Steve Garfield's Video Blog

Media Snacking: Cooking up Video Conversations

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A response to Jim Long about Media Snacking. I talk about having conversations with short videos. It's not real time, but there is something new happening with the ease of use of new platforms such as seesmic.  

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Tags: jimlong, mediasnacking, video, seesmic, conversation

Nbot at Next New Networks

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I met Nbot at Next New Networks.

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Steve TV: Gas Station

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This video was recorded on the Nokia N95. I then edited the video on iMovie on my MacBook Pro. I learned a couple of things. An 8 minute movie, exported as 640x480 is a 266MB file. So I re-exported this as a 320x240 QuickTime movie using H.264 and it ended up as a 73 MB file. A better size for uploading to blip.tv. I might switch to recording these Steve TV videos as 320x240 so I don't have to deal with the file size problems. The 640x480 quality is amazing, but for these little tests capturing life streams, I think the smaller size is fine. I'm also being seduced by the ease of use that the N95 provides with it's internal editor. After having gone through all the trials and tribulations of logging and capturing, editing, compressing and exporting video with a desktop based system and miniDV based camera, it's freeing to be able to shoot, edit and post from one device.

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Tags: n95. nokia, stevetv. stevegarfield

It's Not Apple TV, It's Steve TV

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Instead of waiting for Apple TV, I took an old PowerBook G4 and hooked it up to my HD TV with an S-Video cable and and audio splitter. Now I can watch videos on my TV and browse the web. The picture quality is amazing.

Parts List:
PowerBook G4
S-Video Cable
Audio Splitter
Audio A/B Cable
TV

Installation Steps:
Plug the S-Video cable from the back of the PowerBook G4 into the S-Video input of your TV. Then from the Apple menu, choose System Prefernces, Choose Displays, then click on Detect Displays.

After the computer detects the external display, the TV, turn Mirroring on and what you see on your computer will be displayed on the TV.

Then plug the Audio Splitter into the Audio out port on your computer. Connect the white and red cables to the TV audio inputs.

Watching Video:

QuickTime - Play a video and choose View, Full Screen and the video will play full screen on your TV.

Other video players you can try are FireAnt and Democracy.

Front Row:

Newer Macs have Front Row with an IR remote you can use to control viewing videos on your Mac. Here's a blog post that explains how to intall Front Row on older Macs.

How To Install Apple’s Front Row 1.3

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Tags: appletv, itv, stevegarfield, video, vlog, videoblog

Why Blip.tv is great

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Tags: stevegarfield, blip.tv

This video is from a Filmmakers Workshop on videoblogging.

N93 Video: Andrea Shea from WBUR

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Here's the video, from the Nokia N93, where I captured a moment from Andrea Shea of WBUR when she interviewed me. This has been converted to Flash. Click on the MPEG4 link below if you want to see the original footage that came from the N93.

Here's a link to the story that aired on WBUR on 10/13/06.

Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4)

Tags: videoblogging, stevegarfield, andreashea, wbur

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Arin Crumley of Four Eyed Monsters

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Here's part of a presentation from Arin Crumley of Four Eyed Monsters. He talks about videoblogging in relation to reality tv, what people are looking for in videoblogs, discovery mechanisms, and cooperation between video producers.

Tony Pierce on Buzznet

Interview with Tony Pierce at SXSWi 2006 about Buzznet and their new video feature.


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Check out this same video interview of Tony Pierce over on Buzznet.

Robert Scoble on on10.net

Interview with Robert Scoble of Microsoft about the new on10.net daily videoblog.

Why does it come up with QuickTime by default?


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