Archives for August 2005
tank.tv
I’ve been watching tank.tv since it started in 2003. Emerging and established artists submit their videos and tank.tv hosts them and shows them. Each video is under 3 minutes. This site is likely the first place to aggregate and host video art on the web.
When they designed it, they designed it to be simple in look and navigation in 2003, but it would be great if they could update it with an rss feed. As it is now I have to use IE5 on my mac and wait for downloads and I’d rather just get them in Fireant.
I would submit stuff if they used a creative commons licence, but as it is, their terms page is a little scary.
Acceptance of and agreement to such modifications, alterations and/or additions. Accordingly, tank.tv recommends that you periodically visit this page to review the current Terms of Use. Intellectual property. Unless otherwise stated, all names, designs, logos, titles, text, images, audio, video, software or other content (”Content”) contained in this Site are protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights belonging to tank.tv ltd(”tank.tv”), its affiliates or its licensors and all such rights are hereby asserted and reserved.
Still, I recommend you go watch some movies over at tank.tv. Not everything is brilliant and some of it it total garbage, but the rare gem makes it worth watching their content. I liked the clip titled, “Stockquote” which shows a buffalo wallowing in dust.
Published by Bre Pettis on August 31 .
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Transcribing can be fun
David Tames finds that Transcriva makes transcribing (almost) fun:
“I found that with very little practice I was transcribing an interview more quickly and efficiently than ever before. It’s a pleasure to come across a simple and elegant solution to a problem, especially when it’s such a good value for the money.”
Published by Steve Garfield on August 30 .
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100 Hacks
Ryanne Hodson, Jay Dedman, Josh Kinberg, and Michael Verdi are creating a book on videoblogging for tech publisher OReilly. The book will be part of OReilly’s “100 Hacks,” series, and will give all kinds of tips for making one’s videoblog into a sweet media machine. The quartet is collaborating with videobloggers from around the vlogosphere to come up with the freshest, handiest, vlogtastic hacks, which will help readers tweak their content, distribution, and production to their hearts’ delight. Check out the link to see the team behind the book working to meet the publisher’s deadline.
Published by Jonny Goldstein on August 28 .
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Different Editor, Different Feeling
Brother’s Vu Bui Videonatomy and Lan Bui Video of the Moment wanted to see how they would both seperately approach an editing project. So they took some footage that they shot together and did just that. The results can be seen here:
Lan Bui version Lottery - Lan Bui .60 sec.
Vu Bui version Lottery - Vu Bui .55 sec.
It is great to see the subtle differences of how each editor approaches the short.
Which one do you like better? But more importanntly, why?
Published by Graham Walker on August 28 .
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FireANT: Growing Leaps and Bounds
Recently I had the opportunity to speak with Jay Dedman about the multimedia aggregator, FireANT. FireANT is a product that I use on a daily basis, and it has definitely made enjoying vlogs much easier and more accessible. This is especially true for people who lead busy lives (and who doesn’t?). In the interview, Jay discusses how FireANT has grown, and what goals they hope to accomplish in the future. One of the goals that Dedman has begun work on is helping to make the creators of FireANT more accessible through the implementation of two FireANT Yahoo! Groups. Dedman told me that “FireANT was just a dream for us last year….we built it to scratch our own itch…and it turns out a lot of other people were scratching as well.”
FireANT Yahoo Groups can be found at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FireANT_for_PC/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FireANT_for_Mac/
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Published by Tim on August 26 .
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European Vlogging Flash Conference
If you have the time, check out last 45 minutes of Sunday’s Flash Conference (actually a good place to start is at 01:12:21. )
There is some great discussion about inspiration, goals, conceptual styles and the artisit process of vlogging.
Vlogging flash conference August 21, 2005
link to archive of other vlogging Flash conferences
Pictured here is Anders of The Random Show
Published by Graham Walker on August 25 .
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Node 101
Last night, the videoblogging video conference was home to an important discussion about "getting the word out" about videoblogging. Michael Verdi shared his and Ryanne Hodson’s vision of the Node 101 project to help teach people to videoblog and provided needed videoblogging resources.
Several ideas were discussed and actions proposed and Micheal Sullivan summarized them well in a post to the Yahoo Videoblogging group:
Verdi emphasizes teaching, a place to teach… with hopes that some will themselves teach others (teach the teachers). This seems to be the main objective and Node101 would in essence extend what Verdi and others have already been doing this year… by creating a template of sorts that others can work off of … (click here for more)
You can find the video conference archive here.
via [Apperceptions.org]
Published by Markus Sandy on August 24 .
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Tips and Tricks
Cut the Zoom.
There is a reason Hollywood movies use dollies instead of the zoom, it looks a 1000 times better. Nothing makes video look more like amateurish than the zoom function. Of course you can’t carry a dolly around in your pocket but you can at least, hold the camera firm and steady and use your arms/body to mimic a slight dolly movement.
Try this next time you are editing: Instead of showing a zoom from a wide shot to a close up try cutting out that zoom in the middle. Now, you have a nice one-two wide to close-up shot. Obviously, if you are doing dialogue this can be tricky but a well placed piece of b-roll (ie - that extra crap that you shoot) placed in-between can often fix that issue.
In reality, I find it pretty much impossible not to use the zoom (and yes they find their way into my videos all the time but I leave them out whenever I can). The main point is that even being conscious of this fact while you shoot and edit will go a long way if your goal is to make your videos look more professional.
Published by Graham Walker on August 24 .
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The Mirror World
Inspired by Anders’ Wonderful World, Peter from LeanBackVids.com has created the Mirror World. Peter and I geovlogged all of our videos and we wanted to show a glimpse of our experiences using Google Earth’s 3D world. Travel around a virtual Seattle and stop to enjoy some video highlights from our cameras.
Published by Matt Savarino on August 24 .
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Tips and Tricks
Listen to your inner editor -
One of the great things about the Digital Video revolution is that one person can do it all, but this should not mean you can’t benefit from a little collaboration. Often as I am shooting, I will hear my inner-editor voice talking to me. “ohhh, that gives me an idea about how to edit this stuff…get more coverage of that but, shoot it in this way”. When you think you have finished shooting ask that inner-editor if you have enough material to work with.
Often this will make you realize that while you may have a lot of footage, there is something missing that could really help out later. Obviously, this is just another way of saying shoot with your end in mind, but I find doing it this way helps me gain some distance and think about the project from a different perspective.
Published by Graham Walker on August 22 .
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