CogBlogged Tagged ‘youtube’

I have not even seen a glimpse of MTV for at least 10 or 15 years. I am so old I can remember when the “M” stood for “Music”: I can remember the riveting teen age moment when MTV first launched- it was radical, different, spoke to me– and it felt at the time like a game changer (not that I knew there was a game)- and I was there from the start. It was like maybe how future people will be writing about their first experiences with the web or YouTube or … It was jam packed with media. It had a fast pace, It had edgy graphics, and had I know it was a word then– it had snark. And it felt so personal- the first “VJs” were all young(ish) and unknowns (quick, how many can you remember? I failed too, had to look it up). I think [...]

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): MPEG-4 (MP4) using H.264 Data rate: 1411 kbits.sec 1280 x 720 image size Frame rate 25 [...]

Watch any YouTube video in a flowing stream of frame shots? Try Yooouuutuuube. It’s better seen than described- the spaced out version of Dominoe: linktribution to Mashable who thankfully do not obfuscate their post URLs with google feedproxy gunk in their RSS feeds

A little experiment- not looking to see who can name the pattern (that is easy).