Re: [videoblogging] Re: John Edwards to Run for President (announcement on YouTube)
I'm curious as to how you believe that these things will pull out a win against an opponent whose primary weapon is the echo chamber, guaranteeing that, for every assertion you make, there will be an army of people on every media outlet imaginable all saying the exact same contradiction to whatever Edwards/Clinton/Whoever says. Kerry often dug his own grave in 2004, but it's also very true that he was smothered out in the media-- every one of his merits became sidelined, niggled, and confused; every one of his blunders instantly became a gaping flaw (think about the flip flopper label he earned). The grassroots is great for taking Congress, but not a Presidency. I still remember in 2004 as I marched in the streets for Kerry (even though I didn't really like him) and found that our assembled grassroots power paled in comparison to the regimented and well-funded power the Bush 2004 campaign had. We had our signs, chants, hope, and energy. They had their signs, chants, hope, and energy...and several party wagon vehicles...and a DJ...and threw major parties that got young people registered and hyped up for Bush...and...and... My sincere belief is that 2008 will be a battle of insiders. Anyone who is overly grassroots is going to find themself in a fourth and long. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime By talking plain and simple, by fighting back when he's right, by offering clear solutions to issues, by not gettign side tracked, by addressing issues, by being human, by not just telling us what is wrong without also telling us what is right, understanding that people want and need to feel valued, that they want to feel like they are part of the solution, that teir voice can be heard.by harnessing the power of this new media to reach out to a group of people who feel they have no voice and are being left behind... Heath http://batmangeek7.blogspot.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, J. Rhett Aultman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The fundamental question I have is how he'd handle another Rove-run campaign. Both he and Kerry basically let a Rove campaign smother them in punches and mud last time, and knowledge of the world doesn't protect you from Mr. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime Robert Scoble wrote: Might be, but it's clear he spent the past four years beefing up his knowledge of the world too, visiting dozens of countries. Robert - Original Message - From: J. Rhett Aultman To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 6:43 AM Subject: Re: [videoblogging] John Edwards to Run for President (announcement on YouTube) He won't tank Dean-style, but he ran four years ago, giving his enemies plenty of time and opportunity to find all his weak spots. An Edwards campaign is, in my mind, walking wounded already. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime Joey Profit wrote: John Edwards harnessing the internets. I wonder if he'll tank like Howard Dean. --Joey On 27/12/06, andrew michael baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today Joanne, Chuck and I are out in New Orleans. We just filmed John Edwards' first announcement that he is running for president. I just uploaded the video to John Edwards' YouTube account. a href=http://youtube.com/watch? v=1etlZaf6zUwhttp://youtube.com/ watch?v=1etlZaf6zUw/a (BTW, it may look like a photo op, but Edwards has been working out here all day and has been providing major support since last year when Katrina hit). Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [videoblogging] Microphone suggestions for NYC trip
Have you considered buying an XLR-1/4 balanced adapter and a 1/4 balanced-1/8 adapter? Then you could use XLR microphones and get a better selection. I don't know how bad the sound will degrade through the adapters, but I don't think it'd be too bad. I recently did the audio for a video using an XLR-1/4-1/8 setup and taking the sound from a venue's PA system. Sounded really good in the headphones. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime There is a good chance I'm heading to NYC and BH Photo so does anyone suggest a good handheld microphone with1/8 inch jack. Thanks, this will be replacing my crappy 20 year Radio Shack one. John http://www.jchtv.com/ A Philadelphia based vlog about Craic, Travel and Sailing the Chesapeake Bay! __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [videoblogging] I hope someone can help
When I last updated to QuickTime, it played everything back with a weird bluish cast to it. Absolutely awful video quality. It got better when I went into the QuickTime settings and told it not to use DirectX. You might want to try it. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime I have joined the 21st century and Santa brought me a video iPod for Christmas. Some time ago, I upgraded to the latest version of iTunes and it totally screwed up my system and I had to uninstall and go back to what I had. Now, it appears that I must have the current versiou of iTunes or I'm up a creek as far as adding to my new iPod. The problem? The latest version of QuickTime will not show videos on my computer. Whether they are QuickTime videos I have made myself or QuickTime video previews on iTunes, all I get is garbage. I hear the sound, but get colors and wavy lines on the screen. I have not come across this in any troubleshooting guidelines and when this first happened several months ago (I went through hell trying to figure out where to find an older version of QT and uninstalling iTunes), I posted my problem to the QuickTime yahoo group and nobody had ever heard of that problem before. Surely SOMEONE here has and can give me suggestions for how to proceed. Please? -- Bev Sykes http://funnytheblog.blogspot.com http://funnytheworld.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [videoblogging] network2.tv is
There's actually a hilarious irony here that so many people on this group are mad about network2.tv taking their video blogs for their website, while I have submitted mine to them repeatedly and would love for them to show my video blog, but they won't take it. Maybe they just think it's hotter when they know you don't want them. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime I just noticed a referal in my web stats coming from here: http://network2.tv/episode/1855288/ Looks like network2.tv is embedding any and all video blogs into their own site. Somehow that annoys me. My stuff isn't creative commons licenses or anything. Just plain ol' copyright (c) Simon Dorfman. I wonder if I should do anything about this. Anyone else notice their stuff on network2.tv? Thanks, Simon Dorfman PeopleOfNewOrleans.com Video Interviews with New Orleanians Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [videoblogging] Re: OOoh, Amanda's Up!
For those that know me knows that I definitely do not have the hippie/let's all get along/commune for artist thing. The rocketboom brouhaha is nothing new, its typical business-as-usual. People work together, people disagree, people get angry and lawyers are called. It sucks for everyone involved, but it's also just Life. And it's also just business, and Rocketboom and Amanda's new project(s) are all business. Situations like this are, honestly, why there are things like NDAs and other such anti-transparency things seen as distateful in groups like this. Even if Andrew didn't get screwed, if it was his business, then this is a wake-up call about learning to protect your business. If there's provable damage and dishonesty, take it to court. If there isn't, there isn't. Fighting on here like wet cats in a gunnysack does nothing, though, and I don't really see the point. This is also why I'm so glad Freetime isn't even breaking even. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime
Re: [videoblogging] Reminder: Webby Awards Film/Video submissions due Dec. 15
Vloggies for the win. How much did nominating/winning a Vloggie cost? NOTHING! :) On 12/11/06, Irina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i dont think you missed anything. and if you win, you have to buy the statue! On 12/11/06, Deirdre Straughan [EMAIL PROTECTED]deirdre.straughan%40gmail.com wrote: When I looked at the webby awards site a few days ago, it seemed that you have to pay to enter - the smallest possible entry fee was around $90, and that only in certain cases, for most types of sites it was $250. Did I miss something? On 12/11/06, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] jkinberg%40gmail.comjkinberg%40gmail.com wrote: Just a reminder that the Film and Video submission deadline for the Webby Awards is this Friday, December 15. I think there are many active members on this list whose work is deserving of a Webby. Please consider submitting. For more info on submitting your work, please see: http://webbyawards.com/entries/index.php From the Webby's site: http://webbyawards.com/ -- Just as the Oscars honor film and the Emmys honor television, The Webbys is the first major award show in the world to honor original film and video programming that first premiered on the Internet. With new Academy members including Harvey Weinstein and Larry Aidem (Sundance Channel) who will judge the work and 11 categories like Comedy, Live Events and Drama, be part of online entertainment history! Enter your original content now! -- Here are the category listings for the Film and Video section: http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/categories.php#film Best of luck! - Josh Kinberg http://FireAnt.tv http://FeedYourZune.com -- best regards, Deirdré Straughan www.beginningwithi.com (personal) www.tvblob.com (work) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- http://geekentertainment.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- http://thenameiwantedwastaken.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [videoblogging] The YouTube debate is over..........
Everyone said, That needs to go on YouTube, this from guys and gals in age from 20 something to over 50, This needs to go on YouTubeNOT hey put it on your site or upload it to blip or Revver, or whatever, no it HAS to go on YouTube. [...] Maybe I am wrong, I want to be wrong in some ways but I gotta say based on my very informal test...the YouTube debate is over. I think that, while you're touching on a point, it's not 100% the point. I wrote a massive LiveJournal post on how I see the economics of blogging working, which is the long form and context of what I'm going to say here. If you're interested on my thoughts, you can find it at http://cuplan.livejournal.com/256364.html#cutid1 Basically, though, I think that it's a bit post hoc ergo propter hoc to suggest that YouTube is online video. While it has, for now, become a big brand name for people, I don't think that, in the terms of the economics of blogging as I see them, that YouTube is actually the end-all when it comes to carving out a name for yourself in online video. Consider that MySpace or LiveJournal or whatnot is considered the one-stop location for blogging, too, but the most popular blogs are kept on the sites of their creators. So, much like I think someone with a lot of creativity needs to use a MySpace page as part of their marketing plan, I also think that a successful online video producer will vastly benefit by throwing a few bones on YouTube. At the end of the day, though, YouTube doesn't strike me as where you ant to make camp...just a place to visit and promote yourself. -- Rhett http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime
Re: [videoblogging] Re: The YouTube debate is over..........
While it may pain your eyes to actually look at YouTube once in a while, I would suggest that viewing it as somewhere to toss a bone is not that dissimilar to old media going, the internets? well, it might be somewhere to toss trailers for our network shows, but the network is where it's at... Toss a bone was unintentionally derogatory on my behalf, and there's no reason for me to be derogatory as I have no opinion of YouTube one way or the other. To me, it's like iTunes; something I need to do (I actually haven't started on the YouTube work yet) in order to try and help get more attention for what I do. I apologize for saying something that could be taken that way. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime
[videoblogging] Playing around with 8mm
I've got some more artistic projects popping in off the edge of the radar, and for at least a couple of them, I have an interest in an analog and home movies effect that has me thumbing through the web looking for some information on shooting on 8mm film. Has anyone here worked with 8mm film? Have advice for purchasing a camera (prices vary WILDLY on eBay)? What's the availability of film stock like? Am I nuts? Just thought I'd lob it out. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Playing around with 8mm
You'll have better luck finding Super 8 film stock than standard 8mm or double 8. I haven't priced it in a while, but you'll need both a place you can buy the film and also a lab to process it. Luckily, it looks like there's good online community for Super 8, mail order labs, etc. I'm seeing websites listing processing costs of maybe $20/roll. I just have to kinda figure out where everything's coming from and set up a test shoot. Film can be fun, but it's also a bit more complicated and much-much more expensive than digital video. Yeah...I priced doing 16mm film once and couldn't believe the expenses that indie filmmakers are taking on themselves. I'd never consider film as a digital video replacement. At the same time, though, if you're looking into doing a music video for a female singer-songwriter, I can't imagine anything that will impart that forlorn artist girl feel quite like having some cuts done on something like 8mm film. Hopefully, it's not too different from working with a Pentax SLR camera, just that you don't use it for stills. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/
Re: [videoblogging] RB via TiVO (Linux Militants (Was Re: Anyone have Linux?))
Yeah I remember Andrew Barron posting the specs that Rocketboom is doing for TIVO distro. But mpeg2 still seems like overkill for the average videoblog. As a TiVO owner and vlogger, I do wonder how RB got the relationship with TiVO to do that and why TiVO seems to be playing wait and see on going further with vlogs when they already package a podcast client with the TiVO Series 2. A major reason I don't watch more vlogs is because I have to use my computer to do it. -- Rhett. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Our first real documentary
I can relate to that. I'm in the middle of shooting a short film (45 mins) and trying to organize what I've already shot and what I need to shoot more of. It can turn into a monster overnight. Yeah. I have plans for a 20-30 minute short and a mockumentary, both of which I want to submit to festivals. The vlog is training for that. The first video project I was on, I actually was in charge of the catalog of shots and writing up the clapboard so that the editor could keep the stuff managed. If I had an assistant and was working on a short, I'd go that route in a heartbeat. A storyboarded short, plus a catalog and a marked set of takes, basically creates the luxury of working one scene at a time in a highly organized fashion. Unfortunately, for this little monster we just did, there was no storyboard, no plan, and not even an idea of the angle we'd be able to take. Add on to that noise floor concerns, having to weave together scenes to recreate the feel of stuff that was mis-shot or ran long, and uuugghh. I'm making a checklist for next time so this stays under control. -- Rhett. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] How often should I post new videos?
I have just started my vlog last month, and have posted around 7 videos so far. Wow. And here I am with three in one month and feeling pretty good! :) How often do people post vlogs? Is it daily, once a week, a couple of times a week? I have not been in the community long enough to figure this out yet by following the RSS feeds. There is no major rule. It seems people post to their vlogs when they have something they feel like posting. I was pulling a post a week for a while, but the last post faced both technical challenges and challenges to my skills, and it's been six weeks in the making at this point. I have been checking out my visitors via sitemeter, but I don't seem to have that many. Well, the only way to improve that is to get out on more directories and syndication systems. I don't want to post videos faster than they get viewed, but if I have no viewers, should I still post videos? Making them is always good practice, and if you are feeling good about making them, then keep making them. I haven't checked my site statistics in weeks, either. -- Rhett. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] What is Your Definition of TV
Just want to dredge out what you think of first when you think of TV (excluding the bube tube you watch video on of course ;-) Sub-640x480 resolution, interlacing, and separated image and color signals. -- Rhett. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Sick of the sexism
Fair enough. I won't post it any more. For the record, I did not insult Brittany, I simply said she has a filthy mouth. Did you watch her vlog post? Call me crazy, but there's just something to me about an adult getting upset over the F-bomb that seems...juvenile. -- Rhett. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Sick of the sexism
Well, really it depends on what country we are talking about... I've never been to Denmark, nor anywhere in Europe for that matter, but it seems like most of Europe has a thicker skin when it comes to be offended to shit like that. Like what being the former representative noun of course. At the same time, I imagine in many countries that with strong amounts of religious fundamentalism, they may more sensitive... I seem to recall a certain incendiary cartoon. My partner studies the Cornish and is well-versed on their history. She once mentioned to me a Cornish pirate who was also really into his Methodist roots. So, looting and plundering was his ship's business, but there was no drinking or swearing on his ship. Go figure. ;) -- Rhett. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] Us vs. the UN
you know the other day when thinking about net neutrality and savetheinternet.com and what not ... I started thinking .. what would we do if they messed up the internet this badly? I started to envision a global darknet with city-wide wireless mesh networks and radio links between cities ... bypassing the backbone all together ... (The Short Wave Radio Operator in me really got excited about that) ... Maybe we should really start drafting up plans. :-P Yeah, but we'd never videoblog again. Things like that will never get bandwidth that'll be worth anything. -- Rhett. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] Why videoblogging continues to grow in importance
Public Access TV is not the favorite channel for Americans. But in many communities, it is the only TV channel that actually shows people like them talking...and expresses their opinions and ideas. As many of you know, I worked at a public access TV in Manhattan until recently. I brought many of the philophies I learned at this community TV station to videoblogging. Get everyone involved in the conversation. Interesting that you bring this up at this time. I got my taste for video production working as a producer for a community access TV show called Sex Life Live (http://www.sexlifelive.org). In some ways, my vlog is an attempt at staying in a medium and hobby I've grown to enjoy working with. On top of that, though, is that my local NPR radio station is doing a membership drive, and I had a long, hard talk with myself about why I didn't feel the need to donate to NPR even though I do listen to NPR for something like 30-60 minutes every day while I'm in my car. The reason, ultimately, came down to two things: (1) NPR might serve the public interest, but only by serving a majority of the public at the expense of certain groups. My choices in lifestyle cause me to fall into several of those groups, and so I feel unrepresented by NPR. If NPR went away, my car's radio would play podcasts like Polyamory Weekly and Thelema Coast to Coast, which are produced by, and for, people more like me than NPR. (2) It's public radio, but AFAIK, it's the copyright of NPR. If I pay membership donations to NPR, and it's really serving the public interest, then I would think the public should be able to reuse and rebroadcast that material as it wishes. By comparison, while podcasts and vlogs sare still copyrighted, there's a culture of sharing and distribution that just isn't there otherwise. Sans the digital divide, I'm starting to think podcasting and vlogging are poised to serve public interests at the expense of things like public access TV, NPR, and PBS. -- Rhett. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] Fixing the noise floor
Just out of curiousity, are you using a directional microphone? Yes. We used what was basically a lavalier. We're still expecting there to be noise, though. The environment outside had all sorts of noise sources. -- Rhett. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Fixing the noise floor
Hey, guys. Tonight, I am, for the first time, taking on the daunting task of trying to squelch the noise floor of some interviews we did this weekend. Because of our need to do everything on the spot, there's going to be a reasonable amount of environmental noise in the audio track with the interviewee's voice. What's the best way to attack audio cleanup for something like this? -- Rhett. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] How Much Time Do You Spend Editing?
I'm curious about how much times folks spend editing and what programs they use? Also how often do you vlog, as that impacts time available to edit? I'm currently using Adobe Premiere Elements. I can generally finish editing, including audio cleanup, transitions, and titles, in 2-3 hours. If I started out with a loose storyboard and was able to pick my shots from the beginning, it takes less time. If I have a mass of footage to hunt through looking for things to use, it takes much more. Our goal has been to have a 5-minute post every week. Because both I and my partner work day jobs (college professor and engineer at Motorola) and we're both engaged actively in research (she has a research profile to maintain and I'm working on my Ph.D), it really isn't possible for us to hope for more than a weekly video post. The Adobe Premiere help files are pretty good, but I'm still missing alot of the power of the program. Do you know of any good online/interactive tutorials? I think I'm getting pretty handy with Adobe Premiere Elements, but that's a slightly different breed from Premiere. What specific problems are you having? Maybe I can help. 1. VlogDiva - I would like to post weekly there. My favorite entry is 'Characteristics of Bad Website Design', but believe it or not it took me a long time to edit that video. So I'm starting to think that I'm just going to read from a prompter. I spend so much time writing the script that I dont want to have to spend a bunch of time memorizing and editing to. Yes. Make a makeshift prompter or otherwise hold up cue cards. I can't tell you how many times I've had everything in my head, ready to go, and then I press record and blow the whole thing. -- Rhett. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] How Much Time Do You Spend Editing?
I'm embarrassed to admit this, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to create a credits screen. Also, you know how in their tutorial they have an image/frame and inside the image/frame their is footage of that family? I want to learn how to do that. I got so frustrated trying to do the credits that I gave up. I also want to learn how to separate the video and the audio. I suppose I'll try to tackle these things now that I have the book.If I'm still stumped I'll let you know. But, please if you have any vital tips, I would love to hear them (about credits or anything else in Adobe Premeire Elements). Don't be embarassed...I'm a professional engineer and wrestled with Adobe Premiere Elements for a while. Creating a credit screen isn't all that hard. You use the titler to do it. Just click the Title button right next to the Edit button. There are a bunch of templates that they offer, but I really don't care for any of them, so when the templates dialog pops up, I click cancel and work with a blank title. From there, the titler comes up. You can put text on it, import images, etc, then save the title. You can also move around on the timeline and see what it'll look like if you overlay that title on existing video (which I rarely do). Once you like what you have, it'll appear as a media object in the same list as your clips, and you can drag it to the timeline. Drag to Video 1 if you don't want it overlaying your existing footage, or drag to video 2 to mix it with your footage. Separating video and audio isn't hard. Once you get a clip on the timeline, right click on the clip and you'll find an option to do this on the popup menu that comes up. I don't know how to do picture-in-picture yet. -- Rhett. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] VlogChallenge: Anyone Going to Post?
I was going to wait till the end of the week and send in my mostBR dangerous vlog. Is that OK?BR Yeah...we're doing something very similar. We just can't, in good faith, fill an art/culture documentary vlog with daily posts of whatever, so we're going to just skip on to what was our next planned episode- coverate of the first South Florida Gay Rodeo. Rodeo's plenty dangerous. :) -- Rhett. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] noob question...
Anne and I are looking at getting a dv camcoder in the next few days. I will have to get a firewire card for my pc, but that's fine. The camera records to a dv tape. Now when I capture to the pc (preimiere, virtualdub, whatever) this is goiing to come in the same as if I were capturing from our old analog camcorder via my tv-tuner card, yes? Depends on what you mean by the same. Before I bought the dv camcorder I have now, I did some test shots with a High 8 camcorder and dumped via an s-video-to-USB-converter. The quality was crap. A dump of dv over firewire is going to look a lot nicer and is more likely to be free of defects. If you mean to ask if it's a similar capture process, then they're somewhat comparable. -- Rhett. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Broadcast your computer usage live on the net.
BTW, if you are a university student trying to impress potential employers over a long period of time before graduating, would you not want to work live? And wouldn't companies have an incentive to watch these broadcasts to identify talented people? For example, software companies would probably get a better picture of how a programmer will work on a daily basis by watching them code on an open source project for long periods of time. Let me speak as a software professional. I'm working on a Ph.D in computer science, am employed by Motorola, and was a developer of Google Talk. Watching a coder's screen is really not an effective way of getting a feel for a coder's talent. There are a few reasons. The first is that, if a coder puts in an 8 hour day, it's going to take at least 2 hours to watch it. This is massively wasted labor hours for the reviewer. The second is that the minutae of the coding process is irrelevant; the final product and total hours spent is. Thus, an employer could learn just as much about the recruit simply by reading about the project on the recruit's resume and reading the source code of the final project. The third is that watching a coder's screen will tell you nothing about the skills in short supply among coders- social talents. Those are so important, I have been at interviews where my programming skill was never discussed...the interviewers just wanted to make sure they liked me enough to talk to me every day. Finally, employers have their own internal methodologies which will be different from how a coder works, and that learning curve will exist universally. -- Rhett. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Promoting a feed
Hey again, gang. So, now that I have a feed and a video, I'm trying to get as much exposure to it as possible. I know people on here mention sites that function as aggregators that help get better promotion for feeds. The only one I personally know of, though, is DemocracyTV. What are some others I should think about leaving a link to my feed on? -- Rhett. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Wow...my first vlog!
I guess this means I'm now a vlogger. Thanks to everyone for the advice about Adobe Premiere Elements. It's called FreeTime. Please check it out at http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime Oh...and I had a question for all you video geeks. I made the QuickTime file using Adobe Premiere Elements default LAN Downloadable settings. There seems to be a lot of REALLY bad interlacing going on in the final result. How the heck do I make that stop? -- Rhett. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Top Ten Trekkie Vlogging Mistakes
Sounds can be trademarked just like words and drawings. At least in BR Denmark. Not just sounds, words, and drawings, but also aromas! -- Rhett. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Top Ten Trekkie Vlogging Mistakes
Or perhaps I should run out and copyright the bingbong sound--you know the one that the F train makes when the doors close. You're too late, I assure you. -- Rhett. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Premiere Confusion...HELP?
Gang, I'm editing down footage for my first vlog ever, and I'm using Adope Premiere Elements to do it. So far, I'm pretty impressed with it. But...I can't seem to do one thing that should be really simple. Dumping 50 mins of footage onto my hard drive has exhausted the free space I have available, and I still have another 30 minutes of footage to dump. Now, I've gone and edited down that first 50 to the 3:30 that I really want to keep. A bunch of clips got cleared outright, and several others have been trimmed down to only a few seconds. What I'd like to do is clear out everything I'm not using so that I can make room for more footage. The problem is...I can't seem to find a way to tell Premiere If I've cleared it from the clip listing, and if I've trimmed it and put the trimmed stuff on the timeline, delete it. It's making it very hard for me to finish this up because the Premiere capture tool says I still only have enough space on my hard drive for about 9 minutes. Any help would be appreciated, since I couldn't see anything in Premiere's documentation to explain how to do this. -- Rhett. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Premiere Confusion...HELP?
If I were in your situation, I would Export Movie (project) to .avi, then once I check to see that the .avi is working properly and it's the way I want it... I would delete all the clips (your 50 minutes of footage) and start a new project using the .avi file you just made. That's not a bad idea. I can turn the .avi back into individual clips, then, using the split tool, right? I'm surprised you have that much footage! When I film Kitkast, I end up with about 50 minutes of footage as well, but my show is 10 minutes long! I sure hope you're not recording in between takes... This was on-site taping of the a gay pride festival in Ft. Lauderdale. We were on site for a good 6-7 hours and there was a lot to shoot. Besides that, we wanted to make sure we had good footage of large crowds of people so we could edit in a feeling of bigness, and for me, that meant making a lot of throwaway footage. -- Rhett. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Premiere Confusion...HELP?
This is just a humble suggestion from the peanut gallery... but: When I capture my video I do a bit of Mini-editing during capture. I tend to Pre-view the footage I've taped and then rewind and Stop capture on portions that are either obvious bad shots or not central to the plot line of my end product. That way I automatically cut some space and time off of the production before I even begin my editing process. This is what I am likely to do with footage from this point forward, especially if I shoot another festival. At the time, I really wasn't thinking about it, especially since I hadn't yet felt a visual story emerging. Now that I've taken 50 minutes and reduced it down to 3:30, I have a more clear palette to work with. Honing the craft sure is an...interesting...process! -- Rhett. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Premiere Confusion...HELP?
If I were you...first, I would buy another drive. You are going to end up needing it in the long run anyways. Normally, I would. I'm a computer engineer by trade, so this sort of thing is not foreign to me. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, this also means buying another computer. I haven't tried IEEE 1394 external drives, but USB external drives are too slow to be useful in this situation, and my only workstation with any real horsepower is a laptop. My plan, in the long run, is to buy a media center PC to hook up to my HDTV, soup up the drives on it, and use that as my video workstation in addition to other things. -- Rhett. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Premiere Confusion...HELP?
This man has good priorities... can I be your roomate? You and my fiancee would have to hash that one out. If you like interior decor and keeping a clean kitchen, she'd probably love it. ;) Of course, you and the cats would have to fight over sleeping space on the futon. ;) -- Rhett. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Top Ten Vlogging Mistakes
Paul wrote: Kitka wrote: Thanks Paul, I agree with you too. In the media world, there IS suchBR a thing as a cease and desist. I was talking with someone from theBR CBC the other day (more about this subject at a later date) and heBR told me about how someone was compiling a Top 100 songs list for aBR major network he said that they got a cease and desist order fromBR Leonard Cohen (or some boring musician like that) and they couldn'tBR use him in the FLATTERING Top 100 show they were making.BR BR Makes perfect sense to me. If Leonard Cohen wants to control how his BR work is used, he should have that choice. Whether the show was BR flattering or critical doesn't matter. Others may see this differently, BR but it's ultimately about artists being able to control how their work BR is used.BR I'm not sure it works that way in the case of the show in question. A certain amount of fair use is allowed in these areas. For example, it's my understanding that a person could write a book dissecting the lyrics of Leonard Cohen without ol' Lenny being able to stand in the way. The question of derivative work and fair use, as I understand it, is that if the derivative work is *about* the original, rather than a *restatement* of the original, then it's allowed. Whether a top 100 list is about could be in question though. -- Rhett. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: What makes a good vlog?
and yes.. generally these are all often short videos.. for me i just like short because of the fragmentation and the connections i can make between them hopefully my attention span is still there! When I was younger, I was like a lot of other film snobs- I believed that longer films were more artistic. I think this was because a lot of Hollywood tripe is actually pretty short. Eventually, though, I realized that extreme length is often a function of an editor not doing a good job or someone in the production crew being too in love with his/her work to leave it on the cutting room floor. I just eventually saw enough art flicks to not be wooed by pretention and gimmicks. Now, I love and praise anyone who can pack their entire point in to a small package, and my favorite format by far is the short. It's like the difference between reading Sartre and Camus. Sartre writes an imponderable 500-page tome that carries the same point that Camus makes in a paragraph. Brevity is the friend of the artist. -- Rhett. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Mac mini, videobloging (was Re: May events)
Quite how well this new Mac Mini performs will come down to how well softwar has been optimised for the Intel processors as much as anything else. Fortunately for Apple, the compilers they use optimize for Intel just as well as they optimize for PowerPC processors. -- Rhett. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Mac mini, videobloging (was Re: May events)
i doubt much has been optimized yet and optimization generally leads to more complex code and more bugs, so expect a fair number of updates Actually, from what I know, they use a commodity compiler and a pretty thin hardware abstraction layer that's already well developed. If you want to talk about things that'll introduce oddity, there are some other big issues. For example, Intel-based Macs are the only Intel computers in wide distribution that don't use BIOS. -- Rhett. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Legal issues in vlogging
Gang, I'm just getting started on creating a feed of my own. I'm finalizing my camera purchase today. My partner and I got into talking about the legal aspects of making a feed, and we were wondering a few things. * We can only assume that vlogging is like any other film or video production in that, if a person appears in the vlog (for an interview, etc), you should have them sign a release form. If you shoot on someone's property, you should get a release of location. How does something like this work at, say, a sci-fi convention or Renaissance Festival? Do the owners of the hotel/land need to sign release of location for that? What about cultural festivals held in the city's streets or parks? * Because a vlog is of limited distribution and generally is free, are there any legal concerns that don't apply to a vlogger that might apply to an indie documentarian? * How do shows/vlogs that do pranking people on the street type bits handle the legal issue? If a person signs the release first, then it's hard to catch them unaware. If they've been annoyed by being hassled on the street, though, they're really not likely to sign a release. Our vlog isn't going to feature things like that, but I'm really curious how shows like Wonder Showzen are able to create the image of people, caught unaware on the street, being annoyed to death by Clarence the Puppet. Thanks. -- Rhett. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
