[videoblogging] Re: which videoblogs do you recommend?

2009-08-04 Thread ruperthowe
I have a page which lists the videoblogs I subscribe to, together with an OPML file which contains all their feeds, so you can easily import them all into your feed reader. But I have to say, I've been very slack about both posting and watching for a long time. I have no idea how many

[videoblogging] Radio article on legality of photographing in public in UK

2009-02-11 Thread ruperthowe
There's a short but interesting piece on the BBC's Law In Action about whether the police have any right to stop you taking photographs in public in the UK, in light of various cases where the police have done this. The answer is, basically, that they have to suspect criminal or terrorist intent,

[videoblogging] Use DivX to upload to YouTube for best quality

2009-01-10 Thread ruperthowe
This is what YouTube recommend, but I've always ignored it and used an H264 iPod-compatible MP4 file exported from Quicktime/FCP/iMovie. But today the MP4 file I uploaded had an audio sync problem, so I thought I'd try DivX instead. I transcoded my MP4 to DiVX, and uploaded it - and YouTube

[videoblogging] Re: vlomo vlomo08

2008-11-02 Thread ruperthowe
Hi John - and everyone, Please direct Mefeedia support questions to the group at: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mefeedia-users/ As well as the instructions on the channel, I've posted instructions here on this list - please read the VLOMO - HOW TO ADD YOUR FEED Thread. I can't keep doing

[videoblogging] Re: VloMo08 - Videoblogging Month 2008

2008-10-30 Thread ruperthowe
I'm sorry that everyone's having trouble. I didn't really want to give the channel out until I was sure it was working OK. It *is* going to work. Please don't be frustrated that it's not working today. Frank and the Mefeedia team are working hard on making it all work, amid various new site

[videoblogging] Re: Full-screen option on blip.tv?

2008-10-29 Thread ruperthowe
I'm not sure, but perhaps the version of the player you're using has it turned off. If you go to your Dashboard and click Manage Show Players at top right, you can customise a new Player for whatever you want - single episode, playlist or show - and add and remove different features. Then when

[videoblogging] Re: Spoof Accounts

2008-10-29 Thread ruperthowe
Report them to the people who run whatever video service they're using. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Matthew Milam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is for YouTubers and other videobloggers. How do you deal with people who decide to make a spoof account and steal your videos? Matthew

[videoblogging] Re: twitter.com/videoblogging shows messages from this group

2008-10-29 Thread ruperthowe
Log into Twitter, go to Twitter.com/videoblogging and click Follow beneath the name avatar. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Frank Carver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 10:10:26 PM, Josh Paul wrote: Also nice, in that we can find fellow videobloggers on twitter.

[videoblogging] Re: elitists

2008-10-29 Thread ruperthowe
The Digital Divide has long been a concern. Back when we were starting out with online video, broadband was still a rarity in the UK - most people had dial-up. But then they opened up the market to competition and now in the UK (and where I now live in rural Canada), you get the impression that

[videoblogging] Re: Spoof Accounts

2008-10-29 Thread ruperthowe
Just to play devil's advocate, YouTube is not a bad place to be. You can have H264 videos and link to them for podcasting. As long as you turn off the moronic comments or turn on moderation, you can enjoy the increased traffic that comes from posting certain things there. My Flashmob video has

[videoblogging] Re: Spoof Accounts

2008-10-29 Thread ruperthowe
, ruperthowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to play devil's advocate, YouTube is not a bad place to be. You can have H264 videos and link to them for podcasting. As long as you turn off the moronic comments or turn on moderation, you can enjoy the increased traffic that comes from posting

[videoblogging] Re: Spoof Accounts

2008-10-29 Thread ruperthowe
Yeah, I forgot to post about that discovery here and on the wiki. See you've just put it there. Thanks. That's the main reason they started doing this - iPod and iPhone compatibility. I think we'll see some more suprising things from YouTube in the next year. --- In

DVD's? (was Re: [videoblogging] Re: elitists)

2008-10-29 Thread ruperthowe
I'm going to try to archive as much as I can by putting the Mefeedia feed into iTunes, so all Quicktime videos will be downloaded to my HDD. I'm going to put them onto DVDs - my guess is I'll get 3-4 days worth on a DVD. Canada Post is murderously slow - so it's not a next-day solution, but if

[videoblogging] Re: CBS videoblogs

2008-08-24 Thread ruperthowe
I know. But I didn't really mean that I don't like it because it's not as funny as The Office. I meant that it's too much like The Office to avoid direct comparison. If it was doing something revolutionary with the form that The Office set down, I'd be more forgiving that it's comedy/quality

[videoblogging] Re: Video Goes Underground

2008-08-09 Thread ruperthowe
Your fellow LA poet Bukowski had to deal with a lot of crazy people too. And it took him quite a long time to make any money from his poems. People didn't tend to buy poetry in such large numbers. Eventually he started writing novels, a more commercial and accessible form, he got published

[videoblogging] Re: Anthropology of Social Justice and Mobile Media

2008-08-09 Thread ruperthowe
Yeah, it does sound great. As a technical resource for the basics, given the tools you're planning to use: http://freevlog.org My experience is that most people don't have access to a Mac, let alone people who are socially disadvantaged or people on the move - so it's also worth teaching the

[videoblogging] Re: Video Goes Underground

2008-08-05 Thread ruperthowe
Yeah, the only way I got my friends and family to watch my personal videos was by subscribing them via RSS-email myself, and telling them to click on the link to confirm. Now that I've done it, they're quite happy. Unless the video doesn't play inside the email, in which case they mostly can't

[videoblogging] Re: I'm Paul from MySpaceTV

2008-07-04 Thread ruperthowe
Seems to me that the difference between Public Access MyspaceTV is that people can now easily meet and chat online and come up with their own ideas and community discussions outside of 'the channel' - the videos are only the visible tip of the berg. IF, that is, there is a forum on Myspace TV

[videoblogging] EveryZing video audio transcription tools for search SEO

2008-07-02 Thread ruperthowe
A passing reference to EveryZing.com was posted last year by Beth Kanter. I just saw a mention of it in a newsletter thought I'd share. They use voice recognition software to generate text transcripts of your audio video so that they're searchable. They also have a tool to turn the text into

[videoblogging] Re: Vloggercamp Who is going?

2008-07-01 Thread ruperthowe
! --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, ruperthowe rupert@ wrote: if i tell my wife that i'm burning $1000 that i can't really afford to spend 5 days away (including my daughter's birthday) when she's 8 months pregnant and when my sister, her boyfriend and her two kids are visiting from England

[videoblogging] Re: Vloggercamp Who is going?

2008-06-30 Thread ruperthowe
if i tell my wife that i'm burning $1000 that i can't really afford to spend 5 days away (including my daughter's birthday) when she's 8 months pregnant and when my sister, her boyfriend and her two kids are visiting from England and staying in our house just for FUN, then i'll get fired.

[videoblogging] Re: Vloggercamp Who is going?

2008-06-30 Thread ruperthowe
We already did: http://www.davidhowellstudios.com/2008/06/18/new-careertransitions/ --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They can take away our lives but they can never take our FREEDOM! After listening to Rupert, I want to invade CBS ;)

[videoblogging] How to embed high quality MP4 versions of YouTube videos!

2008-06-25 Thread ruperthowe
I've been reading about how to make YouTube videos look really good. There's quite a good article here: http://tinyurl.com/6lz636 BUT the most useful thing I discovered was how to link to and embed the High Quality MP4 versions that you can toggle to watch on the site. If you're posting/linking

[videoblogging] Re: How to embed high quality MP4 versions of YouTube videos!

2008-06-25 Thread ruperthowe
, ruperthowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been reading about how to make YouTube videos look really good. There's quite a good article here: http://tinyurl.com/6lz636 BUT the most useful thing I discovered was how to link to and embed the High Quality MP4 versions that you can toggle to watch

[videoblogging] Re: Rules of engagement

2008-06-21 Thread ruperthowe
I agree - that film is incredible. But so is the film of yours (on a similar theme) that I found via Croma's twitter stream just today: http://xi-vlog.loiez.org/2007/02/shame.php Which he says has been selected for the Festival of Cine in Colombia. Congratulations! And I loved reading your

[videoblogging] Re: Decline in posts to this group.

2008-06-20 Thread ruperthowe
You sneaky bastard! I see what you did there - you tried to reopen the What Is Videoblogging debate AND have the last word! :D Excellent post, Brook. But - in my experience - videoblogging has *always* been associated in the public mind with first person to-camera video diaries. Since I

[videoblogging] Re: Solid-state camera recommendation

2008-05-09 Thread ruperthowe
The Apple Apps all have means to ingest AVCHD footage. Not quite true. The *newest* Apple apps support AVCHD, but with limitations. The terrible (in my view) new iMovie 08, for instance supports it, but not the better iMovie 6. If you have an older version of iMovie or FCP, you're stuck. But

[videoblogging] Re: Solid-state camera recommendation

2008-05-09 Thread ruperthowe
on some factors you can get Sony Vegas Movie Studio for about 100 bucks and that will edit HD footage, and you can run Vegas on a Mac with bootcamp I think, maybe something to think about... Heath http://batmangeek.com http://heathparks.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, ruperthowe

[videoblogging] Re: Solid-state camera recommendation

2008-05-09 Thread ruperthowe
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, ruperthowe rupert@ wrote: The Apple Apps all have means to ingest AVCHD footage. Not quite true. The *newest* Apple apps support AVCHD, but with limitations. The terrible (in my view) new iMovie 08, for instance supports

[videoblogging] Re: Solid-state camera recommendation

2008-05-07 Thread ruperthowe
Canon blogger relations gave me the chance to play with a Canon HG10 last month. It's almost identical to the HV20, but records to HDD instead of tape. You need a program that will capture AVCHD from it. I don't really know what AVCHD means technically, nor do I really care, but it seems only

[videoblogging] Re: Solid-state camera recommendation

2008-05-07 Thread ruperthowe
:13 , ruperthowe wrote: Canon blogger relations gave me the chance to play with a Canon HG10 last month. It's almost identical to the HV20, but records to HDD instead of tape. You need a program that will capture AVCHD from it. I don't really know what AVCHD means technically, nor do I

[videoblogging] Re: Nokia Mobile Filmmaking Awards 2008

2008-05-05 Thread ruperthowe
Day, Sat May 10th. Cross your fingers for me - and help the judges know that you love me by rating my qualifying video at http://www.twango.com/media/PangeaDay.film/ruperthowe.10021 (you have to sign up for Nokia's video sharing site to rate/vote (boo!) but if you can be bothered to do that, leave

[videoblogging] Re: Video contest: $25,000 top prize! Enough for you and your favourite charity.

2008-05-05 Thread ruperthowe
Re: my/Irina's point about avoiding gaming in an online contest... The number of views/votes can help point the way to good videos, but are not the right way to choose a winner in a competition. I think Nokia have set up their competition right, and that you guys at Microsoft should change

[videoblogging] Re: Video contest: $25,000 top prize! Enough for you and your favourite charity.

2008-05-04 Thread ruperthowe
Hah! :D Thanks, Irina. But it should have been so much better. The deadline was 5am GMT last Monday morning and I remembered at 1am, just as I was finising packing up to emigrate. So I shot it at 2am in my empty house and went back to my mother-in-law's house to cut it on her PC at 4am, then ran