Thanks for writing back Jay, and for tossing out the feed uri. I think I'll try the polls first for these types of questions in the future.
Jose P.S. Tried to get ahold of schlomo, never heard back. I hear there's a hotel somewhere around here where all the vloggers go. --- In [email protected], Jay dedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 > > welcome. > Jose's feed is also http://feeds.feedburner.com/Burntwiretv > you should meet up with renegad and schlomo and the other Bay Area > videobloggers. > > > > 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 > > we've all been here before. > but there are solutions for now. > storage and bandwidth should never stop you. > > > 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. > > really a server is a server is a server. > some people like to pay for a server becasue they have control over stats etc. > some people like the Archive becasue its free and will store the video > for "eternity" for the community. > some people like Blip.tv because its free, the creators are cool, and > very reliable. > > all you need to do is upload to a server fo your choice and link to it. > it goes into the feed automatically. > after you figure out your process, you should just be worrying about > making video. > > > 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. > > Bev, whose also on this list, thought she was behind the times because > she asked this same question. but we all know that this is one of THE > questions that is still in need of an answer. > what format to use? > > as discussed earlier. > if you want to be on the iPod..use QT. > but WMV is fine as well for viewing. > as a community we all need to tell our uncles, pranets, friends, > grocers to download the two most popluar players. > Quciktime Player: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/mac.html > Windown media Player: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/default.mspx > both are free. > these allow you to watch 80% of video on the web that videobloggers make. > > i feel like this is some kind of therapy group: > "if they cant watch your video on their computer, its probably their fault." > educate. > > Jay > > -- > Adventures in Videoblogging > <URL: http://www.momentshowing.net> > <http://feeds.feedburner.com/Momentshowing> > ------------------------ Yahoo! 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