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Posted on Jul 29, 2007 - 9:28pm by John P. in The Man's Videos, Wordpress
As many of you may recall, last weekend I was in San Francisco attending the Wordpress user conference called WordCamp. Well, I had a brief chat with Matt prior to attending and we decided that it would be a good idea to capture the lectures on video, so I went ahead and took my gear with me and played cinematographer for the weekend.
This first video which I’m releasing (they are coming out in no particular order) was actually the second session filmed on July 21, 2007 from 11am-noon at the Swedish American Hall in San Francisco, CA. John C. Dvorak and Om Malik led a public discussion entitled “Blogging vs. Journalism“.
The video has currently been uploaded to Blip.TV in a pretty high quality version, but it’s large and takes a long time to download, so I’m embedding a Revver version which is much easier to embed in blogs. It’s also available for download in Quicktime format and now available on Viddler as well.
For those of you that are wondering, the video was filmed with a Canon XH A1 camera with an Audio Technica AT897 shotgun microphone. Our sound system did not have audio cables to plug into my camera so at times the volume is a little weak despite the fact that I cranked it up during the editing process. Sorry about that, but I think it still turned out pretty good.
If some of you could please give me some feedback to let me know if you have any problems with the playback, or with embedding it in your own posts (if you are doing that) I’d appreciate it. I just want to make sure this is going to work for the vast majority of people.
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[...] John Pozadzides has released the first video from WordCamp and it’s sure to be one that will interest many. John C Dvorak debates with Om Malik on the subject of Blogging vs Journalism. It’s hosted on blip.tv and John has uploaded a high quality version there. [...]
You did a good job with the sound, John. It works just fine.
The only problem is with very long (10 minutes to start) buffering times with the Windoze Media Player. The video sometimes stops during play so that WMP can catch its breath and buffer some more. I’m on a 2Mbps line; adequate but not blazing fast.
In case the trackbacks don’t work. Just to let you know I’ve embedded the video in the post announcing that you’ve uploaded the videos, and I plan to embed each one in its associated live blog. I’ll try and keep an eye out in case you upload them to IFilm, Metacafe or Vimeo. I didn’t bother mentioning YouTube because of its ability to slaughter the quality of any video.
[...] John Pozadzides, of One Man Blog, has released the first video from WordCamp and it’s sure to be one that will interest many. John C Dvorak debates with Om Malik on the subject of Blogging vs Journalism. It’s hosted on blip.tv and John has uploaded a high quality version there. This first video which I’m releasing (they are coming out in no particular order) was actually the second session filmed on July 21, 2007 from 11am-noon at the Swedish American Hall in San Francisco, CA. John C. Dvorak and Om Malik led a public discussion entitled “Blogging vs. Journalism“. [...]
Patrick,
I just created an account on Vimeo, but they apparently only allow 250 MB uploads per week. Just one of these 1 hour videos is already bigger than that, so looks like they are out. Metacafe only allows 100 MB files, as does iFilm.
The problem is that all of the video sharing sites out there really only want either low quality movies, or short high quality ones. No one seems interested in long, high quality content.
John
Hmmm I just checked with Google Video Sharing (I’ve noticed that its at least better then YouTube, and I’ve seen long programs on it). And according to the site:
So they do support over 100 MB, so it may work for you. Mind you have to use their tool. I wonder if its some failing in upload scripts. I’ve seen the 100MB limit quite a bit.
Oh sorry for the double post but I figured to link you where I read that.
Google Video Upload
Patrick,
At the moment I’m re-encoding the video with a lower bitrate on both the audio and video portions to see how much more I can squeeze the size down. If I could even just get it to around 200 MB then at least it could be uploaded in two parts.
After it’s finished in a couple of hours I’ll upload it to Google Video either way. The only problem there is that sometimes their compression is so lossy that it is almost unbearable to watch.
Still, I guess that people would rather watch something that looks crappy than not be able to watch anything at all.
I’ll keep you apprised.
John
Anyone tried viddler.com? They claim to allow videos up to 500Mb and you can even set index points on the stream. AND you can add comments (just like a blog) to the video. Looks pretty cool.
I can’t play Windows Media files, because Microsoft no longer supports it (and Flip4Mac doesn’t work with the plugin). Could you please release it in a QuickTime/MPEG-4 format, or else could someone upload it to YouTube or Google Video please?
I’m currently working on it Douglas. I’ve already uploaded it to Google Video, but they are “transcoding” it… meaning they are butchering it with horrible compression. As soon as it’s complete I’ll let everyone know.
I’m also trying to find some adequate settings for compression which will let me get the 1 hour long video down under 100 MB with reasonable quality for uploading to all of the other services. I’m confident that within the next few hours I’ll be able to break through this barrier.
John
[...] Interesting discussion from people who worked (or used to work) in main stream media, though I disagree with some of the points they raised. I guess they’re perspective is influenced by how mature blogging has become in the west. (video by OneMansBlog) [...]
Thanks John, I have a slow connection, I’m downloading the video using http://www.american-builder.com/demo/vidgrab/ this is the video url for those interested in doing the same http://blip.tv/file/view/321186 hope you don’t mind, this way i’ll watch it on one shot, without waiting a couple of minutes every 10 seconds
Thanks again for the great video
Ok, good news folks. The video is now available on Revver and I’ve embedded a much simpler version in the page here, so please let me know if that works better for everyone. You now have the choices to watch it here, download a Quicktime file, or watch the high quality version over on Blip.tv. Seems like that should cover most bases.
John
[...] There were a number of great speakers. One session I liked in particular was the one by John Dvorak and Om Malik who talked about blogs and journalism (that talk can be seen on One Man’s Blog). I also liked the panel (and hanging out a little) with Jeremy Wright of b5media, who talked about blog monetization through finding your niche. Other great sessions include the Designing Massively Multiplayer Social Systems (her slides) and the Usability Analysis of WP, both of which got me to think a lot about the design of my own projects. [...]
[...] John Pozadzides of One Man Blog has posted the video of this session. [...]
Great debate, thanks for sharing.
The majority of media companies have missed the train and the readers are turning to amateurs, people with a deep knowledge about a special subject, and others with a motivation for writing or have interesting stories to tell, many many bloggers who have become part of the internet media. If the news media chooses to ignore it, it’ll lose a connection with readers on an intimate daily basis. If not careful, the mainstream media as we know it will become a bit less relevant with each passing day. Bloggers have the ability to create personal news entities. When ordinary people contribute photos, videos and news updates, many would argue they are doing journalism. When bloggers comment on and link to news stories, is that journalism?
Well i have learn quite a bit from this.It must have been a great experience for you.
The problem is that all of the video sharing sites out there really only want either low quality movies, or short high quality ones. No one seems interested in long, high quality content.