online-video

Given that this is the 8,000th post to my blog, and I just passed 50,000 YouTube subscribers last night, I wanted to make this post something special. With any luck, the content herein is just the beginning of a series of suggestions that could turn into something more (either here, or in an eBook). People ask me how I do what I do all the time, especially when it comes to live video or my videos on YouTube.

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This is Matt Scinto’s submission for the HP Magic Giveaway. Feel free to leave comments for this article as you see fit – your feedback is certainly welcomed! If you’d like to submit your own how-to, what-is, or top-five list, you can send it to me. Views and opinions of this writer are not necessarily my own:

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I’ve been recording media for Internet distribution since… ever since I could with one of Sony’s first Mavicas (the FD7, which recorded images on a floppy disk). In fact, one of my Gnomies found and published my first webcam recording (which I’ll never live down). I’ve been streaming live video for well over a year now, and I’ll get to those statistics later in this post.

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Revver appears to be the ones serving up the videos through Zango, and they also appear to have known about it for quite some time. Since I’m uploading my videos to Revver, I’m opening myself up to the relationship they apparently have with Zango – merely another affiliate, albeit one with questionable intentions. I don’t take issue with the embedding of the videos themselves, but the flaming hoops which one must progress through in order to watch them as indexed by Zango.

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When it comes to video sites and embedded players, I absolutely hate it when…

• there’s no volume control in the video player
• volume levels aren’t sticky between videos / sessions
• volume is set to a default of high instead of mid or low

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Remmeber that stupid airline safety video we shot? A few months ago, an advertising agency contacted me to see if I’d let them run part of that thing in a television commercial for Road Runner. There was a chance it wouldn’t make the cut, but my silliness must’ve won ‘em over. I’m a priceless moment maker according to the announcer. Not sure how long that video will stay hosted on the .Mac site, but if it disappears I’ll have to slap it into my YouTube account (which is where they discovered me in the first place). Oh, the best part of it isn’t being in a TV commercial – it’s having been paid pretty well for doing something so zany.

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Ethan Kaplan (no relation to Pud) wants to talk about blackrimglasses.com“>buying digital audio and video:

The $39 Dollar Song and 6 Cent Ringtone didn’t really light up the charts on the TechMeme saturated blogosphere, but it is a valid discussion to have, especially when the business of content is exploding as it is (to use Jeff Jarvis’ parlance). I know that being from a record company, people will immediately look to me to talk about DRM and the RIAA. I will avoid the latter, and only address the former in the context of the discussion about abstraction and mutability and how it relates to Value.

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