[videoblogging] Re: vimeo is going to stop hosting source videos (starting August 1st)

2009-07-05 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman jay.ded...@... wrote: ... 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

[videoblogging] Re: Problem with Embedding YouTube Videos

2009-06-28 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman jay.ded...@... wrote: ... I agree that's why the vPIP player has been so useful because it stops the video when you press pause. And more customizable. Why not just use the vPIP player? Does it still work for you...or is being on Youtube

[videoblogging] B H Disappointment

2009-06-28 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
I've been doing business with B H for over 20 years. A lot of business. And all that time, I've been an ardent B H booster. I called them today and explained that I'm considering buying a Sony HVR Z5 and wanted to know when it would be available as they are not in stock. I also explained

[videoblogging] Videos from Iran

2009-06-16 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
Amazing videos from citizen journalists/participants in Iran on Twitter. I suggest following #iranelection and watch the news flow. I am amazed at how people are getting info out of the country through back doors when so many of the channels are being blocked. Stan Hirson

[videoblogging] Re: Has anybody used the Xacti E2?

2009-04-05 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert rup...@... wrote: I do yearn for that Xacti pistol grip, though... Rupert http://twittervlog.tv I don't want to start a debate here, but there are some trade-offs depending on what kind of shooting you are doing. If you are trying to

[videoblogging] Re: The Interwebs show, business of tech and new media

2009-04-04 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert rup...@... wrote: . I might do a brief video about this next week for videoblogging week so you all can see what I'm talking about. I hope you do! I sure could use it. I think we all could. Great explanation of SEO. Stan Stan Hirson

[videoblogging] Re: Has anybody used the Xacti E2?

2009-04-03 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert rup...@... wrote: I know a bunch of you have used the E1 - and I've loved the quality of the images that people like Ryanne Jay have captured with it, despite the occasional water-related failure. I don't want an HD Xacti - I just need

[videoblogging] Re: Help!! need some help with drupal and dreamhost

2009-03-18 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Milt Lee m...@... wrote: Hi folks - does anybody here use Dreamhost, AND have a drupal site there? I really need some help with an issue I'm having. Dreamhost has limit of 7mb for uploads. I find this strange since if you have a wordpress blog on

[videoblogging] Re: breakthrough for open video on the web

2009-03-17 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman jay.ded...@... wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Michael Verdi michaelve...@... wrote: I had a chance to grab the new firefox beta today and play with ogg video. I made a screencast about it here:

[videoblogging] Re: Promoting the .mov option online

2009-03-14 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman jay.ded...@... wrote: Verdi wrote a post about this here: http://reports.graymattergravy.com/2008/03/16/flash-h264/ Jay The video in the post looks great, but it is encoded at about 1100kbps and I try to keep my Flash videos at a bitrate of

[videoblogging] Re: Meet the elite!

2009-03-09 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert rup...@... wrote: Anyway, now the media has an official organisation to talk to when they do stories about Web TV. So if the rest of us want to have a voice in media discussion of web video (its present state and its future), we'd better

[videoblogging] Re: Transparent Video Player

2009-03-04 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert rup...@... wrote: ...And I have to say, the talking heads are usually trying to give you useful information about the company - in a way that might be attractive or interesting to some visitors who don't want to just read a lot of text. So

[videoblogging] Re: new Wordpress Video plugin

2009-02-18 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman jay.ded...@... wrote: ... We used to have more coders in this community who would use tools like this. I think the rise and fall of creators, business folks, and developers are cyclical in this group. I've wondered about this, too. Is it

[videoblogging] Re: new Wordpress Video plugin

2009-02-18 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman jay.ded...@... wrote: ... when people are working on projects on their own time, it's got to feel fun or groundbreaking. maybe online video has hit that next stage where it's not so new anymore. its here and not obvious where it's going to go

[videoblogging] Re: Backing up your media

2009-02-01 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Josh Paul joshp...@... wrote: ... I recently had a nasty drive failure (my Drobo and its backup both failed on the same day...with Seagate drives no less). Josh, can you share what happened? Or how? I have been considering the Drobo as a backup. What

[videoblogging] Re: Joomla Video Hosting and Social Network

2009-01-12 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov innom...@... 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

[videoblogging] Re: Video plugins for wordpress

2008-12-17 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman jay.ded...@... wrote: Nothing really mind blowing here, but Krystian pointed me to thsi page: http://www.longtailvideo.com/addons/plugins Different plugins aimed at video folks. They do have a nice little how to when building functionality

[videoblogging] Re: Joomla Video Hosting and Social Network

2008-12-05 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
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. Hey Ron, As you know, I use Joomla for my videos.

[videoblogging] Re: CBS videoblogs

2008-08-24 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In this case, why on earth would the producer set up a low budget videoblog for clarkandmichael.com, with a total cost per episode of just a few hundred dollars, when he can artificially inflate the budget by hiring

[videoblogging] Re: Sanyo Xacti HD1010 4MP MPEG4 High Definition 1080i/1080p Camcorder with 10x Opti

2008-07-13 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Garfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Might be the one to get... I've been holding off on HD because I didn't want to have to render the video after copying to hard drive... This one saves video as MPEG-4 H.264. What's your workflow for editing

[videoblogging] Re: Skinning the JW Media Player

2008-07-02 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Version 4 is out today and it includes the ability to easily skin it. I've been using the older version for a few days and this morning I noticed that my player had changed on http://lifewithhorses.com. Just like

[videoblogging] Autostart Flash Video Loops... Possible?

2008-06-24 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
I´ve been using vPIP for embedding Flash videos. I would now like to place a small short video loop that would autostart when the page loads. I would like it to play without the visitor having to click anything. I´ve been looking through my vPIP documentation and it seems as if autostart is

[videoblogging] Re: Autostart Flash Video Loops... Possible?

2008-06-24 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It can be done. (Snip) A faster and easier solution would be to use Jerone Wijering's setup wizard and grab the code and paste it into your site: http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?page=wizard Bless you, Verdi. I had

[videoblogging] Re:From Mac *TO* PC -- Should I Switch?

2008-06-12 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Roxanne Darling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...I'll repeat my first comment in part - I truly admire being able to look at things objectively when group mind goes so strongly in one direction. I was curious to see what I would learn in the thread. And for me

[videoblogging] From Mac *TO* PC -- Should I Switch?

2008-06-09 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
I'm a long-time Apple user. I started with them on a II+ with incursions into DOS and Windows, but for almost 10 years now I have been using Apple and editing on FCP. I have been a satisfied Mac user until a couple of years ago when I had various issues with upgrade policies and software

[videoblogging] Re: Easy implement pay-per-download?

2008-05-20 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any easy systems out there for implementing either pay-per-download clips or some kind of gated members area? Keeping in mind that, beyond cutting and pasting HTML, I have NO coding skills whatsoever... You

[videoblogging] Re: camera advice

2008-03-27 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, josheklow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm shopping around for a new camera for vlogging as well as other video projects. Will the camera be hand-held? So far the discussion has been about specs and image quality somehow devoid from the shooter. I

[videoblogging] Re: Sony Vegas v. Final Cut

2008-03-04 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, danielmcvicar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Brook, Heath and everyone. To define my question, as requested, I wanted a comparison in basic workflow efficiency for typical video. I know that final cut is supposed to have more capability. I just wanted

[videoblogging] Re: QuckTime 7.4 and FCP 4.5HD Disaster -- Finally, A Solution

2008-02-14 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
. Good Luck. Bill BillCammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones shirson@ wrote: Anyone else have trouble with the QT 7.4 update? I made a huge mistake and fixed something that wasn't broken until I fixed it. There are lots of messages on Apple

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

2008-02-07 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, ryanne hodson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my computer just alerted me that 7.4.1 is available this might help, like verdi suggested. anything? On Feb 7, 2008 11:32 AM, Michael Verdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried the new QT 7.4.1 update?

[videoblogging] Re: Shaky Vlogger Need Imput

2008-02-06 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Gena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tripods but there are situations where I can't take them or environmental conditions were I wouldn't be able to get them in the door. I would like a few affordable = under $250 steadycam or monopod suggestions. I've

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

2008-02-05 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Brook Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 7.4 also breaks renders over 10 minutes long (that's rendering time, not project time) in After Effects, and misc. problems have been reported with pre-FCPStudio2 Apple Pro products as well, though its the After

[videoblogging] Re: Fair use in the Digital Age

2008-01-17 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My point is that there seems to be an idea that online videos are like individually wrapped movies not to be touched, instead of pieces of a large conversation we can all use to talk to each other. This watch but

[videoblogging] Re: FILE CRISIS: PLEASE HELP

2008-01-09 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, mcmpress [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I need some serious help. I have a 4G SDHC card full of video files I can't retrieve. When I put it in my card reader and put the card reader in my USB, I am getting an error message that says the disk is not

[videoblogging] Re: video gallery wordpress plugin?

2008-01-03 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The blog started as a diary format for text. But what if I dont see my video work as a linear narrative where old posts gets buried under August 2006. The fact that i made a video in August 2006 is irrelevant to how I

[videoblogging] Re: My Amends To Robert Scoble

2007-12-26 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Robert Scoble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . One thing I wanted to say over there is that PodTech invested more than a million dollars in this community (seriously, I have the receipts, we hired dozens of videobloggers and even had a few on our staff,

[videoblogging] Re: Amazon S3 for Flash Videos

2007-12-21 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
you can throw at it. +Nathan On Dec 18, 2007 2:11 PM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nathan-- do you know much about Amazon's s3 service? Stan has some issues he's dealing with. Jay -- Forwarded message -- From: Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones [EMAIL

[videoblogging] Re: Amazon S3 for Flash Videos

2007-12-18 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Nathan Freitas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It works well for progressive video streaming - somewhat of a lightweight CDN. The downside is that it does basically infinitely scale - if you get Dugg or Boing'd be prepared for the costs, as S3 will handle just

[videoblogging] Re: What kind of Pro camera should I get?

2007-12-14 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryanne and I have also been in the market for a new HD camera for our professional work. I am no expert, but what I crave is a bigger lens. The smaller, consumer HD cameras look very very good.but for the money, I

[videoblogging] Progressive vs Interlace Cameras for the Web

2007-12-06 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
I have a video blog of videos of horses often in fast action. I am considering a move to HD. I would continue to put my web videos on SD because I insist on a birate no greater than 512 kbs in Flash for my visitors and would lay the HD originals off for future purposes. I see that there are a

[videoblogging] Re: finding the codec/bitrate of an FLV

2007-12-01 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Sorenson H.263, 480x270, 15 fps, 1157.66 kbits/sec. (duration 1.06, filesize 8.43MB) I used firebug in firefox to determine flv url Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Adam

[videoblogging] Re: Which Xacti?

2007-11-23 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Sull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone use the HD version? I decided against the HD version because I wanted a walk-around camera for my vlogs (which I compress at 500 kbs for streaming in Flash so I could not see how HD would work) that would be good in

[videoblogging] Re: New Member Intro

2007-11-22 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Markus Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like you are using Joomla and blip.tv to power your site. How do you like using that combo for a vlog? Anyone else using Joomla? I have been using Joomla for about a year now to run my website

[videoblogging] Re: free video converter for PC

2007-10-17 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all I ran into this and thought some of you PC users may be interested in it: http://www.erightsoft.com/Superdc.html Looks pretty robust and its free! Basically, it looks like it gives an easy-to-use

[videoblogging] Re: video blogging / facebook / myspace / you tube

2007-09-13 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple reasons why other people like to maintain their own site: --A blog is an artform in itself. I want to be able to design it anyway I want...with all the functionality I want. . I see many vloggers

[videoblogging] Re: Xacti E1 Work Flow Suggestions?

2007-09-02 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just bought and tried an Xacti E1. The shooting experience was mixed and I plan to do more, but editing has been hideous. I transferred the H.264 files onto my Mac PowerBook, but from there on it has been

[videoblogging] Leechvideo

2007-06-07 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
What's the scoop on Leechvideo.com? One of my videos was lifted from YouTube with tags and description. No details on times viewed, etc., but it did include the link to my website. It just seemed odd... Compare: YouTube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=gG4NwU24FXI Leechvideo:

[videoblogging] Re: Locating URL address of video

2007-06-05 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, waltwst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot seem to find the URL address of the video I am wanting to place on my page via VPIP. Is there some simple way to determine the exact URL address of my video. I have tried many, many addresses which are not

[videoblogging] Re: Joomla versus Zend PHP for Web 2.0 community

2007-05-21 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It can get quite confusing. Not exactly comparing like for like, although the end results may be the same. I think Steve has given an excellent response to the question. I am not a programmer or developer and

[videoblogging] Re: Dreamhost vs blip.tv?

2007-04-04 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: New to vlogging and setting up my vlog now. Not certain whether I should go with an inexpensive high disk-space / bandwidth server (dreamhost) or a host such as blip.tv. This will be on my own domain. I¹ve read

[videoblogging] Re: Video Server

2007-02-08 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know a lot of people use Dreamhost, but for anyone thinking of signing up, I'd check out David Meade's recent experiences with them at www.davidmeade.com - poor support, so common to Hosting services, which is yet

[videoblogging] Re: Paid Subscription + CMS

2007-01-23 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you were going to try sell useful educational material on the internet, how would you protect those video froms being wholesale taken on the internets? What precautions would you take? I am thinking of a

[videoblogging] Re: First John Edwards. What Happens Next?

2006-12-29 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Pulver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] The last thing anyone needs is to see legacy broadcasting rules applied to the Internet. But what happens when legacy broadcasting behavior and content are applied to the internet? We are seeing quite a bit of

[videoblogging] Re: MySpace Suicide Note -Solution

2006-12-22 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
This made me recall the Death of a videoblogger Kevin Kutz hoax last April. When the social lines defining reality from fiction are blurred, less attention is paid. There is then just so much noise. We never found out what Kevin learned from the post other than that he needed sleep. Stan

[videoblogging] Re: Network2 - Some Changes

2006-12-18 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, [chrisbrogan.com] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... We've included a big fat Visit Website next to the show name. We display the Original Post, the Original Media, the Visit Website link again over to the right. We've put the original blog post underneath the

[videoblogging] Re: Great Joomla plugin

2006-12-11 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Holy Cow! Very sweet new mambot, or plugin for Joomla. You can embed video with a simple expression such as: {movremote} http://url.com/filename.mov{/movremote}, making it easy for multiple user blogs. Compatible

[videoblogging] Re: vPIP 0.16g Beta (maintenance) released

2006-12-09 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Enric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The HTML code is compatible with prior versions. So there shouldn't be a problem. Let me know otherwise. -- Enric --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jan / The Faux Press jannie.jan@ wrote: Has the html code

[videoblogging] Re: Media RSS what?

2006-12-06 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mike Hudack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure I agree with that. Content management systems are designed to help non-programmers build Web sites, aren't they? Isn't their purpose to abstract all that dreck? Mike, Yes. That is their purpose and

[videoblogging] Re: Media RSS what?

2006-12-06 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stan, Nice site. I'm on a cel connection in the middle of an internet black hole in rural michigan, otherwise I would most likely have some nice things to say about your video as well. Anyway, I run both Joomla

[videoblogging] Re: Nokia N93

2006-11-30 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The N95 may well be the iPod killer for the vlogging crew. Salivating, inventing reasons to spring for the N95. OK. Here's two. It looks as if it is a truly world band cell phone, working both in the US as well as Europe. I

[videoblogging] Re: Helpful Screencasts

2006-11-15 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey ya'll, I've been working on documenting some of my process for Alive In Baghdad. I just posted about 40 minutes worth of screencasts showing how I set episodes up in Final Cut Pro, add subtitles, export,

[videoblogging] Re: Blogger timeline tips needed

2006-05-29 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. Well, first-off, Is there any blogging software which might support this feature... this time-variant way of posting... or for lack of better term... retrospective blogging? Check out typepad. They have

[videoblogging] Re: Voxmedia wiki: Flash video

2006-05-23 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Enric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Macromedia Flash Player Penetration as of April, 2006 is 97.7%: http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/penetration.html or http://tinyurl.com/qh7lf -- Enric Whoa! Adobe has been hyping the

[videoblogging] Re: Voxmedia wiki: Flash video

2006-05-23 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Chuck Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...snip I don't think there's any question Flash has a bigger installed user base than any other video format. That's why YouTube, video ads, etc. are using it. That's why, after many thousands of visits, I've

[videoblogging] Re: Voxmedia wiki: Flash video

2006-05-23 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, John Dowdell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. Your site's particular audience, however, may stray from general consumer norms either way... some sites target early adopters, other sites target people with locked machines. Varies. I think John makes

[videoblogging] Re: Flash Penetration (was vPIP 0.14 Released)

2006-05-14 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Enric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, LeanBackVids.com leanbackvids@ wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones shirson@ wrote: Now I'm really curious... won't the Flash 8 player also

[videoblogging] Re: vPIP 0.14 Released

2006-05-13 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Enric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . vPIP 0.15 will have a Flash FLV Player packaged within for playing FLV movie files. .. Will it have a Flash 8 Player (I hope)? I like the feature of closing a video when a new link is clicked! I am looking

[videoblogging] Re: vPIP 0.14 Released

2006-05-13 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Enric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . Right now I'm probably going to have both a Flash 7 player and Flash 8 player download package. So people can choose which player they prefer for their site. My preference is also for a Flash 8 FLV player and I

[videoblogging] Re: I'm Going To Hollywood

2006-05-03 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
I just watched the archive from last night. Thanks for posting this, Steve. Otherwise I would have missed it. I am looking forward to the conference in real time to see how the technology works. Stan Hirson http://hestablog.com http://hestakaup.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve

[videoblogging] Re: typepad down?

2006-05-02 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
Yes, Typepad has been down since 4 PM PDT according to their status page at http://status.sixapart.com/ Stan Hirson http://hestablog.com http://hestakaup.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Markus Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone else with typepad having problems connecting to

[videoblogging] Re: comparison of quicktime compression techniques

2006-04-25 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
I would suggest that the test clip have more movement than Verdi on the toilet (pardon the pun) -- although I thought it was funny as hell and laughed all he way through it -- or the aquarium. I was doing similar tests for a vlog about horses, and reluctantly settled on H.264 until I found out

[videoblogging] Re: The Last Hours - Death of a Videoblogger Kevin Krutz

2006-04-24 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
Has Kevin been reading this thread? Is he willing to join in on the discussion? That might be a learning opportunity, too. Stan Hirson --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jen Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thinking about all this driving home, I remembered that one of my strategies

[videoblogging] Re: BSP: Should Journalist Josh Wolf Be Afraid? --SF Weekly

2006-04-22 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Josh Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not know the person who has been charged with placing fireworks under the police car. In regards to the first question, I'm not really sure that I am not doing both. In presenting news of the demonstration I

[videoblogging] Re: the activex/eolas patent bug in Explorer

2006-04-16 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Michael Verdi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:.. If instead the video appears in a pop-up window you now avoid the scrolling problem, plus the viewer can place the video where ever they want on the screen. -VerdiI agree. I use pop-up Flash 8 windows, often

[videoblogging] Re: the activex/eolas patent bug in Explorer

2006-04-16 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Enric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The pop-ups don't activate to the Flash movies on my IE 7 Beta 2. The pop-up windows remain blank. -- Enric Enric, thanks for checking, but do you have the Flash 8 plug-in? You may have tried to play a Flash 8 SWF using

[videoblogging] Re: the activex/eolas patent bug in Explorer

2006-04-16 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Enric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yea, I was running Flash 7. But I've upgraded to Flash 8 and have the same situation on your pop-ups -- they remain blank. I tried directly accessing the swf

[videoblogging] Eolas

2006-04-06 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
Should we be concerned about Microsoft's making changes to IE to conform to the Eolas decision? As I understand it -- what little I do -- there may have to be changes in the embed codes for plugins and that will affect Quicktime and Flash movies in order to force a user action.Should we be

[videoblogging] Flash Player Express Install Experience?

2006-04-04 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
Has anyone had any experience using the Express Install to update to Flash 8 Players? I am using TypePad with Flash 8 videos and am very pleased with the way it is working out. The only problem is that some of the public are having problems updating to the new Flash player. There are Windows IE

[videoblogging] Re: Flash Player Express Install Experience?

2006-04-04 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
John,First, I want to thank you very much for your response. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, John Dowdell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what error text members of your audience have seen, but if I were guessing, it would be about admin permissions on that computer, that seems

[videoblogging] GUBA

2006-03-20 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
An interesting video hosting service was announced on the Macworld News site. It does some interesting format conversion. Just wondering if anyone knew about it. It is at: http://www.guba.com/Stan Hirsonhttp://hestablog.com SPONSORED LINKS

[videoblogging] Re: Blogger Java Errors

2006-03-16 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
Lots of people are having trouble with Blogger today according to the Google blogger help group. The status page does not admit to any current problems, but some people have not been able to get on all day now. I just started promoting my vlog and. nada nada nada... it's frustrating. Stan

[videoblogging] Subscription Service for Email Updates

2006-03-08 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
I am using TypePad and Blogger for some vlogs that allow me to post videos in the order I want by fiddling around with the dates of the posts. I would like to have some kind of email update notification system that is independent of RSS and that would allow me to write the copy of the message.

[videoblogging] Re: Dreamhost reliability?

2006-03-01 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Enric" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had an hosting account with page-zone.com for years. But it's somewhat slow and goes down often. I now have an account also with Dreamhost and am thinking of moving all my accounts over. How reliable has Dreamhost

[videoblogging] Re: searching for a clip

2006-02-26 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
If you are referring to Academy or SMPTE countdown leader, I think it came with FCP Pro. I can't put my hands on it now, but I think it was in one of the extras folders on the CD. Stan--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Joshua Kinberg" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am searching for a clip that

[videoblogging] Re: stickam

2006-02-15 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
The test of different services with their players all on the same page to sample a standard file is great! Very useful contribution! Stan --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Deirdre Straughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've also got a test of their embedded player on

[videoblogging] Re: Just a Blip in the dark? - Affirmative...

2006-02-12 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, davecircumnavigator [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently the hosting service for blip is maxed out. I'm not using deduction here, one of my partners was in contact with them and they say that blip is sucking up their resources big time. --- In

[videoblogging] Re: My Wordpress 2.01 blog on Dreamhost has been Hacked!

2006-02-12 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So far, the only communication I've received from Dreamhost was an automated e-mail apologizing for not getting back to me within 24 hours, but that I would hear from them at some point. I have been on Dreamhost for only

[videoblogging] Re: multiple embed src=xxx.mov in a video-blog?

2006-02-09 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
I've experimented with your popup and I like it very much. I used it with QuickTime files. I seem to remember reading somewhere that you had been thinking of a similar app for .swf files. Is that true? Also, how hard would it be to change the size of the popup window? Is it just a matter of

[videoblogging] Rocketboom Changes?

2006-02-06 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
Did Rocketboom just go ahead and do a commercial while the eBay auction has hung itself up on the edge of a presumed reserve of $15,000? The 30boxes.com sure looked like one.But a bigger change... For the first time I have been able to watch the QuickTime stream without any stuttering or

[videoblogging] Re: Dreamhost $9.24/ yr is back

2006-02-06 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, andrew michael baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While no doubt these prices are super great and only getting greater, and it's a very useful automated service, there is one technical restriction that is important to understand, which is not expressed as

[videoblogging] Re: blip.tv having problems?

2006-02-05 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "hpbatman7" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone else noticed blip running real slow and sometimes even timing out? Yes. I have been having the same problems.Stan SPONSORED LINKS

[videoblogging] Re: blogger down?

2006-02-04 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, ryanne hodson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm noticing blogger being buggy with comments and posts and have heard several other people complainingNoticed the same. Could not bring up any sites on blogspot.com, but got into my site through blogger.com.

[videoblogging] The Rocketboom Boom

2006-01-30 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
I was thinking about the auction and some of the discussion it triggered. I was wondering if there were any envy involved. Not saying there is, just wondering...And then I realized what the auction is really going to trigger. Everyone is going to know how much Andew and Amanda will be making!

[videoblogging] Re: Flash 8 and Firefox

2006-01-27 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
I have been experimenting with the demo of Flix Pro using Firefox and I have not had any Firefox problems although very few people have seen my tests. I was just about to buy the software this morning, but now you have me concerned... I have been using SWF files for my tests. I use Firefox and

[videoblogging] Re: A Reason the Use Flash?

2006-01-23 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Flash Video can be converted with various tools to other formats that can be edited. Its a little more diffcult and the quality of the end result looks bad, but its do-able. -josh Yeah, but at leat making it a

[videoblogging] Re: The PAN!

2006-01-16 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, andrew michael baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, with Rocketboom videos, you can click on the actual QT video frame to launch the story links in a browser window, when played in a browser. Most people don't know this detail because it's not

[videoblogging] Re: The First Icelandic Vlogger

2006-01-10 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Andreas Haugstrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second Icelandic vlogger. First one have been going at it for a while at URL: http://www.kristjansson.dk/ in Danish. :o) I have started a vlog about Iceland through their horsemanship. At least its in

[videoblogging] Re: Why LIFO? Any way to change to FIFO in Blogger?

2006-01-03 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
the archive's too and use your own index (which can now be in the first post) markus Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Garfield [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: You've found the main failing of blog software. Hidden archives

[videoblogging] Why LIFO? Any way to change to FIFO in Blogger?

2005-12-30 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
Hi,I'm posting again, it seems, on consequitve days with queries. But the folks on this list have been so helpful with my beginner's questions on compression and file linking, I thought I would ask something that is not quite so technical, but really basic to me. I am starting a video blog to

[videoblogging] 3ivx compression -- Help!

2005-12-29 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
I've been doing some tests with 3ivx and QuickTime, but have not been getting file size economy that is any better than MPEG4 or H.264. I got the idea of usinig 3ivx from the Rocketboom tools documentation. It was very helpful and generous, but I'm afraid I need some more guidance aboput

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