[videoblogging] Re: the coming Broadband limit?

2009-04-10 Thread Steve Watkins
I dont know if there are hundreds, but there are certainly plenty to choose from via phone lines in the UK. Via cable there isnt really any choice of companies, just Virgin, which offers higher speeds than the phone lines can manage at the moment. People in the UK are used to paying different

[videoblogging] Re: the coming Broadband limit?

2009-04-10 Thread Steve Watkins
Lets look at some detail about one of the proposed plans: http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/data/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216500302subSection=News In particular: Options for 10 GB, 20 GB, 40 GB, and 60 GB a month also will be available with overage charges of $1 per gigabyte a

[videoblogging] Re: the coming Broadband limit?

2009-04-10 Thread Steve Watkins
Lets look at some detail about one of the proposed plans: http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/data/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216500302subSection=News In particular: Options for 10 GB, 20 GB, 40 GB, and 60 GB a month also will be available with overage charges of $1 per gigabyte a

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

2009-04-09 Thread Steve Watkins
Its interesting. Im not convinced that social networking sites like facebook or phenomenon such as twitter know how to make money, let alone video providers with their higher bandwidth costs. There were a flurry of articles in recent weeks suggesting that Youtube is trying to get away from

[videoblogging] Re: pc laptop

2009-04-09 Thread Steve Watkins
I cant see any particular reason why it would have a problem with video editing, seems like a fairly beefy spec. If you get Windows 7 when it comes out, it will feel like even more of a powerhouse as Vista is a tad bloated. And if you are editing high definition then maybe you'd want a screen

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

2009-04-03 Thread Steve Watkins
Interesting stuff, I like the style. I didnt really understand where the 4000 views came from exactly or the nature of the deal you mentioned. Some strange red frames flashing and interlacing comb lines near the end though :( Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Adam

[videoblogging] Re: REPLY: Promoting the .mov option online

2009-03-31 Thread Steve Watkins
My 2 tips for promoting h264 format are: Have it playable via a flash player embedded in the page, so users dont even need to know its an mp4 (others have already discussed this) Dont make the h264 file a .mov or a .m4v or a .f4v. Make it a .mp4 because this has the widest sounding

[videoblogging] Re: REPLY: Promoting the .mov option online

2009-03-31 Thread Steve Watkins
Its both, the codec and the encoder and settings. h264 isnt perfect, but a better h264 encoder could give a better result for your scenario. Likewise when Apple first started promoting h264, some people who had ben using older mpeg4 were not blown away, because they had been using a really

[videoblogging] Re: REPLY: Promoting the .mov option online

2009-03-31 Thread Steve Watkins
Cheers :) Apart from how good/efficient the formats you used to use were, there are a couple of other reasons for what you've noticed: People were more conservative about filesizes in the past, you could force h264 to use a lower bitrate and get results that are smaller without too much loss

[videoblogging] Re: Video Content Provider Rights

2009-03-30 Thread Steve Watkins
How long ago did mefeedia get polluted with ad overload, and was it discussed on this list at all? Anybody know if there have been any more legal cases related to creative commons that get us any further along the road of working out what counts as 'commercial use'? For video aggregation

[videoblogging] Re: This cam will change everything!

2009-03-25 Thread Steve Watkins
It doesnt look that small to me, and the quicktime stuff is mostly marketing hype. So, I dont think this cam will change everything, maybe Im just being dumb but I dont see what all the fuss is about. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov innom...@...

[videoblogging] Re: Media Buying Agencies with their head in the sand, vloggers suffer as a resu

2009-03-10 Thread Steve Watkins
I presume they'd have been all over the space like a rash if there were more success stories on which to build the dream? Im out of date, havent found an indy web show I wanted to watch for years, find few compelling UK podcasts or video shows. Itunes podcast directory totally dominated by

[videoblogging] Re: Transparent Video Player

2009-03-05 Thread Steve Watkins
Well the example you linked to had several different features, based on different technology. If you just want to play a normal video over the top of your page, that could probably be achieved with a bit of wordpress template modification an understanding of html layers. The 'person standing

[videoblogging] Re: Maya

2009-02-22 Thread Steve Watkins
Yeah try: http://library.creativecow.net/articles/delafuente_rene/maya_cam_imp.php Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Tim Street 1timstr...@... wrote: Have you looked at http://forums.creativecow.net/ ? Tim Street 1timstr...@... http://1timstreet.com/blog

[videoblogging] Re: Josh Leo's site

2009-02-10 Thread Steve Watkins
Indeed. Wordpress is a popular target for attack because it is widely installed, often by people who lack the resources to keep on top of maintenance. I think wordpress and others have tried to improve ease of updating, but if you customise your site there are often annoying complications. I

[videoblogging] Re: Josh Leo's site

2009-02-08 Thread Steve Watkins
Looking back a page or 2 on his twitter history, I think the site got hacked. http://twitter.com/joshleo Cheers Steve --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David King davidleek...@... wrote: Anyone know what happened to josh Leo's site (joshleo.com)? It looks like it is gone ... I really

[videoblogging] Re: Tricorn Live Now

2009-02-07 Thread Steve Watkins
I like VDMX. There is also quartz composer on the mac, free apple developer tool, though a bit complex for many. On Windows there are plenty, Resolume Avenue 3 is quite interesting: http://www.resolume.com/ Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Brook Hinton bhin...@...

[videoblogging] Re: Backing up your media

2009-02-07 Thread Steve Watkins
Get an Uninterruptible power supply (UPS). Lacie probably arent much more unreliable than any other, everybody has a make or two that have failed on them and make them hate that brand. If Mac users have had lots of Lacie failures its probably only because they have bought lots of Lacie

[videoblogging] Re: is Revver no more?

2009-01-31 Thread Steve Watkins
Still down. Even if they are not dead, outages of this length are very bad for their business in future. There also seems to be some people complaining on revver wikipedia page that they didnt get paid for 2nd half of 2008. Doesnt bode well. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In

[videoblogging] Re: is Revver no more?

2009-01-31 Thread Steve Watkins
/5057940/liveuniverse-struggling-to-pay-employees- clients http://valleywag.gawker.com/5071463/myspace-foe-cant-keep-it-up Run away! Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins st...@... wrote: Still down. Even if they are not dead, outages of this length are very bad

[videoblogging] Re: Open Video

2009-01-27 Thread Steve Watkins
It will be tough to displace h.264... Its everywhere now, new DivX for Windows is h.264 based (though uses .mkv file wrapper format). And from what I can tell both Windows 7 and Silverlight 3 will support h.264. Increasingly, hardware that we record and watch video on supports h.264. And as you

[videoblogging] Re: New Xacti cameras coming in February

2009-01-26 Thread Steve Watkins
Looks good, think they will be out in March in USA UK. And one of them is the normal xacti form factor so I would think it will fit in your pocket ok? Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz schl...@... wrote: Pretty awesome, but I would never be able

[videoblogging] Re: 17 Macbook Pro 2.6 Ghz for sale... Ferrari of portable video editing machin

2009-01-14 Thread Steve Watkins
But the new 17 costs $2799 from Apple, so how can he expect to get $3k for it? What am I missing? Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mike Meiser groups-yahoo-...@... wrote: He's hoping to get $3k for it.

[videoblogging] Re: Really Great Article on Media Trends and the Curation Economy

2009-01-12 Thread Steve Watkins
Im not sure if I am excited about micropayments in the way I was a few years back. Personally there is content I would pay nothing for, regular content I would pay a subscription for, and certain videos that have enough value for me that Id pay reasonable money for one video (eg 3d software

[videoblogging] Re: Pay to Play Ad:

2009-01-12 Thread Steve Watkins
You should not really be using images of products that have another entities trademark on them in adverts. Demonstrating how cheap your stuff is compared to other everyday costs that people might not think about, is a method Ive seen used in adertising before, I guess it works, but I suppose its

[videoblogging] Re: Profit sharing for film crews

2009-01-07 Thread Steve Watkins
My opinions, for the one thing Im not short of is opinions: Training videos that are useful to a niche are one of the more likely sorts of videos that some people will pay for. I did not like the example prices you gave at all. Depending on the subject matter, training dvds and suchlike

[videoblogging] Re: Profit sharing for film crews

2009-01-07 Thread Steve Watkins
Well, it all comes down to what people think something is worth to them I guess. I cannot really tell Ron what his particular prices should be because Im not a potential customer, I dont know what the stuff is worth. I was meaning to say that when talking about the wider theory of selling video

[videoblogging] Re: Making the most of h.264

2008-12-23 Thread Steve Watkins
Oh yes I forgot about fast start/progressive downliading issues. It looks like someone made an adobe air app that will fix non-fast-start mp4s so that they do fast start, anybody tried it? Its called QTIndexSwapper and there is a link to it on this page: http://renaun.com/blog/2008/02/25/250/

[videoblogging] Re: Making the most of h.264

2008-12-21 Thread Steve Watkins
Its not so much to do with mac snobbery, but mostly about a good balance between quality and filesize, although itunes and ipod compatibility are a factor too. Mac snobbery is part of the reason that wmv format is unloved, though windows users have others reasons not be care for wmv much too.

[videoblogging] Re: Macbook pro questions

2008-12-20 Thread Steve Watkins
I'll add a few things that probably arent too important but I'll say em anyway... Yes the new 17 is 1920 res, but unlike the 15 it is still available in a matte version as wel as glossy. To be honest 17 is a bit small for that res anyway. There are some nicely priced 22 and 24 monitors that can

[videoblogging] Re: ISP's becoming the enforcement arm of the RIAA?

2008-12-20 Thread Steve Watkins
Something very similar was planned for the UK, ith ISPs acting as copyright police. I think our government supported it, Im not sure what has happened with the issue, whether it is definately happening here or not. Filesharing is still atracting lawsuits here, there was stuff on the news a few

[videoblogging] Re: Does the Blog format work for Vlogging anymore?

2008-12-11 Thread Steve Watkins
Great discussion. It takes me back to several different topics I used to rant on about here. Several projects I always wanted to do but, as usual, never really got started on. I like to think about a CMS that can show its content through a variety of flash front ends. The useful bits of

[videoblogging] Re: No blogging: different visual creations

2008-12-11 Thread Steve Watkins
Interesting stuff. I hadnt read this thread before posting on the other thread about alternatives to the blog style. At this rate I may go back to a plan of several years ago to actually buy flash so I can try to add functionality to the existing flash players out there. There is sooo much

[videoblogging] Re: Bid for Placement on YouTube

2008-11-14 Thread Steve Watkins
That would surprise me somewhat - you sure you werent deleted for other reasons? Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, liza jean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we figured this was coming. first two times youtube deleted us it was after we got a million channel views. seemed

[videoblogging] Re: Bid for Placement on YouTube

2008-11-14 Thread Steve Watkins
: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins steve@ wrote: That would surprise me somewhat - you sure you werent deleted for other reasons? Cheers Steve Elbows as we are PG-13 - no nudity, foul language (unless you count puns) or violence - why we get deleted from one single

[videoblogging] Re: Traditional Media Scares the Shi* out of me As I Type

2008-11-14 Thread Steve Watkins
Despite being a negative person and setting my expectations rather low, things havent met my expectations. I never believed the hype and silly advertising projections, even without the economic storm I dont think all would be well in the world of web 2.0 also known as 'where's the revenue?'

[videoblogging] Re: Traditional Media Scares the Shi* out of me As I Type

2008-11-14 Thread Steve Watkins
Wont investors see it as experimental and very high risk unlss there are more examples of people getting a return on their investment? Maybe I am missing some success stories, where are they? Doesnt help that the handful of early stars seem to have failed to capitalize on their position. What

[videoblogging] Re: TroopTube (I shit you not)

2008-11-12 Thread Steve Watkins
Arent soldiers more keenly aware of military censorship and propaganda than most? Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Adam Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a slap in the face to the soldiers. It says we don't want you to use 'normal' methods of communication

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

2008-11-10 Thread Steve Watkins
Great discussion. I think the energy use of the net computers will be a bit easier to tackle via technological progress than real world transport will be. In an era that is as much about resources peaking as it is climate change, we are going to have to get used to monitoring our consumption of

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

2008-11-10 Thread Steve Watkins
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But not just peopleBusinesses. jay Businesses will end up using less energy either because the price makes them change, they shrink due to less economic activity in general, or they go bust. I didnt look at the

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

2008-11-06 Thread Steve Watkins
The devil is in the detail, ie how large the cap is. I dont see anything to suggest that limits are low enough to stop you watching a few movies, but over the course of a month the gigabytes can really add up. I prefer daily cap's, and if they dont make them too low, it will be mostly ok. Not

[videoblogging] download video podcasts direct to iphone in next version

2008-11-06 Thread Steve Watkins
It appears that the next iphone firmware will allow people to download audio video podcasts directly to the device, as opposed to having to sync with itunes or watch videos on a website. And yes Im back on this list, hello everyone, hope all is well. I am feeling more human these days and so

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

2008-11-06 Thread Steve Watkins
I cant get hulu and havent downloaded any feature length movies from itunes, Ive presumed they come in at way less than 5gig. But even so, 5 gig is not a lot really in this day and age, not for a whole month. It might be an acceptable limit for someone who doesnt do multimedia, especially if it

[videoblogging] Re: Video Goes Underground

2008-08-08 Thread Steve Watkins
The internet is big. The internet has the capacity to accomodate a very big fringe, a very long tail. All the commercial and big media side of online video does not really prevent anybody from doing what they like as best I can tell. We get a network with a different agenda by creating one. I

[videoblogging] Re: Video Goes Underground

2008-08-08 Thread Steve Watkins
Well whether or not a person thinks of themselves as an artist, the process of creating is in many cases its own reward. I havent considered myself an artist to date, have just been trying to be creative sometimes because it feels good. But beyond that there are many things that people may be

[videoblogging] Re: Video Goes Underground

2008-08-08 Thread Steve Watkins
Both. And exclusivity or very limited availability is a very well used art selling technique. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jim Kukral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this art, or marketing? http://www.onethousandpaintings.com/home/ From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com

[videoblogging] Re: Video Goes Underground

2008-08-08 Thread Steve Watkins
@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Watkins Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 2:55 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: [videoblogging] Re: Video Goes Underground Both. And exclusivity or very limited availability is a very well used art selling technique

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

2008-08-06 Thread Steve Watkins
Good. If at least one major browser support it then theres a chance something good will come of ogg theora one day. Until then, there isnt much point looking at it. ITs not like there is a compelling technical reason to use that format. People with a special interest in the open issues, or

[videoblogging] Re: Video Goes Underground

2008-08-06 Thread Steve Watkins
Yes. I like to pay for some stuff too. I spend quite a lot of money on itunes and on DVDs. I subscribe to a website that does regular podcasts, it costs about $10 a month. I subscribed to davidlynch,com for a while. I have no doubt that if there were some people who offered video that I wanted

[videoblogging] Re: Video Goes Underground

2008-08-06 Thread Steve Watkins
Great post. Although the flood of marketers and the big boys and all that game came, I dont think it changed things as much a I thought it might. The web 2.0 side of things seems to be well on the way to disappearing up its own ass, leaving us at least free of the worst of the hype. Since this

[videoblogging] Re: Video Goes Underground

2008-08-06 Thread Steve Watkins
Its funny the online VJ community I was involved with always struggled somewhat to bridge the gap between themselves and the rest of the artistic world too. They were often using different tools, performing in different spaces, and quite detached from the commercial and academic art world, and

[videoblogging] Re: Free iPhone site for your Vlog

2008-07-24 Thread Steve Watkins
Aha I was going to post about this when I saw it mentioned on techcrunch the other day: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/22/episodic-makes-flash-videos-iphone- friendly/ The Techcrunch article highlights some concerns that anybody can put in an RSS feed and start monetizing other peoples

[videoblogging] Re: Vloggers or Videographers heading to the Democratic Republican National Co

2008-07-18 Thread Steve Watkins
Im not American and I've been off the list for a while, but I just discovered remixamerica and wanted to applaud the greatness of it. Nice! I like the rumsfeld remix: http://remixamerica.org/videos/rumsfeld-rules Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, noel hidalgo [EMAIL

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

2008-06-12 Thread Steve Watkins
Well thats a problem with the whole computer industry. The pace of change makes it that way, and really the whole consumption economy is based on things not being built to last. The practical aspect of a 5 year limit is that after 5 years they probably dont have much of a source of components to

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

2008-06-12 Thread Steve Watkins
OK well I just mapped components side by side for the 17 Macbook Pro Spec versus a HP PC Laptop. I configured the HP spec so that it was as identical to the standard Macbook Pro 17 as I could get. Got an almost perfect match, only difference being very slightly different graphics card on the HP,

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

2008-06-09 Thread Steve Watkins
Well since Macs switched to Intel processors its much easier to make a like-for-like comparison of prices. Most Apple hardware has quite a price premium every time Ive done the maths. Granted I havent looked at US $ prices but you should be able to get a 17 PC laptop with same CPU, RAM

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

2008-06-09 Thread Steve Watkins
Argh sorry about the linebreaks. I havent posted here for a while and forgot to use different browser. I would count this as an example of a stupid Apple bug in Safari, except it could be Yahoo's fault. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins [EMAIL

[videoblogging] Re: Is Veoh going belly up or just going through a growth spurt?

2008-06-09 Thread Steve Watkins
Well that court case looks old, and it was dismissed last November. Although it may have been on a technicality and there is a new case elsewhere. But as they just announced $30 million in funding we can be pretty sure they arent going belly-up anytime soon, and that people have been prepared to

[videoblogging] Re: Is Veoh going belly up or just going through a growth spurt?

2008-06-09 Thread Steve Watkins
to their videos in many countries now: http://newteevee.com/2008/06/01/veoh-blocks-some-international-access/ So they are willing to throw away up to 10% of their audience. Shame shame, booo! Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well

[videoblogging] Re: Xacti Hd1000

2008-05-08 Thread Steve Watkins
) then you can see the footage. it's weird i do want to make a tutorial but i need a clip from someone does anyone have one that i can grab to use for a tutorial? one that looks green on your computer but has audio? -ry On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[videoblogging] Re: Xacti Hd1000

2008-05-02 Thread Steve Watkins
Interesting. Has anybody got a few seconds of footage in this format that they could post? I like to do some testing to see what exactly it is about those h.264 files that is causing problems. It may be Apple's fault rather than Sanyo, Id like to find out. Also that workaround to use an

[videoblogging] Re: Best Delivery Codec

2008-05-01 Thread Steve Watkins
Not sure. Assuming the following file was made using this method, I tried to test it: http://blip.tv/file/get/Rambooc1-MadMooloolaba980.mp4 But I had very big problem with that file. Both Quicktime VLC think the resolution of that video is 6912x384, which causes a hugely stretched mess when I

[videoblogging] Re: Quicktime upgrade question

2008-04-30 Thread Steve Watkins
Which version of 3ivx you got? If its version 5, make sure you are using latest 5.0.2 version. If that doesnt work, you could consider using the h264 encoding built into quicktime instead, or use a different program such as visualhub to make good mpeg4 or h264 videos. Cheers Steve Elbows

[videoblogging] $40000 raised for movie via crowd-sourcing

2008-04-29 Thread Steve Watkins
I havent looked too closely at this yet but there seemed to be a video that may have interesting thoughts in it: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/28/artemis-eternal-brings-crowd-funding-to- movie-making/ Some funky timeline graphics on their website but I havent explored further:

[videoblogging] Re: $40000 raised for movie via crowd-sourcing

2008-04-29 Thread Steve Watkins
Oops, here's a tinyurl: http://tinyurl.com/6pvaw8 Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I havent looked too closely at this yet but there seemed to be a video that may have interesting thoughts in it: http://www.techcrunch.com

[videoblogging] Re: 1000 True Fans

2008-04-24 Thread Steve Watkins
Brilliant stuff! I still hope we'll get past the idea that advertising is the only way to monetize online video, and have more discussions along these lines. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A followup to the 1000 true fans

[videoblogging] Re: viddler adverts

2008-04-24 Thread Steve Watkins
Interesting stuff. Am I crazy to think there may still be room for an evolved version of the humble webring? I know that tags, search, RSS, blogroll's, social networking and other stuff should probably make this obsolete and old fashioned, but somehow Im not satisfied with the ways I currently

[videoblogging] Re: Videoblogging Week 2008

2008-04-22 Thread Steve Watkins
Could someone help me with a feed issue? I setup my site in a hurry, using wordpress vPip, and mefeedia gives me errors when I try to add the feed. This one is the vPip feed for quicktime:

[videoblogging] Re: Videoblogging Week 2008

2008-04-22 Thread Steve Watkins
://www.mefeedia.com - Feed Me Media --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Christian Wach needle@ wrote: Hi Steve, On 22 Apr 2008, at 18:50, Steve Watkins wrote: Could someone help me with a feed issue? I setup my site in a hurry, using wordpress vPip, and mefeedia gives me errors

[videoblogging] Re: jabbo and crabbo launching tonight

2008-04-21 Thread Steve Watkins
Sounds groovy to me :) Assuming that 9.15 is EST, I probably wont be able to make it as thats rather late at night here in the UK, but I'll try. Cheers Steve

[videoblogging] Re: FCP XDCAM EX Export problems - Interlacing???

2008-04-21 Thread Steve Watkins
Im aassuming that this is a normal interlacing issue and isnt some weird thing caused by your camera/software combination. The best solution depends on what sort of video you are trying to create, most importantly what resolution. A solution that should totally avoid the problem in the first

[videoblogging] Re: FCP XDCAM EX Export problems - Interlacing???

2008-04-21 Thread Steve Watkins
I just managed to use compressor to get 1080 footage that isnt interlaced anymore. The settings are a tad fiddly, and I suspect that there arent too many people wanting to export at that size anyway, as the files will be quite big and wont play on many computer. So yeah it comes down to what

[videoblogging] Re: Videoblogging Week 2008

2008-04-20 Thread Steve Watkins
Is there anywhere good to track this years videos? Am looking forward to watching as many as possible :) Heres mine: http://www.mutantquartz.com/?p=10 Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bring It! http://twittervlog.tv/?p=242

[videoblogging] BBC story about amateur photographers in a climate of fear

2008-04-17 Thread Steve Watkins
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7351252.stm IMHO its a well balanced and interesting article. Cheers Steve Elbows

[videoblogging] Re: Flickr adds video - max length 90 seconds?

2008-04-11 Thread Steve Watkins
of asking the question, What is beautiful / memorable here? Life is the richer for it. Jan On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:24 AM, Pat Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone: Steve Watkins wrote

[videoblogging] Re: Macbook Pro...

2008-04-11 Thread Steve Watkins
Ive got the previous generation macbook pro 2.4ghz. From what Ive read, the new ones are better for battery life heat, but not necessarily performance. (Less L2 cache on the CPU could be the reason for that). I dont think you'll see a noticable difference in performance between the 2.4 and

[videoblogging] Re: Studio Engineer Needed

2008-04-11 Thread Steve Watkins
State of the art, high definition beer doesnt come cheap ;) Im not qualified or in the right country to apply, but I have some thoughts on live streaming that Im about to post about that may be of some small use? Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack [EMAIL

[videoblogging] Live internet video questions and thoughts

2008-04-11 Thread Steve Watkins
This group doesnt seem like quite the right place to talk about live video, can anybody recommend active communities that talk about and do such things? Im still a bit disappointed by the video audio quality of some of the live stuff Ive watched, even if its not via mobile phone, any thoughts

[videoblogging] Re: Live internet video questions and thoughts

2008-04-11 Thread Steve Watkins
Cool :) Its not really clear to me where Im going with creating video myself, there are massive gaps in my abilities. But Ive had a decade long fascination with realtime computer animation, from virtual pupeteering to virtual bands that play along with the music, mixed with real live video in

[videoblogging] Re: Macbook Pro...

2008-04-11 Thread Steve Watkins
Ahh theres such a lovely performance boost between the G4 and these Intel Dualcore CPU's so you should be pleased with how the new machine performs :) I dont think the extra graphics RAM will do much for you, would give slightly better performance in a few things, eg Apple Motion, but better CPU,

[videoblogging] Re: encoding 16:9 for iPod on PC

2008-04-05 Thread Steve Watkins
Yeah I found that link too, its a bit dated so not sure if its still true. Certainly I think 3rd party encoders found a way to make their stuff compatible. And as all these issues cause brain melt, my conclusion in the past was to use 3rd party encoders if I wanted precise control ipod

[videoblogging] BBC tells ISPs to get stuffed

2008-04-04 Thread Steve Watkins
Here's a story that's an interesting addition to the net neutrality p2p debate: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/03/bbc_highfield_isp_threat/ Someones got to pay. How to achieve this fairly in an often unfair world? Still Id rather be personally ripped off for a while than have the

[videoblogging] Re: fun with garbage mattes

2008-04-02 Thread Steve Watkins
I think the wrong link got posted? I found video thats actually called Girl Robot 6 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFZ9F6q6Ppc But yeah I enjoyed all those movies in 5 seconds too. Cheers Steve --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There has

[videoblogging] Re: The camera is the new gun.

2008-03-31 Thread Steve Watkins
Yay very interesting post :) Ive had half an eye on these small projectors for some years. There is currently a massive flaw in their spec. They arent bright enough, by a large factor. Its unclear whether they will be able to overcome this in the next few years or not. If they do, then this has

[videoblogging] Re: The camera is the new gun.

2008-03-31 Thread Steve Watkins
Well yes the trend towards laws that crackdown on this sort of stuff is alarming, and does not bode well. Frankly I expected even worse by now, recalling that in the first few years after 9/11, there were stories about how seemingly innocent video of tourist attractions was actually fiendish

[videoblogging] Re: P2P as an alternative to free hosting sites

2008-03-31 Thread Steve Watkins
Interesting. Ugh the word streaming rears its ugly head a lot there, which is sort of misleading but not sure it makes any difference to their basic argument. Its biased in the sense that its only talking about actual financial cost to a company right now, as opposed to actual 'cost' to the

[videoblogging] Re: P2P as an alternative to free hosting sites

2008-03-31 Thread Steve Watkins
I fear there will be less choice in future, and as indicated in other messages there are some world or government events that could cause loss of rights to post video so freely. But in the absence of such events, I dont think the likes of youtube are going anywhere. Not too many others may

[videoblogging] Re: P2P as an alternative to free hosting sites

2008-03-31 Thread Steve Watkins
media or telecoms corporations? Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I fear there will be less choice in future, and as indicated in other messages there are some world or government events that could cause loss of rights to post

[videoblogging] Re: Ideology

2008-03-21 Thread Steve Watkins
), your arguments has been intelligent. See ya On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No worries, of course you dont have to respond if you dont want to either. And on that note, sorry to everyone on the list who may

[videoblogging] Re: Ideology

2008-03-21 Thread Steve Watkins
someone tries to make them real, the old horrors of authoritarianism are unleashed. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So yeah I tend to believe this is a bit of an argument over the claim to be the ideological opposite, and attractive

[videoblogging] Re: 6 billion people

2008-03-21 Thread Steve Watkins
Well I just read about this translation API from google that could help if sites start to use it: http://googleajaxsearchapi.blogspot.com/2008/03/introducing-ajax-language-api-tools-for.html As for culture, Im not really sure how computerss can catalogue, organise filter such things. I guess

[videoblogging] Re: Flash video not suitable for iPhone, Apple CEO says

2008-03-07 Thread Steve Watkins
@yahoogroups.com, Lisa Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Flash video looks great on my Archos 605. Drop it in and it plays. Lisa On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Technical and business reasons both seem plausible. One technical reason would be that iphone UI

[videoblogging] Re: Flash video not suitable for iPhone, Apple CEO says

2008-03-06 Thread Steve Watkins
Technical and business reasons both seem plausible. One technical reason would be that iphone UI is smooth because it uses hardware acceleration. Not trivial to allow flash to take advantage of that, or multitouch etc. And looking at how much cpu flash uses on the desktop, and previous

[videoblogging] Re: Higher-Resolution YouTube Videos Currently In Testing

2008-03-04 Thread Steve Watkins
Good :) The fmt=18 ones appear to be h264 .mp4's 480x360, being played through flash. It is possible to download them, they may be the same versions curently being used on apple tv or iphone/ipod touch youtube feature, not sure. The fmt=6 one (of the dog skateboarding at least) appeared to be

[videoblogging] Re: Higher-Resolution YouTube Videos Currently In Testing

2008-03-04 Thread Steve Watkins
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good :) The fmt=18 ones appear to be h264 .mp4's 480x360, being played through flash. It is possible to download them, they may be the same versions curently being used on apple tv or iphone/ipod touch youtube feature, not sure

[videoblogging] Re: Sony Vegas compression Question

2008-03-03 Thread Steve Watkins
Well this stuff can become quite complex, it depends exactly what you want to achieve. For example, do you want your video to work for users who have lower connections, do you want people to be able to play the video on ipods etc? Putting aside most of those issues, the term HD is being used

[videoblogging] Re: Stage6 flipped

2008-02-26 Thread Steve Watkins
Yeah from what Ive heard there is some backlash about this, far too little notice, not very reasonable, and no pathway to transfer the videos to another service. Its a shame, DivX stuff in the browser was quite good although Ive long been negative about its chances of success compared to

[videoblogging] Re: FCC Unimpressed by Comcast’s “Network Managment”

2008-02-26 Thread Steve Watkins
Greetings, This is the sort of stuff I hoped would happen, and was the basis for my relatively complacent position when it comes to this stuff. I maintain that there are enough powerful people who want to see the internet remain roughly as it is now, in terms of people being able to compete

[videoblogging] Re: Stage6 flipped

2008-02-26 Thread Steve Watkins
in Baskets, people. Have redundant copies of your material on the net or at least on local storage. Bill http://BillCammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins steve@ wrote: Yeah from what Ive heard there is some backlash about this, far too little notice, not very

[videoblogging] Re: Recording users movements

2008-02-26 Thread Steve Watkins
I was just reading about a drupal module that works with ClickHeat library, sounds similar functionality, could it be that you used? http://www.labsmedia.com/clickheat/index.html http://drupal.org/project/click_heatmap Its a shame it cant tell you if the user wanted to be in cotrol and press

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