CogDogBlog » how to http://cogdogblog.com Alan Levine's space for barking about and playing with technology Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:36:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ Organizing with WordPress Categories http://106tricks.net/2012/01/24/organizing-with-wordpress-categories/ http://106tricks.net/2012/01/24/organizing-with-wordpress-categories/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:26:33 +0000 Alan Levine http://106tricks.net/?p=38 Continue reading →]]> Justin had a good question about organizing his content, wanting a way to easily show just the things he publishes for his Daily Create. This is a job for Categories (to be fair, it could be done jut the same with tags, there’s not a significant difference between them).

I wanted to experiment with showing this via an audio screen cast, which demonstrates how to create categories, how to update existing posts to be included in new categories, how to use them on a new post, how to find the URL for you category page, and how to add a menu item to point to your category.

FYI I made this on my iPad with Explain Everything, made screenshots, annotated them, recorded audio, and upload directly to YouTube. That was easy!

]]> http://106tricks.net/2012/01/24/organizing-with-wordpress-categories/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ Swinging a Dead Cat at Video Settings for YouTube http://cogdogblog.com/2009/07/03/video-settings-for-youtube/ http://cogdogblog.com/2009/07/03/video-settings-for-youtube/#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:43:45 +0000 Alan Levine aka CogDog http://cogdogblog.com/?p=3822 In some of my recent attempts to get good video on YouTube, I seemed to have been swinging wildly and missing. MPEG-4 video that looked great on my desk top ended up with the voice out of sync with the moving lips.

Before going about it again, I sought out (via the Oracle) suggested settings for getting good quality video out of YouTube (you definitely want something bigger than 320x24o since YT makes it bigger. I found what looked like reliable info from the YouTube Community Forums — Here’s Help for Perfect YouTube HD Video Settings!

“Perfect” would be nice, my standards are not quire that high.

So for the latest video in my previous post, these are the settings I ran through QuickTime Pro (actually via the expert settings exporting from iMovie HD):

mp4

  • MPEG-4 (MP4) using H.264
  • Data rate: 1411 kbits.sec
  • 1280 x 720 image size
  • Frame rate 25 fps
  • Key Frame: automatic
  • Under Video Options- Best Quality (multi-pass)
  • AAC Audio, 44.1 kHz, 128 kbps

This brought my 76 second video in at 13.9 Mb!

I don’t profess these to be the absolute best, Nor am I saying that there are not tools to do this work for you– but so far so good (one video!)

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