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16:9 online notes

Lachie sent these notes for dealing with 16:9 exports for the web.
Open file in Quicktime,
Go to “Window -> Show Movie Properties”
Select “Video Track” then “Visual Settings” tab below
De-tick “Preserve Aspect Ratio”
Change scaled size to 427 x 240, stretches width to widescreen
/(OR change to 320 x 180, shrinks height to widescreen)
Also, a tool suggestion;
SQUARED 5 [...]

xacti vlog camera

J & R introduced me to the SANYO Xacti E2 camcorder which is a great pocket camera for recording video and used a lot by videobloggers who want the ‘capture the moment’ option.

wordpress and video

Wordpress have gone and added a video multi-format transcoder as an upgrade to WP blogs. It comes at a cost currently – lets hope that changes down the track.
Announcing VideoPress.com
videopress post.
With the video upgrade (available on your upgrades page, bottom left of dashboard navigation) when you upload a video of almost any format we’ll [...]

comment video

Seesmic is a recent sharing platform that has been developed around using online video for commenting. Background on wikipedia including the person behind this venture. It has been seen as a version of twitter video and is directed towards webcams. A flash interface is being used with a MySQL database.

Open Source Video initative

http://osvideo.constantvzw.org/ – open source video blog
Open Source Video is a project of Constant, a Brussels based organisation for Arts and Media. This weblog is a collective testsite for producing and distributing open source video. Here we keep traces of experiments with software for sharing and editing video, and report on what we found to be [...]

Metadata working group [online video]

Caught up with Andy Nicholson from Engage Media today and learnt about their Transmission online video metadata working group.

A metadata standard for online video will ensure a common definitions for basic information such as title, date, author and language and (free) tags. This standard is to be used in video upload forms and video feeds [...]

RDF

Meet with JJ the other day and he spoke about RDF being the next thing to watch on the web. From W3C:

Today’s web is built predominantly for human consumption. Even as machine-readable data begins to appear on the web, it is typically distributed in a separate file, with a separate format, and no correspondence between [...]

links for 2008-09-22

mac-dev.net » Download Flash Video Player Plugin for WordPress
(tags: wordpress videodefunct flash online-video plugins)

WordPress › Interactive Video Plugin « WordPress Plugins
WordPress interactive video plugin
(tags: wordpress online-video interactive-video videodefunct)

[korsakow syndrom]
Florian Thalhofer let us know that Korsakow 3 has been released. A system that has been compared to VD.
(tags: videodefunct software online-video)

Pool discussed in education forum | [...]

Ogg Theora (browser support)

from nettime breakthrough for open video on the web
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/31/1752206&from=rss
Ogg Theora support for the HTML5 tag is in the Firefox 3.1 nightlies.

http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=492
I suspect that the effects of this will take a long while to be felt but it’s a great first step in bringing open video to the web by delivering it to a couple hundred [...]

qik

A couple of XML presenters mentioned qik a mobile video content sharing platform. about:

Qik enables you to share moments of your life with your friends, family and the world – directly from your cell phone!…Just point your cell phone and stream video live to your your friends on Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, etc.