[videoblogging] GENCON Indy movie rooms
we might be helping find stuff to show to 30,000 grown up dungeons and dragons fans. anybody out there want to talk? sci-fi and gaming themes preferred, but who knows?
[videoblogging] Re: blip search question - tags produce hits
i added tags (under Catagorize in blip) and descriptions to only 12 of our 180 clips and already have 200 more hits from blip.tv and 'Feeds than i had two days ago. cool. and i changed the copyright for those 12 clips to creative commons 2.o with no derivatives/commercial use, so feel free to decorate your website with some of our pretty colors and fast moving action. and share in our income stream - we have created an affiliates program. http://www.dyna-flix.com/order.html#affiliate --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, liza jean dared...@... wrote: among our new average of 1400 or so views a day, yesterday were 11 views that found us thru blip.tv itself. then i searched 'superheroine' and saw 4 of our 170 or so clips listed. so i spent some time reading a lot of blip site info, but did not find any clues as to how blip logs search terms describing a show. so which box should i be putting search terms into? description?
[videoblogging] make some of our money for yourself - we have an affiliates program!
i knew i loved e-junkie.com. ya'll can post a link to our order page on your site and get 10% of what we get. http://www.dyna-flix.com/order.html#affiliate you need a paypal account so we can pay you.
[videoblogging] blip search question
among our new average of 1400 or so views a day, yesterday were 11 views that found us thru blip.tv itself. then i searched 'superheroine' and saw 4 of our 170 or so clips listed. so i spent some time reading a lot of blip site info, but did not find any clues as to how blip logs search terms describing a show. so which box should i be putting search terms into? description?
[videoblogging] Re: blip search question
thanks rupert. it would seem i had never filled in the description on the main show page. and when you edit a posted video , 'catagorize' is where the tags get made. next i will learn how to use the copy paste to a blog. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert Howe rup...@... wrote: I would imagine description and tags. On 21-Mar-09, at 12:41 PM, liza jean wrote: among our new average of 1400 or so views a day, yesterday were 11 views that found us thru blip.tv itself. then i searched 'superheroine' and saw 4 of our 170 or so clips listed. so i spent some time reading a lot of blip site info, but did not find any clues as to how blip logs search terms describing a show. so which box should i be putting search terms into? description? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: it might seem things occasionally work without effort on one's part
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jeffrey Taylor thejeffreytay...@... wrote: Congrats! Without going through specifics, were you happy with the offer's value? we set the value of our work at five dollars a fifteen minute download, twenty for a 45 minute dvd, twenty percent off orders over a hundred bucks. we offered the entire collection at twentyfive percent off list. we think setting the value on our work is our job, not any customer's. 2009/3/11 liza jean dared...@... posted one vid to tubemogul.com and got a request for a price on the entire colleciton within minutes. of course, no response within minutes on our response. -- 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]
[videoblogging] it might seem things occasionally work without effort on one's part
posted one vid to tubemogul.com and got a request for a price on the entire colleciton within minutes. of course, no response within minutes on our response.
[videoblogging] Re: Revisiting the PPV question...
hey Chris have you looked at e-junkie.com ? they charge, but you might like how it works. you pay rent by the gig no matter how many downloads you send out. we have about 70% of our library - the hundreds of promo clips - parked there as free downloads. the other 30% is the whole 15 minute chapters for which one pays five bucks. we have some cheaper items as well. as long as the customer is spending something all the freebies can be tacked on to the order page. over the holidays we were giving away a particular 15 minute chapter and e-junkie imposed a rule of no more than 100 such freebies a day. other than that we have not encountered any limit on how many gigs get sent out as downloads, we pay the same rent on what we are storing. free sites that take a bite forever cost more than this. the more product you sell the more you have to give them. you are stuck paying the moneychangers a piece of each order, no point in adding an avoidable cost. five or 10 bucks a month will let you try it. one or three sales should pay for that. they take paypal and googlecheckout and others we have yet to try. wonder which one they take from japan? hmmm. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Chris cjburd...@... wrote: Thanks, Rick. I have to admit, I'm a little intimidated by that iTunes sign-up form. It all seems geared toward people selling music content, so I'm not quite sure how to approach it as a provider of video content. Chris --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rick Rey rick@ wrote: Hey Chris, iTunes is a great platform to sell video content. You have to make it through the review process, though: http://www.apple.com/itunes/contentproviders -Rick --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Chris cjburdick@ wrote: Hey all, A while ago, I asked here about third party pay-per-download systems and the main ones I was pointed to were Show Taxi and Mixiv. They both seem perfectly fine (though I wouldn't mind hearing about people's experiences with them) but they both require an up- front fee if you actually want to use them to sell any video content. Right now, given my finances - or lack thereof - I'd prefer to find a service that simply skimmed a percentage of my profits from the downloads, rather than requiring me to fork over any cash in advance. I know that's not the ideal situation for long-term earning, but I figure I can always switch later. Anybody know of any such beast? Thanks, Chris http://www.youtube.com/user/penelopespantyhose
[videoblogging] selling in japan
anybody selling there? we have a few steady customers there. a new one has offered to front for us in japan. believes japanese buyers prefer on-island sites to those sited anywhere in the rest of the world. anybody been there done that and have a tale to tell?
[videoblogging] Re: Micropayments (part 81)
thank you so much for this post. of course, having been deleted some dozen times from youtube i cannot apply. anybody wanna lend me their partner account with youtube long enough for me to fill out the application and get seen by those managing this new app? i'll give it back, without having uploaded anything at all - don't want to get you deleted. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Kevin Lim brainop...@... wrote: Since it's related to micropayments, Joi Ito twittered that Youtube is implementing Creative Commons as well as Google Checkout for Youtube partners to sell video downloads! We previously discussed how they would likely not do it, but looks like they just did! http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=Mp1pWVLh3_Y Kevin Lim Cyberculturalist http://theory.isthereason.com This email is: [ ] bloggable[X] ask first [ ] private email locator: âââââ¦â â`ââ£â`â`ââ âââ©ââ©ââ On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:06 AM, liza jean dared...@... wrote: we here at dyna-flix.com, being ever the contrarians, just had our best ever month of sales. most of which comes in $5 individual transactions. we have as yet to have any relations with advertisers. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Brook Hinton bhinton@ wrote: Free is a right is, for better or worse, the mantra of the generation coming up now, and one can't bend reality, only innovate within/around it . best of luck convinvcing all parties concerned to make your life free. this can only be achieved by refusing to validate someone else's expense. anyone who hopes to be comfortable for the next 10 years had best be willing to get their hands dirty in the old fashioned way of making something new. micheal moorecock wrote some lovely books - 'dancers at the end of time'- about what people want after thousands of years of everything being free. you might like it.
[videoblogging] Re: Micropayments (part 81)
we here at dyna-flix.com, being ever the contrarians, just had our best ever month of sales. most of which comes in $5 individual transactions. we have as yet to have any relations with advertisers. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Brook Hinton bhin...@... wrote: Free is a right is, for better or worse, the mantra of the generation coming up now, and one can't bend reality, only innovate within/around it . best of luck convinvcing all parties concerned to make your life free. this can only be achieved by refusing to validate someone else's expense. anyone who hopes to be comfortable for the next 10 years had best be willing to get their hands dirty in the old fashioned way of making something new. micheal moorecock wrote some lovely books - 'dancers at the end of time'- about what people want after thousands of years of everything being free. you might like it.
[videoblogging] Re: More than 10 minutes
how long was the very first moving picture ever made? if memory serves, it was a few seconds of a racehorse . . . and people had to learn how to hold the photos in their head to make sense of the assemblage. time and technology go hand in hand. i want to look at these long videos mentioned here but my air card is not as interested . . . --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman jay.ded...@... wrote: Jay, thanks for posting that link. I agree that it would not have been so moving if anything was left out. It's actually a girl who made the video. 8-) http://vimeo.com/2371774 Mistake on my part. Big up to the ladies. Amazing work. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] supreme court today, my life 30 years ago
today, according to NPR, the Supreme court of these United States for the third time this year sent back to a lower court a dismissal of case about a retaliatory firing on the basis of sexual harrasment. 30 years ago this happened to me. i was 22, and, well, 22 then. no notice was taken. well , events prove some official notice was taken, but none ever reached my bank account in any useful sort of way. the worm does turn, but the accounting is fuzzy. so, do what you gotta do, no matter what you do the accounting will be fuzzy. it's not about what you make, but about what you keep that's any use to you.
[videoblogging] let's just be perfectly clear about the past - i know, knot possible yet change
yet change occurs. imagine being the smallest of seven. imagine being small whilst changining things. imagine being so small, forever, that changing things seems beyond you. imagine changing things anyway.
[videoblogging] Re: More than 10 minutes
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman jay.ded...@... wrote: someone is a good storyteller, I want the videos to be longer. So people's attention span isnt short. People's ability to sit through crap is short. Jay with, as of today, 51 fifteen minute chapters on the market, if i can send 20 seconds of our best it might get blasted to some few million interested parties who subscribed to a curated list. with our URL intact. and today i found a lovely clue to our pirates/stalkers.
[videoblogging] Re: More than 10 minutes
hours long and thrilling . . . --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Brook Hinton bhin...@... wrote: The attention span of viewers on-line is very short and the videos should be short. , The whole point of not having to answer to corporate sponsors and its-only-about-money gatekeepers is we DON'T have to appeal to everyone, to answer to anyone, or to alter our vision to get hits. Long form is the online frontier. Those with short attention spans can stick with their short clips. I'm happy to watch somethings hours long online as long as it is challenging me, enlightening me, and/or aesthetically thrilling me. 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]
[videoblogging] Re: . . . and the Curation Economy - youtube hits the delete key again
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Milt Lee m...@... wrote: Steve, What you say about value is true - of course if a piece is good, it's worth lots more than 2 cents. But that's not the point. The point is - is anybody getting anything for their work? yes, we are getting micropayments for our work. we have customers who use paypal, but google checkout seems more popular in third world countries. yes, we sell all over the world, and paypal does not trade in some currencies. we get $5 per item. google checkout has a special catagory for 'micropayments', lets us keep about 20 cents paypal would have taken for the same sale. this profit stream becomes a target for competitors. we routinely get deleted from youtube - the exact same material that is on display at blip gets deleted from youtube. http://thedaredolldilemmas.blip.tv so we got deleted again this week. time to create some new aliases and start again on youtube. if anyone out there would care to add some of our videos to an existing youtube account, i am curious to see how our stalker would handle that.
[videoblogging] youtube hit the delete key again
sigh . . . the king is dead long live the king. http://thedaredolldilemmas.blip.tv
[videoblogging] Re: Profit sharing for film crews
thanks for the address, jay. guess what - we are both in southwest michigan! --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, liza jean dared...@... wrote: your email address is not available and your websites don't have a contact page - unless i have to have an account with you . . . --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson k9disc@ wrote: Liza Jean, I guess the profit sharing could work both ways. As a production company, you are killing yourself with the presentation of your site. It just doesn't look serious. (just being frank here...). I think I could help you with the presentation of dyna-flix.com. There is no reason for your site to not look incredible. You've got all that scantily clad talent, and it's just sitting there in the middle of a white page. If you had a better layout and design, and asked people to cruise around and check things out I bet you'd be doing much better. Please take a look in my signature for examples of my work. If you are interested, give me a shout privately. That goes for anyone else too. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.com http://pawsitivevybe.com http://rescuedogstv.com http://k9athlete.com On Jan 9, 2009, at 11:14 AM, liza jean wrote: there are two of us at dyna-flix.com and after a year and a half of hard work and 50 fifteen minute chapters on the market as $5 downloads or 3 on a DVD for $20 we were up to $100 a day in sales. average. down a little with all the fear out there about money. most pay sites in our niche sell subscriptions. we prefer individual sales with active feedback from our customers thru a guestbook and a yahoo group. we tend to get our money back for each chapter in the first 48 hours we have it on the market. so we own our library free and clear. but we don't own much else but a pole barn. we currently run advert free on blip as our 150 or so clips there are nothing more than commercials for our work - getting some 1200 views a day. but once we finish the toned down (ever so slightly) set of 6 shows for australian broadcast we might park them on blip and troll for a sponsor. we had invited a third artist into this project. he helped us get up and running but dropped out. we'd take him back in a heartbeat, but he can't wait for the money like we can. mind you during this year and a half we have been deleted from youtube some dozen times in spite of millions of channel views with no complaints. seems it might be industrial sabotage of some sort - one is likely to find hot competion in a well funded niche. this year i hope to add ringtones and wallpapers to our product line, see about getting into the i-tunes store, and sacrifice 40% of the sale price to sell some more of our commercials on clips4sale. we are maybe getting close 1000 true fans level where we will venture into the exciting world of profit. the above is offered in hopes it will help someone else believe in themselves enough to try. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson k9disc@ wrote: I don't care about people doing this for me, it's not about dog sports. It's not about me. My stuff was only an example. This is about the concept of profit sharing with producers and supplementing income of video producers and giving much needed help to community developers. It's the idea that I'm pushing, I don't want to push anybody into doing anything for me, but I do think this idea has merit and am a bit confused about the lack of interest on the list here. I hate this kind of communication, email lists, it's so easy to get a mixed message. I do like the latter part of your post, Jay, and think you are on it. I don't think Rosenbaum's piece was very groundbreaking either, other than the fact that it was in print (large blog) and it reinforced what I've believed and have been in the process of doing for a couple years now. And it did so with a little bit of anecdotal evidence and experience. I'm not used to seeing my thoughts and ideas in media until several years after they develop. You are right about the passionate hobbyist supporting their community, but I think it goes further than that. I think we're all about to realize just how important community is. We've been having our eyes opened it here Michigan for a few years now and as the economy takes it's final spins around the toilet bowl we're all going to get a look at how worthless our lives as consumers feeding an economy have become and how damaging it was to our society. We're all going to want to belong to and we're all going to *need* to belong to something in the near future. I
[videoblogging] Re: Profit sharing for film crews
your email address is not available and your websites don't have a contact page - unless i have to have an account with you . . . --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson k9d...@... wrote: Liza Jean, I guess the profit sharing could work both ways. As a production company, you are killing yourself with the presentation of your site. It just doesn't look serious. (just being frank here...). I think I could help you with the presentation of dyna-flix.com. There is no reason for your site to not look incredible. You've got all that scantily clad talent, and it's just sitting there in the middle of a white page. If you had a better layout and design, and asked people to cruise around and check things out I bet you'd be doing much better. Please take a look in my signature for examples of my work. If you are interested, give me a shout privately. That goes for anyone else too. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.com http://pawsitivevybe.com http://rescuedogstv.com http://k9athlete.com On Jan 9, 2009, at 11:14 AM, liza jean wrote: there are two of us at dyna-flix.com and after a year and a half of hard work and 50 fifteen minute chapters on the market as $5 downloads or 3 on a DVD for $20 we were up to $100 a day in sales. average. down a little with all the fear out there about money. most pay sites in our niche sell subscriptions. we prefer individual sales with active feedback from our customers thru a guestbook and a yahoo group. we tend to get our money back for each chapter in the first 48 hours we have it on the market. so we own our library free and clear. but we don't own much else but a pole barn. we currently run advert free on blip as our 150 or so clips there are nothing more than commercials for our work - getting some 1200 views a day. but once we finish the toned down (ever so slightly) set of 6 shows for australian broadcast we might park them on blip and troll for a sponsor. we had invited a third artist into this project. he helped us get up and running but dropped out. we'd take him back in a heartbeat, but he can't wait for the money like we can. mind you during this year and a half we have been deleted from youtube some dozen times in spite of millions of channel views with no complaints. seems it might be industrial sabotage of some sort - one is likely to find hot competion in a well funded niche. this year i hope to add ringtones and wallpapers to our product line, see about getting into the i-tunes store, and sacrifice 40% of the sale price to sell some more of our commercials on clips4sale. we are maybe getting close 1000 true fans level where we will venture into the exciting world of profit. the above is offered in hopes it will help someone else believe in themselves enough to try. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson k9disc@ wrote: I don't care about people doing this for me, it's not about dog sports. It's not about me. My stuff was only an example. This is about the concept of profit sharing with producers and supplementing income of video producers and giving much needed help to community developers. It's the idea that I'm pushing, I don't want to push anybody into doing anything for me, but I do think this idea has merit and am a bit confused about the lack of interest on the list here. I hate this kind of communication, email lists, it's so easy to get a mixed message. I do like the latter part of your post, Jay, and think you are on it. I don't think Rosenbaum's piece was very groundbreaking either, other than the fact that it was in print (large blog) and it reinforced what I've believed and have been in the process of doing for a couple years now. And it did so with a little bit of anecdotal evidence and experience. I'm not used to seeing my thoughts and ideas in media until several years after they develop. You are right about the passionate hobbyist supporting their community, but I think it goes further than that. I think we're all about to realize just how important community is. We've been having our eyes opened it here Michigan for a few years now and as the economy takes it's final spins around the toilet bowl we're all going to get a look at how worthless our lives as consumers feeding an economy have become and how damaging it was to our society. We're all going to want to belong to and we're all going to *need* to belong to something in the near future. I think that profit sharing for niche content is a viable method for keeping a cottage studio afloat and for getting great content for niche communities. Creating daylight between spectator quality video and decent production has to happen in order to get the concept of pay to play video
[videoblogging] Re: Profit sharing for film crews
there are two of us at dyna-flix.com and after a year and a half of hard work and 50 fifteen minute chapters on the market as $5 downloads or 3 on a DVD for $20 we were up to $100 a day in sales. average. down a little with all the fear out there about money. most pay sites in our niche sell subscriptions. we prefer individual sales with active feedback from our customers thru a guestbook and a yahoo group. we tend to get our money back for each chapter in the first 48 hours we have it on the market. so we own our library free and clear. but we don't own much else but a pole barn. we currently run advert free on blip as our 150 or so clips there are nothing more than commercials for our work - getting some 1200 views a day. but once we finish the toned down (ever so slightly) set of 6 shows for australian broadcast we might park them on blip and troll for a sponsor. we had invited a third artist into this project. he helped us get up and running but dropped out. we'd take him back in a heartbeat, but he can't wait for the money like we can. mind you during this year and a half we have been deleted from youtube some dozen times in spite of millions of channel views with no complaints. seems it might be industrial sabotage of some sort - one is likely to find hot competion in a well funded niche. this year i hope to add ringtones and wallpapers to our product line, see about getting into the i-tunes store, and sacrifice 40% of the sale price to sell some more of our commercials on clips4sale. we are maybe getting close 1000 true fans level where we will venture into the exciting world of profit. the above is offered in hopes it will help someone else believe in themselves enough to try. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson k9d...@... wrote: I don't care about people doing this for me, it's not about dog sports. It's not about me. My stuff was only an example. This is about the concept of profit sharing with producers and supplementing income of video producers and giving much needed help to community developers. It's the idea that I'm pushing, I don't want to push anybody into doing anything for me, but I do think this idea has merit and am a bit confused about the lack of interest on the list here. I hate this kind of communication, email lists, it's so easy to get a mixed message. I do like the latter part of your post, Jay, and think you are on it. I don't think Rosenbaum's piece was very groundbreaking either, other than the fact that it was in print (large blog) and it reinforced what I've believed and have been in the process of doing for a couple years now. And it did so with a little bit of anecdotal evidence and experience. I'm not used to seeing my thoughts and ideas in media until several years after they develop. You are right about the passionate hobbyist supporting their community, but I think it goes further than that. I think we're all about to realize just how important community is. We've been having our eyes opened it here Michigan for a few years now and as the economy takes it's final spins around the toilet bowl we're all going to get a look at how worthless our lives as consumers feeding an economy have become and how damaging it was to our society. We're all going to want to belong to and we're all going to *need* to belong to something in the near future. I think that profit sharing for niche content is a viable method for keeping a cottage studio afloat and for getting great content for niche communities. Creating daylight between spectator quality video and decent production has to happen in order to get the concept of pay to play video working. Getting past the flash in the pan YT viral score / instant celebrity thing has to happen as well. Thanks for the thoughts Jay. Enlightening as always. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 7, 2009, at 10:00 AM, Jay dedman wrote: I don't want to beat a dead horse, though, and I can see that there's little interest on the list in entertaining the concept of making money through profit sharing with community developers and small businesses. It's a bummer though. It could be the big thing that makes producing independent video profitable, or at least not a total money pit. It also could put different kinds of creative people in the same room and on the same page fostering who knows what kind of exciting possibilities. I think you just need to change your strategy. Why approach this group who aren't passionate about dog training? Just not something I want to spend my time doing for any amount of money. BUT I'm sure you know a whole community of dog lovers who now have access to cameras. Harness them to gather video for you.
[videoblogging] Re: Profit sharing for film crews
we use e-junkie.com for our digital download provider. monthly rent for your library no matter how many (or few) you sell. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson k9d...@... wrote: I'm kicking around an idea for a pay to play jam session video application. World class disc dog events are held in every region of the country several times per year. The same can be said of agility and flyball tournaments as well as rally-obedience and dock diving. I'd like to sell good footage (or production pieces) a la carte, pay to play-style with revenue share for the talent. I think that's pretty much the concept. I could see 10,000 users on my site when completed. With high quality content, I think it's a sure thing. Training video's $5-10 for 5-10 minutes. Jamming videos 2 minutes - $2-4, or god forbid we make them collectors items! I'll also be bringing in vendors for hard-goods sales - all the vendors and trainers and businesses that service the dog sport community and taking a cut of their sales generated by the site. Big money advertising is an afterthought. So, my question is would any of you be interested in profit sharing for projects such as a training video or jam session (could be 10 great jam sessions in a big contest), and if so, how do we get working together? I know it's not much money straight away, but at $1 profit a video, if you had 30 videos that did 1000 views, that'd be $30k. If the right niche markets were hit with the right people setting up communities and creating content this could be a viable alternative to corporate media. Any thoughts? Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Really Great Article on Media Trends and the Curation Economy
thanx for the article. so here's a new year resolution for we at dyna-flix.com - get on a lot more lists. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jeffrey Taylor thejeffreytay...@... wrote: All of you folks out there wanting to make money off of web-based video, take a look at Steve Rosenbaum's article here. His #1 prediction is that the Curation Economy will boom in 2009. Who are the curators? Anyone. I just wish the money-holders weren't so damn slow on the uptake. Imagine what would be possible if poeple got this 3 or 4 years ago? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-rosenbaum/5-trends-that-will- change_b_155119.html -- 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]
[videoblogging] on the hunt for pirates - anybody been there done that?
we just give so much away for free that i never thought to look for pirates filesharing that which we hope to sell. i googled daredoll torrents and got some multi-layer links starting at filesharing sites that didn't seem worth following, and some links to making sure you don't get caught filesharing that i intend to follow. and some active links to stuff we let roam as it may - with our URL all over it. our version of advertising.
[videoblogging] Re: Is Blip.tv down?
so it wasn't just my imagination - 5 am this morning couldn't get into my stuff either. but it is all there now, and we racked up some 1800 views yesterday. so whatever it was didn't last long. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, wazman_au elefant...@... wrote: Anyone else seeing this? For me their site is going up and down, and videos/players are gone from my site. Waz http://www.crashtestkitchen.com
[videoblogging] happy holidays, world! The Daredoll Dilemmas 13c for free!
and thanks to jay for suggesting we post an entire chapter of our work on blip.tv. we thought this holiday week was a good time. http://blip.tv/file/1609497/ or go to dyna-flix.com and download as many free copies as like.
[videoblogging] Re: DIY video ads
sounds like my kinda thing, but i can't ping how about a way to reach you? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Josh Paul joshp...@... wrote: Hi all, My company just put out a DIY video ad creation tool. In a nutshell you sign up, put one line of javascript on your site, and enable visitors to create video ads directly on your site with money coming directly to you. You have complete control over the ad packages offered (i.e. $100 per week, $20 CPM, $0.50 CPC) and the look of the tool (via css). If you'd like to give it a shot on your site, ping me and I'll give you the URL to signup. Josh (Yes, it's been a while since I've posted/responded. And, well, some of you may view this as spamish. But, I sincerely hope some of you find this of use.)
[videoblogging] Re: Dropping frames, long firewire?
way back in 1980 when i was working on the computer animation for TRON we had frame drop problems every time the electroplating factory sharing the same power grid with us turned their machines on or off. you might want to isolate your power supply - a dedicated circuit? or you might want to separate your cables - put the firewire a few feet away from the power cables. back in the day we took our ribbon cables to a place that wrapped them in a copper braid for electical shielding. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Adam Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amazingly, this problem decided to solve itself. I have no idea how or why, but I have no more latency issues. Thanks for the help, universe. On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 5:25 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 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: A Youtube to Blip Transaction
maybe i need to read the youtube TOS again, or maybe there is just a page they don't publish. but i didn't see a TOS violation in this Danish vlog. mind you, i see plenty of TOS violations on youtube, and same for yahoo groups - so i am not catagorically blind to such things. does this group have any access to Obamama's youtube advisors? do you suppose he will make it a Cabinet level post? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's an example of Youtube censoring a video without any explanation. So it's good there are other more worldly video sites like blip. see below. As Liza Jean has mentioned her videos being taken down from Youtube, they should have a more transparent system. Jay ons, 26 11 2008 kl. 07:17 -0500, skrev Carsten Agger: Danish writer Rune Engelbreth Larsen has teamed up with photographer Jacob Holdt (of American Pictures fame, http://www.american-pictures.com/english/intro/index.html) to produce an open letter and YouTube video with an urgent appeal to president- elect Barack Obama concerning the rampant racism and xenophobia in Denmark The appeal and YouTube video may be found here: http://www.panhumanism.com/letter_to_obama.php http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-6YcD-LZno Alas, the video was CENSORED by YouTube after about 24 hours. According to the author, the video was removed from YouTube with no explanation apart from this rather terse note: The following video(s) from your account have been disabled for violation of the YouTube Community Guidelines: Letter to Obama: On Danish Racism. I suppose Google/YouTube have received complaints from persons who do not sympathize with the video's (truthful) picture of Denmark today. I find such censorship rather unacceptable. The video is now online via another service and may once again be seen at http://www.panhumanism.com/letter_to_obama.php and http://blip.tv/file/1515612/ Thanks for your patience. Please help spread the word. -- Blog: http://www.modspil.dk http://www.faklen.dk
[videoblogging] Re: A Youtube to Blip Transaction
Blip rocks - but youtube serves a god purpose, too. a god purpose? please, don't give them any ideas. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, numbers-wise, if someone wants to make it big with videoblogging, they start out on youtube (ie., Fred). I can vouch for that - my videos don't approach bigness in any sense of the word (and that's not my focus, either), but a couple of my videos have been viewed 20-40,000 times in youtube vs 1-2000 times with blip. Blip, becuase they discovered the video via my blog, and youtube because they found the video in youtube. Blip rocks - but youtube serves a god purpose, too. David Lee King davidleeking.com - blog davidleeking.com/etc - videoblog twitter | skype: davidleeking On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Matthew Milam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My issue with people, especially YouTubers, is that they really think YouTube is the only place to video blog. Bullshit. Matthew From: Jay dedman Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 6:22 AM To: Videobloggers Subject: [videoblogging] A Youtube to Blip Transaction Here's an example of Youtube censoring a video without any explanation. So it's good there are other more worldly video sites like blip. see below. As Liza Jean has mentioned her videos being taken down from Youtube, they should have a more transparent system. Jay ons, 26 11 2008 kl. 07:17 -0500, skrev Carsten Agger: Danish writer Rune Engelbreth Larsen has teamed up with photographer Jacob Holdt (of American Pictures fame, http://www.american-pictures.com/english/intro/index.html) to produce an open letter and YouTube video with an urgent appeal to president-elect Barack Obama concerning the rampant racism and xenophobia in Denmark The appeal and YouTube video may be found here: http://www.panhumanism.com/letter_to_obama.php http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-6YcD-LZno Alas, the video was CENSORED by YouTube after about 24 hours. According to the author, the video was removed from YouTube with no explanation apart from this rather terse note: The following video(s) from your account have been disabled for violation of the YouTube Community Guidelines: Letter to Obama: On Danish Racism. I suppose Google/YouTube have received complaints from persons who do not sympathize with the video's (truthful) picture of Denmark today. I find such censorship rather unacceptable. The video is now online via another service and may once again be seen at http://www.panhumanism.com/letter_to_obama.php and http://blip.tv/file/1515612/ Thanks for your patience. Please help spread the word. -- Blog: http://www.modspil.dk http://www.faklen.dk [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Share with us your thanksgiving blog posts
thank you blip.tv - we hit 100,000 views today. took a few days under 4 months. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, quintanomedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is mine http://www.quintanomedia.com/index.php/2008/11/28/thanksgiving-day- recap/ http://www.quintanomedia.com/index.php/2008/11/27/thanksgiving- morning/ http://www.quintanomedia.com/index.php/2008/11/27/thanksgiving-eve/
[videoblogging] Re: Defending Videographer's Rights in Court
most assuredly, some failure of understanding. -- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you, Liza, numerously failed to understand here is that I am suing for the video, NOT for the music that comes along with it. It's a cease and desist of the video. And this video will NOT be used by me in any way after the lawsuit. Deleted, gone forever. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, liza jean daredoll@ wrote: here's some practice for court: young man please prove the defendents own said music. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov innomind@ wrote: Rupert, You have pointed out interesting thoughts. I have accepted the fact that this court TV show will be cut, this is America after all. I don't take this very seriously though, if it happens it happens, if not I will not spend the rest of my life blogging about it. Speaking of blogging, I did blog about it, just one entry... http://innomind.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-am-going-through-ugly- dispute-with.html I am in no way trying to bring traffic to my site(s) should I win the case. These three videos I will purge either way. My intent is to have these videos lawfully deleted from the defendants hard drives, or pay up for my work. To answer Liza Jean about the music in the video. The music belongs to the defendant, and is welcome to play their music both on their site or to their prospective corporate clients. As long as my video work is not attached to it. Like I said; If I win I will delete all 3 videos and the raw files of every of eight events I shot for them. I do not want to associate my name with these sharks. Renat --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert rupert@ wrote: Renat, How many of these shows have you watched? Are you watching them now, all the time, while you prepare this? Because you should be. Look how silly the people in the show look. That's going to be *you* in the box. However justified you feel now - however ridiculous you think the opposition's correspondence is, you *will* come off looking bad, too. Perhaps shrill, irrational, emotional - you're obviously very upset about all this, to the point where you want to humiliate them publicly, and the show will play that up, and they will try to get you worked up in your testimony. Certainly, you won't get a chance to slowly and carefully lay out the correspondence to make your case on TV. All that stuff will be cut - it's boring. This is not paranoia - it's the way Reality TV really works. I have first hand experience from the production side. Irina just backed me up. Really - imagine how you'd feel about it if you get there and you're suddenly not winning as easily as you imagined (which is usually what happens in court cases, as in politics). Your ex-clients will have better lawyers advising them what to say. Most of the plaintiffs on these shows are made to look like fools. And it's not like you're a widow who's been wrongly evicted. As a videographer of models, your case is hardly going to tug on the nation's heartstrings. Finally - this I just don't understand - it seems you want to humiliate these people on TV, and yet you rejected Jay's suggestion to blog about your experience as public whining? You'd rather get 2 and a half minutes of supposed national broadcasting and totally forfeit control over how you look in public? And you're asking for advice on how to do this on the *videoblogging* list? The whole point of which is to reverse that power structure? And where is this going to go when it's been broadcast - once, during daytime, to bored housewives and students? Nowhere. It'll be broadcast and disappear. Do you even know how many people watch this show, and what the demographic is? Should your client really be shaking in their boots about being 'exposed' on this show? How many of their potential business partners are ever going to see it or even know about it? My point is, I just can't believe that you'd be willing to trade control of your image and reputation for such weak rewards. YOU have the power to make your own video about your case that will show up in all their search results if you do it right. YouTube and other video sharing sites are often heavily weighted so that they often feature in the top 2 pages for any search result. Make an entertaining video of the correspondence from *your* side. Humiliate them in a way that's viewable by all their clients, 24
[videoblogging] Re: Defending Videographer's Rights in Court
cards or any extra money do NOT agree to re-imbursement make them buy the airline tix for you and pay for the hotel for you etc. the re-imbursement can take up to six months to one year On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 5:34 PM, liza jean daredoll@ wrote: who owns the music on these videos? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov innomind@ wrote: Well, If supposedly the defendant agrees to do it on TV then there's no need to blog the hearing in court since the cameras will already tape it. There's a bit of complication in regards to serving the papers to appear in court. The letter returned back to court on Nov. 18. When I was filing the complaint I wrote down the home address of the defendant, though she emailed me her business one prior to that. The reason I wrote the home one is because we never conducted any business at the business address in Manhattan. So I figured, what are the chances that this address even exists if she so willingly gave it to me. Good thing as of Nov. 21st. it's still within 23 days since the initial filing, so I went back to court and updated the address to the business one. Now if she gets it by Dec. 1st, there's still time enough for the Judge Joe Brown producer to convince her to do it TV- style. Until Dec. 1st... Renat --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, johnleeke johnleeke@ wrote: If you do it, it would be fascinating for us if you video blog the experience. I wonder if they have you sign away all your rights to shoot and distribute your own video about the experience. John www.HistoricHomeWorks.com -- http://geekentertainment.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: MGFest09 Call For Entry - Deadline Dec 19
thanks for this posting. i just filled out the easy and hard options. and it might just be worth the $ to submit our 45 minute CGI/live action epic. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mason Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MGFest09 Call For Entry - 3 Ways to Enter! Late Entry Deadline : Dec 19 Submit a Link + Submit a Movie + Submit a Topic http://mgfest.com/09/call.php [ Easy ] Submit a Link Simply enter a link to a video you think is really good! Online voters will select the top videos in several caregories. If your video is selected you will reveive a free badge to the Motion Graphics Festival. [ Medium ] Submit a Video Send us a DVD of a video you made. Late Entry Deadline: Dec 19, 2008 Send us your finest minutes, your dreams realized, your fictions animated, your adventures recorded, your sweat and passion woven into something of beauty, and we will take it to audiences across the country. Selections will be screened during the 6th annual Motion Graphics Festival tour in Chicago, Boston, Austin, Atlanta and Washington DC. [ Hard ] Submit a Topic Suggest a presentation topic, performance or installation. No Entry Fee. Just let us know what's on your mind. Our three themes are: New Motion, New Sound and New Media. Be a presenter, performer or panel/discussion leader. We are looking for presentation topics, technologies, abstracts, essays, performances, art installations, events, groups, conceptual meanderings and just plain smart fun. ++ Check out what Create Digial Motion had to say about the call. http://createdigitalmotion.com/2008/11/17/calling-all-visualists- enter-mgfest09-and-heres-a-smart-way-to-do-work-calls/ Motion Graphics Festival 2009 Tour In its 6th year, MGFest stands as the premier US event showcasing creative motion picture design. The festival presents a year-long, regionally focused program of events. The 5-city tour focuses on motion design, sound design, and film video technology by hosting: art showcases, exhibits, workshops, classes, panel discussions, studio tours, theater screenings and industry mixers. - http://MGFest.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Defending Videographer's Rights in Court
here's some practice for court: young man please prove the defendents own said music. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rupert, You have pointed out interesting thoughts. I have accepted the fact that this court TV show will be cut, this is America after all. I don't take this very seriously though, if it happens it happens, if not I will not spend the rest of my life blogging about it. Speaking of blogging, I did blog about it, just one entry... http://innomind.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-am-going-through-ugly- dispute-with.html I am in no way trying to bring traffic to my site(s) should I win the case. These three videos I will purge either way. My intent is to have these videos lawfully deleted from the defendants hard drives, or pay up for my work. To answer Liza Jean about the music in the video. The music belongs to the defendant, and is welcome to play their music both on their site or to their prospective corporate clients. As long as my video work is not attached to it. Like I said; If I win I will delete all 3 videos and the raw files of every of eight events I shot for them. I do not want to associate my name with these sharks. Renat --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert rupert@ wrote: Renat, How many of these shows have you watched? Are you watching them now, all the time, while you prepare this? Because you should be. Look how silly the people in the show look. That's going to be *you* in the box. However justified you feel now - however ridiculous you think the opposition's correspondence is, you *will* come off looking bad, too. Perhaps shrill, irrational, emotional - you're obviously very upset about all this, to the point where you want to humiliate them publicly, and the show will play that up, and they will try to get you worked up in your testimony. Certainly, you won't get a chance to slowly and carefully lay out the correspondence to make your case on TV. All that stuff will be cut - it's boring. This is not paranoia - it's the way Reality TV really works. I have first hand experience from the production side. Irina just backed me up. Really - imagine how you'd feel about it if you get there and you're suddenly not winning as easily as you imagined (which is usually what happens in court cases, as in politics). Your ex-clients will have better lawyers advising them what to say. Most of the plaintiffs on these shows are made to look like fools. And it's not like you're a widow who's been wrongly evicted. As a videographer of models, your case is hardly going to tug on the nation's heartstrings. Finally - this I just don't understand - it seems you want to humiliate these people on TV, and yet you rejected Jay's suggestion to blog about your experience as public whining? You'd rather get 2 and a half minutes of supposed national broadcasting and totally forfeit control over how you look in public? And you're asking for advice on how to do this on the *videoblogging* list? The whole point of which is to reverse that power structure? And where is this going to go when it's been broadcast - once, during daytime, to bored housewives and students? Nowhere. It'll be broadcast and disappear. Do you even know how many people watch this show, and what the demographic is? Should your client really be shaking in their boots about being 'exposed' on this show? How many of their potential business partners are ever going to see it or even know about it? My point is, I just can't believe that you'd be willing to trade control of your image and reputation for such weak rewards. YOU have the power to make your own video about your case that will show up in all their search results if you do it right. YouTube and other video sharing sites are often heavily weighted so that they often feature in the top 2 pages for any search result. Make an entertaining video of the correspondence from *your* side. Humiliate them in a way that's viewable by all their clients, 24 hours a day 7 days a week via Google. Not once on a cable channel on a Tuesday afternoon in January in a place that's set up as a freakshow and then disappears for ever. That's all these things are - freakshows. And you're volunteering to be a freak? If none of this makes any sense to you, just ask yourself what the benefits of this are - if you take away the idea that it will drive traffic to your site (it won't) and your certainty that they will come off looking worse (they won't). It's all downside and risk. Except for a free trip to LA. If you count a trip to LA as upside. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 24-Nov-08, at 12:15 AM, Renat Zarbailov wrote
[videoblogging] Re: from david weinberger
even as Obama's ecomomic advisors were being announced fed ex delivered notice to my father that his '07 taxes had been revised upwards by a little under $20K. due in less than 13 days. first notice. includes 6 months intrest. the first wave of our brave new world? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Irina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has the Internet been saved? When Stephen Schultze http://managingmiracles.blogspot.com/ stopped me in the hallway and told me that Susan Crawford http://scrawford.net/blog/ had been appointed head of Obama's FCC transition team, I thought I was being punk'd. It was too good to be true. So, Stephen and I went to an open computer and Googled. Yup. But the news was actually even better: Kevin Werbach http://werblog.com/ has been appointed as co-lead. I was giddy with joy, for two reasons. First, it just might mean that the Internet has been saved. There are many threats to the Net, and there always will be. But one is particularly nasty and urgent. The business model of the incumbent carriers in the US primarily telephone and cable companies focuses not on simply providing us with as many bits as we want, but rather on getting us to buy content and services from them. This makes it too tempting to them to tilt the market toward their offerings, and to optimize the system for the sort of content they provide (e.g., high def Hollywood movies), which means de-optimizing it for other types of content (e.g., YouTubes). This problem is exacerbated by the lack of a truly open, truly competitive market. Susan and Kevin come at these issues not as representatives of the incumbent industries but as Internet folks. They are, I believe, deeply committed to the spread of the open Internet. But, they are not ideologues. They are capable of listening, finding what's of value and what matters in views with which they disagree, and moderating their views. They are informed, intelligent, reasonable, and sweet. You come out of a disagreement with them feeling better about us all. Which brings me to the second reason I am so happy about their appointment. Imagine a government that values the qualities Susan and Kevin embody. Imagine a government that doesn't go for the lazy, safe wedge issues that divide us, but actually tries to find ways we can move forward together. Imagine a government that thinks not first about winning the argument but about how we can live together afterwards. Imagine a government that assumes our better natures. No need to imagine such a government. We just elected one. -- http://geekentertainment.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Defending Videographer's Rights in Court
who owns the music on these videos? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, If supposedly the defendant agrees to do it on TV then there's no need to blog the hearing in court since the cameras will already tape it. There's a bit of complication in regards to serving the papers to appear in court. The letter returned back to court on Nov. 18. When I was filing the complaint I wrote down the home address of the defendant, though she emailed me her business one prior to that. The reason I wrote the home one is because we never conducted any business at the business address in Manhattan. So I figured, what are the chances that this address even exists if she so willingly gave it to me. Good thing as of Nov. 21st. it's still within 23 days since the initial filing, so I went back to court and updated the address to the business one. Now if she gets it by Dec. 1st, there's still time enough for the Judge Joe Brown producer to convince her to do it TV- style. Until Dec. 1st... Renat --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, johnleeke johnleeke@ wrote: If you do it, it would be fascinating for us if you video blog the experience. I wonder if they have you sign away all your rights to shoot and distribute your own video about the experience. John www.HistoricHomeWorks.com
[videoblogging] Re: reports from the future
http://reports.graymattergravy.com/ it worked this way. reading what verdi wrote reminds me of my college job teaching psych grad students how to use video equipment (1977, Sony half inch reel to reel!) for use in evaluating their client sessions. taped thru one way mirrors etc. . i set up my office such that the first thing these lofty thinkers saw when forced to learn something from a lowly undergrad was themselves on the biggest tv i had. the camera was right behind the tv such that it was impossible to look oneself in the eye. the usual response was an explosion of venom of some sort, fury to be caught by surprise as oneself. the office next door was the chair of the department - i later learned that he kept his office door open for these moments, and how each student came to terms with this experience became part of his evaluation of them. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:49 PM, liza jean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: didn't work for me, unless i wanted a free credit report or a ticket from and unknown airline. I dont know what you're clicking on, but this is the link: http://reports.graymattergravy.com/2008/10/11/networked-relationships/ Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] Re: Defending Videographer's Rights in Court
i almost spilled my small claims court guts last time you posted, now seems more timely. 1- once upon a time my landlady (dorothy frooks), in return for recruiting some 30,000 folks to serve in WWI, got to create small claims court. that's American justice for you. need to learn more? read on. ask wikipedia for sure. just type in dorothy frooks. best is the NYT obit, which i will testify is in the voice of the disinherited Rockefeller she married at 80+. did i mention she has a cameo in Reds? 2- small claims court judges get to do whatever they want that costs less than $3000 - check the exact amount in your local jurisdiction. why? because it is fair to require a depo$it of the judgement if the judgement is conte$ted. that means if you lose you have to pay the amount of the judgement to secure review by a court of appeals. the money is held in escrow pending judicial review, then awarded as per the judgement. -dare i admit i like to have the tv on when i work? i like Joe Brown as a judge, but i have seen nothing that proves he knows anything about copyright. now if any of those shapely ladies you videographed had hit you you would have a home run in his court. all they have to do to win is somehow suggest you hit them. - they (Judge Joe Brown) need you more than you need them. if Joe Brown had heretofore demonstrated any understanding of copyright, i might hold a diffent opinion here. but i calls them as i sees them, so just say the day i get an envelope containing X (all possible court costs) + Y (all travel and lodging costs) is the day you can book me.anything else and you will lose one way or the other. - so, in conclusion, i recommend you attempt to milk this cow without letting it buy you. let them gaurantee all the costs to you you can imagine - travel, the unknown court fees, costs of appeal, a good place to stay while you sort it out, feel free to be creative here. everyone else will be feeling so free. buy the way, a gaurantee in these circumstances = cash ahead of time. -- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today I received a DHL letter from Judge Joe Brown. Asking if I want to fly to LA to tape the hearing. The producer of this show promises in this letter that they will pay for travel and all expenses associated doing it this way, and guarantee the appearance fee for appearing on this program. Also, if I win the case they guarantee that I receive the money awarded by the arbitrator within 30 days, plus the court costs (I need to find out what that means). Whereas if I win the case traditional court way, the payment from the defendant is not guaranteed by the court in a timely fashion, if ever. Has anybody in the vlogging community ever done lawsuits televised? Should I go for it? Renat --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov innomind@ wrote: Hello everyone! Over the past three months I completed three 2-minute videos for a startup DJ company, who never paid a penny for my work, promising me that when they will start getting paid for their gigs in night clubs then they will pay me for each completed video. Within these three months I shot 8 events for them, each one requiring at least 4 hours of shooting. They started pressuring me lately to deliver four more completed videos within a week or so. Since they never paid for any of my work I told them if they wanted speed they would have to pay $600 per completed video with a week turnaround from the shoot day. This escalated into a dispute and now I no longer want to deal with them. I asked them kindly to remove these three videos I created from their web site, myspace, youtube, and vimeo. They are refusing to do so claiming that these videos belong to them. I offered to let them keep them online if they would pay $300 per each video so we part our ways peacefully. And now we are having a dispute over who owns these videos. All of the agreements we made among us were verbal and never in writing. On Monday I want to file a lawsuit in small claims court to have these videos pulled of the web or for them to pay up. Has anyone in our vlogging community ever dealt with a similar situation? If I were to contact Youtube/Vimeo for video removal request, what do they ask for to proof video ownership? Should I also file for reimbursement for the time I spent shooting these 8 events? Basically it comes to 32 hours of very hard work running around in the clubs shooting small clips. I offered them these source video files at $100 per each event, so they could use them by hiring another editor, they refused. So I will gladly have to purge them all. After the court, of course. Also, there's no copyright mention in the end credits of all three videos, the last two list my name as camera/editing. They're claiming
[videoblogging] Re: Defending Videographer's Rights in Court
as i have not actually watched your vids i have to ask- 1- is there music? 2- do you own it? if yes then no try to stay off network television. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today I received a DHL letter from Judge Joe Brown. Asking if I want to fly to LA to tape the hearing. The producer of this show promises in this letter that they will pay for travel and all expenses associated doing it this way, and guarantee the appearance fee for appearing on this program. Also, if I win the case they guarantee that I receive the money awarded by the arbitrator within 30 days, plus the court costs (I need to find out what that means). Whereas if I win the case traditional court way, the payment from the defendant is not guaranteed by the court in a timely fashion, if ever. Has anybody in the vlogging community ever done lawsuits televised? Should I go for it? I bet you would be the first. I would do a google search for others who have been on Judge Joe Brown. make sure the producers have some kind of respect for the process while they are exploiting you on TV. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] Re: reports from the future
didn't work for me, unless i wanted a free credit report or a ticket from and unknown airline. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Worked for me... David Lee King davidleeking.com - blog davidleeking.com/etc - videoblog twitter | skype: davidleeking On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Adriana Kaegi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this link does not work? a --- On Tue, 11/18/08, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED]jay.dedman% 40gmail.com wrote: From: Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] jay.dedman%40gmail.com Subject: [videoblogging] reports from the future To: Videobloggers videoblogging@yahoogroups.comvideoblogging%40yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 8:15 AM Verdi just posted a talk he gave at Video Vortex this year: http://reports.graymattergravy.com/2008/10/11/networked- relationships/ He talks about the importance of relationships in videoblogging...and also the different reactions people have to his videos when they watch them under different contexts. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Bid for Placement on YouTube
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That would surprise me somewhat - you sure you werent deleted for other reasons? Cheers Steve Elbows as we are PG-13 - no nudity, foul language (unless you count puns) or violence - why we get deleted from one single complaint remains a mystery. when it first happened i did a little search for TOS violating vids and found lots of stuff i wish i had never seen that had been up for years. so clearly something else is going on. http://thedaredolldilemmas.blip.tv --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, liza jean daredoll@ wrote: we figured this was coming. first two times youtube deleted us it was after we got a million channel views. seemed we were required to upgrade somehow to continue being seen. so, i wonder if my money is good with them. wonder if i am protected from being deleted. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jake Ludington jake@ wrote: I know many of you would be opposed to buying ads to get your content noticed, but what makes this auction process different? You are effectively buying an ad. I know Gary V has purchased google adwords to promote some of his content, depending on his motive buying placement on YouTube might also make sense. If you have a crappy video, no amount of money will get people to watch it. Buying an ad can be the only option for a great video to escape obscurity. As for Brooks' comment re: ignoring ads, someone must click on them because they pay me quite nicely. This will be no different. Some people will ignore promoted videos, some people won't. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com On Nov 12, 2008 4:44 PM, @sull sulleleven@ wrote: good point. but there must be some value in featured spots. maybe they have some metrics to share. On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Brook Hinton bhinton@ wrote: My eyes automatically... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Bid for Placement on YouTube
popularity with not a single extra cent going to youtube is one hypothesis about our deletion dilemma, but i think someone is hugely angry that we routinely expose the fact that spandex is not actually a protective layer. the idea that it is is planted early and often in children's television, and children are simply unaware that our material is not just for them. my six year old niece loves our work, but wonders why our heroines don't try harder to avoid the traps. if i can just influence a few thousand 6 year old girls to be on the lookout for such traps it will be a good thing. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im not claiming things are done fairly, I simply refute the idea that popularity alone is going to get you kicked off youtube. Its more likely to get you noticed, so if there is something they object to about your content they are more likely to notice and go through with it than if you only had 3 views. And complaints could for a lot, even ungrounded complaints, because they draw your content to someones attention and force them to make a decision. Just because you think you are PG-13 and there's no nudity or foul language, doesnt mean your content is immune from people taking offense. If you suspect your vids are being deleted because they feature simulated asphyxiation, light bondage etc, then you are probably right. Again Im not claiming its fair, in an age where much advertising is designed to trigger 'impure thoughts', where there is a lot more graphic violence on tv, etc, but taboo's remain and so video hosting sites still end up censoring content. Sites which communicate properly with content producers are the best we can hope for, and youtube has always sucked at that. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, liza jean daredoll@ wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins steve@ wrote: That would surprise me somewhat - you sure you werent deleted for other reasons? Cheers Steve Elbows as we are PG-13 - no nudity, foul language (unless you count puns) or violence - why we get deleted from one single complaint remains a mystery. when it first happened i did a little search for TOS violating vids and found lots of stuff i wish i had never seen that had been up for years. so clearly something else is going on. http://thedaredolldilemmas.blip.tv --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, liza jean daredoll@ wrote: we figured this was coming. first two times youtube deleted us it was after we got a million channel views. seemed we were required to upgrade somehow to continue being seen. so, i wonder if my money is good with them. wonder if i am protected from being deleted. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jake Ludington jake@ wrote: I know many of you would be opposed to buying ads to get your content noticed, but what makes this auction process different? You are effectively buying an ad. I know Gary V has purchased google adwords to promote some of his content, depending on his motive buying placement on YouTube might also make sense. If you have a crappy video, no amount of money will get people to watch it. Buying an ad can be the only option for a great video to escape obscurity. As for Brooks' comment re: ignoring ads, someone must click on them because they pay me quite nicely. This will be no different. Some people will ignore promoted videos, some people won't. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com On Nov 12, 2008 4:44 PM, @sull sulleleven@ wrote: good point. but there must be some value in featured spots. maybe they have some metrics to share. On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Brook Hinton bhinton@ wrote: My eyes automatically... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Defending Videographer's Rights in Court
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is that synchmaster, you speak of? i wish i knew. youtube won't tell. there is no evidence they review our work, because if they did they would know there are no TOS violations in what we post. we are PG-13 all the way. but take it as a fact. we got up to a million channel views twice, and disappeared with no correspondence from youtube twice. now we get deleted so fast we don't even bother to see how how the count got this time . . . and all from one individual stalking us. http://thedaredolldilemmas.blip.tv --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, liza jean daredoll@ wrote: all they have to do to get them back up is shave a few frames off the front and make a new account. works for us every time, and then every time (a million channel views and thousands of happy subscribers) synchmaster finds them and flags them and it all disappears. . . . --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Richard Amirault ramirault@ wrote: Great .. but .. it does not mean they are gone forever. Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ
[videoblogging] Re: daredolls on C31
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: will do, Channel 31 is Melbourne only (which is where I am). but apart from telling me to watch it, can you give me a pitch? :-) how about i send you a link to a 15 minute download? we have been asked to revamp - change our 15 minutes to 24, remove a few closeups altho medium shots of the same subject are OK. so the link i could send won't be exactly what will be aired. but i need an email address for you. you can reach me as daredoll at gmail.com. send me the address you want me to send a link to. and that goes for anyone reading this. with e-junkie we pay a monthly storage fee no matter how many downloads are delivered. so anyone who wants a free sample, just get me an address to send to. we will soon be taking some advice given here some time ago and posting an entire 15 minute chapter on blip. On 11/11/2008, at 1:00 AM, liza jean wrote: hey, look for The Daredoll Dilemmas on your Aussie airwaves early next year. we are told by an avid fan from Kilcunda that C31 from Melbourne will be airing our show, late at night. and he is trying to sell it to some larger stations there. cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
[videoblogging] Re: Bid for Placement on YouTube
we figured this was coming. first two times youtube deleted us it was after we got a million channel views. seemed we were required to upgrade somehow to continue being seen. so, i wonder if my money is good with them. wonder if i am protected from being deleted. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jake Ludington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know many of you would be opposed to buying ads to get your content noticed, but what makes this auction process different? You are effectively buying an ad. I know Gary V has purchased google adwords to promote some of his content, depending on his motive buying placement on YouTube might also make sense. If you have a crappy video, no amount of money will get people to watch it. Buying an ad can be the only option for a great video to escape obscurity. As for Brooks' comment re: ignoring ads, someone must click on them because they pay me quite nicely. This will be no different. Some people will ignore promoted videos, some people won't. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com On Nov 12, 2008 4:44 PM, @sull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: good point. but there must be some value in featured spots. maybe they have some metrics to share. On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Brook Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My eyes automatically... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Defending Videographer's Rights in Court
all they have to do to get them back up is shave a few frames off the front and make a new account. works for us every time, and then every time (a million channel views and thousands of happy subscribers) synchmaster finds them and flags them and it all disappears. . . . --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Richard Amirault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great .. but .. it does not mean they are gone forever. Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ
[videoblogging] Re: Defending Videographer's Rights in Court
good luck with your complaint to youtube. please let us know if they take the videos down for you. have you tried flagging them as inappropriate? works every time synchmaster wants to get rid of our videos. our videos disappear as if by magic, our accounts cancelled. seems to be automatic once it is flagged. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with you. I guess I was in the heat of the moment with this situation, calling blogging - whining... :) My apologies... I will make a post on my personal blog. I guess google will crawl for this company's name and will bring up this page anytime someone makes a search on them. Think of it as an act of penace. Of finding peace with yourself in the electronic confession booth. god bless. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] Re: The Death of the internet as we know it....
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not disagreeing with any of this but taking it on a tangent. The trad tv is dead, yep. That's already happened, that's why TV (certainly in Australia) has a lot of live sport and an enormous amount of 'reality' programming. Both of these work very well on live to air because in the case of sport we generally watch it live and rarely watch it when we know the results (there are exceptions of course). Reality TV, which is largely TV's incorporation of the logic of gaming (that'd be computer games, not casinos) into itself, has voting or some sort of deadline come competition element which also encourages live viewing. Who gets voted out? Or similar. While there remains quite a bit of drama many of us watch this via DVD, downloads and so on - and from an Australian pov while we get things like Six Feet Under, Sex and the City, The Soprano's all on free to air it is clear that they are produced/paid for out of a non trad. TV model (US cable). hey, look for The Daredoll Dilemmas on your Aussie airwaves early next year. we are told by an avid fan from Kilcunda that C31 from Melbourne will be airing our show, late at night. and he is trying to sell it to some larger stations there.
[videoblogging] Re: Defending Videographer's Rights in Court
to add a bit to the good advice Kris gave, when you structure your progress payments,include an initial deposit which will cover all your out of pocket costs. if the client refuses, it's a nice early warning that you won't be getting paid. i hope you take Jay's advice - it will transform that nasty feeling ing the pit of your stomach into proof that you are a force to be dealt with. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday I want to file a lawsuit in small claims court to have these videos pulled of the web or for them to pay up. Has anyone in our vlogging community ever dealt with a similar situation? If I were to contact Youtube/Vimeo for video removal request, what do they ask for to proof video ownership? Kris gave a great rundown of your options IMHO. You got to take some responsibility here for doing work for free without a contract. This kind of situation asks for trouble. I think going to small claims court would be more trouble than its worth. might feel good for the revenge factor if you want to put in all the time and expense. Here's the blogging way of justice: 1. --Blog about your experience with this company. Write a post that tells the story and provide links to their site. If they wrote you emails saying they would pay you, include them verbatim. Unless they are a fly by night company, they will hate that you're post will show up in their google reputation. 2. --Get your friends to link to this post. Deepen their bad reputation online with more links. Also, this will warn others who may come after you. 3. --It wouldnt hurt sending youtube and other sites an email saying that those videos are your work (especially if they have your name). It's why the shitty DMCA was written. They can of course write back to possible have them reinstalled, but your making them work for it. Sorry to hear you got screwed on thisi job. I bet you wont let it ever happen again. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Mobuzz.tv in trouble - You can help save European-made independent media
now if there were just a nice active link such that with a few clicks i could do this good deed . . .
[videoblogging] Re: Need recco for software to copy DVD.
http://cyberlink-power2go.en.softonic.com/ software is not my strong suit and even i can use this. it came with my gateway laptop, so i just googled the name and was surprised to see it is a free download. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Ed Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Jay, yes, I have a PC not a Mac, so if anyone knows software for extracting it on a PC, please let me know, thanks, Ed. maybe someone here knows software that works for PC. but i did a quick google search: http://forums.dealmac.com/read.php?5,2598259,2598623 there must be something if you just search around. jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] Re: Is Chipin any good? try e-junkie, which claims to have handled $4.5 mil in
www.e-junkie.com when i signed on to e-junkie today to send a free movie to the lady at the consignment shop who sold me some nice Daredoll boots yesterday at half price and another free movie to her nephew in college, this was e-junkie's tiny little new banner: 4,300 merchants, $4.5 million in october sales only a few thousand of those dollars were ours. for which we gave them a fixed monthly rent. (6 gigs of storage = $225 monthy bite, no matter how many downloads are sent) in which i ask, is selling individual products the same as raising funds if no advertising or media notice is involved? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure how it is now, but its just a solid system for setting a financial goal and accepting payments. obviously, it does nothing to actually raise money for you. NOW you tell me! ;) Chris http://myspace.com/necropol http://penelopespantyhose.com
[videoblogging] Re: Revision 3 cuts back on shows including Epic Fu
one of the new people there was bill grueskin (formerly of WSJ) http://www.observer.com/2008/bill-grueskin-leaves-i-journal-i-heads- columbia-j-school he did infer that he thinks the future is SMALL PRODUCTION COMPANIES (2-10 ppl) producing media (this is not a direct quote and he and i had a brief convo) AND financing their own work yup, that's us. a two person self financed production/distibution house. just about to turn a profit on our (credit card) investment after 15 months of nonstop releases sold on our website as downloads and DVDs. total ownership of our product up one side and down the other. we don't even take money from advertisers, and run our free promos on blip advert free. up to an average of 1200 views a day, with over 2500 on the days we publish new clips. dyna-flix.com there's a lot of bad paper out there pretending to be valid currency. hedge funds, where one bet on the market going both up and down (hedging bets), gauranteed this would happen no matter which way the market went. it is likely there are insurance policies on these bets with payments due in excess of the whole worlds annual GDP. IMHO the recent financial panic is the (apologies for labeling) Old White Men raiding the bank because Obama is coming to town. On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Roxanne Darling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I keep hearing from so many corners, advertisers do not yet grok new media. They are addicted to large numbers, even though increasingly we learn those large numbers represent phantom viewers (viewers who tivo, who are passed out on the couch and cannot act, etc.) Similarly, we have not had that many ad sales people who can really make the sale. They variously try to fit us into the know world, when we are the unknown world. Yes standards are useful but what is required is a new way of thinking, a new way of integrating, a new way of co-operating in producing content and ads and sponsor relationships. I hope people do hang in there. It's a rough time for all of us. But there is just too much artistic creativity, communication and connection, and of course audience loyalty to toss it out the window. Maybe we all take two weeks off and let our viewers decide if they miss us? If they do, they can sign up for a paying support subscription. Easy to do at PayPal, and not really relevant as long as others were willing to foot the bills I am not quitting though I am open to collective action? Love, Rox On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Steve Woolf [EMAIL PROTECTED]swoolf% 40gmail.com wrote: I just wanted to chime in here and thank everyone for so much support. We've always said that if it wasn't for the people in this group supporting us right out of the gate in June 2006, we wouldn't have ever made it past the first few months. So we really appreciate it. We were saddened to find out about Rev3's decision to make such wide and deep cuts in their programming and personnel, but we were not surprised. There were internal signs that they were going to need to make these kinds of moves, we just didn't expect them so quickly. What concerns me most of all is that we really need companies like Revision3 to succeed. The independent content creator, and in turn, independent production companies and studios, are really being overshadowed by the efforts of the Hollywood studios and entertainment conglomerates. For example, look at the lineups at Digital Hollywood and the NewTeeVee Live conferences -- there was a terrible lack of independent content creators sitting on panels alongside people from LucasFilm and Hulu. As for us, we are going to keep making EPIC FU on a regular schedule and distributing everywhere. We'll be with Rev3 through December, and after that we'll be on our own barring something unforeseen. There will be shows and companies that are going to go away permanently during this time, but hardship always brings innovation and creativity, so I hope we can all persevere and find a way to keep supporting each other. I'm personally looking forward to the next few months and assessing some new opportunities and ideas of our own. :) Steve --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging% 40yahoogroups.comvideoblogging% 40yahoogroups.com, Irina irinaski@ wrote: shit i go visit my father in offline deep maryland for four days and just got back maybe i should have stayed off line grrr On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 3:29 PM, danielmcvicar danielmcvicar@ ...wrote: Steve and Zadi inspired me to make the crossover to the world of online video and I am always in their debt. We will see many great things from them...like we have come to expect. Including keeping their community active.
[videoblogging] elitists
ever consider how elite this group is? given the chosen growth pattern of broadband suppliers to feed only the rich neighborhoods and 'redline' the rest, and the tiny percentage of the world's population with access to high speed video on the net, i am not at all suprpised to learn early web based old school 'tv shows' are not pulling in the results required to support them. sent to you from my 150 year old farmhouse courtesy of my sprint aircard. but i have to go into town and steal wi-fi to view online videos.
[videoblogging] Re: elitists
elitism,on the part of this group, has nothing to do with it. i did not mean to imply a choice to be elite here. i was thinking of why advertisers are not getting their money's worth by investing in internet video. and saying it is simply because of broadband being offered only to the elite. i would like to participate in the vlogging month by any name, but it will take all my available signal to upload a daily clip. so i have to choose to produce or consume - can't do both. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:43 AM, liza jean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ever consider how elite this group is? given the chosen growth pattern of broadband suppliers to feed only the rich neighborhoods and 'redline' the rest, and the tiny percentage of the world's population with access to high speed video on the net, i am not at all suprpised to learn early web based old school 'tv shows' are not pulling in the results required to support them. sent to you from my 150 year old farmhouse courtesy of my sprint aircard. but i have to go into town and steal wi-fi to view online videos. I dont see how elitism has anything to do with it. we've always talked about the edges on this list. But I agree that US broadband providers are creating non-broadband ghettos. I live in an area where Comcast and the phone company wont connect us because there arent enough of us. So we're on satellite internet which is fast, but limits our home to 300mb traffic per day. We dont watch 50mb videos at home. we take part in our local county meetings though. there's a movement to get broadband connection because even grandmas are realizing that they are missing things when on dialup. people got to push. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] Re: elitists
here in flat michigan, with a nuclear power plant to the north wreaking havoc on signals with all the high voltage transmission lines, and the highest point in the county being my next door neighbor to the south blocking the signals from outer space, i am just happy that the leaves are falling off the trees and my signal strength occasionally hits 60%. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Lil Peck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:43 AM, liza jean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sent to you from my 150 year old farmhouse courtesy of my sprint aircard. but i have to go into town and steal wi-fi to view online videos. LOL. I installed a Hughes.net dish at the barn for hi speed wireless there. They serve rural areas.
[videoblogging] Re: elitists
oops - i used a loaded word. Gena, no offense intended. please consider forgiving me. my post was my response to what struck me as bewilderment by some posters in the Rev3 string that a webcast tv show dependent on advertising dollars would fail to turn a profit for its investors who hope for broadcast tv style bang for their buck. i had the same misunderstanding with my local library which insisted on designing moving graphics into their new website which prevents my good friends next door with a dial up connection from accessing the site. works fine here at the library they said. who cares if you can't get it out in the country, even if half our tax paying supporters live there . . . --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Gena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ouch, I'm getting whacked in the head because I have leftist leanings. Bam, I'm getting whacked again because I work for a living and have DSL. Oy, I believe there is room in the spectrum for the profane and the profound. Gadzooks, I'm African-American which invalidates everything else and what am I doing on a computer anyway? G. Gena --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, liza jean daredoll@ wrote: ever consider how elite this group is? given the chosen growth pattern of broadband suppliers to feed only the rich neighborhoods and 'redline' the rest, and the tiny percentage of the world's population with access to high speed video on the net, i am not at all suprpised to learn early web based old school 'tv shows' are not pulling in the results required to support them. sent to you from my 150 year old farmhouse courtesy of my sprint aircard. but i have to go into town and steal wi-fi to view online videos.
[videoblogging] Re: McCain on Blip = a Shame
McCain is digging himself into a hole he can't get elected from and you want to take away his shovels? how shortsighted. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't give a fuck if John McCain says that liberal democrats are donkey-fucking satanists and that we as a people have to rise up against them to save our culture. He's allowed to say whatever the fuck he wants. Thank god. the obvious solution here is to download all McCain's videos and recut them ala the http://wreckandsalvage.com/ way. Im glad McCain's operatives are putting their media in a format that can be played with. The archives will also be a great reminder of Republican incompetence. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] Re: Porn without the porn
so i had this idea, sent it to al. got back a phone number two weeks ago. haven't used it yet. the idea: an online store selling digital downloads of anything al goldstein cares to review. we at dyna-flix are selling some 100 titles and would list our catalog there with an extra dollar going to al for each sale that came thru the site. anybody else care to grow this list? or have an idea for al? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anybody remember Al Goldstein from Screw Magazine? i worked for Midnight Blue way back in 1980 for a month or so, was hired to'co- direct' after alex bennet left. seems the other 'co-director' was not consulted on this, i didn't last long. anyway, al, to whom anyone who is showing anything anyone else might find objectionable owes a debt given his First Amendment victory, al is destitute and looking for work. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Al Goldstein was a pioneer on cable access TV in the 70's/80/s. Many of the public access stereotypes come from him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Goldstein i did hear he was broke. he's 73 years old. i wonder if there's a porn retirement community. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] Re: Porn without the porn
that's my favorite quip from a friend describing our work. anybody remember Al Goldstein from Screw Magazine? i worked for Midnight Blue way back in 1980 for a month or so, was hired to'co- direct' after alex bennet left. seems the other 'co-director' was not consulted on this, i didn't last long. anyway, al, to whom anyone who is showing anything anyone else might find objectionable owes a debt given his First Amendment victory, al is destitute and looking for work. [EMAIL PROTECTED] i got a few ideas . . . --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Irina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it didnt but me as much i thought it was ok but maybe because i watch so much CSI crime drama stuff i was just glad there was no sex since i didnt really get what they meant when they said everything they love about porn but the sex lol On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Gena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jay, Been in lurker mode for a while. Someone else sent me a link to the video.I looked at it because the guy was in Dr. Horrible and ok, let's see what they have. Er, no. Not giving the punchline away but it was creepy. Maybe it gender based or gross out humor. Or my funny bone is rusted but ew. I know porn has trouble with this concept but, pssst, you have to write a script when you are mocking porn and not showing porn. Not only do you have to write it it should be funny. There is a concept waiting to happen a true hybrid comedy erotic movie. Or video. Or videoblog. I'm not picky. Well, yeah I am. Play nice. Gena http://outonthestoop.blogspot.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging% 40yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman jay.dedman@ wrote: many of us have always been amazed that there hasnt been more porn creep into videoblogging. I know Porn is the originator of web video for the most part...but interesting more nudity hasnt crept into web shows. There is of course: http://youngamericanbodies.com/ and there was that Naked News website for a while. Here's an article on a new site. http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/arts/entertainment-us-porn.html This is a place where the porn and the mainstream film industries meet and get to have some understanding of each other, said James Gunn, a writer, director and producer. http://www.spike.com/video/pg-porn-pg-porn/3041858 . It's like Maxim for video where mainstream stars can play at being porny. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 -- http://geekentertainment.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] sigh . . . another youtube account deleted . . .
just today, more 100 percent original PG-13 material deleted in favor of . . ? but some 2400 hits on blip in 3 days. http://thedaredolldilemmas.blip.tv
[videoblogging] Re: Uploading Video and keeping within limits, alexa again
fruits of my winter's search into the same question. and why i went with blip.tv first - in theory, once i learn enough, by uploading to blip i can 'crosspost' to just about anywhere. am going to start paying for a pro account any day now. i think the file limits thing means they want 'flash' players - compressed files. alexa numbers on all these sites but one are in the top 10,000 worldwide, much higher US. thanks for the info on alexa and scewed numbers. someday i will learn what a toolbar is. but til then, i can report our sales figures and our alexa numbers track together. our website hit counter and our sales figures do not track together. when they can't buy they spend more time looking at our free stuff. too soon to say if our blip.tv views and our sales will track together. abum.com doubleagent.com zipperfish.com break.com albinoblacksheep.com collegehumor.com atom.com nationallampoon.com - and the national lampoon affiliate network i-am-bored.com kontraband.com Heavy.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a list of sites to upload video to along with the size and time limits of each site. You Tube limits to 1G and/or 10 minutes. I just saw a site that said maximum 15MB. Am I missing something here? What can one do with video in 15 MB. Does that make any sense? Another site said 100 MB. I can't seem to make sense of that either. I just cut a 13 min. 27 sec. video at 2.84 G to just under 5 minutes for the Videographer magazine contest which also happens to be just under 1 G making it available for You Tube's regulations. I see some video's on You Tube go over 10 minutes but my uploader isn't allowed to do that. Any words on all this? Actually, all and any information is good. Thanks Stephen
[videoblogging] blip.tv numbers on alexa -
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/blip.tv yes, i like watching numbers. i have been advised blip.tv is indeed on EDT, is it only me who sees the day change an hour or so early sometimes? alexa.com is a great place for watching numbers. blip's numbers today are #2655 worldwide, #1257 in the US on a scale where google is #1, Yahoo#3, myspace #4 etcetera. our website tends to be in the top million worldwide, almost broke thru to the top half million last spring. had a downturn over the summer, like all the other sites i watch, including blip.tv . there is a spike in the blip numbers coincident with the micheal moore film release. gonna keep my eye on it. we are converting our embedded players on our site to blip.tv from magnify.net, which sold us out to the porn purveyors who's ads run bigger and faster alongside our promos. with the promo clips from only two of our 13 episodes embedded at blip we are getting 5oo or more views a day. given that one's alexa ranking is based, in part, on pages viewed by each individual user that day, am i building blips number by hundreds of hits a day or our own? anybody know?
[videoblogging] what time is it at blip?
on the daily statistics page the day changes at 11pm Eastern Daylight time. is the blip clock on Eastern Standard?
[videoblogging] thank you blip.tv -
just switched over to blip for advert free embedded players. released our 38th fifteen minute chapter promos at 11 pm last night, just hit 1000 views of the 4 promo clips. and no one saw horrible ads alongside. thank you blip et al.
[videoblogging] Re: Michael Moore follows the Radiohead model
right now i have 3 or 5 folks a day joining my yahoo group to see production stills from a special interest shoot. most of the footage, as usual, will only ever be seen by a select two. i have no doubt the raw footage is of interest to some few thousands. lets see, what do i like better about my life - being one of the two that sees it all, or being the one that lets it all show? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, obviously it's not a bad thing if a director just doesn't want to do it. Nobody's forcing anyone. My point - and maybe it was badly made - is that so many other people in unexpected places are using online video to promote ongoing projects... it seems absurd to me that filmmakers aren't at the forefront of that phenomenon. And they're not. Quite the opposite. And yet how many of these feature films will have a Making of movie being shot expensively for the DVD (or, in past times, for a momentary cable broadcast)? On 5-Sep-08, at 4:25 PM, schlomo rabinowitz wrote: I don't think its exactly Negative if a director doesnt want to blog his activites or post dailies onto the web. Maybe the director just wants to show a finished product; many people are like that. Kent, you're making a movie (Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!!!), do feel the need to blog the production process? I assume you guys have talked to the producer about this sort of stuff. Is there anything you can share about that? On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean, REALLY - it's now 4-5 years since the people on this list started mucking about with this stuff. And Jan's director is unusual in his use of social media and video to document the production of his independent movie?? Even politicians are now well-versed in using videoblogging and all kinds of web video to sell their message as they go along. http://johnmccain.blip.tv/ The Queen has her own YouTube channel, for god's sake. And it's quite good. http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRoyalChannel When John McCain and Elizabeth II are more innovative in their use of online video than professional moviemakers, you know something is seriously rotten in the state of Denmark. I edited out a lot of swear words from this post. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 5-Sep-08, at 4:05 PM, Rupert wrote: Good for Michael Moore. Yes, some of them are starting to get it. But even the ones who are getting it are only partly getting it, and - like your director, Jan - are bullied by producers and funders who are still a long way from getting it. In May, I was at a talk about the future of documentaries given by Deborah Scranton, who directed War Tapes. In the end, she advocated YouTube as the best way to get your films seen by people. I asked her how she thought that kind of free distribution fitted with getting the considerable funding needed to make big documentaries like hers. She didn't have an answer. And then I asked her whether it was OK for The War Tapes to be distributed on YouTube so that it got viewed by more people. She said Oh, that's a question for the producer. I was really disappointed with her. One moment, she was saying It's great for you little people to get your films in front of an audience on YouTube - and the next, she wouldn't even give her personal view about her own film being shown that way, to a room full of emerging documentary filmmakers. These questions are no brainers to me, and yet she was supposed to be giving an authoritative view about the future of documentaries. It's all very easy for established filmmakers to say Up and coming filmmakers should use YouTube - but if they say that, then they have to be able to justify why THEY should use it, too - regardless of what the studio's lawyers say in 2008. Otherwise it's just a bullshit platitude to make them sound like they get it. And it doesn't address the problem of how big documentaries will be funded ten years from now. I'm always amazed at how long it takes TV and Film professionals to understand and get excited about this stuff, instead of seeing it as a financial threat. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 5-Sep-08, at 3:29 PM, Jan McLaughlin wrote: Great news, really. They begin to 'get it'. Ha! Bwah-hahaha. Yes! The director of the indie movie I just finished mixing (City Island) is putting clips from dailies (bloopers such) online on his blog through YouTube. http://moviestildawn.blogspot.com/2008/09/city-island-empire- diner- moment.html The producers had him cease and desist for about a week during production, but blog comments convinced 'em it was the right
[videoblogging] Re: Wall Color
way back when i was working in tv studios chroma key blue had just been 'discovered'. nowadays we at dyna-flix use green - usually large fabric drops. blue is more likely to appear in what you are shooting - eye color, blue jeans etc. and cause problems. green does not naturally occur on humans. backlighting your subjects with a yellow light is likely to reduce the 'aura', or at least replace it with a halo. what 'color' light are you shooting in? fluorescent is green, halogen is blue, incandescent is yellow - if you play around with what color light you put where you could eliminate the halo. does your software have 'spill supression'? as to cheap light, we got two double 8' fluroescent fixtures made from porcelain coated steel ( a junkyard find with spare bulbs!) that look like something from a Star Wars set. we just stand them up against a wall, let them be part of the set. they make all my still shots look green, but the video camera white balance can handle them. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK... I really like the look of the new wall. I'll post some shots and some blue screen action soon. I have a couple of questions though... I'm getting a dark blue aura around all of my talent and props. I think it's because I've got a ton of light on the backdrop. What's up with that and how can I fix it? Does anyone have creative ideas on getting a lot of light on a 25'x15' stage? We move around a lot in our video... Thanks again , Rupert... peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Aug 31, 2008, at 2:01 AM, Ron Watson wrote: Well I went with the Chromakey Blue idea, Rupert, and it looks friggin' great! thanks for the suggestion... I'll be sure to post some video soon. Thanks Rupert! peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Aug 29, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Rupert wrote: Astroturf in your studio. How cool is that? I want to get my office astroturfed. Plain bright white is quite a useful colour to paint studio walls, if they're very smooth and especially because you have highish ceilings. White backgrounded videos and photos are ubiquitous - people always seem to respond well to that studio aesthetic. I got big white and black paper rolls installed in a client's studio in London and they get a lot of use out of them now. On the other hand you could paint them a chroma key blue. Then you could choose to have a blue background or digitally insert different backgrounds. I don't know much about the practicality and cost of that, but you'd find a mass of information on it via Google. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 29-Aug-08, at 6:48 AM, Ron Watson wrote: I'd like some suggestions on the color to paint the wall in our training studio that we use as a backdrop for our training videos. We are getting half of the studio astroturfed and are looking to do s serious training DVD. I've been leaning towards a vibrant, rich blue for the wall colors, but I'm not sure. Any suggestions or other information would be appreciated. peace, ron [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]
[videoblogging] hi, i'm new here.
i found this group thru blip.tv. we at dyna-flix.com make silly movies in the style of the 1966 Batman on TV: think spandex and deathtraps and double entendres galore. here's the link to the 91 or so clips on blip, teaser promos for our 37 fifteen minute chapters on the market. we set these videos free to roam the world however they may as they lead back to our for profit (hopefully) website where the full length videos are for sale. we don't care who does what as long as our URL shows up somewhere. http://thedaredolldilemmas.blip.tv our website: www.dyna-flix.com yes, we are on the verge of being profitable, due to the following factors: - dynahunk has been making these 'niche' productions since almost before anyone and had an established world wide following over the net. -i just happen to own a pole barn which makes a great studio -we own our work completely. all our actors/actresses are masked and the voices are all dubbed, making the resulting character a pastiche of efforts owned by us. yes, an individual has rights regarding the distribution of their own image, but we are selling a compounded character. all the scripts, music, costumes, deathtraps, EFX, etc. are all created in house. -there are a whole lot of people around the world who really like our source of inspiration - TV Batman - and enjoy our productions. thanks for the discussion here about i-Tunes and Blip. i am not much of a consumer of media, and have never used i-Tunes. i have read about it as a powerhouse for selling music, but do videos sell there as well? or is a blip.tv crosspost to i-Tunes another chance to give away our teasers? and from what i have read here - most of august's posts- perhaps here i can get some information about why we keep getting deleted from youtube. like our source material which was broadcast we are PG-13 at our worst, no sex, no violence, no nudity. we got up to a million views in about 4 months two years ago and then got deleted across the board. we started another account, took about 5 months to get up to a million views and got summarily deleted again. about a dozen acounts deleted now. all from complaints from someone or something named Synchmaster. now it is a game with us, seeing how long we can have an account up before synchmaster hits us again. anybody got an inside view of why youtube hates us?
[videoblogging] Re: hi, i'm new here.
thanks for the responses. it would appear, in synchmaster's world, there is no such thing as a G-rated spandex clad superheroine. i myself could debate either side on this point. clearly the individual in question suffers some irrestistable urges in response to our images,which i wish he could learn to curb. youtube did not honor us with the courtesy of a reply. we have figured out when they are about to yank an account - they send an email about a youtube newsletter they would like to send us. click on the link and the current account disappears within hours. ignore it and current account disappears in a week. we clip a few frames from the front of the vid and thus is passes the copyright sensors they have sicced on us. otherwise the upload is automatically aborted. we own it, really. hey, anyone who wants to post one of our blip clips on youtube, feel free. if this is just another youtube drama, let's have another act!
[videoblogging] the i-Tunes part -
anybody got any success stories selling vlogs on i-Tunes? how about giving them away there?
