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Charlie,
You are right, there is a vast range of technology and more
importantly, end user experience levels. I think the best thing you
can do is try out your clips on as many configurations of hardware /
software as you have available, and ask a few people to preview the
clips privately first. If that looks okay, release them to the world.
It looks like you did all that, so I say go for it.
The video clips we have on the SG101 site are also made with a still
photo digital camera, that just oh by the way happens to take movies
if you ask it really nice. Ours doesn't have a time limit however. We
took ours in black and white mainly to save space on the camera's
flash memory...also color doesn't turn out too good anyway in a dark
bar or club. I had to severley compress the quicktime clips to get
them on the web page...as a result, the quality suffers. It's a big
hassle of compromises and doing what you can on a limited budget.
Obviously I would have preferred to own a high-tech digital movie
camera, but those are a little pricey......
Someday technology will catch up and we'll be able to share full color
hour long concerts with each other over the super duper hyper
internet....
I'll repeat my offer that I make periodically...if anyone wants the
larger uncompressed versions of the movies I have on the site...email
me off list. Send me a blank CD and a buck or two for postage and I'll
burn you a copy. Don't expect a huge difference, it's not like they
will be in color or any bigger on screen, but a lot of the murkiness
goes away. The sound is about the same though.
I've also tried to burn the quicktime clips onto a DVD, but the
software I currently have for doing that is failing me miserably. I
eventually hope to buy some better software. That may be the most
convenient format to give to people.
Thanks again Charlie,
BN
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:00:22 -0600, Charlie Kinyon
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>
> Maybe I should give you all a little more info on these clips. They
> were taken with a Sony Mavica MVC-CD300 digital camera (still photos)
> which also takes 15 second video clips. I didn't edit them, they are
> raw from the camera. Sorry they are so short - I watch them and it
> leaves me wanting to see the whole performance - which is why Dusty and
> I thought they would be good, you know, a "tease". I have multiple
> computers here: older and newer Macs, older and newer PCs, and they
> work fine on them all. But out there in the real world it seems there
> are vastly different configurations and levels of technological skills.
> Maybe there is no foolproof way to post these. Should I just put them
> out there, even though it's frustrating when some people get crappy
> results, or are unable to view them at all? (which might make the
> Slacktone website seem unprofessional) Or should I just skip it
> altogether? I hate not being able to make this stuff perfect /
> flawless...
>
> Charlie
>
> For those just joining this discussion, the clips are here:
>
