Rupert and Michael, Thank you as well for your answers. It seems your messages came in as I was composing my response.
I too, am a little concerned about Blip's terms of service. I have two accounts there, one for video blogging and work, the other for family videos. Neither of which meets their criteria for a show, so I really don't know where I fit. Recently I had trouble with a video, and they re-encoded it for me. In the two instances that I needed to contact them, Blip reps have been really helpful. My videos definitely are not works of art, typically me just goofing off or videos of the kids. Most of my viewers would just watch the videos on my blogs, so the podcasting file is not really necessary. I'd just like to make sure that the grandparents get the least fuzzy quality views of my kids with the least amount of effort. Of course, no one is complaining really about the quality. I guess the more videos I watch and the better I get with this hobby, my tastes have become a little more discriminating. I'm going to give MPEG Steamclip a whirl to see how that works out. I've been very pleased with the quality of Vimeo's videos, and I have toyed with the idea of paying for the Plus service. I could in essence host all my videos there, and make the ones of the family "invisible" on Vimeo so that they can only be viewed on my blog. The other videos can just show up as normal on Vimeo. However, the thought of migrating content over is not appealing in the least. --Chad On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Chad Boeninger <cfboenin...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Jay, > Thanks for the quick reply. Here's a video I shot last summer while on a > 50 mile bike ride. I shot it with my Flip Mino SD, so granted some of the > handheld on bike action is a little herky-jerky. I've posted all the videos > from all the services I have accounts with at > http://libraryvoice.com/technology/facebook-video-is-actually-pretty-good > , so you should be able to get a decent comparison of the video formats > there. All I did for the videos was stitch them with FlipShare, and then > render them as 640x480 WMV (the only choice). All services received the > same file for conversion. > > On a different note, I do make my own FLV for screencasts and then upload > that to Blip. I generally record my screen with Camstudio and then convert > the AVI file to FLV with a program called Quick Media Converter (it's > free). I only use the Easy conversion settings on the program, and my eyes > think the result is slightly better than the flash conversion at Blip. Quick > Media Converter (http://www.cocoonsoftware.com/) has some advance settings > as well (two pass encoding, bit rate, etc) but I haven't gotten around to > messing with those settings. Perhaps that could be a way to make a better > flash file and then upload to Blip. > > Thanks, > Chad > > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Jay dedman <jay.ded...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> > I've been using Blip.TV for quite some time for nearly all of my video >> blog >> > posts and other video projects, for both work and fun. I love the >> service >> > and the features, but have started to become a little disappointed with >> the >> > final flash video after conversion. If you upload the same video to >> Blip, >> > Vimeo, YouTube, and Facebook, the Blip version that is converted seems >> to be >> > the worst in the bunch. I'm generally only uploading SD video, if that >> > makes any difference. I don't plan on moving away from Blip any time >> soon, >> > as the other features (playlists, cross posting, customized player, >> custom >> > thumnails, etc) are the reasons I stay with Blip. However, I was >> wondering >> > if any of you have any suggestions for getting better quality out of the >> > Blip video player. Are there tricks I can employ on my end to make my >> file >> > more friendly to conversion? I'm a low budget windows user, so typically >> my >> > files are WMV (Flip video SD) or Mov (Canon SD 780 IS), and I >> occasionally >> > still shoot video with and older Canon MiniDV (edit in moviemaker and >> output >> > as WMV). Is there a file type or size that Blip may like better for >> better >> > quality conversion to flash? The other three seem to take WMVs just fine >> > and crunch them well, but perhaps there's something better I should be >> > looking at when uploading to Blip. >> >> I'd love to hear some folks chime in as well. >> Chad, do you have a video that youve uploaded to several different sites? >> It would help to actually see how each site has Flash converted the same >> video. >> >> A big thing is blip's favor is that they host the original video you >> upload. We convert our own Flash video and just upload that so we can >> be assured of the quality. >> >> Jay >> >> -- >> http://ryanishungry.com >> http://jaydedman.com >> http://twitter.com/jaydedman >> 917 371 6790 >> >> > > > > -- > Chad F. Boeninger > libraryvoice.com - blog > libraryvoice.com/videos - videoblog > twitter.com/cfboeninger > -- Chad F. 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