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Class #18
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-vimeo is another hosting option for you, unlike youTube, if you roll off the controls they disappear and there isn't any branding while the video plays
(its the same object embed scripts as you use for youTube so you can apply your favourite tricks to it as well.
(vimeo's embed script included the credits and links below the video, you can take that out if you want)
I appended autoplay=1 and loop=1 to the URL on the first video
-don't forget LiveLeak if you want to post your war footage or your topless gymnastic floor routines.
Check their faqs.
a collection: http://www.paetau.com/picturepeople/
Just stinking beautiful: http://www.turbulence.org/Works/sms/sms9/index.html
This too: http://iamchriscollins.com/albers.html, http://charlesbroskoski.com/usehypnosis/
http://dvblogh4ck.blogspot.com/,
http://www.artonline.jp/personals/jakriborg.html,
http://moresoon.org/projects/introducing.swf,
http://lal-blog.blogspot.com/2008/10/thats-terrible-still-to-come-on-this.html,
http://www.marisaolson.com/projects.html, and some of her youTube posts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mC4hgxJiuI
-some youTube, QuickTime and general web video production info
-As we have discovered with the constant crashing of our browsers, (our machines and connections are good), there are some issues with the QuickTime player on PC's.
That said, QT gives you more freedom with your video proportions. But it doesn't have the social networking potential of YouTube, and I maintain that it's
not as robust as an FLV. (but I think that might be a problem with producers of QT's not paying enough attention to data-rates)
- Great examples of QT's:
http://www.damonzucconi.com/index.php/Work/ColorsPrecedingPhotographs1
http://www.damonzucconi.com/index.php/Work/ColorsPrecedingPhotographs2
(you still have to compress a QT but you can choose a higher data rate for better quality and risk your viewers getting bored waiting for the damn thing to play)
(or me getting pissed because QT has crashed my browser once again, though the links above from http://www.damonzucconi.com/ are worth the trouble).
-Much of the art we are looking at in this class is from people who participate in communities of users and producers, and by now you've noticed that lots of artists
are playing with youTube. (remember that 3nd class when you all wanted to get rid of the flash player controls and branding? http://www.justinkemp.com/cowboy.html)
- youTube wouldn't be so big if they hadn't made the actual uploading brain-dead simple: http://ca.youtube.com/t/yt_handbook_produce.
So we can talk a bit about how you control the quality of your youTube uploads.
And I mean control the quality even if you want the low-res look with lots of compression artifacts (those trembling out of place pixels that can animate an on-line video)
http://www.mteww.com/five_small_videos/
- Bandwidth is an important term that you will hear a lot when it comes to digital video. It's also referred to as bit rate or data rate.
Think of it as the amount of information can can flow through a conduit in a given amount of time. It's not the same thing as file size for a video.
I used to shriek that out constantly to a rather thick client of mine.
- Anyhooo, there's a variety of video and sound compression codecs for web delivery that will all result in a loss of quality at present.
As well there are no sure fire formulas for what compression will give a particular video the best quality and playback.
(much of the time it's case by case. depending on dozens of variables in any work)
YouTube takes lots of video file formats (.WMV, .AVI, .MOV and .MPG) but remember they will be converted to .flv's, the video format from Flash.
They recommend a 640 by 480 res for your video and their program will encode (for our purposes, resize and compress) it to 320 by 240 res and
a rumoured data rate of 330 Kbps, so pay atention to the original data rate of your videos, and compare the quality to your uploaded youTube.
You'l also notice that it displays the video on their site at a 480 by 360 res., so they are blowing that little video up a bit with even more loss of image quality.
(I like it and I always resize embedded videos to twice the size for blog posts, but you might not) YouTube also offers a high quality option (sort of)
This article explains how you can trick the site into returning a better video: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2330990,00.asp.
Hint: try uploading a video that is 480-by-360.
So today, we can do a few tests with your videos, it's optional if some of you want to work on your final assignments.
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(this one is blown up 3x, the quality is still good)