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w(t)f video hour #2

Youtube? yep. Why? Because I wanted to post this today. Vimeo?

waiting

Anywho, the reason for the delay on mv.tv and why I hate my mac. Enjoy.

(18) Comments|Posted in Mac Stuff,Tech,Video

  • db

    so it’s known. You Tube took 23 minutes, upload to ready. Vimeo took that long just to upload.

  • http://guapacha.com ukpylot

    Maybe I should leave this for the Mac rant to come but here I go anyway…..

    As you know I have the 8mm film to DVD side-biz and, as you have found, encoding time is everything. My Mac Mini with 2GB memory simply cannot do it, at all. Recently I had to convert 30 hours of video and had my Macbook Pro, the Macbook Pro from work, and my home-built PC (4 years old, about $1500 for parts) all working to get it done in time. The PC kicked the Macbook pro’s ass, too; the Macbook would also sometimes crash after 3 hours of processing – grrr!

    Given the crazy cost of processing power on the Mac I’d choose a PC for any real editing any day. There are also a lot more inexpensive video converting, editing etc software for the PC.

    I hate giving the PC props over a Mac but unless you are Rockefeller or don’t mind encoding all day long, I say buy a PC.

  • http://www.cjupin.com chans

    Sorry to hear about the processing issues…a macbook is a nice machine but for high-end editing (video/pictures/audio) I agree that an iMac with a beefed up video card (and plenty o’ ram- like 2gb+) would be the way to go.

    Did you ever check out the Elgato h.264 encoding do-hickey?

    And, to beat a dead horse, maybe check out viddler- if you’re fed up with vimeo maybe it’s worth checking out (never uploaded but watched many a video on it): http://www.viddler.com/

    Music definitely helps. I remember reading this article in a magazine about hosting parties and one of the top tips mentioned was to have music playing in the background because it fills in the awkward silences.

    Finally, I saw that Will Harris (from Twit fame) has a section on his site (channel flip) for allowing people to join his “network”- http://www.channelflip.com/join/

    Later man!

  • db

    I don’t have a problem with audio editing, but I’m never editing anything longer than an hour, so it happens pretty quick.

    So, I’m thinkin’ the high end 20″ iMac for 4gb of RAM. That or I’m looking at Dells again.

    Checked out the thing. Tempting, but I’d really rather have more computer than more stuff hanging off of this one (of which I have too much already). And I hadn’t heard of the Wil Harris thing, I will check that out for sure. He’s pretty good (and funny…not bad for a kid ;) )

    Josh is a viddler user. It smoked YouTube in a test last night. Quality is about the same as Youtube as well. I think I’m just going to stick with YouTube, unless it’s something really cool and I want a little higher quality, then I’ll suck it up and post to Vimeo.

  • http://jwiltshire.org Josh

    Yep, I’m using Viddler from now on, or at least until Vimeo gets its shit together. Seriously, they’re like one or two steps away from being Twitter-unreliable.

  • http://www.cjupin.com chans

    I like how twitter is the new standard for (un) reliability. How about Vista-unreliable or Plymouth Reliant K- unreliable?

  • db

    I like how twitter is the new standard for (un) reliability.

    I was thinking more like ’70′s Fiat unreliable, but I might be a little bitter ;)

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  • http://guapacha.com ukpylot

    you guys see this explanation?

    http://vimeo.com/blog:105

  • db

    I seem to remember reading something like that, and it makes sense. But it also sounds like it is going to take them a while to get up to speed.

    /me thinks it’s time to try Viddler. Listened to an interview with one of the engineers on the most recent net@nite. Very cool stuff.

  • http://guapacha.com ukpylot

    I took some videos at the airport today, the sound will not play on my mac from the Flip app, and quicktime will not even play the video. Uploaded fine to youtube though so must be a codec thing on the macbook…. grrr…

  • http://www.cjupin.com chans

    @ukpylot- have you updated to 10.5.2? I saw there was an update for pro apps as well as some video upgrades for core animation. Also, do you run Quicktime Pro? I noticed I had trouble exporting avi movies prior to…QTP seemed to fix all that.

  • http://jwiltshire.org Josh

    Perian.org is the one codec to rule them all.

    Also, I don’t think I’ve ever used the included The Flip software.

    This is awesome, it’s like we have our own little The Flip club.

  • db

    I have good luck using Visual Hub.

    I had the sound problem using iMovie. Or was it blank video? Oh hell, I don’t remember. There was a problem, just not sure which.

    Oh yea, Perian in full effect here too.

  • http://guapacha.com ukpylot

    10.5.2 – yep QTP – yep

    Yeah, I drag the AVI files off the Flip onto the desktop. Load into QT and when I hit play it pauses and then crashes. It was able to make an MPEG-4 which I could play but the sound was no good at all. Uploaded to youtube and it is fine. Ok, off to look at Perian….

    Already paid for QTP, don’t want to pay for another encoder.

  • http://guapacha.com ukpylot

    alright, perian rocks!! Wish I’d known earlier, this video needs some editing and it’s getting late! I guess my employer will pay for it tomorrow heh

  • http://www.cjupin.com chans

    Looks to be a “the flip” boinks thread —> http://forums.3ivx.com/index.php?showtopic=86421

  • db

    Oh yea, there is also a firmware update for The Flip too. You might want to make sure you have the latest greatest (eventhough you probably already do). Never hurts to check.

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