Re: [videoblogging] Long and File Size: Revisiting the question

[Markus Sandy]

richard (madge) mentioned his desire for longer videoblogs during one of the video conferences a few weeks back Joshua Kinberg wrote: OK, so now i'm wondering if those of us, like me, who prefer shorter videos are simply more vocal than others. Come on, there's got to be some people out there who love the longer videos and just can't get enough of the large files. -Josh On 1/16/06, Philip Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 3 minutes doesn't seem like a long time for a video. until you've got 20 of them to watch. i'll take a 30-second video that's so rockin' i have to watch it three times in a row, over a three-minute one where i'm fast-forwarding going "ok ok... i get it." disclaimer-- i am far from your typical vlog viewer. i'm on dialup and don't subscribe to any feeds. instead i visit sites individually and make download decisions based on the criteria of text description, file size, intriguing screenshot, and easy access to the .mov file (a few of you make this last one kind of difficult). anything over, say 15MB and i'll have to get back to you tomorrow... assuming i leave my modem on all night... and i remember it in the morning. even with my finite download capability i somehow still wind up with a backlog of unwatched vids. xo philip http://swordfight.org http://destroyhotaction.com On 16-Jan-06, at 5:00 AM, Markus Sandy wrote: i regularly download files in the 80-100Mb via fireant, although most are smaller. i tend to be less patient in the browser. if there is a feed, i'll use that instead if it makes sense. if not, i'll download it in the background. i generally multi-task and so rarely care how long the download takes. i prefer not to view vids in the browser, i prefer a sizable player like fireant. in general, i don't really care how big or how long a video is as long as the content is worth it (there is a limit of course, I'm not looking to download gigabyte files just yet). very few pieces of media can hold my full attention for 40 minutes anymore (especially movies and TV). i don't generally stop watching when it gets long, i usually just fast forward. if i do stop, i generally stop watching a video within the first 30 seconds. If it has not captured me by then (or if it's not from a friend perhaps), I delete it and move on to the next. again, size is not much of a factor here. while i constantly find great stuff, most videos fail to capture my attention these days (this is more of a statement about the increase in the number of videos, not a decrease in quality - there's just a lot more stuff out there these days) the main reason for stopping a download: i found something else I want sooner my download speed is usually in the 512Kb-1Mb range with no other limits (e.g., total downloads not limited). while this is not super fast, i would probably feel different (i.e., more selective) if I had slower access. i like streaming for the video conferences, but it does not seem to make much sense to me for vlogs (from a viewer standpoint, it stops and starts too much and it's usually hard to fast forward). hope that helps Stephanie Bryant wrote: >I find myself revisiting this question every time I post a large file >to my vlog. > >How much is too much? At what point will you (personally, yourself, as >a vlog watcher): >1) Stop downloading the file. >2) Stop watching the movie (how many minutes, assuming it's not too boring). > >Just curious about the answers-- someone recently said they wanted >longer than 10-minute vlogs, because they wanted to really sit down >and watch stuff, but I wonder about that. A 10 minute vlog is 30 MB, >easily. A 40 minute vlog would be almost 100 MB? Is that worth your >time, bandwidth, and download speed? Would it make more sense to >stream instead? > >--Stephanie > >-- >Stephanie Bryant >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Vlog: http://mortaine.blogspot.com >Audioblog: http://bookramble.blogspot.com > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > -- My name is Markus Sandy and I am app.etitio.us http://apperceptions.org http://digitaldojo.blogspot.com http://node101.org http://spinflow.org http://wearethemedia.com http://xpressionvlog.blogspot.com aim/ichat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: msandy spin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________ 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. ________________________________ ________________________________ 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. ________________________________ 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/ -- My name is Markus Sandy and I am app.etitio.us http://apperceptions.org http://digitaldojo.blogspot.com http://node101.org http://spinflow.org http://wearethemedia.com http://xpressionvlog.blogspot.com aim/ichat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: msandy spin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.