[videoblogging] Re: vimeo is going to stop hosting source videos (starting August 1st)
--- 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 people to upload videos directly to your site? Joining the discussion, I am hosting all my own files (on DreamHost) for the following reasons. --There is no or little lag before the download starts. --I can choosse my own player. In my case I use a player from FlixPro. --I get no interference or overlays from ads or other videos that the host wishes to insert. --At the end of the video, the picture just stops on the last frame. No choices about sharing, other videsos, etc. --A MAJOR advantage, really big for me, is that if a viewer stops the video in order to go on to another one, with vPIP the download stops. Absolutely stops and does not intefere with the next video download. This is important for me because I will usually have several videos on a page separated only with text. I expect that the viewer might jump around. --Once you make the move and host the software on your own server, there is no cost penalty for also hosting the video files. DreamHost, at least, does not charge extra for bandwidth or storage. So far I have not had any issues with them on usage. It can, like any other service, go down from time to time, but I find it very smooth. --Once you host your video on your own site, the viewer does not inadvertently leave it. You have control. No ads, no promos for other shows, etc. There are probably reasons, but these should add to the discussion. I want to point out, though, that I make rich media websites, essentially hyperlinked documentaries about a particular subject. Lots of text, links, videos, menu choices all for the viewer to select. You can see what I mean on http://PinePlainsViews.com and http://thinkingglobalactinglocal.com/biochar-workshop-may-9-2009.html I want to acknowledge, though, that when I started out I used blip.tv, vimeo, and I still use YouTube for separate videos that are not part of a website. Stan Hirson http://Hestakaup.com http://PinePlainsViews.com http://ThinkingGlobalActingLocal.com
[videoblogging] Re: Problem with Embedding YouTube Videos
--- 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 more important? Jay I admit to being unable to get YouTube videos to play within vPIP so that vPIP would somehow control the download. As for my using YouTube, these are other people's videos and although I could download them onto my own server, I don't want to scrape them and remove them from their context, stats, etc. I am still using vPIP all the time. One virtue of vPIP is that it minimizes the latency in starting a video download. In most cases, it is almost instant. I do not use a buffer and keep the bitrate low enough not to need one for moderate bandwidth. Thanks for the reply, Jay. Stan Stan Hirson http://PinePlainsViews.com http://ThinkingGlobalActingLocal.com
[videoblogging] B H Disappointment
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 that I live 2 hours away and would like to make an appointment to come down and look at one. The salesman told me that I did not have to make an appointment, I could always come and look at a demonstrator. It is on a tripod. I asked if I could hold it and see how it balances, etc., because all my shooting is hand-held. He said no, it would have to stay on the tripod. No appointment or other arrangement could be made. I asked what he thought I should do and he made the suggestion that I should go to a rental house and rent one for a weekend. Now this is a $5,000 plus purchase and I feel that I should have the opportunity to hold one in my hands and look through the finder before I buy it. Right now, this is a deal-breaker. I am not going to buy a camera that I am not allowed to even hold. My question to the group: Any suggestions for a reliable dealer in the New York area with prices in the same range as B H? Or Boston? I've been dealing up until now exclusively with B H so I have no experience with alternates. Thanks, Stan Hirson http://LifeWithHorses.com http://PinePlainsViews.com http://ThinkingGlobalActingLocal.com
[videoblogging] Videos from Iran
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 http://ThinkingGlobalActingLocal.com http://PinePlainsViews.com
[videoblogging] Re: Has anybody used the Xacti E2?
--- 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 be unobtrusive and not call attention to the camera, there is something to be said about using a camera that has a rotating viewfinder like the Xacti. You do not have to hold the camera straight out in front of you in order to frame. I often hold the camera below chest-level and tilt the screen up. That way I can also brace my wrist against my body for steadiness. As I pointed out earlier, the pistol grip is great, but it can cause the camera to wobble because the center of gravity is above your hand. With my weight modification it is much steadier. I can form a loose ring around the pistol grip and the weight forms a gimbal mount. You can make great moves. I shot a friend's wedding quite extensively and a couple of weeks later I ran into the hired photographer who had no idea that I had been shooting video. I sympathize with your comment about being in the sticks. I'm on a farm a couple of hours from the city... It's hard to try stuff out. Stan Stan Hirson http://PinePlainsViews.com
[videoblogging] Re: The Interwebs show, business of tech and new media
--- 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 http://PinePlainsViews.com http://LifeWithHorses.com coming: http://ThinkingGlobalActingLocal.com
[videoblogging] Re: Has anybody used the Xacti E2?
--- 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 640x480 - and the Waterproof feature will be useful, but the only thing available round here is an E2, not an E1. Reports of performance please! Rupert, I use the E1 on occasion as a carry camera. I just want to contribute some experience that might improve the quality of the E2, too. First, I found the camera very hard to hold steady and get smooth moves because the center of gravity was too high. I rigged up a weight that I could screw into the tripod socket (fortunately it's a 1/4 20 stove bolt thread). It was a kind of shim from a combine that one of the local farmers gave me. It was the heaviest/smallest thing I could find and it really works well. If you would like a photo, I could post one. But the weight made a huge difference. Short of using the combine shim, I'm sure you can rummage something up and try it. The other tip. I found it really impossible to shoot on a sunny day because of the glossy finish (waterproof protection?) on the screen. Tried a hood, but that was dinky and annoying. Next best thing was something from my old TV studio days. Dulling spray. Wipes off easily, puts on a nice matte finish that cuts down the glare. I like having a waterproof/weatherproof camera. Good luck. Stan Stan Hirson http://PinePlainsViews.com http://LifeWithHorses.com and coming: http://ThinkingGlobalActingLocal.com
[videoblogging] Re: Help!! need some help with drupal and dreamhost
--- 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 dreamhost, you can upload any size that you want, but it's probably because I'm not a coder, so it's all Greek to me. Milt, I was going to get back to you anyway about the nice things you wrote about http://PinePlainsViews.com and then got behind because of some DSL and modem issues that afflict my rural usage. But first, to Dreamhost and uploading. I regularly upload way in excess of 7mB on DreamHost as you can tell by my videos, some of which are rather long. I have never run into any kind of problem that required coding. Ever. I use Joomla and use an ftp client, Transmit, on the Mac. What machine do you use and which ftp client? It is now 3 years that I have been using Dreamhost for my videos. Did you send in a ticket to support? They are usually helpful. Let me know how you make out. I love what you have been doing and feel it is very important, too. Stan Hirson http://PinePlainsViews.com
[videoblogging] Re: breakthrough for open video on the web
--- 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: http://reports.graymattergravy.com/2009/03/16/html-5-ogg/ We put up a page of Ogg/Theora videos recently using the video tag. http://transparencycamp.org/videos If you watch using Firefox 3.1the Ogg plays right in the page. With the updated Ogg codec they are putting out soon, it's going to be able to handle HD just fine. Jay ... This all got me curious enough to download FF 3.1. First, I liked the simplicity of the Transparency Camp website and the organization of the videos. But I had problems with buffering/stuttering even though I was on a high speed DSL at over 1 mBs. I could not hold sync. Does the player put a load on the computer? I am using a Mac on 10.4 with a DP 1 gig G4 machine.Flash and Quicktime play fine on the same system. Other questions. What is the advantage of Ogg for us content creators who are not large enough by any means to have to worry about licensing fees? I'm all for open system software, but H.264 and FLASH are pretty close with a modest purchase cost. I liked how simple the code was, but is that just the new HTML 5 in FF or Ogg? But thanks for putting the site up like that so we could try it out! Stan Hirson http://PinePlainsViews.com
[videoblogging] Re: Promoting the .mov option online
--- 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 512 kbs in order to accommodate progressive downloading for DSL users. Am I being too conservative? Is the quality of H.264 better at the same bitrate as .FLV file? It seems as if the market penetration of FLASH players able to play .MOV files is fairly complete. Does this mean the end of FLASH videos? Stan Hirson http://PinePlainsViews.com http://LifeWithHorses.com
[videoblogging] Re: Meet the elite!
--- 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 follow Jeffrey's lead and organize ourselves. That's the sad and frustrating part of it. The media will indeed go to an outfit like that and scan down its roster to find out about web video. My main problem is that the awards are limited to episodic shows. The requirements: Any original production produced for broadband distribution with at least three (3) episodes released in the 2008 calendar year can qualify for consideration. The show must also be easily viewed and available online, either via a major video sharing site or unique URL. That would rule me out (boo hoo) because I make documentary web TV sites that mix text and video within a CMS such as in http://PinePlainsViews.com and http://Hestakaup.com. I just resent the fact that they cannot be recognized for outstanding achievement in web television arts and sciences because they do not fit into a confining and arbitrary model. That's not why I got into broadband TV, just to ape the networks and Hollywood. I've already been there, done that. Broadband TV can be so much more! The publicity, and some recognition, though, would help make my efforts be sustaining by broadening the audience. Stan Hirson http://PinePlainsViews.com http://Hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: Transparent Video Player
--- 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 contrary to what Pat thinks, I think there's a lot of future for this kind of player. ... Rupert's comment triggered some ideas. I have a few websites about rural life and culture. Many of my visitors have had very very little experience with the Internet and are unfamiliar with navigating within a browser. This continues to surprise me, but I don't want to give up on them. So, I was thinking... this transparent player might allow me to show people how to get around the site without having to go to an off-site tutorial. It seems to be able to float modules, too. At the moment, as there is no trial or interactive demo, I find it an expensive way to experiment. Unfortunately, I did not see any screen shots of an interface, etc. But I like the basic idea of pushing some boundaries of design of the web page. It can make it more interctive and springy, too. I can see how it would enhance story-telling... Oh well. I'll add it to the Maybe Later Purchase list. But I think such efforts should be encouraged. Stan Hirson http://PinePlainsViews.com http://LifeWithHorses.com
[videoblogging] Re: new Wordpress Video plugin
--- 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 possible that many of the coder types have gone on to Twitter, Twine, Friendfeed, etc.? Stan Stan Hirson http://PinePlainsViews.com http://LifeWithHorses.com
[videoblogging] Re: new Wordpress Video plugin
--- 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 next. Jay I think the new frontier in online video is content. Not technology anymore. And frankly, that's fine with me because content is why I got into it in the first place a few years ago. Stan Stan Hirson http://PinePlainsViews.com http://LifeWithHorses.com
[videoblogging] Re: Backing up your media
--- 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 was its configuation? Sounds like the ultimate horror story. Stan Hirson http://PinePlainsViews.com
[videoblogging] Re: Joomla Video Hosting and Social Network
--- 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 embeddable player that works perfectly with Joomla is Brightcove's (brightcove.com). ...snip... Rather harsh evaluation that is not at all my experience with either Joomla 1.0 or 1.5. I have taken a different route than embedding a player like Brightcove, Blip, Vimeo, YouTube, etc. because I prefer, for various reasons, to have my videos inserted within text articles. Using my own hosting service, DreamHost, with vPIP I could place the videos in the context of the text for which they were intended with minimal latency delay. I have about 100 video clips in Joomla 1.0 on http://hestakaup.com and I am building a new site that already has a couple of dozen videos on Joomla 1.5 at http://pineplainsviews.com . I hope you will take a look at what one can do with Joomla and video to provide a rich media experience. I really have had no problems at all with the Joomla end of the videos. Stan Hirson http://pineplainsviews.com http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: Video plugins for wordpress
--- 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 for the JW player: http://www.longtailvideo.com/addons/help.php Pretty close to mind blowing is a demos archive: http://home5.inet.tele.dk/nyboe/flash/mediaplayer4/index.html For example this mutually exclusive players demo: http://home5.inet.tele.dk/nyboe/flash/mediaplayer4/index.html A lot to explore and play around with. Stan Hirson http://PinePlainsViews.com http://LifeWithHorses.com
[videoblogging] Re: Joomla Video Hosting and Social Network
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. On one site I have somewhere between 80-100 videos ranging from a few seconds to 20 minutes. For the most part, I use vPIP to embed Flash SWF files that I have on DreamHost. I'm quite happy with that system. http://LifeWithHorses.com I have just started a new site on Joomla 1.5 and I've been having some issues with vPIP that I'm trying to resolve now. It may have to do with upgrades along the way. I'm making portraits of people by combining text with videos in the same article. http://PinePlainsViews.com I like this method because I can use my own templates rather than getting a pre-designed template that hwdMediaShare seems to promote. But thanks for calling attention to it. I will take a look. Your big project sounds interesting. Let me know if you need Icelandic sheep dog videos! Stan Hirson http://PinePlainsViews.com http://LifeWithHorses.com
[videoblogging] Re: CBS videoblogs
--- 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 lots of people and get CBS to pay 10 or 20 times as much, especially if he's getting 20 per cent of the production cost as a fee? Why are we calling this a videoblog? It's an online show, a rung or two below cable on the supposed ladder to Hollywood. At best, it's like an Off-Off Broadway tryout. Where's the blog? Stan Hirson http://LifeWithHorses.com
[videoblogging] Re: Sanyo Xacti HD1010 4MP MPEG4 High Definition 1080i/1080p Camcorder with 10x Opti
--- 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 HD video off of the HD1000... I'm wondering about archiving when using any kind of card. As long as you don't re-use them, DV tape is always available. Would you transfer everything onto a hard drive? And then back that drive up? With hi def we're talking about a lot of bytes, particularly with cinema verite documentary shooting. (Which I do.) I deliver my videos in Flash at 512kbs in order to have a streaming effect for the widest possible audience. I would continue to do this even if I shot in hi def, but would lay off the hi def materials so that I could eventually come up programming that would take advantage of the new format. Lots of issues with HD... Stan Hirson http://lifewithhorse.com
[videoblogging] Re: Skinning the JW Media Player
--- 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 that. What had been white side bars had changed to black. I've been using the player made by the wizard with swf object rather than html embed on blogger. I love the player and the wizard. However, the documentation is not at all clear (to me, at my level of computer literacy). It makes me feel like an idiot because they use terms that are not defined. I had no warning about the change -- not that I would have been able to do anything about it. I hope that some other documentation comes out. Stan Hirson http://lifewithhorses.com
[videoblogging] Autostart Flash Video Loops... Possible?
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 not available for Flash. Does anyone have an idea how to implement this? I'm using Blogger to develop a simple landing site of links to my video websites. I've got it running now with a click to play jpeg. I'd like to have a little video running on its own. Thanks Stan Hirson http://lifewithhorses.com
[videoblogging] Re: Autostart Flash Video Loops... Possible?
--- 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 not seen the wizard! I'll definitely grab the code and experiment... looks like fun stuff there, too. Stan Hirson http://lifewithhorses.com
[videoblogging] Re:From Mac *TO* PC -- Should I Switch?
--- 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 I have ended up where I started - an appreciative Mac user. :-) As the initiator of this thread, I first want to thank everyone who responded! It was very helpful to me. I am coming to the realization that I will probably stick to the Mac, but more as a reluctant rather than appreciative or enthusiastic user. I would get AppleCare for the MacBook Pro, no question that it is worth it just for hardware issues alone. But everything I have read has not won me back to thinking of Apple as a company that cares for its customers the way it did a few years ago before it hawked content and consumer media appliances. Apple's denial of problems it caused customers such as its QuickTime updates and the unwillingness of the Genius Bar (I have no idea what's behind the counter) to solve problems rather than replace components is really what caused me to rethink buying another Mac. But I want to take another crack at the warranty issue. How long should a computer last? And how long should a company be willing to support it? The AppleCare period is 3 years -- I don't know if that is in addition to the 1 year warranty. Then, I recently discovered, Apple will not even look at a computer that is over 5 years old. I brought one in for help in doing an Open Firmware Reset and when I found someone who has actually heard of it he refused to show me how to do it until we threw a public fit to embarrass the staff in front of customers and they had to call the manager who *made* them do it. This was on a perfectly usable G4 desktop, dual processor. I use it every day. I can understand out of warranty. But I do not understand older than 5 years. A $4,000 computer can be expected to be used that long. It's an attitude, I guess that has made me very reluctant. Thanks for posting and hearing me out on this rant. Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] From Mac *TO* PC -- Should I Switch?
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 glitches caused by upgrades of various Apple programs. I won't go into my list of issues, but in sum I have been less than satisfied with Apple in both depth and candor. I need a new laptop. My 17 PB G4 needs to be upgraded and replaced. I just priced a new MacBook Pro 17 and it really comes out to about $4,000 with AppleCare, some software I'll need, etc,. I took a look at one yesterday and was impressed. With everything but the price. Up until I no longer trusted Apple, I would have gone for it even at that price. I'm thinking of moving to a PC and using XP Pro and possibly Vegas or even Premiere for all my web editing and production. (Pretty much straight cutting, no FX.) How bad can a PC be? There are a lot of people using them. And there is a broader source of support. But I live in the country, about a 2 hour drive or train from NYC, so it is a pain for me to browse around different computer stores to get a hands on feel for screen quality and software options. I'm wondering if I can get any experience of this group... I've never used Vegas or Avid Express and I'm wondering about the difference between that option and Final Cut Express -- I do not need or intend to shell out for Final Cut Pro. Just exploring the options. I'm finding Apple and its store staff arrogant and obnoxious. Is it something I just have to live with? Or do some of the other companies that actually have to compete with each other provide better products and service? Frustrated in the stix... Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: Easy implement pay-per-download?
--- 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 might get some ideas from an interesting extension for Joomla even though you do not use that platform. It does exactly what you are looking for. http://www.joomlaxt.com/file-releases/pay-to-download-xt-component-available.html Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: camera advice
--- 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 would like to see a decent, but inexpensive, shoulder camera brought into the discussion. The Sony HVR HD1000 is interesting for event and documentary shooting and the price is right. I have not seen it yet (live in the stix) but the form factor looks as if one could hold it for hours and hours and be steady and fluid. Unfortunately it is often described as a camera to make you look like a pro, but that seems to be marketeers hype rather than the experience of someone who has been shooting for several hours at a time. I have found the ergonomics for most cameras very disappointing. They seem designed for use on sticks or for short takes when they are hand-held. Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: Sony Vegas v. Final Cut
--- 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 to hear reactions from those familiar with both and their comparisons. I used to swear by Final Cut until Apple screwed up with the QuickTime 7.4 update. I think they are now too distracted by iPod and iTunes sales and DRM issues to support video production. When it comes to making video for the web, for many projects FCP is bloat. There is a lot to be said for Keeping It Simple! I'm looking at alternatives. Stan Hirson
[videoblogging] Re: QuckTime 7.4 and FCP 4.5HD Disaster -- Finally, A Solution
This has to be one of the worst experiences I have ever had with Apple! I had too casually made the update to QT 7.4 and could capture only about 5 minutes on FCP 4.5 until the picture froze while the audio continued. It turned out to be the QT 7.4 update scanning for some kind of DRM code. The boards were seething with folks who had problems with not only FCP but AE, etc. MacFixit suggested Pacifist to reinstall 7.3 but that did not solve the capture problems on any of my machines. I was backing up and cloning the backups for testing, etc. Tried everything that was suggested. Finally, I noticed that I had an old QT 7.0.1 reinstaller on hand from a previous Apple screw-up when one had to deinstall 7.1. And... It worked! I first noticed the problem on Jan. 24 and it was only until a few minutes ago that I made my final tests. So, if anyone is stuck with this problem, try the 7.0.1 reinstaller. And in the future, don't update until it has been out for a while and check with MacFixit. I guess everyone knows that, but it takes a disaster to remind one of it. But... I want to say a few words about Apple. This has been a mess and a known issue on lots of boards (2-Pop, Creative Cow, MacRumors, etc.) but Apple remained mum about it and has not acknowledged it as a problem nor offered a specific fix. I also visited 3 large Apple Stores and spoke to clueless geniuses who were unable to help or make a call to Cupertino or lead me to Pro Support. I've has Apples (as well as PCs) since the II+ days. It's a different company since the iPod. Wormy. Stan http://hestakaup.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the warning. I'm using Quicktime 7.3. I also did NOT upgrade to Leopard. It's important to understand that these groups don't work together. For instance, when they come out with a quicktime upgrade, they don't check through every single possiblity of what could happen with Final Cut Pro and then Color and then Motion, etc etc. One has to weigh the pros and cons. If a system's working fine, there's no reason to upgrade it. 'Matter of fact, I still have final cut 3.0 working on another computer for precisely that reason. Once I had the system working the way I needed it, I never upgraded the operating system, quicktime or anything else about that particular machine. 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 and MacFixit about the problems it caused. I should have looked first. Frankly, I'm amazed that Apple hasn't done anything about it. It appears to be fairly widespread. I'm afraid that Apple service/support has deteriorated since they found the route to success through the iPods. Well, just a warning about 7.4. I understand it crashes AE, too. Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: QuckTime 7.4 and FCP 4.5HD Disaster
--- 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? Does this fix things? - Verdi Check out MacFixit, http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20080207061646465#comments There are already reports of problems caused by 7.4.1 with startup, etc. Apple does not directly address the screw-up with FCP and AE, says it has to do with security flaws, so who knows? Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: Shaky Vlogger Need Imput
--- 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 looked at the DIY steadycam but I'm not that mechanically inclined. I need something portable that can fit into a large woman's purse (the purse being large, no me.) can be set up in under a minuet and can work with hard drive and mini records. Gotta go to work. Will check back later this afternoon. Thanks, Gena How about the simple string tripod? Get a 1/4 20 eye bolt from the hardware store and screw it into the tripod socket. Run a string from it to the ground where you can step on it or make an adjustable loop. It works pretty well and it's about as portable as it gets. And the price is right. Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: QuckTime 7.4 and FCP 4.5HD Disaster
--- 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 Effects problem that is significant. Workaround if you already upgraded is to install 7.3.1 using Pacifist, though apparently this has to be done very carefully. Brook The Pacifist route is tricky, too. I blew it on one machine and I am going to test it on a backup. If I get a successful attempt, I'll post it here. In the meantime, I keep looking for something from Apple... Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: Fair use in the Digital Age
--- 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 dont touch mentality is being firmly entrenched in our minds with Youtube leading the way since there is no easy way to grab a Youtube video from the site. Youtube being the largest video site has the greatest impact on how we understand correct interaction. So as creators, our relationship is this: you make a video. I watch. I make a video for you to watch. We do not use each others videos. if you replaced text where I said video, you would not have blogging as we know it today. I think Jay is right from the creators' perspective, but I would like to look at this from a different angle, namely the relationship between a video maker and the subject. When I ask for permission to photograph someone without a written release, I usually explain why I am taking the video and what it will be used for. Often it is implicitly understood. Neither I nor my subjects have had any problems with this. However, if someone grabs that same material and re-edits it or embeds it in another site, then it interferes with the trust between me and my subject. I was a documentary film maker for many years (many years ago). Even with a written release people gave consent because they trusted me and knew the purpose of the film and where and how it would be shown. Believe me, I have worked on many controversial projects and have never been asked to prescreen for approval. It was trust and the technical consideration that I never allowed these films to be available for stock footage. Now with video the access is more open. My YouTube videos are usually put up without the embed code. If they link to my site, well, that is understood and I only put up videos that are appropriate for that. I have been chided for not allowing other videomakers to re-mix my materials. Call it what you will, but it is against the trust I have with my subjects. I guess all I am saying is that it depends on the content. Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: FILE CRISIS: PLEASE HELP
--- 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 formatted and do I want to re-format. I don't notice any damage to the card. How can I retrieve the files? And info, insight most needed and appreciated. Thanks. - Mary Can you put the card back in the camera and play the videos? If you can, you could try to download them from there through a USB cable. Stan http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: video gallery wordpress plugin?
--- 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 really feel about it. Categories might be a better way to see some video projects. so how can I format my front page based on highlighting different categories? I was faced with this, too. I fooled around with blogging software and then went for a content management system, Joomla. Joomla allows me to create menu hierarchy of sections, categories, and individual articles. It freed me from the chronological archive. People can go to a menu and pull what they want based on their interest rather than the chronological order. I wanted to create something on the order of a coffee-table book of text and videos on a rather narrow subject. The videos compliment the text to explore the subject at depth. People go back and forth between stories based on their personal interest at their own control rather than arbitrary categories or chronology. [snip] The same is true for our videoblog: http://ryanishungry.com This is why I got excited about the related video plugin that Charles built. When we do a video about Composting, I want all our compost videos to show upnot be buried in the archive just because they are older. But then I had another problem. Some visitors were so unfamiliar with menu-driven web sites they needed the prompt of a thumbnail and some text description. I made a sticky post like a center panel on the front page. It was a whole other brain part. It can be seen on: http://www.hestakaup.com/ As a visual creator, I want to arrange my blog visually and non-linearly. I think right now, WP, and blogger, and Tumblr all follow the one post after another format that works so well for text blogs. Jay My videos are embedded in text articles. Some of the text stories have five or six videos, others have only one. Joomla with vPIP Flash videos is very flexible with this. Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: My Amends To Robert Scoble
--- 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, including people who are very active on this group). I've personally got tons of people here paid, some of which got paid more than $100,000 each since PodTech was born. Part of my frustration is that the community, rather than cheering on businesses that are trying to put food on videoblogger's tables, actually turn and attack and not in a helpful way and when someone is under attack I don't see many in this community come and stand up against the mob. I just looked back on the last few days of posts here and I see pretty predictable results from my outburst. But you didn't get the point. How many of you stood up when TechCrunch said that PodTech deserved to be in the dead pool? How many of you stood up when that same blog, or when Valleywag printed attacks against me? Not many. Hint: eventually sponsors and employees get the message and move money away from a company that isn't getting community support. And, worse, it definitely demoralizes the employees and makes them far less willing to take risks on behalf of the community. That's why Cheryl's post about Epic-FU rubbed me the wrong way. I can bite my lip when it's me under attack (although, no, it's not fun) but when I see a repeated pattern I felt I needed to speak out about it and this community has often not been friendly to those of us who are trying to make businesses that get more of us paid. Let's turn it away from PodTech. Have any of you thanked Revision3? Rocketboom? Huffington Post? Federated Media? Jason Calacanis? (He was attacked here, but my friends who worked for him say his paychecks never bounced). Leo Laporte? Epic-FU? Or any of the other people struggling to make money in this new art form? And there are dozens of others who are trying to build businesses here in the NewTeeVee industry. How many of you have stood up and said thank you to YouTube, Blip.tv, Kyte, or any of the other companies who are trying to make it possible for you to distribute your work (and get paid - I know at least one videoblogger who gets paid more than $10,000 per month thanks to YouTube's advertising deals)? Some of you have, and that's always appreciated. But most of you remain silent, or don't look to help out and make sure there are healthy businesses here. There's tons of others, too. Community... space videobloggers... Years ago, decades ago, I remember being struck in a philosophy or math class that something that describes everything describes nothing. I am afraid we have reached this point with videoblogging. What is the difference between a videoblog and a show? It seems to me that there is a schism here of people who want to break into show business and those who want to blog with video and create their own websites. They would like recognition and compensation, but they do not particularly want to break through to show biz. I found the Vloggies and a lot of what was going on at PodTech as encouraging the show biz folk. This was really apparent from Robert Scoble's post on his own blog at the time of the Vloggies: http://scobleizer.com/2006/11/05/more-from-the-vloggies/ OK, I have a complete list of winners from the Vloggies up now the big winners was Alive in Baghdad (they got the only standing ovation of the evening). Interestingly enough, before the Vloggies, I had never seen their stuff and it really is incredible. In fact, I haven't seen many of the award winners before tonight and there's some really interesting video going on out there. I'm slowing going through the list and will share my favorites from time to time. I love Ze Frank and Rocketboom, but there's really a lot more incredible work being done out there and I'm glad we got a chance to highlight just a little bit of that tonight. I could not believe that at that time, in November, 2006, Robert Scoble had never seen any of Alive in Baghdad. It made such an impression on me that I saved the quote. I have nothing against Scoble, but I do feel he has helped polarize this space or community or whatever. There is nothing wrong with wanting to break into show business. And there is nothing wrong with using small tv to do it. Maybe online video will be like Second City, Off Broadway and regional theatre in that it will allow people to make mistakes and learn some acting techniques to they can go on and do sitcoms. Fine. But why are we calling shows videobloggs? Let's tolerate some difference rather than saying everyone is the same? Okay. Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: Amazon S3 for Flash Videos
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Nathan Freitas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I do. Its what we run all of our video hosting on for Mux.am and Cruxy.com. Basically, the rate is 15 cents per GB stored per month, and 18 cents per GB transfered out each month. So, 3GB of storage will cost 45 cents a month, and 60GB transfered will be $10.80 month. 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 about any load 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 PROTECTED] Date: Dec 17, 2007 6:27 PM Subject: [videoblogging] Amazon S3 for Flash Videos To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Has anyone had any experience with Amazon's S3 service? I'm having a lot of trouble with their terminology. I am currently using DreamHost for my videos. Other than a few glitches, it's been pretty good and it certainly is cheap. But I am planning a new project that will require almost instant streaming of .SWF files to an international audience. Apparently Amazon has the resources to fill these needs. I just cannot figure out the costs. I use 3GB of disk space and 60GB of bandwidth per month. But I just can't make out their jargon. I wrote AWS and they suggested I ask in their forum. I don't understand a word of it! Has anyone had any experience with progressive downloads of Flash videos with them? Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com This was all good help for me. Nathan's explanation of the costs as so close to what I am paying on DreamHost encouraged me to do some tests. I would like to share the results. Opening an account through Amazon was very easy, same as for book shopping. Setting up the file system was straightforward once I was able to figure out some of the terminology. For example, in Amazonese, bucket corresponds to folder. There is easily enough Googled documentation on this. I uploaded the files using a FireFox plugin, S3 Organizer. I tested some short SWF files first and, of course, nothing worked. It turns out I had to set permissions by editing an ACL file (whatever) so that everyone could read the file. Then the SWFs worked. As I use vPIP in my site, there was no problem pointing at the AWS file by copying the path in S3 although it looks a bit odd compared with the familiar apache files. Feeling cocky, I then moved to the big time, longer FLV files sending up the player as a SWF. And then the heavens opened with a huge dump! The FLV files did not play and the forums had lots and lots of talk about the impossibility of playing Flash FLV files in Amazon because of cross domain issues, etc. and all kinds of computer and Amazonese I could not understand. It looked like a total loser for the longer FLV videos. Then I realized that all I had to do was set up vPIP to use its built-in FLV player. Gave that a shot and it worked! There are still some problems. I wanted a minimum amount of pre-loading -- none if possible -- and I can not do it with the vPIP player. I get the spinning cobweb for a few seconds. It works well enough and if there is a way to get it to pop on instantly and play, that would be great. To show how S3 works, I made a simple HTML page with a comparison of the DreamHost hosting using an ON2 player and the Amazon S3 with the vPIP player. See for yourslf: http://shirson.com/web_pages/amazon_compare.html I've picked a scene with difficult compression: 30 fps with moving horses and landscapes. The motion should be smooth and fluid. 480 x 360. Thanks Jay, Chris, Nathan, and Markus for your help. I thought I should pay back and share the results. Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: Amazon S3 for Flash Videos
--- 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 about any load you can throw at it. Jay, thanks for bringing Nathan into this. I set up an account on Amazon's AWS thanks to some language links from Chris Ritke who also turned me on to S3Fox. I just uploaded a .swf and plan to put it up on a simple html page and compare it with the same file from DeamHost. It is also on YouTube. I'll be glad to share the link if there is interest in the comparison. I'd just like to point out how grateful I am to Markus and Jay from knowing who might have experience/expertise in this and writing them off-list to get in touch with me. Proof that this community WORKS! Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: What kind of Pro camera should I get?
--- 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 think its the big wide lens that does it for me. Also, I want XLR adapters. There's a lot of discussion about the tech specs of a whole bunch of HD cameras, but how well suited are they to hand-held shooting? It's a step down in quality from some of the cameras mentioned, but I'd like to know more about the Sony HD1000 that rests on the shoulder. Particularly with a Beachtek DXA Phantom power adapter for XLR mics and a wide angle adapter (probably .70). Funny thing is that they are touted as good for wedding and event videographers who want to look pro but little is said about the look of their hand-held shooting over the course of a day. The price is right as the camera itself sells for $1,900 now. Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Progressive vs Interlace Cameras for the Web
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 few camcorders in the consumer/prosumer range that offer 1080i from Sony and Canon. The only progressive HD I saw in a low price range was a Sanyo Xacti HD7000. My questions are: For action filming, wouldn't 720 progressive scan, even at its lower resolution, be sharper than the 1080 interlace? In general, wouldn't 720 progressive have a better look on the web in the first place? Now, when I compress my DV I deinterlace anyway. Am I getting a true progressive image? Any ideas? Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: finding the codec/bitrate of an FLV
--- 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 Quirk quirk@ wrote: Hello all, Does anyone know how to find out the bitrate, codec, meta data from this particular video: http://creativity-online.com/work/view?seed=0e42ba90 With Youtube and Blip, you can just download the FLV and examine it, but this one is tricky because the .flv is called by this PHP script: http://creativity-online.com/work/player/viral_player.php?seed=0e42ba90 Just curious because it looks very clean and sharp. This would be so great! I often wonder what the intended bitrate of certain Flash videos is, but I do not undertand how you do this with Firebug (which I have). What do you do once you have the url of the video? How do you get the settings? Steve, could you please be more specific? It would be very helpful to me to know what the compression setting for the flv bitrate is rather than the baud rate of the download. Thanks! Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: Which Xacti?
--- 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 the snow and rain. I picked the E1 waterproof model. At first I hated it. The body was so light I could not hold it steady and the viewfinder, which has a glossy coating as part of the waterproofing, had way too much glare to be usable outdoors. I rigged up a weight that screws into the tripod socket to lower the center of gravity and now it is very steady and a pleasure to use. I apply dulling spray to the viewfinder for exteriors. No more problems there. As a general purpose camera, however, it has the limitation that it is just about impossible to zoom during a shot and keep the camera steady. The image quality is amazingly good and I LOVE being able to carry a camera in my pocket to have all the time. It is very unobtrusive to subjects, too. The best testimony is that I use it all the time and keep my other cameras for shoots. Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: New Member Intro
--- 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 http://hestakaup.com. I wanted to have a coffee table kind of video blog rather than a chronologically linear one that I felt forced into with blogging software. Joomla allows me to have a menu driven platform in which the visitor can make selections without going into archives. Everything is right there on a menu tree. Also, I wanted to intermix video with text. I use vPIP to embed my Flash videos so they appear without any promotional materials or prompts, particularly at the end of the video. That was a problem with blip and vimeo. Some of videos run for more than 20 minutes and others for less than 20 seconds. I needed to be able have have them start right up and stream at 500 kbs. Http://hestakaup.com is definitely not a show. I think of it as a video book or magazine. Maybe it's actually a vlog... It has a very narrow niche which allows me to explore some issues at some depth. Joomla has a learning curve, but it works well as a CMS. Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: free video converter for PC
--- 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 GUI on a bunch of other free/open converters (like those that have problems using the conversion tools on ffmpegX) I haven't used it as I'm on a Mac, but I'm interested in what you think of it! I think it is pretty much the same as VisualHub for the Mac in that it has a great GUI for ffmpeg tools. I use it all the time for doing batch conversions of the digital files from my Xacti E1 to DV for editing on FCP 4.5. It's very handy and easy to use. Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: video blogging / facebook / myspace / you tube
--- 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 finding the happy medium. They upload to Youtube or wherever.but then archive the videos on their own blog that has their own look. Best of both worlds. Jay I think Jay stated the essence of the discussion. A blog can be an artform if done with artistic intent. I know, I know, it all depends on what art is. But when the video becomes an end in itself, that it can stand on its own without the support and interaction with the rest of the media on a website, I just don't see why it should be considered a vlog. It can be an episode in a show and aggregated on any number of services, or it can just be a video. That's fine. But in this discussion, about why maintain a site rather than just upload videos, it seems that the other media on a site can be used for a purpose other than just to hang videos together. They can be complementary to the videos. And just as important. That's what a vlog is all about. When I considered coming back to film making after being in another career for years, I hesitated because of the constraints of working in arbitrary lengths and linear formats. I am now experimenting with making a website that explores one subject in depth and variety and gives the visitor the power to select the content in a non-linear (non-chronological) format. I love it. If this technology existed years ago I would not have left the field! I had to forgo blogging software and use a content management system (Joomla) in order that stories did not get buried in archives but were part of a menu. But the website itself is becoming just as important as the video component. Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: Xacti E1 Work Flow Suggestions?
--- 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 render hell and I have had no luck getting material into my version (4.5) of FCP. iMovie will bring in material after I render it and then it wants to render again on export. I MUST be doing something wrong! Any advice from those who have been using them? you got to use Compressor to batch all your clips to DV. FCP wont play nice with the Sanyo clips (or really any clips that arent what FCP wants). you arent doing anything wrong. Jay Thanks. I just could not get my version of Compessor to batch the Sanyo H.264 clips to DV for FCP. I finally got VisualHub, the GUI for a lot of open source software and it worked out really well. My workflow now is to download the Sanyo files onto my Mac and then batch convert to .dv files with VisualHub. I check off the box that makes them FCP compatible. That saves the step of rendering the audio tracks in FCP. The conversion with VisualHub works well and is seamless. I have not noticed any loss of quality. I could not load VisualHub on one of my machines due to registration issues, but the tech support was very helpful... I just could not afford the time thrashing things out. All in all, I have found the E1 very useful. At first, I just could not hold it steady. I turned off the stabilization system and I rigged up a weight to lower the center of gravity. That solved the steadiness problem. The viewfinder seems to attract reflections in sunlight, so I ordered dulling spray to tone down reflections. Waiting for UPS. I found it helped to turn the brightness control of the finder all the way down. Still, it is impossible to zoom during a shot. The controls are too small and close together. I have incorporated some Xacti videos in a new vlog and if people are curious I'll put up some links. I think it is worthwhile to have a camera that I can carry in a pocket and takes really good quality video. There are tade-off, but I am glad I have it. Most important, I find I really use it. Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Leechvideo
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: http://www.leechvideo.com/video/view2325184.html I would think YouTube would take action on this. I don't know what to make of it, but I don't like not getting credited for the hits. Stan http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: Locating URL address of video
--- 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 working for whatever reason. Thanks for any help. john If you are on a Mac all you have to do is go to the video file in your file manager and right click (or control click) on it and choose copy file location. Paste that into the appropiate field of vPIP. What file format are you using, though? I use Flash, either FLV or SWF files and vPIP works very well. If you have any questions feel free to email me. Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: Joomla versus Zend PHP for Web 2.0 community
--- 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 came at this as a documentary film maker who needed something a bit more flexible than blogging software. I chose Joomla. If you want to see how I integrated the text and video, you can visit http://hestakaup.com. You can do a lot in Joomla without writing code and it is very easy to maintain. I run it on Dreamhost. Best, Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: Dreamhost vs blip.tv?
--- 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 over blip¹s licensing terms, so I¹m aware of that. I plan to eventually post numerous videos (more than 100) as I already have lots of content. I¹m tending toward dreamhost, which seems to give me more control and I could use their QT streaming capabilities. Would this be a good choice ? Any other guidance regarding this is much appreciated! Thanks. * DF I think it is a question of what you see as the purpose of your site or vlog. Blip was great for me to start off with and I owe them a lot. But I soon decided that I wanted to explore one subject in depth through video and text and I switched to a conent management system, iJoomla because it had the flexibility I wanted in designing my own site. I host the site, http://hestakaup.com, on Dreamhost and have no complaints. It may be one of the narrowest-niche sites on the internet, about Icelandic horses, but it allows me the freedom to explore a subject with minimal software constraints. In fact, I don't know whether my site is still a vlog. I have streaming videos integrated with text and I organize the content with a menu system rather than a time-line. Thus, there are no archives to dig through. I would do some serious thinking about formats. If you have a target audience that is going to download, then QT formats are fine. But if you want to allow people to stream (as I do), then I think Flash is much better at a 512 kbs bitrate with an embedded player. I use On2 Flix Pro for encoding. You can see samples of what I mean on http://hestakaup.com Whatever you do, good luck! Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: Video Server
--- 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 another reason to use Blip. David was referring to BlueHost, not DreamHost. Are you implying that they are the same? Or was this a mistake that should be corrected? Stan http://hestakaup.com (on DreamHost)
[videoblogging] Re: Paid Subscription + CMS
--- 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 rotating password that only subscribers can get, but that is about all I came up with. Do any of you have any simple ideas? We have No Budget, BTW. If you are a CMS junkie -- I am currently running joomla, SMF forum, tiki-wiki, mediawiki and wordpress, and I'd rather not have to learn a new CMS. Ron, Good question! For those of us (you do dogs, I do horses) with narrow niche educational material rather than shows for wider audiences aggregators don't make sense, yet we want to be compensated for content I think the CMS could work. I use Joomla. It has some tempting subscription plug-ins. One in particular, JContentSubscription looks appropriate. I'm glad you raised this. Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: First John Edwards. What Happens Next?
--- 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 broadcast television being aped on the internet. I agree that the same rules should not be applied, but it does raise issues. Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: MySpace Suicide Note -Solution
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 http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: Network2 - Some Changes
--- 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 video screen (though it looks like we have to tweak presentation- whoops), with yet another link to original post. ...This is a *huge* improvement! Particularly linking to the website as well as the original post. Really like it. It makes it look as if you are not just trying to peel visitors off sites but actually leading to them. Promoting video blogging, not just the episodic video shows. This is a help. Keep it up! Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: Great Joomla plugin
--- 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 with YouTube (minus branding, yay!).
This is exactly what we were talking about earlier in that Joomla/CMS
thread.
Ron,
I gave it a try... I was really excited, too. But there was no way I
could put a jpeg poster frame or still image to link to each video.
It worked fine with the external videos such as from Youtube and
Google, etc., but not my own from my server. I had a few exchanges
with the developer and found him rather snarky about it's being too
much work to do that and why don't I use something else. So I am
testing out Enric's vPIP which, I believe you have been using. The
Joomla plugin can't be beat for ease of use, but I found it too
limiting for my site. If you like, I can forward the correspondence.
Thee are so many great plugins for Joomla! it's a shame this one did
not work for me.
Stan
http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: vPIP 0.16g Beta (maintenance) released
--- 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 to be added to templates changed? i.e. do I have to redo all the templates? :) Thanks! Jan I am just experimenting with vPIP to get it running on my Joomla! site, so I am new to vPIP and some of terminology. To clarify: Am I supposed to leave my template header and the code in my posts intact and go to the vPIP download link at http://utilities.cinegage.com/downloads/vPIP0.16/vPIP.zip and download vPIP.zip again, unpack it, and then upload it to my host folder, replacing the older version? I have no problem withe the close icon in FF, but on Safari Version 2.0.4 (419.3) -- which I thought was up to date -- the close icon does not show at all and the video image stays on although picture and sound do not run. I would love to get this working on my site! I have gone in to the html and changed the dimensions to 480 by 360. Nice. I just wish I could do it globally in the code generator menu. Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: Media RSS what?
--- 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 sometimes they achieve it. Good point though. The more I see of this thread, the more I realize that there is a broad spectrum of CMSs that range in complexity as well as quality. I have a friend who develops in Drupal because it has some kind of community development functionality. OK. Escapes me. He loves it. He took a stab at Joomla! and found it confusing. I have been working in Joomla! because I find it flexible enough to do what I want it to quite easily. And I am not a programmer or developer. I am a documentary film maker. From what I have been able to see, Joomla! and Mambo, in spite of their silly names, are sensible systems that are not for everyone, but they do make it possible for non-coders or non-programmers (like myself) to muck around and get the results they seek. I could have gone with Dreamweaver, Front Page, etc. I chose Joomla! because it was free, I liked the templates, and it seemed easy enough to learn. When I first started putting video on the internet, a little less than a year ago, I thought WordPress was over my head so I went with Blogger and then TypePad. Then moved over to Joomla! in August because I wanted a menu-driven content system and blogging software did not lend itself to that without an awful lot of kludging. To tell the truth, RSS and MRSS both escape me for now. Joomla! allows me to send email to registered guests whenever and however I want. And I count on search engines to bring people to my site. My visitors have absolutely no interest in looking at my site on a mobile device. A good streaming Flash at 500 kbs works fine. Joomla allows me to focus on the content -- the text and the video. Stan http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: Media RSS what?
--- 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 and Mambo, and I also run a few wikis. I really like Joomla. What additional mods do you have attached to your joomla install? Anything that helps you tailor your site to video? Cheers, Ron http://pawsitivevybe.com I was using vPIP on a mambo install not too long ago, and it was really sweet. YOu should check it out. Thanks, Ron. I am not using anything special for the video other than Josh's popup2go. I modified it a bit for dimensions -- following his instructions. I was a bit confused about Enric's vPIP install --- I am not a programmer -- and I just downloaded AllVideo Plugin from one of the Joomla! suppliers. Again, very simple, open source, free, and with a good user base. The only problem is I don't yet know how to link it to a still photo to get it to play. I've asked for help from the developer. But other than some simple house-keeping items for Joomla!, that's it. I like your site! You do dogs, I do horses! Stan http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: Nokia N93
--- 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 was thinking of getting an Xacti just to have with me all the time. Phone and camera combo... Still, not quite enough though. But here is a killer! If it works Does the GPS system transfer data over to the video system? Would it be possible to pull out a data field in the video to see where as well as when the material was shot? That would be a big help for me as I travel and shoot alone, having enough to do without taking notes about where I was for a particular sequence. I can come up with some great excuses to spring for that capability alone! Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: Helpful Screencasts
--- 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, compress for iPod, dual-pass wmv, upload to blip, and post to wordpress. Much of the info is pretty specific to Alive In Baghdad but some things like compressing for iPod and making dual-pass wmv files should be of interest to many of you. Check them out on the wiki: http://aliveinbaghdad.pbwiki.com/AIB%20episode%20format Hey, Verdi, Thanks! The wiki is crammed with useful information and I've already signed on to Spinexpress. One question: why do you need the wmv file in addition to Flash? I can understand the QT file for mobile devices, but isn't Flash universal enough? Is there a specific advantage in speed or quality to wmv over the flv file? Thanks again, Stan http://hestakaup.com
[videoblogging] Re: Blogger timeline tips needed
--- 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 ascending and descending chronological order. Stan SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Re: Voxmedia wiki: Flash video
--- 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 penetration of what they call Flash with some very misleading figures. First, there are several generations of Flash. The current release is Flash 8. Please go this site and see for yourself: http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetrat\ ion.html The 98 per cent -- or thereabouts -- penetration is for earlier versions. Flash 8 has much better quality for streaming than the earlier versions and, in my opinion, is well worth looking into for vlogging. But. And it is a big butt. You need a Flash 8 Player to look at Flash 8 video. It is a plugin for the browser, but there have been many, many, problems with the upgrade for IE on Windows for people who are not computer literate. Adobe has been dreadful about promoting the players for the general public. I have been dealing with this issue since January, 2006. People who have just gotten used to email and Google searching are terrified to update because the process is -- to them -- very daunting. You know, people over 30... While many of the visitors to vlogging sites are comfortable with the update process, I have found that the great unwashed of the general public gets frustrated with the upgrade process. While it is true that adoption rates for Flash 8 are climbing, none of the major aggregators such as Youtube, Google Video, etc. are streaming Flash 8. If you want to see what computer chaos would be like, imagine what would happen if they converted. On2 Technologies, the outfit that licenses the Flash 8 compression code to Adobe and others helped me with the player problem by putting up a site that will do an express install (no need for user intervention) for all platforms. You are welcome to use it and link to it: http://on2.com/flashtest Now Adobe is making noise about a Flash 9 player coming out very soon. Does that mean that Flash 8 will be replaced? It only came out in September of 2005. If you want to see a comparison of the two versions and an explanation of the player issues (with an updater), you can see how I dealt with it on http://hestakaup.typepad.com/hestablog/2006/02/flash_test.html There are quite a few clips of Flash 8. Stan Hirson http://hestablog.com http://hestakaup.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Charles Iliya Krempeaux supercanadian@ wrote: Hello, I thought Flash only had about 90% saturation (not 98%). See ya SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Re: Voxmedia wiki: Flash video
--- 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 never had a single person say your video won't load unless I did something wrong. :-) ... That's because you are referring to Flash 7 (MX). The current version, which has not been adopted by YouTube, Google, etc. is Flash 8. It has outstanding quality for streaming at a bitrate that does not need buffering on a medium broadband line. But it needs a browser plugin in order to play. It can be very scary for people who are not computer literate to install this plugin on Windows IE which is still the most popular browser configuration. I have been using Flash 8 through the On2 Flix Pro encoder with great results on my end but the user experience has been dreadful. Finally, On2 Technologies helped me with this problem and came out with a detecter/updater site that actually works. You are welcome to use and link to http://on2.com/flashtest/ Now Adobe is making noises about coming out with Flash 9 quite soon. Flash 8 was only released in September, 2005. It is very discouraging unless they come out with a very simple way of upgrading. Stan Hirson http://hestablog.com http://hestakaup.com SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Re: Voxmedia wiki: Flash video
--- 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 a great point here. My sites generally target people who are just now getting comfortable with email (and are not yet profficient at it) who think it is a big deal to do a Google search. There have been a number of problems with the upgrade to Flash 8 ranging from people on networks at work who do not have authority to alter software to people who went on the adobe site and then panicked when they had to do an install for the first time to people who had been warned not to add anything at all for fear of viruses, spyware, trojans, etc. It was not until I put up many many links to on2.com/flashtest that I was able to get people to upgrade. I am sticking with Flash 8 for one reason. It will stream out good quality video at a decent bitrate without buffering during normal internet loads. I have making what may be the most narrow niche vlogs in the vologosphere: Icelandic horses. No matter. But in order to show the fluidity of the horses' gaits I had to be able to compress at 30 fps. I tried every variety of QuickTime but I could not get it to stream with the quality I needed without stuttering. My target audience could care less about iPods or re-mixing and editing. They just want to sit down at the computer and watch a movie about something that they happen to be passionate about. Stan Hirson http://hestablog.com http://hestakaup.com SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Re: Flash Penetration (was vPIP 0.14 Released)
--- 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 handle Flash 7 (MX) files? Why would one need Flash 7 at all? Granted, the adoption of Flash 8 has not been going all that smoothly, and now there's a Flash 9 player mentioned by Adobe as coming out soon. It's very confusing for me as I am putting out Flash 8 videos on my vlogs. Yes, each version of the Flash player will playback movies that were exported as previous versions. Although, I'm not sure what you mean when asking why would one need Flash 7 at all. It is much better to use an old version if you don't need the new features. For example, I export my Flash movies as version 6 since I'm not using the new Actionscripting or v8 video features. I was referring specifically to the Flash Player. If one is going to distribute a player, I would think it should be for the most current version. It is downwards compatible for the earlier versions of Flash. As for putting out videos, the image quality of the .swf file in Flash 8 is far superior to the earlier versions. For vlogging, I would think that one would want Flash 8. The only reason for not using Flash 8 would be that the general public has had a great deal of difficulty upgrading to it. Here is the official Macromedia Flash penetration (from Dec 2005)... http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration.html Yet here is what I'm seeing from the VlogMap visitors... 82.6% = Flash 8 15.8% = Flash 7 01.6% = Other -Matt --- http://vlogmap.org http://ridertech.com http://leanbackvids.com Thanks for the stastical data -- they may not be far off from the general public usage. -- Enric I have painful experience that this is not the case! I think that VlogMap visitors are much more computer literate than most people. I have found a lot of reluctance by visitors to my Flash 8 vlogs to upgrade from Flash 7. For someone who has just gotten used to email and uses a browser primarily for Google, the Flash 8 upgrade process on IE is so daunting it often is just not done. I finally found a workaround for it, but it was difficult. I would put in a Flash 8 player and be done with it! Stan Hirson http://hestablog.com http://hestakaup.com SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Re: vPIP 0.14 Released
--- 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 forward to trying it out as soon as I can! Stan Hirson http://hestablog.com http://hestakaup.com SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Re: vPIP 0.14 Released
--- 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 think the adoption of it is sufficient to warrant going over. Thanks! -- Enric Now I'm really curious... won't the Flash 8 player also handle Flash 7 (MX) files? Why would one need Flash 7 at all? Granted, the adoption of Flash 8 has not been going all that smoothly, and now there's a Flash 9 player mentioned by Adobe as coming out soon. It's very confusing for me as I am putting out Flash 8 videos on my vlogs. Stan Hirson http://hestablog.com http://hestakaup.com SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Re: I'm Going To Hollywood
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 Garfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thought you might be interested in this streaming live conference today. http://onhollywood.goingon.com/ Begin forwarded message: The OnHollywood digital media and entertainment conference started last night and I tuned in to the live webcast and chat. It was just like being there, except for the fact that I was 3,000 miles away and couldn't go out for drinks after. But I did get to virtually hang out with Eric Rice, Tony Perkins, Schlomo Rabinowitz and Ross Levinsohn. Join me today at 11:30 AM EDT for the confernece. .. YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Re: typepad down?
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 their vlog? SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Re: comparison of quicktime compression techniques
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 that Flash 8 gave me the quality and the bitrate I needed at the 30 fps for the horses in motion. You can see a sample of Flash MX and Flash 8 comparison tests here: http://hestakaup.typepad.com/hestablog/2006/02/flash_test.html I just point this out because until I used the motion clip and tested it with Flash 8, I would have been so unhappy with the compression that I may not have even vlogged this subject thinking the technology was not there! Stan Hirson http://hestablog.com http://hestakaup.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Andy, . I think the idea of doing a compression matrix with a single test clip at set bit rates is a great idea. I'd love to help put one together using mpeg4, 3ivx, h.264, windows media 9, and Flash 8 - using single and double pass where available. -Verdi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Re: The Last Hours - Death of a Videoblogger Kevin Krutz
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 going into this school year was to make the _audience_ real for the students. To get them to post their films online for a audience of real people. ... Once it becomes real that your actions are affecting other people, we all tend to make better choices... So tell Kevin what you think, question his choices, make him think about them. And maybe he'll make the same choices again, but at least he'll have thought about: what kind of work does he want to make? why? what kind of impact or effect does he want to have?? etc... YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Re: BSP: Should Journalist Josh Wolf Be Afraid? --SF Weekly
--- 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 have created an excerpted video of what I saw observing the demonstration. I can't really say that it isn't my personal version of what transpired, but in a sense that's what news is, an observers version of what they feel has transpired. This issue interests me on many levels. First, I have worked in broadcast television as a documentary film maker in situations where I also covered hard news. For example, way back in 1963, one of my first projects was to cover the South during the civil rights activities in Birmingham, Selma, Greenwood Mississippi, etc. I still see footage on tv that I shot then. But I was there in a professional role, working for National Educational Television, the precursor of PBS. My understanding of that role, and my expeience and training leading up to it, was that I was to film as objectively as I could (granted all the adrenaline and testosterone flowiing) in order to convey as accurately as possible what took place. I have since gone on to work in cinema verite films and established a reputation for accuracy in film making. It is my sense that back in those days law enforcement on the scene had a certain respect for guys with film cameras becaue they could easily spot the pros and trusted them. It was only much later that I was hassled just becaue I was shooting something. And that is when I was carrying what looked like an amateur video camera. I really need to give this subject more thought. It is important now because there is talk on this list, as well as in the newspaper article in this thread, about citizen journalists (or whatever) taking over the media and that traditional broadcast media will be obsolete. Frankly, fine and good because they deserve a foul fate. But I worry about two things: the large broadcast companies (networks) convene the community as a whole to events and provide a common reference point for discussion across cultural and socio-economic lines. And the second point I worry about is the loss of a certain professional role and skills in the coverage of news events. I am still feeling my way through these issues in my vlogging activities. But I thought I should offer my past experience to this discussion. News coverage to the whole community, not just a series of people preaching to various choirs, is terribly important to a democracy. I am worried about it. Stan Hirson http://hestablog.com http://hestakaup.com But now we have the citizen with a camera. And I have recently been doing that, too. But I have kept the same standards as I had back in the '60s. SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Re: the activex/eolas patent bug in Explorer
--- 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 several to a post. I think I have avoided the IE problem that way. But, as I work only on a Mac and have no access to a Windows machine, I wonder if I could ask a favor of someone who has been testing sites to take a look at one of my videos on http://hestablog.com and let me know if there is a problem. Also, I would like to share a simple way of updating to Flash 8. On2, the company that actually did the Flash compression code that Adobe MM licensed, put up a site for the FlashObject Express Install so that a novice user can update to Flash 8 with minimal intervention. It is at http://www.on2.com/flashtest/ Until this simple site, getting people on IE who were just getting comfortable with email to upgrade to Flash 8 was horrid.Stan Hirsonhttp://hestablog.com YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Re: the activex/eolas patent bug in Explorer
--- 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 a Flash 7 player. This is the problem I mentioned in the next paragraph. Stan http://hestablog.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * 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] Re: the activex/eolas patent bug in Explorer
--- 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 http://azha.lunarpages.com/~shirson2/videos/trip1.swf and IE gave me the error for line 8 char 9 of access denied -- Enric Wow! I have no idea what could cause that... I just accessed it and it streamed fine. Why should IE have a problem with a direct access? And with Flash 8 properly installed, I can't understand why the pop-ups, when they come up, should be blank! Stan http://hestablog.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * 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] Eolas
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 getting ready for something? I'm surprised that there has been no discussion in this group.Stan Hirsonhttp://hestablog.com YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Flash Player Express Install Experience?
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 issues, etc. I would like to stick with the Flash 8 videos because the quality is so good and I know that pretty soon the Flash 8 market penetration will be enough to get the players out there. I think I am just a bit ahead of the curve right now. There is some FlashObject code that developers are using to generate an Express Install that seems to work very well and solves the update problems. I have no idea in the world what to do with it and I cannot, quite frankly, make heads or tails of most of links that deal with it. I want to, somehow, get it into TypePad.Anyone have any experience with this?Thanks,Stan Hirsonhttp://hestablog.com SPONSORED LINKS Individual Fireant Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Re: Flash Player Express Install Experience?
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 to be the most frequent issue these days. But there's a short guide to Windows troubleshooting here: http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_15511#install_winThis is, in fact, a good guide and relatively simple for a "power user" like myself. There are some other troubleshooting guides (from MM employees...) on the MM forum that I would recommend because of the regedit steps.The admin permissions issues seem to take place on corporate networks. That is not the case here.I am getting hard evidence that visitors to my site are:1. not willing to leave it for another site for an update2. not bothering to read directions... if they can't see the movies, they move on3. updating, but the update does not take and they get very confused looking for a program rather than a plugin4. confused by the complexity of the Adobe Flash upgrade site and cannot find the directions on the overly busy sitge and do not scroll down far enough.I know that there are issues with permissions and root admin access, but that is, I believe, the case with networks and companies. My visitors do not, for the most part, go to the site from networks. I know this is an issue with the Express Install. I would like to stick with the Flash 8 videos because the quality is so good and I know that pretty soon the Flash 8 market penetration will be enough to get the players out there. I think I am just a bit ahead of the curve right now. Maybe not. ;-) Here's a chronology of some really amazing adoption rates: Aug 31 05: Flash Player 8 released to general public, and immediately sees 4-5 million *completed* installations per day. Dec 15 05: NPD/MediaMetrix discovers 50% of consumers tested could see SWF8 content. Today: The March consumer audit won't be live on the site for awhile yet, but the new On2 codec should be up about 70% general consumer viewability by now, I'd wager. Results of the December consumer audit: http://www.macromedia.com/software/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration.html Okay. I'm familiar with these figures and have even linked to some of them just to reassure people that I am not too far out there with Flash 8. But this is where it gets interesting. As the market saturates, you start picking up more of the "civilians" and newbies rather than the early adopters who are already there and can deal with problems and, in fact, expect them. Now we are picking up people who are easily confused and, having just gotten somewhat comfortable with email, do not want to be bothered learning how to install new software. These "holdouts" are the toughest cases. And that's what I am getting.You may dispute the logic, but I am getting the anecdotal evidence and see the system stats. And on the forum that I visit on the MM site, I am finding that lots of developers are having this problem. There is some FlashObject code that developers are using to generate an Express Install that seems to work very well and solves the update problems. I have no idea in the world what to do with it and I cannot, quite frankly, make heads or tails of most of links that deal with it. I want to, somehow, get it into TypePad. Anyone have any experience with this? Not sure... got link? The Express Install docs on the Adobe site seems to be working pretty smoothly for people on the mailing lists, but I know that lots of people like to customize any standard routine too.The major problem I know of with Express Install is the admin permissions on networks. If you like, I could give you many links, but the preferred site seems to be:http://blog.deconcept.com/flashobject/My biggest problem right now is: I have Flash 8 .swf videos on a TypePad blog. I know that Expess Install may very well solve my visitors' update problems. BUT I have no idea in the world how to implement the FlashObject code into my blogs or videos. I can't understand the language. I feel as if I am crashing the party. I need some step by step instructions and cannot find them. I am an experienced and established film maker. I want to put videos on the internet through Flash 8. Where do I go from here?If you would like to see one of my sites, pleaes visit http://hestablog.comFeel free to email me. Oh. I also get the feeling that Adobe is treading water right now over MS next move with Active-X because of the Eolas case. And Flash Player 8.5 is coming out.Thanks again, and I hope you can give me a hand.Stan Hirsonhttp://hestablog.com SPONSORED LINKS Individual Fireant Use
[videoblogging] GUBA
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 Individual Fireant Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Re: Blogger Java Errors
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 Hirsonhttp://hestablog.com--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Chris Daniel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:.. Not sure what's going on. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! -Chris -- http://www.chrisdanielvideos.com SPONSORED LINKS Individual Fireant Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Subscription Service for Email Updates
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. Can anyone recommend something? I have looked at Feedblitz, but it looks as if it is date-dependent and based on the RSS feed. Stan Hirsonhttp://hestablog.com/ SPONSORED LINKS Individual Fireant Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Re: Dreamhost reliability?
--- 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 been? Does it go down ever, rarely, often? Search "dreamhost hacked" in Google Groups and you will find a pretty scary thread. I have had an account with them for only a short while. Frankly, I admit I needed some tech support to get up and running and I never got it. I've had to open an account with another server, Lunarpages. They have real live people available on the phone for tech support and their emails are answered promptly. This was not my experiene with Dreamhost at all. Also, Lunarpages has C-Panel and file management software that Dreamhost either keeps secret or doesn't have.I think you are more at ease around large servers than I and may not need support. The price is right...Stan SPONSORED LINKS Individual Fireant Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Re: searching for a clip
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 uses the traditional, retro film countdown (you know, the 3...2...1 that used to precede film strips from a long time ago). Perhaps someone here has a direct link to something like this on Archive.org? -josh SPONSORED LINKS Individual Fireant Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Re: stickam
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 http://beginningwithi.com/vlog/test.html Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * 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] Re: Just a Blip in the dark? - Affirmative...
--- 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@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson k9disc@ wrote: I get a weird QT faded screen with question mark. I take it this is a timeout? Anybody know what's going on? I am in upstate NY. I haven't been able to reach them at all for about 2 hours and all my links to them hang. This is true for other blogs I have tried. I am surprised that there has not been any other discussion on this list about that. Too early in the morning? I really hope that this is just a blip and not a more prolonged problem They have been providing a major service as a gateway to video blogging. I don't know what their business model is, but I hope they can keep going. They certainly got me started! Stan Hirson Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * 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] Re: My Wordpress 2.01 blog on Dreamhost has been Hacked!
--- 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 a few days and I have found the experience unpleasant because of a loutish indifference to support. I've gotten the same e-mail. Their skrimpy little wiki is of little help -- look something up and you even get a press release from 2001! Your friend's suggestion about lunarpages got me curious enough to browse their site. I found it very much oriented to a good user experience. They even encourage telephone support. I browsed around a bit and it looks as if I will go for it unless I find bad reports. It's better for me to bail from Dreamhost now before I have too much linked in. Stan Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * 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] Re: multiple embed src=xxx.mov in a video-blog?
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 changing the html code when I paste it? I have been trying out a similar code generator for Flix Pro from On2. That takes the image size as an input variable. Thanks, Stan --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you embed the videos in the blog entries, then you also need to provide a direct link to the video file in order to use a service like FeedBurner to create enclosures. This is why the video popup method is good. It preserves the direct link to the video for FeedBurner, but also gives an embedded video solution for playback in the browser (including IE, which requires embedded video playback). -Josh Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * 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] Rocketboom Changes?
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 buffering interruptions. I flushed my cache and tried it again a few hours later. Same smoothness. I also tried it in another browser with the same finding. Did they switch settings or did their hosting service make any changes? I was quite impressed and wonder whether it is just coincidence.Stan Hirson SPONSORED LINKS Individual Fireant Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Re: Dreamhost $9.24/ yr is back
--- 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 "excitement" with this plan: Bits per second. ...snip... To make maters worse, the low-end Dreamhost plans as mentioned, dont get a full 100mbs server. They SHARE the little pipe with others. And if one of those "others" gets some traffic, and you get some traffic, then everybody is screwed. ...snip.. The moral of the story is, if you anticipate growth and wish to provide a solid user experience so that everyone gets their file quickly and easily, a strategy we have demanded from the start which, I believe, used to put almost all of the major news video sites to shame with their famous "buffering messages", get a bigger pipe (and dont stream!). On the contrary, if you are just doing your own thing and dont really care about that, or only become effected minimally from time to time, smile on about that $9 plan. It would be interesting to hear some stats from some of the big aggregators or video hosting sites like Vimeo, Ourmedia, Blip, etc. I assume Archive.org talks in terms of warehouses per country.I wonder what the "pipe" size is for hosting sites. If there is any way to find out. There are so many variables affecting the delivery of video streams that I just do not know where to start locating the bottlenecks.But what I do know is that the stuttering and buffering pauses not only annoy me personally, but they are the major complaint of the people I am inviting to my video blog. Part of my problem is that these people are for the most part not computer litterate or tolerant of bleeding-edge technology. They want a good streaming experience. They are not interested in downloading. I am doing a lot of experiments with compression and bitrates. It's frustrating. Stan SPONSORED LINKS Individual Fireant Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Re: blip.tv having problems?
--- 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 Individual Fireant Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Re: blogger down?
--- 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. Also, blip.tv has been very slow this evening and timed out on my a few times. Weather? Stars? Superbowl jam-up? SPONSORED LINKS Individual Fireant Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] The Rocketboom Boom
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! Right now, I think it will be more than a tidy sum. Because it's on eBay, the information will be public. Andrew has been incredibly generous in sharing information about vlogging with us. But this is going to be earthshaking. I hope the vlogging community can survive it!Stan Hirson YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Re: Flash 8 and Firefox
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 get lots of otgher Flash videos with no problem. I have not seen any mention of it on the ON2 forum either. Has the company responded? They seem to be very good about participating on the forum. Stan Hirson --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, v1b3n [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone been having problems w/ flv videos encoded with the On2 codec in Firefox? I'm having a lot of users saying that the video and the player never show up. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * 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] Re: A Reason the Use Flash?
--- 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 bit more difficult will demonstrate my good intent to protect the subjects. On 1/23/06, Bill Streeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tis true. Any time you release something into the world in any format, Internet or analog you risk someone copying your work. The best defence is to not do anything or if you do never let anyone see it. But that's not really an option is it? So thats why we have a legal system. I suspect that your subjects are being slightly more paranoid than they should be. What was your agreement with them? And why are they so paranoid about their images being used in other context? Bill Streeter LO-FI SAINT LOUIS www.lofistl.com Paranoid? That got me... There are a lot of answers to that, but some people in the field of training horses prefer that videos showing them at work are not re-compiled into how to videos for DIY at home. It's a matter of safety as much as anything else. I think the scope of that is boyond this list. Let's just say it's something I would like to respect. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you put something on the internet, someone will find a way to use it if they want to. Even if you streamed it or used flash, someone could use a screen recording program to make a copy of it. The way you protect the work is to license it according to your wishes. Then if someone misuses it they are in voilation of the license. You can't physically stop people from using it though - just read any conversation on DRM anywhere on the internet. -Verdi It may be worth the effort to make it more difficult to rip off. A lot of this takes place in Iceland. So they are in violation of the license... I'm going to test the interface with the FLV player on TypePad. I like the way it works with QT. Stan Hirson Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * 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] Re: The PAN!
--- 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 mentioned anywhere and I haven't been able to come up with a comfortable graphic to add on top of the video to make this apparent. I'm thinking of adding a message on the begging frame, not sure. This is a great feature! But I just tried it and found 2 issues: In Firefox, the link is blocked as a pop-up and nothing happens. After a couple of tries I just happened to notice the Firefox blocker and changed the preferences to allow if from RB. Something else that needs to be pointed out. The link then took me to a new tab, but the video continued playing. So, that meant going back to the tab in which RB was playing, stopping the video, going to the new tab which has the linked article or video, then going back to RB. Once I did this a couple of times, of course, I realized that if I stop the video, then click on the frame, I got to the link. Something else to be documented. But I like the feature very much. Now you've got me wondering what is the begging frame? It's great that you've been so open and helpful with what is going into RB. Thanks. Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * 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] Re: The First Icelandic Vlogger
--- 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 English. http://hestakaup.typepad.com/ It took me a bit to figure out how to go about it, but I will be adding a lot of video from a documentary film I have been making. Stan Hirson Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * 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] Re: Why LIFO? Any way to change to FIFO in Blogger?
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: other blogging engines, like TypePad, allow you to reverse the order of posts (ascending or descending order). BLogger is really limited when it comes to customizations. -Josh Point well taken. I'm on TypePad. The price was right on Blogger and I wanted to support the principle, but TypePad gives other kinds of freedom. Stan http://hestakaup.typepad.com/ On 12/31/05, Markus Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: here's a dumb hack: suppress printing the date by editing blogger template *once* to either remove or hide date header using CSS (again, back up your template before making changes). when posting, set the publication date to one in the past so that articles go in the order you want type the real date in the post if you need to display it you may also wish to suppress 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. Broadcast Machine might be what you are looking for. http://participatoryculture.org/broadcast/ It lists your videos in order. Thanks for the suggestion. I checked out Broadcast Machine. I hate to be picky, but it does not integrate the text with other media in a fluid way. I like the embedded quality of the video in Blogger. I also like the fact that so far I do not have to learn code and can post and edit quite easily in a spiffy template. Broadcast Machine has a rigidity of its own. I guess I am looking for a hack or a plug-in for Blogger that would reverse the order of posts and would allow one to EASILY create a table of contents rather than the buried archives. I yelled easily becaue I am sure it could be done with code and with a lot of bother each time you posted. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * 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] Why LIFO? Any way to change to FIFO in Blogger?
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 get the eperience and because I want to participate in this medium. My background, among other things is a documentary film maker. What I like about vlogging is that it can allow me -- I think and hope -- to present a subject in a recursive and nonlinear way, unlike a traditional documentary film. I can share my exploration and learning-process with the viewer. I can look at a subject and then come back later with a clearer understanding or a deeper question. It's sort of looping around in an irregular patternI have been using Blogger. What bothers me now that I have been doing this for a few days, is that I am being forced back into a linear mode because of the date/journal quality of the software. It is like a diary that you cannot start at the beginning. Oh, sure, people can dig into archives, scroll down and up in ways that are unfamiliar to them, but it's not going to happen. I think I would rather start at the beginning and develop ideas in a progression for the audience just the way I am doing it for myself as I spin the vlog.I can't figure out how to do this within Blogger. And there are many reasons why I would like to stick with Blogger right now. Is there a fix or is there something similar that would have the flexibity of Blogger? Thanks,Stan YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] 3ivx compression -- Help!
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 specific settings. The whole subject of compression has been, quite frankly, something that I've been avoiding because it is so confusing with its own language and parameters that, to me, don't make much sense. I am developing a vlog that will a lot of footage of horses in motion. I am trying to keep the bit rate as low as possible to avoid stuttering while showing some sense of motion as clean as possible on DSL bandwidth.What I am looking for from this list is some pointers to instruction about compression that is somewhere between the Freevlog tutorials and the 3ivx documentation. I'd appreciate any advice.ThanksStan Hirsonhestakaup.blogspot.com SPONSORED LINKS Individual Fireant Typepad Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
