Re: [videoblogging] What happened to vloggercon site?
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 Society. http://training.michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: WebM Project
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:15 PM, elbowsofdeath st...@dvmachine.com wrote: Meanwhile apparently someone that knows a bit about the tech of video codecs had an initial look at VP8 and was quite concerned about some similarities in certain functions to h.264. This leaves the door open for patent woes for WebM, although it is far too early to tell if that will become an issue at some point. At the very least we should not get too complacent about WebM, its future is not completely assured, but hopefully it will all work out ok. What I've heard from codec people is that that stuff is exactly what NOT to be worried about. The codec patents are really specific and the stuff in VP8 that's like H.264 is exactly where they did something different to avoid infringing their patent. Remember that most of the anti-WebM stuff so far is from people heavily invested (either in $ or time) in H.264. My suspicion is that Google didn't spend $120 million willy nilly. And remember, their plan is that they're going to use it for YouTube so they can save money. Oh and companies are working on hardware support. FWIW, if you didn't know, I now work for Mozilla and have been a supporter of open codecs for while now so of course I'm biased. I'd just caution you to take it all with a grain of salt. WebM was just announced 2 days ago. Give it time. The best way to know the future is to invent it. So if you'd like to WebM succeed, vote with attention. Start playing with stuff and talk to the people making it. You can grab a WebM capable beta of Firefox here: http://nightly.mozilla.org/webm/ Miro just put out there super easy video converter with webm support: http://www.mirovideoconverter.com/ I just tried it out and posted something here: http://reports.graymattergravy.com/2010/05/21/webm/ - Verdi -- Training for a triathlon and raising money for The Leukemia Lymphoma Society. http://training.michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: WebM Project
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: Meanwhile apparently someone that knows a bit about the tech of video codecs had an initial look at VP8 and was quite concerned about some similarities in certain functions to h.264. This leaves the door open for patent woes for WebM, although it is far too early to tell if that will become an issue at some point. At the very least we should not get too complacent about WebM, its future is not completely assured, but hopefully it will all work out ok. What I've heard from codec people is that that stuff is exactly what NOT to be worried about. The codec patents are really specific and the stuff in VP8 that's like H.264 is exactly where they did something different to avoid infringing their patent. Remember that most of the anti-WebM stuff so far is from people heavily invested (either in $ or time) in H.264. My suspicion is that Google didn't spend $120 million willy nilly. And remember, their plan is that they're going to use it for YouTube so they can save money. Oh and companies are working on hardware support. FWIW, if you didn't know, I now work for Mozilla and have been a supporter of open codecs for while now so of course I'm biased. I'd just caution you to take it all with a grain of salt. WebM was just announced 2 days ago. Give it time. The best way to know the future is to invent it. So if you'd like to WebM succeed, vote with attention. Start playing with stuff and talk to the people making it. You can grab a WebM capable beta of Firefox here: http://nightly.mozilla.org/webm/ Miro just put out there super easy video converter with webm support: http://www.mirovideoconverter.com/ I just tried it out and posted something here: http://reports.graymattergravy.com/2010/05/21/webm/ - Verdi -- Training for a triathlon and raising money for The Leukemia Lymphoma Society. http://training.michaelverdi.com -- Training for a triathlon and raising money for The Leukemia Lymphoma Society. http://training.michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: WebM Project
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://www.webmproject.org/ I hope it does well and they can make the encoding and decoding efficient quite quickly, and that lots of tools sprout up quickly. It is indeed good news. Think of how this discussion has unfolded the past year. Ogg/Theora went from a funky little FOSS project to a serious codec backed by Google. If anyone is doing any video experiments with html5 (and VP8)...please post! Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 -- Training for a triathlon and raising money for The Leukemia Lymphoma Society. http://training.michaelverdi.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Comments On Celtx
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 you want to write thank you notes to everyone involved in making it. -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Training for a triathlon and raising money for The Leukemia Lymphoma Society. http://training.michaelverdi.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: ReelDirector?
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 On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:23 AM, neophoto3000 cjburd...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Good to hear so many positive experiences! Does anybody have any favorite clips they can point to that demonstrate iPhone/ReelDirector in action? Also, what do people generally do for sound when recording video on their iPhone? Thanks again even more! Chris --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz schl...@... wrote: Yeah, I love it too. And yes you can send it to the youtubes. It's actually a pretty robust app and probably my favorite game on my phone. Keeps me entertained on the commute. On Wednesday, May 5, 2010, Kevin Lim brainop...@... wrote: I love reeldirector too. Ever since I've gotten the OWLE bubo (wide angle lens) and the Pixeet360 fisheye lens, I've been having tremendous fun shooting, editing and uploading right from the iPhone. I've even shot, edited, and uploaded to Youtube and twitpic while at conferences, and because I get videos up quicker than most professional crews, these videos get retweeted pretty quick over Twitter. Kevin Lim http://theory.isthereason.com This email is: [ ] bloggable [ ] ask first [X] private Transmitted from my iPad On May 5, 2010, at 11:49 AM, neophoto3000 cjburd...@... cjburdick%40sbcglobal.net wrote: Thanks! That's exactly what I wanted to hear! I would love to do at least one show that's entirely iPhone/iPad self-contained (my only obstacles at the moment actually GETTING an iPhone and iPod). My only other question is uploading to YouTube from the device. Yes? No? Doable? Not? From an artmaking standpoint, the concept of reducing the bulk and bother of all the hardware between me and the finished product really appeals to me. Thanks again! Chris --- In videoblogg...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Rupert Howe rupert@ wrote: It's not low end for anyone here! (Despite all our bluster about codecs and prosumer editing tools!) ReelDirector is one of the main reasons I'd consider getting an iPhone, especially since Nokia hobbled their in-phone editor. I used to shoot cut everything in my phone I miss being able to do it easily. Verdi has used ReelDirector - and some others here, I think. On 5 May 2010, at 16:32, neophoto3000 wrote: I know this is low-end for you lot, but has anybody here played around with ReelDirector, the iPhone video editing app? The cons are obvious, but I'm wondering if there are any pros anybody can report. I'm especially interested in hearing if anybody's tooled around with it on the iPad... Thanks, Chris [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo.tv http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat -- Training for a triathlon and raising money for The Leukemia Lymphoma Society. http://training.michaelverdi.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Google to open source VP8
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
What he was referring to was that a day (and 11 emails ago), Joly noted a quote from the same story you just brought up and we all just had a discussion about it. On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Joly MacFie j...@punkcast.com wrote: I also noted Jobs recent statement that Theora is not free of potential encumbrance. I wouldn't put much stock in that FUD. Also, all of these arguments don't (and can't really) take into account VP8 that Google 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 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 with quality, hardware decoding, quantity of videos already in H.264. The potential for patent problems with theora are usually dismissed because there havent been any issues with this so far. Jobs is suggesting that there are about to be very real issues with this, and I consider that a significant development. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi mich...@... wrote: On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Joly MacFie j...@... 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 -- Training for a triathlon and raising money for The Leukemia Lymphoma Society. http://training.michaelverdi.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Google to open source VP8
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Joly MacFie j...@punkcast.com wrote: I also noted Jobs recent statement that Theora is not free of potential encumbrance. I wouldn't put much stock in that FUD. Also, all of these arguments don't (and can't really) take into account VP8 that Google 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
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:27 PM, elbowsofdeath st...@dvmachine.com wrote: Their other main focus beyond supporting standards was on hardware-accelerating lots of stuff, be it svg or css3 or video. BTW, that kind of stuff is coming to Firefox too. One of the things I've learned since going to work for Mozilla (3wks now) is that everything is open source and usually posted on the wiki https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2010-Q2-Goals. Want to join in (or just listen) the platform teams weekly meeting? It's on Tuesdays at 11am PST (details here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform#Meetings ) - Verdi -- Training for a triathlon and raising money for The Leukemia Lymphoma Society. http://training.michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] Google to open source VP8
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: I love Apple and use all they have...but I dont like the idea that I depend on their benevolence. Jobs will die...and instead of a hippie entrepreneur, we'll get the ex-President of Pepsi leading the company again. So 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
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
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 and raising money for The Leukemia Lymphoma Society. http://training.michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
Certainly it's surprising to find your whole site copied - especially in that way - but I don't think it's a complete disaster when stuff like that happens. For myself, I'm mostly interested in making things and having people watch/use/whatever. Someone copying my content doesn't hamper those goals and it may even help a bit. Also, everything is branded in a way even if it's just with your face or url. And because it's copying not stealing, nothing is really lost - probably not even ad revenue. All of that said, what I'd mostly be worried about is Google - either having the copy show up 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?
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 processor 2.8ghz 4gb ram pc. The tools always seem to outpace the hardware. Makes it hard to decide what format to work in, and what tools to use. But yeah, when it works smoothly, it looks amazing. Sent via dynamic wireless technology device -Original Message- From: Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 17:04:52 To: Videobloggersvideoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: [videoblogging] Remember when it was all 320x240? well, Vimeo just announced that it's added 1080p with ACCHD support (for Vimeo Plus members). http://www.studiodaily.com/blog/?p=2568 Youtube did this in the fall but it's not becoming common. I have a pretty decent mac and it can barely handle playback. But it was just 4 years ago when people complained of their computes choking on 320x240 videos. Bandwidth was slow and processing power limited. Just a matter of time before the groupBorgmind upgrades itself. Really really beautiful images at 1080p. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv
Re: [videoblogging] Re: 2010 the year of the tablet?
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 and editing it or broadcasting it live from my HP Compaq TC1100 tablet for nearly 4 years. A lot of my shooting is on building construction and restoration sites, so the highly portable tablet form factor is extraordinarily useful. Shoot in the morning, edit over lunch and post it. Or, when operating live over wireless with no cables at all, bluetooth from cam to tablet, wifi from tablet to the internet direct. Video Reports from the Field: http://www.historichomeworks.com/hhw/video/rftf.htm John Leeke by hammer and hand great works do stand with cam and light he shoots it right www.HistoricHomeWorks.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv
Re: [videoblogging] Youtube supports HTML5 (No more Flash?)
I'm really bummed that Google and Apple are doing this with h264 and Mozilla is using Ogg. The more I look into ogg the more that I see that for most cases it can be just as good as h264. It would really help if someone made a fucking compression app (with a GUI) for it. Firefogg is pretty 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 it go. Before I get a head of myself, Flash still has a long life yet. Very useful for ease of use. But if Google decide to move away from it...Youtube will help set the tone of the next evolution for web video. Many steps between here and there. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv
Re: [videoblogging] Join Me In My New Year's Resolution - 2 Per Month in 2010!
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 New Year's resolution to post at least two videos to hoppervideo.net every month of 2010. Like many of you, I was part of the early wave of videobloggers. And also like many of you, my original videoblog has gone to seed of late (Only 2 posts in 2009!). I've been busy making videos, just not for Hopper. This resolution came to me when I was reading some posts on this list about Vloggercon and how fun and exciting the early days were. It made me miss that cozy family feel that videoblogging had way back in 2005/06. So, dear family, I'd invite you to join me in the 2 Videos Per Month in 2010 Project! (I'd also invite you to come up with a better name for the project!) Dust off your original videoblog and make is sing once more! I think this is a great idea. I'd love to make and see more videos from everyone. It's always fun when its like a big conversation. Verdi recently created http://videobloggers.org/ to help follow these games we sometimes play. Everyone posts on their own site, but it could aggregate them like this: http://videobloggers.org/games/30-days-30-people-30-videos He'd know how to get a sub-domain started. You made the first video for the year yet? Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Join Me In My New Year's Resolution - 2 Per Month in 2010!
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 EST robdparrish wrote: Thanks Jay and Michael for the work on videobloggers.org! I will certainly start sending the new hopper video videos over there. Looking forward to seeing more videos from the two of you, and hopefully others this year! --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi michaelve...@... wrote: 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...@... wrote: I'm writing to share my New Year's resolution to post at least two videos to hoppervideo.net every month of 2010. Like many of you, I was part of the early wave of videobloggers. And also like many of you, my original videoblog has gone to seed of late (Only 2 posts in 2009!). I've been busy making videos, just not for Hopper. This resolution came to me when I was reading some posts on this list about Vloggercon and how fun and exciting the early days were. It made me miss that cozy family feel that videoblogging had way back in 2005/06. So, dear family, I'd invite you to join me in the 2 Videos Per Month in 2010 Project! (I'd also invite you to come up with a better name for the project!) Dust off your original videoblog and make is sing once more! I think this is a great idea. I'd love to make and see more videos from everyone. It's always fun when its like a big conversation. Verdi recently created http://videobloggers.org/ to help follow these games we sometimes play. Everyone posts on their own site, but it could aggregate them like this: http://videobloggers.org/games/30-days-30-people-30-videos He'd know how to get a sub-domain started. You made the first video for the year yet? Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv
Re: [videoblogging] Editing iPhone 3Gs Video w. FCP
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-the-hell/ - Verdi On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Kevin Lim brainop...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Amani, Nice work with the behind-the-scenes video on the iPhone. I've been experimenting with wearable and cameraphone videos for a while, and the iPhone does make capturing and distributing clips as easy as (if not easier than) a Flip cam. My goal is to produce and distribute decently produced video around events as quickly as possible. Traditionally I'd edit with iMovie with minimal fuss. More recently, I got myself several iPhone tripod solutions, inclusing the amazing OWLE (wantOWLE.com) camera mount for $99, which act as an iPhone stabilizer, provides a position-able external microphone, and most importantly, a bright 37 mm wide-angle lens built for the iPhone 3GS that improves the quality of mobile video. The mounts lets you swap lenses for the iPhone, which is insanely great. I do find that the iPhone does manage to handle tricky lighting scenarios better than regular pocket cams (e.g. Flip cam), due to the our ability to tap on the picture region for camera focus. Audio gets tricker, especially if you use an external line-in or higher quality dock-connector microphone. I learned the hard way about interference from the iPhone's cell signals, so I've to remember to turn on Airplane mode next time I shoot. Here's an example of a video interview I did where halfway through, I had to lower the audio and put in subtitles: http://theory.isthereason.com/?p=2832 Finally, I've been trying to work with video WITHOUT my MacBook Pro, solely relying on the iPhone to capture, edit and distribute clips online. I've used ReelDirector to edit videos on the iPhone (it's like a lite iMovie) with great success, as well as several video sharing tools such as TwitVid and Vidly. I do this mostly for the conference sessions I capture. Friends on twitter are amazed by the speed I can get the clips up for further discussion. Kevin Lim Cyberculturalist http://theory.isthereason.com This email is: [ ] bloggable [X] ask first [ ] private email locator: ╔╗╔═╦╗ ║╚╣║║╚╗ ╚═╩═╩═╝ On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 2:08 PM, theurbanreporter aman...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm sure some of you are already doing this, but I just edited my first video podcast episode using my iPhone 3Gs. I'm fairly happy with the quality of the iPhone vid even after being compressed. I added some music to the video as well, and lower thirds (Adobe Premier Pro). Curious how many of you are editing iPhone or Flip vid? If you have any questions, please ask! Here's the link. http://www.myurbanreport.com/2009/12/watch-this-edited-iphone-3gs-video/ Cheers! Amani Channel www.myurbanreport.com www.visualeyemedia.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Vloggercon - why only two times?
Maybe another part of another not happening is that I think there were two big motivations (figure stuff out and meet each other in person) and there's really not a lot of urgency behind them anymore. There's only so many conferences on the figuring the tech stuff out that you can have. The information has been pretty well disseminated. I recently went to a local brown bag coworking session and a few people were doing a presentation on videoblogging. It was really strange because it was almost an exact replica of a demo I've given over and over yet, nobody there had any idea who I was (not that they should). So it feels like, especially for this group, that that part has been taken care of. As for the meeting in person aspect, that still happens but just on a smaller scale at other conferences. I live an hour down the road from SXSW and a few times in recent years I've just gone up 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
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 experimenting for now as well but so far the best totally amazing plugin is kaltura's. Others have been buggy in terms of the permissions to access my webcam but their interactive video plug in rocks and I love their commitment to open source. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 4, 2009, at 11:00 AM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: I'm finally getting around to re-doing my wordpress videoblog, and am a bit overwhelmed by the huge choice of plugins. Could we get a sound-off of Wordpress plugins you really like, why you like it...and a link to your site to so we can see it in action? Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv
Re: [videoblogging] Day 30: 30 Day 30 People 30 Videos
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: What I'd really like, though, is to edit together the whole thing into one video as was suggested at the start. Here we run into the wall of video formats/codecs And in addition to the codec thing, you have the fact that a few of the entries aren't linear. I've been working on a site where we can continue playing games like this. I hope to have it up soon. One reason for building it is to address issues like this. So for example I've imported those 30 videos and built a way to see a grid of all the videos 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
The great thing about blip is that they will serve up the original file that you upload, so you get to determine the quality. Now the trick is to get that file to show up in the flash player. What you have to do to make that happen is to make the file that you upload a really good quality h.264 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 and the features, but have started to become a little disappointed with the final flash video after conversion. If you upload the same video to Blip, Vimeo, YouTube, and Facebook, the Blip version that is converted seems to be the worst in the bunch. I'm generally only uploading SD video, if that makes any difference. I don't plan on moving away from Blip any time soon, as the other features (playlists, cross posting, customized player, custom thumnails, etc) are the reasons I stay with Blip. However, I was wondering if any of you have any suggestions for getting better quality out of the Blip video player. Are there tricks I can employ on my end to make my file more friendly to conversion? I'm a low budget windows user, so typically my files are WMV (Flip video SD) or Mov (Canon SD 780 IS), and I occasionally still shoot video with and older Canon MiniDV (edit in moviemaker and output as WMV). Is there a file type or size that Blip may like better for better quality conversion to flash? The other three seem to take WMVs just fine and crunch them well, but perhaps there's something better I should be looking at when uploading to Blip. I'd love to hear some folks chime in as well. Chad, do you have a video that youve uploaded to several different sites? It would help to actually see how each site has Flash converted the same video. A big thing is blip's favor is that they host the original video you upload. We convert our own Flash video and just upload that so we can be assured of the quality. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv
Re: [videoblogging] Re: It's Done!
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 next year. As per your request, the videos now start at number 30 and count down to number 1. I like that Blip player, I may use it for other projects too. Mike --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert rup...@... wrote: I did predictably terribly - I think I got to day 17. But at least I didn't beat myself up too badly about it this year. I hadn't intended to do it all anyway, even before things went crazy. As well as watching the game from start to finish, I've also been looking forward to catching up with yours all at once. For everybody else's information, Mike's made a Blip Playlist with all his 30 Things Navlopomo videos. http://mikemoon.net/vlog/30-things-countdown/ Mike, could I suggest that you reverse the playlist, so I/we can lean back and watch the countdown just as you made it? At the moment, the most recent video is at the top. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 30-Nov-09, at 7:16 PM, mgmoon wrote: I just posted my final video for NaVloPoMo09 ... 30 Things in 30 Days. It was a ton of work, it took up too much of my time, I'm backlogged with other responsibilities, I'm glad I did it and I'm happy it's over. http://mikemoon.net/vlog/2009/11/30/0130-north-carolina-memories/ How did you do? Mike http://vlog.mikemoon.net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Copyright Music?
Heath you're totally right. I made a short film a few years ago based on my brother and I playing Star Trek when we were kids. I actually wrote to Paramount to ask for permission to use a few sound clips (transporter, bridge beeps, etc). Not only did they say no, they reminded me that the words, Enterprise, Spock and Phaser were trademarks and also couldn't be used. The thing is, when we were kids we played Star Trek. Not Star Journey or Space Trek or some other bullshit. It's insane that Copyright and Trademark laws can reach into your childhood memories and make the expression of them 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 labels, corporations, marketing people, all for years, heck decades have done is try to get us as consumers to think of their products in our everyday lifes...rememeber the old Kodak slogan, Share moments, share life, Coke, it's the real thing, and so on or the way music is used now in commercials, to envoke a certain feeling or moment from your life...I mean in itself music takes us to a certain place in time in our lives, music video's help convey this process by putting pictures to words and so on They have spent a lot of money to get us to identify certain brands, certain music with events in our lives. It's how they have made a lot of money...it's just that now...anyone can take these things and share them...I mean what did they think was going to happen, a whole generation and a half has been rasised to think of their lives around brands, around music, around TV shows...and now they bitch and complain when we use tools to share OUR lives with the very things that we identify our lives with? It's nuts...I mean they still want us to think in the terms that they want us to think in, we just can't share it, show it or let anyone know we like or dislike it... I don't freakin think so Heath http://heathparks.com/blog I do agree you should alwasy give attribution though, something I need to be better at and I wouldn't ever use copyrighted music for a clientor for profit. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi michaelve...@... wrote: Hey Pete, I'm cool with that. It would be great to get attribution (or even $) but really I just want people to see what I make. I don't pretend that I've made anything wholly original (I don't think anyone has) and I'm happy for people to use it as inspiration. Artists build off of the work of others without permission all of the time and to pretend otherwise is dishonest. In this world I think (and it's the case for myself personally) artists are more often negatively impacted by obscurity than by someone using their work without permission. Here's a recent video I made using some music from The Flaming Lips: http://michaelverdi.com/2009/11/03/embryonic/ The band did not loose anything in this transaction. Hopefully they've gained a new fan or two. In fact the whole reason I even bought that album was because I'd fallen in love with other albums of theirs that I'd downloaded illegally. Again that transaction (the illegal download) didn't cost the band a dime because I wasn't going to purchase those albums anyway and it resulted in me purchasing their latest. In fact I'd love to give them some more of my money to see them in concert (and probably buy a t-shirt) during their current tour. This craziness that publishing something entitles you to a monopoly on it that can be extended for a ridiculous amount of time is well, ridiculous. And in the case of non-commercial reuse, e.g. free advertising, can be harmful to try to enforce. You end up treating fans or customers like criminals. That's an easy way to appear like an asshole. Anyone here ever have to call Microsoft after reinstalling Windows? What a bunch of bullshit that is. Anyway, I could go on and on - this topic makes me so angry. Or rather what makes me angry is that we've let corporations set the conversation (and laws) about what property is and we've got artists totally buying into it even though for 99.9% of them it's not in their self-interest (it's like poor people voting for Republicans). What I'm always amazed by is that artists steal intellectual property like they breath air and then get pissed when someone else returns the honor. - Verdi On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Pete Prodoehl ras...@... 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 they choose, even if you don't agree with it, and even if you have not released it under a sharing license? So if a multinational
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Navlopomo day 24 now available
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 time I finally looked into how to post videos to a sharing service such as blip.tv. Up until now I have never needed anything more than placing the video on my server and linking to it in a blog post, so I have happily avoided all of the blips and vimeos and youtubes of the world. Sigh. 2009/11/24 Kath O'Donnell alia...@gmail.com hi Frank, sorry I can't recall seeing the embed field in previous uploads, but I tried it now with another blip video using the othe other url in the blip dashboard list. eg if I use the permalink for url= http://blip.tv/file/id I don't see the embed field it fills in all the video details from my blip post. if I use the episode details url=http://blip.tv/dashboard/episode/id then it does see the embed I have to fill in all the details - it looks like this page hasn't recognized it's a video you u might have to paste the blip embed code?? I haven't tried a .wmv file so not sure if that's related? also, if I use the direct link .flv file as the url then it uses that nice player which keeps a snapshot of the video as the background, but you need to enter all the description/tags etc manually (just paste from blip). can't recall having to enter embed code using this method though.. hth kath 2009/11/25 Frank Carver frank.car...@googlemail.comfrank.carver%40googlemail.com However, I am having trouble with the form to add a video to the 30 days videobloggers miro community. The form insists I put something in a field named embed, but I have no idea what to put there. Can anyone who has done this already give any hints? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Copyright Music?
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Joly MacFie j...@punkcast.com wrote: I have recently shot two copyright related talks: William Patry : Moral Panics and the Copyright wars http://punkcast.com/1666/index.html David Post : Jefferson's Moose in Cyberspace http://punkcast.com/1671/index.html 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?
Hey Pete, I'm cool with that. It would be great to get attribution (or even $) but really I just want people to see what I make. I don't pretend that I've made anything wholly original (I don't think anyone has) and I'm happy for people to use it as inspiration. Artists build off of the work of others without permission all of the time and to pretend otherwise is dishonest. In this world I think (and it's the case for myself personally) artists are more often negatively impacted by obscurity than by someone using their work without permission. Here's a recent video I made using some music from The Flaming Lips: http://michaelverdi.com/2009/11/03/embryonic/ The band did not loose anything in this transaction. Hopefully they've gained a new fan or two. In fact the whole reason I even bought that album was because I'd fallen in love with other albums of theirs that I'd downloaded illegally. Again that transaction (the illegal download) didn't cost the band a dime because I wasn't going to purchase those albums anyway and it resulted in me purchasing their latest. In fact I'd love to give them some more of my money to see them in concert (and probably buy a t-shirt) during their current tour. This craziness that publishing something entitles you to a monopoly on it that can be extended for a ridiculous amount of time is well, ridiculous. And in the case of non-commercial reuse, e.g. free advertising, can be harmful to try to enforce. You end up treating fans or customers like criminals. That's an easy way to appear like an asshole. Anyone here ever have to call Microsoft after reinstalling Windows? What a bunch of bullshit that is. Anyway, I could go on and on - this topic makes me so angry. Or rather what makes me angry is that we've let corporations set the conversation (and laws) about what property is and we've got artists totally buying into it even though for 99.9% of them it's not in their self-interest (it's like poor people voting for Republicans). What I'm always amazed by is that artists steal intellectual property like they breath air 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 they choose, even if you don't agree with it, and even if you have not released it under a sharing license? So if a multinational corporation uses your video and makes money from it, you're OK with that? If a huge record label uses it as they please, it's all good? I'm a huge supporter of Creative Commons, but I'm also respectful of people's work and allowing them to choose how they share it/how it is used, and not just being a jerk and taking it. I'd expect all creatives to think in a similar way, but sadly, I'm always amazed by people who work hard in one craft (let's say video) are so willing to take what someone else has created (let's say a musician) and do what they please with it without permission, or attribution, or anything else. (Sorry for the rant, it's been a while! :) Pete John Coffey wrote: What is copyright music? I've been BUYING lp's, 45's, 78's, cassettes mp3's cd's for over 40 years now. Is any ot this copyright music? John Coffey Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv
Re: [videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo Day 19
I don't want to take anything away from Jay's video but I'd like to point out that one part of what makes the video great (and easy to shoot) is Jay's idea of Momentshowing. I've been really taking that to heart over the last year and made some things that I really like and, I think, capture the truth of the moment, by just capturing tiny, random, moments (usually on my phone). That said, there is more to it than just capturing them - there's what you do with them. It doesn't take long to get that there's a method to Jay's madness in something like this: http://momentshowing.net/2007/04/video-crazy_arms/ Here's a few of mine; inspired by Jay: http://michaelverdi.com/2009/03/10/hanging-out/ http://michaelverdi.com/2009/07/10/leveling-up/ http://michaelverdi.com/2009/10/04/dog-cat-cows-airplanes/ http://michaelverdi.com/2009/11/02/kids/ Anyway, I guess the point I'm trying to make 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 and perfect. I loved it. Ernie http://www.ernmander.com On 20/11/2009 18:55, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: Jay, that was amazing that told that story. Thank you. Adam, for the love of God man, lower the bar, lower the bar! yeah guys, I dont mean to over-emotionalize the project. I just happened to have a camera during a pretty crazy life moment. I feel its good to share this stuffversus keep all quiet. death especially. remember that when we all started, the excitement was recording life. Being able to make movies out of the drama of our everyday lives while still working and going about the day. No longer do we hav to stop everything to make a movie. So me being able to record at my mom's death bed was just a function of always having a camera on me...and being in the habit of recording my life. I hope I see other people's experience with all kinds things as time moves on. Ultimately though it's about being ready when these opportunities arise. I recorded those 3 days with ZERO plan. I was just there. Actually recording even helped me focus on what was actually happening with my family and mom. Made me appreciate the moments much more. If anyone is too sad, watch the video we made a baby being born this year: http://ryanishungry.com/2009/01/21/home-birth-diy-labor-and-delivery/ Ryanne and I shot all this on a $150 Flip camera with no mic. Videoblogging: birth, death, and everything in between! Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv
Re: [videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo + new EditAppForiPhone
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 on their iPhone? Jay -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv
Re: [videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo + new EditAppForiPhone
Yeah it's pretty cool. The thing that may be a problem for some people is that if you are uploading by emailing your video you are limited to 45 seconds. If you upload directly to YouTube you can do 90 seconds. In both cases the iphone compresses your video before sending it. If you use pixelpipe you can send whatever length video you want but the un-re-compressed 640x480 videos are pretty big and it's easy to end up trying to upload a 50MB file from your iphone which takes a really long time. It's not an issue for me though. I love the 45 sec restriction - works perfectly for uploading 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/4029586120/ can you actually shot some clips on your phone, edit on the phone, and post online from the phone? does it feel right for you? Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv
Re: [videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo + new EditAppForiPhone
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 where you directly cut/paste photos from the photo library into your e-mail which bypasses the iPhone's built in file size/compression system. cheers /jules
Re: [videoblogging] SMIL in QT10
The new QT X doesn't do much beside trim clips (like on the iphone). That's why they have you install QT7 - to get all of your old qt pro (and other non-pro) features back. They've rewritten QT completely and will add the old features in the future (they'd have to in order to make FCP work as a 64bit app for example). From an Ars Technica review of Snow Leopard http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars/6 This is just the start of a long journey for QuickTime X, and seemingly not a very auspicious one, at that. A QuickTime engine with no editing support? No plug-ins? It seems ridiculous to release it at all. But this has been Apple's way in recent years: steady, deliberate progress. Apple aims to ship no features before their time. As anxious as developers may be for a full-featured, 64-bit successor to the QuickTime 7 engine, Apple itself is sitting on top of one of the largest QuickTime-riddled (and Carbon-addled, to boot) code bases in the industry: Final Cut Studio. Thus far, It remains stuck in 32-bit. To say that Apple is highly motivated to extend the capabilities of QuickTime X would be an understatement. Nevertheless, don't expect Apple to rush 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, 2009 at 1:06 PM, David Meade meade.d...@gmail.com wrote: So QuickTime has supported SMIL since version 4, but I cannot get version 10 to open a SMIL file. At one point QT10 even told me I had to install QT7 in order to open the file. Has apple dropped support for this standard? - Dave [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv
Re: [videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo + new EditAppForiPhone
FCP does know what the iphone video is. The problem is that what it is is h.264 which was never made to be a codec for editing. That's why you have to convert things. It's just like the HD stuff (some of it also h.264). What I do in FCP is set up a sequence using ProRes and drop iphone clips in there. You can even blow them up and have them look pretty decent. Here's one blown up and edited with ProRes at 1280x720 and then compressed for the web with h.264: http://blip.tv/file/get/MichaelVerdi-LevelingUp479.mp4 It's not as good as something from an HD camera but it's not too bad either. - 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 compression guru, that i could do it. I'm using FCP6...so maybe the newest version has these issues solved? Problems: --FCP wont render the clips natively. --after converting clips to DV, FCP still wants to render the clips each time they're edited...no matter how we set up the sequence. --I shot some clips vertically and not horizontallycausing lots of issues. Anyone figure out a workflow that's seamless? My feeling is that the iPhone video was created to record a video and then upload individual clips. NOT to edit together. I find it strange that Apple's products arent more seamless. FCP and Quicktime should just know what iPhone video is, right? Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv
Re: [videoblogging] Has a wheel fallen off the VloMo cart?
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, plus twitter messages and facebook messages, yesterday and over the last few days to make sure it was going to be ok - but am on vacation. today, of course, is the only day i'm offline all day, travelling home. friday 13th indeed. just had to hope it'd get done. not sure i could've done much more, or that it could've been any simpler. hope it worked out somehow. just back from 7 hour drive in traffic with non-stop screaming baby, so totally fried and will have to wait til tomorrow to catch up with things... No doubt it will carry on regardless of hiccups and be fine in the end. ho hum. Rupert On 13-Nov-09, at 2:42 PM, mgmoon wrote: I didn't see a video for November 12th? Should Sean carry on? Eek [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Video Consequences
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, drpoulette drpoule...@gmail.com wrote: I just posted the third entry for the month at http://ymimexico.org/vlog/2009/11/03/vlomo-day-3-legacy/ I can't wait to see what Heath comes up with for tomorrow. Dennis --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert rup...@... wrote: I forgot to post here about the start of the game - I see it's been referred to in the discussion of the excellent http://videobloggers.mirocommunity.com that Verdi set up But I figure it wouldn't hurt to include a link to Adrian's excellent first entry, Like A Match - a love poem in audio, looping over a video of a match being struck, which changes when you move your mouse over the video: http://vogmae.net.au/vog/2009/11/like-a-match/ I followed up with a snippet of late night conversation in a rambling old country house: http://twittervlog.tv/2009/11/ghosts/ I've now passed it to Dennis Poulette, who will publish his response some time today, and pass it on to Heath... Rupert Howe http://twittervlog.tv Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv
Re: [videoblogging] Slow HD editing
Here's the big thing with HD video that people forget after all those years with DV. The DV video codec is great for both shooting and editing. The only HD video codec that I've seen that works for both shooting and editing is Panasonic's DVCHD Pro. For everything else you need to convert 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
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
well people started posting other navlopomo videos so I made two categories for now - one for navlopomo and one for the game. The game videos are here: http://videobloggers.mirocommunity.org/category/30-days-30-people-30-videos And I'm also making those the featured videos so 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 videos are being collected here? From the initial thread, I thought it was for the ones from Ru's game, the videos on the calendar. But it looks like other videos are being posted there, too, so this will not end up being a place where you can follow the game. Which is fine. Just wondering if I misunderstood. Cheryl --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi michaelve...@... wrote: 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...@... wrote: Oh my, I tried adding Adrian's video early Sunday morning so there may be duplicates. The first time I didn't seen the embed box but I added a second video and the embed box appeared. Gena --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, cherylcolan cherylcolan@ wrote: I tried to add Adrian's video (first in the monthly game) but I don't know if it worked. The form expanded like you said, but there isn't really any embed code on his site, so I put the video URL there again. Cheryl --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi michaelverdi@ wrote: I just set up http://videobloggers.mirocommunity.org/ We can collect the videos here is you wish. Just click submit a video and put in the url and any tags. If you use something like your blog url instead of a blip or youtube url, the form will expand to let you fill out the info manually. You can subscibe here: http://videobloggers.mirocommunity.org/feeds/new/ Maybe there will even be a feed for whatever tag people decide to use. - Verdi Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv
Re: [videoblogging] 1and1 to go Unlimited web traffic on all acounts
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 web hosting to host videos on their servers after they announced Unlimited traffic feature? I wonder what would be the best workflow as far as using a very good flash video player embeddable everywhere like youtube's. Any comments? We use 11 to host our site, but use 3rd party to hosts our videos. But I hadnt heard of this new unlimited bandwidth feature. You have a link? Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv
Re: [videoblogging] Re: NatVlogMonth
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 didn't seen the embed box but I added a second video and the embed box appeared. Gena --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, cherylcolan cherylco...@... wrote: I tried to add Adrian's video (first in the monthly game) but I don't know if it worked. The form expanded like you said, but there isn't really any embed code on his site, so I put the video URL there again. Cheryl --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi michaelverdi@ wrote: I just set up http://videobloggers.mirocommunity.org/ We can collect the videos here is you wish. Just click submit a video and put in the url and any tags. If you use something like your blog url instead of a blip or youtube url, the form will expand to let you fill out the info manually. You can subscibe here: http://videobloggers.mirocommunity.org/feeds/new/ Maybe there will even be a feed for whatever tag people decide to use. - Verdi Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv
Re: [videoblogging] Re: NatVlogMonth
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 wrote: I'm guessing neither of us have to worry, Gena. Neither attempt has made it past the moderator yet. Assuming Verdi is moderating, he has our back he'll fix it. :D Cheryl --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, compumavengal compumaven...@... wrote: Oh my, I tried adding Adrian's video early Sunday morning so there may be duplicates. The first time I didn't seen the embed box but I added a second video and the embed box appeared. Gena --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, cherylcolan cherylcolan@ wrote: I tried to add Adrian's video (first in the monthly game) but I don't know if it worked. The form expanded like you said, but there isn't really any embed code on his site, so I put the video URL there again. Cheryl --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi michaelverdi@ wrote: I just set up http://videobloggers.mirocommunity.org/ We can collect the videos here is you wish. Just click submit a video and put in the url and any tags. If you use something like your blog url instead of a blip or youtube url, the form will expand to let you fill out the info manually. You can subscibe here: http://videobloggers.mirocommunity.org/feeds/new/ Maybe there will even be a feed for whatever tag people decide to use. - Verdi Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv
Re: [videoblogging] NatVlogMonth
I just set up http://videobloggers.mirocommunity.org/ We can collect the videos here is you wish. Just click submit a video and put in the url and any tags. If you use something like your blog url instead of a blip or youtube url, the form will expand to let you fill out the info manually. You 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 and passing videos to each other. But I'm not specifying any way to publish the videos. We've tried a few ways of curating, centralizing aggregating NaVloPoMo videos community, and everybody gets hung up on finding the best way to do it. But this is a decentralized game, a decentralized medium and a decentralized community. So, as far as I'm concerned, anything goes. Publish wherever you want, in whatever codec. Publish round animated gifs if you want. How we aggregate it, navigate it, reconstruct it, replay it, will be part of the game. Everybody can do it their own way, or create their own places to gather the videos and people. It'll no doubt change and develop as we go along through the month. You want to set up a Miro Community, a Posterous blog, a Twitter hashtag, a Facebook page, a wiki, a Yahoo Pipe RSS Feed? Or post all the video links here on the group? Go for it. I'm looking forward to seeing whether the videos will just be allowed to stand alone scattered around the web with simple links between them, or if people will want to get creative about how to collect display them. The only thing I recommend is that we use a tag for the game in addition to Navlopomo Navlopomo2009 - since it's different from NaVloPoMo. But I don't know what that tag should be - this game doesn't even have a name yet. Is it the Navlo game, or the video chain, or the Navlopomo chain? I don't know - you decide - I've done enough talking :) Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 30-Oct-09, at 11:09 AM, Topher wrote: So where do we post our videos and how do we link from one to the other? Did I miss the memo? Topher [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv
Re: [videoblogging] The power of the video blog
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
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
$8 For the 3GS http://nexvio.com/product/ReelDirector.aspx It's pretty cool. Has some limitations: no audio control, titles only over video, and only uses clips recorded on the phone. I used this app http://www.ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/ to access the folders on the phone and stuck a clip 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
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 in the camera's folder and then was able to use it an editing project. - Verdi
Re: [videoblogging] Re: iPod Nano shoots video
One thing I noticed about that N900 is that it's really thick and brick shaped. It's like 2 iphones stuck together. Won't really slide into the pants pocket so nicely. Also, I see this with every phone that my kids use - physical keyboards break when you use them a lot. We've already replaced 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
One thing to consider with pixelpipe (unlike the iPhone's sharing of video by email or to YouTube) is that it doesn't compress the video first and doesn't limit the length. So you can easily end up trying to push a 30, 40, 50MB+ video from your phone. It's still a great app. You just have 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 though their mobile upload has been discontinued (for good reasons, I understand). On 29-Sep-09, at 5:28 PM, B Yen wrote: On Sep 29, 2009, at 9:11 AM, Rupert Howe wrote: Pixelpipe is a fantastic sharing app - allows you to publish to masses of sharing sites networks with one click from your phone - or by email, or by web form. I tried using Pixelpipe to send cellphone video (via email), distribute to Blip.tv Didn't work for me. Anyone else having issues with distribution to Blip.tv? I was disappointed that Blip.tv no longer takes cellphone video transmissions. Over the weekend I covered an event. I ended up using Flickr Fragmob Kyte.tv for my cellphone video transmissions http://www.flickr.com/photos/chimpanzee/sets/72157622471532460/ http://www.fragmob.com/solareclipse http://www.kyte.tv/ch/350309-pats-2009 On 29-Sep-09, at 5:03 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: The other night I had guests over and we were talkiing about the struggles of the print industry and in particular the newspapers. I pointed out that though technology advancements have caused this struggle, it will also be their saving grace... as we see these advanced networked mobile touch screen tablet devices come to the market. And content is still king. Soon, the tech influence will balance and the live or die scenarios will circle back home to the content that each publisher pumps out. No more excuses. As for the ease of a networked camera... check out this n900 + pixelpipe video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxD-MmSVohg sull On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Rupert Howe rup...@twittervlog.tv wrote: No. I realised the only reason I wanted an iPhone/iPod Touch this week - the *only* reason - is for a job next week where the client wants me to do audioboos. Otherwise, I've been saving up for an N900. I'll find another way around the live audio posting. The Audioboo iPhone app is an elegant solution, but there must be other ways. Nokia rumors are that they will come out with a competing device to the iPad next year, running Maemo. No prizes for guessing which I'll be buying. I think these devices will change the way we read books, newspapers, magazines and watch films. If the big media companies have any sense, they're wetting their pants in anticipation of proper multifunction media players and e-readers. Small independent media companies should be doing the same. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 29-Sep-09, at 4:05 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: So Rupert given your experience with Nokia and Apple, I would love to read your more elaborate thoughts on the two options for mobile smart phone puters. Are you leaning towards iPhone? side note... latest iPad rumor has it coming out in May/June and will run iphone OS with a 3g and non-3g version. http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/backstage/comments/ten-new-details-on-the-apple-tablet/ On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Rupert Howe rup...@twittervlog.tv rupert%40twittervlog.tv wrote: I must have subconsciously absorbed this news from the internets. Apple have just ditched exclusivity with O2 in the UK and have signed deals with Orange and Vodafone. ATT exclusivity ends in 2010 - if the UK trial goes well for Apple, perhaps they will then open things up more in the US too. On 28-Sep-09, at 11:05 PM, Rupert Howe wrote: Yeah, I too thought of a black market iPhone, but imagined it'd be hard to get hold of a 3GS at this early stage. I hope they ditch these ridiculous exclusivity contracts soon. Am not feeling very Apple fanboyish at the moment, however nice this MBP is to use. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions
Re: [videoblogging] Keeping tapes
I agree with Jeffrey. I used to throw all kinds of stuff out and now wished I'd kept it. What little I did keep mostly sits in boxes but it's pretty nice to have the ability to look through it every once in a while. Things that didn't seem important or valuable at the time have a way of taking 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 them, Adam, and keep a machine that can play/transfer the DV tapes. There will be a time in your life when you will have plenty of time to watch that footage, and I'm 99.99% sure there is something there that you will be very grateful to have kept – ev On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Adam Quirk qu...@wreckandsalvage.comwrote: I'm in the middle of a move, and came across the box of mini-DV tapes I've accumulated over the years. I'm seriously considering chucking it all. Will I, or anyone, really ever want to watch two-hundred hours of random clips from my life and work? There's a part of me that wants to keep everything, every second that I shot. But there's another part of me that knows I already cut and uploaded and shared the best parts of these tapes. I'm not really sure what I'm asking here, but you guys would probably have the best insight into this sort of thing. AQ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Jeffrey Taylor 912 Cole St, #349 San Francisco, CA 94117 USA Mobile: +14157281264 Fax: +33177722734 http://twitter.com/jeffreytaylor http://videocampsf.com Love without power is sentimental, power without love is abusive - Martin Luther King [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http://milkweedmediadesign.com http://michaelverdi.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Blip Show Player and Archive Pages
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Steve Garfield st...@offonatangent.com wrote: Thinking about the casual user that doesn't want to code, I'd love to see video sites provide similar playlist players. You don't have to be a casual user... The whole reason I started to play around with the blip 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 -- Michael Verdi http://milkweedmediadesign.com http://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Blip Show Player and Archive Pages
They've been working on those download speeds and I've noticed an improvement. http://theblog.blip.tv/post/160704246/todays-release-is-out-the-door-this-affects-you http://theblog.blip.tv/post/167329020/more-changes-to-how-we-stream-videos http://theblog.blip.tv/post/184497576/player-start-time - 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. And absolutely minimal site design can be a boon. When the moving image is the point, accompanying design needs to support, not compete. Brook _ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http://milkweedmediadesign.com http://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Lomography's Ten Golden Rules
I have a friend who's big into lomography - http://www.flickr.com/photos/scootiepye/ - her work is really beautiful. On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 4:02 PM, stanhirson shir...@taconic.net wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert Howe rup...@... wrote: While waiting for all my photos and videos to backup, I followed a link on Twitter from @kmog which took me to Lomography's Ten Golden Rules. Lomography is all about analogue photography. But I like the rules as inspiration for daily mobile videoblogging. I've picked up a couple of Lomos on various trips to Russia a while ago and they are not only interesting as cameras, but as a spontaneous movement of collecting and sharing personal images. Not at all unlike some of our video blogging phiosophies. Interesting that Rupert found this! Stan Hirson http://PinePlainsViews.com http://Hestakaup.cocm Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http://milkweedmediadesign.com http://michaelverdi.com
[videoblogging] Blip Show Player and Archive Pages
We've had a number of discussions about the problems of the blog format for videoblogs which mainly centers around the lack of tools for discovering old videos. I've been working on a fictional web series and thinking about this problem and I find myself using the great tools at blip.tv more and more - especially the showplayer and playlists. Here's what I've doing. I found that we've made a number of 5 - 10 episode stories so I've made playlists for each of them and embeded a showplayer for each at the top of my archive page. Check it out here http://talkbot.tv/category/season-3/. 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://michaelverdi.com
[videoblogging] Wordpress Security
If you haven't heard yet, there is an attack happening on all versions of Wordpress except the newest - 2.8.4. So you should upgrade your installations. The thing that I noticed on ALL of my sites that were not already running 2.8.4 was that they had hidden admin users on them. The sneaky thing about that is that you may not have any other symptoms besides these hidden accounts and then think you are safe once you’ve upgraded. The are, essentially, back doors left on your site to be exploited later. So you have to make sure to get rid of them. The process is a little tricky – at least it’s 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 Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: QuickTime X
Yes QuickTime 7 will vanish eventually but not until they add functionality to QT X - at least that's what I got from this really long Ars Technica article: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars/6 On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 12:24 PM, elbowsofdeathst...@dvmachine.com wrote: Interesting stuff, when I get a chance I will explore this functionality to see what it means in practice - probably similar to how it works on the iphone. QuicktimeX in Snow Leopard is likely to elicit mixed feelings. It delivers a slicker experience but at the expense of functionality, some old formats and features are no longer supported, and in the browser flash still has an edge with its fullscreeen abilities. The export functions in QuicktimeX have been dumbed down considerably, and further cement Youtubes position by including a direct publish to youtube feature. For users who require configurable export and other stuff, Quicktime 7 is still available for Snow Leopard, can be installed on demand, but I assume it will eventually vanish from the scene. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@... wrote: hi all from the blurb: QuickTime X takes Internet video streaming to new levels with support for HTTP live streaming. Unlike other streaming technologies, HTTP live streaming uses the HTTP protocol — the same network technology that powers the web. That means QuickTime X streams audio and video from almost any web server instead of special streaming servers, and it works reliably with common firewall and wireless router settings. HTTP live streaming is designed for mobility and can dynamically adjust movie playback quality to match the available speed of wired or wireless networks, perfect whether the video is watched on a computer or on a mobile device like iPhone or iPod touch. This relates to conversation here recently able multiple bit rates, the above is a great idea as RTSP uses odd ports and causes firewall hell. On the other hand the usual problems will remain, if I 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://milkweedmediadesign.com http://michaelverdi.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Blip to YouTube X Posting
Here's what it says on the blip page (from my basic account): Distribution to YouTube through blip.tv requires approval from the blip.tv content team. This is to ensure that we send only the best independently produced shows to YouTube under our partnership. If you are not approved for distribution through blip.tv you can continue to upload to YouTube directly through their system. Please click the Apply for YouTube button to begin the approval process. Once your show is approved you'll be presented with an option to link your blip.tv and YouTube accounts to begin distribution. On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Jay dedmanjay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: Blip have a service where you can enable cross posting of your videos directly to YouTube. Problem is when you request activation they refuse?? What do you have to do to be enabled, they don't say? I'm at a loss to understand why they promote this service then decline. Anyone know? I think Paul may be correct that this may be a Blip pro feature. Could be wrong. Not to sound like a borken record, but specific blip issues should go to supp...@blip.tv. They're pretty good at getting back to people in a timely manner. Jay -- 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
You can do this. It's not ideal but shouldn't cost you anything. Export an .avi with these settings from FCP, iMovie or QT Pro: Video Compression: None Depth: Millions of Colors+ Quality: Best Sound Format: Uncompressed Sample rate: 41kHz Sample size: 16 Channels: 2 It will make a HUGE file. 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 to ask the Jedi first!) http://boards.theforce.net/fan_films_fan_audio_scifi_3d_forum/b10015/21709558/r21711554/ Thanks for the Vegas recommendations. I'm going to download that and give it a shot anyhow. On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Rupert Howe rup...@twittervlog.tv wrote: You should try Vegas - they have a 30 day trial. You should be able to put all HDV straight into the timeline and cut it. Not sure about AIC. Worth a try, though. Vegas is also good for editing files from phones and point and shoot stills cameras that other NLEs don't like. It's nice to use, too. Basic version is very cheap - only $50 or so. Even the top end studio package is not that pricey compared to the competition. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 10-Aug-09, at 8:17 PM, Adam Quirk wrote: I have a drive full of video I need to edit on my PC. Due to circumstances beyond my control, these files are all either Apple Intermediary Codec, or HDV 720p. Neither of which will import into any PC based NLEs. I've been searching high and low for a solution, and everyone on the forums just says have them export an uncompressed version, or something you can edit. That isn't an option. Anybody here know a workaround for either of these codecs? Thanks, Adam [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http://milkweedmediadesign.com http://michaelverdi.com
[videoblogging] Re: [Artists in the Cloud] Storytelling software
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 project before...they just put out a new update: http://www.korsakow.org/tiki-index.php The Korsakow-System is an easy-to-use computer program for the creation of database films. Korsakow-Films are films with a twist: They are interactive - the viewer has influence on the K-Film. They are rule-based - the author decides on the rules by which the scenes relate to each other, but s/he does not create fixed paths. K-Films are generative - the order of the scenes is calculated while viewing. Korsakow is not a religion. Here's a link to examples using the system: http://www.korsakow.org/Vernissagebl=y Very arty but could go in multiple directions. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group - Artists in the Cloud. To post to this group, send email to artists-in-the-cl...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to artists-in-the-cloud+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/artists-in-the-cloud?hl=en or visit http://artistsinthecloud.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- -- Michael Verdi http://milkweedmediadesign.com http://michaelverdi.com
[videoblogging] Good film on movie editing
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
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). PixelPipe 1.4.1 now lets you push video to more social networks/ media sharing sites, not just Youtube. I've been using it to simulcast photos to twitter and flickr on my 3G, and I'm now psyched that I can do something similar for video. For services like twitter, it apparently uploads video as .mov to its own pixelpipe server. As seen on their blog: http://blog.pixelpipe.com/2009/06/19/publishing-video-directly-from-the-iphone-3g-s-and-pixelpipe-1-4-1/ -- Michael Verdi http://milkweedmediadesign.com http://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] Forget politics, check out the tech
I could be wrong but this kind of thing seems like what will be able to be done with the new canvas and video elements in HTML5. And instead of the whole thing locked into one giant opaque, proprietary Flash movie, it'll be there in the source code of the page - open to be searched, remixed, re-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 talking points. There is also a tab titled Reaction where you can also see what experts have said about specific parts of his speech. There is also a search field to find any words he may have mentioned. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Interested in a critique group
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 members and invited friends and we also have an ongoing performance series called W.I.P. (Wednesdays In Performance / Works In Progress) were we do the shorter version with the audience after the performance. Also, Jen Simmons and I used this with high school students when we ran a media program together. - Verdi -- http://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Interested in a critique group
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
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 couldn't figure out everything. Here are a few questions I have. 1. How do I adjust the sound, so it's the same across the board? 2. How do I add fade ins and fade outs with the sound and control the timing? 3. Do you have any other tips for improving the video? Thanks everyone! Roshani Roshani Kothari http://rkmusings.wordpress.com --- On Tue, 6/2/09, sjs Productions sjsproduct...@gmail.com wrote: From: sjs Productions sjsproduct...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] megaVideo To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2009, 8:15 PM thanks! On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail. com wrote: On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:33 PM, sjs Productions sjsProduction@ gmail.comsjsProduction% 40gmail.com wrote: Do you have any favorites for online video storage where you maintain sole copyright? I don't care if you have to pay, just do not want to share copyright and need to have control over who sees the videos. Blip.tv is a good hosting solution that allows CC licenses and private sharing. Flickr is good for videos under 1 minute with same kind of assurances. Jay -- http://ryanishungry .com http://jaydedman. com http://twitter. com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Interested in a critique group
Here's the process we used http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2003/10/toward_a_proces.php Actually it was only steps 1 - 4. We use this at my theater in the process of creating a work but it can also be used on completed works if you think of the feedback as stuff to consider 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://www.disposablemedia.ca --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert rup...@... wrote: I do like this idea - and if I were actually making any videos at the moment, I'd be up for it. But I'm not. I think the last one was done using a Flashmeeting, and I seem to remember it working quite well. I also remember Verdi (and others) had a set of rules for facilitating the critiquing, that also worked quite well. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 3-Jun-09, at 10:41 PM, Jay dedman wrote: I'm new to this group and glad I found it. Wanted to see if anyone was interested in forming a critique group where we share content and provide constructive feedback and give ideas about the appropriate market. or maybe such a group already exists and someone could steer me toward it. If it's a small group with up to 10 people or so, we could just swap links and shoot messages to each other. If it gets much bigger, might want to break into subgroups by category of content. Anyway, let me know if you're interested or if there is already such a place I could go. Verdi tried this one time, a group where people could safely critique each others work. I think a project like this takes the force of your personality to make it happen. You know, no one wants to do anything till other people are doing it. Maybe people will shout out if interested. jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] Open Video Ideas
Thanks Chris. That's a good focus. My plan for the conference is to have much of the presentation focus on examples - kind of like these imagined future web browsers http://www.vimeo.com/1450211?pg=embedsec=1450211 I'm forever encouraging people to get a Mac but that's unrealistic and also not the ideal solution. As much as I love my Mac, Apple is frustratingly slow to add specific functionality that I would find useful. And often when a 3rd party jumps in with a solution it's often Mac only (so much for collaboration). We really need a set of tools to use that are not delivered 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 anyone to make video ? I think he should talk more about the other side of Neverland.. what does this type of system enable. What are some examples he can show? On Jun 1, 2009, at 10:49 AM, Jay dedman wrote: 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/ its been very difficult to verbalize what we mean by Open Video. A video like this goes a long way to at least setting the right boundaries for discussion. I hope there's a lot of people here who can come to the Open Video Conference. The biggest challenge we have is connecting the developers with the creators. i see a real disconnect in how developers think about what they're building for video creators...and the way video creators actually work. FCP, Avid, Premiere are such good video editing systems because they did years of research and user testing. So that's what we need to start doing. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://michaelverdi.com
[videoblogging] Open Video Ideas
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
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 coming together. Time to sign up. Jay _ The Open Video Conference (June 19-20 in NYC) is asking big questions about the future of video online. As the medium matures, we face a crossroads: will technology and public policy support a more participatory culture—one that encourages and enables free expression and broader cultural engagement? Or will online video become a glorified TV-on-demand service, a central part of a permissions-based culture? Web video holds tremendous potential, but limits on broadband, playback technology, and fair use threaten to undermine the ability of individuals to engage in dialogues in and around this new media ecosystem. Open Video Conference June 19-20, 2009 New York City 40 Washington Square South (NYU Law School) http://openvideoconference.org Bestselling author Clay Shirky will give a talk about the disruptive effects of the web. Harvard Professor Jonathan Zittrain (TBC) will moderate a discussion on industry perspectives with Boxee CEO Avner Ronen, Blip.tv CEO Mike Hudack, and representatives from YouTube and Adobe. Lizz Winstead, activist and co-creator of The Daily Show, will discuss web video as political commentary. Legendary hacker Jon Lech Johansen (DVD Jon) will address data portability. Mozilla, makers of the Firefox web browser, will highlight what it's doing to cement open video standards. You'll hear from Anthony Falzone—executive director at Stanford's Fair Use Project and counsel to graphic artist Shepherd Fairey—about the new battle lines drawn around fair use. Voices from the blogosphere, public media, and traditional media will explore the ways to make their content work in an open video ecosystem, and much more. This is just a peek—have a look at our schedule page for more details: http://www.openvideoconference.org/agenda In addition to two full days of high-profile programming, you can expect a slate of workshops and behind-the-scenes technical working groups with leading edge video developers from free software projects like: VLC, Ogg Theora, GStreamer, Blender, PiTiVi, Miro, Kaltura, Firefox, and many more. This event should interest anyone with a stake in art, culture, technology, policy, journalism, or online business. Organizers and partners include: Participatory Culture Foundation, Yale ISP, iCommons, Kaltura, Mozilla, Harvard's Berkman Center, Free Press, Creative Commons, and more. Register while there's space: http://openvideoconference.org/registration/ Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://michaelverdi.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Student work screening online
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 the school pay for a pro account? Brook On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Jen P proctor...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Jeffrey, Good question - yes, I plan to record it and have it loop after the fact if you can't make the live presentation. Yay! Jen --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Jeffrey Taylor thejeffreytay...@... wrote: Morning Jen – First: Yay. Thanks for doing this. Second: Will the Mogulus channel repeat the screening on a loop after the event itself? Cheers, J 2009/4/20 Jen P proctor...@... Hi all, I want to invite you to join my Cinematic Multimedia class for a special online screening of their work this Thursday, 4/23, at ~4pm (EDT/UTC -0400). We'll be using Mogulus to stream their projects, and if you haven't used it, it's a fun and interactive way to view work online. You can participate in a chat with students and other audience members while watching the show. Students will also appear on camera to introduce their videos, which will include a lot of kinetic typography and motion graphics work, as well as other forms. Just go to: http://www.mogulus.com/cinematicmultimedia We'll get started a few minutes after 4pm. Anyone can watch and participate - you don't need to be registered to join. I anticipate some pretty interesting and inventive projects to be shown! Hope to see you there! Jen Grand Valley State University, Allendale/Grand Rapids, Michigan -- Jeffrey Taylor 912 Cole St, #349 San Francisco, CA 94117 USA Mobile: +14157281264 Fax: +33177722734 http://twitter.com/jeffreytaylor http://organicconversations.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://michaelverdi.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Fun with YouTube's Audio Content ID System
That's a pretty amazing (and thorough) write up. I just uploaded 3 videos to youtube with music on them and they passed. The first two use a track that's a mashup of Radiohead and Jay-Z called Dirt off your andrioid. The 3rd video uses some unmodified pieces of Robot Rock by Daft Punk and even 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://www.csh.rit.edu/~parallax/ I don't consider myself to be much more than a casual YouTube user. I'll upload maybe one or two things a year, but nothing amazing or anything I put any real effort into. For example, one of my videos depicts three members of my high school's marching band dressed in pajamas at an overly girly sleepover. The song used in the background was I Know What Boys Like by The Waitresses. I thought it was hilarious when I was 17, but I had all but forgotten about it five years later. I was caught by surprise one day when I received an automated email from YouTube informing me that my video had a music rights issue and it was removed from the site. I didn't really care. Then a car commercial parody I made (arguably one of my better videos) was taken down because I used an unlicensed song. That pissed me off. I couldn't easily go back and re-edit the video to remove the song, as the source media had long since been archived in a shoebox somewhere. And I couldn't simply re-upload the video, as it got identified and taken down every time. I needed to find a way to outsmart the fingerprinter. I was angry and I had a lot of free time. Not a good combination. I racked my brain trying to think of every possible audio manipulation that might get by the fingerprinter. I came up with an almost-scientific method for testing each modification, and I got to work. -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] work around for no fire wire?
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Michael Sullivan sullele...@gmail.com wrote: 2+ years experience using a macbookpro everyday... macs are way over-hyped/over-priced. but hey, you'll be hip like that. ;) 9 years of making a living using Apple's pro laptop (15 years going back to my Mac SE) and I have to disagree with that vigorously. All the time and frustration I've saved while just being able to get on with getting things done is not to be discounted. I'm not saying they are perfect - they're not but come on. Not wanting to start a platform war... Verdi -- http://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: what is best plug in for posting flv's in your own WP Blog?
It's not all that sophisticated but here's a project that I did that uses actionscript and cue points embeded in the flv files to provide some interactivity. There is nothing installed on the site. Just a swf file played by your browser's flash plugin and loading flv files as necessary. http://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 your flash player to latest version but that has nothing to do with wordpress. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Daryl Urig da...@totalmediasource.comwrote: I mean do both plugins allow you to have full flash functionality? In flash you can use actionscript to create interactive design and video. Can it be interactive? Urig --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Michael Sullivan sullele...@... wrote: Do both of these support the use of actionscript in a wordpress document? please rephrase this. you might mean to say support of flash in wordpress posts. if so, indeed, you can embed video in your wordpress posts. you should probably just use youtube and copy the share embed code into your own blogposts unless you want to distribute your videos on itunes and for various devices... use blip.tv for the latter. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] MP4/MOV Converter To FLV
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Michael Sullivan sullele...@gmail.com wrote: really? interesting. for mac, i thought all you needed was Perian? http://perian.org/ @sull Oh maybe you are right. I thought that just let you watch flv files in qt. I have them both installed so I guess I'm not sure what does what. - Verdi -- http://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] MP4/MOV Converter To FLV
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
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. http://delicious.com/search?context=allp=vloggersinthenewslc=1 Since this comes up, anyone can tag an article in delicious to have it added to the collection :) Jan Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Steve Garfield st...@offonatangent.comwrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, gintaras.miskinis gintaras.miski...@... wrote: Hello, Are there in this group any posts or links to the sources where I could find historical events in video blogging? I tried google'ing, but the most valuable source as I have found is - Jay Dedman's videoblogging book, where, however, I missed history (detailed) chapter... Hi, I've got a couple of recent posts with history in them. Fans, Friends Followers. Building an audience and a creative career in the Digital Age by Scott Kirsner http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2009/03/fans-friends-followers-building.html Interview with Sunny Gault http://stevegarfield.com/Site/About_Me.html Jimmy Fallon talks with Steve Garfield about his new show, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon http://stevegarfield.blogs.com/videoblog/2009/01/jimmy-fallon-talks-with-steve-garfield-about-his-new-show-late-night-with-jimmy-fallon.html --Steve Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://michaelverdi.com
[videoblogging] JW Flash Player - auto HD/SD
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
I haven't done this in a while: http://michaelverdi.com/h264/ Here's one video encoded at 4 different sizes bit-rate combinations. The point is that you can make videos any size you want by limiting the bit-rate and other parameters. H.264 is particularly nice in that it's really efficient, i.e. 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 optimisation as multi-pass encoding can. The first pass gives the encoder information about where it can skimp on the bitrate, hence filesize, giving an advantage.Realtime recording devices dont have that luxury. Cheers Steve Elbows [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://michaelverdi.com
[videoblogging] iMovie Interlacing bug fixed
http://db.tidbits.com/article/10173 -- http://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: This cam will change everything!
If you read the JVC tech stuff (it's buried in there) you find that it records MPEG2 Long GOP at up to 35Mbps (this is basically HDV at a higher bit rate) and then sticks it in a .mov wrapper. So it sounds cool but if it's anything like editing the HDV from my Canon, it's possible but not very enjoyable. Editing HDV is so frustrating that it makes me happy to transcode to an intermediate format. So far the best system like this that I've seen is the Panasonic that shoots on P2 cards but instead of using the P2 cards you use a Firestore drive which gives you the option of recording 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, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:04 AM, Renat Zarbailov innom...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, $4K is a bit steep, but if it proves itself in low light, I think it's a winner... --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert rup...@... wrote: Great. I heard about this camera a while ago - thanks for the reminder. I see they have the pro GY-HM700 coming out this month as well, shoulder mounted, with interchangeable Canon lens and other goodies for the cost of a small car. They say the HM100 will be under $4k, though. Which is still twice as much as I paid for my car. Although not as much as I've paid the mechanic since I bought it. On 23-Mar-09, at 11:26 PM, Renat Zarbailov wrote: If the low-light capability of this camcorder is good, coming out in April, it will change the way we look at professional equipment. http://www.macvideo.tv/camera-technology/features/index.cfm?articleId=109356 On another note, have you seen this? http://tinyurl.com/cuok88 If you spread this video like wildfire, rate it, and or subscribe I will come visit you in your State to say hi, and even film you dancing through the streets for the iDance project... Thanks!!! Renat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Promoting the .mov option online
Yes, the quality of H.264 is better (especially dual-pass) at the same bitrate as a VP6 .flv. Also, most encoding applications will let you limit the bitrate to whatever you want. Want 512kbps? Just set it to 512. Here's a recent video I did encoded at 732kbps (including 128kbps audio). It's 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@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 Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: breakthrough for open video on the web
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 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 certain Linux users may have been passionate about these issues with good reason in the past, but the for the majority ogg theora has just seemed like an added pain with no gain. The relative low cost and ubiquity of mp4 h264, coupled with the fact that its been technological issues that have caused people video woes, rather than legal or control issues, makes it an uphill battle. There has been no big issue which caused the masses to feel stung by proprietary codecs, and use of mp4 and h264 doesnt cost the average person any money in any way they can tell at least. From a web developer and users point of view, a simple video tag for html would be very nice, but until all browsers platforms support at least one format as standard, things like flash are still going to be a safer choice. It may never happen, but who knows in 5-10 years, I woudnt like to predict. If we lived in a world where there was a range of opensource hardware devices that didnt want to get bogged down with patented closed formats, there would be more use for ogg theora? Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Irina irina...@... wrote: interesting we've had a few episoded in ogg but i dont know much about it has anyone else had experience with it On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@... wrote: We've discussed this before: open video codecs. Ogg/theora is the big one people talk about. No one owns it and anyone can modify it. Its like the Wordpress of video codecs. The issue has been that you needed to install software to watch the Ogg format. Plus Ogg has been very difficult to embed well. Supposedly, the next version of Firefox will have Ogg/Theora built in. This means anyone using Firefox will be able to watch an Ogg video with no effort. Still lots of work to get it all to work...but this is pretty significant if true. Jay It was my last day at ISEA 2008 in Singapore and we were supposed to have a dinner with noborder/no one is illegal activists and the panelists of the bordercrossing theme, when jaromil came down the street smiling all over the face: I have great news he screamed. Firefox 3.1 will support OGG Theora! In other words: This is most likely the breakthrough for open video on the web! OGG THEORA is the only open source video encoding suite. It is available for general use after the bitstream format for Theora was frozen Thursday, 2004 July 1. http://theora.org Native support in Firefox means that end-users on proprietary platforms like windows or mac do no longer have to install additional software in order to watch OGG encoded video. If you want to publish a video you can just use the video tag like for any image. There is no need for additional javascript or flash! Slashdot writes: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/31/1752206from=rss Ogg Theora support for the HTML5 video tag is in the Firefox 3.1 nightlies. Theora is the only video format allowed on Wikimedia Commons, so Wikimedia people are pushing Wikipedia readers to download a nightly and try it out. Break it, crash it, report bugs, get it into good shape and nullify Apple and Nokia's FUD the best way possible. They may have gotten the words 'Vorbis' and 'Theora' removed from the HTML5 spec, but the market will tell them when their browsers are sucking. Christopher Blizzard wrote in his blog http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=492 Mozilla is committing to include native support for OGG video and audio in its next release that includes support for the video element tag. (Very likely to be Firefox 3.1 if there no huge change in course.) The code landed for ogg support last night. I suspect that the effects of this will take a long while to be felt but it's a great first step in bringing open video to the web by delivering it to a couple hundred million people around the world. At KEIN.ORG and in many related projects (like the Dictionary of War) we have been insisting on the use of an open video compression format for many years now. Despite all the complaints about additional software installations it seemed crucial to us to give prove of the possibility to publish digital video without the licensing and royalty fees or vendor lock-in associated
Re: [videoblogging] Real Media captioned files
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 the videos to post on Youtube, with open subtitles/captions. If I can get the Real Media caption file (SMIL .rt text file, from what I¹ve read), can I use that file to superimpose subtitles/captions actually on the video? Is there any easy way to do this, or an application that can do this automatically? If I have to, I could cut and paste, cut and paste, each title, and superimpose the titles in FCP, but I¹d rather not. Thanks for any advice. -Richard [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] Firefox ad-blocking extension blocks ad pop-ups in videos
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. -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Backing up your media
I do multiple backups - I have a mirrored raid for video stuff + a time machine backup of that and my system. I've also been using dropbox as a web based backup for all my files that aren't music and video. I also have a couple of stacks of DVDs of even older stuff. I've lost hundreds of GB 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 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 Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: SHVH - Ojai, CA
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://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] More than 10 minutes
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 the problem with videos more than 10 minutes is that alot of people, especially videobloggers who simply talk, get bored after awhile. On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Kevin Lim brainop...@gmail.com wrote: I could try if you like. I still have Director status when Youtube first handed them out. Uploaded a 19min video some Macworlds ago, but haven't really exceeded 10min since. Kevin Lim Cyberculturalist http://theory.isthereason.com This email is: [ ] bloggable [X] ask first [ ] private email locator: ¥¨¥ ¸¨ ¡«µ¡¡«¨ « » » (R) On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:42 AM, @sull sullele...@gmail.comsulleleven%40gmail.com wrote: part 1 and part 2 ? On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Rupert rup...@fatgirlinohio.orgrupert%40fatgirlinohio.org wrote: Apparently if you were approved as a Director before they reduced the limit for Directors, you can still upload long videos. Has anybody here retained that superpower?! Jay and Ryanne have a fantastic 20 minute video that *needs* to be available on YouTube so it can get wider viewing. http://ryanishungry.com/2009/01/21/home-birth-diy-labor-and-delivery/ If not, Jay, you could upload it in 2 parts. Before birth and after...? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 22-Jan-09, at 5:32 PM, Jay dedman wrote: Is there anyway to upload a video longer than 10 minutes on Youtube? I know in the old days, you could become a Director. But is there anyway around this limitation? Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://michaelverdi.com
[videoblogging] New Xacti cameras coming in February
The HD2000 has a cold shoe, mic input and headphone jack. Shoots 1920x1080 60P at 24Mbps. Takes 8 megapixel stills. Will go for $600. Announcement: http://www.sanyo.com/news/2009/01/21-1en.html Hands on video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEbdl4gmHkE Sanyo specs PDF http://www.sanyo.com/news/2009/01/img/090121xacti.pdf - Verdi -- http://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] Screen capture software?
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 free?) screen capture software is. I'm talking about to teach someone how to perform a function on a desktop. Audio is cool, but not necessary; I can add audio afterwards. Thoughts? Thanks! Susan http://vlog.kitykity.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] Interest in a mailing list re online cinema of the experimental/video art/etc. persuasion?
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 remembered this thread afterward so it may be of interest to some here who are looking for a new source of discourse. This list is for those interested in the techniques, style, hardware, economics, sustainability, collaboration theory and anything else related to using the cloud as a primary venue and medium for artists and where the global culture is concentrating. sull On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Brook Hinton bhin...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy Videoblogginglistfolk. I'm considering starting a list for folks making or interested in work made for the web (or using the web as a venue) that is coming from an experimental film / video art / installation direction. The list would focus on aesthetics and theory as well as tech help, economics/sustainability, and anything else about online cinema art and its relationship to its offline context. Would love to hear from anyone who would be interested and also any concerns or desires about such a list. Thanks. -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] MP4 video track missing
Talk about the devil... The first two times I tried to just download that video it crashed FF on Mac, finally got it to download with Safari. Then I had the same results as you except when exporting to whatever the default AVI setting is out of QuickTime Pro. That seemed to work but made the file 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. Finally, I ended up just bringing the files into Premiere one by one, adjusting fps and aspect, re-aligning the audio and video tracks (they somehow got disassociated) and then rendering out from there. Incredible hassle. I'm not sure why Vegas did this, as I was pretty explicit in my compression settings I thought. But this definitely turned me off from that product. Back to Premiere, the devil I know. *Adam Quirk* / Wreck Salvage http://wreckandsalvage.com / qu...@wreckandsalvage.com / +1 551.208.4644 (m) / imbullemhead (aim) On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Rambos Locker rambos_loc...@people.net.auwrote: I suspect it's the aspect ratio or frame rate causing the problem. This happens to me also when ever I try and up load to blip any size other than 4x3 or 16x9 out of Sony Vegas with a weird frame rate. Try rendering out in the aspect ratio it was recorded in or try one of these at 30fps 640 x 480 480 x 360 320 x 240 My solution was to render out to Huffy then convert to VP6 flv format in Sorensen Squeeze, then up that to blip which will NOT re-transcode the flv file. Much better quality, but this may not be your solution. Cheers Rambo http://rambos-locker.blogspot.com -Original Message- From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:videoblogg...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Adam Quirk Sent: Wednesday, 7 January 2009 9:27 AM To: Videobloggers Subject: [videoblogging] MP4 video track missing Hi all, I've been trying to transcode a batch of MP4s that were exported from Vegas Pro as h264/AAC. The strange thing is they play fine for me, but when I upload them to Blip, their server can't transcode them. So I tried recompressing them myself in QT Pro and the output has no video track. Even viewing the info for the mp4 in QT Pro shows a video track with n/a as filesize. So strange. Hoping that Jake or one of you other video codec masters can shine some light on this. Here is a sample of the videos in question: http://360.malltale http://360.malltalent.com/media/arthur_pendragon.mp4 nt.com/media/arthur_pendragon.mp4 And a screenshot: http://360.malltale http://360.malltalent.com/media/mp4_example.jpg nt.com/media/mp4_example.jpg And the readout from file analysis: SUPER (c) - Multimedia Analysis Box * (**by **http://mediainfo. http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net sourceforge.net) * Analyzing the source file arthur_pendragon.mp4 General #0 *Complete name :* C:\Documents and Settings\Quirk\Desktop\Mall Talent\Performance Videos\arthur_pendragon.mp4 *Format :* MPEG-4 *Format/Info :* ISO 14496-1 version 2 *Format/Family :* MPEG-4 *File size :* 15.2 MiB *PlayTime :* 1mn 260ms *Bit rate :* 2114 Kbps *StreamSize :* 43.5 KiB *Encoded date :* UTC 2008-12-13 17:52:41 *Tagged date :* UTC 2008-12-13 17:52:41 Video #0 *Codec :* H.264 *Codec/Info :* H.264 (3GPP) *PlayTime :* 1mn 260ms *Bit rate :* 1980 Kbps *Width :* 360 pixels *Height :* 240 pixels *Display Aspect ratio :* 1.500 *Frame rate :* 59.940 fps *Bits/(Pixel*Frame) :* 0.375 *StreamSize :* 14.2 MiB *Language :* English *Encoded date :* UTC 2008-12-13 17:52:41 *Tagged date :* UTC 2008-12-13 17:52:41 Audio #0 *Codec :* AAC LC *Codec/Info :* AAC Low Complexity *PlayTime :* 1mn 245ms *Bit rate :* 128 Kbps *Bit rate mode :* CBR *Channel(s) :* 2 channels *Channel positions :* L R *Sampling rate :* 48 KHz *Resolution :* 16 bits *StreamSize :* 941 KiB *Language :* English *Encoded date :* UTC 2008-12-13 17:52:41 *Tagged date :* UTC 2008-12-13 17:52:41 *Adam Quirk* / Wreck Salvage http://wreckandsalv http://wreckandsalvage.com age.com / qu...@wreckandsalva mailto:quirk%40wreckandsalvage.comquirk%2540wreckandsalvage.com ge.com / +1 551.208.4644 (m) / imbullemhead (aim) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] Making the most of h.264
You don't want to render your file twice if possible. When you edit in Sony Vegas you want to edit in the codec you shot, i.e. DV. Then export it from Vegas in that same codec (effectively making an exact copy) and then compress it using H.264. If you are working with HD footage you probably have to transcode it before editing. I use a Mac and shoot in HDV. I hate editing HDV so I transcode it on the fly to the Apple Intermediate Codec when I capture it in FCP. I haven't tried editing AVCHD but from my understanding it's not great for editing either. I don't know what the options are in Vegas but transcoding in FCP is done at such a high bit rate with a great codec that it's essentially lossless (it's not actually lossless but the differences must be minuscule). Either way, when I'm done editing, I export in the codec that I used for editing (I archive those files on my hard drive 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...@gmail.com wrote: I own up to a lot of confusion. When you follow the dictates of various videoblogging expertise the h.264 codec is a standard recommendation. Not h.263 or just MPEG.4 but it has to be the Real McCoy. Assuming that's correct I have a couple of questions: (1) Can a file only be rendered to h.264 by using QuickTime Pro? (2) Since I edit in Sony Vegas (Platinum 9.0)I have to render my video file in SV first BEFORE processing it in QuickTime. So what is the best format to render the file in Sony Vegas (or some other video editor) before importing it into Quicktime for exporting as .mov? (3) Mac snobbery aside, since I render a file twice, this seems a lot of extra effort and lot more time for the sake of image quality and iTunes download options. dave riley Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Macbook pro for video editing
Yeah, hard drives. Over the years I've lost a pretty good amount of things. A couple of weeks ago I had FCP just randomly freeze while capturing video and it messed my drive up. I had to use the special scavenge mode in Disk Warrior to fix it. So now I have a NewerTech mirrored raid so everything is written to two drives at once. Then if one drive fails you can replace it while still having access to everything on the other drive. But that still doesn't help if you have something happen like my FCP weirdness a couple of weeks ago. So I have yet another drive that backs up my computer and my 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 had had no problem with Lacie¹s until this 1TB beast. It hasn¹t died, but crashes my Finder all the time. Google searches showed that Lacie¹s cause many crashes. Not good. I keep it off till I do a major backup, then turn it off immediately after. I have 2 other drives, one 4 years old, that works flawlessly. Gtech had been recommended to me by someone else before. I will look at Drobo next... Thanks. FWIW at Smashface we had a G-Tech 160gb drive that died after only a few weeks - RMA'd for a replacement drive that ended up being flaky, too. They are good looking drives, but I'm not too keen on them. If you're looking for something a little more robust, flexible, etc take a look at Drobo: http://drobo.com/Products/drobo.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] Macbook pro for video editing
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 editing with FCP. Anything I should know about? I have a 4 year old G5 duo tower now, so am thinking a prezzie for me would be nice this time of year. And a portable video editing machine would be super nice - if it could do the work. Can it handle HD? And what's the best external harddrive to get? Can you edit with all your clips on the external? So far I always keep mine on the tower. Thx a bunch. Irene Duma Strange Duck Media Web Design and Creative Marketing Blogging easy computer tips http://www.strangeduck.com/blog and comedy at http://www.bittertonic.com St. John¹s Address: C.709-699-8205 Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] No blogging: different visual creations
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 considering is still using my WP backend, and having a front page which was big image map with various hotspots leading to different videos, categories pages - either a picture that I could either draw scan make amendments to, or a collage I'd make in Illustrator/Photoshop. I've made some sites for clients like this - eg http:// www.sydneyraewhite.com - it'd be like a manual version of your drag drop desktop idea, Jay. im looking forward t what people come up with. http://www.vbs.tv/ is another example of making the page looks interesting. (though i hate the autoload video). the whole background image is part of the actual function of the page. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] Youtube adds search to embedded videos
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, then on the user, with creators coming in a poor third. You can see this in everything - from their codec video quality to site structure to the way their player embeds and the watermark. On 11-Dec-08, at 8:04 AM, Jay dedman wrote: Rick rey has an interesting take on youtube adding search box to embedded videos. http://blog.rickrey.com/post/63100432/regarding-the-new-youtube- search-box-in-embedded-videos -- http://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] Dropping frames, long firewire?
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: Have you tried the setup with a shorter firewire with the same (or different) results? If the problem solves itself with shorter firewire, then some kind of amp in the line may be just the thing. Peter @ Gotham Sound can probably lend you one for an hour to see if that solves your issue. Do you have the capacity to run one or both Windows Vegas on the internal hard drive? if so, try one, the other then both on the internal drive, see if that solves the issue. If that doesn't work, try the setup having moved the firewire so it runs perpendicular as it crosses the power cables. I don't think your cable run fits the problem you describe - rather, the bad result of such interference would be electromagnetic 'futz' to the picture and/or audio. That said, I would run audio / video cables so they make perpendicular crossings of power cables (and avoiding power cable coils altogether) in any and every event as a preventative measure. Better to make a longer electrical run than a longer firewire run... Jan On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Adam Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hey all, I'm running into some frame drop issues with a live capture setup I'm doing. I'm running a 25' firewire alongside some power and HDMI cables, from my HV30 shooting in SD to Vegas Pro on a Vista 64bit PC. I'm running a couple fast SATAs, one running the software and windows, and one capturing the media. And all other programs are shut down. Questions: Is the length an issue? Is there a possibility of interference from the other cables being next to it? Is there a way around either of these? Do I need some sort of amplifier for the firewire? This is probably a question for another forum, but I know a lot of you folks have messed with this sort of stuff before. Halp. AQ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] tripod advice
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 quality lingers long after the sweetness of a low price. Don't go cheap, a tripod will be a good investment and will last. The cost will be offset by the longevity. Jeffrey On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Richard Amirault [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: - Original Message - From: miglsd27 I can easily pick a cheap tripod, actually I did just that from my sisters room, but my question is: what cheap tripod would you recomend, that has vertical corection? The type of thing found in expensice video tripods, is any cheap manufacturer doing that? I hate crooked horizons... First, I'm not sure what you mean by vertical correction. At first I thought you meant an extendable center column, but reading further I don't think you meant that. Second, there are *tons* of cheap tripods out there. How cheap is cheap? AND, most importantly, for video especially, you don't want a cheap tripod. They are crap and will give you headaches and poor performance (jerky pans for one thing). If your horizon is not level you can extend or retract one of the tripod legs to correct for that. Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jeffrey [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] Defending Videographer's Rights in Court
I've done lots of work for free over the years and some that wasn't supposed to be free but ended up being free. My rule is kind of like the lending money to friends and family - don't do it unless you are completely ok with not being paid back. If I'm going to do some work for free I try to make sure it's a fun/interesting/cool project. - Verdi
