Re: [videoblogging] Re: my new video blog about old home movies
Susan wrote: Bohus-- That was excellent! How exciting! I've subscribed to your RSS feed... your feedburner should say 1 pretty soon! Great - thanks! The RSS feed stuff is what I understand the least of this whole process. I get the principle, but I need to look into the process further to see exactly what's going on. I'm just that kind of guy. - Also, you have such an interesting name, you have to tell us where you are from! I'm as American as apple pie. :) I was born to immigrants from Czechoslovakia. Strictly speaking, my name is Czech - and a pretty old and outdated name at that... Thanks for asking! - How did you learn how to do such good narrations? I'm a narration chicken as it would be... and I've never taken any classes. It may have something to do with English being the second language that I learned. At home we only spoke Slovak, so I learned how to speak English from television. I've theorized that's the reason that I have the vocal cadences that I do, but who really knows? I did once take a voiceover class in the radio department at my school, and the class was dotted with either sportscaster/Howard Stern wannabes, or folks with a lot of ethnic overtones that they were trying to de-emphasize. The teacher warned me that I might not learn very much... :) The only other thing that I can think of is that I've been a fan of old time radio since I happened across some 40's and 50's shows when I was something like 11. Those actors are all voice and inflection, and you can learn a lot from just listening and practicing. While I've never taken any acting classes or anything, I do occasionally find myself acting in short films (hate it) or doing some improvisational stuff. Those sorts of things can increase poise and confidence immensely. I think that it's just one of those things that the more you do, the better you get at it. I've done some real voiceover work (and I must admit that it pays surprisingly well) without any real training. If you just rehearse a lot, I think that helps anyone get over their misgivings. BTW I think that intro took me 6 or 7 takes... -- Bohus Blahut (BOH-hoosh BLAH-hoot) modern filmmaker Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- 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: my new video blog about old home movies
Jake Ludington wrote: Just curoius what you're prefered method of digitizing Super-8 film is? I have some films in Super-8 that I shot in the late 1970's. This is likely the best method for consumer level transfer: http://www.moviestuff.tv/wp_xp.html Not cheap, but effective. This is the device I have. I would actually say that it goes far beyond consumer level transfer (perhaps I'm misunderstanding how you meant the term?)- the visual quality is a hair's breadth under a Rank transfer system which costs $350/hr to transfer. The quality of the picture is stunning - you can't see as much in a quarter screen video blog, but the DVD's that I've made for people just sparkle. I use a Canon XL-1 3 -chip camera as part of the capture process, and you can tell. The thing with the Workprinter is that it's really tricky to set up, and needs a lot of specialized attention. I have a degree in film, so am used to the persnickety nature of motion picture film. Also the cost doesn't end with the Workprinter device itself, you have to custom-build a computer for it, get loads of storage space, then of course all the stuff that you need to repair and restore film. I already did all of that so that you don't have to! :) I'm using the Workprinter now for the project that the home movie video blog is part of. I've used it for transferring stuff for broadcast TV, and in about a month we will be opening our doors to regular folks who would like their films transferred and preserved for the future. That's the plan... I may mention it in the video blog at some point. The other alternative is recording the film with a DV cam set up side-by-side with the projector. That's how I used to sort of homebrew film transfers. It takes a while to get the two devices lined up well enough, and because the projector and the video camera are at different speeds, you'll get a flickering picture on videotape. Some projectors have a variable speed knob that you can use to tweak the projector to get it to play nice with your video camera, but then the speed of stuff on-screen is often absurdly fast or slow. I'm not trying to discourage anyone of course. It's just that a lot of people I know have done transfers at home and were unhappy at how long the process took. With a lot of patience you can get a pretty nice picture. -- Bohus Blahut (BOH-hoosh BLAH-hoot) modern filmmaker Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- 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] Re: my new video blog about old home movies
When I was a film student in College in the late 70's I made three Super-8 films of the student co-op I lived at, Lothlorien. I wasn't impressed by the transfer I got from a consumer transfer house, particularly the exposure is off in many scenes. It would be nice to have a good transfer at some point :) -- Enric Cirne http://www.cirne.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bohus Blahut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jake Ludington wrote: Just curoius what you're prefered method of digitizing Super-8 film is? I have some films in Super-8 that I shot in the late 1970's. This is likely the best method for consumer level transfer: http://www.moviestuff.tv/wp_xp.html Not cheap, but effective. This is the device I have. I would actually say that it goes far beyond consumer level transfer (perhaps I'm misunderstanding how you meant the term?)- the visual quality is a hair's breadth under a Rank transfer system which costs $350/hr to transfer. The quality of the picture is stunning - you can't see as much in a quarter screen video blog, but the DVD's that I've made for people just sparkle. I use a Canon XL-1 3 -chip camera as part of the capture process, and you can tell. The thing with the Workprinter is that it's really tricky to set up, and needs a lot of specialized attention. I have a degree in film, so am used to the persnickety nature of motion picture film. Also the cost doesn't end with the Workprinter device itself, you have to custom-build a computer for it, get loads of storage space, then of course all the stuff that you need to repair and restore film. I already did all of that so that you don't have to! :) I'm using the Workprinter now for the project that the home movie video blog is part of. I've used it for transferring stuff for broadcast TV, and in about a month we will be opening our doors to regular folks who would like their films transferred and preserved for the future. That's the plan... I may mention it in the video blog at some point. The other alternative is recording the film with a DV cam set up side-by-side with the projector. That's how I used to sort of homebrew film transfers. It takes a while to get the two devices lined up well enough, and because the projector and the video camera are at different speeds, you'll get a flickering picture on videotape. Some projectors have a variable speed knob that you can use to tweak the projector to get it to play nice with your video camera, but then the speed of stuff on-screen is often absurdly fast or slow. I'm not trying to discourage anyone of course. It's just that a lot of people I know have done transfers at home and were unhappy at how long the process took. With a lot of patience you can get a pretty nice picture. -- Bohus Blahut (BOH-hoosh BLAH-hoot) modern filmmaker Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- 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: my new video blog about old home movies
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 16:24:41 +0200, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The main problem Ive found is that your feed only contains the wmv version of the videos. This is a problem in general at the moment, most feedtypes only support 1 enclosure per post. Can nybody advise on the best workaround for this problem? Use Media RSS and wait for all aggregators to support it (FireANT has support AFAIK). Include the Quicktime versions in the regular enclosure to have iTunes read it. - Andreas -- URL: http://www.solitude.dk/ Commentary on media, communication, culture and technology. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- 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] Re: my new video blog about old home movies
Cheers. Does feedburner support mediaRSS though? As an interim solution, is there any kind of feature in feedburner that enables you to specify 'only convert files of type x to enclosures?' If there were, then it would be possible to create 2 feeds in feedburner, one for wmv and one for .mp4 or .mov or whatever? Just thinking out loud really, theres got to be an easier way to handle multiple formats whilst we wait for the perfect solutions to filter down into every service and app? Steve of Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Andreas Haugstrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 16:24:41 +0200, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The main problem Ive found is that your feed only contains the wmv version of the videos. This is a problem in general at the moment, most feedtypes only support 1 enclosure per post. Can nybody advise on the best workaround for this problem? Use Media RSS and wait for all aggregators to support it (FireANT has support AFAIK). Include the Quicktime versions in the regular enclosure to have iTunes read it. - Andreas -- URL: http://www.solitude.dk/ Commentary on media, communication, culture and technology. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- 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] Re: my new video blog about old home movies
Just curoius what you're prefered method of digitizing Super-8 film is? I have some films in Super-8 that I shot in the late 1970's. :), Enric --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bohus Blahut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiya, I finally have my video blog up and running at www.homemovienight.com. First, it's important that I send endless thanks to freevlog.org without whom I could never have gotten even close to putting this together. Thanks, folks. I hope that the link love I set up helps. :) The video blog is part of a larger project I'm working on that's all about old home movies that people used to shoot from the 20's through the 80's. I'm a big fan of small gauge filmmaking on 8mm, super8, and 16mm, and through this video blog I hope to share some of the films that I've found in thrifts, people's basements, etc. I hope that I have everything set up right, and would appreciate any advice or tips that you may have. I know that I've got a bit to go as far as designing a more customized website, tweaking some of the info coming from feeds, etc. For now I just wanted to have something up and running that works - at least I hope it does. If you care to check it out, you can go over to www.homemovienight.com to watch my first 4 minute intro video. Thanks for your time, and I hope that those of you who watch the video will find something to enjoy. -- Bohus Blahut (BOH-hoosh BLAH-hoot) modern filmmaker Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- 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: my new video blog about old home movies
Just curoius what you're prefered method of digitizing Super-8 film is? I have some films in Super-8 that I shot in the late 1970's. This is likely the best method for consumer level transfer: http://www.moviestuff.tv/wp_xp.html Not cheap, but effective. The other alternative is recording the film with a DV cam set up side-by-side with the projector. Jake Ludington http://www.mediablab.com http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- 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/
