I tend to like shorter too. But then again if something is really good I often wish it was longer. I've been showing Nathan Millers Bicycle Sidewalk to my wife via my ipod plugged into the TV and she loves it. Her complaint is that it's too short! But then again that's the difference between watching on a computer screen and watching on a TV.
I would suspect that as more devices come along to allow aggregated internet video content to be displayed on a television then there will be a greater demand for longer videos. On the creative side, I happen to love making short form stuff. I mean I really love it. I love the callenge of keeping something really interesting for 3 to 5 minutes. It's also a good format to learn, experiment and make mistakes in. If you do something really bad you haven't wasted too much of anyones time. But if you think about it, before the Internet the only short form films one might see on a regular basis was television commercials. And that's a real waste of a perfectly good format. Now you might also consider the fact that there are several longer format video blogs that seem to be popular (like Democracy Now) but those tend to have a lot of very high quality content. So yeah if you have enough great content to carry a long format then by all means put it out there!! Bill Streeter LO-FI SAINT LOUIS www.lofistl.com --- In [email protected], Joshua Kinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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! 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