Ryanne July 10th, 2007
The newest Sanyo Xacti E1 just came out and boy is it shiny! The E1 is waterproof and rugged, has a nice big screen and to top it off, the audio and video quality is the best that I’ve seen from the Xacti series so far. Check out the video for example clips- I bumped my compression up a bit so you could see close to original quality in this video. Also, here is a link to an original file if you want to play with it in your editing software (right click or ctrl click and save link as): SANY0011.MP4. The E1 still uses the MPEG-4 format, but the codec has changed to h.264. I think that has made a huge difference in the quality of the image. Thanks to Tajee from Voice Bank for letting us play with this camera! If you’re looking to upgrade, I would highly recommend this camera, even over the Xacti HD series, whose audio is crummy compared to the E1 (though the E1 does not shoot in HD or in 16:9 widescreen like the HD series). Check out the E1 in the Freevlog Store if you’re ready to take the plunge!
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Verdi July 5th, 2007
This is our first screencast for the Show In A Box project. “What’s that,” you ask? Show In A Box is a collection of tools designed to turn WordPress into the “Ultimate Videoblogging Platform.” Now, don’t worry, we’re not dropping Blogger - we love Blogger. Show In A Box (and WordPress) is more powerful than Blogger but that comes at a price - a few dollars for a domain and webhosting and a lot more setup and configuration. So this first screencast just details setting up a mySQL database, installing WordPress, and doing it’s initial configuration. This doesn’t include adding any of the special Show In A Box stuff that we’ve built - it just gets you WordPress installed. The rest will come later.
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Verdi July 5th, 2007
Tuesday evening (Wednesday morning for some!) we had our first Critical Response Flash Meeting. It was big success and a lot of fun. All together we had about a dozen people show up to talk about videos by David Howell and Cheryl Colan. Follow this link to replay the whole 2-hour meeting. There was lots of good discussion about make great videos. Thanks to everyone who showed up and put all that energy into making this really valuable.
I’ll be organizing another one soon and will announce it here.
Verdi July 2nd, 2007
A couple of weeks ago we started talking about critiquing videoblogs in a flash meeting. Like I say in the video, I’ve used this great feedback process with my theater and I think it’ll work well for talking about videoblogs too.
So, I set up another flash meeting for Tuesday, July 3 at 23:00 GMT (that’s 7 p.m. EST, 6 p.m. CST, 4 p.m. PST here in the U.S.). You can figure out your time in relation to GMT here.
This is a moderated process where the responsibility of the audience is to not bring their own agenda and to have a desire for the artist to do her/his best work.
For this first meeting well be looking at two videos:
“Stop, Look And Listen” by David Howell
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“Little Iraq” by Cheryl Colan
There is limited space in the flash meeting so email michael@freevlog.org for an invitation.
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Verdi July 1st, 2007
Apple has made a big deal about all the iPhone features like it’s ability to play videos from YouTube and iPod compatible videos that you’ve synced to it from iTunes. The one thing they haven’t show is whether it can play iPod compatible videos right from the web using Safari. So my daughter Lauren and I went down to the Apple store today to test it out. What we found out is that the iPhone is pretty slick and handled all the iPod videos we tried. They all worked - those embeded with the blip.tv copy and paste code, with the vPIP plugin, with the Freevlog Pop-up Maker, and even old videos that we just linked to directly. So the bottom line is, as long as your videos work on the iPod they’ll work on the iPhone.
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