Re: [videoblogging] What happened to vloggercon site?

2010-06-03 Thread Michael Verdi
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like the site wont be up tonight just because of time crunch. Soon. It's working now (thanks Ryanne!) - http://www.vloggercon.com - Verdi -- Training for a triathlon and raising money for The Leukemia Lymphoma

Re: [videoblogging] Re: WebM Project

2010-05-21 Thread Michael Verdi
/21/webm/ - Verdi -- Training for a triathlon and raising money for The Leukemia Lymphoma Society. http://training.michaelverdi.com

Re: [videoblogging] Re: WebM Project

2010-05-21 Thread Michael Verdi
Oh and I forgot to post the link to the WebM discussion group: https://groups.google.com/a/webmproject.org/group/webm-discuss/topics On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Michael Verdi mich...@michaelverdi.com wrote: On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:15 PM, elbowsofdeath st...@dvmachine.com wrote

Re: [videoblogging] Re: WebM Project

2010-05-19 Thread Michael Verdi
You can go see WebM in action: Get a Firefox nightly at http://bit.ly/d2xhKm opt in to the YouTube HTML5 beta at http://bit.ly/NkgJd watch WebM video at http://bit.ly/cG7zlU - Verdi On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: Here is the project website: http

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Comments On Celtx

2010-05-06 Thread Michael Verdi
I use it along with dropbox for collaborative writing. http://talkbot.tv/2009/08/the-making-of-talkbot/ - Verdi On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Brook Hinton bhin...@gmail.com wrote: LIke many freebies Cetlx can be a little buggy but basically its really great. The kind of thing that makes

Re: [videoblogging] Re: ReelDirector?

2010-05-05 Thread Michael Verdi
I've been using reeldirector exclusively for a blog about my triathlon training. I try to shoot, edit and post things as fast as possible right after practice. With reeldirector, youtube and the wordpress app I do it all from my iphone. Check it out - http://training.michaelverdi.com - Verdi

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Google to open source VP8

2010-05-02 Thread Michael Verdi
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Joly MacFie j...@punkcast.com wrote: Isn't this where we started on this thread? j Yes. - verdi -- Training for a triathlon and raising money for The Leukemia Lymphoma Society. http://training.michaelverdi.com

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Google to open source VP8

2010-05-02 Thread Michael Verdi
fighting last year's battle. - Verdi On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 12:33 PM, elbowsofdeath st...@dvmachine.com wrote: Im confused, this subject isnt where the thread started at all, it started with the rumours about Google opening up VP8. Most of the talk about downsides of theora has been to do

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Google to open source VP8

2010-05-01 Thread Michael Verdi
is preparing to open source. Give them a few months to put it out there and let's see how good it is and who adopts it. Until then people are just fighting last year's battle. - Verdi -- Training for a triathlon and raising money for The Leukemia Lymphoma Society. http://training.michaelverdi.com

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Google to open source VP8

2010-04-15 Thread Michael Verdi
) - Verdi -- Training for a triathlon and raising money for The Leukemia Lymphoma Society. http://training.michaelverdi.com

Re: [videoblogging] Google to open source VP8

2010-04-13 Thread Michael Verdi
the mantra is keep it open...but focus on creating. In the end, that's what really counts. Thanks for pointing that out. It doesn't get brought up enough (ever?). - Verdi -- Training for a triathlon and raising money for The Leukemia Lymphoma Society. http://training.michaelverdi.com

[videoblogging] Google to open source VP8

2010-04-12 Thread Michael Verdi
This is pretty awesome: http://newteevee.com/2010/04/12/google-to-open-source-vp8-for-html5-video/ That could seriously change the codec equation for the better. - Verdi -- Training for a triathlon and raising money for The Leukemia Lymphoma Society. http://training.michaelverdi.com

Re: [videoblogging] Google to open source VP8

2010-04-12 Thread Michael Verdi
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Michael Sullivan sullele...@gmail.com wrote: Do you think Ogg would be a container for VP8? I don't know any of the technical details that go into that but it would seem to be what you'd want to do if it were possible. - Verdi -- Training for a triathlon

Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!

2010-02-05 Thread Michael Verdi
in results instead of the real thing or having Google remove you from their index (not sure if they'd do that though). - Verdi

Re: [videoblogging] Remember when it was all 320x240?

2010-02-05 Thread Michael Verdi
They don't make you an HD flash version but blip has always supported any size file you want to put up there. You can just add a 1080p file (along with lots of other formats) when you upload. - Verdi On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Quirk qu...@wreckandsalvage.com wrote: Even 720p chokes my dual

Re: [videoblogging] Re: 2010 the year of the tablet?

2010-01-27 Thread Michael Verdi
I just started a videoblog to document my triathlon training - all shot, edited and posted from my iphone. About to head out and make another update now. http://training.michaelverdi.com - Verdi On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:50 PM, johnle...@historichomeworks.com wrote: I've been shooting video

Re: [videoblogging] Youtube supports HTML5 (No more Flash?)

2010-01-21 Thread Michael Verdi
darn good though. - verdi On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: Amen to that. One of the parts of the transition to computer based video that I've hated, hated, hated, is the many codecs and the myriad flavors of each.  Flash was one of those, I'll be glad to see

Re: [videoblogging] Join Me In My New Year's Resolution - 2 Per Month in 2010!

2010-01-17 Thread Michael Verdi
videobloggers.org still needs a lot of work - mostly on making it easy to use - but it's functional. I set up a space to collect the 2 videos/month. If you'd like a log in, just email me. - Verdi On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: I'm writing to share my

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Join Me In My New Year's Resolution - 2 Per Month in 2010!

2010-01-17 Thread Michael Verdi
I keep forgetting to tell people to send me what email and user name you want to use and I can set up a login for you. - Verdi On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 9:18 PM, John Coffey jimmycrackhead2...@yahoo.com wrote: Two a month is a challenge I can deal with. Game on. On Sun Jan 17th, 2010 9:55 PM

Re: [videoblogging] Editing iPhone 3Gs Video w. FCP

2009-12-28 Thread Michael Verdi
I've been using reeldirector on my iphone and also occasionally using fcp to edit my iphone clips. Here's something shot and edited on the iphone: http://www.flickr.com/photos/verdi/4080781804/ And here's one edited in FCP with a tutorial on how I did it: http://michaelverdi.com/2009/11/21/what

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Vloggercon - why only two times?

2009-12-05 Thread Michael Verdi
there to meet people for lunch and dinner. The Open Video Conference was cool this last summer - a good sized group of us hung out there. -Verdi -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv

Re: [videoblogging] Wordpress plugins

2009-12-04 Thread Michael Verdi
I've gotten rid of most of the plugins on my site but I like these and use them often: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wptouch/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/ - Verdi On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Michael Sean Kaminsky kaminsky...@gmail.com wrote: I'm just

Re: [videoblogging] Day 30: 30 Day 30 People 30 Videos

2009-12-02 Thread Michael Verdi
and then to easily page through them in order. I think that's probably best given the flexibility of the game. Then in the future I can customize the way new games work on the site depending on what we're trying to achieve. - Verdi -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv

Re: [videoblogging] getting better quality out of Blip.TV

2009-11-30 Thread Michael Verdi
file and then configure a custom blip player to use your h.264 file. - Verdi On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: I've been using Blip.TV for quite some time for nearly all of my video blog posts and other video projects, for both work and fun. I love the service

Re: [videoblogging] Re: It's Done!

2009-11-30 Thread Michael Verdi
I didn't intend to even try to do all 30 days from the beginning but I did end up posting 6 videos which is the most I've done in a long time. Also it was fun watching all the videos for Rupert's game. - Verdi On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:36 PM, mgmoon mgm...@yahoo.com wrote: Hey there's always

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Copyright Music?

2009-11-24 Thread Michael Verdi
illegal subject to the whim of a corporation. - Verdi On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:50 AM, hpbatman7 heathpa...@msn.com wrote: A sound reasoned, thought out responsesweet...but I would expect no less from Michael...me, well here is my take. What I think is disgenious is the following, record

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Navlopomo day 24 now available

2009-11-24 Thread Michael Verdi
I posted it to the miro site. It just made a text link at the top of the thumbnail that links to the video file. Also there is a button that takes you to the original blog post. - Verdi On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Frank Carver frank.car...@googlemail.com wrote: Thanks Kath, Maybe its

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Copyright Music?

2009-11-24 Thread Michael Verdi
I just watched the William Patry talk. Very interesting. I'll have to watch the other one tomorrow. Thanks for posting those. - Verdi -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv

Re: [videoblogging] Copyright Music?

2009-11-23 Thread Michael Verdi
and then get pissed when someone else returns the honor. - Verdi On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Pete Prodoehl ras...@gmail.com wrote: So just to be clear... you guys are all cool with someone (oh, I dunno, let's say a musician) taking your video, and using it in any way they like, for whatever purpose

Re: [videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo Day 19

2009-11-20 Thread Michael Verdi
is that the process or the constraints can make your art smarter if you let it. - Verdi On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Ernie djsh...@googlemail.com wrote: Jay I thought it was awesome. It made me feel like I really do not deserve to be sharing the label video blogger. Powerful, emotional

Re: [videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo + new EditAppForiPhone

2009-11-19 Thread Michael Verdi
I've been using it. Here are a couple simple ones that I've done: http://www.flickr.com/photos/verdi/4080781804/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/verdi/4029586120/ - Verdi On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone use this app regularly to edit video

Re: [videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo + new EditAppForiPhone

2009-11-19 Thread Michael Verdi
to my flickr account which pings twitter (it's a mini twittervlog!). - Verdi On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: I've been using it. Here are a couple simple ones that I've done: http://www.flickr.com/photos/verdi/4080781804/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/verdi

Re: [videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo + new EditAppForiPhone

2009-11-19 Thread Michael Verdi
It doesn't appear to be able to do that. On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Julian Seery Gude jul...@exceler8.com wrote: Hi Michael, I have a question about the iPhone 3GS video compression and time limits. I'm wondering if the iPhone photo hack works with videos? The photo hack is the one

Re: [videoblogging] SMIL in QT10

2009-11-19 Thread Michael Verdi
forward foolishly. Duplicating the functionality of a continually developed, 18-year-old API will not happen overnight. It will take years, and it will be even longer before every important Mac OS X application is updated to use QTKit exclusively. Transitions. Gotta love 'em. - Verdi On Thu, Nov 19

Re: [videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo + new EditAppForiPhone

2009-11-19 Thread Michael Verdi
. - Verdi On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: It doesn't appear to be able to do that. What is other people's experience editing iPhone videos in FCP? Im currently editing a project I shot only on the phone...and it's only because I have Ryanne, the video

Re: [videoblogging] Has a wheel fallen off the VloMo cart?

2009-11-13 Thread Michael Verdi
I think it's fine. It looks like everything happened. I just didn't know where the video for the 12th was - I hooked it up on the Miro site this morning. - Verdi On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Rupert rup...@twittervlog.tv wrote: Sigh.  I sent a lot of emails to lots of different addresses

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Video Consequences

2009-11-05 Thread Michael Verdi
Heath posted the 4th video: http://heathparks.com/blog/?p=652 And I made this based on it: http://michaelverdi.com/2009/11/05/sequence-47/ I'm collecting them all over here: http://videobloggers.mirocommunity.org/category/30-days-30-people-30-videos - Verdi On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 3:17 PM

Re: [videoblogging] Slow HD editing

2009-11-03 Thread Michael Verdi
the video to an intermediate format. I use Final Cut Pro and transcode everything to ProRes. I don't know what you'd use on Windows editors but the concept is the same - transcoding to an intermediate editing codec. - Verdi

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Slow HD editing

2009-11-03 Thread Michael Verdi
It's not always a question of your computer being able to handle the HD video (especially if you've bought it in the last 3 years or so). It's more a question of the codec not being designed to be edited. - Verdi

Re: [videoblogging] Re: NatVlogMonth

2009-11-02 Thread Michael Verdi
that there will be an rss feed of them (seems that category rss feeds aren't available) http://videobloggers.mirocommunity.org/feeds/featured/ Does that make sense? I guess this way it can be used outside of november. - Verdi On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:21 PM, cherylcolan cherylco...@grouply.com wrote: Hey, which

Re: [videoblogging] 1and1 to go Unlimited web traffic on all acounts

2009-11-02 Thread Michael Verdi
They started it a few weeks ago. Just look at their site - http://1and1.com I couldn't find a specific url about bandwidth - it's just listed in the features of whatever you're buying. - Verdi On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone tried using 1and1's

Re: [videoblogging] Re: NatVlogMonth

2009-11-01 Thread Michael Verdi
Ha! The videos all have to be moderated. There were 5 or so versions waiting - it's up there now. - Verdi On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 2:05 PM, compumavengal compumaven...@earthlink.net wrote: Oh my, I tried adding Adrian's video early Sunday morning so there may be duplicates. The first time I

Re: [videoblogging] Re: NatVlogMonth

2009-11-01 Thread Michael Verdi
Yeah I posted it. It just that the one I posted didn't have a thumbnail and I don't see a way to add one after the fact so it looks like there isn't a video up. There is though. Just look near the bottom of the page. - Verdi On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 2:28 PM, cherylcolan cherylco...@grouply.com

Re: [videoblogging] NatVlogMonth

2009-10-30 Thread Michael Verdi
can subscibe here: http://videobloggers.mirocommunity.org/feeds/new/ Maybe there will even be a feed for whatever tag people decide to use. - Verdi On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Rupert Howe rup...@twittervlog.tv wrote: I've just sent an email to all the players with advice about contacting

Re: [videoblogging] The power of the video blog

2009-10-29 Thread Michael Verdi
Wow. That was pretty great. I bet it's even better if you speak engineer. - Verdi -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv

Re: [videoblogging] NaVloPoMo 2009

2009-10-19 Thread Michael Verdi
I'll take 11/05 - Verdi On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Rupert Howe rup...@twittervlog.tv wrote: OKAY!  name your dates! On 19-Oct-09, at 5:12 PM, sull wrote: 11:11 squat ;) -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv

[videoblogging] iPhone Video Editing App

2009-10-16 Thread Michael Verdi
in the camera's folder and then was able to use it an editing project. I'll have to play around with it more this weekend. - Verdi -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv

[videoblogging] Re: iPhone Video Editing App

2009-10-16 Thread Michael Verdi
Here's how I got clips into the iPhone's camera roll http://www.flickr.com/photos/verdi/4018251716/ On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Michael Verdi mich...@michaelverdi.com wrote: I used this app http://www.ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/ to access the folders on the phone and stuck a clip

Re: [videoblogging] Re: iPod Nano shoots video

2009-10-01 Thread Michael Verdi
multiple phones because of that. On the other hand my original iphone (my wife is using it) is still going strong at almost 2 years old - in fact it's better now because it has a newer os and apps. - Verdi -- Michael Verdi http://milkweedmediadesign.com http://michaelverdi.com

Re: Pixelpipe: cellphone video distributed to Blip.tv? [ was Re: [videoblogging] iPod Nano shoots video

2009-09-29 Thread Michael Verdi
to be mindful of what you're trying to upload. - Verdi On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Rupert Howe rup...@twittervlog.tv wrote: Pixelpipe works for me to distribute to Blip.  Check your Blip login. And Blip's autocrossposting blog service still worked when it received my post via Pixelpipe, even

Re: [videoblogging] Keeping tapes

2009-09-27 Thread Michael Verdi
on a different significance later on. -Verdi On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Jeffrey Taylor thejeffreytay...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a bit biased due to my training as a historian, but throwing away any record that cannot be recreated makes me cringe, no matter how prosaic the content may be. Keep

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Blip Show Player and Archive Pages

2009-09-19 Thread Michael Verdi
stuff was because I'm sick of spending so much time messing with all the roll-your-own solutions. It's a complete pain in the ass and the end result is not worth it anymore for me. Blip.tv features have come a long way. I'd rather spend more time making work than doing make-work. - Verdi

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Blip Show Player and Archive Pages

2009-09-16 Thread Michael Verdi
- Verdi On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Brook Hinton bhin...@gmail.com wrote: I need to look into blip again as I start up some new projects. I like many things about the showplayer, I love how supportive they are. Download speeds are the only thing that have kept me from using it more

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Lomography's Ten Golden Rules

2009-09-14 Thread Michael Verdi
Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http://milkweedmediadesign.com http://michaelverdi.com

[videoblogging] Blip Show Player and Archive Pages

2009-09-12 Thread Michael Verdi
/. For a personal site you may not have stories like that but you could make playlists of a special group of related posts or maybe a playlist of your favorites and stick them anywhere that makes sense on your site - archive page, about page, etc. -Verdi -- Michael Verdi http://milkweedmediadesign.com http

[videoblogging] Wordpress Security

2009-09-06 Thread Michael Verdi
not a typical WordPress user operation so I’ve documented two ways to do it in this screencast. http://reports.graymattergravy.com/2009/09/06/remove-hidden-admin-users-in-wordpress/ - Verdi -- Michael Verdi http://milkweedmediadesign.com http://michaelverdi.com

Re: [videoblogging] Re: QuickTime X

2009-09-01 Thread Michael Verdi
want high quality but have low bandwidth these sorts of solutions give me no options. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@... Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours vogmae.net.au Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http

Re: [videoblogging] Blip to YouTube X Posting

2009-08-26 Thread Michael Verdi
-- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http://milkweedmediadesign.com http://michaelverdi.com

Re: [videoblogging] Codec hell

2009-08-10 Thread Michael Verdi
. Was just able to import that into Movie Maker. - Verdi On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Adam Quirkqu...@wreckandsalvage.com wrote: Downloaded ProspectHD from Cineform and it seems to be doing the trick: http://cineform.com/prospecthd/ Found via this thread in the Jedi forums (should have known

[videoblogging] Re: [Artists in the Cloud] Storytelling software

2009-07-31 Thread Michael Verdi
I didn't see anything that couldn't be done with simple html. It would then have the added bonuses of being indexible and searchable instead of being dropped into a giant flash box. - Verdi On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Jay dedmanjay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: We've mentioned this open source

[videoblogging] Good film on movie editing

2009-07-04 Thread Michael Verdi
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428441/ If you have a Netflix account you can stream it from the site. Lots of good stuff in there including editors talking about why they cut certain scenes they way they did. - Verdi -- Michael Verdi http://milkweedmediadesign.com http://michaelverdi.com

Re: [videoblogging] iphone 3gs video testing so far

2009-06-23 Thread Michael Verdi
Thanks for the pixelpipe tip. I just used it to send video to blip (and then have blip put the link on twitter). Pretty cool. - Verdi On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Kevin Limbrainop...@gmail.com wrote: BTW, one of my favorite apps for the iPhone 3G and 3GS is PixelPipe (it's free

Re: [videoblogging] Forget politics, check out the tech

2009-06-05 Thread Michael Verdi
-implemented, built upon, you name it. - Verdi On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: I really like how the NY Times presented Obama's recent speech: http://bit.ly/RYei9 The transcript plays at the same time as the video. There is a timeline above based on his

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Interested in a critique group

2009-06-04 Thread Michael Verdi
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au wrote: thanks for sharing this Verdi useful for some our teaching practices in our media program You're welcome. We've used this in our theater for at least 15 years, maybe longer. We use it internally with just company

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Interested in a critique group

2009-06-04 Thread Michael Verdi
I found the link to the flash meeting we did about 2 years ago: http://fm-openlearn.open.ac.uk/fm/fmm.php?pwd=3d579e-615 - Verdi -- http://michaelverdi.com

Re: [videoblogging] first video project - imovie advice

2009-06-03 Thread Michael Verdi
Check out Ryanne's tutorial http://freevlog.org/content/imovie-basic-editing - Verdi On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Roshani Kothari roshanikoth...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello everyone, I finally created a film using imovie!  http://blip. tv/file/2192490 It was fairly easy to use, but I

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Interested in a critique group

2009-06-03 Thread Michael Verdi
the next time you start a project. - Verdi On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:05 PM, David Howell taoofda...@gmail.com wrote: I participated in the group that Verdi started. It was a great experience to have my peers critique my video. I'd be all up for it if we got it going again. David http

Re: [videoblogging] Open Video Ideas

2009-06-01 Thread Michael Verdi
at the pleasure of one particular vendor. - Verdi On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Chris Hastings chris3...@yahoo.com wrote:  this video helps me focus on why the open video conversation is important.  Verdi links us to the key root question: How can anyone make a video? What are the tools that will allow

[videoblogging] Open Video Ideas

2009-05-29 Thread Michael Verdi
I've been working on some ideas for the Open Video Confrence (NYC June 19 - 20) and could use some feedback. http://reports.graymattergravy.com/2009/05/29/open-video/ Thanks, Verdi -- http://michaelverdi.com

Re: [videoblogging] Reminder: Open Video Conference in June

2009-05-15 Thread Michael Verdi
I'm going! - Verdi On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Rupert rup...@fatgirlinohio.org wrote: Who's going? On 10-May-09, at 6:34 PM, Jay dedman wrote: If you've been trying to find an excuse to visit NYC this June, don't forget about the Open Video Conference. Be a very cool group of folks

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Student work screening online

2009-04-21 Thread Michael Verdi
If you install the Ad Block Plus plugin for Firefox it will strip out those ads on Mogulus (and others) videos. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865 - Verdi On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Brook Hinton bhin...@gmail.com wrote: Jen - how'd you get an ad-free mogulus feed? Did

Re: [videoblogging] Fun with YouTube's Audio Content ID System

2009-04-21 Thread Michael Verdi
though it's a very repetitive song neither of the sections come first 30 seconds of the song. Looks like my next video should work too. The good part of Mr. Roboto doesn't kick in until about 40 seconds in. - Verdi On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: http

Re: [videoblogging] work around for no fire wire?

2009-04-16 Thread Michael Verdi
) and I have to disagree with that vigorously. All the time and frustration I've saved while just being able to get on with getting things done is not to be discounted. I'm not saying they are perfect - they're not but come on. Not wanting to start a platform war... Verdi -- http://michaelverdi.com

Re: [videoblogging] Re: what is best plug in for posting flv's in your own WP Blog?

2009-04-13 Thread Michael Verdi
://whatisscioncity.com - Verdi On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Michael Sullivan sullele...@gmail.com wrote: the flash plugin that a web browser loads can take advantage of any functionality that a flash app contains (ie. features written with actionscript).  in some cases, you may need to update

Re: [videoblogging] MP4/MOV Converter To FLV

2009-04-09 Thread Michael Verdi
not sure what does what. - Verdi -- http://michaelverdi.com

Re: [videoblogging] MP4/MOV Converter To FLV

2009-04-08 Thread Michael Verdi
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au wrote: doesn't QT pro transcode to flv? It only does when you have the Flash Video Encoder (that comes with Flash) installed on your system. - Verdi -- http://michaelverdi.com

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Video blogging history/evolution

2009-04-01 Thread Michael Verdi
Here's some more info: http://vlogumentary.pbwiki.com/ On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Jan McLaughlin jannie@gmail.com wrote: Here are the community's collected links to articles (some of them mainstream) about videoblogging and videobloggers.

[videoblogging] JW Flash Player - auto HD/SD

2009-04-01 Thread Michael Verdi
I haven't played with it yet but a new JW Flash Player is out that supports automatic switching between HD and SD depending on a viewer's connection. http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/ - Verdi -- http://michaelverdi.com

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

2009-03-31 Thread Michael Verdi
. better quality at a given bit-rate, from dialup to HD. - Verdi On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Rupert rup...@fatgirlinohio.org wrote: Aha - yes, I see. On 31-Mar-09, at 2:05 PM, Steve Watkins wrote: Devices that record encode in realtime will never achieve the same quality/filesize

[videoblogging] iMovie Interlacing bug fixed

2009-03-29 Thread Michael Verdi
http://db.tidbits.com/article/10173 -- http://michaelverdi.com

Re: [videoblogging] Re: This cam will change everything!

2009-03-24 Thread Michael Verdi
the DVCProHD files in a .mov wrapper. DVCProHD is the only HD capture codec that I've worked with that edits well. We used this set up at a company I used to work for and it was super cool although that camera with a HDD strapped to and wireless mic receivers was one big pain in the ass. - Verdi On Tue

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

2009-03-16 Thread Michael Verdi
640x360, 24fps. http://michaelverdi.com/index.php/2009/03/10/hanging-out/ The cool thing is that it plays in a flash player on the site, works on an iPod/iPhone and is just one file. - Verdi On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones shir...@taconic.net wrote: --- In videoblogging

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

2009-03-16 Thread Michael Verdi
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/ - Verdi On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Steve Watkins st...@dvmachine.com wrote: Good. If at least one major browser support

Re: [videoblogging] Real Media captioned files

2009-02-25 Thread Michael Verdi
I think MAGpie might be able to do that http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/ - Verdi On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:46 PM, RICHARD r...@tazz.us wrote: I have a client that has some archival Real Media files with captions that appear below the video in Real Player. They now want to re-encode

Re: [videoblogging] Firefox ad-blocking extension blocks ad pop-ups in videos

2009-02-05 Thread Michael Verdi
Oh very cool. That did the trick! - Verdi On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Brook Hinton bhin...@gmail.com wrote: http://adblockplus.org Use the easylist subscription after installing to block popups in flash video windows, including those from live streaming sites

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Backing up your media

2009-02-01 Thread Michael Verdi
of stuff in the past and I'm sure I'll still lose more in the future. - Verdi On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones shir...@taconic.net wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Josh Paul joshp...@... wrote: ... I recently had a nasty drive failure (my Drobo and its backup both

Re: [videoblogging] Re: SHVH - Ojai, CA

2009-01-28 Thread Michael Verdi
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:27 PM, jimmyjay24 onarol...@mac.com wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, jimmyjay24 onarol...@... wrote: why does Markus call it a dojo--is he a ninja... Makus calls it a dojo because it really is a dojo. Also Markus is a (code)ninja. :-) - Verdi -- http

Re: [videoblogging] More than 10 minutes

2009-01-23 Thread Michael Verdi
I have an old director's account and I tried uploading a 30 min video yesterday. It started to get converted and even had a url for a few minutes but was then rejected for TOS violation and deleted. - Verdi On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Matthew Milam mmila...@gmail.com wrote: I think

[videoblogging] New Xacti cameras coming in February

2009-01-22 Thread Michael Verdi
/2009/01/img/090121xacti.pdf - Verdi -- http://michaelverdi.com

Re: [videoblogging] Screen capture software?

2009-01-13 Thread Michael Verdi
If you are using windows, then camstudio.org is great and free. If you are on a mac, I love iShowU from shinywhitebox.com ($20). - Verdi On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Susan kityk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there! I wanted to ask the videoblogging collective what your favorite (and perferably

Re: [videoblogging] Interest in a mailing list re online cinema of the experimental/video art/etc. persuasion?

2009-01-09 Thread Michael Verdi
After having done the 24 hour 24 artists project this idea makes a lot more sense to me :-) Subscribed. - Verdi On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:57 AM, @sull sullele...@gmail.com wrote: I created a new mailing list today: Artists in the Cloud http://groups.google.com/group/artists-in-the-cloud I

Re: [videoblogging] MP4 video track missing

2009-01-08 Thread Michael Verdi
bigger with lots a aliasing. - Verdi On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Adam Quirk qu...@wreckandsalvage.com wrote: Thanks Rambo. I think it turned out to be a strange combination of both aspect ration and frame rate. I tried running it through every compression app I have, and nothing worked

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

2008-12-21 Thread Michael Verdi
and then later DVDs - I have 4 spindles of discs laying around) before compressing with H.264. You don't have to have QuickTime Pro to compress with H.264 but I don't the options for Windows users. Maybe some of them will jump in here. - Verdi On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 7:45 AM, RatbagMedia ratbagra

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Macbook pro for video editing

2008-12-17 Thread Michael Verdi
raid using Time Machine. Now I'm covered unless something bad happens right here at my desk. But if that happens, I may have more to worry about than hard drives. - Verdi On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Irene Duma ir...@strangeduck.com wrote: Argh. My kingdom for the perfect harddrive. I

Re: [videoblogging] Macbook pro for video editing

2008-12-16 Thread Michael Verdi
A MacBook Pro can handle FCP and HD without a problem. I've been editing with some version of FCP and Mac laptop since the G3 Pismo came out in 2000. - Verdi On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Irene Duma ir...@strangeduck.com wrote: Just checking to see if the Macbook pro can handle pro video

Re: [videoblogging] No blogging: different visual creations

2008-12-11 Thread Michael Verdi
I set this up http://graymattergravy.com It's the JW flash player running a playlist of my favorite videos. - Verdi On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Rupert rup...@fatgirlinohio.org wrote: One of the options I'm

Re: [videoblogging] Youtube adds search to embedded videos

2008-12-11 Thread Michael Verdi
Actually, since Google bought them I think Search has been added to the top of that list, pushing creators down to number 4. - Verdi On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Rupert rup...@fatgirlinohio.org wrote: YouTube's focus has always been firstly on building themselves as a network

Re: [videoblogging] Dropping frames, long firewire?

2008-12-06 Thread Michael Verdi
I don't remember where I've heard this from but I've always thought you couldn't go more than 15' with firewire without some kind of special setup. I'd try a shorter cable like Jan suggests to troubleshoot. On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Troubleshoot:

Re: [videoblogging] tripod advice

2008-11-25 Thread Michael Verdi
Not cheap as in $50 but cheap in good tripod terms (about $175) I have a Manfrotto set - head 701RC2 and legs 190XDB. I bought them from BH about a year and a half ago. I like them a lot. On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Jeffrey P. Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The bitterness of poor

Re: [videoblogging] Defending Videographer's Rights in Court

2008-11-09 Thread Michael Verdi
sure it's a fun/interesting/cool project. - Verdi

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