsoring a contest with a publisher and an author for making a book trailer. I'm thrilled to be part of the contest and event. When it is all over they will play some of the videos and this winning one in NYC. The winning video will also get a lot of distrbution and media attention, etc. If you're interested you can find out more at the author's site. It isn't for one of his books, but he is helping with the contest and will be the final judge. Here is his URL- www.stephenking.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] need a boston area videoblogger
Hey, thanks for thinking of us here. This community is quite a resource. Hope you found someone suitable from among our ranks. Jan On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Sean Bohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My company has about 15-20 people in our Florida, Arizona and LA facilities who want to get involved in a videoblogging program. I need a local (metro Boston area) videoblogger to help me design the program, edit the videos and possibly train the folks in these offices. This is a freelance gig, offsite is fine but must be local to pick up tapes, sit in on meetings, etc.. I need someone who can shoot and edit and help me get folks excited about videoblogging within the company. A love of fitness and sports would be a plus, but not a requirement. If interested, please send me your URLs (and resume if relevant) to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks -- Sean W. Bohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.seanbohan.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video
tagged this @ del.icio.us as 'vlogpresskit' news to some yeah horizontal typing before going to sleep :) Jan On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Sheila English [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for posting this!! Sheila --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Markus Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: of interest to vloggers? Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video published by the Center for Social Media at American University http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/publications/fair_use_in_online_video/ Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Preventing embedded videos from playing automatically on Myspace message boards
In a situation like that, I would say calling Mr. Hudack on his cell might be in order. That is, if it's really a Blip issue - but based upon what you've described, I don't think it is. What you describe sounds very strange. Know there's an autoplay option in Blip's show player configuration process but can't imagine that even changing that option could cause autoplay across extant Blip embed code and/or players everywhere. When you upload to MySpace, those videos aren't hosted @ Blip, but at MySpace, so deleting the Blip files wouldn't affect how your MySpace vids autoplayed (or not). MySpace deleted all the videos I'd embedded in it and I can't for the life of me figure out how to re-do it. My best guess is that the problem is with MySpace, not Blip. Blip's cross-post to MySpace has been broken for a while - since MySpace altered something-or-other. MySpace deleted the half dozen or so videos that were on my profile. Ack. Not very video friendly. Jan On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 4:37 PM, duckpondpotter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently had an incident where many of the videos I had embedded on Myspace message boards from Blip Tv had started playing automatically. This had the extremely undesirable effect of fouling the audio on the homepage. We are making a documentary of the music scene in and around our pottery shop, and the video posts, which were mainly musical performances, were placed on the sites of musicians who were friends with the people in the videos. When our videos started playing automatically, we suddenly were flooded with angry complaints from musicians that our videos were messing up their pages. AHH!!! We had inadvertently become Spamers!!!I immediately deleted my videos from Blip and e-mailed their staff for a solution to this. I also put out a bulletin in Myspace explaining and apologizing for the problem. Embedding video can be a great way to build an audience, but this problem is suddenly making us more enemies than fans. I'm hoping there might be somebody in the videoblogging community who can toss me a lifeline here. Nick Friedman The Duckpond Pottery Brevard, North Carolina www.myspace.com/duckpondatdusk Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin
[videoblogging] Fwd: City Island Online || Is vlogging a film to marketing what RSS was to distribution?
Just started working on a new film project titled City Island, written and directed by Raymond Di Felitta and starring Andy Garcia, Emily Mortimer Alan Arkin. Got the forwarded email (below) on my return home, along with another that invites the crew to participate in the blogging / vlogging of the process of making this fine indie motion picture. Raymond is a great film history blogger - got lost in his blog for 3 hours the first time I found it. If you like movies, you'll probably dig Raymond's knowledge style. No surprise he's open to being transparent about the process. It will be interesting to see if social networking can have an effect on how a movie is marketed. Is vlogging / blogging a film in real time to marketing what RSS was to distribution? I think it COULD be. Here's the FaceBook page: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=648683464#/pages/City-Island/19596548921?ref=share Here's Raymond's fine film blog: http://moviestildawn.blogspot.com/ Check it out. See what they will allow the crew to post. See if the crew will post anything at all. Whoopee! Jan -- Forwarded message -- From: Max Zimmerman Date: Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:46 PM Subject: City Island Online Hey everyone! City Island is now online! It's production will be covered on the director's blog, and will also be covered on Youtube in the near future. New material will be added daily, so be sure to check back often! Its URL is: http://www.moviestildawn.blogspot.com For all of you with Facebook accounts, you can become fans of City Island at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/City-Island/19596548921?ref=ts To maximize City Island's publicity, please forward this email to anyone you think would be interested. Thank You -- Max Zimmerman Production Secretary City Island CITY ISLAND PICTURES -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Vloggercamp Who is going?
Why do you need 35 people to sign up to cover expenses? If only 10 or 15 come, host it differently. There's KOA - http://www.koa.com/where/mo/13107/ and 3 of 'em near St. Louis. Let folks make their own reservations / share a kabin - yeah - in the KOA lexicon 'cabins' are 'kabins'. They even got free wireless in most of 'em. Cook / shop for yourselves. No need to 'plan' that. Just a thought. Jan -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Vloggercamp Who is going?
Got work through the end of August and won't be able to make it. Such is the freelance life. My work schedule's busiest in the summer, spring fall. Argh. So CONFLICTED. Jan -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin
Re: [videoblogging] my favorite vlog template of the week
Okay. That's HOT. Jan On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:23 PM, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all I think this. is. AWESOME: http://www.viewzi.tv/ Perfect for those that do their own flash compression (I would imagine using one of the free services wouldnt come out as good blown up like it is on this site) It's a site even my own mom would understand and enjoy. What do you think? I'm in the process of working with a friend who actually knows how to code on a redesign of my site (and yes, Mr. Tim Street, I will finally use schlomo.tv..), and am putting together my dream list of wants. Not sure if I really want this look, but I enjoy watching videos like this. -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Decline in Posts -It's OK!
Yeah, I too am sorry we missed hanging out in Philly. Wanted to meet you Philly-way sooner rather than later, since as a production progresses, there's increasingly less time/energy for fun. We were clocking 87 hours a week. Ow. Another time, sweet Christine. Welcome to the vlogosphere. Jan On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Irina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi christine! nice to hear from you :) On 6/19/08, CCP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, all. My name is Christine and I'm a Lurker. (you say: Hi, Christine) I joined the group just a little while ago. A friend suggested I come and take a look. The level of expertise is indeed astounding; I'm learning a lot. I know some of you from around the web, but for those of you who don't know me: I'm a live streamer (with my N95) on various sites like Qik and Bambuser; a video tester at places like Seesmic and Phreadz; I am currently shooting (in mini DV format) a show that features my precocious 8 year old daughter called, aptly, The Lyrica Show; I'm learning how to edit it; Geo Geller has provided a ton of inspiration and help (as well as a mic!) for this project. May I humbly say that I think this group doesn't have to be feverishly active to remain relevant and helpful. (Don't forget, for a newbie like me, the searchable archives for yahoo groups are a fantastic knowledge base in themselves.) Most groups slow down and morph into something like an exclusive chatroom. This may be what is happening here. It probably should be encouraged, actually. The pioneers here can post occasionally to get expert feedback. It's like having a 'focus group' on tap. Perfect. Thanks! I'll go back to lurking now. -Christine Cavalier, a.k.a. PurpleCar http://www.purplecar.net/ P.S. **Jan, I'm so sorry I missed you when you were in Philly! :-( ** [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- http://geekentertainment.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Decline in posts to this group.
Life gets in the way. Still make media, but almost exclusively with cellphone: video edited in camera, stills and audio podcasts. Each kind of media - with the touch of a button or two - makes it automatically to Twitter, my vlog and its RSS feed. Wham-bam. Thank you Ma'am. Mastered editing, etc., and find I just want to make media seamlessly, without losing my stride. In the meantime, found this videoblogging community of media-making folks who ultimately totally replaced the 'celebrities' from other peoples' fictional stories as people I admired but from an untouchable distance. Even though I work in the industry. Screw that. Now, am entertained, taught, saddened, made joyful, and enlightened by those media-making folks - most of whom I've met, stayed with or stayed with me. Celebrities are part of my life rather than escape from it. Videoblogging has added enormous sums to my human wealth. Scoble said it best and I concur. This was / is a tech space that - as we'd hoped and dreamed from the beginning - would become obsolete when the tools caught up to the job at hand. The tools are not quite there (we need better cellphone cameras for one), but WILL get there. Soon. What a ride! XO, Jan On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Christopher Bergeron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are people vlogging more, but posting less? Are people leaving the group? Like me, have you become a lurker, not a poster? Did you loose interest in vlogging? Or, just don't have the time to keep it up? I'm posting less, but editing more video. That together with working full time, going to school part time, being a full time parent, working on a few books, and dealing with our lovely US economy. BUT I'm still vlogging, lots of videos about the adventures big and small the boys and I go on @ http://www.TheRamblingLoggerhead.com. And even started the little one vlogging @ http://www.RyansKitchen.tv but it's tough fitting everything in. I think the decline in list traffic is natural. The mechanics of video blogging have gotten easier, those questions will fade. The purpose of video blogging is becoming more defigned so thost discussions will fade. And the legitimacy of video blogging is becomming more accepted by the world at large so that discussion will also fade. Still I believe that most are out with their cameras, or home in their editing software. -Chris http://www.TheRamblingLoggerhead.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] qik.com, kytetv and Rober Scoble's post on TechCrunch
8525 Pocket PC http://www.letstalk.com/reviews/reviewdtl.htm?pfId=1169 2.5 megapixel video / still camera with focus qwerty Optical zoom? Nah. Zoom? Yeah. The m4v files it records in the 'large' format option are not recognized / transcoded by Blip or playable on the mac, so the workflow's been cellphone -- Shozu -- Flickr -- Blogger and mostly, the vids live in the Flash world. Shozu's an excellent cellphone distribution mechanism with its cc feature that on upload to a main site will 'cc' a seemingly unlimited # of other sites. http://shozu.com If the video's important and/or I've extra time, I bluetooth the video to the 'puter, change the file extension from m4v to 3gp, and then upload to Blip and distribute from there. Only then will it rush down the RSS feed as I prefer. It will automatically find wifi and has both 3G and edge. Great thread. Jan P.S. The Faux Press does cellphone interviews, too :) Does anyone know of any comparable cellphone (like the N93) with an optical zoom camera, with a QWERTY keyboard?? If so, I would buy it in an instant. http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Interest in a mailing list re online cinema of the experimental/video art/etc. persuasion?
Oooh - would certainly read such a list. Watching this thread with interest. Great idea. Jan On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Brook Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy Videoblogginglistfolk. I'm considering starting a list for folks making or interested in work made for the web (or using the web as a venue) that is coming from an experimental film / video art / installation direction. The list would focus on aesthetics and theory as well as tech help, economics/sustainability, and anything else about online cinema art and its relationship to its offline context. Would love to hear from anyone who would be interested and also any concerns or desires about such a list. Thanks. -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Free Beer to the person who can explain the steps of recording
And then consult with Michael Verdi or Raymond Kristiansen - screencast kings who no longer read / post here much. Jan On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Chuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't agree with your logic that mastery of the free tool needs to take place before you purchase a better one. If you're on a PC, buy Camtasia. Simple as that. Seriously. I like cabernet. :-) Chuck --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jennifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I've been pulling my hair out for weeks and just when I think I get close to having my 24 minute tutorial online for my team to see...something stops me DEAD in my tracks. I'm trying to record my audio and video (great quality not needed) of my screen (outlook, excel, browser, etc) so that my team can start taking more tasks off my plate. I would prefer to stick with CamStudio for now. I have 20 different people telling me to use 20 different software products and until I can figure out how to use the free one, I'm not going to start plunking down $300 a whack. I've been through every HOW TO RECORD SCREENS video on YouTube, Revver, SHOWMEDO etc and I have come to a few conclusions: 1. CamStudio will work just fine for what I need 2. The AVI file it produces is too large and I heard that it depends on the codec involved. 3. I'm clueless on the best compression method at this point and again I'm under the impression that using the same codec is important. 4. If I export to a SWF, audioacrobat can take it but bloats it up ten time bigger than original 5. If I export it to WVM it's all fuzzy and I lose the ability to see the text. I've redcued my screen reso to 800x600 before recording and tried to keep the end result at 640x480. I've tested both WMV, SWF, FLV and all come with issues. I've tried Reply, CamTasia, Media Manager 9, ViewletCam, Windows Movie Maker, VideoLAN/VLC, QuickTime, Windows Media Encoder, and now I've forgotten and have to start the cycle over again. Why can't anyone say Set the to , and the ___ to and give me a step by step from start to finish? Again, FREE BEER to whoever can explain this. Disclaimer, FREE BEER may be exchanged for cold hard cash. Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] fw: Mobile Videos: a Cybermohalla Ensemble discussion
As one who loves mobile phone vlogging, these descriptions touched and inspired me. Thank you so much for posting them. Spot on. Jan -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re:From Mac *TO* PC -- Should I Switch?
Just begin to explore running XP on the MacBook Pro. Four years ago added a G4 laptop to the PC I'd always used. The peace of mind of not having to worry about digital intruders, being awakened in the middle of the night by the PC waking to scan for virus problems, junk being left on the PC hard drive after uninstalling programs... Ease of use... Elegance. The PC died over the winter and I'll not be replacing it, especially since I can run the XP programs purchased through the years on the mac. Seems like a win-win. Jan On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Kath O'Donnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd always had a pc (work) laptop until I bought a macbook pro for home. I couldn't afford a mac and the pc did most things I wanted it to. but usually I had to fix it before I could use it - even for simple installations - there was usually something missing and I had to install extra bits or the s/w I wanted to try was only on mac. since buying the mac I haven't had to do this, so I've found I prefer using it and am more productive on it than before when I had a pc. I can just sit down and start making things so I find it's better for my creativity levels. I like the software that comes with it - iphoto etc and how it's easier for me wrt to music/video/development tools. I'm an engineer and work on computers all day at work - years ago I used to like fixing computers kept up with hardware specs etc but now I'd much rather just use one. I still have a windows laptop for work and work on linux/posix systems too so go through the pain at work. but for home I wouldn't go back to pc now except for maybe a cheaper storage server desktop/archive system solution as it'd only be used for file storage perhaps remote access to files, though with cheap ISP online disk storage options available these days even this is a stretch. the one I bought originally had a screen problem - I think I must have bought one of the first batches - and the apple store support from where I bought it was terrible. eventually I went to apple australia during a trip home and they arranged a replacement and since then everything's worked well. they said it's easier to purchase online rather than the stores as the stores don't have the same infrastructure they used to for getting things fixed. if I'd known that at the time I would have bought it online originally like my first apple product - the ipod. the mac was more expensive but for me I don't care about that because it's saved more time in me having to get things to work first go actually getting something creative done, so was worth the money. over time the difference isn't much. the only problem I have now is I fill the disk all the time but that's a user issue not machine. I wish they'd let me use the mac at work instead of the pc. the best thing I like about OSX ( linux) is that when you open a few things at once and are working in one screen the other screens open in background and u can select them when u are ready. whereas windows pushes everything to the front when it's ready - it doesn't care if you're in the middle of typing something in an already selected window. this annoys me no end on a pc at work!! -- http://www.aliak.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Recommendations for a small camera (Xacti or other) to shoot in India
If you could be sure your cell phone will work there, I'd get familiar with shooting vids on a cell phone. No internet cafe necessary. Found in 2005 it was difficult to find an Internet cafe in Amsterdam where I could actually upload ANYTHING. Free wi-fi was cool and relatively abundant, but cabling to a computer, not so much. In frustration, put m'self in the position of the cafe owners and realized that were you able to upload stuff via cable, assh*le folks could easily upload destructive stuff and there'd be trouble. So much for THAT option. That said, on the 2007 trip to Germany, I couldn't get the new cell phone to work there, so still had to go thru the computer -- wi-fi -- web. Had the phone worked, that would have been ideal. Guess you have to get a local sim card or something. You'd have to have pretty good International and Data plans in place, but, worth it. Congratulations and good luck on your trip! Jan --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, scoobyfox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I'm heading to India for my honeymoon and the entire summer and plan to vlog and do some interviews from there. I *do not* plan to bring my macbook. I just want to bring a firewire or usb cable and upload at cafes. It needs to be small, light and easy to travel with and have decent sound. Recommendations? (and it you know of any simple web-based editing tools, let me know!) heather Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Free Beer to the person who can explain the steps of recording
Been there; torn that hair out. Use your video camera to record the screen and audio. You'll need to be aware of reflections your screen's not matte and you're not filming in a dark room, but that was THE solution for me as I was nearly bald. Good luck :) jan On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used camstudio and Sony Vegas (lite version) with this video here http://heathparks.com/blog1/?p=275 if this looks good enough for you, email me at heathparks[at]msn.com and I can let you know what compression settings I used. Heath http://batmangeek.com http://heathparks.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jennifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I've been pulling my hair out for weeks and just when I think I get close to having my 24 minute tutorial online for my team to see...something stops me DEAD in my tracks. I'm trying to record my audio and video (great quality not needed) of my screen (outlook, excel, browser, etc) so that my team can start taking more tasks off my plate. I would prefer to stick with CamStudio for now. I have 20 different people telling me to use 20 different software products and until I can figure out how to use the free one, I'm not going to start plunking down $300 a whack. I've been through every HOW TO RECORD SCREENS video on YouTube, Revver, SHOWMEDO etc and I have come to a few conclusions: 1. CamStudio will work just fine for what I need 2. The AVI file it produces is too large and I heard that it depends on the codec involved. 3. I'm clueless on the best compression method at this point and again I'm under the impression that using the same codec is important. 4. If I export to a SWF, audioacrobat can take it but bloats it up ten time bigger than original 5. If I export it to WVM it's all fuzzy and I lose the ability to see the text. I've redcued my screen reso to 800x600 before recording and tried to keep the end result at 640x480. I've tested both WMV, SWF, FLV and all come with issues. I've tried Reply, CamTasia, Media Manager 9, ViewletCam, Windows Movie Maker, VideoLAN/VLC, QuickTime, Windows Media Encoder, and now I've forgotten and have to start the cycle over again. Why can't anyone say Set the to , and the ___ to and give me a step by step from start to finish? Again, FREE BEER to whoever can explain this. Disclaimer, FREE BEER may be exchanged for cold hard cash. Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Grad Student Research - Profile of a Video Blogger
Most of questions you list could be easily (or not so easily) answered by combing through a crapload of videoblogs and taking notes, counting, watching, commenting, etc. Dr. Hall, did this not used to be called 'research'? I forget. For example, to answer How long? go to the vlogger's archives and click the oldest month and there you will find the vlogger's first post. If you watch sample vlog entries through time, you will get an idea of how and why they started, what inspires them, and the direction they've gone and are going. You will see in black and white how often the vlogger posts. All that information (and more) is part of vlogging's charm. Jan On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 6:26 AM, Mike Moon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Questions: 1. How did you get into vlogging? I watched an episode of Torrent that featured Michael Verdi and Ryanne Hodson talking about FREEVLOG.ORG. I purchased a $70 videocam and I was off. 2. How long have you been blogging? Two Years and counting. 3. What provides inspiration for your vlog posts? I capture moments of my life so that when I'm really old and forget how to feed myself, I can still look back and remember. 4. How often do you post? Generally once every other day. Say, 3 vlogs a week. 5. Is your video blog a business or a hobby? It's a hobby. 6. What motivates you to continue updating your video blog? It's hard to have a lifetime of videos, be it the second half of my life, without having videos. 7. How long does it take you to post (from the idea- filming- posting)? Ideas get written down and thought about. That time varies. Shooting... depends. 2 minutes to all day, depending on what's going on. Uggh, editing, compressing, converting, uploading, website... I continue to improve and shorten my processes to give me more time with family and shooting. I could bang out a 3 minute video in say 1/2 an hour. BUT, it's generally taking closer to 1 or 2 hours. 8. If you have a site you would like to share (personal or just one you like) please list here: Sure... http://vlog.mikemoon.net Not every video is an award winner, but odds are if you drop by, there's going to be a new entry. 500+ videos in the first 2 years. Drop by, say hello. Mike --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, joshua.kuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all! I am a grad student at UC San Diego doing a research project on the video blogger community and video bloggers. The goal of my project is to develop a profile of video bloggers. This appears to be quite a daunting task since the barriers to vlogging are relatively low and there are a lot of video bloggers out there. If you have a moment to help me out I would really aprreciate it. I have a few basic questions that I am trying to answer (shown below). Also, if you know of any video blog sites that you consider to be good examples of a video blog site or sites that have good content, that would really help! Questions: 1. How did you get into vlogging? 2. How long have you been blogging? 3. What provides inspiration for your vlog posts? 4. How often do you post? 5. Is your video blog a business or a hobby? 6. What motivates you to continue updating your video blog? 7. How long does it take you to post (from the idea-filming-posting)? 8. If you have a site you would like to share (personal or just one you like) please list here: Thanks in advance! If you want to shoot me an email instead of posting a response, that's cool, too. Cheers, Josh Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] virtual interviews workflow/tech advice?
The large challenge this type of endeavor presents is getting interview subjects into the best audio video gear and software possible. A difficult-to-control issue unless you have one or two packages of web cams and microphones you can ship around. Even then, there's the software and setup issue. You gotta have mac and PC capable of each. That is, unless you ship a pre-configured computer along with the cam and mic. The way I imagined this happening was to be willing to sacrifice consistency and quality. In this case, you are able to deal with what ever hard and software the subjects bring to the table. The interviewer / producer will have to be familiar with a wide range of possibilities, how to 'read' subjects' tech savvy-ness, and how to make the best use of even unfamiliar setups. All this takes time to test, etc., and a willingness on the part of interview subjects to install new hard and software, etc. Presumably your subjects are somewhat geek friendly. If not, then a local geek-friendly videoblogger contact to personally set it up on your behalf might be a choice. From what population do you wish to draw? Are they technical or grandmas who have only ever used email? Jan On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Jeffrey Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe the jing project could be good here as well. http://www.jingproject.com/ 2008/5/13 Lauren Galanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hey Guys, I've got a project at work kicking around. We're looking into doing virtual webcam interviews and I've been charged with recommending the tech/workflow. So far I'm thinking to use iMovie's record-from-webcam feature to record just the iChat video, and simultaneously run Snapz Pro (or iShowU) to capture the screen + video in case we want that. Have heard that SnpazPro files don't play nice with FCP though, is that true? Thinking the built-in webcam on the MBP isn't good enough quality for what we want...any recommendations for external webcams? Also wondering if anyone knows of good USB lav mics so we can get good audio straight into the computer as well. Basically, to anyone who's done virtual interviews or similar, I'm looking for any workflow/tech recs you can pass my way. Thanks everyone! -Lauren -- Lauren Galanter www.laurengalanter.com www.linkedin.com/in/laureng Skype: lgalanter AIM: aistalas 610-761-4435 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Jeffrey Taylor Mobile: +33625497654 Fax: +33177722734 Skype: thejeffreytaylor Googlechat/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://twitter.com/jeffreytaylor [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Nokia Mobile Filmmaking Awards 2008
Bon chance, dear vlog-friend! Bon chance! Jan On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 2:22 AM, ruperthowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This, though, was another competition that I *did* put a lot more effort into. I posted about it here last month to tell you to enter. And I just got chosen as one of 5 finalists! They're flying me, Kate Amy to LA next weekend. The winner will be chosen by a panel of celebrities on Pangea Day, Sat May 10th. Cross your fingers for me - and help the judges know that you love me by rating my qualifying video at http://www.twango.com/media/PangeaDay.film/ruperthowe.10021 (you have to sign up for Nokia's video sharing site to rate/vote (boo!) but if you can be bothered to do that, leave a comment to let me know so that I can send you huge electronic love) I told you that you should have entered! Thank you so much to everyone who's already signed up and rated me. I know who you are ;) Rupert http://twittervlog.tv --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should've posted this here before, but I thought David Howell would've done it already. Nokia have asked him to run a parallel competition at http://davidhowellstudios.com/ Both Nokia and Dave are running what is basically a videoblogging competition, and there's not much competition at the moment, so there's a good chance of you winning. You don't have to shoot on a phone to win (though it'd probably help). Films submitted should be 2 minutes long. Subjects should be one of the following: 1. The Best Part Of Today. 2. The Next Thing That Makes You Smile. 3. An Act Of Kindness. 4. The Next Person To Inspire You. So - not every film will fit, but it's pretty videobloggingy brief. Closing date is midnight, April 30th. It's tied into a big event on May 10th called Pangea Day, which is about 'bringing the world together through the power of film'. Nokia are sponsoring Pangea Day and using it as a chance to promote the idea of mobile filmmaking with their phones. And to promote their new video sharing site Share on Ovi, which they just launched. They bought Twango and rebranded it. You can see the 150 or so films that have been submitted so far and submit your own at http://twango.com/channel/PangeaDay.film And also post a link at http://davidhowellstudios.com/ Don't just fire and forget your entries if you want views and ratings. Get involved, leave comments and ratings to get more people watching your films. I'm trying to kick start conversation involvement there - there was none just a week ago. I've had some interesting exchanges and had lots of views and ratings as a result. You can see the last thing I submitted at: http://www.twango.com/media/PangeaDay.film/ruperthowe.10020 which is in the lead at the moment - uhhh... views, comments and ratings appreciated :D Finalists in the Nokia Awards will be shortlisted by popularity, judged by views, favorites, comments and ratings. Then judges will choose winners. David Howell will choose the winner for his comp. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Sorry Josh Leo, blame goodbeershow
OT Hey fellas, why is the default male reaction to a new kid in the room to attack? Why do you have to know who the alpha is, and set up a confrontation in order to sort that out? Guys can be so stupid. Jan On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 8:07 PM, John Coffey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just emailed Josh to say the same. He went after every critic. --- Markus Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: josh, i love the way you walked on in and took them on. what a pro! On Apr 24, 2008, at 4:51 PM, John Coffey wrote: Sorry Josh, sent your Founders Brewery link to @goodbeershow.twitter and he ran with it to Beer Report. http://tinyurl.com/5f652f [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Spike Lee teams with Nokia on cell phone movie
I'm waiting for Nokia to actually get behind a traditional feature film shot entirely with their phones. Now THAT would be something. Jan On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brilliant :) On 24 Apr 2008, at 20:19, Heath wrote: Very interesting http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080424/tc_nm/spikelee_dc;_ylt=Ag9Au8XYKlf _ePFFinij8HKs0NUEhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080424/tc_nm/spikelee_dc;_ylt=Ag9Au8XYKlf_ePFFinij8HKs0NUE NEW YORK (Reuters) - Filmmaker Spike Lee has linked up with Nokia to direct a movie made with cell phone footage from everyday people in what he calls the democratization of film. The film by Nokia Productions will consist of three acts. An assignment for each act will be announced online and people will then have four weeks to produce their submission. You are seeing first hand the democratization of film, Lee said in a statement on Thursday. Aspiring filmmakers no longer have to go to film school to make great work. With a simple mobile phone, almost anyone can now become a filmmaker. Lee was nominated for an Academy Award for best original screenplay for Do the Right Thing in 1990 and for best documentary for 4 Little Girls in 1998. The film's theme will evolve around the way music tells the story of humanity, and people can submit text, music, video or images at certain times between now and August 21 to http://www.nokiaproductions.com. Nokia will choose 25 submissions, then people can vote online for their favorite for a top 10 from which Spike Lee will then choose the winning submission from each act. Lee will direct the film through the Web site. The final film with the three winning submissions and other contributed content will premiere later this year in Los Angeles. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Product placement
Way better than interruptious commercials IMHO. I can filter THAT placement crap out more easily than the other. No time for this thread, damnit. Argh. J On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I don't think that product placement is nessacarily a new thing really. I mean how many shows have you seen where they are drinking Coke or eating at a certain resturant, etc. Brand awareness, product placement, it started in Radio and continued in the early days of TV, I mean heck I even did a spoof myself on it, back when I first started. Heath http://batmangeek.com http://heathparks.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I am way more bothered by product placement than outright advertising. If I'm going to be fucked with - excuse me I mean targeted by marketers willing to exploit weaknesses in my human nature to get me to buy stuff I don't need with money I don't have before discarding the packaging onto a planet that can't take it, I prefer the tactics to be overt and conspicuous. And as a maker, the idea of a sponsor dictating what goes in the frame is even worse than that of some network hack telling me to cut the best material in order to appeal to the lowest common denominator. There have to be other ways to make work sustain-ably. yeahdidnt Quarterlife have a whole story line where they just hung out in a GM car lot...so they just talked about new GM cars? I think in the end its all about good stories. If the advertising/product placement gets in the way of that...snooze. As Mr Lynch classically says: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=F4wh_mc8hRE But i guess the dream is getting a sponsor who gives you creative controlhoping your creativity will be enough. The company gets attention because they fund creativity. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin
Re: [videoblogging] Product placement
Tagged for the Vlog Press Kit. Have long contended that product placement is the way to go for motion picture advertising - whether the delivery device is television, the web or the big / small screen. Less intrusive, more respectful and equally effective as Gossip Girls and other television shows have proved. Still, I hate it that humans are so easily swayed one way or another. Jan On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 6:29 AM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NBC says they are making web shows for product placement. http://www.physorg.com/news127734694.html Digital Studio's first productions, which will premiere this summer, are a science-fiction series starring Rosario Dawson called Gemini Division and a quirky comedy about a college-aged zombie called Woke Up Dead, said NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric Co. Intel Corp., Cisco Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are among the first brands involved with the development of Gemini Division, the statement said. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin
Re: [videoblogging] Re: vloggercon karaoke
Speaking of that backup system, I want excruciating details on THAT setup from Mr. Meade! It looked splendid. Think I tried to make a comment to that effect on the video but something wouldn't let me, then Firefox crashed. Argh. Jan On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Richard (Show) Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dave ... I found it buried in some spam thingy and I got it back! ... thanks for you perserverance! ... Richard p.s. Good luck with your massive back up system, described in a recent video, by the way. On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:41 PM, David Meade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmm I got the error again (even though you and heath got through) ... so I tried to resend it and it said it was a duplicate comment ... so maybe its in moderation somewhere? (cant explain the error message but it had something to do with a spam plugin from the sound of it) On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED]heathparks% 40msn.com wrote: I just added a comment Richard, it worked! Heath http://batmangeek.com http://heathparks.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com , Richard (Show) Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dave ... by some miracle, I think I fixed it (I got a weird error, played with the code in the post, and a testing comment seemed to work) .. if you really want to be a trooper, you could try again and tell me if it works for you now ... Richard On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:40 AM, David Meade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI, I tried to comment on this video but got some crazy server error when I tried. - Dave On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Richard (Show) Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard%40richardshow.org wrote: Anybody remember vloggercon karaoke? http://richardswife.com/?p=19 ... Richard -- Richard (Show) Hall http://richardshow.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://www.DavidMeade.com -- Richard (Show) Hall http://richardshow.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://www.DavidMeade.com -- Richard (Show) Hall http://richardshow.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re:Good Article on Wireless Mics from BH
Reliability of radio mics anywhere has a lot to do with lots of issues, principally line-of-sight (no - particularly metal - objects between the transmitter and receiver) and proximity (keep the TX and RX as close as possible to each other). Another is to know what's 'in' the air in your area. My particular radio mics don't work well in certain cities, for example; I had to keep the receivers very close to the subjects for them to work. I've been told you may research the area(s) in which you plan to use your mics before buying / traveling - through the FCC's website, but I found the user interface abominably unusable. Here's a link to my ongoing collection of subjects related to things RF: http://del.icio.us/love_detective/rf What you suggest doing is what is called in the biz double system sound, but keeping the recorder wired to the microphone and then syncing the sound later. That will totally work! :) In fact, there's at least one high-end mic system that records to a micro SD card as well as transmitting RF signal back to a receiver. If there's an RF hit in the transmission, you may then copy the RF-hit-free file from the transmitter's SD card to post production for syncing. The transmitters alone from Zaxcom are currently retailing for $2K. Any battery-operated small recorder with a mic input and output to transfer files to your computer would work as well. The down side is that you don't have an 'ear' on the material recorded. No way to detect errors as they happen. You might well do an entire interview and only find out on playback that there's nothing there, or that the clothing noise is too much. Lav mic placement - even on the outside of clothing - is as much smoke mirrors as science, and is learned mostly by trial and the inevitable error. As far as unidirectional mics are concerned, I did some research and found only one lav mic that is unidirectional - DPA 4060 - it's like $600. All other brands are omni-directional. Here's the page where I found that information: http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/lavs_brockett.html Indeed, this is a really comprehensive rundown on all the pro lavs on the market. Specs, pro's, con's, prices, and sample recordings. More than you want to know. Sorry this took so long to respond to - it got buried in the 'drafts' folder. What did you decide to do? Jan On 10/31/07, Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read the article and went to research further on reliability of lavalier mikes. According to a comment of a customer on BH site (under one of the Sennheiser mike's in $599 category), all wireless mikes, even the most expensive one costing around $3,000 will have drop-outs of signal when used on the streets of busy cities like NYC and such. So then I thought to myself, what would be the most reliable approach to capture high quality audio when it comes to interviewing people on the streets? The idea popped quickly. Use a Samson Zoom H2 connected to Electrovoice unidirectional mike. Although H2 itself has multiple condenser mikes inside (even surround sound), none of them are unidirectional. So with this set up there's more work in post to sync the H2's audio with on-camera mike, but you get crystal-clear reliable audio without any RF interference or drop-outs. I haven't yet tested this work flow but I think this hits home. -- Sincerely, Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- The Faux Press - better than real http://feeds.feedburner.com/diaryofafauxjournalist - RSS http://fauxpress.blogspot.com http://wburg.tv aim=janofsound air=862.571.5334 skype=janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re:Good Article on Wireless Mics from BH
No, I stand by what I said. Syncing aside... You can still have good sound in the way described - if not well-synced sound - and cut away to the B-roll you wisely captured to make it work. It's sometimes about creatively making something - anything at all - work. Though I should have said 'any battery-operated digital recorder.' J On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Richard Amirault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Jan McLaughlin (snip) What you suggest doing is what is called in the biz double system sound, but keeping the recorder wired to the microphone and then syncing the sound later. That will totally work! :) (snip) Any battery-operated small recorder with a mic input and output to transfer files to your computer would work as well. The down side is that you don't have an 'ear' on the material recorded. No way to detect errors as they happen. You might well do an entire interview and only find out on playback that there's nothing there, or that the clothing noise is too much. (snip) No, sorry, you need more than Any battery-operated small recorder .. You need a good quality recorder. Digital works best (such as the Zoom H-2 or H-4 or Edirol R-09) Or a *very* high quality tape recorder. If you don't have a good recorder you'll be forever trying to sync the audio (because it will drift compared with the video recording) Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: What Video Format is Suitable for Large Screen Viewing (at a conference)
Caution: don't count on a good (or any) internet connection on the day, have your media downloaded to a computer and a flash drive, too. The first step in such a process is to find out what options you have at the venue, and work within those constraints, with backups on backups (as above). Good luck! Jan --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, jocelynford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am producing a short video for a conference on the Olympics and media freedom that takes place in Paris next week. The video will be viewed on a large screen. It doesn't need to be great quality (I'm a newbie, so it won't be!) But it should be watchable. I have recorded the interviews in mp4 on a Sanyo C40 xacti, using a Sandisk card. I can use either moviemaker or powerdirector6 software to edit. I'd like to know what format to use for the best possible quality images on a big screen. If I use videoconverter I can convert to wmv, flv, mpg, mp4, avi. With powerdirector I can save it as .mpeg1, .mpeg2, .avi., divX, avc .mpeg4. I also have powerdirector options like write back to dv tape/hdv tape (I would need to confirm whether the organizers have tape, and the appropriate screening deviceI don't) and media max (whatever that is!) Other options: I can upload it to youtube. I recall reading about a trick that made youtube less fuzzy on bigscreens, but don't know what it is. I'd appreciate any advice! jocelyn U.S. public radio/Foreign Correspondents Club media freedoms committee beijing Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Are women less willing to speak their minds?
I think the issue has less to do with the idea that women have 'trouble' speaking on camera and more to do with the ways 'women' think and interact about important issues. 'Women' are less culturally inclined to pontificate or embrace the pugilistic side of the art of conversation. Our interest is in tossing possibilities, ideas, solutions back and forth in the spirit of cooperation rather than being found 'right' or 'winning'. One problem with Moblogic is how the questions are framed. She could experiment with writing different questions for women - the same subjects, but approached from a feminine perspective. The other issue is that folks will speak forever and comfortably about stuff they're passionate about. My guess? Lots of 'women' (and 'men') aren't passionate about politics. Politics is by its nature aggressive, competitive and hierarchical. Those things are certainly outside *my* area of interest and expertise. I agree with Heather's essay wholeheartedly. Vlogging - as its commonly known to middle America through YouTube - involves for the most part webcam-based single talking heads. Folks pontificating. Conducting monologues. Dialog is more interesting and 'feminine'. It's feels 'safer'. And once you start taping 'conversations' it becomes more like film making than vlogging. It becomes more of a production. Okay, rambled - er - pontificated - enough. Great questions. Fun thinking about it. Jan On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:22 PM, scoobyfox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A question started by Lindsay Campbell on moblogic.tv after she had a hard time finding willing chicks for her person on the street interviews. Here are my thoughts about it: http://subvert.com/blog/2008/04/11/are-women-less-willing-to-speak-their-minds/ I do wonder about the many many fewer chick vloggers. I know that I get a lot more personal emails from my blog readers and vlog watchers than comments. What do you think? I'd certainly like to see public conversation be less chock full o' nuts. heather gold subvert.com | heathergold.com - the Heather Gold Show Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] A good plateform for sounds
The Faux Press is actually a contributor @ Freesound - only because I found it before Loiez pointed me to SoundSnap and became involved in the community there. And there is a lovely community of sound geeks there. Fun to browse recent sounds and recently commented-upon sounds. I use it when I need sound effects for the more edit-intense vlogworks. Yup. Yup. Yup. Sometimes a 'sound' inspires a vlogwork. But then, I'm a sound geek. Jan On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Markus Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 10, 2008, at 10:13 PM, Pat Cook wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I found this website recently http://www.soundsnap.com http://www.soundsnap.com snip/ May be a good tool for the community of vloggers UmmUnless you do an audio video podcast simultaneously, I can't see this being of any use to this community. hi pat, I am curious why you think that this may not be of *any* use to members of this community? This looks like a very useful resource for vloggers who are looking for sound effects. Somewhat similar to the freesound project which I've used many times. http://freesound.iua.upf.edu Thanks to l.daniel for pointing out this cool site (it's even in Drupal :) ) markus [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Flickr adds video - max length 90 seconds?
Yup, you can use your email -- Flickr :) I'm doing that thru http://shozu.com Swet. J On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:46 AM, Markus Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 10, 2008, at 11:25 PM, Kath O'Donnell wrote: I just need a new plugin for iphoto so the export can include the movies. btw, does anyone know if you can email in vids to flickr like you can photos? if so, i may have to look into that iphone video hack :) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Flickr adds video - max length 90 seconds?
Yeah, I disagree with you too, Steve. More often than not - when I'm working anyway - I'm posting everything from the phone. Stills, video, audio. All of it. Working 70+ hours a week doesn't stop me from making media, telling wee stories, documenting amazing moments, SEEING life from the perspective of asking the question, What is beautiful / memorable here? Life is the richer for it. Jan On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:24 AM, Pat Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone: Steve Watkins wrote: Just read about this: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/08/flickr-video-launches-a-unique-experience/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/08/flickr-video-launches-a-unique-experience/ If I read it right and the 90 second thing is true, well I can hope this will encourage a lot of interesting videos at that length. Problem is who's bother to upload a measley 90 seconds of video to Flickr when MANY phones will allow you to upload to TEN MINUTES of video on YouTube? I don't know of anybody who's gonna mess with doing that in the long term. If Yahoo! is really serious about turning Flickr into the next YouTube, they're gonna have to do better than that IMO. Cheers I'm going to have to respectfully disagree. First many people already use flickr for mobile photo blogging, so it would actually make more sense for them to use flickr for the occasional video clip then youtube. Case in point, markus is already wondering about posting video clip from his iphone. (Markus, would love to know if you get it working) Secondly, I don't think flickr wants to become a youtube. I think in fact they need to differentiate themselves. Short clips are one way. But another great way would be to go high quality. -- Pat Cook Denver, Colorado PODCASTS - AS MY WORLD TURNS - Blogger Page - http://asmyworldturnstv.blogspot.com/ BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/20453 AS MY WEIGHT LOSS WORLD TURNS - http://asmyweightlossworldturns.blogspot.com PAT'S REAL DEAL VIDEO BLOG - http://patsrealdeal.livejournal.com/ PAT'S HEALTH MEDICAL WONDERS VIDEOCAST - http://patshealthmedicalwondersvideocast.blogspot.com/ YOUTUBE CHANNEL - http://www.youtube.com/amwowttv/ THE PAT COOK SHOW - http://www.livevideo.com/thepcshow THE PAT COOK SHOW (Video Podcast) - Blogger Page - http://thepctvshow.blogspot.com/ - BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/19924 **COMING SOON** - PAT'S CLASSIC TV COMMERCIALS VIDEO PODCAST - http://patsclassictvcommercials-ipod.blogspot.com/ (iPod), http://patsclassictvcommercials-flash.blogspot.com/ (Flash) Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Flickr adds video - max length 90 seconds?
Sorry, sorry, sorry, Sorry, sorry, sorry, Sorry, sorry, sorry, Sorry, sorry, sorry, Sorry, sorry, sorry, Sorry, sorry, sorry, Sorry, sorry, sorry, Sorry, sorry, sorry, Sorry, sorry, sorry, Sorry, sorry, sorry, Sorry, sorry, sorry, Sorry, sorry, sorry, Sorry, sorry, sorry. Oops. Jan On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yea, Steve does enough on his own without taking heat for someone eles's comment :D Although you have to admit, it's hard to follow these conversations at times :P Heath http://batmangeek.com http://heathparks.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dont think it was me you are disagreeing with, I love the 90 second idea, and I hope they dont extend it too much in future. Flickr should not try to be youtube. I think it was Pat Cook who made the comments you arent agreeing with. In fact Im wondering if Flickr would be a good fit for the short 3D animations Im trying to get into. There already seems to be a group who post photos from the same software I use, Quartz Composer, so hopefully it will be a good fit. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jan McLaughlin jannie.jan@ wrote: Yeah, I disagree with you too, Steve. More often than not - when I'm working anyway - I'm posting everything from the phone. Stills, video, audio. All of it. Working 70+ hours a week doesn't stop me from making media, telling wee stories, documenting amazing moments, SEEING life from the perspective of asking the question, What is beautiful / memorable here? Life is the richer for it. Jan On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Mike Meiser groups-yahoo-com@ wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:24 AM, Pat Cook patsvideoblog@ wrote: Hi everyone: Steve Watkins wrote: Just read about this: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/08/flickr-video-launches-a- unique- experience/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/08/flickr-video-launches-a- unique- experience/ If I read it right and the 90 second thing is true, well I can hope this will encourage a lot of interesting videos at that length. Problem is who's bother to upload a measley 90 seconds of video to Flickr when MANY phones will allow you to upload to TEN MINUTES of video on YouTube? I don't know of anybody who's gonna mess with doing that in the long term. If Yahoo! is really serious about turning Flickr into the next YouTube, they're gonna have to do better than that IMO. Cheers I'm going to have to respectfully disagree. First many people already use flickr for mobile photo blogging, so it would actually make more sense for them to use flickr for the occasional video clip then youtube. Case in point, markus is already wondering about posting video clip from his iphone. (Markus, would love to know if you get it working) Secondly, I don't think flickr wants to become a youtube. I think in fact they need to differentiate themselves. Short clips are one way. But another great way would be to go high quality. -- Pat Cook Denver, Colorado PODCASTS - AS MY WORLD TURNS - Blogger Page - http://asmyworldturnstv.blogspot.com/ BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/20453 AS MY WEIGHT LOSS WORLD TURNS - http://asmyweightlossworldturns.blogspot.com PAT'S REAL DEAL VIDEO BLOG - http://patsrealdeal.livejournal.com/ PAT'S HEALTH MEDICAL WONDERS VIDEOCAST - http://patshealthmedicalwondersvideocast.blogspot.com/ YOUTUBE CHANNEL - http://www.youtube.com/amwowttv/ THE PAT COOK SHOW - http://www.livevideo.com/thepcshow THE PAT COOK SHOW (Video Podcast) - Blogger Page - http://thepctvshow.blogspot.com/ - BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/19924 **COMING SOON** - PAT'S CLASSIC TV COMMERCIALS VIDEO PODCAST - http://patsclassictvcommercials-ipod.blogspot.com/ (iPod), http://patsclassictvcommercials-flash.blogspot.com/ (Flash) Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Studio Engineer Needed
No offense taken. Everybody's gotta start somewhere. Unfortunately, when I drink, I drink expensive Scotch whisky. Sigh. :) Good luck! Jan On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: State of the art, high definition beer doesnt come cheap ;) Im not qualified or in the right country to apply, but I have some thoughts on live streaming that Im about to post about that may be of some small use? Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LOL @ Beer Budget! :D Poor choice of words. You'd be surprised how much some of us can drink! ;) I'll take this oppornity to do like Mission Impossible and say Good Luck, Jim... Is Eddie Codel a Video Engineer? Bill http://BillCammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, jlouderb jim@ wrote: Hi, it's Jim Louderback from Revision3. I've been lurking on this group for a while (thanks for all the great advice), but I figured I'd speak up on this. Revision3 is looking for a video engineer to manage, enhance and operate our state-of-the-art HD multi-camera streaming video studio. We're switched, have about 3,000 square feet of shooting space, a green screen, etc. We need someone who wants to chart the course of what a videoblogging/streaming studio should look be, on a beer budget. Let me know if you are interested. And if I've offended the group with this post, I apologize in advance. jim Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Overview of Pro Lav Mics
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/lavs_brockett.html Dan Brockett's article Includes prices, tech specs, photographs, and audio files for listening to samples from each in various situations. In the event you end up shopping for a lavaliere, this article would be a good place to begin. Prices range from $179-$600+ but you can find them used for significantly less if you know what you want. The thing with used mics is, they may or may not have the connector you require, so check it out first. When buying new, the seller will wire whatever connector you wish, usually included in the price. The other thing to be aware of with used lavs is cable length since in the field they are often damaged and repaired at the connector, whereupon the cable is shortened. Make sure there's enough mic cable left to be useful to you. Another factor is that dirt sweat salts gather in the mic screens, so used lav mics are likely to sound a bit flat when compared to new. You might want to delicately clean the screen on purchase. Someone asked me once if there was a cardioid lav and I said, No. Most are omni-directional. Apparently there IS a cardioid, and it's specifically designed to be 'seen' and used in very noisy environments. Were I to dedicate myself to doing conference interviews regularly, this is the mic I'd choose. Happy shopping! Jan -- The Faux Press - by whatever media necessary http://feeds.feedburner.com/diaryofafauxjournalist - RSS http://fauxpress.blogspot.com aim=janofsound air=862.571.5334 skype=janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: The camera is the new gun.
... These laws are yet another affront to a citizen's media. I've no desire to bring up another 'Net-Neutrality' and 'Crushing independent content producers' argument, in fact I'm done with argument, so I'll just say what I want to say and shut my mouth. I find the removal of cameras and criminalization of camera use in public spaces to be very interesting, and it seems to me that this is the State 'Crushing' the independent content creators. I wonder if this will bring the defenders of the Corporate agenda, and their lack of desire to crush independent content creators to the discussion. In an era of 'It's the Economy Stupid', a Cheap Labor Economy, and feeding people to the Economy, I see no difference between the authoritarian control by the State and need to feed a Corporate Grow or Die agenda. It's the same thing. They are entirely dependent upon eachother. See, I am attacking the government for the same damn thing. I am, however, not attacking the idea of government, just as I was not attacking the idea of economy. Both are absolute perversions of their foundational concepts. They are extremely unhealthy, BOTH of them. We've got to fix them - BOTH. They are becoming one and the same, and I wish I could be more persuasive because, like Global Warming, the environment, perpetual war and the destruction of Democracy, once it's readily apparent, it's too friggin' late. It's so naked, how can people not see it. blech... Ron On Mar 31, 2008, at 5:44 AM, Jan McLaughlin wrote: Yeah, Ron, I concur: great post. Well, well, well... Cameras = guns. Based upon states' recent leaps to control 'em, you are onto something, particularly if these hand-held projectors will be battery-powered. As you might imagine, find this product extremely exciting news. Already, images are being projected on sidewalks, floors, walls. Mostly logos, single words. Slideshows. Graphical. Narrative structure / storytelling will be affected because people are deeply resistant to having their audio-space cluttered. Net-net: these projected motion pictures will inevitably have to work as silent films. There's both rub and irony that in this beginning of the high tech age, we return to the silent film. Perhaps advertisers will have Bluetooth-available audio? Perhaps if the motion pictures are delivered via the web, one might stream the audio over one's cell phone. The challenge would be to sync the sound. I'm on fire with possibility. Thanks. Jan On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 3:08 AM, Ron Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great post, Mike! I can't wait to get my hands on one of those little projectors! I share your concern with the ubiquity of advertising, but The camera is the new gun. Is a HUGE statement! I think it is. One camera can take down a government. Cheers, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Mar 30, 2008, at 7:29 PM, Mike Meiser wrote: One of my favorite things about pixelodeon was not the set screening room sessions but the widespread use of 17 macbooks for impromptu screening of all manner of videos over beers, at party's or simply gatherings in hotel rooms. It's these shared interactive viewing experiences that really make video come full circle as a part of real world face to face conversations. If the following nytimes article is correct pocket-able projection units are expected to hit the market by years end at $300-350. This could in 2009 usher in a whole new possibility for impromptu video screenings. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/business/30novelties.html I'd be curious to know if anyone has gotten their hands on any early prototypes yet. Perhaps there is some potential for sponsorship here at future video blogging events. Of course, cheap portable projectors could have far more ramifications then simple video blog screenings. I cannot begin to imagine how useful these things might become in the next 5 years. As they get cheaper they could one day become as common in laptops as video cams are now, and they have some interesting ramifications as secondary information displays for ambient information such as twitter, friend feed, Digg Spy, news, weather, and things we have yet to dream up. If they become ubiquitous enough they could further blur the spacial boundaries between office chair and arm chair, or put in other terms between computer screen and tv. As an information architect I find this prospect of a more ubiquitous
Re: [videoblogging] The camera is the new gun.
Yeah, Ron, I concur: great post. Well, well, well... Cameras = guns. Based upon states' recent leaps to control 'em, you are onto something, particularly if these hand-held projectors will be battery-powered. As you might imagine, find this product extremely exciting news. Already, images are being projected on sidewalks, floors, walls. Mostly logos, single words. Slideshows. Graphical. Narrative structure / storytelling will be affected because people are deeply resistant to having their audio-space cluttered. Net-net: these projected motion pictures will inevitably have to work as silent films. There's both rub and irony that in this beginning of the high tech age, we return to the silent film. Perhaps advertisers will have Bluetooth-available audio? Perhaps if the motion pictures are delivered via the web, one might stream the audio over one's cell phone. The challenge would be to sync the sound. I'm on fire with possibility. Thanks. Jan On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 3:08 AM, Ron Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great post, Mike! I can't wait to get my hands on one of those little projectors! I share your concern with the ubiquity of advertising, but The camera is the new gun. Is a HUGE statement! I think it is. One camera can take down a government. Cheers, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Mar 30, 2008, at 7:29 PM, Mike Meiser wrote: One of my favorite things about pixelodeon was not the set screening room sessions but the widespread use of 17 macbooks for impromptu screening of all manner of videos over beers, at party's or simply gatherings in hotel rooms. It's these shared interactive viewing experiences that really make video come full circle as a part of real world face to face conversations. If the following nytimes article is correct pocket-able projection units are expected to hit the market by years end at $300-350. This could in 2009 usher in a whole new possibility for impromptu video screenings. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/business/30novelties.html I'd be curious to know if anyone has gotten their hands on any early prototypes yet. Perhaps there is some potential for sponsorship here at future video blogging events. Of course, cheap portable projectors could have far more ramifications then simple video blog screenings. I cannot begin to imagine how useful these things might become in the next 5 years. As they get cheaper they could one day become as common in laptops as video cams are now, and they have some interesting ramifications as secondary information displays for ambient information such as twitter, friend feed, Digg Spy, news, weather, and things we have yet to dream up. If they become ubiquitous enough they could further blur the spacial boundaries between office chair and arm chair, or put in other terms between computer screen and tv. As an information architect I find this prospect of a more ubiquitous physical information space fascinating. Anyone who has ever been on a trading room floor at an exchange will know what I'm talking about by ubiquitous information space. Or for that matter anyone who's watched a scifi movie where whole walls are information displays. Geography / real world space is the new frontier of cyberspace / media space. We've brought meat space to cyberspace, now we're increasingly bringing cyberspace back to meat space. This has tremendous implications for memory, productivity, and privacy. If the medium is the message, such bringing of video to meat space means that today's trends such as the personal and non-linear nature of videos will be nothing in comparison o the non-linearity and personal nature media created for this eventual future. Video made to be projected ubiquitously into the real world will have to be more non-linear, and in order to grab our attention be more personal then ever. The narrative will be ever increasingly abstracted and exploded. TV shows like south park, the simpsons and so called reality tv that are increasingly dependant on direct references to larger narratives in culture rather then their own sub plots will look as quaint as Leave it to Beaver in coming years. This goes for MTV's non-linear programing as well. It also means our notions of information overload today will quaint in comparison to those of tomorrow. Case in point these cheap tiny projectors are not just consumer technology. They may be used to assault our senses in yet new ways. They are perfect for projecting advertising in all manner of unpredictable spaces... subways, public bathrooms, elevators and more since they will be much cheaper, easier to install, and easier to secure then today's ad display systems. Of course a simple piece of gum will become a
Re: [videoblogging] Re: London Police Poster Against Street Photography
The states must really fear documentation. Demonize documentation, buy time. Odd that the article conflates photography with pedophilia in the article's sub-title. Weird, that. But demonization is easier if you have a moral issue to harp upon. Hell, the demonization of the interwebs used pedophilia, porn and fears of identity theft / stalking as tools. Know your rights (thanks for the links, Gena). Take photographs, record audio video. In the words of a wise man: Videoblogging. Yeah. [Hi Happy Birthday, Raymonde] Yeah. Jan On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This part really bothered me: He said that since I didn't have a NY State ID he couldn't run my information over the radio, and he would have to take me into the station at 145th St to check it out in front of his peers. He then asked me to turn around and put my hands behind my back and then he handcuffed me. I know for a fact that almost every police department in the United States, especially those in medium to large cities have full access to the NCIC system to run checks on licenses, ID's etc. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Gena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is an extract from the Times Online UK article: Now, a new poster campaign by the Metropolitan Police is inviting Londoners to call a hotline if they don't like the look of a photographer. Thousands of people take photos every day, runs the text. What if one of them seems odd? The poster states that terrorists use cameras for surveillance. Life with a camera might be about to turn tougher. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article3574763.ece First France with laws on the books on no photography on police activities. Now the police in the UK are trying a variation by asking citizens to profiling and suppressing street photography. Not that this hasn't been tried in the U.S. http://carlosmiller.com http://carlosmiller.com/2008/02/09/new-york-city-photographers-will-protest-sunday-against-ongoing-harassment/ Boing Boing was on this and you can see some of the parodies that the UK police poster inspired. http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/05/remixing-the-london.html U.S. vloggers need to know your rights. http://www.krages.com/ThePhotographersRight.pdf http://photojojo.com/content/tips/legal-rights-of-photographers/ http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/andrewkantor/2005-12-29-camera-laws_x.htm Gena http://outonthestoop.blogspot.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- The Faux Press - by whatever media necessary http://feeds.feedburner.com/diaryofafauxjournalist - RSS http://fauxpress.blogspot.com aim=janofsound air=862.571.5334 skype=janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] He passed away on March 27
Recording this kind of conversation is the height of media-making IMHO. Sorry for your loss. Delighted you were able to preserve this moment for posterity. Thanks. Jan On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 3:11 AM, Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I interviewed this man one night when I was returning home from a friend of mine when I noticed this old man sitting on the stairs of a building, I made a comment that it isn't very healthy to sit on the cold stone, and the conversation turned into a short spontaneous film. Here is the interview http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid935220722/bclid932508388/bctid604271218 May he rest in peace... -- Sincerely, Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- The Faux Press - by whatever media necessary http://feeds.feedburner.com/diaryofafauxjournalist - RSS http://fauxpress.blogspot.com aim=janofsound air=862.571.5334 skype=janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] footage wanted
http://blip.tv/file/45482 - sound mixer in situ http://blip.tv/file/3511 - http://blip.tv/file/27945 - behind the scenes lots of flavors. I can get back to the original footage if that helps. Jan On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 8:56 PM, JD Lasica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a producers screencast we're putting together in the next 48 hours for Bid4Vid.com, we need a 4-second clip of: - a videographer recording footage, or setting up a video recorder, in an office setting or - 3 to 4 second shot of a film crew (trailing behind or from the front) and - a short clip of a sound engineer or lighting specialist (just someone at sound controls or setting up lights). Contact me offline and we'll discuss how to credit you or make a payment. (Ordinarily I'd shoot this myself but I'm under the weather and on a tight deadline.) Thanks! JD Lasica for Bid4Vid jdlasica at gmail[.]com Yahoo! Groups Links -- The Faux Press - by whatever media necessary http://feeds.feedburner.com/diaryofafauxjournalist - RSS http://fauxpress.blogspot.com aim=janofsound air=862.571.5334 skype=janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Interesting Guardian article about Ze, Rocketboom et al
Cool. Tagged for vloggersinthenews and vlogpresskit, respectively: http://del.icio.us/tag/vloggersinthenews http://del.icio.us/tag/vlogpresskit Got news? XO, Jan On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Mark Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/23/interviews.internet [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- The Faux Press - by whatever media necessary http://feeds.feedburner.com/diaryofafauxjournalist - RSS http://fauxpress.blogspot.com aim=janofsound air=862.571.5334 skype=janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Interesting Guardian article about Ze, Rocketboom et al
So, anybody can use those delicious tags and automatically update an RSS feed through FeedDigest for up-to-the-minute (sorry, had to say that) vlogosphere news RSS implants. I use such feeds on my sites as does Charles on his vlograzor site. Recently saw Ryanne Twitter that she used the vlogpresskit tag @ deliciious for researching something and that it saved her some time. Have been collecting news stories about this phenom since pretty early on, so it's actually turned into a little bit of a resource for us. Keep taggin' folks. I know Cheryl Colan and Pat Cook have tagged a few things... Just a reminder that this resource is out there and always wants more eyes and ears on the web for articles of interest. XO, Jan On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Charles Iliya Krempeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And then each of those appears on Vlog Razor -- http://vlograzor.com/ (Vlog Press Kit... first row, left. Vloggers in the News... second row middle.) On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 4:44 AM, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool. Tagged for vloggersinthenews and vlogpresskit, respectively: http://del.icio.us/tag/vloggersinthenews http://del.icio.us/tag/vlogpresskit Got news? XO, Jan On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Mark Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/23/interviews.internet -- The Faux Press - by whatever media necessary http://feeds.feedburner.com/diaryofafauxjournalist - RSS http://fauxpress.blogspot.com aim=janofsound air=862.571.5334 skype=janmclaughlin -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links -- The Faux Press - by whatever media necessary http://feeds.feedburner.com/diaryofafauxjournalist - RSS http://fauxpress.blogspot.com aim=janofsound air=862.571.5334 skype=janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Knight Citizen News Network - Top Ten Rules for Limiting Legal Risk
Bump. On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is an introduction video by Jeff Jarvis http://www.kcnn.org/legal_risk/intro_video/ Many of us have asked questions about our legal responsibilities, rights and processes on reporting news via vlogging. On this site there are articles, tips, videos and other related stuff to help you keep the attorneys at at distance. http://www.kcnn.org/legal_risk good resource. i added it to the group's wiki: http://videoblogginggroup.pbwiki.com/FrontPage#LegalResources Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Professional: http://ryanishungry.com Personal: http://momentshowing.net Photos: http://flickr.com/photos/jaydedman/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/jaydedman RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9 Yahoo! Groups Links -- The Faux Press - by whatever media necessary http://feeds.feedburner.com/diaryofafauxjournalist - RSS http://fauxpress.blogspot.com aim=janofsound air=862.571.5334 skype=janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Blip is creating its own RSS feed for shows?
Is it the Lord's Prayer that implores lead us not to conclusions? Oh. No. That's lead us not to temptation. Sorry. Jan On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Tim Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good to know. Thanks Angus. Tim Street Creator/Executive Producer French Maid TV Subscribe for FREE @ http://frenchmaidtv.com/itunes MyBlog http://1timstreet.com On Feb 14, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Angus McIntyre wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Charles HOPE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are discussing this in the office and Angus is about to chime in here ... My first message on this subject seems to have been eaten, so let me try again. Apologies if this causes a duplicate. The short answer? It's a bug. As Charles says, we've been providing our own RSS and iTunes-specific RSS feeds for many months now. However, if you provide your own URLs on the External Web Links preference page, the URLs you provide should override our default URLs. The override works correctly on the show page, but our designer forgot to implement it on the episode pages. I've now opened a bug report on this, and we'll get it fixed as soon as possible. Angus [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- The Faux Press - by whatever media necessary http://feeds.feedburner.com/diaryofafauxjournalist - RSS http://fauxpress.blogspot.com aim=janofsound air=862.571.5334 skype=janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
