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 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
and
“Little Iraq” by Cheryl Colan
There is limited space in the flash meeting so email michael@freevlog.org for an invitation.
Continue Reading for more details on the process Continue Reading »
Ryanne May 22nd, 2007
This is the day all you Blogger users have been waiting for! No more header hacking! You can just upload your header image to your layout faster than you can say “img src=”. Hurray! Thanks New Blogger Team!
Verdi May 21st, 2007
Every time you create something like a video for your videoblog (or anything else like a photo, song or book) you automatically own an “All Rights Reserved” copyright on it. And when you put it on the Internet, unless you say otherwise, that’s the license attached to your work. “So what?” you say, “Copyright protects my work from being stolen.” Well, we all know that in reality, nothing will protect your work from being stolen - not even DRM. The idea is to protect your work from being used in ways that you haven’t given permission for. Again, this won’t prevent anyone from doing anything, it just gives you a legal recourse.
The problem is that Copyright is “All Rights Reserved.” It doesn’t give permission for anyone do anything with your work. What if you want to make your work available and accessible to as many people as possible? What if you want to allow people to repost your work and tell others about it? What if you want to contribute to the world’s common cultural and intellectual knowledge by allowing others to reuse and build upon your work? Well, that’s where Creative Commons comes in.
A Creative Commons license amends your Copyright with the permission for others to use your work in certain ways. Creative Commons licenses span the gap between Copyright - All Rights Reserved and Public Domain - No Rights Reserved. It’s a “Some Rights Reserved” Copyright.
The nice thing about hosting your videos on blip.tv or the Internet Archive is that they allow you to select a Creative Commons license when you upload. They use a very simple form, like the one on the Creative Commons site, to help you decide what license is right for you. All you have to do is answer two questions: Do you want to allow commercial use of your work? and Do you want to allow modifications or your work? This will give you one of six different Creative Commons licenses.
If you go to the license section of the Creative Commons website and fill out the form, you’ll get a license along with a snippet of code that you can paste into a videoblog post or into your sidebar that will link to a plain English version of your license (the plain English version contains a link to the full legal text) that clearly lays out what someone can do with your work and under what conditions. Here’s ours:
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
Here are a few resources for further information:
Creative Commons
Poscasting Legal Guide
Rules For The Revolution (A podcast that answers legal questions about the laws affecting podcasting and new media.)
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Verdi March 28th, 2007
I’m so excited about this screencast! Here’s why:
1. It really sucks when your videos don’t play correctly in all browsers - vPIP takes care of that.
2. It’s a major PITA to embed video and give your viewers a choice of formats to pick from - vPIP takes care of that.
3. Having multiple embedded videos on a page is a problem - vPIP takes care of that too.
4. Normally you’d need your own server or hosting account to run vPIP but Enric, the vPIP developer, has taken care of that too.
5. This is an awesome screencast made by our friend Cheryl Colan, founder of NODE101 Phoenix!
So don’t leave a comment here - send your love to Cheryl over here.
Note: You might be wondering why we’re not using vPIP here on Freevlog. Well we thought that the big 640 x 480 videos worked better in a pop-up window that you could move around while you were working. I use on my personal site and Ryanne uses a special version of it on Ryan Is Hungry.
Links in this video:
vPIP
Blogger
blip.tv
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Ryanne January 14th, 2007
direct .mov file
Hurray for good compression settings! These settings are sure to give you a lucious, QuickTime, widescreen experience. Not downloadable for the iPod, but great for watching on a bigger screen. In this screencast we’re using the h.264 codec on the multi-pass setting, which, in my opinion is some of the best looking compression with the best size files you can make right now. (BTW-make sure you’ve updated to the newest QuickTime 7). I will always love 3ivx, but honestly h.264 just looks better. If you’re on a PC and using Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere or Avid Xpress- be sure to export as a DV-AVI, open that up in QuickTime Pro and use these same settings (meaning you can skip straight to minute 1:40 in the screencast and go from there!). Enjoy, good luck, keep your chin up and keep compressin’!
runtime: 6:40, size: 640×480, 21.4mb
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