Breaking News video of MyBlogLog Sunday 29 - an epic
Filed in: Ed's blog spot
According to the Breaking News story, I took my first tentative step into the world of MyBlogLog Sunday, back in March, on the 19th to be precise. 290 mini-reviews later, movie man, OS9user, investigates the nitty gritty details behind the whole sorry show with a video broadcast / video essay of MBL Sunday 29.
Before you see it, here is a little background to the vid from the Breaking news perspective. And from my point of view, when the video review idea was first floated, I admit I was giddy with excitement at the prospect of being captured on film. Then I shat myself thinking I would have to appear live. (I have a voice fit for print, and a face that looks great from the back, peering into a trash can.) Needless to say, I am soooo thankful that it was the blog under the spotlight, not me.
After working through the night, liaising with a raft of advisors, the News room finally uploaded the finished movie review this afternoon, in two 50-something-MB chunks,
parts 1 and 2.
They are high resolution videos suitable for download to your desktop, but too big for me to embed on this blog in their full glory. Luckily, a real star in the video hosting world, BlogDumps Video, was prepared to go out on a limb and this is a sample of the whole embedded video coming this way veeeerrrrry shortly.
After following the production battles at the Breaking News film department, I am glad I gave video-making a wide berth at birth. Judging by the emails, the work required to produce this epic video dwarfs the totality of time and effort invested by me in MyBlogLog Sunday 1 through 29. Very intense.
Initially the hardest thing was to keep visitors with coughs out the recording studio. And then it was coping with door slammers. I believe that what you see here is take number 57.
Apparently they needed 50GB of Hard Drive space to produce the raw video, which came in at a mere 18GB! Having re-configured his computer to cope with the memory requirements, he then melted his processor in 2-hour bursts, trying to compress the 18 gigs into a file under 100MB. It has been a recurring technological nightmare for OS9user, but the end result is a testament to OS9User's patience and Intel's processors and the resolution is really sharp. Would it be as hard on a Mac, I wonder, tritely?
If you find yourself in a hosting pickle, unable to easily share a high resolution video with the world, there are a few options to embed those videos in a slightly lower quality to the original.
Youtube (or Google's love child) have a 100MB or 10 minutes limit on video uploads. Unfortunately, the 36-minute 2-parter was not welcome there.
My personal favorite in terms of classy video presentation are Revver who also have a 100MB file limit, but no time restrictions. And they have a revenue sharing deal too, albeit a matter of pennies per year! Unfortunately their delivery is a bit staccato..
Without doubt, BlogDumps Video.are the pick of the bunch. In response to the hard work of the Breaking News team, the latest Youtube-Google killers, and friends of the Pisstakers, have kindly reconfigured their site and before too long they will host the whole 122MB file in one shot. Proof indeed that they can do all that Youtube can, and then some. Cheers to the Wolf.
If nothing else, the video proves definitively that at least one real person has taken the time to check out my site in infinite detail. Joking aside, I am chuffed to hear the MyBlogLog Sunday and Pisstakers phenomenon praised up so much. It sounds so much better coming from someone else. The featured blogs had a good rap too. Win, win.
I think the Breaking News team learnt the hard way that shooting a movie is no mean feat, but I thank them for breaking their teeth on MyBlogLog Sunday, and they did it, despite everything thrown at them. Cheers mate.
Hopefully they will build on this experience and carve a niche for their own brand of video review and take the blog world by storm. You heard it here first!
If you have any comments, ideas or tips related to this video, please let OS9user know.
Before you see it, here is a little background to the vid from the Breaking news perspective. And from my point of view, when the video review idea was first floated, I admit I was giddy with excitement at the prospect of being captured on film. Then I shat myself thinking I would have to appear live. (I have a voice fit for print, and a face that looks great from the back, peering into a trash can.) Needless to say, I am soooo thankful that it was the blog under the spotlight, not me.
Without further ado
After working through the night, liaising with a raft of advisors, the News room finally uploaded the finished movie review this afternoon, in two 50-something-MB chunks,
parts 1 and 2.
They are high resolution videos suitable for download to your desktop, but too big for me to embed on this blog in their full glory. Luckily, a real star in the video hosting world, BlogDumps Video, was prepared to go out on a limb and this is a sample of the whole embedded video coming this way veeeerrrrry shortly.
A marathon project
After following the production battles at the Breaking News film department, I am glad I gave video-making a wide berth at birth. Judging by the emails, the work required to produce this epic video dwarfs the totality of time and effort invested by me in MyBlogLog Sunday 1 through 29. Very intense.
Initially the hardest thing was to keep visitors with coughs out the recording studio. And then it was coping with door slammers. I believe that what you see here is take number 57.
Apparently they needed 50GB of Hard Drive space to produce the raw video, which came in at a mere 18GB! Having re-configured his computer to cope with the memory requirements, he then melted his processor in 2-hour bursts, trying to compress the 18 gigs into a file under 100MB. It has been a recurring technological nightmare for OS9user, but the end result is a testament to OS9User's patience and Intel's processors and the resolution is really sharp. Would it be as hard on a Mac, I wonder, tritely?
Hosting big vid files
If you find yourself in a hosting pickle, unable to easily share a high resolution video with the world, there are a few options to embed those videos in a slightly lower quality to the original.
Conclusion
If nothing else, the video proves definitively that at least one real person has taken the time to check out my site in infinite detail. Joking aside, I am chuffed to hear the MyBlogLog Sunday and Pisstakers phenomenon praised up so much. It sounds so much better coming from someone else. The featured blogs had a good rap too. Win, win.
I think the Breaking News team learnt the hard way that shooting a movie is no mean feat, but I thank them for breaking their teeth on MyBlogLog Sunday, and they did it, despite everything thrown at them. Cheers mate.
Hopefully they will build on this experience and carve a niche for their own brand of video review and take the blog world by storm. You heard it here first!
If you have any comments, ideas or tips related to this video, please let OS9user know.
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