CBS Features Rocketboom Leading Vlogger Revolution • Andrew Baron Admits $25-A-Day Expense • Amanda Congdon Shines • Jim Axelrod Giddy With Exclusive

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Friday August 19, 2005 may be remembered as the moment in media history when the new media man bit the old media's dog. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Watching CBS veteran Jim Axelrod on the CBS Evening News Eye On America segment enter the VLogoSphere as a kind of alien news man who is so blown away by what the Rocketboom team is doing that he can barely contain himself from his sense of amazement. Hats off to the CBS News team for doing such a great shoot and editing job on this story. Producer Sally Garner really went the extra mile to include viewer turned Los Angeles Correspondent Zadi Diaz 3,000 miles away. "It's really the global show-and-tell," she notes. Very cool. And so true.

I love CBS and I admire Les Moonves. He has already declared the CBS News division is being mobilized to become primarily an internet news source rather than a TV one. That takes a similar kind of vision that Axelrod tells producer Andrew Baron he has. Andrew is incredibly modest and calm. What a rock. Amanda Congdon is the height of low key. She's really a dream anchor - so incredibly mature, modern and sophisticated yet youthful and fancy free.

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Don't Use H.264

Don't Use H.264

Took me until after Saturday's Flash Meeting to "GET" my mistake last week. I wanted to be state-of-the-fart using the FutureMedia H.264 video codec for my CURRENT REPORTAGE. WRONG!

 

That way I was insuring that no one would see my reports. So I've learned my lesson and will not be doing that any more. Pardon my redundant posts. At least you can see what I'm doing now.

IBM LinuxWorld Keynote San Francisco CA 8.10.05

IBM LinuxWorld Keynote San Francisco CA 8.10.05

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Steve Mills, VP Software Group IBM, Explains The Linux Popularity Trend

Ron Sebastian, Senior Consultant IBM Demonstrates A Modern Linux Client

This is a NEW NON H.264 version still at only 1 frame per second demonstrating that long form video can be compressed and delivered small. The original H.264 compression stills are stil on this version. I have spent a lot of time correcting my H.264 encoding blunder from last week and need to move on to edit and encode more from last week's LinuxWorld Show.

Michael Sack, Exec.VP & Chief Technology Officer Explains Inceptor's BIDCENTER Self-Service Search

Michael Sack, Exec.VP & Chief Technology Officer Explains Inceptor's BIDCENTER Self-Service Search

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a short lesson in one new marketing tool developed by Maynard MA's Inceptor by Michael Sack, Exec.VP & Chief Technology Officer, Direct 978.298.1532, mike.sack@inceptor.com, 4 Clock Tower Place Suite 300, Maynard MA 01754

This is a NEW NON H.264 version and completes my redos for this site. I have learned not to use the latest technology if I want many people to see my posts. 

Taylor Explains Remote Record + Compression + Posting Proof-Of-Concept for Trade Show Reports

Taylor Explains Remote Record + Compression + Posting Proof-Of-Concept for Trade Show Reports

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Taylor Barcroft explains the difference between the Blip.tv Safari Recorder Compression vs. Final Cut Pro DV Recording and direct Compression to H.264 MPEG4. Taylor Explains this test from this FCP DV recording NOT compressed with H.264 MPEG-4. This is a 3 minute 4 MB file. Very small 1.33 MB per minute and still ok quality. Not as good as H.264. But everyone can see this one. Keep in mind that the Blip.tv Safari Recorder is ALPHA with plenty of time and space for improvement before it is done. This is NEW NON H.264 version.

PriceGrabber.com @ SearchEngineStrategies San Jose 8.9.05

PriceGrabber.com @ SearchEngineStrategies San Jose 8.9.05

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Interview with Johnny Jai Shin, New Account Sales Manager, johnny@pricegrabber.com, http://www.pricegrabber.com, Interview & Recording by Taylor Barcroft NEW NON H.264 version.

QuickTime 7 Required

We don't do Windows but Windows does us. Because we exclusively encode with the H.264 codec in Apple's QuickTime 7, if you are running Windows, you need to download and install the latest version of QuickTime 7 for Windows Public Preview 3. We will let you know each time there is a newer version so you can keep updating.

Of course if you are running a Mac, you should already have installed QuickTime 7.0.1 long ago unless you never run or ignore your Software Update... If so you better get busy. If you're still running OS 9, forgetaboutit.

Michael Sack, Exec.VP & Chief Technology Officer Explains Inceptor's BIDCENTER Self-Service Search

Michael Sack, Exec.VP & Chief Technology Officer Explains Inceptor's BIDCENTER Self-Service Search

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From Search Engine Strategies, San Jose CA Convention Center we get a short lesson in one new marketing tool developed by Maynard MA's Inceptor

Michael Sack, Exec.VP & Chief Technology Officer

Direct 978.298.1532

mike.sack@inceptor.com

4 Clock Tower Place Suite 300

Maynard MA 01754

 

Videography and H.264 MPEG 4 compression by Taylor Barcroft, Video Journalist on a 1.25 GHz PowerBook G4 with FCP 4.5 under Mac OS X 10.4.2. NOTE: Tiger appears to have broken the Compressor 1.2.1 application part of FCP 4.5.

 

Time 3:08 Space 6.6 MB, 320 x 240, 2.2 MB per minute and it looks great even at full screen.

Time 3:08 Size 6.7 MB

Taylor Explains Remote Record + Compression + Posting Proof-Of-Concept for Trade Show Reports

Taylor Explains Remote Record + Compression + Posting Proof-Of-Concept for Trade Show Reports

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Taylor Barcroft explains the difference between the Blip.tv Safari Recorder Compression vs. Final Cut Pro DV Recording and direct Compression to H.264 MPEG4. Taylor Explains this test from a FCP DV recording compressed with H.264 MPEG-4. This is a 3 minute 6.2 MB file. Very small 2 MB per minute and still high quality. Keep in mind that the Blip.tv Safari Recorder is ALPHA with plenty of time and space for improvement before it is done.

Search Engine Strategies-PriceGrabber.com

Search Engine Strategies-PriceGrabber.com

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Search Engine Strategies Conference & Exp

San Jose Convention Center CA

Interview with Johnny Jai Shin, New Account Sales Manager

johnny@pricegrabber.com

http://www.pricegrabber.com

Interview & Recording by Taylor Barcroft

R. Buckminster Fuller: “Everything I Know” - Audio/Video of the January 1975 historic 42-hour session! . . . . . . . VOD only

The universe of audio and video will always have all sorts of lengths, sizes and qualities among its parts. There is no right or wrong on this subject. I do think shorter is generally better for most things - especially in this early stage of internet distribution. However . . .

I am so thrilled to have just found this classic R. Buckminster Fuller Series from January 1975. I knew him personally so this is a huge find for me. And I cannot stress enough how important I think it is that all persons watch and or listen to all 42 hours of it. This is MUST SEE TV for every generation. Thank you so much for mentioning it Steve Watkins.

The Real Player series is handing off sockets every minute. I have never seen video distributed this way before. I guess you can stop it any time and pick up where you leave off by keeping the individual part of the string - sort of like a series of little chain links - on your desktop. Very interesting. Wonder how they do that and why? The player keeps handing off to 1-1.5 minute segments while remaining the same name between each thought he states. And the video gets very interesting as the editor or the director used the blue screen to project more than one shot of Bucky simultaneously while he was talking. Can't tell if that was done in post or during the recording. And Bucky directing the director - this is CLASSIC!!!

I think Bucky was the original inventor of the Internet. He was the first person to imagine and postulate the concept of a global interconnected network of computers sharing information for resource re-delegation. However his concept was not at the desktop level because that was beyond his ability to imagine. I took him to Apple to meet Steve Jobs back in the 70's and he thought the Apple computer was "just a toy". He wound up being too old to fathom what we have today. But I did imagine it beyond his mainframe network concept. I tried to tell him this was going to happen but he didn't get it cause desktops were still too weak then.

Thank you so much Steve Watkins. Bucky video for FREE! This is another internet miracle. Wow!! the quality of this video is amazing considering when it was recorded in January 1975. I am totally blown away. Thank you soooooo much. I am crying. Bucky is my #1 all time hero.

I will definitely be watching all 42 hours of this set MORE THAN ONCE. And I will be listening to the audio on my iPod even more times. Every minute is a mind blowing experience for me.

Mike Gunther: Have Mercy, DIRECTOR: Suzanne Scholten

This Clip is really on the cutting edge of music videos. I cannot praise Suzanne Scholten enough for her originality and creativity. This clip truly has rerun staying power. Note the mysterious woman with the working gloves rhythm slamming chains on an oil barrel. Wow!

MacTV Apple Mighty Mouse Review

This is one of the best PodClips to date because it illustrates the total value of a Video Podcast for a full explanation of a new product. Nowhere else could I fully understand what Mighty Mouse is all about including its shortcomings and foibles. Congrats Asif on an outstanding review.

Video of the Moment posts "Fishes" on iTunes

"Fishes" is a brilliant essay on the reality of DEATH as a FACT-OF-LIFE by Lan Bui of Orange California.

I recommend subscribing to the new "Video of the Moment" PodCast at the iTunes' Podcast Directory. Keyword "Video".

Welcome to PodClips

I just had to grab it while it's still out there. Great idea here at Podcast Alley's Video Podcast section. So I am following them. Thanks Podcast Alley. They list 49 Video Podcasts thus far. Each PodCast has numerous PodClips associated with it. This blog is for and about individual PodClips that we will notice within the wide variety of Subscription Video Podcasts.

For example Mark Rinehart's "Jumper", featured on the Monday August 1st Tonight Show with Current_'s co-founder Al Gore as guest, is an outstanding PodClip that you con only view online thus far at the Current_ features page. Current_ is only Internet VOD or via traditional satellite & cable sources thus far. Al called each clip "Short Form Pods". I dont' see how the Current_ "leadership", or more accurately "followership", will be able to resist Video Podcasting for more than a few weeks. It will be interesting to see how long they wait to execute that phase of their operation - particularly in light of Al Gore's position as one of Apple's board members. In fact it is quite astonishing that they didn't have Current_ Video Podcasts up Monday to launch simultaneously with the traditional systems. What's up with that?

Check out the new FREE turorials from the Maine Media Arts Project up on iTunes 4.9 now. They started with a Final Cut Pro lesson #1 Monday August 1st. But they also have some other PodClips they created in July up there for manual catch-up downlaods.

Just found a two minute PodClip from InFlight on iTunes tonight:
Rock Band InFlight's web site is here.