YouTube newbie
David Kilpatrick
to continue compatibility with new software - and they come with an
iSight camera in the top. Never had one of these before!
So I pushed my office chair as far back as it will go, turned the screen
up to full brightness to act as lighting, and made a quick recording of
one of my warm-up tunes using the tiny cheap Fullerton Blackwood parlour
guitar.
I have not seen these for sale in the UK and got mine via the usual eBay
route - cost me £99 including postage, had to pay £28 clearance/VAT. No
case provided and it's a very odd shape to get a correct case for. No
bass to speak off, very quick response, ultra-wide neck for a steel
string with 67mm string spacing at the bridge (over 1cm wider than a
regular bridge spacing).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR6gupRiuug
It's very difficult to look at the camera and not the screen. If you
look at your own picture on the screen while recording, the eye contact
is all wrong. The camera is the audience position. It was recorded using
the built-in mic of the iMac and encoded as an MPEG movie with 128 kpbs
sound, using iMovie to add the titles and do the encoding. 1 minute 30
seconds ended up being approx 10 megs of data before YouTube did its
compression. The sound seems loud and clear if a little crude and
there's no unwanted artefact noise.
David
Adrian Clark
David Kilpatrick <icon...@btconnect.com> wrote:
> 1 minute 30
> seconds ended up being approx 10 megs of data before YouTube did its
> compression. The sound seems loud and clear if a little crude and
> there's no unwanted artefact noise.
Nice playing and a very cute guitar!
I notice you're using iMovie... if it's any help, there's a useful guide
to using iMovie settings to get the best out of the Youtube compression
here...
http://maba.wordpress.com/2006/09/01/producing-screencastings-on-the-mac-
the-cheap-way/
(Scroll down to the section entitled "Optimal Settings for Exporting
Quicktime to Youtube.com")
adrian
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David Kilpatrick
> In article <eNednU1tX5x6jfDb...@bt.com>,
> David Kilpatrick <icon...@btconnect.com> wrote:
>
>
>>1 minute 30
>>seconds ended up being approx 10 megs of data before YouTube did its
>>compression. The sound seems loud and clear if a little crude and
>>there's no unwanted artefact noise.
>
>
> Nice playing and a very cute guitar!
>
> I notice you're using iMovie... if it's any help, there's a useful guide
> to using iMovie settings to get the best out of the Youtube compression
> here...
>
> http://maba.wordpress.com/2006/09/01/producing-screencastings-on-the-mac-
> the-cheap-way/
>
> (Scroll down to the section entitled "Optimal Settings for Exporting
> Quicktime to Youtube.com")
>
It seems to refer to using QuickTime Pro to do this, and claims iMovie
quality is not adequate, but I got much the same choices from iMovie - I
used the same sound settings as shown, but a faster frame rate and
larger image size, which YouTube probably has had to sample down. I
think all the options shown are now present with iMovie.
I have used Wordpress now for three weeks and of course I'm thinking of
creating my personal site using Wordpress. I am pretty angry with myself
for allowing friends/the world/familty/business associates to remove me
from the world of website publishing a few years ago on the pretext that
CSS, php etc was all very complex and things had changed. Consequently I
ignored php based sites as a possibility when others were building
momentum rapidly with forums, image galleries and similar
community-reinforced content.
Then I was shown - for a few seconds - the process of altering a
stylesheet for a Wordpress blog and immediately realised it's not more
complex, it has been simplified and greatly speeded up. Went home,
downloaded Wordpress, read the manual, and totally redesigned
www.photoclubalpha.com in four hours. Added a forum the next day and
after a lot of research, added image galleries yesterday (that took
under 30 minutes to install and configure).
I see that YouTube provides code to paste into a Wordpress or other
blog-type CMS page to embed videos. Time to think about doing some
camera use tutorials, but maybe not with the iMac. We have cameras and
we have lights, just a matter of setting up the studio for
podcast/YouTube recording!
David
Adrian Clark
David Kilpatrick <icon...@btconnect.com> wrote:
> It seems to refer to using QuickTime Pro to do this, and claims iMovie
> quality is not adequate, but I got much the same choices from iMovie - I
> used the same sound settings as shown, but a faster frame rate and
> larger image size, which YouTube probably has had to sample down. I
> think all the options shown are now present with iMovie.
Yeah, he talks about QT Pro in the first section, but his "optimal
settings" bit is for iMovie, including the Flickr set showing his ideal
settings...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88442363@N00/sets/72157594263355355/
I've used those settings on loads of videos now, and they do seem to
work, in that the additional Youtube compression does the least amount
of damage. In fact, for the first batch of Guthrie Govan videos we used
on the bluesjamtracks site, those settings made the Youtube-bound mp4s
look sharper than the original camera files.
David Kilpatrick
> In article <nqmdnZ-a8td5vvDb...@bt.com>,
> David Kilpatrick <icon...@btconnect.com> wrote:
>
>
>>It seems to refer to using QuickTime Pro to do this, and claims iMovie
>>quality is not adequate, but I got much the same choices from iMovie - I
>>used the same sound settings as shown, but a faster frame rate and
>>larger image size, which YouTube probably has had to sample down. I
>>think all the options shown are now present with iMovie.
>
>
> Yeah, he talks about QT Pro in the first section, but his "optimal
> settings" bit is for iMovie, including the Flickr set showing his ideal
> settings...
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/88442363@N00/sets/72157594263355355/
>
> I've used those settings on loads of videos now, and they do seem to
> work, in that the additional Youtube compression does the least amount
> of damage. In fact, for the first batch of Guthrie Govan videos we used
> on the bluesjamtracks site, those settings made the Youtube-bound mp4s
> look sharper than the original camera files.
>
Turns out my settings were an almost exact replica of his to start with
- except I had used Better rather than Faster encoding, and used a
larger video size. I've done another one this morning and changed a
couple of the settings to match, will see whether YouTube processes it
faster, or better. Obviously the big thing here is the lack of sound
quality from the iMac mic, compared to any proper recording, but somehow
it doesn't seem to matter that much for a video clip.
David
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nick
Brilliant! I really enjoyed that ... as did my three month old
daughter. :) It looks like it's a lot of fun to play too. It also
makes a nice change to have a YouTuber looking at the camera! Hoorah!
Looking forward to seeing more on your impending blog!
nick
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