Howdy all, I'd like to introduce myself... My name is Jose Hernandez, I am from San Luis Obispo, living in San Francisco. I just started a collaborative Vlog with some friends to distribute our old work and p;ay with some new ideas, its called http://burntwire.tv and my personal site is http://jozecuervo.com You can find me on MySpace and a plethora of other networks. I work in R&D for an instant messaging company called MECA that has recently taken interest in podcast and vlog content, among other things. That said, I'm a vlog producer, developer and consumer and I'm listening to what you al have to say. I even bought an fancy video iPod, just to test this stuff out.
So here I am, I just got back from last weeks portable media expo. Met some cool folks from Feedburner, libsyn, odeo, audioblog, etc. Started running into the OG vloggers Eric Rice (was at the expo), Michael Meiser (on technorati), Ryanne (dropped her a line). I am really curious about the hosting, syndication and distribution solutions people have been using, I am about to break my 30GB monthly bandwidth limit and am looking into free services ourmedia and blip TV as well as pay services audioblog.com and libsyn.com here's my current process: http://burntwire.tv/images/production.jpg 1. I export from final cut or premeire as a Mpeg4, 320x240 progressive video clip. I then allow quicktime pro to SLOWLY transcode to the "export to iPod" H.264 format. My primary goal is to get clips onto the iPod and I have been happy with the results of the encoding, though they are large. 2 Currently I am uploading each clip to my mediatemple shared server account. They give me 2gb/30gb and 6 domains. I use them for a few clients and my own sites. 3. I then post the copy I get from the episode's contributor. Other than title/description, there is other meta-data that I can place into the body of a blog post. I would really love a tag system for doing this kind of thing. 4. Blogger generates my ATOM which is then piped into feedburner, which generates my eclosures and tacks on some itunes namespace goodness. 5. I then go into mefeedia to manually enter everything again. As of last night I have been uploading into blip.tv also. I am considering posting all of my existing work to blip and then switching the feed source in feedbuner. I would ideally like the ultimate level of customizability, like the ability to split the feed into subchannels, since I have so many different types of content coming at me. Libsyn offers that feature. Anyone have any srong opinions about blip or libsyn or audioblog? My second area of inquisiton is file format. I've had several complaints about the current format. I would like to offer a second format, and possibly a second feed for people who cannot view H.264. A friend mentioned that if I import H.264 into flash, I can only export to the Flash8 player. That makes me want to shy away from flash at this time. I guess my question is, what are some good lowest common denominator cross-platform formats? I'd like to his OS9 and windows media 6.4... I'm guessing MPEG-1 is the way to go. Any thoughts peeps? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/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/
