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Check this out! One of the problems of using text blogging services for videoblogging is that they don’t have any videoblogging specific features. So, we’re here in Jay & Ryanne’s apartment talking about videoblogging hacks and we come up with a way to use a new feature at Mefeedia to create a video archive page for people who use Blogger. This even works if you don’t have your own webserver! Check out this example at Ryanne’s Video Blog.
The Instant Archive by MICHAEL VERDI, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
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This is awesome! I have run into a little trouble, however.
My blogger site won’t allow
I can’t wait for this to get up and running. Keep the hacks coming!
verdi gets the real good coke in ny
silly me… what it wont allow is the script command that makes it java.
This deal isn’t quite ready for everyone to use. You get an error in Blogger but you can just ignore it and it will work anyway. On the Mefeedia end, Peter is working to make it better - some people don’t have their complete archives showing up, etc. We just thought of this last night about an hour before I posted the video. As soon as it’s all ready we’ll make a tutorial for it on Freevlog.
On blogger, when you add the code and click Publish, it shows an error. Under the error is a checkbox that says something like “ignore this error” - check that. Then publish again, and it will work
Where does it get the stills from? Is it taking the stills that you’ve created for your blog page — or is it looking inside each video file and randomly pulling a frame on its own?? Is it from a random place? Or does it always pick, for instance, frame number 43?
It’s getting a still from the video. I don’t know if it’s random or some set frame.
“it’s so cool to just sit here and invent shit!” -damn right it is! -::jealous::
-taxiplasm
cool, thanks you all
I clicked to see the first two videos. Bother loaded up to four or five bars in about three minutes. I left the second one loading for a full twelve minutes while talking on the phone and it never went past five green bars.
so you were there when it happened … that is cool, and so is the thingy …
Hey Michael–this is so cool. I linked to you at WATM, but I wanted to include a link to Josh’s site–only I don’t know his last name! Can you help me out so I can give him props, too? Thanks! Great work!
Thank you so much for your help in introuding me to the wonderful world of vlogging!
Still however having some difficulty in making it work.
man
if we didn’t swear so much in all of our videos, i could show them at the apple store….freakin apple store…
You guys are the best! I have been looking for a good vblog info site like this, especially because of the overly PC video users, it has been hard to find anyone who understands MACs. This is the greatest resource yet! I am sending your links to all my friends, posting them in my newsletter this week and pasting that html code on my site to direct folks to you.
I just really want you to know that I strongly support your efforts, applaude them, and encourage more! You are on it! Thanks Thanks Thanks!
Browsing your sites I keep thinking, “if these guys (and girls) can do these great free tutorials on the latest craze (vbloggiing) then they should be putting some gear for sale on the page too. Like lighting, mics, etc. After all, that is exactly my first thopughts after watching the lighting and blue screen tutorials, “Where do I get my umbrella light and green screen?” Seriously, you can bet that allot of other people like me will be glad you did put up some products like that, which are going to get bought sooner or later anyway after viewing your tutorials.
I want to stay in touch on all this. You are the prize for my searching a few hundred websites to find a Mac friendly way to get into this vblog stuff.
I have lots of video to edit into 5-10 minute chunks. The delivery process is what has slowed me down. I have Final Cut and appreciate the lessons on video. I use WildForm Flix Exporter to do the encoding for Flash, it works through Quicktime Pro to do that. But this technique of using MP4 is new to me and I will try it immediatel.
the info about mefeedia etc. is cool too. After checking tose spots oout, I realized that it is important to remmber the “viral effect”. Several people got their vblogs so popular that their servers froze up on the bandwidth usage. good to have them archived elsewhere if there are many of them I guess.
Hey, put me on a newsleetter list if you have one, and email any news.
Also, what the heck does the widget do?
I am going to apply the lesson on placing video on my blog. That is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
Roger Lothamer
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