Re: [videoblogging] Xacti Workflow w/External HDs
Thanks, Rupert! I am contemplating using the laptop as the interface for the file transfer but I'm not a very details oriented person. The idea of having automated posting for file backup via xacti library seems a good one for my personality type I'm sure it'll save my bacon sometime. Using mpeg streamclip is something I saw a guy do in a file management tutorial online. It was pretty sweet. He essentially cut the video as it was imported into his machine from his camera - a 'pre edit' that is surely a space saver - getting the important pieces of each shot without the extra garbage (of which I tend to have a lot of) - I imagine it'd save about 20-30% of space. Thanks again for the feedback. Peace, Ron Watson Pawsitive Vybe 11659 Berrigan Ave Cedar Springs, MI 49319 http://pawsitivevybe.com Personal Contact: 616.443.3984 k9d...@mac.com On the Web: Pawsitive Vybe PVybe Blog Art of K9Disc K9Athlete.com Seminars On Jul 23, 2010, at 5:03 AM, Rupert Howe wrote: Nice rig monopod video - thanks! I think I'm not understanding something, but I'm going to ask a stupid question anyway rather than just wait for other replies - because I'm interested. Why don't you just copy all the files from the Xacti memory card to your 1TB HD via Finder on your Mac? Why do you need to make the HD work with the Xacti? Surely the computer is the interface between the memory card and the HD? And I didn't understand the use of MPEG Streamclip to filter. Or even to transcode. Surely you can avoid all that and just import the Xacti clips straight into iMovie, which transcodes them into its own editable format anyway? Then you delete the clips you don't want in iMovie, while keeping all the original footage on your HD? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 23 Jul 2010, at 01:17, Ron Watson wrote: Hey everybody! Alright, So got me my xacti and liking it so far. Using my Home Made Fig Rig - http://blip.tv/file/653663/ - a new design, using an aluminium bicycle wheel for the frame... anyway, not the point - I'm getting some good footage: http://k9disc.blip.tv/file/3853003/ - Dog Class in a Park http://k9disc.blip.tv/file/3906053/ - Jam Session in good light - big zoom... Fig rig is doing it's job. I'm in the process of reformatting my 1TB RAID HD. I had it formatted to fat32 but iMovie can't write to it. SO I went MacOSExtended (journaled) and now the Xacti can't write it. I have a 150 GB Maxtor HD that is functioning well. I was thinking about using that for my Xacti Library function - for bringing all of it in - back up style. And then moving it to the 1TB drive for permanent storage and editing. I also thought of just bringing everything into the PC and moving it over manually/automagically via iMovie. I also am thinking of using mpeg streamclip as a filter for saving decent footage and/or pre-editing file management. I'd like to hear what other xacti folk have to say about this. Anybody have any info to share? Peace, Ron Watson Pawsitive Vybe On the Web: Pawsitive Vybe PVybe Blog Art of K9Disc K9Athlete.com Seminars [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] Xacti Workflow w/External HDs
Thanks David! It's even better now. The aluminum wheel is much lighter and less 'aggressive' looking. I am using the xacti remote for camera functions like zoom, still/video, and menu stuff. I had to rig a handle of sorts to get the remote out in front of the camera, which has wound up working, not ideally, but it's pretty comfy and a functional set up. Looks much better too. The rest of the rig's functionality is still in there which is really cool. Thanks for noticing... Peace, Ron On the Web: Pawsitive Vybe PVybe Blog Art of K9Disc K9Athlete.com Seminars On Jul 22, 2010, at 8:26 PM, David Jones wrote: On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Ron Watson k9d...@mac.com wrote: Hey everybody! Alright, So got me my xacti and liking it so far. Using my Home Made Fig Rig - http://blip.tv/file/653663/ - a new design, using an aluminium bicycle wheel for the frame... Nice rig! Dave. . [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Sanyo HD2000 for Action?
Thanks Mark! Appreciate it... Couple of questions: Where did you get the CA-100, Mark? Japan? What did you pay for it? I want one! We do some dock diving as well. I checked out a cheap xacti at Radio shack today and really noticed that choppy motion, but I don't know if I can get past it for less than $500. I also would like to have line/mic-in, which puts me at the hd2000 - $599 for iframe. Seriously interested in the CA 100 though... does it have line/mic in audio? Anybody have any experience with iframe? What about the fh1a? Anyone have experience with that? Peace, Ron Watson On the Web: Pawsitive Vybe PVybe Blog Art of K9Disc K9Athlete.com Seminars On Jun 29, 2010, at 2:19 AM, Mark Villaseñor wrote: Ron Watson: Looking to multitask for disc dog and dog training action. Also need to know about Apple mp4 compatibility. Hi Ron: Although we don't use the Sanyo VPC-HD2000, I had looked into similar units before acquiring a Xacti CA-100 (which we use for perspective underwater/water-based shots -- B-roll). Both products, however, utilize MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 -- compatible with Apple machines. One issue I think you may experience using a card-based AVCHD camcorder, is that fast moving subjects across the focal plane (crossing a T in front of the camera) tend to produce jerky movement. We've had this happen many times in the field shooting the dogs running or working from a water perspective, across the focal plane. Fast moving objects TOWARD the camcorder, however, produce no such issue we've experienced. So proper angling is important yet not always achievable when working with dogs. Perhaps there is a work-around someone else may suggest, or maybe the jerkiness isn't an issue for your purposes. Nonetheless; just thought to convey our experience using a very similar pistol grip Sanyo camcorder. Hope this helps. Mark Villaseñor, http://www.TailTrex.tv Canine Adventures For Charity - sm http://www.SOAR508.org [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: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com 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: Camcorder Advice Pls -
Sanyo VPC-FH1A or Sanyo VPC-2000A Some of you all have seen our video blog - high movement, indoor outdoor dog sports - was wondering if this would be a good solution for a 2009 macbook without firewire... Also wondering how good the still camera is. Any other suggestions for USB cameras would be really appreciated. Peace, Ron On Apr 8, 2010, at 2:21 PM, Cheryl Benson wrote: I tried to post this the other day, it went into cyberspace somewhere thx for all the input, that is a a lot and greatly appreciated, many sites dont' list, My arms/hands, energy and a few other things will be the deciding factors, although think may stick with sanyo I have seen complaints about it from others on the web for longer periods for holding it (gun style) no leather grip cases, it seems a personal thing of more concern for me. I am reading other reviews, comments on net as able, I really need an easy point and shoot with good auto focus and remote. Someone emailed me and told me that mac's can't always edit HD (SHOCK!!), apple sent a list of camcorders that work with mac's, in this case macbook pro, but others are listed as well by mac series and camcorders. Also been told it makes a difference what operating system you are on, imac, or mac and what year and also what editing software you are using and what year. here is list for now. I will look more as able. I was on vimeo earlier and have account there, will have to figure out why none of my vid's are there through tubemogel next upload. See there is quite the following there for Sanyo, alot of reviews are poor for low light, love the macro, and really want the mpeg4 and looking at the new iframe they have out. I have 2 tripods, the flexible grip anything, and the quicksnap pole for now. the steadycam for my wheelchair is in the future *I hope*, will post when that happy day comes. I have already seen one on the web that might work imovie 09- list of camcorders, list of mac's included also: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3290 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3290 I am a bit confused on replying so that all messages are not recopied, this is for the topic, not to one person. again thank you -- http://cherylspeaksout.blogspot.com http://youtube.com/cherylspeaksout http://cherylbenson.ca (in the works) @cherylbenson [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [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: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com 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/
[videoblogging] Editing on Mac w/o Firewire...
Hi, Looks like I might be bartering for a new-ish mac 13 There is no firewire input and i was wondering how some of you dealt with that problem. I think my cams are only capable of exporting via firewire... Any help would be appreciated? Peace, Ron
Re: [videoblogging] Re: flavors.me elegant aggregation
I've been embedded in my windstopper longjohns for months... come on springtime!!! Looks like you got me on the bandwagon again, Rox, Mahalos... miss the islands. My Flavors: http://flavors.me/k9disc Aloha, Ron Watson http://pawsitivevybe.com http://k9athlete.com On Mar 3, 2010, at 3:37 AM, Roxanne Darling wrote: For Schlomo, on topic: How does a person embed video with your service who does not wear underwear? Otherwise, this is cool; fun, and I like the home page it makes for me: http://flavors.me/rox Super clean. Thanks for sharing it! Aloha, Roxanne On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 8:23 AM, schlomo rabinowitz schl...@gmail.com wrote: This has nothing to do with Embedable Underwear. Stay on topic!!!:) Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo.tv http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Michael Sullivan sullele...@gmail.comwrote: You might be more fit for using WordPress.com with their pro services (i.e. videopress). Instead of aggregating in, try using WP as single content source to publish from. On Feb 26, 2010 3:17 PM, elbowsofdeath st...@dvmachine.comsteve%40dvmachine.com wrote: OK I tried signing up and it looks like theyve switched from supporting Vimeo to Youtube. This is one of the things I dislike about this sort of service - I need them to support lots of different video hosts, and if they decide to switch at some point then its beyond my control. It does look like they support RSS but I havent checked the details and am well out of date on what kind of feeds video hosts make available. Are there any opensource webapps with these sorts of features? They dont need to be pretty to start with, can always redo the front end, but needs to play nice with a variety of services. The means to aggregate stuff nicely from a vairety of services has not turned out quite as straightforward from a technical perspective as may once have been hoped here. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging% 40yahoogroups.com, elbowsofdeath st...@... wrote: Greetings, You k... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Roxanne Darling o ke kai means of the sea in hawaiian 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 * 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: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com 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] Frisbee Freestyle Jam Camp and Disc Dogs
Thanks Rox! @k9athlete Ron Watson http://pawsitivevybe.com http://k9athlete.com On Dec 29, 2009, at 3:11 PM, Roxanne Darling wrote: Ron - are you on Twitter? I would love to give a shout out there for you too. Aloha, Rox @roxannedarling On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Ron Watson k9d...@mac.com wrote: Hey everybody! I'll be out in LA teaching at this awesome camp - http:// www.freestylejamcamp.us/2010/ - an Human Freestyle Frisbee Camp featuring some of the world's best players as instructors. The camp runs on the 2-3 of January. I hooked up with the media curator and he was really excited about me giving this shout out on the list. If anybody is interested in some real nice talent and a good vibe, let me know. I'll put you in touch with the media guy and we can hook up. I'll be in San Diego Jan 4-5, LA Jan 6-9 and NorCal Jan 9-11 doing disc dog seminars and personal lessons and would love to meet some of you. Peace, Ron Watson http://pawsitivevybe.com http://k9athlete.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- 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 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Frisbee Freestyle Jam Camp and Disc Dogs
Hey everybody! I'll be out in LA teaching at this awesome camp - http:// www.freestylejamcamp.us/2010/ - an Human Freestyle Frisbee Camp featuring some of the world's best players as instructors. The camp runs on the 2-3 of January. I hooked up with the media curator and he was really excited about me giving this shout out on the list. If anybody is interested in some real nice talent and a good vibe, let me know. I'll put you in touch with the media guy and we can hook up. I'll be in San Diego Jan 4-5, LA Jan 6-9 and NorCal Jan 9-11 doing disc dog seminars and personal lessons and would love to meet some of you. Peace, Ron Watson http://pawsitivevybe.com http://k9athlete.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] roku now with blip.tv, facebook and other media channels
Can you talk a little more about it, Sull? Interesting to me now that it's got blip capabilities... we rent quite a few DVDs here and getting some net based content alongside our Movie content might be worth the major shift to Satellite Internet. Peace, Ron Watson http://pawsitivevybe.com http://k9athlete.com On Nov 22, 2009, at 11:25 PM, sull wrote: I was just complaining about netflix and roku today. I suppose this bit of news will appease me for a while longer. Some new channels: blip.tv, Facebook Photos, Flickr, FrameChannel, Mediafly, MobileTribe, Motionbox, Pandora, Revision3 and TWiT http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/11/22/roku-announces-roku-channel- store-adds-facebook-and-pandora-and-maybe-porn/? utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A +Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [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: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com 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 power of the video blog
I really enjoyed visiting the web address at the end of the video. Very cool David. Very cool Microchip. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Oct 29, 2009, at 8:16 PM, David Jones wrote: I just experienced the power of my video blog! I reviewed a hardware product here: http://www.eevblog.com/2009/10/21/eevblog-39-pickit-3- programmerdebugger-review/ and in my usual no punches pulled style, I gave them quite a serve. As it turns out the video made it's way all around the company offices, even to the desk of their CEO. As with any multi billion dollar corporation, I expected either deathly silence or a nasty letter from their lawyers. But it turns out they really do care about their products and customers, and really do listen, so they seriously took it as constructive criticism. So not only was my critical blog well received, I got a lengthy call from none other than the CEO, thanking me for the blog and raising the issues. He pointed out a few factual errors which was fair enough, but admitted they could have done the product better and most importantly are working to fix the issues and give customers what they expect. That's like getting a phone call from Bill Gates apologising for Windows Vista! They have even posted this well put together and hilarious video response: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YUvlrVlNao Absolutely amazing that a huge $4BN corporation took a small time video blogger like me seriously! I greatly doubt my rants would have had anywhere near the same impact if it was just a text blog. Dave. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Blip Down?
I can't seem to get through to Blip.tv. Can anyone else confirm this? Peace Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9athlete.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: FTC rules on blogger Payola
But blogs are self policing. They are not a push technology. They don't have giant multinational structures and teams of lawyers avoiding the law. I think the key here is that Blogs are self policing. That's why they're cool and that's why they're popular. People have the power to challenge a blog - on the air - so to speak. It would be like me watching Lou Dobbs then jumping his shit on the commerical break talking about how he's kowtowing to his parent company's customers. That cannot happen. It happens all the time on blogs. They might as well regulate the watercooler. Blogger's who shill get shellacked and lose the trust of the readers. Corporate Media is a shill period and, unfortunately, loses no trust because of it. Peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Oct 8, 2009, at 8:05 PM, Adrian Miles wrote: two wrongs don't make a right and if you want this to happen to perhaps the best way is bottom up, so if bloggers acted ethically then I think you are in a much stronger position to ask and expect it of others. But if someone won't do it until the other does then you've got exactly the issues we face with nuclear weapons, global warming etc where one side will not actually do the ethical thing simply because someone else won't either. On 09/10/2009, at 3:28 AM, Ron Watson wrote: I'd like to see disclosure on the Today Show when one of NBC's musicians performs, or when a movie comes out that they review that was produced by a GE subsidiary. I'd like to see disclosure on large clients of GE, or reporting on investments of GE Finance on CNBC. I'd like to see disclosure on Pentagon PR hacks doing their daily rounds on the Sunday shows. Disclosure of ADM as an advertiser on stories about GM foods from every network. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: FTC rules on blogger Payola
Well then. I'd like to see disclosure on the Today Show when one of NBC's musicians performs, or when a movie comes out that they review that was produced by a GE subsidiary. I'd like to see disclosure on large clients of GE, or reporting on investments of GE Finance on CNBC. I'd like to see disclosure on Pentagon PR hacks doing their daily rounds on the Sunday shows. Disclosure of ADM as an advertiser on stories about GM foods from every network. Ad nauseam. This whole thing is a joke, IMHO. The Nestle thing in someone or another's blog post is exactly how Bloggers and their undisclosed corporate sponsors should be handled - ridicule and peer/public review. Peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Oct 7, 2009, at 7:11 PM, compumavengal wrote: There are some bloggers on the other side of the fence, a few (small, minority) Parental bloggers have been shaking down PR folks for goodies, perks and pay for play. There have been raging debates about providing disclosure; i.e. tell your visitors you are receiving compensation. Inform visitors that the review, product or trip was given to you with expectations. Some have questioned why they need to do this. They feel it doesn't matter that they get stuff free or have streams of $10 to $50 coming their way. Ethics is not their concern, getting money and free stuff across the door and keeping their visitors. The money has priority with them. Some of the Parental bloggers are chalking the whole thing up to jealousy and interfering with their business interests. Special shout out to base level Internet marketers using blogs to sell their crap. Yeah, I want the FTC to visit some of those bastards. Not the ethical ones, just the scumbags. Many bloggers, myself included, want to know if you are on the take. Tell me upfront and I can make the decision to stick around, trust or take with a grain of salt. Don't do that and I find out you have been sucking at the PR/ Advertising tap and I will be disappointed. The same way I was when the Washington Post tried to sell their journalists for cash for that elite party of DC's finest, magazine advertorials labeled in 1pt type and a whole host of video pr news releases that are masked as news on local television stations. If you have a commercial blog you have responsibilities. This is one of them. Gena --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Markus Sandy markus.sa...@... wrote: On Oct 6, 2009, at 3:38 AM, elbowsofdeath wrote: I have not yet had time to read the full arguments of those who are against this, though I start from the position of viewing their stance with quite some skepticism. I think the handwriting on the wall is pretty clear: Make blogging something for only insured and licensed professionals under the guise of protecting people. markus [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Off Topic... Self Publishing a Book...
So funny, Jay! My original idea for the book was a wiki, via dl and on portable media. This was 2003ish... The book is a dog training book, and the reason for actual publishing has more to do with professional development/legitimacy than it does content delivery. In my field, dog training, one is just not respectable until one publishes a book or releases a DVD. Thanks for the reply. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jul 30, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Jay dedman wrote: I thought I might ask for a bit of off topic advice here, as you all are on the cutting edge of tech... Anyone have thoughts suggestions on self publishing a book? Checking out Lulu and Amazon's Booksurge, but totally cursory at this point in time... Any thoughts would be appreciated. Not sure what topic you want to publish, but Ive often wondered why people still publish paper books for technical topics. Think of all the technical books that must get thrown away because they go out of date so quickly. I know first hand since the videoblogging book I co-wrote was going out-of-date during the 6 months from writing to publishing. I assume with Lulu et al you can update the downloadable PDF. If I was to ever write a technical book again, I'd do it all online, wikistyle. This way you could update it as needed...have clickable links...and add whatever rich media is needed to make a point. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Off Topic... Self Publishing a Book...
I thought I might ask for a bit of off topic advice here, as you all are on the cutting edge of tech... Anyone have thoughts suggestions on self publishing a book? Checking out Lulu and Amazon's Booksurge, but totally cursory at this point in time... Any thoughts would be appreciated. Private responses are totally cool... Peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9athlete.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Decoding the HTML 5 video codec debate
Another licensing issue that is often overlooked is the ambiguity of MPEG LA's future patent royalty collection plans. MPEG LA has established broadcast fees that licensees will be required to pay for distributing free (or ad-supported) streaming video content on the Internet. These fees will not be instated until the end of 2010, when the second H.264 licensing period goes into effect. The language used in the current license treats Internet streaming just like over-the-air television, implying that the licensees will have to pay broadcast fees per-region. That could prove to be extremely costly for Internet video providers who make their content available around the world. Licensee? Does that mean me? WTF? Or must I use a video delivery system to stream my content? Sounds to me like capturing the market. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jul 7, 2009, at 10:09 AM, Jay dedman wrote: Ars Technica did a great summary of where we're at with video codecs at the moment. http://bit.ly/InQbD Ogg Theora is an open format that is thought to be unencumbered by patents. The primary reference implementation is distributed under an open source license and it is being developed by the non-profit Xiph.org with funding from Mozilla. Ogg is strongly preferred by the open source software community because it can be freely redistributed without requiring licensing fees. H.264 is a high-performance codec that is maintained by the ISO Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) as part of the MPEG-4 family. It is emerging as the dominant codec for both streaming video and optical media, as it is said to deliver the visual quality of MPEG-2 (used on DVDs) at roughly half the bitrate. The MPEG LA consortium manages licensing of the underlying patents that cover H.264 compression algorithms and other software methods needed to implement the codec. In order to use the format, adopters have to pay licensing fees to MPEG LA. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] vimeo is going to stop hosting source videos (starting August 1st)
Just so we could have a discussion about it...why are you choosing to host all your own files? Why not depend on a free hosting service like Vimeo, blip, or Youtube? Is it because youve started a service and want people to upload videos directly to your site? I would like people to upload videos directly to the site and I want these videos connected to their account on my site. We've got notifications and an activity stream for a reason - moving outside the Joomla registration system by doing 3rd party uploads makes that more difficult. A single login is important as well. There is a 3rd party, Bip/Youtube solution built right into the social network application (JomSocial - http://jomsocial.com ), but that runs afoul of another requirement - control over advertising. I want to run ads for many small businesses that are involved with dog sport. Cheap, visible pre/mid/post and overlay. There is another video application that I've looked at that uses the JW player, and I'm intrigued with the ad capabilities of Longtail, but it's a lot of work to configure and administrate, and then there's the cost of a beefy server to stream the content. I was just thinking about how cool it would be to have a Blip Multi User kind of a set up - essentially a channel for communities like mine - a K9Athlete Network. I could book advertising and control the distribution of it. I'd love that! The Blip player just rocks! That's essentially what Infinovision is doing, btw, creating a multi- user network on Amazon S3. JVideo is the application controlling that network in my CMS. Advertising and branding are/will be available in the paid subscription service - it's my application under my control. Thanks for the discussion. It's helpful to think about, for sure. peace, Ron [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Flowplayer Discussion
Well, after Jay's question and some thought, I'm looking at going to Jom Social's native video package. It runs Flowplayer and i've seen very little discussion of this app on the list here. Any thoughts out there in videoblogging land on Flowplayer? peace, Ron
Re: [videoblogging] vimeo is going to stop hosting source videos (starting August 1st)
Hey Jay, I'm uploading to s3 on a service, Infinovision - http:// infinovision.com , and JVideo (Joomla Video) http:// jvideo.infinovision.com and administrating and serving through the Joomla back end. It's pretty slick - a bit buggy, but it's got great potential. I'm on the free plan for now, during Beta, but we're getting close to getting larger than that. I hope I can afford to pay the bills. There's not a lot of fine tuning with Infinovision, at least not at the pay grade I'm at, but it's a pretty nice system. At this point in time it's slated for the heavy lifting on K9Athlete ( http://k9athlete.com ) and might be the workhorse of Dog Sport TV ( http://dogsporttv.com ) - same site, BTW... It looks as if we're going live fairly soon. I've got to clean things up, lose a TON of development/beta code overhead, and add some formatting for the other sports ( K9Disc is the only one done... http://k9athlete.com/home/k9disc-front-page ) but it's getting close... still tinkering, but close. For those of you who remember my curator project thread - I've got no money, no sponsors and no interest in instructor participation in the project, but the feedback from our members is really solid and the site is really looking sharp and is attracting attention. Anyway, just thought I'd share. Stop by and check the place out. http://k9athlete.com . peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jul 2, 2009, at 9:48 AM, Jay dedman wrote: i just read this on vimeo's blog and wanted to warn everyone about it. http://vimeo.com/blog:215 Starting August 1st, basic accounts' original source files will be stored for one week from the upload date, after which they will be removed. Of course the converted Vimeo video will always be there in the Vimeo player, ready to be watched again and again, anywhere you choose to embed or share it. We will also still provide a download link so people can save the converted file to their computer (in MP4 format). We all talked about this day coming so it makes sense. These free video hosting sites must start making choices on what they provide for free. If Youtube didnt have Google to bankroll their free service, I would expect sites to start charging $$. For instance, blip offers such a solid service, it just makes sense they should charge. I think its becoming clearer that these free video social networks will be good for promotional aspects...and disposable media as David Howell so eloquently puts it. You throw video into the site, then don't really worry about what happens to it or what format it's in. Video creators trying to build a larger footprint will start hosting their own videos. Probably using some kind if user interface on top of Amazon S3 that lets you upload and manage a whole library of videos. Be awesome if this system also had a transcoding engine that I could manually tweak the settings for the different versions I want. Or as I said, a service like blip.tv determines that charging for their service is valuable which would make me more confident they'll stick around far into the future. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Suggestions for ffmpeg enabled host?
Does anybody have suggestions for dedicated hosts with ffmpeg capability? I need to move my site to an ffmpeg enabled host, and would like to get reliable hosting at a reasonable cost. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Suggestions for ffmpeg enabled host?
Thanks, Rupert. I was just looking at Dreamhost. Your experience/endorsement is a good thing... As far as the dedicated server goes, I've had terrible luck with shared hosting - way too many sites on one box. I think I could totally make do with a shared setup, but just thought that dedicated would be the way to go. I was not excited about the cost, but kind of had it locked in my brain as a necessary deal for ffmpeg and video streaming. I'm going to look into Dreamhost, I think. I like the carbon neutral idea too... Thanks Rupert! peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On May 5, 2009, at 10:19 AM, Rupert wrote: In case you decide you don't need to run a whole server by yourself, Dreamhost give access to a shared version of ffmpeg and also allow you to manually install your own: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/FFmpeg There are some discount codes here: http://www.ffmpeg-hosting.com/content/dreamhost They have unlimited bandwidth and storage, which is quite useful for an ffmpeg project. And they have one-click Joomla and Wordpress installation. And they're carbon neutral. I switched to them six months ago after hearing good things from a lot of people, and I've been very happy with them. Mediatemple have a Dedicated Virtual server option, which is not a dedicated physical server, but behaves like one, and is managed. Instructions for installing ffmpeg on their Dedicated Virtual server here: http://mind.psychopsia.com/install-ffmpeg-on-media-temple-dv-3-5/ Why do you need a dedicated server? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 5-May-09, at 6:44 AM, Ron Watson wrote: Does anybody have suggestions for dedicated hosts with ffmpeg capability? I need to move my site to an ffmpeg enabled host, and would like to get reliable hosting at a reasonable cost. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: work around for no fire wire?
I have not had to do any hardware/ software maintenance or tinkering around with the OS on my laptop in 4 years. It's on nearly 24/7, 365. It just works. I had malicious water catastrophe which was terrible, but I've never, ever had to monkey around with the OS or anything. I'd say it's well worth the extra $1000 over the course of 4 years. Is it perfect, no, but I just can't imagine going back to a PC. I have thought about it though, as the cost of PCs has really dropped, but I don't think it would be worth it in terms of time wasted. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Apr 17, 2009, at 9:43 AM, Heath wrote: well..since Rupert and Verdi said somethingI guess I can chime in. As you are all aware, I am a PC guy, edit, work, etc on a PC. Now I have, in the past expressed my frustration with certain aspects of windows, however, as an everyday work PC and editing PC, it's worked most of the time. Now, I don't want to hear that nothing ever goes wrong with a Mac, because we all know that's not true, it's a machine with moving parts, things break I have looked at a Mac a few times, but the cost is prohibative. Cause it's not just about the hardware, everything I have as far as ecosystem is related to a PC, and yes I can run boot camp or I can run programs virtually but I still hear of problems with that at times. And then I still have to buy a full version of the MS OS, which further adds to the cost I am not anti Mac, but for me and my budget, I am still better off with a PC, even adding in the cost of virus software. I have learned that it's not really about who is better, it's just about what you like and what you are used toand what works for you as a person...for me a PC works, even when it's a tad frustratingIn fact I am getting ready to get a new computer when I move into the new housenot sure which yet, but it's just time for a new one, maybe a blu-ray player as well :-) Now if I was good looking, maybe I could get MS to pony up some money and be featured on one of those, I'm a PC commercials Heath http://heathparks.com/blog1 --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert rup...@... wrote: I can't believe nobody took you up on this. But yeah, I agree. I've had to live with both Windows and Macs for the last 10 years, and Windows has caused me and my clients many, many more headaches than Mac. And that's mostly just XP. For me, there's just no comparison between the nightmare of Vista and Mac OSX. I know three people who have gone Mac in the last few months because they just couldn't cope with Vista any more. Unsurprisingly, they're now calmer and happier. Though I suppose I shouldn't be too hard on Windows - back when I was doing local freelance IT support, the suffering it caused paid my mortgage. On 16-Apr-09, at 6:20 AM, Michael Verdi wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Michael Sullivan sullele...@... wrote: 2+ years experience using a macbookpro everyday... macs are way over-hyped/over-priced. but hey, you'll be hip like that. ;) 9 years of making a living using Apple's pro laptop (15 years going back to my Mac SE) and I have to disagree with that vigorously. All the time and frustration I've saved while just being able to get on with getting things done is not to be discounted. I'm not saying they are perfect - they're not but come on. Not wanting to start a platform war... Verdi -- http://michaelverdi.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Video blogging history/evolution
So cool... I can scan the chapter I wrote in my book if you'd like and email it to you. Jay [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Howard Dean is a video Blogger
Hope this hasn't been posted yet. Haven't been able to keep up with the list recently. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzASZoU2obM peace, Ron
Re: [videoblogging] selling in japan
I've not done any selling in Japan, but I can see why they'd prefer an on island site. There is an entirely different web presence there. It's very hard to navigate from an english perspective, and I'd think the reverse is true. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Feb 23, 2009, at 7:09 PM, liza jean wrote: anybody selling there? we have a few steady customers there. a new one has offered to front for us in japan. believes japanese buyers prefer on-island sites to those sited anywhere in the rest of the world. anybody been there done that and have a tale to tell? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: new Wordpress Video plugin
Adam, I just joined your community and started a blog. I'll write some dog training stuff on there or something. Buddy press is pretty cool. Pretty intimidating for a noobie though. Lots and lots of buttons! RE Video Plugin... I just downloaded and installed a new component for Joomla, JVideo that is pretty amazing. It's lacking some features - rss feeds and downloadable links, but it's a real nice encoding an playing package. It is hosted by a company called infinovision ( http:// infinovision.com ). It allows for uploading, hosting, transcoding and streaming of video and the joomla integration is pretty flawless. I have not monkeyed with it that much, but it sure looks nice. Service is $99 per month, and I'm really considering hopping on it. Anybody know anything about the company? I'll enable uploads to the public if you want to check it out. The site is closed to the public right now, but is largely done. Just holding out on content creators and the next greatest upgrade of a few important components... That's getting old. I'm half tempted to just open it right up right now, and let it happen... lol http://k9athlete.com/community/videoplex-ii - JVideo Upload page http://k9athlete.com/community/watch - JVideo Gallery http://k9athlete.com/community/videoplex - HWDVideoshare is HWDVideoshare, a $20 component for Joomla that allows for ffmpeg and server-side transcoding, as well as external host wrapping... Very nice, a bit clunky, but I think it will do it all. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Feb 18, 2009, at 2:20 PM, Heath wrote: Not for the meek indeed...or the average video blogger either Heath http://heathparks.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Adam Warner awarne...@... wrote: ...very cool, and not for the meek In addition to Web servers for WordPress MU , it requires at least one file server and one dedicated video transcoder. Considerable amount of PHP coding and system administration skills are required to install, customize and deploy this plugin. Speaking of MU and BuddyPress, I've been working with MU for a few years, but I just started a community based on MU and BP. I wonder if I might integrate a video solution someday? You can find it here http://mybodypart.org Adam W. Warner From: Jay dedman jay.ded...@... To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 1:28:17 PM Subject: Re: [videoblogging] new Wordpress Video plugin Just as there's Ning.com as an open version of Facebook, perhaps this might be the open version of Youtube. Ning is cool because it's so easy to create your own social networkbut as far as I can tell, Ning owns the actual site as long as you keep it in existence. With platforms like Wordpress.org, you take on the burden of hosting...but you control everything. Buddypress.org is WP's version of an open source Facebook. Jay -- http://ryanishungry .com http://jaydedman. com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Miro 2.0 - Broadcast Machine
What's up with the Broadcast Machine? Any thoughts? peace, Ron Ron Watson Pawsitive Vybe 11659 Berrigan Ave. Cedar Springs, MI 49319 Personal Contact: 616.863.DOGS 616.443.3984 k9d...@mac.com On the Web: http://pawsitivevybe.com http://k9athlete.com http://k9disc.com http://k9disc.blip.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Micropayments (part 81)
Wow, that could be a game changer, right there. I wonder what they're going to want as a % of sales... Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Feb 12, 2009, at 2:45 PM, Kevin Lim wrote: Since it's related to micropayments, Joi Ito twittered that Youtube is implementing Creative Commons as well as Google Checkout for Youtube partners to sell video downloads! We previously discussed how they would likely not do it, but looks like they just did! http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=Mp1pWVLh3_Y Kevin Lim Cyberculturalist http://theory.isthereason.com This email is: [ ] bloggable [X] ask first [ ] private email locator: ╔╗╔═╦╗ ║╚╣║║╚╗ ╚═╩═╩═╝ On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:06 AM, liza jean dared...@gmail.com wrote: we here at dyna-flix.com, being ever the contrarians, just had our best ever month of sales. most of which comes in $5 individual transactions. we have as yet to have any relations with advertisers. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Brook Hinton bhin...@... wrote: Free is a right is, for better or worse, the mantra of the generation coming up now, and one can't bend reality, only innovate within/around it . best of luck convinvcing all parties concerned to make your life free. this can only be achieved by refusing to validate someone else's expense. anyone who hopes to be comfortable for the next 10 years had best be willing to get their hands dirty in the old fashioned way of making something new. micheal moorecock wrote some lovely books - 'dancers at the end of time'- about what people want after thousands of years of everything being free. you might like it. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Micropayments (part 81)
Very interesting article. Even more interesting discussion that flowed from it. I'm going to get around this by taking the open source route. The project that I'm working on is going to have a TON of free content and free community interaction. I'm going to be giving away foundational and general knowledge - stuff that will help solidify my expertness in the field of dog sports and will serve essentially as marketing for the more specific and advanced knowledge we have to offer and for the services we perform - seminars and larger instructional offerings - DVDs and books. I will be surrounding myself with other professionals who, I hope, I can convince to give away tons of their general and foundational knowledge in order to sell their advanced knowledge and to market the services they perform. The hitch, so far, is convincing professionals to give their stuff away, to essentially join the open source movement. It's been painful so far - not much interest from big heavy hitters. I'm hoping that the economic downturn will change that a bit, getting people to think outside the traditional business box. I am also hoping that the economic downturn does not crash the entire net. Any thoughts? Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Feb 9, 2009, at 5:18 PM, deirdreharvey2002 wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman jay.ded...@... wrote: Following up on our recent conversation about micropayments supporting videobloggers, Clay Shirky just posted another installment of why micropayments wont work. http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/02/why-small-payments-wont-save- publishers/ Thanks Jay for posting this. The crux of it for me is this: What matters at newspapers and magazines isn't publishing, it's reporting. We should be talking about new models for employing reporters rather than resuscitating old models for employing publishers; the longer we waste fantasizing about magic solutions for the latter problem, the less time we have to figure out real solutions to the former one. Reporting is the raw material of these conversations we're having online. If good quality and important stories aren't being fed into the system, you just get a lot of people prattling about inconsequential but diverting rubbish. One of the brilliant things about these new networks is that anyone CAN do the reporting, depending on where they happen to be and how keen their eye is for a story. In theory we could allow all reporting to become an unpaid pursuit done by the interested, the rich, the idle, the nearby, the garrulous, and the lucky/unlucky (depending on the story). But that tends to lend itself to a situation where the stories that get reported are the really big and obvious ones and the ones that PR companies, or pressure groups want in the so- called news agenda Unless there are people out there (let's call them reporters) constantly seeking stories in all the regular places where mundane but extremely important things happen every day, I think we're going end up in a situation where the only new material being pumped into the system is essentially rubbish. Crap in, crap out. We'll all be sitting at our laptops gassing on about the latest social networking fad while everything we take for granted falls apart. Then again, I work in journalism, so I'm not unbiased. dee -- deeharvey.com/thoughtbubbles [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Micropayments (part 81)
Thanks for the response, Jay! The hitch, so far, is convincing professionals to give their stuff away, to essentially join the open source movement. It's been painful so far - not much interest from big heavy hitters. Seems like the bigger challenge is finding professionals who love your specific community (dog training) and are good at making video. If someone is good at making video and doesn't care about your community, nothing in it for them. If they do care about your community, you could start teaching people how to make good video. Content is king, and there are a couple hundred people who are capable of delivering great instructional content. The video part has been a barrier to entry to them, but creating the content is not. Presenting quality information is not a problem for them at all. Getting the video online, and distributing it, is. I think I can make that happen for them, and the idea of teaching them how to make good video is EXCELLENT, thank you. It's going into the plan. I'm hoping that the economic downturn will change that a bit, getting people to think outside the traditional business box. I am also hoping that the economic downturn does not crash the entire net. I said something like this recently to a friend. The open source software movement rocketed into another stratosphere after the tech bubble burst in '99. You had all these out-of-work tech people with nothing to do. So they self-organized and made the stuff they always wanted to make. (this led to the Web 2.0 hype.) The same could happen for web video. Instead of video creators trying to impress the VC's and advertisers as they have been in the past several years, maybe we all just survive as we can...but make the most amazing videos we've always talked about. There's no money to fight over! I tend to agree with this, but if you look at what's happened to the open source movement in the last couple of years, you're starting to see them take off with the same kind of model that I'm proposing, and this is happening during a serious recession. They're giving away the essentials of their product, pulling people into the game, helping them create and manage content, and depending on the passion and success of those using their product to drive sales for more functionality and better services. Of course the scope and scale of the recession has ballooned and is sliding into depression, so that's definitely a problem, heck, it could be the death of the internet. But, absent that gloomy outcome, the model can be socially, creatively and financially rewarding. I've created some decent 'friendships' out of my website development. I get bartered help. I've 'donated' to get particular phrasings of applications that others have modified. I now know a handful of developers by name or screen name, and we're starting to develop an user's community that is both valuable and rewarding. It's not unlike what we have here, really. Look at this list. We all 'know' eachother. I see Bill Cammack all over the web. I interact with some of you on the tubes. I don't think I am a full fledged member of the community though, as I'm really not doing the same things that many people here are, but I feel comfortable enough to seek support from and to offer suggestions to all of you. That's friggin' cool. I do think that the problem with this community is that we've not really taken that step to actually hook up outside of this list and the opensource and online apps that connect us in dueling monologue fashion. We've not created that killer app that allows us to hook up and share our passion in an organic, non-linear, organizational fashion. We're essentially a phone tree, a grapevine, and that's great for trickling out information and getting some kind of cohesion, but we've not taken the step to become an organization. We're like a bakesale instead of a baking co-op. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Image Management Advice Requested from the Group
A friend of mine uses Photostore: http://www.ktools.net/photostore/ He likes it. It's $295, and he's not an overly technical internet guy. I have zero experience with it, so... peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 21, 2009, at 9:16 AM, Adam Warner wrote: First, I apologize that this is a bit off topic for the videoblogging group, but I know that many (if not all) of you are the technical types, and may be able to offer some guidance. I have a client who has a need to host 1000's of product images in various formats, .jpg, .gif, .tiff, .eps...and make those images available for download to ONLY TO distributors, and not the general public. I have been searching for open source scripts that will work, but so far, have been unsuccessful. Ideally, I would be interested in a script that would allow me to host the images on Amazon S3 (simple storage), so the client could manage costs. Open source or paid, either one would be a step in the right direction. Any advice is greatly appreciated and feel free to reply off list. Thanks! Adam W. Warner http://wordpressmodder.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Site Promotion...
Hey guys, Just like to share with you all what we're doing to publicize k9athlete.com and ask for feedback and additional suggestions. It's not rocket science, but I thought it might be of interest to some on this list and thought that some of you might offer some good feedback. We're hitting facebook rather hard right now. --- Created Facebook Page --- Created a page for the site (which for some reason is not being found in searches, but that is another matter. I've posted development screenshots and informative articles from the site on the page and we currently have 61 fans. Not a lot, but not bad either for still being a totally closed development site. --- Created Facebook Application --- We're creating a facebook Application, Dog Sport Team of the Week that will highlight outstanding dog sport performances and allow facebook users to nominate someone for the title. It's our first, crack at this, but we'll be adding more as we get this one done. --- Hosting Weekly Online Radio Show --- I'm hosting a weekly dog sport radio show, K9Athlete Radio on BlogtalkRadio, and we're gearing up for our second show, whch will feature the president of a dock jumping organization and, crossing my fingers, an 82.5 year old woman who just got her MACH title in Agility, a very well regarded agility title, and a stunning performance from an 82 year old woman. --- Open Letter --- I've also written an Open Letter to Dog Sport Professionals that is posted on the front page of the site and will be going out to every dog sport list and site I can get my hands on. This is a letter specifically for dog sport professionals laying out what the site is and how it will work for them, and trying to get by the fears of conflicts of interest. No small task... It's also supposed to be my foot in the door in grabbing a couple more outstanding team members. We will be following up with an Open Letter to the Dog Sport Community for the dog sport community and An Open Letter to Dog Sport Retailers. Each will be posted on lists, the site and direct email. --- Online Video - need suggestions --- I will be doing some online video to publicize the site soon, but it's still a bit too early, and I'm not a big fan of myself in the traditional videoblogging role. Suggestions here would be great! I'm thinking of some pro footage, which I have access to, but not sure how to structure it. That's pretty much it. Thoughts and comments would be appreciated. If this is deemed not germane to the list, I'll be happy to take it off list. I just thought this would be of interest to some here. peace, Ron Watson http://k9athlete.com http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://pawsitivevybe.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Yes We Can
That's awesome! The new site is really nice too. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 20, 2009, at 7:45 PM, Rupert wrote: It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation --- from: http://www.kottke.org/09/01/the-countrys-new-robotstxt-file The country's new robots.txt file Here's a small and nerdy measure of the huge change in the executive branch of the US government today. Here's the robots.txt file from whitehouse.gov yesterday: User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin Disallow: /search Disallow: /query.html Disallow: /omb/search Disallow: /omb/query.html Disallow: /expectmore/search Disallow: /expectmore/query.html Disallow: /results/search Disallow: /results/query.html Disallow: /earmarks/search Disallow: /earmarks/query.html Disallow: /help Disallow: /360pics/text Disallow: /911/911day/text Disallow: /911/heroes/text And it goes on like that for almost 2400 lines! Here's the new Obamafied robots.txt file: User-agent: * Disallow: /includes/ That's it! BTW, the robots.txt file tells search engines what to include and not include in their indexes. (thx, ian) By Jason Kottke Jan 20, 2009 at 02:29 pm 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: Joomla Video Hosting and Social Network
That's a nice looking app! Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 12, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Adam Warner wrote: robust community building plugin for Wordpress ...not quite mature, but you should check out http://buddypress.org/. This is designed to work with WordPress MU (multi-user). Adam W. Warner http://indielab.org http://wordpressmodder.org From: Renat Zarbailov innom...@gmail.com To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 11:52:32 AM Subject: [videoblogging] Re: Joomla Video Hosting and Social Network Hey Ron, I have been running Joomla for Innomind.org site since 2005-2006 or so and have not yet upgraded to 1.5. Let me tell you about Joomla and video; This is the worst CMS when it comes to video. The only embeddable player that works perfectly with Joomla is Brightcove's (brightcove. com). They just switched to v3. When embedding Blip, Youtube or any other video hosting sites videos always gave me issues and I had to come up with workarounds to have blip player play smoothly. If you want to stay with Joomla for community building reasons, I suggest to use Brighcove. Its embeddable player/video lineup interface usability and looks beats any other out of the water, including Blip's. Too bad they discontinued the free acounts starting Dec. 17. However, you mentioned that you want to implement pay/download/ view, I know that Brightcove has that feature to offer. There's another player in the field of online video hosting, it's called Ooyala, but I haven't played around with embedding it using Joomla. If there's a robust community building plugin for Wordpress, definitely go with Wordpress then. I, to the tell you the truth, have been disappointed with the way Joomla handles video, with or without addition video-enabling plugins. Good luck! Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org --- In videoblogging@ yahoogroups. com, Ron Watson k9d...@... wrote: The dreamhost post and an email I received at the same time, reminded me of this thread about Joomla as a video host. I also just happen to be cutting screenshots for a powerpoint presentation. So... Back to the early days of December myfirstmemory was asking about video uploading to joomla. One of the things I mentioned was HWDvideoshare ( http:// hwdmediashare. co.uk/ ) . One of the responses was that it was too ugly to use. Here's how it wound up looking for me: http://k9athlete. com/images/ stories/devscree nshots/videoplex .jpg I changed the site back to blue, so I'll have to skin it again, but it's real nice looking, I think. It also does JW player, to whatever specs are available on the player at present. Perl uploader, mencoder, ffmpeg... it's a pretty nice solution. I'm still on a shared server, so I've not been able to get it all up and running... It should handle user generated submissions for myfirstmemory and will be handling them for my site. I know it's a little late, a month later and all, but my memory was jogged and it was sitting right in front of me. I think it's worth taking another look at. Peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc. blip.tv http://k9disc. com http://discdogradio .com http://pawsitivevyb e.com On Dec 8, 2008, at 3:55 PM, myfirstmemorydotorg wrote: Hey there, so you are using JomSocial. Did you also try Community Builder and if so, any feedback? Have you considered having people contribute video, and if so, how? Cheers, MyFirstMemory. org --- In videoblogging@ yahoogroups. com, Ron Watson k9disc@ wrote: Joomla as Video Portal --- Here's something that I don't know if any of you know about. http://hwdmediashar e.co.uk From the website: hwdVideoShare is a powerful video gallery for Joomla that allows you to display video media in an organised and managable layout on the Internet. hwdVideoShare can handle the uploading, server-side processing and playback of large video media in all popular formats. I'm looking at this for the 'large project' I've been talking about for the last year or so, but it's an alpha release right now, and the current styling is not very good. The developer seems to be the bomb, though, he's making it happen real quick and has a great reputation for delivering outstanding support very quickly. From what I can see, that's an understatement. I'm not sure which direction I'm going to go, but this is a possibility. There is also a real nice video tool for joomla, called All Videos Reloaded: http://allvideos. fritz-elfert. de/ Very cool stuff. Joomla is becoming much more robust, and is really starting to embrace media
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Joomla Video Hosting and Social Network
Hey Renat,
I've been running Joomla since 2004.
Video was not so friendly in 1.0, but it's gotten much better.
I was an early adopter with 1.5 and it was a great move.
I've been streaming all kinds of players for some time now and have
little issue these days.
I think one of the important aspects of joomla development is not
using the standard joomla content component for much of anything.
I tend to use modules and other components to generate and display my
content, and my sites don't really look like Joomla sites because of it.
They don't function like them either.
Of course the addition of ndeditor switch (turns on and off WYSIWYG
editor in admin on the fly), and now the JCE editor have made my life
a little bit easier in terms of video and image display.
There is also a really promising social network component called
JomSocial ( http://jomsocial.com ) that just rocks!
I'd love to use brightcove, but they really pissed me off back in the
day - they got me excited then totally gave me the brushoff when they
made their move ('06/'07) and it left a bad taste in my mouth.
Although I do agree, their player and quality is real nice, and the
pay to play aspect is good as well, I'm not sure if I'm a big enough
fish to get their attention or to pay the hefty fees for their services.
I'll check them out again, though. It's been a long time.
Ooyala... must take a look at that.
Thanks a bunch, Renat. I appreciate your thoughts.
Let me know if you want to take a peek at k9athlete.com. I'll give
you some temp login creds so you can check it out if you'd like.
peace,
Ron Watson
http://k9athlete.com
http://k9disc.blip.tv
http://k9disc.com
http://discdogradio.com
http://pawsitivevybe.com
On Jan 12, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Renat Zarbailov wrote:
Hey Ron,
I have been running Joomla for Innomind.org site since 2005-2006 or so
and have not yet upgraded to 1.5. Let me tell you about Joomla and
video; This is the worst CMS when it comes to video. The only
embeddable player that works perfectly with Joomla is Brightcove's
(brightcove.com). They just switched to v3. When embedding Blip,
Youtube or any other video hosting sites videos always gave me issues
and I had to come up with workarounds to have blip player play
smoothly. If you want to stay with Joomla for community building
reasons, I suggest to use Brighcove. Its embeddable player/video
lineup interface usability and looks beats any other out of the water,
including Blip's. Too bad they discontinued the free acounts starting
Dec. 17. However, you mentioned that you want to implement
pay/download/view, I know that Brightcove has that feature to offer.
There's another player in the field of online video hosting, it's
called Ooyala, but I haven't played around with embedding it using
Joomla.
If there's a robust community building plugin for Wordpress,
definitely go with Wordpress then. I, to the tell you the truth, have
been disappointed with the way Joomla handles video, with or without
addition video-enabling plugins.
Good luck!
Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson k9d...@... wrote:
The dreamhost post and an email I received at the same time,
reminded
me of this thread about Joomla as a video host. I also just
happen to
be cutting screenshots for a powerpoint presentation.
So...
Back to the early days of December myfirstmemory was asking about
video uploading to joomla.
One of the things I mentioned was HWDvideoshare ( http://
hwdmediashare.co.uk/ ) .
One of the responses was that it was too ugly to use.
Here's how it wound up looking for me:
http://k9athlete.com/images/stories/devscreenshots/videoplex.jpg
I changed the site back to blue, so I'll have to skin it again, but
it's real nice looking, I think.
It also does JW player, to whatever specs are available on the
player
at present.
Perl uploader, mencoder, ffmpeg... it's a pretty nice solution.
I'm still on a shared server, so I've not been able to get it all up
and running...
It should handle user generated submissions for myfirstmemory and
will be handling them for my site.
I know it's a little late, a month later and all, but my memory was
jogged and it was sitting right in front of me.
I think it's worth taking another look at.
Peace,
Ron Watson
http://k9disc.blip.tv
http://k9disc.com
http://discdogradio.com
http://pawsitivevybe.com
On Dec 8, 2008, at 3:55 PM, myfirstmemorydotorg wrote:
Hey there,
so you are using JomSocial.
Did you also try Community Builder and if so, any feedback?
Have you considered having people contribute video, and if so,
how?
Cheers,
MyFirstMemory.org
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson k9disc@ wrote:
Joomla as Video Portal
---
Here's something that I don't know if any of you know about.
http
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Pay to Play Ad:
Thought about the trademark when I was making it. But it's a comparison thing. Social commentary and all. I thought about making it generic, but I didn't really think it was that big a deal. I also downloaded the picture from the internet. It's probably copyright infringement to boot. Perhaps I'll pull it before I go live because I'm afraid of the consequences of my illegal actions. It's happened before. In fact, I think I will. I believe the righteous rant I was writing that I probably won't post, and your comments may have cured me of my Coca Cola addiction and I might even quit smoking as well. No more Reeses either! I don't think I want to give them any more money. Thanks, Steve. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 12, 2009, at 1:52 PM, Steve Watkins wrote: You should not really be using images of products that have another entities trademark on them in adverts. Demonstrating how cheap your stuff is compared to other everyday costs that people might not think about, is a method Ive seen used in adertising before, I guess it works, but I suppose its not always appropriate. Only time will tell - please let us know how the 'bite size' experiment works out. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson k9d...@... wrote: Thanks, Schlomo... We train cats too. LaVerne, our cat does some real cool stuff. And Chickens as well. Chickens are much cooler than you'd think and fresh eggs ROCK!!! Here's what I decided on for the ad: http://k9athlete.com/images/ stories/onlinejam3.jpg (thanks kath...) I do appreciate the feedback, all of it. Very valuable. And if I sounded frustrated, I am. I'm really in over my head on this project. Trying to tie up all the loose ends is driving me crazy. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 11, 2009, at 11:56 PM, schlomo rabinowitz wrote: Like I said, I understand your message (and dont think its a bad one at all), just the coke bottles didnt work for me. There is definitely money in online education/instruction. For video, it will be even more so. It's a good niche to get into. I'm just a cat person is all! Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking AIM:schlomochat On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Ron Watson k9d...@... wrote: what about something really obvious for people - text like 'your spare change Vs my training video' I didn't know what the coke bottles or other image were for. maybe u need to check with the dog list who are your audience? do some market research with them as they might make the links better? Thanks Kath, appreciate it. Better idea. Perhaps Abe Lincoln, or a five spot... I know you guys don't care about dog sports, that's cool and I understand that, but this is not only about dog sports though. This is about monetizing instructional video - any instructional video. Anyway, thanks for shooting it down so quickly and deftly and for the positive commentary about improving it. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 11, 2009, at 9:19 PM, Kath O'Donnell wrote: 2009/1/12 Ron Watson k9d...@... k9disc%40mac.com: People will spend $5 at the gas station on a candy bar, bottle of coke and bag of chips, and they'll do it over and over - never think twice about it. But to download professional instruction, to get training techniques mainlined to them, $5 is prohibitively expensive? Doesn't make sense to me. I want to draw attention to that comparison very quickly and simply - visually. So what do I use for the comparison? Or is that entire concept bunk? peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 11, 2009, at 9:04 PM, Brook Hinton wrote: Yeah the coke bottles are completely confusing. ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Profit sharing for film crews
I've got to move my contact us from the homepage menus. You're not the first to miss them. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 11, 2009, at 9:15 AM, liza jean wrote: thanks for the address, jay. guess what - we are both in southwest michigan! --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, liza jean dared...@... wrote: your email address is not available and your websites don't have a contact page - unless i have to have an account with you . . . --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson k9disc@ wrote: Liza Jean, I guess the profit sharing could work both ways. As a production company, you are killing yourself with the presentation of your site. It just doesn't look serious. (just being frank here...). I think I could help you with the presentation of dyna-flix.com. There is no reason for your site to not look incredible. You've got all that scantily clad talent, and it's just sitting there in the middle of a white page. If you had a better layout and design, and asked people to cruise around and check things out I bet you'd be doing much better. Please take a look in my signature for examples of my work. If you are interested, give me a shout privately. That goes for anyone else too. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.com http://pawsitivevybe.com http://rescuedogstv.com http://k9athlete.com On Jan 9, 2009, at 11:14 AM, liza jean wrote: there are two of us at dyna-flix.com and after a year and a half of hard work and 50 fifteen minute chapters on the market as $5 downloads or 3 on a DVD for $20 we were up to $100 a day in sales. average. down a little with all the fear out there about money. most pay sites in our niche sell subscriptions. we prefer individual sales with active feedback from our customers thru a guestbook and a yahoo group. we tend to get our money back for each chapter in the first 48 hours we have it on the market. so we own our library free and clear. but we don't own much else but a pole barn. we currently run advert free on blip as our 150 or so clips there are nothing more than commercials for our work - getting some 1200 views a day. but once we finish the toned down (ever so slightly) set of 6 shows for australian broadcast we might park them on blip and troll for a sponsor. we had invited a third artist into this project. he helped us get up and running but dropped out. we'd take him back in a heartbeat, but he can't wait for the money like we can. mind you during this year and a half we have been deleted from youtube some dozen times in spite of millions of channel views with no complaints. seems it might be industrial sabotage of some sort - one is likely to find hot competion in a well funded niche. this year i hope to add ringtones and wallpapers to our product line, see about getting into the i-tunes store, and sacrifice 40% of the sale price to sell some more of our commercials on clips4sale. we are maybe getting close 1000 true fans level where we will venture into the exciting world of profit. the above is offered in hopes it will help someone else believe in themselves enough to try. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson k9disc@ wrote: I don't care about people doing this for me, it's not about dog sports. It's not about me. My stuff was only an example. This is about the concept of profit sharing with producers and supplementing income of video producers and giving much needed help to community developers. It's the idea that I'm pushing, I don't want to push anybody into doing anything for me, but I do think this idea has merit and am a bit confused about the lack of interest on the list here. I hate this kind of communication, email lists, it's so easy to get a mixed message. I do like the latter part of your post, Jay, and think you are on it. I don't think Rosenbaum's piece was very groundbreaking either, other than the fact that it was in print (large blog) and it reinforced what I've believed and have been in the process of doing for a couple years now. And it did so with a little bit of anecdotal evidence and experience. I'm not used to seeing my thoughts and ideas in media until several years after they develop. You are right about the passionate hobbyist supporting their community, but I think it goes further than that. I think we're all about to realize just how important community is. We've been having our eyes opened it here Michigan for a few years now and as the economy
[videoblogging] Pay to Play Ad:
Hi guys, I've created a very simple ad for pay to play video on my site and I'd like to get some feedback from you all. http://k9athlete.com/images/stories/onlinejam.jpg Just your kneejerk reaction. Go with your gut. What does it make you feel/think? Could it be effective? peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Pay to Play Ad:
I was afraid of that... I'm trying to avoid putting a monetary value on the ad. Online instruction is $5 per topic. Try this... http://k9athlete.com/images/stories/onlinejam2.jpg Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 11, 2009, at 8:55 PM, Brook Hinton wrote: Honestly, I am totally baffled. I'm not sure what its saying. It looks two completely random images and a topic heading. What are you trying to say with it? ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Pay to Play Ad:
People will spend $5 at the gas station on a candy bar, bottle of coke and bag of chips, and they'll do it over and over - never think twice about it. But to download professional instruction, to get training techniques mainlined to them, $5 is prohibitively expensive? Doesn't make sense to me. I want to draw attention to that comparison very quickly and simply - visually. So what do I use for the comparison? Or is that entire concept bunk? peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 11, 2009, at 9:04 PM, Brook Hinton wrote: Yeah the coke bottles are completely confusing. ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Really Great Article on Media Trends and the Curation Economy
on your site you have a little button that takes folks to another site where they buy credits - $ 5.00 or $ 10.00 at a time. Then they come back to your site, and click on a video that they want to watch, that costs 2 cents. Most non-geek/tech/online-most-of-the-time folks will give up if they have to go to another site then come back or deal with something like credits. To break through this sort of thing needs an interface that works for people who don't spend lots of time online and don't understand navigation beyond the back button and their bookmarks. I think breakthrough curation sites will use minimalist, simple designs and interfaces that can be mastered without thought by total novices. Your grandma who has only used the internet for yahoo mail has to not need to call anyone for help or look anything up, and feel totally confident that everything involving money is completely, utterly secure. I appreciate the comments, Brook. Actually, the link takes them directly to the shop where the videos reside, right to the particular category, which is also linked in a menu item. Same exact menu items for each dog sport discipline. The videos are aptly titled Japanese Dog Catch - which is a wicked disc dog move that most people think is impossible, and most people would love to learn. I teach it in 5 minutes to just about anyone and it's as simple as pie. Front Cross Foundation - an elementary move in Agility, but a million ways to teach it and to improve it, shaving seconds off a team's time. Hitting the End of the Dock - something that all dock jumping dogs need to do. Many take off 2 feet from the end of the dock. Seeing as how inches count in dock diving, adding 2 feet to a jump is HUGE. And it's actual money, not credits, although I've toyed around with that. Trying to make it as simple as possible, but it's not a simple site. It's friggin' HUGE. Perhaps it's too big, I don't know. This is not personal video either, and it's worth more than 2 cents. Do you know what it costs to take a seminar with us? With the other trainers that will be offering video instruction? It's not cheap, and most people come in wanting one or 2 skills. People drive hundreds of miles to our seminars. People drive a thousand miles to come train here at our place. I run into this 'hobbyist' thing and underestimated value all the time, and it's frustrating. Clean Run, an agility Magazine, does $8million in revenue. That's one sport. People pay $400 for a couple days of seminar work in Agility. The economy has tanked, people can't afford that anymore. That's where we step in. Sorry to hit the list with this stuff, but you guys are really the best resource I have for what I'm trying to do, and if I can dial this in it might be a nice model for others. I know it's not quite a 'videoblogging' topic, but it sure does dance around the edges of topicality. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 11, 2009, at 9:03 PM, Brook Hinton wrote: on your site you have a little button that takes folks to another site where they buy credits - $ 5.00 or $ 10.00 at a time. Then they come back to your site, and click on a video that they want to watch, that costs 2 cents. Most non-geek/tech/online-most-of-the-time folks will give up if they have to go to another site then come back or deal with something like credits. To break through this sort of thing needs an interface that works for people who don't spend lots of time online and don't understand navigation beyond the back button and their bookmarks. I think breakthrough curation sites will use minimalist, simple designs and interfaces that can be mastered without thought by total novices. Your grandma who has only used the internet for yahoo mail has to not need to call anyone for help or look anything up, and feel totally confident that everything involving money is completely, utterly secure. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Pay to Play Ad:
what about something really obvious for people - text like 'your spare change Vs my training video' I didn't know what the coke bottles or other image were for. maybe u need to check with the dog list who are your audience? do some market research with them as they might make the links better? Thanks Kath, appreciate it. Better idea. Perhaps Abe Lincoln, or a five spot... I know you guys don't care about dog sports, that's cool and I understand that, but this is not only about dog sports though. This is about monetizing instructional video - any instructional video. Anyway, thanks for shooting it down so quickly and deftly and for the positive commentary about improving it. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 11, 2009, at 9:19 PM, Kath O'Donnell wrote: 2009/1/12 Ron Watson k9d...@mac.com: People will spend $5 at the gas station on a candy bar, bottle of coke and bag of chips, and they'll do it over and over - never think twice about it. But to download professional instruction, to get training techniques mainlined to them, $5 is prohibitively expensive? Doesn't make sense to me. I want to draw attention to that comparison very quickly and simply - visually. So what do I use for the comparison? Or is that entire concept bunk? peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 11, 2009, at 9:04 PM, Brook Hinton wrote: Yeah the coke bottles are completely confusing. ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Joomla Video Hosting and Social Network
The dreamhost post and an email I received at the same time, reminded me of this thread about Joomla as a video host. I also just happen to be cutting screenshots for a powerpoint presentation. So... Back to the early days of December myfirstmemory was asking about video uploading to joomla. One of the things I mentioned was HWDvideoshare ( http:// hwdmediashare.co.uk/ ) . One of the responses was that it was too ugly to use. Here's how it wound up looking for me: http://k9athlete.com/images/stories/devscreenshots/videoplex.jpg I changed the site back to blue, so I'll have to skin it again, but it's real nice looking, I think. It also does JW player, to whatever specs are available on the player at present. Perl uploader, mencoder, ffmpeg... it's a pretty nice solution. I'm still on a shared server, so I've not been able to get it all up and running... It should handle user generated submissions for myfirstmemory and will be handling them for my site. I know it's a little late, a month later and all, but my memory was jogged and it was sitting right in front of me. I think it's worth taking another look at. Peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Dec 8, 2008, at 3:55 PM, myfirstmemorydotorg wrote: Hey there, so you are using JomSocial. Did you also try Community Builder and if so, any feedback? Have you considered having people contribute video, and if so, how? Cheers, MyFirstMemory.org --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson k9d...@... wrote: Joomla as Video Portal --- Here's something that I don't know if any of you know about. http://hwdmediashare.co.uk From the website: hwdVideoShare is a powerful video gallery for Joomla that allows you to display video media in an organised and managable layout on the Internet. hwdVideoShare can handle the uploading, server-side processing and playback of large video media in all popular formats. I'm looking at this for the 'large project' I've been talking about for the last year or so, but it's an alpha release right now, and the current styling is not very good. The developer seems to be the bomb, though, he's making it happen real quick and has a great reputation for delivering outstanding support very quickly. From what I can see, that's an understatement. I'm not sure which direction I'm going to go, but this is a possibility. There is also a real nice video tool for joomla, called All Videos Reloaded: http://allvideos.fritz-elfert.de/ Very cool stuff. Joomla is becoming much more robust, and is really starting to embrace media and social networking. Check out my old standard: http://k9disc.com . If you goto Main MenuConnectDisc Dog Cantina to see a brand spankin' new Social Networking component, JomSocial, in action. I think it looks pretty slick and has been well received by the disc dog community. I'm not real happy with the organizational structure, but I'm about ready to wrap it into that 'large project'. More on the 'large project' --- I'm in the process of creating a dog sport community, not unlike k9disc.com - but BIGGER - that will feature pay to play instructional video, a facebook-esque social network, affiliate vendor support, and online magazine. If anyone is interested in discussing Joomla as a media/social network platform, I'd be happy to engage in that conversation. I've been buried in the application for a few months now, and have a lot of information to share. I think Joomla has been overlooked and is under-appreciated application by this community, and would really like to see a little focus put on it by some of you serious video geeks. I sure could use someone to bounce ideas off of. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Profit sharing for film crews
Liza Jean, I guess the profit sharing could work both ways. As a production company, you are killing yourself with the presentation of your site. It just doesn't look serious. (just being frank here...). I think I could help you with the presentation of dyna-flix.com. There is no reason for your site to not look incredible. You've got all that scantily clad talent, and it's just sitting there in the middle of a white page. If you had a better layout and design, and asked people to cruise around and check things out I bet you'd be doing much better. Please take a look in my signature for examples of my work. If you are interested, give me a shout privately. That goes for anyone else too. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.com http://pawsitivevybe.com http://rescuedogstv.com http://k9athlete.com On Jan 9, 2009, at 11:14 AM, liza jean wrote: there are two of us at dyna-flix.com and after a year and a half of hard work and 50 fifteen minute chapters on the market as $5 downloads or 3 on a DVD for $20 we were up to $100 a day in sales. average. down a little with all the fear out there about money. most pay sites in our niche sell subscriptions. we prefer individual sales with active feedback from our customers thru a guestbook and a yahoo group. we tend to get our money back for each chapter in the first 48 hours we have it on the market. so we own our library free and clear. but we don't own much else but a pole barn. we currently run advert free on blip as our 150 or so clips there are nothing more than commercials for our work - getting some 1200 views a day. but once we finish the toned down (ever so slightly) set of 6 shows for australian broadcast we might park them on blip and troll for a sponsor. we had invited a third artist into this project. he helped us get up and running but dropped out. we'd take him back in a heartbeat, but he can't wait for the money like we can. mind you during this year and a half we have been deleted from youtube some dozen times in spite of millions of channel views with no complaints. seems it might be industrial sabotage of some sort - one is likely to find hot competion in a well funded niche. this year i hope to add ringtones and wallpapers to our product line, see about getting into the i-tunes store, and sacrifice 40% of the sale price to sell some more of our commercials on clips4sale. we are maybe getting close 1000 true fans level where we will venture into the exciting world of profit. the above is offered in hopes it will help someone else believe in themselves enough to try. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson k9d...@... wrote: I don't care about people doing this for me, it's not about dog sports. It's not about me. My stuff was only an example. This is about the concept of profit sharing with producers and supplementing income of video producers and giving much needed help to community developers. It's the idea that I'm pushing, I don't want to push anybody into doing anything for me, but I do think this idea has merit and am a bit confused about the lack of interest on the list here. I hate this kind of communication, email lists, it's so easy to get a mixed message. I do like the latter part of your post, Jay, and think you are on it. I don't think Rosenbaum's piece was very groundbreaking either, other than the fact that it was in print (large blog) and it reinforced what I've believed and have been in the process of doing for a couple years now. And it did so with a little bit of anecdotal evidence and experience. I'm not used to seeing my thoughts and ideas in media until several years after they develop. You are right about the passionate hobbyist supporting their community, but I think it goes further than that. I think we're all about to realize just how important community is. We've been having our eyes opened it here Michigan for a few years now and as the economy takes it's final spins around the toilet bowl we're all going to get a look at how worthless our lives as consumers feeding an economy have become and how damaging it was to our society. We're all going to want to belong to and we're all going to *need* to belong to something in the near future. I think that profit sharing for niche content is a viable method for keeping a cottage studio afloat and for getting great content for niche communities. Creating daylight between spectator quality video and decent production has to happen in order to get the concept of pay to play video working. Getting past the flash in the pan YT viral score / instant celebrity thing has to happen as well. Thanks for the thoughts Jay. Enlightening as always. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 7, 2009, at 10:00 AM, Jay dedman
Re: [videoblogging] Fig Rig
It's actually a good link, but a crappy messaging system. Yahoo lists totally suck for formatting. http://blip.tv/file/653663 Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 8, 2009, at 4:27 AM, RANDY MANN wrote: bad link? On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Ron Watson k9d...@mac.com wrote: My new fig rig is v2.0, and is simply a 20 aluminum rim from a bicycle with the spokes cut out, and the valve stem whole bored out just enough to fit a bolt that attaches to the bottom of my manfrotto pistol grip head. It's real nice as the head articulates allowing me to put the unit on the ground and get a quick and dirty tripod function out of it. It's real sturdy and super light compared to my steel monster that was featured in my homemade fig rig video here: http://blip.tv/file/ 653663 . I really need a lanc controller though, and tried to mount my remote control to the frame, but it didn't work. I've got a little jiggle in the mounting mechanism, as the manfrotto head is really tall and it sways a bit. I'm going to try to tack it down a little better, but it's real nice if your being careful. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 7, 2009, at 10:13 PM, rambos_locker wrote: Yup you're right, crazy and passionate. That Fig rig is up to version No 11, I just enclosed the Cam fully in a water proof casing and it mounts with a quick connect tripod mount to the rig. I'll post pics later today of the complete version. The details of how i built the Fig Rig are on the HV20 forum http://www.hv20.com/showthread.php?t=20113 Contact you off list further about your project Cheers Rambo http://rambos-locker.blogspot.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging% 40yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson k9d...@... wrote: Steve, Great post! I've been thinking about this a lot, and I agree with your assessment that different groups will have different cost structures and will be watered down to what the market will bear. In terms of Frisbee dogs, a highly complex activity with only a few people qualified or capable of delivering instruction that is worthwhile, I think we're all set in terms of pricing. I'm not selling fish, I selling a fishing manuals. Flyball on the other hand is a much more simple sport in terms of behavior - run jump over some hurdles and get the ball on your box turn, jump some more hurdles and do it quickly. Not much serious instruction opportunities there. A friend of mine produced an instructional DVD for flyball with the world's best team, and the 20 minute piece retails for $30. It's good stuff, but can it be broken down into bite sized chunks? Not sure. They'll hang out for the community interaction. Agility is another highly complex sport and instruction is very expensive. It's a great fit. Dock diving? Not much serious training there. This is just to show that there are different possibilities with different topics. The specific idea I mentioned to start this thread, the jamming videos, could not retail for more than a buck or 2, but at a buck or 2 with the right players, they'd sell like hotcakes - a couple hundred should be easy, not bad for a 2-4 minute video with limited editing. While this is kind of selling the fish, and not the manual, it is also selling the manual as the disc dog world goes round by stealing tricks. This could not happen with all dog sports, and could not happen with all kinds of activities. The people we are bringing in for instructional video are not just some people. We have, perhaps, the best discdog instruction in the world (not like we have many competitors) - it's certainly world class. I'm pretty sure we can get the price I'm talking about for instructional pieces, at least in agility and Frisbee. The other stuff not so sure. I'm betting on some good crossover numbers (agility trainers looking at frisbee after good healthy exposure) and solid hardgoods sales from the various small business vendors that service the community. Rambo, I think you and I are in the same place on this. The passion that paddlers have is very close to dog sport people's passion - we're just friggin' crazy about it. I don't think many people realize how disconnected many of these communities are from 'reality'. Who spends thousands of dollars to Fiji (and pays to ship a boat!) to beat themselves up in the water for some Kukui nut lei or something. It's crazy. Who has 30 leashes and collars
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Profit sharing for film crews
most of my passions don't make any money (wrt video) but I'm ok with that and they're not related to your project in any case Neither do mine, but they are all related, if your passion is video. There are stories to be told about all kinds of things - dog sports, outrigger racing, geocaching, brewing beer, I've touched on a couple of things that some people here have interest in. What if I were in Fiji during a large outrigger event and decided to shoot it? If rambo were aware of it and selling pay to play short videos for say, $2, then I could have a 50/50 split with him. A dollar a video. Video gets 200 hits, I make a hundred bucks - do this with rambo, a dog sport site, a brewmeister, a winery, a gaming community, or some other well developed community interest that is doing pay to play, and you've made yourself a thousand dollars for 20 minutes of video on ten outings. There's no reason this could not be done with ad revenue either. I should be able to do well with ads placed on free video and our live radio (online) and audio podcasts. I don't think it's a bad deal, and it's residual. It keeps coming in if the community has staying power. Of course it's not there yet, nobody's doing pay to play, but we will be, and we'll be doing it faster and better if people like those on this list are involved. And let's be serious, it's not like there's anything coming down the pike from Coca Cola or GM for advertising on independent media. The future of independent media is to hook up with cottage media entities and independent mom pop operations and fill their needs for content and advertising. I don't want to beat a dead horse, though, and I can see that there's little interest on the list in entertaining the concept of making money through profit sharing with community developers and small businesses. It's a bummer though. It could be the big thing that makes producing independent video profitable, or at least not a total money pit. It also could put different kinds of creative people in the same room and on the same page fostering who knows what kind of exciting possibilities. I appreciate your responses, Kath. Good luck in all you do. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 7, 2009, at 12:29 AM, Kath O'Donnell wrote: 2009/1/7 Ron Watson k9d...@mac.com: Well, have you found something that is your passion that is for sale? most of my passions don't make any money (wrt video) but I'm ok with that and they're not related to your project in any case maybe ask people on the dog lists - the true fans in your area as u mentioned? or if they don't make videos - have some training workshops and teach them first. Brook had some great advice. the idea would work. I know an ex-colleague did this in late 90s-current with AFL football videos on a website is making a great living out of it - granted he was a tv sports cameraman and knew all the teams players and advertisers could partner with the tv broadcaster too + go on o/s tours etc and do exclusive interviews etc for a subscription site that many people subscribe to. (I'm not a fan myself so don't pay for his videos). at the time he just hooked up with a web person to build the site. another of the station's weekly shows (produced externally but aligned with the station) did a similar site for weather, surfing fishing reports (video/text) special reports (as he's a leader in this field in his region - he's a known personality for past 30years or so on tv) in late 90s too is still going. best of luck with it. I'm sure you'll do well. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Profit sharing for film crews
There are tremendous opportunities with this kind of stuff, Rambo. I'm already capturing video of events for Surf ski, outrigger paddling and stand up paddling and supplying footage or finished media to other web sites, but it's kind of specialized and I have participated in these events for over 20 years. If I had to video a dog show, I would not have a clue on what to do, so I don't see how a community effort would be advantageous. Well, there is a lot more overlap than you'd think in shooting flying dogs and shredding surfers. Simple things like not zooming constantly, white balancing choosing the best place to set up so the crowd is visible. So, I do think there would be some possibilities there, but it might not be for you. You've got a schtick, a niche market. I'd actually see you more as the community curator, farming out the work to wet video people on the coasts, as opposed to shooting dog stuff for me. I'd be more likely to shoot a paddling session on Lake Michigan for you, and if you had a good track record of selling vids online, I'd probably do it - I like paddling (lived on Oahu for a few years - kind of majored in surfing and scuba), and it wouldn't be that much of a big deal to go shoot some nice stuff then cut it and upload it to your site. Then you cut checks to me as the videos fly out of the server. It would be a nice supplement to my personal economy. All it would really take are the technical skills to get the job done - good in low light? Shoot some band stuff at local bars to supplement your wedding videography business. Good at shooting high action sport? Shoot some dog video for my site. Good at getting telling story? Shoot it all! I'm with you Rambo. I think pay to play could be big in 2009. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 7, 2009, at 4:51 AM, Rambos Locker wrote: It definitely something I'm looking at Ron. There were 700 mostly international paddlers competing at that event in the Cook Islands over 10 days and all of them are potential customers as they want to see themselves competing and relive the fun they had at the event. The organizers employed me to shoot video from a jet ski and land to play back at the presentations and pubs on a big projection screen each nite to attract the paddlers to the sponsors venue, the Trader Jacks Bar and Restaurant. The footage was raw straight from the camera so it just played clip after clip and was actually pretty good. Then from all that footage I have to compile a DVD. But putting it online and charging per download would be cheaper for everyone. Sure there is still the problem of people sharing downloads, but they do the same with DVD's anyway. But if it was say $2 per download, I doubt many people would bother copying and sharing it. It also gives the sponsors more exposure by having subtle ads within the video, which could also be another income stream. I'm already capturing video of events for Surf ski, outrigger paddling and stand up paddling and supplying footage or finished media to other web sites, but it's kind of specialized and I have participated in these events for over 20 years. If I had to video a dog show, I would not have a clue on what to do, so I don't see how a community effort would be advantageous. But I'm all ears. Cheers Rambo Cheers Rambo http://rambos-locker.blogspot.com -Original Message- From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:videoblogg...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ron Watson Sent: Wednesday, 7 January 2009 7:12 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: Profit sharing for film crews most of my passions don't make any money (wrt video) but I'm ok with that and they're not related to your project in any case Neither do mine, but they are all related, if your passion is video. There are stories to be told about all kinds of things - dog sports, outrigger racing, geocaching, brewing beer, I've touched on a couple of things that some people here have interest in. What if I were in Fiji during a large outrigger event and decided to shoot it? If rambo were aware of it and selling pay to play short videos for say, $2, then I could have a 50/50 split with him. A dollar a video. Video gets 200 hits, I make a hundred bucks - do this with rambo, a dog sport site, a brewmeister, a winery, a gaming community, or some other well developed community interest that is doing pay to play, and you've made yourself a thousand dollars for 20 minutes of video on ten outings. There's no reason this could not be done with ad revenue either. I should be able to do well with ads placed on free video and our live radio (online) and audio podcasts. I don't think it's a bad deal, and it's residual. It keeps coming in if the community has staying power. Of course it's
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Profit sharing for film crews
yes. Most definitely. Profits split down the middle. That's a great angle, Jan, having a family member trip your awareness about the stories sitting around you, but it's doesn't just have to be those angles. I could see conferences and expositions being good content for this kind of gig. Parkour, skating, surfing, inline, would probably rock in terms of jamming video. My project, is really focused on training, but the other day I thought of jams and jam sessions, and thought a profit sharing set up might be a good gig for all. Then I read Rosenbaum's article, and thought that the profit share could be a good catalyst for rapid development of independent media. Combine that with local and well placed niche ads, and I think it's a winner for everybody: producer, content creator, vendors and interested viewers. Let me know if you are interested in following up on the project, and if your dad's game, it might be nice to have him on our radio show when we do a herding segment sometime. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 7, 2009, at 9:04 AM, Jan McLaughlin wrote: 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 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Profit sharing for film crews
I don't care about people doing this for me, it's not about dog sports. It's not about me. My stuff was only an example. This is about the concept of profit sharing with producers and supplementing income of video producers and giving much needed help to community developers. It's the idea that I'm pushing, I don't want to push anybody into doing anything for me, but I do think this idea has merit and am a bit confused about the lack of interest on the list here. I hate this kind of communication, email lists, it's so easy to get a mixed message. I do like the latter part of your post, Jay, and think you are on it. I don't think Rosenbaum's piece was very groundbreaking either, other than the fact that it was in print (large blog) and it reinforced what I've believed and have been in the process of doing for a couple years now. And it did so with a little bit of anecdotal evidence and experience. I'm not used to seeing my thoughts and ideas in media until several years after they develop. You are right about the passionate hobbyist supporting their community, but I think it goes further than that. I think we're all about to realize just how important community is. We've been having our eyes opened it here Michigan for a few years now and as the economy takes it's final spins around the toilet bowl we're all going to get a look at how worthless our lives as consumers feeding an economy have become and how damaging it was to our society. We're all going to want to belong to and we're all going to *need* to belong to something in the near future. I think that profit sharing for niche content is a viable method for keeping a cottage studio afloat and for getting great content for niche communities. Creating daylight between spectator quality video and decent production has to happen in order to get the concept of pay to play video working. Getting past the flash in the pan YT viral score / instant celebrity thing has to happen as well. Thanks for the thoughts Jay. Enlightening as always. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 7, 2009, at 10:00 AM, Jay dedman wrote: I don't want to beat a dead horse, though, and I can see that there's little interest on the list in entertaining the concept of making money through profit sharing with community developers and small businesses. It's a bummer though. It could be the big thing that makes producing independent video profitable, or at least not a total money pit. It also could put different kinds of creative people in the same room and on the same page fostering who knows what kind of exciting possibilities. I think you just need to change your strategy. Why approach this group who aren't passionate about dog training? Just not something I want to spend my time doing for any amount of money. BUT I'm sure you know a whole community of dog lovers who now have access to cameras. Harness them to gather video for you. I'm sure they'd love some bucks, but passionate hobbyists often just do it because they love it. I'm also certain that it'll be easier to get people to record video and send it to you...then actually getting the to edit the videos as well. Editing videos is where the real time and skill is. Then you would need to talk serious money because editing video is not a light task. I personally don't think Michael Rosenbaum's article is very groundbreaking. Porn has done the pay for download thing for years. We all could have been doing it as well. Is this THE YEAR when people start paying for non-porn content? Doubtful. Because it's so easy to get free content online...and folks usually just route around pay to view barriers, a more likely scenario is that people will give you money just because they want to support the content. They WANT to support you vs they HAVE to pay you to watch. It's the NPR model vs the Comcast model. A small, but committed, fan base will fund you because they know that if they don't, you wont exist. This means your creations must be really important to them so take chances and make the things no one else is or can. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Profit sharing for film crews
Steve, Great post! I've been thinking about this a lot, and I agree with your assessment that different groups will have different cost structures and will be watered down to what the market will bear. In terms of Frisbee dogs, a highly complex activity with only a few people qualified or capable of delivering instruction that is worthwhile, I think we're all set in terms of pricing. I'm not selling fish, I selling a fishing manuals. Flyball on the other hand is a much more simple sport in terms of behavior - run jump over some hurdles and get the ball on your box turn, jump some more hurdles and do it quickly. Not much serious instruction opportunities there. A friend of mine produced an instructional DVD for flyball with the world's best team, and the 20 minute piece retails for $30. It's good stuff, but can it be broken down into bite sized chunks? Not sure. They'll hang out for the community interaction. Agility is another highly complex sport and instruction is very expensive. It's a great fit. Dock diving? Not much serious training there. This is just to show that there are different possibilities with different topics. The specific idea I mentioned to start this thread, the jamming videos, could not retail for more than a buck or 2, but at a buck or 2 with the right players, they'd sell like hotcakes - a couple hundred should be easy, not bad for a 2-4 minute video with limited editing. While this is kind of selling the fish, and not the manual, it is also selling the manual as the disc dog world goes round by stealing tricks. This could not happen with all dog sports, and could not happen with all kinds of activities. The people we are bringing in for instructional video are not just some people. We have, perhaps, the best discdog instruction in the world (not like we have many competitors) - it's certainly world class. I'm pretty sure we can get the price I'm talking about for instructional pieces, at least in agility and Frisbee. The other stuff not so sure. I'm betting on some good crossover numbers (agility trainers looking at frisbee after good healthy exposure) and solid hardgoods sales from the various small business vendors that service the community. Rambo, I think you and I are in the same place on this. The passion that paddlers have is very close to dog sport people's passion - we're just friggin' crazy about it. I don't think many people realize how disconnected many of these communities are from 'reality'. Who spends thousands of dollars to Fiji (and pays to ship a boat!) to beat themselves up in the water for some Kukui nut lei or something. It's crazy. Who has 30 leashes and collars for their dog? Or has 13 dogs, 8 of which sleep in bed with us at a time like we do? We exist in our own little reality and there is no corporate media organization that is going to go there. It's the long tail or nothing. I am doing my best to create a community that allows for the kind of support that Jay mentioned in his earlier post. All I have to do is put them all in the same place Vendors, trainers and participants, let them interact freely, and bring their preferred commercial interests (vendors and instructors) to them on a daily basis. I'm pretty sure it'll work. I'll be happy to talk about the project offlist and give you some details. I think it could benefit your gig. BTW, your fig rig pics got me fired up to create a new one of my own. It's kind of nice. Thanks! peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 7, 2009, at 6:21 PM, Rambos Locker wrote: Yet people pay $50 - $70 for an event DVD ? Cheers Rambo http://rambos-locker.blogspot.com -Original Message- From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:videoblogg...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve Watkins Sent: Thursday, 8 January 2009 9:13 AM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: [videoblogging] Re: Profit sharing for film crews My opinions, for the one thing Im not short of is opinions: Training videos that are useful to a niche are one of the more likely sorts of videos that some people will pay for. I did not like the example prices you gave at all. Depending on the subject matter, training dvds and suchlike sometimes command a high price tag, and different niche's will have their own ideas about how much their stuff is worth, but I dont know as the internet customer will bite at prices that may not compare well in terms of cost/minute compared to dvd. I think the subscription model is more of a winner, but again it depends on the niche in question. And it works best if there is a fairly prolific quantity of new material added on a regular basis. When I think of multiple people shows collaborating, a subscription model also makes sense to me, if it adds enough value quantity of material to make a viewer more likely
Re: [videoblogging] Fig Rig
My new fig rig is v2.0, and is simply a 20 aluminum rim from a bicycle with the spokes cut out, and the valve stem whole bored out just enough to fit a bolt that attaches to the bottom of my manfrotto pistol grip head. It's real nice as the head articulates allowing me to put the unit on the ground and get a quick and dirty tripod function out of it. It's real sturdy and super light compared to my steel monster that was featured in my homemade fig rig video here: http://blip.tv/file/ 653663 . I really need a lanc controller though, and tried to mount my remote control to the frame, but it didn't work. I've got a little jiggle in the mounting mechanism, as the manfrotto head is really tall and it sways a bit. I'm going to try to tack it down a little better, but it's real nice if your being careful. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 7, 2009, at 10:13 PM, rambos_locker wrote: Yup you're right, crazy and passionate. That Fig rig is up to version No 11, I just enclosed the Cam fully in a water proof casing and it mounts with a quick connect tripod mount to the rig. I'll post pics later today of the complete version. The details of how i built the Fig Rig are on the HV20 forum http://www.hv20.com/showthread.php?t=20113 Contact you off list further about your project Cheers Rambo http://rambos-locker.blogspot.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson k9d...@... wrote: Steve, Great post! I've been thinking about this a lot, and I agree with your assessment that different groups will have different cost structures and will be watered down to what the market will bear. In terms of Frisbee dogs, a highly complex activity with only a few people qualified or capable of delivering instruction that is worthwhile, I think we're all set in terms of pricing. I'm not selling fish, I selling a fishing manuals. Flyball on the other hand is a much more simple sport in terms of behavior - run jump over some hurdles and get the ball on your box turn, jump some more hurdles and do it quickly. Not much serious instruction opportunities there. A friend of mine produced an instructional DVD for flyball with the world's best team, and the 20 minute piece retails for $30. It's good stuff, but can it be broken down into bite sized chunks? Not sure. They'll hang out for the community interaction. Agility is another highly complex sport and instruction is very expensive. It's a great fit. Dock diving? Not much serious training there. This is just to show that there are different possibilities with different topics. The specific idea I mentioned to start this thread, the jamming videos, could not retail for more than a buck or 2, but at a buck or 2 with the right players, they'd sell like hotcakes - a couple hundred should be easy, not bad for a 2-4 minute video with limited editing. While this is kind of selling the fish, and not the manual, it is also selling the manual as the disc dog world goes round by stealing tricks. This could not happen with all dog sports, and could not happen with all kinds of activities. The people we are bringing in for instructional video are not just some people. We have, perhaps, the best discdog instruction in the world (not like we have many competitors) - it's certainly world class. I'm pretty sure we can get the price I'm talking about for instructional pieces, at least in agility and Frisbee. The other stuff not so sure. I'm betting on some good crossover numbers (agility trainers looking at frisbee after good healthy exposure) and solid hardgoods sales from the various small business vendors that service the community. Rambo, I think you and I are in the same place on this. The passion that paddlers have is very close to dog sport people's passion - we're just friggin' crazy about it. I don't think many people realize how disconnected many of these communities are from 'reality'. Who spends thousands of dollars to Fiji (and pays to ship a boat!) to beat themselves up in the water for some Kukui nut lei or something. It's crazy. Who has 30 leashes and collars for their dog? Or has 13 dogs, 8 of which sleep in bed with us at a time like we do? We exist in our own little reality and there is no corporate media organization that is going to go there. It's the long tail or nothing. I am doing my best to create a community that allows for the kind of support that Jay mentioned in his earlier post. All I have to do is put them all in the same place Vendors, trainers and participants, let them interact freely, and bring their preferred commercial interests (vendors and instructors) to them on a daily basis. I'm pretty sure it'll work. I'll be happy to talk about the project offlist and give
[videoblogging] Profit sharing for film crews
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]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Profit sharing for film crews
we use e-junkie.com for our digital download provider. monthly rent for your library no matter how many (or few) you sell. Thanks, I'll check it out. 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]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Profit sharing for film crews
how many people are paying to view a video on the internet? even with micro payments. can't say I ever have. I don't know what all this is: 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 maybe just start doing it see how it progresses? don't wait for others if you have a good idea. people will want to join in later when the momentum is high. good luck kath Well, have you found something that is your passion that is for sale? That's the key, and that's where people like me come in. Right now people only have access to their passion via purely user generated content. The model of online video has been one of user generated content. Fun Stuff. For more serious things like instruction and top of the line entertainment (iTunes) we pay, via iTunes, netflix or we get it at the video store. People pay for content all the time, just not our kind of content. There is a whole level in between that I believe, along with Steve Rosenbaum, that there is going to be a rise of specialized communities with local and online advertising partners that absolutely fill the niche. There's the key again. It's not broad spectrum. It's not raw numbers, it's the long tail of the 1000 true fans, and in the case of well developed communities, there are tens of thousands of true fans. Granted the true fan is not a fan for the personality or the artist, but for the activity that the community is built around. All you have to do is create a gathering place, bring in the right talent to draw attention from the community and if you do, should be able to deliver content to a passionate community. Again, 10 videos that do 100 hits each at $1 of profit per video is $1000. Make good content for a passionate large community and that goal should be a gimme. As far as not knowing what all of the dog sports are, they are that, dog sports, and there are tens of thousands of dog sports competitors across the country and we're friggin' crazy people. Really kind of strange for regular folk. Our lifeline to our sports is the internet. It's the only way we can see what's happening in our sport. There is a big difference between spectator video, which is what most everyone seems to generate, and professional video. So, professional video of Joe Schmoe from Philadelphia, PA is not going to sell, but pro video of this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae4nu_zmTeIfeature=channel_page I'm buying it, especially if it's good video. There are usually about 10 guys like this at every large regional event in Frisbee. Then of course there are usually about 20 minutes of really nice video that could easily be assembled from an event. 100 competitors, $5 for the video online? Not to mention the competitors who wanted to make it but missed it, and the wanna be or soon to be competitors hungry for knowledge. It should be fairly easy to sell 100 units at $1 profit for the project to take in $1000. The same could probably be done for agility, but in a different sense. There's a guy already doing this and he does make sales, but it's just him and he's only covering one event at a time. He's like me - dog trainer, web developer, videographer, editor, sales manager, graphic designer, small business owner. That's a lot of hats. Thinking about it, perhaps it is a bit specialized, but there should be plenty of events that the professional hobbyist would pay a few bucks to see and be a part of. As far as just doing it? No problem. I am. We should be ready to go in a month or so. I do need more content than I can generate by myself, and want a professional product to distinguish the professional part of our site (pay to play) from regular user generated stuff, although we will embrace and feature user generated media. It would be great to partner up with some people on this list and get some projects together. I really think it could pay the bills plus for a lot of people on this list if done right. Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 6, 2009, at 7:13 PM, Kath O'Donnell wrote: how many people are paying to view a video on the internet? even with micro payments. can't say I ever have. I don't know what all this is: 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 maybe just start doing it see how it progresses? don't wait for others if you have a good idea. people will want to join in later when the momentum is high. good luck kath 2009/1/7 Ron Watson k9d...@mac.com: If you, as a video producer (shoot, cut, encode) were to hook up with people like me and create 50 videos
Re: [videoblogging] Really Great Article on Media Trends and the Curation Economy
Thank you so much for this! All 5 points are in play at k9athlete.com. It's eerie, actually. I hope he's right and I hope I can do it right. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 5, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: All of you folks out there wanting to make money off of web-based video, take a look at Steve Rosenbaum's article here. His #1 prediction is that the Curation Economy will boom in 2009. Who are the curators? Anyone. I just wish the money-holders weren't so damn slow on the uptake. Imagine what would be possible if poeple got this 3 or 4 years ago? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-rosenbaum/5-trends-that-will- change_b_155119.html -- 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]
[videoblogging] Anybody interested in dog sports?
falling into a golden blog and building a media empire, but for the ability of real people doing real cool things being able to share them with people directly and profit from them. I think the coolest thing about cottage media, as Rosenbaum called it is that it will allow lots of people to do what they love to do and profit from doing it well. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://k9athlete.com http://pawsitivevybe.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] ISP's becoming the enforcement arm of the RIAA?
I wish that there were a Jerry Scroggins out here in rural Michigan. He's cool. Merry Christmas everybody! peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Dec 23, 2008, at 6:19 PM, Jay dedman wrote: The way the new enforcement system will work is that the RIAA will alert an ISP that a customer appears to be file sharing. The ISP will then notify the person that he or she appears to be file sharing. If the behavior by the customer doesn't change, then more e-mails will be sent. If the customer ignores these e-mails, then the ISP may choose to reduce service. If all else fails, they can choose to discontinue service. This is definitely a weird twist. why would an ISP choose to kick off its users, lose subscription money, and pay for the cost of policing copyrights that it doesnt own? Here's a good story about his issue: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10127841-93.html?tag=txt Im glad you're keeping on this story Heath. Its important for us to make sure our ISP's remain neutral. Im looking onto switching to a locally run Wireless Servicemainly because I met the guy that owns it and he returns my emails. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Fwd: Code help to embed Blip in Joomla via popular plugin
UGH!!!
14 hours later and I figured out that my very first attempt at
hacking the code was correct.
blip/play/{AVSOURCE}
I sent this email to you guys about 5 hours in when I was going crazy.
I had to uninstall and reinstall the plugin, and forgot to enable it
in the part of the site I was using to test the functionality.
Tremendous waste of time!
peace,
Ron Watson
http://k9disc.blip.tv
http://k9disc.com
http://discdogradio.com
http://pawsitivevybe.com
On Dec 11, 2008, at 4:47 PM, Ron Watson wrote:
Hi all,
I've tried to send this to several different emails in blip, but they
bounced back, so I sent it minus the attached file via the contact us
page in the blip dashboard.
Can anyone help me out here?
peace,
Ron Watson
http://k9disc.blip.tv
http://k9disc.com
http://discdogradio.com
http://pawsitivevybe.com
Begin forwarded message:
From: Ron Watson k9d...@mac.com
Date: December 11, 2008 4:20:22 PM GMT-05:00
To: Blip.tv Support supp...@blip.tv
Subject: Code help to embed Blip in Joomla via popular plugin
Hi,
I need some help writing the correct code to embed blip into joomla
through one of the major Joomla extensions.
I can't figure it out - not a programmer. I just stumble around and
am persistent.
I've hacked several applications and added blip stuff, but I can't
figure this out.
I'll be happy to add the code to the developer's forum and it
should get included in the next release of the software.
I really need this to work on my site, as I use blip exclusively
and many of my users do.
Please assist.
I've attached the whole .php file that does the link conversion,
and am going to quote a bit of the code here:
/* 3rd party video providers
*/
// YouTube
youtube =
span style=\width:{VWIDTH}px;height:{VHEIGHT}px;\ class=
\allvideos_player\ title=\JoomlaWorks AllVideos Player\
object type=\application/x-shockwave-flash\ style=\width:
{VWIDTH}px;height:{VHEIGHT}px;\ data=\http://www.youtube.com/v/
{AVSOURCE}hl=enfs=1\
param name=\movie\ value=\http://www.youtube.com/v/{AVSOURCE}
hl=enfs=1\ /
param name=\quality\ value=\high\ /
param name=\wmode\ value=\{TRANSPARENCY}\ /
param name=\bgcolor\ value=\{BACKGROUND}\ /
/object
/span
,
// Google Video
(google|google.co.uk|google.com.au|google.de|google.es|google.fr|
google.it|google.nl|google.pl) =
span style=\width:{VWIDTH}px;height:{VHEIGHT}px;\ class=
\allvideos_player\ title=\JoomlaWorks AllVideos Player\
object type=\application/x-shockwave-flash\ style=\width:
{VWIDTH}px;height:{VHEIGHT}px;\ data=\http://video.google.com/
googleplayer.swf?docid={AVSOURCE}hl=enfs=true\
param name=\movie\ value=\http://video.google.com/
googleplayer.swf?docid={AVSOURCE}hl=enfs=true\ /
param name=\quality\ value=\high\ /
param name=\wmode\ value=\{TRANSPARENCY}\ /
param name=\bgcolor\ value=\{BACKGROUND}\ /
/object
/span
,
// 123video.nl - http://www.123video.nl/playvideos.asp?
MovieID=248020
123video =
span style=\width:{VWIDTH}px;height:{VHEIGHT}px;\ class=
\allvideos_player\ title=\JoomlaWorks AllVideos Player\
object type=\application/x-shockwave-flash\ style=\width:
{VWIDTH}px;height:{VHEIGHT}px;\ data=\http://www.123video.nl/
123video_share.swf?mediaSrc={AVSOURCE}\
param name=\movie\ value=\http://www.123video.nl/
123video_share.swf?mediaSrc={AVSOURCE}\ /
param name=\quality\ value=\high\ /
param name=\wmode\ value=\{TRANSPARENCY}\ /
param name=\bgcolor\ value=\{BACKGROUND}\ /
/object
/span
,
// aniboom.com - http://www.aniboom.com/video/28604/Kashe-Li-Its-
Hard/
aniboom =
span style=\width:{VWIDTH}px;height:{VHEIGHT}px;\ class=
\allvideos_player\ title=\JoomlaWorks AllVideos Player\
object type=\application/x-shockwave-flash\ style=\width:
{VWIDTH}px;height:{VHEIGHT}px;\ data=\http://api.aniboom.com/
embedded.swf?videoar={AVSOURCE}\
param name=\movie\ value=\http://api.aniboom.com/embedded.swf?
videoar={AVSOURCE}\ /
param name=\quality\ value=\high\ /
param name=\wmode\ value=\{TRANSPARENCY}\ /
param name=\bgcolor\ value=\{BACKGROUND}\ /
param name=\allowScriptAccess\ value=\sameDomain\ /
/object
/span
,
// blip
blip =
span style=\width:{VWIDTH}px;height:{VHEIGHT}px;\ class=
\allvideos_player\ title=\JoomlaWorks AllVideos Player\
object type=\application/x-shockwave-flash\ style=\width:
{VWIDTH}px;height:{VHEIGHT}px;\ data=\http://blip.tv/file/
{AVSOURCE}\
param name=\movie\ value=\http://www.blip.tv/file/{AVSOURCE}
\ /
param name=\quality\ value=\high\ /
param name=\wmode\ value=\{TRANSPARENCY}\ /
param name=\bgcolor\ value=\{BACKGROUND}\ /
/object
/span
,
// badjojo.com [adult] - http://www.badjojo.com/
video_play_front.php?Id=6718
badjojo =
span style=\width:{VWIDTH}px;height:{VHEIGHT}px;\ class=
\allvideos_player\ title=\JoomlaWorks AllVideos Player\
object type
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Does the Blog format work for Vlogging anymore?
I've been part of many list based 'communities', and I really don't see them as being communities. This list is one of the best I've seen as far as avoiding flame wars and such, but when people are afraid to post links because they don't want to 'spam' the list, is that really a community? peace, Ron On Dec 11, 2008, at 8:44 AM, Kath O'Donnell wrote: re Ron's link to Community is the new capitalism: Community is More than Dollars and Cents I thought we already were a community - this mail list. when people post links in their sigs others can check them out comment/continue conversations there or reply to email privately. the vlomo type projects seem good too for bursts of sub-communities too though it's hard to maintain focus / be able to post regularly at times. other online communities I've been involved with for years have been via mail lists or forums/msg boards. some post links/videos etc. I don't think the platform / medium really matters though - it's more about the involvement of the people the discussions interactions that keep people coming back. I don't know - maybe people should include their 'featured posts/videos' links in an email sig or do an announcement every now then if they have something special. perhaps some don't like doing 'shameless self promotion' or there's risks of too much spam. for a website with content, personally I find a CMS eg drupal site a better format than a blog-only one as there's multiple ways people can come across posts be presented / organised. but mostly because that's what I've used most often too. and their themes are even better these days for people who want more flexibility (though I haven't updated my sites' themes yet - still using default ones) kath [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] No blogging: different visual creations
That rocks, Sull. Really nice presentation. How'd you do it? I'm going to take a look at it via firebug, but most of the time I haven't a clue what I'm looking at. What video display app is it based on? What's running it? I'll take the answer privately if you think that's better. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Dec 11, 2008, at 12:56 PM, @sull wrote: back when i was playing with the showinabox people, one of my propositions was to utilize your wordpress rss feed (or other xml flavor) using the simplepie wordpress plugin (parser) and then build templates however you want and inject whatever data from the feed that you want. this was an alternative to staying within the confines of the wordpress theming engine. an example of this is located here: http://videobloggers.org/vlogwall/ although this is not using the wordpress feed, instead using a mefeedia feed. the nice thing about it is that you can leave your blog as is and have an alternative presentation of your content made available to visitors. i also like just uisng the flash player + playlisting approach with some javascript api usage to handle contextual content and comments etc. sull On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:43 AM, J. N. P. zen...@art.com.pt wrote: Hi! I had a project last year that actually didn't went forward enough to go public, but i had started building the concept and tried the geeky details of it. What i ended up doing was: 1) The wordpress was used to create the content with the categories and tags and from that i extracted various things: 1.1) (video) RSS per categorie; 1.2) archives with the videos on it just as wordpress show content by categories; 1.3) the wordpress view of things is the second way of watch/search the content (very blog like always) 2) But i took the various RSS and with those i created a first page that is actually the Jeroen FLV player ( http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Media_Player ), because that playes is very flexible and is capable of being feed with our RSS wordpress... I think you can build a nice TV like that. In alternative you could just use the play lists from blip and use the blip player, but doing it the other way you can integrate the flash player in such a way that when you are playing a particular video you end up with that wordpress post/article also showing up somewhere in a frame, so that you can still have comments and such. This concept is nothing new and unfortunately i never build it up completely to test it further but i hope some day i will have a new project to build and test it further and hopefully add more to this conversation theme. thats my 2 cents of Euro. ;) Rgds, ZN On Dec 11, 2008, at 17:20 , Jay dedman wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Rupert rup...@fatgirlinohio.org wrote: One of the options I'm considering is still using my WP backend, and having a front page which was big image map with various hotspots leading to different videos, categories pages - either a picture that I could either draw scan make amendments to, or a collage I'd make in Illustrator/Photoshop. I've made some sites for clients like this - eg http:// www.sydneyraewhite.com - it'd be like a manual version of your drag drop desktop idea, Jay. im looking forward t what people come up with. http://www.vbs.tv/ is another example of making the page looks interesting. (though i hate the autoload video). the whole background image is part of the actual function of the page. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Does the Blog format work for Vlogging anymore?
g through their reader, than why have a site at all then? As far as having all of your video's on Blip etc, well I know for me, that Blip's Showplayer does not show all of my stuff it only goes back about a year, so you are missing anything older...but that is neither here nor there... Nobody but you guys are viewing through your reader. Nobody is going to mefeedia. The feed services like feedburner and mefeedia are awesome for giving a large footprint, but for the masses they are not destinations. The only people who go there and use feed readers are geeks. Regular people don't know what an RSS feed is let alone how to use and manage one. If FF did not automagically parse them they'd think it was a broken link. I use RSS feeds to push my vids out there and to get them exposure so I can get hits on search engines. Mefeedia and Feedburner are great for creating a large footprint. They are for the people on this list. But there are very few people who view stuff on RSS feeds. Just the busy geeks like yourselves. I exempt myself from this statement, as I don't use feeds, although I probably would if I had the bandwidth available to watch videos. I gobble up my 5 GB shuffling files around the sites that I am developing. So I go back to my first statement and ask, Is RSS in effect part of the problem? Is it so easy now to just watch that we are becoming passive? That we no longer care about the communication or the connections that can develop? Yes, they are part of the problem. The people on this list are busy, busy, and we live in our own little world. If I don't follow a link from a post here, I don't see it. There needs to be a gathering place with an application that can make the people on this list happy AND reach the public. Hasn't happened yet. We need to start trying to put things together as a group if we're going to get any kind of serious visibility. Hasn't happened yet. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Dec 11, 2008, at 3:46 PM, Heath wrote: So it seems that by having an RSS feed we are actually taking away from the communial side of blogging/vlogging? I mean if there is no reason to ever go to a site because everyone is reading through their reader, than why have a site at all then? As far as having all of your video's on Blip etc, well I know for me, that Blip's Showplayer does not show all of my stuff it only goes back about a year, so you are missing anything older...but that is neither here nor there... So I go back to my first statement and ask, Is RSS in effect part of the problem? Is it so easy now to just watch that we are becoming passive? That we no longer care about the communication or the connections that can develop? Heath http://heathparks.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, michaelaivaliotis michaelaivalio...@... wrote: If someone can watch all your videos on a site like Blip.TV, Vimeo or even Youtube - which probably already has a great viewing experience - Why should they come to your site? what's the compelling reason? I think this is the main question that needs to be answered and thought about before you start redesigning your site. If you can't clearly answer that then your site needs to be more of an About Me page with links to your stuff. On the other hand, if Blip.TV is the only place you have videos and you are just using them as a virtual hard drive then you need to do some serious work on your site. Sorry, I don't have a clear answer but you really need to put some time and money into it if you want your site to be a hub. You have to give people a reason to come back. Honestly, with the concept of RSS feeds in full effect, I never go to anyone's site anymore. I watch all your videos in my Google reader. The only reason for me to go to your site would be to leave a comment. The problem there is I usually never read the response unless I'm subscribed to the comments via email: like Rupert does on his blog (that helps). For those that want dynamic related posts. I found a WP plugin here: http://mitcho.com/code/yarpp/ It doesn't do thumbnails but it has great options to show related posts (probably the best). I'm currently trying to modify it to show thumbnails. The main issue with thumbnails is that you need to manually attach a thumbnail to your post and specify that this thumbnail is for the video (like is currently done with the vPIP plugin). Still some work there. I'm trying to figure out how to get it to find thumbnails automatically, like it is done in the BlipIt plugin: http://www.bravenewcode.com/blipit/ Anyway... more work ahead. Michael Aivaliotis --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Heath heathparks@ wrote: I agree about the content, and google reader and RSS, etc make things very easy, but when people do come
[videoblogging] Fwd: Code help to embed Blip in Joomla via popular plugin
Hi all,
I've tried to send this to several different emails in blip, but they
bounced back, so I sent it minus the attached file via the contact us
page in the blip dashboard.
Can anyone help me out here?
peace,
Ron Watson
http://k9disc.blip.tv
http://k9disc.com
http://discdogradio.com
http://pawsitivevybe.com
Begin forwarded message:
From: Ron Watson k9d...@mac.com
Date: December 11, 2008 4:20:22 PM GMT-05:00
To: Blip.tv Support supp...@blip.tv
Subject: Code help to embed Blip in Joomla via popular plugin
Hi,
I need some help writing the correct code to embed blip into joomla
through one of the major Joomla extensions.
I can't figure it out - not a programmer. I just stumble around and
am persistent.
I've hacked several applications and added blip stuff, but I can't
figure this out.
I'll be happy to add the code to the developer's forum and it
should get included in the next release of the software.
I really need this to work on my site, as I use blip exclusively
and many of my users do.
Please assist.
I've attached the whole .php file that does the link conversion,
and am going to quote a bit of the code here:
/* 3rd party video providers
*/
// YouTube
youtube =
span style=\width:{VWIDTH}px;height:{VHEIGHT}px;\ class=
\allvideos_player\ title=\JoomlaWorks AllVideos Player\
object type=\application/x-shockwave-flash\ style=\width:
{VWIDTH}px;height:{VHEIGHT}px;\ data=\http://www.youtube.com/v/
{AVSOURCE}hl=enfs=1\
param name=\movie\
value=\http://www.youtube.com/v/{AVSOURCE}
hl=enfs=1\ /
param name=\quality\ value=\high\ /
param name=\wmode\ value=\{TRANSPARENCY}\ /
param name=\bgcolor\ value=\{BACKGROUND}\ /
/object
/span
,
// Google Video
(google|google.co.uk|google.com.au|google.de|google.es|google.fr|
google.it|google.nl|google.pl) =
span style=\width:{VWIDTH}px;height:{VHEIGHT}px;\ class=
\allvideos_player\ title=\JoomlaWorks AllVideos Player\
object type=\application/x-shockwave-flash\ style=\width:
{VWIDTH}px;height:{VHEIGHT}px;\ data=\http://video.google.com/
googleplayer.swf?docid={AVSOURCE}hl=enfs=true\
param name=\movie\ value=\http://video.google.com/
googleplayer.swf?docid={AVSOURCE}hl=enfs=true\ /
param name=\quality\ value=\high\ /
param name=\wmode\ value=\{TRANSPARENCY}\ /
param name=\bgcolor\ value=\{BACKGROUND}\ /
/object
/span
,
// 123video.nl - http://www.123video.nl/playvideos.asp?MovieID=248020
123video =
span style=\width:{VWIDTH}px;height:{VHEIGHT}px;\ class=
\allvideos_player\ title=\JoomlaWorks AllVideos Player\
object type=\application/x-shockwave-flash\ style=\width:
{VWIDTH}px;height:{VHEIGHT}px;\ data=\http://www.123video.nl/
123video_share.swf?mediaSrc={AVSOURCE}\
param name=\movie\ value=\http://www.123video.nl/
123video_share.swf?mediaSrc={AVSOURCE}\ /
param name=\quality\ value=\high\ /
param name=\wmode\ value=\{TRANSPARENCY}\ /
param name=\bgcolor\ value=\{BACKGROUND}\ /
/object
/span
,
// aniboom.com - http://www.aniboom.com/video/28604/Kashe-Li-Its-Hard/
aniboom =
span style=\width:{VWIDTH}px;height:{VHEIGHT}px;\ class=
\allvideos_player\ title=\JoomlaWorks AllVideos Player\
object type=\application/x-shockwave-flash\ style=\width:
{VWIDTH}px;height:{VHEIGHT}px;\ data=\http://api.aniboom.com/
embedded.swf?videoar={AVSOURCE}\
param name=\movie\
value=\http://api.aniboom.com/embedded.swf?
videoar={AVSOURCE}\ /
param name=\quality\ value=\high\ /
param name=\wmode\ value=\{TRANSPARENCY}\ /
param name=\bgcolor\ value=\{BACKGROUND}\ /
param name=\allowScriptAccess\ value=\sameDomain\ /
/object
/span
,
// blip
blip =
span style=\width:{VWIDTH}px;height:{VHEIGHT}px;\ class=
\allvideos_player\ title=\JoomlaWorks AllVideos Player\
object type=\application/x-shockwave-flash\ style=\width:
{VWIDTH}px;height:{VHEIGHT}px;\ data=\http://blip.tv/file/
{AVSOURCE}\
param name=\movie\
value=\http://www.blip.tv/file/{AVSOURCE}
\ /
param name=\quality\ value=\high\ /
param name=\wmode\ value=\{TRANSPARENCY}\ /
param name=\bgcolor\ value=\{BACKGROUND}\ /
/object
/span
,
// badjojo.com [adult] - http://www.badjojo.com/
video_play_front.php?Id=6718
badjojo =
span style=\width:{VWIDTH}px;height:{VHEIGHT}px;\ class=
\allvideos_player\ title=\JoomlaWorks AllVideos Player\
object type=\application/x-shockwave-flash\ style=\width:
{VWIDTH}px;height:{VHEIGHT}px;\ data=\http://www.badjojo.com/
flvplayer.swf\
param name=\movie\
value=\http://www.badjojo.com/flvplayer.swf
\ /
param name
Re: [videoblogging] Does the Blog format work for Vlogging anymore?
of the project, but I got through it and think that I have a much better shot at developing a vibrant and engaged community as a result. I think that the videoblogging community, of the non-youtube sort, have gotten stuck in line by line communication. That's how so many of us communicate. It's also how the tools we use function. Look at this list. Look at twitter. Look at RSS. Look at the video blog. They're all the same. Not everybody likes the simplicity of twitter. Not everybody likes linear presentation of content. It's what so many of us know and understand, so it becomes what we do and how we do it. Thinking about it, I think this has been a major factor in the limited success of traditional videoblogging. Youtube won on presentation and community, and the presentation and I believe the community developed out of the landscape layout - relevant content on every screenshot, and the ability of every video to stand on it's own. Ask a Ninja? Epic Fu? Rocketboom? Blip? All of them landscape (esque) with one video per page. Storytelling. I know they're shows and not really videoblogs, but they're successful and well watched. Sure they have compelling content, but I think it has something to do with presentation as well. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Dec 10, 2008, at 10:56 AM, Heath wrote: I have been doing a lot of thinking as I come close to my 3 year mark of vlogging. From the outset of vlogging almost everyone settled on the blog format for their site. And I think at that time it worked. However, now.I am not so sure. I mean every time you make a video and post, that video moves down the list and soon it's off your homepage in some cases, never to be seen again. Now for some, maybe that is no big deal, but.I think some of us all make a few videos that we are especially proud of, and in the current blog/vlog format, there is no easy way (I know we can sticky but if you sticky more than a couple no one will ever see your new content on your site) to show off those posts. It seems to me that there is a huge lack in the number of themes that take advatage of vlogging. I mean with the explosion of online video, you would think we would have more, but I only know of a small handfull and most of those you have to pay for. I am just curious as to what you all think? I just don't knowI mean part of me likes the blog/vlog format as it is, but I find myself longing for a different way to show off my video's moreso the ones that I want to showcase or ones that I am fond of...I mean I could revlog but So what do you all like and dislike about the current vlog format? What would you like to see? Just curious... Heath http://heathparks.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Does the Blog format work for Vlogging anymore?
Together we can! lol! Community is the new capitalism: http://k9athlete.com/ Community is More than Dollars and Cents If you haven't noticed, Community is becoming the new capitalism. Banks, insurance companies, weapons manufacturers, all trying to capitalize on the need for community in these crazy times we live in. If you watch any TV, you'll see it. TV networks, international food conglomerates, big box retailers - all of them spending tons of money trying to convince people that they are about community. It's bunk, but it's a trend, and in these trying times, people want it - they're going to buy it. If dog sport people buy that, we're going to lose the connection to our community, just as we've lost our connection to our community in our daily lives. Community is about people, and in our case, people and dogs. Big money sponsors don't care about people and dogs, they care about dollars and cents. I've been one of those community types for a long time, since the late 90s. Staying away from box stores, buying local, turning off the TV and connecting with people that share my passion, I've lost my connection with popular culture and have replaced it with a connection to smaller, local and passionate communities. K9Athlete.com is about devloping a real live dog sport community. This is an important component of keeping dog sports viable into the future. Are people going to make money at K9Athlete.com, sure, but they will do so by serving the community. Read the first entry entitled: 'Coming Together' (and if anyone would like to see what I'm trying to do in building this community, let me know and I'll give you some admin privileges and let you see the closed alpha development of the site. It's a big project.). I'm trying to articulate the need for community and sharing and how it can work to build and maintain a community. I'm injecting politics, but trying to be careful and not alienate anybody. I think these thoughts resonate with most people these days. I was talking to a friend of mine, a video producer, photographer, crazy dog person and all in all smart cookie, and he was talking about this moment in time and all the projects popping in the dog sport world at this very moment. He called it a 'Christmas feeling' - the fact that people are staying home, hunkering down and trying to make a living doing what makes them happy as opposed to selling their souls to the company store. I agreed, but I have a much harsher and black and white understanding. People are sick and tired of corporate control and power, and the fact that we just forked over a TRILLION dollars to the bastards that defrauded us in the first place, and that we're still going to tank, pushed many people over the edge and made them realize that all of us people have to stick together. That's where we're going. We're going to come together - not because we want to, but because we have to. I think your mentioning a 'webring' is a great thought, but it needs to be inclusive. A webring is still individualistic. We need to become a community. We give our time (and our money) to eachother - to people who share our passions and our beliefs. We need to work toghether. We need one place to go and do our thing. It's the operating premise of k9athlete.com, and I think it's the operating premise behind your 'webring' thought. We've got to come together in a way that goes beyond twitter, beyond this list and beyond the usage of tools and discussion. I don't know what needs to be done or how, but I know why. We have to it's not working as is. And I, probably like many of you, just can't fucking do youtube. It's shallow and stinks of popular, consumer culture and I' not interested. I want something more. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Dec 10, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Rupert wrote: I did a video rant about this a couple of weeks ago. I've been thinking about different layouts and ways of presenting things since then. Great thoughts, Ron - particularly what you note how we're comfortable with line-by-line communication in a vertical format, but how it's limited the success of the traditional videoblog - and how daunting it is for a viewer to face a bunch of videos in a line down the page. I've seen this problem when watching people go to my videoblog. It's not just a problem for the viewer, it's a problem for the producer. Reading your post made me realise how much I've forced myself to like the blog format because that's what everyone uses - even though initially I thought it sucked. But when we started out, it was the easiest way to do publishing and podcasting. Now I've totally fallen out of love with the blog format. So much so that I can't seem to drum up the motivation to put any energy into making videos until I
Re: [videoblogging] Does the Blog format work for Vlogging anymore?
Great! Another application to check out! downloaded and checking it out...lol peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Dec 10, 2008, at 2:01 PM, schlomo rabinowitz wrote: I've never been a fan of the blog format for video (even when putting together the last Vloggercon, I was against making the site in the blog format, but was alone in that thought). Though I ended up not using it for my own personal videoblog site (many hours of discussion with web/dev friends steered me away), I still believe using something like Sweetcron could be an interesting way of showing your work. http://www.sweetcron.com/ Especially when people are putting various sorts of videos on a variety of video hosts. For instance, some people put teasers on youtube and Behind The Scenes on Vimeo. But you want a site that will aggregate all of that content. Anyway, my two cents. Blog is Dead, Long Live the Blog. Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking AIM:schlomochat On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did a video rant about this a couple of weeks ago. I've been thinking about different layouts and ways of presenting things since then. Great thoughts, Ron - particularly what you note how we're comfortable with line-by-line communication in a vertical format, but how it's limited the success of the traditional videoblog - and how daunting it is for a viewer to face a bunch of videos in a line down the page. I've seen this problem when watching people go to my videoblog. It's not just a problem for the viewer, it's a problem for the producer. Reading your post made me realise how much I've forced myself to like the blog format because that's what everyone uses - even though initially I thought it sucked. But when we started out, it was the easiest way to do publishing and podcasting. Now I've totally fallen out of love with the blog format. So much so that I can't seem to drum up the motivation to put any energy into making videos until I can feel good about how I publish them. I've been thinking about the successful shows you mentioned - FU, Ninja, Rocketboom. Wreck Salvage and LoFi St Louis have good new designs, too - which encourage people to browse more freely and don't force the reader to deal with this heirarchy of freshness/relevance. For me, I think there may be an element of needing more interlinked networking between producers - to allow people to browse outside of your own videos. Jesus, that sounds like a web-ring. But isn't that the best thing about YouTube? That you can choose to see more videos by the same person or jump to something related but made by someone totally different? I don't know. I'm stuck. But it's good to read your thoughts on it. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 10-Dec-08, at 10:05 AM, Ron Watson wrote: Great topic, Heath! I've been doing online video since 1998, and I was very excited with the explosion of digital video in 2005. It was awesome! I dabbled with wordpress and the blog format for a while, but it was obvious to me rather quickly that the long vertical videoblog (and blog, for that matter) was a dead end in terms of viability. It's daunting to scroll down a page and see an hour of video. It makes the small, short flicks and turns them into a day long endeavor. I think the traditional blog format is great for RSS feeds and for archival purposes, but as far as presentation of content, it's not good for holding people's attention. If you're content is very special or totally rock solid, you can hold an audience, but you are fighting against a faulty design. There are 2 ways in which the traditional blog layout fails for video blogging. Story telling and Community. --- Story Telling --- I took a critical look at a person from this list's new project, and that's what I found to be the critical fault in the presentation of content. He had all this great content, a really sweet, honest and appealing vibe, beautiful theming, but it all went out the window when I scrolled down the page and saw 15 5 minute videos all presented as a running commentary - essentially a very long monologue. I have no doubt that the content was personally appealing (although I couldn't watch it because of bandwidth constraints - :-( ) but when I saw that scrolling list, it just seemed like a Herculean task to go through it. I really was intrigued by the vibe set up by the site and my personal belief system, but when I saw the layout of the content, I was turned off. I didn't want to watch that much on one topic. When you post 30 things on one page, it devalues all of them. It triggers the idea of a lack
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Does the Blog format work for Vlogging anymore?
Have you seen this? It's pretty sweet! http://mochaui.com/demo/ Peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Dec 10, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Jay dedman wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Brook Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in the process of rethinking/redesigning my whole approach to online video and videblogging. The one thought that is solid now: decoupling the concept of RSS/Subscribe-ability from presentation. The blog format is a convenient means of providing updates to the small subset of my viewers that uses feed readers and whatnot via rss, but that doesn't mean a blog has to be the the format in which the material itself is viewed. Don't know where its going but I'm certainly following the discussion here with great interest. I do think a blog is still a viable format for a highly conceptual or series-based project. Im glad Heath started this thread. Maybe we need to identify what people don't like. When someone says i dont like the blog...is it just the nature of posts from Recent to old? When I first thought about posting video online, Peter Van Djick showed me how to blog because i didnt know how to code html. he recognized that it would be too difficult for me to code a website everytime I wanted to post a new video. That's why the blog as a CMS was so smart. Youtube is a CMS. all these videos sites we use are content management systems. I also have wanted more control of how things looked on my blog. I wish I could just drag and drop different elements on my blog in real time. I wish i wasnt hampered by this is the sidebar...this is the headerthis is the footer... and to change any of this stuff, I have to go into the code to change it. I would love to have a CMS where I can overlap things, and rearrange content everyday just by dragging it around. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Does the Blog format work for Vlogging anymore?
Just drag and drop the folder onto your server and it's good to go. Crazy stuff, man! peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Dec 10, 2008, at 6:11 PM, Ron Watson wrote: Have you seen this? It's pretty sweet! http://mochaui.com/demo/ Peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Dec 10, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Jay dedman wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Brook Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in the process of rethinking/redesigning my whole approach to online video and videblogging. The one thought that is solid now: decoupling the concept of RSS/Subscribe-ability from presentation. The blog format is a convenient means of providing updates to the small subset of my viewers that uses feed readers and whatnot via rss, but that doesn't mean a blog has to be the the format in which the material itself is viewed. Don't know where its going but I'm certainly following the discussion here with great interest. I do think a blog is still a viable format for a highly conceptual or series-based project. Im glad Heath started this thread. Maybe we need to identify what people don't like. When someone says i dont like the blog...is it just the nature of posts from Recent to old? When I first thought about posting video online, Peter Van Djick showed me how to blog because i didnt know how to code html. he recognized that it would be too difficult for me to code a website everytime I wanted to post a new video. That's why the blog as a CMS was so smart. Youtube is a CMS. all these videos sites we use are content management systems. I also have wanted more control of how things looked on my blog. I wish I could just drag and drop different elements on my blog in real time. I wish i wasnt hampered by this is the sidebar...this is the headerthis is the footer... and to change any of this stuff, I have to go into the code to change it. I would love to have a CMS where I can overlap things, and rearrange content everyday just by dragging it around. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Joomla Video Hosting and Social Network
I dabbled in CB, but it looked so clunky. It just didn't have the functionality of JomSocial. Keep in mind that there was a problem integrating CB with the bridge that I was using back in the day (2006). The fact that the bridge was un-maintainable killed that off pretty quick. I just never really saw the 'community' part of it. It always struck me as a great profile enhancement instead of a 'community builder'. Does that make sense? Contributing video means having the ability to utilize a WYSIWYG editor, or doing some simple tagging. I'm having a hard time getting people to add avatars when there are size constraints. I did have some luck with people submitting video in the forums, but some is the key. JomSocial will allow for automagic parsing of video URLs, and I'll probably have to hack the plugin to allow blip embeds. Had to do that for a couple forum applications and Media Wiki, so nothing new there... Allvideos Reloaded is a really wonderful plugin that automates video embedding, but Stan just told me that the developer is MIA since July. It'll get co-opted though, as it's the best video add on to Joomla I've found. Seyret looks promising as a video solution for Joomla, but the developers have been dragging their heels on supporting 1.5, and I would have pursued Drupal if it were not for J1.5. I think that HWD Mediashare might be the killer app for Joomla. It's ugly and clunky right now, but the forums are very active and their moving on porting to a smarty template, which could bode well for them and multimedia on Joomla. My 'large project' will feature pay to play video quite heavily. Whether or not it's just a blip pro account for streaming (I Think the blip player is the best looking player I've ever seen...Image is everything...), downloadable video or local hosting we offer will depend on the next few months of development. Check out this link for an example of a pay to play instructional video via streaming blip: http://k9disc.com/index.php?/Links/ I'd love to talk more about this. Any feedback? more questions? peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Dec 8, 2008, at 3:55 PM, myfirstmemorydotorg wrote: Hey there, so you are using JomSocial. Did you also try Community Builder and if so, any feedback? Have you considered having people contribute video, and if so, how? Cheers, MyFirstMemory.org --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joomla as Video Portal --- Here's something that I don't know if any of you know about. http://hwdmediashare.co.uk From the website: hwdVideoShare is a powerful video gallery for Joomla that allows you to display video media in an organised and managable layout on the Internet. hwdVideoShare can handle the uploading, server-side processing and playback of large video media in all popular formats. I'm looking at this for the 'large project' I've been talking about for the last year or so, but it's an alpha release right now, and the current styling is not very good. The developer seems to be the bomb, though, he's making it happen real quick and has a great reputation for delivering outstanding support very quickly. From what I can see, that's an understatement. I'm not sure which direction I'm going to go, but this is a possibility. There is also a real nice video tool for joomla, called All Videos Reloaded: http://allvideos.fritz-elfert.de/ Very cool stuff. Joomla is becoming much more robust, and is really starting to embrace media and social networking. Check out my old standard: http://k9disc.com . If you goto Main MenuConnectDisc Dog Cantina to see a brand spankin' new Social Networking component, JomSocial, in action. I think it looks pretty slick and has been well received by the disc dog community. I'm not real happy with the organizational structure, but I'm about ready to wrap it into that 'large project'. More on the 'large project' --- I'm in the process of creating a dog sport community, not unlike k9disc.com - but BIGGER - that will feature pay to play instructional video, a facebook-esque social network, affiliate vendor support, and online magazine. If anyone is interested in discussing Joomla as a media/social network platform, I'd be happy to engage in that conversation. I've been buried in the application for a few months now, and have a lot of information to share. I think Joomla has been overlooked and is under-appreciated application by this community, and would really like to see a little focus put on it by some of you serious video geeks. I sure could use someone to bounce ideas off of. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com [Non-text
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Joomla Video Hosting and Social Network
Sorry about not checking out your vids/site before. I'm on a cel modem in rural Michigan. Not a lot of speed or bandwidth to play with. Are you running J1.5 or 1.0? If you are on 1.5, are you running in Legacy mode, or can you run in legacy mode? If you are running in legacy or 1.0.x, try out Seyret: http:// www.joomlaholic.com/ Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Dec 8, 2008, at 3:55 PM, myfirstmemorydotorg wrote: Hey there, so you are using JomSocial. Did you also try Community Builder and if so, any feedback? Have you considered having people contribute video, and if so, how? Cheers, MyFirstMemory.org --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joomla as Video Portal --- Here's something that I don't know if any of you know about. http://hwdmediashare.co.uk From the website: hwdVideoShare is a powerful video gallery for Joomla that allows you to display video media in an organised and managable layout on the Internet. hwdVideoShare can handle the uploading, server-side processing and playback of large video media in all popular formats. I'm looking at this for the 'large project' I've been talking about for the last year or so, but it's an alpha release right now, and the current styling is not very good. The developer seems to be the bomb, though, he's making it happen real quick and has a great reputation for delivering outstanding support very quickly. From what I can see, that's an understatement. I'm not sure which direction I'm going to go, but this is a possibility. There is also a real nice video tool for joomla, called All Videos Reloaded: http://allvideos.fritz-elfert.de/ Very cool stuff. Joomla is becoming much more robust, and is really starting to embrace media and social networking. Check out my old standard: http://k9disc.com . If you goto Main MenuConnectDisc Dog Cantina to see a brand spankin' new Social Networking component, JomSocial, in action. I think it looks pretty slick and has been well received by the disc dog community. I'm not real happy with the organizational structure, but I'm about ready to wrap it into that 'large project'. More on the 'large project' --- I'm in the process of creating a dog sport community, not unlike k9disc.com - but BIGGER - that will feature pay to play instructional video, a facebook-esque social network, affiliate vendor support, and online magazine. If anyone is interested in discussing Joomla as a media/social network platform, I'd be happy to engage in that conversation. I've been buried in the application for a few months now, and have a lot of information to share. I think Joomla has been overlooked and is under-appreciated application by this community, and would really like to see a little focus put on it by some of you serious video geeks. I sure could use someone to bounce ideas off of. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Joomla Video Hosting and Social Network
Joomla as Video Portal --- Here's something that I don't know if any of you know about. http://hwdmediashare.co.uk From the website: hwdVideoShare is a powerful video gallery for Joomla that allows you to display video media in an organised and managable layout on the Internet. hwdVideoShare can handle the uploading, server-side processing and playback of large video media in all popular formats. I'm looking at this for the 'large project' I've been talking about for the last year or so, but it's an alpha release right now, and the current styling is not very good. The developer seems to be the bomb, though, he's making it happen real quick and has a great reputation for delivering outstanding support very quickly. From what I can see, that's an understatement. I'm not sure which direction I'm going to go, but this is a possibility. There is also a real nice video tool for joomla, called All Videos Reloaded: http://allvideos.fritz-elfert.de/ Very cool stuff. Joomla is becoming much more robust, and is really starting to embrace media and social networking. Check out my old standard: http://k9disc.com . If you goto Main MenuConnectDisc Dog Cantina to see a brand spankin' new Social Networking component, JomSocial, in action. I think it looks pretty slick and has been well received by the disc dog community. I'm not real happy with the organizational structure, but I'm about ready to wrap it into that 'large project'. More on the 'large project' --- I'm in the process of creating a dog sport community, not unlike k9disc.com - but BIGGER - that will feature pay to play instructional video, a facebook-esque social network, affiliate vendor support, and online magazine. If anyone is interested in discussing Joomla as a media/social network platform, I'd be happy to engage in that conversation. I've been buried in the application for a few months now, and have a lot of information to share. I think Joomla has been overlooked and is under-appreciated application by this community, and would really like to see a little focus put on it by some of you serious video geeks. I sure could use someone to bounce ideas off of. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] HitViews (creator/company pairings)
It was an interesting read, but it kind of sounded like the content creators were tools to be used by the advertisers. It just sounded a bit off to me. I understand that entertainment in an ad driven market is a tool, but it just sounded so blatant. It's like when you read your local community rag's parent website and the whole thing is about delivering consumers and the rag's reach. There is a big disconnect between what people think they are getting, a community newspaper, and what the business' really are, and that's marketing vehicles. I wonder if the internet stars can still be the personalities that attracted the people when they become tools of the advertisers. Thanks Schlomo. Interesting stuff. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Dec 2, 2008, at 3:37 PM, schlomo rabinowitz wrote: Hey all Thought you may be interested in this read: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/12/prweb1683004.htm Basically making connections between video creators and brands that want to be associated with them. Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: from david weinberger
Good news! I remember how much of a burden was lifted off of my back when he and the first family were taking the stage in Grant Park. I was never very fond of him either, but I'll tell you, for me, the world changed that moment. Great news on the internet front, but not so much on the financial front. His 'money men' are very disappointing to me. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Nov 24, 2008, at 1:37 PM, Mike Meiser wrote: I second the surreality of it all. It freaks me out. Things have definitely changed... the potential is amazing, but also scary... I would have never thought in my jadded mind that educated non-special interests / lobbiest would ever be sought out as advisors. It's freaking me out man. ...but in a good way. Not to scare anyone, but we're very much in an atlas shrugged type moment in history... a new balance is being struck in dog-eat-dog world of free market capatilism. Let's hope it's all for the better. -Mike mmeiser.com/blog On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:44 PM, scoobyfox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is wonderful news. It's kinda been surreal to watch intelligent things from Obama's actual answering of questions (in complete sentences no less!) at his first press conference to this! heather --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Irina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has the Internet been saved? When Stephen Schultze http://managingmiracles.blogspot.com/ stopped me in the hallway and told me that Susan Crawford http://scrawford.net/ blog/ had been appointed head of Obama's FCC transition team, I thought I was being punk'd. It was too good to be true. So, Stephen and I went to an open computer and Googled. Yup. But the news was actually even better: Kevin Werbach http://werblog.com/ has been appointed as co-lead. I was giddy with joy, for two reasons. First, it just might mean that the Internet has been saved. There are many threats to the Net, and there always will be. But one is particularly nasty and urgent. The business model of the incumbent carriers in the US primarily telephone and cable companies focuses not on simply providing us with as many bits as we want, but rather on getting us to buy content and services from them. This makes it too tempting to them to tilt the market toward their offerings, and to optimize the system for the sort of content they provide (e.g., high def Hollywood movies), which means de-optimizing it for other types of content (e.g., YouTubes). This problem is exacerbated by the lack of a truly open, truly competitive market. Susan and Kevin come at these issues not as representatives of the incumbent industries but as Internet folks. They are, I believe, deeply committed to the spread of the open Internet. But, they are not ideologues. They are capable of listening, finding what's of value and what matters in views with which they disagree, and moderating their views. They are informed, intelligent, reasonable, and sweet. You come out of a disagreement with them feeling better about us all. Which brings me to the second reason I am so happy about their appointment. Imagine a government that values the qualities Susan and Kevin embody. Imagine a government that doesn't go for the lazy, safe wedge issues that divide us, but actually tries to find ways we can move forward together. Imagine a government that thinks not first about winning the argument but about how we can live together afterwards. Imagine a government that assumes our better natures. No need to imagine such a government. We just elected one. -- http://geekentertainment.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: from david weinberger
Nope, the last waves of an old, shitty one. The waste fraud and abuse that took place in this country over the last 20 years is astonishing. Those money men Obama hired were part of the problem though, so who knows... peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Nov 24, 2008, at 11:02 PM, liza jean wrote: even as Obama's ecomomic advisors were being announced fed ex delivered notice to my father that his '07 taxes had been revised upwards by a little under $20K. due in less than 13 days. first notice. includes 6 months intrest. the first wave of our brave new world? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Irina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has the Internet been saved? When Stephen Schultze http://managingmiracles.blogspot.com/ stopped me in the hallway and told me that Susan Crawford http://scrawford.net/blog/ had been appointed head of Obama's FCC transition team, I thought I was being punk'd. It was too good to be true. So, Stephen and I went to an open computer and Googled. Yup. But the news was actually even better: Kevin Werbach http://werblog.com/ has been appointed as co-lead. I was giddy with joy, for two reasons. First, it just might mean that the Internet has been saved. There are many threats to the Net, and there always will be. But one is particularly nasty and urgent. The business model of the incumbent carriers in the US primarily telephone and cable companies focuses not on simply providing us with as many bits as we want, but rather on getting us to buy content and services from them. This makes it too tempting to them to tilt the market toward their offerings, and to optimize the system for the sort of content they provide (e.g., high def Hollywood movies), which means de-optimizing it for other types of content (e.g., YouTubes). This problem is exacerbated by the lack of a truly open, truly competitive market. Susan and Kevin come at these issues not as representatives of the incumbent industries but as Internet folks. They are, I believe, deeply committed to the spread of the open Internet. But, they are not ideologues. They are capable of listening, finding what's of value and what matters in views with which they disagree, and moderating their views. They are informed, intelligent, reasonable, and sweet. You come out of a disagreement with them feeling better about us all. Which brings me to the second reason I am so happy about their appointment. Imagine a government that values the qualities Susan and Kevin embody. Imagine a government that doesn't go for the lazy, safe wedge issues that divide us, but actually tries to find ways we can move forward together. Imagine a government that thinks not first about winning the argument but about how we can live together afterwards. Imagine a government that assumes our better natures. No need to imagine such a government. We just elected one. -- http://geekentertainment.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Recording Live audio from different locations
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] Buy this song
Very good article about reading v watching... http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081110_america_the_illiterate/ Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Nov 12, 2008, at 4:33 PM, Adriana Kaegi wrote: What i like about video being the new webpage is that with a good video, you can get your message across without having to read, Nobody likes to read text on the screen. Also, I like the subliminal advertising via product placement in video content. If it is an obvious advertisement it can have hyperlinks = e-commerce solutions with an in the moment buying experience. How cool- to be able to get what you want when you want it. INSTANT gratification! I worked on a demo like that years ago, so i am happy that we are getting closer. I also do not like static pages, video can be interactive and viral it is much cooler then any static page and banners.. that is so old school. Hope that helps you understand my excitement. Do you agree? Adriana Kaegi http://dearaddy.com --- On Wed, 11/12/08, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Buy this song To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 4:02 PM Just for conversations sake, what do you like about video is the new webpage? Sure, we already have banner ads on videos, what other webpagey thing would you be excited about on your videos? I really hope New Cinema will not want to be Old Webpage. Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking AIM:schlomochat On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Adriana Kaegi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that is the greatest thing i heard today video is the next webpage! yehh that makes me smile! --- On Wed, 11/12/08, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]schlomo%40gmail.com wrote: From: schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] schlomo%40gmail.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Buy this song To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 3:45 PM Well that just depressed me. Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking AIM:schlomochat On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:34 PM, sull [EMAIL PROTECTED] sulleleven%40gmail.com wrote: In other words, video is the new webpage. On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 2:57 PM, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] schlomo%40gmail.comschlomo%40gmail.com wrote: I agree; I think some viewers will click and purchase. I also predict that videos on the youtubes will be obscured with dozens of little text boxes. All of them linking/selling/contextualizing the video to death so that the video is just the delivery mechanism for these little boxes of commerce and comments. I'm only kinda kidding. But I do kinda believe it. Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Izea/Social Spark/CloudShout
Hey all, Just wondering if anyone has any comments on Izea and their child companies: http://izea.com http://cloudshout.com http://socialspark.com Sure looks interesting to me. peace, ron
Re: [videoblogging] Blip Changes?
figured it out. totally my bad. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Nov 10, 2008, at 10:32 AM, Ron Watson wrote: Hey, Did blip change their URL structure recently? I hacked my forum software to allow blip embeds, and all of a sudden they are not working. I noticed that the URL on a new video an associate posted is in a different format: showname.blip.tv/file... it used to be just blip.tv/file Anybody? peace, ron [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Blip Changes?
Hey, Did blip change their URL structure recently? I hacked my forum software to allow blip embeds, and all of a sudden they are not working. I noticed that the URL on a new video an associate posted is in a different format: showname.blip.tv/file... it used to be just blip.tv/file Anybody? peace, ron
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Defending Videographer's Rights in Court
Great post Jay... I thought the same thing. It's a small world for us independent content creators. I'm constantly running into folks from this list all over the place. Take it to them, Renat. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Nov 9, 2008, at 5:24 PM, Jay dedman wrote: As far as whining about this experience on blogs to create bad rep for them; It is an option, but I think it only creates more PR for them in the end. And what are the chances that the future videographers they're about to hire will see those blogs? They might, if they ever gotten screwed before, but I think this company looks for emerging talent to be able to have a free ride by offering them either exposure or money in the near future. I must mention that they did offer $300 for the Halloween gig, and later in addition to that wanted 3 more videos delivered in a week timing. That's what promted me to start this dialog that turned ugly. come on Renat. I hope I dont have to point out the absurdity of calling blogging about your situation as whining. if anything, you're leaving a bread trail so other videographers wont be taken advantage of. I know I always google any person/company im going to do work with. opinions matter. And the web makes them matter for a long time. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] The Death of the internet as we know it....
I have seen Zeitgeist. I did enjoy it. I liked the myth stuff more than the current events, but I liked it nonetheless. I tend to over use the triple period thing... what is that called again? ;-) Certainly not hesitation, just an incomplete thought. I've noticed it cropping up more and more in my internet correspondence. Bad, bad writer. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Nov 8, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Patrick Delongchamp wrote: Ironically, though the PERIOD expressed strong hidebounded certainty, the trailing ... seemed to show doubt and hesitation. Just being silly. ;) Ron, have you seen the internet flick Zeitgeist? You would thoroughly enjoy it. http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/ On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Ron Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd totally agree with you adrian, IF, and that's a serious if, the same multimedia companies (lets not kind ourselves that they are simply bandwidth providers) were not ramping up their own multimedia streams that make ours look silly. I've no doubt that the bandwidth constraints will have no relationship to this content, and in fact, I'd bet we'll have to pay for each separately. Point is that they are doing this shit to make their plans work out. If it were only as altruistic as saving energy, and having a smaller footprint... It's not it's about profit and control of information, PERIOD... peace, Ron On Nov 6, 2008, at 9:38 PM, Adrian Miles wrote: Not sure I have tthis right but if it is a monthly cap then this is the norm here in Australia and always has been. Has been one of the reasons why I argue very strongly for proper compression and also other aesthetic requirements in videoblogging. I get 8GB a month, but have the advantage of a university job during the day. A feature film is around 500MB, so that's 16 features a month, which if you're a AV professional is not much, but for the majority is probably in the ball park. However, I am going to poke the possum here (colloquial Australian expression, stir up things if you like). I don't understand why there is an attitude where bandwidth is treated as infinite and not a finite resource. It is a finite resource. Data and digital duplication of our material is trivial, but transferring that to other places is not. For example, even in Australia the majority of our schools have quite poor bandwidth, and if I want my work to be viewed in regional Australia (and for that matter parts of rural United States) then I have to be aware that bandwidth is constrained. Now bandwidth might be fast or slow, but it does have a width, and it is a material infrastructure with its associated costs. Just as with telephony there are international, national, and local agreements about how much a byte costs, and while the telcos might make lots from it (or not), the pipes are not infinite. Treating it as infinite leads to what I teach my students is bandwidth pollution. Emails with stupid large attachments, videos that run to gigabytes. First industrialised world bandwidth arrogance is the internet equivalent of cheap oil (the analogy is simply if oil is finite, but cheap, then there is little incentive not to use it, in spite of it's inevitable disappearance and of course the pollution it is causing). The solution then becomes simply adding more. More cables, more electricity to run it all, and presumably more time for us to actually view all this extra material (I know, that's facetious). Here in my state we used to (20 years ago) think that water was infinite, and you pretty much got it for free. Then they started charging for it, on the reasonable basis that a) some people used more than others so if you had a swimming pool and fancy garden why shouldn't you pay more? and b) it required expensive infrastructure which needed to be paid for and c) it might encourage water conversation. We are now in a major and prolonged drought with substantial water restrictions. The governments response is to spend billions on desalination and pipelines (bigger fatter pipes) instead of spending the same money on ways to reduce our demand for water. I live on the driest continent on earth yet outside my window right now are English style gardens with roses, azaleas and fuschias. The point? Bigger pipes is like cheap oil is like infinite bandwidth. It supports an economy (of mind, of practice and of institutions) which thinks the answer is simply more, not less. Compress properly, think about length. Sustainability applies here as much (if not more given the energy demands of the net) as the real world. And the model of I should have as much as I want translates poorly outside of very specific cultural and political
[videoblogging] Joomla as Media Platform?
Hi all, I do a lot of work with Joomla, and after upgrading to 1.5 and adding some mods, I've found it to be a pretty nice multimedia platform. http://k9disc.com is the current project I've been working on. It's a bit more than a videoblog, and because of the nature of the community and my lack of video content of late, I'm not really utilizing it as well as I could be, but the old joomla embedding problems and such have been smoothed over quite a bit. Which reminds me I need to check back with Blip and see if the automagic export function works with J1.5. If anyone is interested in talking about this further, I'd be happy to share some information. Peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] The Death of the internet as we know it....
I'd totally agree with you adrian, IF, and that's a serious if, the same multimedia companies (lets not kind ourselves that they are simply bandwidth providers) were not ramping up their own multimedia streams that make ours look silly. I've no doubt that the bandwidth constraints will have no relationship to this content, and in fact, I'd bet we'll have to pay for each separately. Point is that they are doing this shit to make their plans work out. If it were only as altruistic as saving energy, and having a smaller footprint... It's not it's about profit and control of information, PERIOD... peace, Ron On Nov 6, 2008, at 9:38 PM, Adrian Miles wrote: Not sure I have tthis right but if it is a monthly cap then this is the norm here in Australia and always has been. Has been one of the reasons why I argue very strongly for proper compression and also other aesthetic requirements in videoblogging. I get 8GB a month, but have the advantage of a university job during the day. A feature film is around 500MB, so that's 16 features a month, which if you're a AV professional is not much, but for the majority is probably in the ball park. However, I am going to poke the possum here (colloquial Australian expression, stir up things if you like). I don't understand why there is an attitude where bandwidth is treated as infinite and not a finite resource. It is a finite resource. Data and digital duplication of our material is trivial, but transferring that to other places is not. For example, even in Australia the majority of our schools have quite poor bandwidth, and if I want my work to be viewed in regional Australia (and for that matter parts of rural United States) then I have to be aware that bandwidth is constrained. Now bandwidth might be fast or slow, but it does have a width, and it is a material infrastructure with its associated costs. Just as with telephony there are international, national, and local agreements about how much a byte costs, and while the telcos might make lots from it (or not), the pipes are not infinite. Treating it as infinite leads to what I teach my students is bandwidth pollution. Emails with stupid large attachments, videos that run to gigabytes. First industrialised world bandwidth arrogance is the internet equivalent of cheap oil (the analogy is simply if oil is finite, but cheap, then there is little incentive not to use it, in spite of it's inevitable disappearance and of course the pollution it is causing). The solution then becomes simply adding more. More cables, more electricity to run it all, and presumably more time for us to actually view all this extra material (I know, that's facetious). Here in my state we used to (20 years ago) think that water was infinite, and you pretty much got it for free. Then they started charging for it, on the reasonable basis that a) some people used more than others so if you had a swimming pool and fancy garden why shouldn't you pay more? and b) it required expensive infrastructure which needed to be paid for and c) it might encourage water conversation. We are now in a major and prolonged drought with substantial water restrictions. The governments response is to spend billions on desalination and pipelines (bigger fatter pipes) instead of spending the same money on ways to reduce our demand for water. I live on the driest continent on earth yet outside my window right now are English style gardens with roses, azaleas and fuschias. The point? Bigger pipes is like cheap oil is like infinite bandwidth. It supports an economy (of mind, of practice and of institutions) which thinks the answer is simply more, not less. Compress properly, think about length. Sustainability applies here as much (if not more given the energy demands of the net) as the real world. And the model of I should have as much as I want translates poorly outside of very specific cultural and political economies. On 05/11/2008, at 7:42 AM, Heath wrote: I just did another post about this from another communications company but now another big dog in the US is going to start limiting bandwidthAT T...I am telling you all, this is going to stiffle most video on the web, at some of these limits watching one movie over Netflix will put you over for the month. Things like VloMo, will go awayit's scary.its real scary cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: McCain on Blip = a Shame
I wonder how many McCain points this piece was worth? I smell troll... I'll be holding my nose, voting for the least likely to wipe their ass with the constitution. peace, Ron On Oct 16, 2008, at 7:27 PM, Gena wrote: Michael, I am probably going to kick myself and have others do it for me for keeping this thread alive but I have to comment on what you have presented. 1. With extremely limited exceptions, freedom of speech is extended to all Americans. Especially the ones I disagree with. It is not debatable. It is, to me, my true claim as an American citizen. I dont' have to like it another point of view. I am equally free to present information that disputes and or supports that point of view. I don't care if he got a Pro account or is trying to save some moolah, he has the right to present his message. And for the record, I am a straight-up Moonbat liberal leaning person who may have minor threads of libertarianism when it comes to giving money to for-profit corporations that f*cked themselves. 2. Blip.tv is a business. If the campaign paid for pro level usage I would not expect them to leave cash money on the table. Not in these times when other video web hosting distribution companies are going dark. 3. There is passion. There is intolerance. It is getting hard to tell them apart. I understand what is being invoked by this extraordinary time in American history. Lies that are being presented as truth. Racism as a badge of honor. Sexism up the ying-yang and you can now pick multiple flavors of identity politics. One of the current gifts of vlogging now is to tell your truth and show your proof of how you can to your thoughts. Let me know when you posted that video, I'll watch. In this community you have to respect that not everyone is going to share your feelings. That is ok. Understand the context of the feedback. Freedom of speech, the right a business to choose who they do business with and a politician's right to use media to reach a target audience. Oh, and my equal right to challenge what I am being told. Peace and power to the (vlogging) people, Gena http://outonthestoop.blogspot.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Schaap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It may sound silly but I am deeply disappointed in Blip.tv for allowing the McCain campaign to use Blip's services. For crying out loud: All the smear filth running from Blip networks... Damn you Blip for this, I think it's a bloody shame! http://johnmccain.blip.tv as you can see, they're running Blip's player even on the front page of http://www.johnmccain.com/ Michael [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Social Widgets
Hi everybody, I was just wondering if anyone could recommend some cool social widgets. I'd like to create a page on our community site where people can have interactive fun, essentially a playground of social widgets, which would get narrowed down to one or 2. Keep in mind that the widgets need be extremely simple, as our members are not geeky in the least. I've got a meebo chat / video room on there right now. http://k9disc.com/index.php?option=com_contentview=frontpageItemid=75 I'd like to throw a few more things up and see if they stick. Peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Wall Color
OK... I really like the look of the new wall. I'll post some shots and some blue screen action soon. I have a couple of questions though... I'm getting a dark blue aura around all of my talent and props. I think it's because I've got a ton of light on the backdrop. What's up with that and how can I fix it? Does anyone have creative ideas on getting a lot of light on a 25'x15' stage? We move around a lot in our video... Thanks again , Rupert... peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Aug 31, 2008, at 2:01 AM, Ron Watson wrote: Well I went with the Chromakey Blue idea, Rupert, and it looks friggin' great! thanks for the suggestion... I'll be sure to post some video soon. Thanks Rupert! peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Aug 29, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Rupert wrote: Astroturf in your studio. How cool is that? I want to get my office astroturfed. Plain bright white is quite a useful colour to paint studio walls, if they're very smooth and especially because you have highish ceilings. White backgrounded videos and photos are ubiquitous - people always seem to respond well to that studio aesthetic. I got big white and black paper rolls installed in a client's studio in London and they get a lot of use out of them now. On the other hand you could paint them a chroma key blue. Then you could choose to have a blue background or digitally insert different backgrounds. I don't know much about the practicality and cost of that, but you'd find a mass of information on it via Google. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 29-Aug-08, at 6:48 AM, Ron Watson wrote: I'd like some suggestions on the color to paint the wall in our training studio that we use as a backdrop for our training videos. We are getting half of the studio astroturfed and are looking to do s serious training DVD. I've been leaning towards a vibrant, rich blue for the wall colors, but I'm not sure. Any suggestions or other information would be appreciated. peace, ron [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Wall Color
Well I went with the Chromakey Blue idea, Rupert, and it looks friggin' great! thanks for the suggestion... I'll be sure to post some video soon. Thanks Rupert! peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Aug 29, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Rupert wrote: Astroturf in your studio. How cool is that? I want to get my office astroturfed. Plain bright white is quite a useful colour to paint studio walls, if they're very smooth and especially because you have highish ceilings. White backgrounded videos and photos are ubiquitous - people always seem to respond well to that studio aesthetic. I got big white and black paper rolls installed in a client's studio in London and they get a lot of use out of them now. On the other hand you could paint them a chroma key blue. Then you could choose to have a blue background or digitally insert different backgrounds. I don't know much about the practicality and cost of that, but you'd find a mass of information on it via Google. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 29-Aug-08, at 6:48 AM, Ron Watson wrote: I'd like some suggestions on the color to paint the wall in our training studio that we use as a backdrop for our training videos. We are getting half of the studio astroturfed and are looking to do s serious training DVD. I've been leaning towards a vibrant, rich blue for the wall colors, but I'm not sure. Any suggestions or other information would be appreciated. peace, ron [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Wall Color
I'd like some suggestions on the color to paint the wall in our training studio that we use as a backdrop for our training videos. We are getting half of the studio astroturfed and are looking to do s serious training DVD. I've been leaning towards a vibrant, rich blue for the wall colors, but I'm not sure. Any suggestions or other information would be appreciated. peace, ron
Re: [videoblogging] Micro wireless
Can you hook up other kinds of mics to the wireless transmitter? Boom mic, Line in, etc? peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Aug 28, 2008, at 1:28 PM, ryanne hodson wrote: we use the Sennheiser EW 100 G2 wireless lavalier mic it takes a beating and sounds great! http://is.gd/20HJ not cheap but worth every penny. -ryanne On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am looking for a wireless micro for my Sony HD1 Essentialy to make interviews Thanks for advises and experiences Amitiés à tous Loiez Loiez Deniel http://www.loiez.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] l.deniel%40modele11.com ! new cell phone : +33 06 08 31 96 98 Skype : ultimcodex M'appeler gratuitement de votre PC sur mon portable http://call.mylivio.com/loiez -- http://RyanIsHungry.com -- Personal: http://RyanEdit.com Current: http://ShowInaBox.tv Twitter: http://twitter.com/ryanne AIM: VideoRodeo [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Micro wireless
I'd like to use that unit for all of my applications. One time I'd like to hook up my boom mic to the transmitter for my camera. Then maybe a lav for my camera. Perhaps I want to hook it up to my sound system for a seminar. Can this rig do that? It looks as if it has multiple outputs and inputs, and I'd suppose that Sennheiser would have a bunch of connective doodads. I'd just like to confirm this, as my wireless mic for my PA system just died. It'd be nice to kill 2 birds with one stone. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Aug 28, 2008, at 2:22 PM, Jay dedman 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 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] A bit of help?
Thanks Frank! Cheers, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jul 20, 2008, at 10:59 AM, Frank Carver wrote: Saturday, July 19, 2008, 11:21:58 PM, Ron Watson wrote: I'd like to get some off list advice on cleaning up a pitch for a broadcast TV show. I'm getting ready to make the pitch via a conference call after a chance personal meeting at dinner a few weeks ago. I sat down next to a TV producer who deals in our kind of stuff and the conversation was magic. It kind of blind sided me. I'd like to follow up on that with her co-workers, and have created a website as a presentation to supplement the conference call. I need some advice on language and presentation. I've gotten some good advice already from a friend, but could use some more eyes. Alex Epstein at http://complicationsensue.blogspot.com/ has written a lot of useful stuff about pitches. I guess it works, because he has had a fair amount of success. Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] FLV: how to change the metadata on a mac
I was told to use visual hub by some folks on this list and it works like a charm. Cheers, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jul 10, 2008, at 11:59 AM, David Terranova wrote: This actually brings me on to another point. Ive been having all sorts of problems when using public players (that arent my own) to play my anamorphic 16:9 FLV videos. When uploading to blip.tv, for example, the widescreen video would be squashed into a square (1:1). After a lot of fiddling around it turns out that my Sorenson Squeeze is setting the metadata of the flv incorrectly: the width is correct, but the height is always the same as the width, which explains why all the players are squashing my videos into squares. Bear in mind that its Squeeze is doing this only with anamorphic formats. Now, apparently theres a way to edit the metadata of an flv after it has been compressed, but the only ways to do this are by using a windows machine. Does anyone know how to edit an FLVs metadata on a mac? Thanks! //-- DAVID TERRANOVA d a v i d t e r r a n o v a . c o m From: Markus Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:45:01 -0700 To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] A free flv player hosted on a public domain? On Jul 10, 2008, at 8:09 AM, David Terranova wrote: Ive got a feeling JW Player is built to not allow crossdomain use, exactly for this reason. actually both can work with externally hosted vids. however, being flash-based, it is up to the host server config as to wether or not to allow vids from other domains, subdomains, etc. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Reasonably Priced Mini DV Camcorder...
I'm sure this has been covered before, but... I'm looking to add a mini dv cam to our 'studio'. I want to use it to interface with my macs to save wear and tear on my GL2. My old sony PC5 is starting to grumble a bit. I need firewire, would prefer Audio/in out and that's about it. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Cheers, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Mogulus Blip Import?
I had the same problem with importing my feed. As soon as the images pop in, you can cancel and the vid info stays there. Then they can be moved where ever you'd like. Cheers Ron Watson On the Web: Pawsitive Vybe K9Disc.com Art of K9Disc Discdog Radio On Jun 22, 2008, at 12:10 AM, B Yen wrote: On Jun 20, 2008, at 12:52 PM, WWWhatsup wrote: Mogulus doesn't work for me in Firefox, only in IE - anyone else have the same prob? I setup a Tesla Motors channel: http://www.mogulus.com/teslamotors could not get Firefox (running on my PowerMac G4/667 over OS X) to take the Blip.tv feeds. Uploading images (thumbnail main image) was INCREDIBLY slow. I went over to my laptop PC (Athlon 2ghz), fired up IE 7,.. it worked: images uploaded quickly the Blip.tv RSS feed was taken. I had some issues with Mogulus, under Safari on my Mac. joly Anybody have any success importing blip.tv feeds into mogulus? Cheers, Ron Watson -- WWWhatsup NYC http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com -- Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Mogulus Blip Import?
It works for me in FF but can be a bit slow and buggy. I got my feed imported but left my firewire cord in Michigan. I'd like to do some live analysis of our vids online. I think that'd be cool. cheers, Ron Watson On the Web: Pawsitive Vybe K9Disc.com Art of K9Disc Discdog Radio On Jun 20, 2008, at 3:52 PM, WWWhatsup wrote: Mogulus doesn't work for me in Firefox, only in IE - anyone else have the same prob? joly Anybody have any success importing blip.tv feeds into mogulus? Cheers, Ron Watson -- WWWhatsup NYC http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com -- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Mogulus Blip Import?
Anybody have any success importing blip.tv feeds into mogulus? Cheers, Ron Watson On the Web: Pawsitive Vybe K9Disc.com Art of K9Disc Discdog Radio [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Copyright and Brightcove
I wouldn't be surprised if Brightcove was using this as an excuse to get rid of a small content provider. It seems as if their entire business model changed in late '07. How long have you been with Brightcove and would you consider yourself a 'small' content provider. Cheers, Ron Watson On May 28, 2008, at 1:36 PM, Roxanne Darling wrote: Sheila - You are the best at sharing your experiences. I think this is overly extreme, and yes, very few would make it through their entire compliance process. We don't use Brightcove; this is a good reason not to. Not sure if anyone from their company is on the list; maybe they are listening? Aloha, Rox On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Brian Richardson - WhatTheCast? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Brightcove's response to your evidence is a sign to stop using them ... If their auditor can't accept the information from the music publisher, then their audit process is flawed. Any artist with a publisher lets the publisher handle licensing, and Brightcove should know this. On Wed, 28 May 2008 12:03 pm, Sheila English wrote: I wanted to know if anyone else has had a similar experience with Brightcove or any other hosting site. A Brightcove rep contacted me to say they would be pulling down one of my videos due to copyright infringement. Since I legally license or create everything I use, I knew there was a mistake. He said that Brightcove now hires a third party auditor to review user content for copyright violations and terms of service violations. Their third party auditor identified the music in my video as copyrighted material. I had 5 days to respond. I responded by sending my official license for the copyright of the song, which I paid for and the receipt for. They said they couldn't take my receipt or the copy of the license given to me when I purchased the license for the use of the song. So I had to involve the company I purchased the music from. That company went through the trouble of verifying the license to Brightcove. Then Brightcove said that's not good enough. Now I have to have the copyright holder, the person who created the music, contact them. And, that person had to use the official Brightcove paperwork, fill it out, send it in, or my video would be taken down. I don't know about any of you, but hunting down the musician, getting him/her/them to fill out an official form for you and submit it seems a bit overkill to me. I understand the copyright issue. I do. But, what other difficulties will this kind of strict auditing and process cause content creators? Next will it be my stock footage and I'll have to find the camera operator? Do you see this as the future of creating original content? Because this makes it terribly hard on the individuals or small companies. Or maybe I'm just a big whiny, baby and everyone else deals with this as a standard part of doing business? Sheila Yahoo! Groups Links Brian Richardson - http://whatthecast.com - http://siliconchef.com - http://dragoncontv.com - http://www.3chip.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] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Solid-state camera recommendation
Heath, do you have a link for Vegas on Mac? I'm googling with no luck... I'll keep trying... Cheers, Ron Watson On May 9, 2008, at 8:59 AM, Heath wrote: Just to echo Rupert's comments, I use Sony Vegas and while I have not worked in HD yet, I have been paying attention to AVCHD, since Panasonic uses that as well. From what I know by checking on fourms, etc Vegas does a really good job at handling AVCHD natively. Depending on some factors you can get Sony Vegas Movie Studio for about 100 bucks and that will edit HD footage, and you can run Vegas on a Mac with bootcamp I think, maybe something to think about... Heath http://batmangeek.com http://heathparks.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, ruperthowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Apple Apps all have means to ingest AVCHD footage. Not quite true. The *newest* Apple apps support AVCHD, but with limitations. The terrible (in my view) new iMovie 08, for instance supports it, but not the better iMovie 6. If you have an older version of iMovie or FCP, you're stuck. But then if you have an older Mac, you're stuck, too. Quick google told me that FCP 6 (the latest version) initially didn't allow AVCHD import, and then was updated last summer to allow it, but with big limitations - only on a Mac Pro and not natively: it transcodes to other codecs that use 10 times more space than native AVCHD. For PCs, Sony Vegas does support AVCHD - and I like Vegas a lot. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Christopher Polack ottorabbit@ wrote: Panasonic also has a hybrid camera - http://www2.panasonic.com/consumer-electronics/shop/Cameras- Camcorders/Camcorders/Hi-Def-Camcorders/model.HDC- HS9_11002_7005702 Check respective NLE software sites for AVCHD workflow info. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Solid-state camera recommendation
I ran Vegas 3 and 4 back in 2003-2005 then I got a mac. Hadn't thought about dual booting with XP... I'm going to be doing some DVD authoring, though, and don't know whether or not I want to go back to Vegas. I mentioned this a while back, but... I'm looking at a 15 macbook pro (4GB) with FCP Studio. Not sure how I want to proceed. Vegas would be cheaper, but then I have to buy a seat of XP, and I lose out on 3D and have less options on DVD authoring... Hmm... Any thoughts? Ron Watson On May 9, 2008, at 10:19 AM, Heath wrote: I like Vegas so much that if I do get a Mac, I would still run Vegas via bootcamp or Parallels. I've been using Vegas for over 2 years now so if anyone has any questions about it, just let me know. Heath http://batmageek.com http://heathparks.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, ruperthowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's PC only, Ron - but Heath was suggesting using it on a Mac running Windows via Bootcamp or Parallels. Rupert --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson k9disc@ wrote: Heath, do you have a link for Vegas on Mac? I'm googling with no luck... I'll keep trying... Cheers, Ron Watson On May 9, 2008, at 8:59 AM, Heath wrote: Just to echo Rupert's comments, I use Sony Vegas and while I have not worked in HD yet, I have been paying attention to AVCHD, since Panasonic uses that as well. From what I know by checking on fourms, etc Vegas does a really good job at handling AVCHD natively. Depending on some factors you can get Sony Vegas Movie Studio for about 100 bucks and that will edit HD footage, and you can run Vegas on a Mac with bootcamp I think, maybe something to think about... Heath http://batmangeek.com http://heathparks.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, ruperthowe rupert@ wrote: The Apple Apps all have means to ingest AVCHD footage. Not quite true. The *newest* Apple apps support AVCHD, but with limitations. The terrible (in my view) new iMovie 08, for instance supports it, but not the better iMovie 6. If you have an older version of iMovie or FCP, you're stuck. But then if you have an older Mac, you're stuck, too. Quick google told me that FCP 6 (the latest version) initially didn't allow AVCHD import, and then was updated last summer to allow it, but with big limitations - only on a Mac Pro and not natively: it transcodes to other codecs that use 10 times more space than native AVCHD. For PCs, Sony Vegas does support AVCHD - and I like Vegas a lot. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Christopher Polack ottorabbit@ wrote: Panasonic also has a hybrid camera - http://www2.panasonic.com/consumer-electronics/shop/Cameras- Camcorders/Camcorders/Hi-Def-Camcorders/model.HDC- HS9_11002_7005702 Check respective NLE software sites for AVCHD workflow info. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] go to hell
Hey Stan, Check out the new version of the site. Pawsitive Vybe 3.0.1 beta : http://pawsitivevybe.com/main Please offer any suggestions about traffic flow, load times, info management and presentation, and design. Cheers, Ron Watson Pawsitive Vybe 11659 Berrigan Ave Cedar Springs, MI 49319 http://pawsitivevybe.com Personal Contact: 616.443.3984 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On the Web: Pawsitive Vybe K9Disc.com Art of K9Disc Discdog Radio On Apr 28, 2008, at 10:24 PM, Sull wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVky7hwuebU ;) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] go to hell
Well that's friggin' beautiful! Not only did I send a personal message globally, I also got to give up my full signature AND hijack a thread with shameless pimpage. Sorry guys... I guess if you have any comments feel free to shoot them on over... Cheers, Ron Watson On Apr 28, 2008, at 10:48 PM, Ron Watson wrote: Hey Stan, Check out the new version of the site. Pawsitive Vybe 3.0.1 beta : http://pawsitivevybe.com/main Please offer any suggestions about traffic flow, load times, info management and presentation, and design. Cheers, Ron Watson On Apr 28, 2008, at 10:24 PM, Sull wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVky7hwuebU ;) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
