Video Show Launched
I’ve finally managed to get my feet of the ground and launch the video show I’ve been talking about for a few weeks now.
My main goal with this show is to involve you, the community, in the general art of content creation. I’ll be creating videos from user submitted questions. That means if you have a basic (or advanced) question you want advice on, you can email it to me and should see a video appear in the near future on your topic of choice.
I see this as an excellent way for me to become more connected with my readers, and now viewers. I believe content creation has become a little stale recently, something excellent community interaction could, and can change. I currently have three videos online. The intro video, a video showing off my office, and a video answering a reader question on whether the iMac is a safe buy at the moment.
I’d also like to make a quick shout out to Kiro who created the excellent video intro to the show using Apple’s professional tool Motion. I know Kiro spent many hours perfecting it, and it shows. Thanks!
Lets get the ball rolling, send me any questions you want answered to glennwolsey@mac.com and I’ll add them to the queue.
#1
Caitlyn Imburgo → www.alwaysg5.com
Glenn, keep up the good work with the video show. Coming along nicely. Looking forward to seeing videos on the regular basis you are beginning to establish.
#2
Glenn Wolsey → www.glennwolsey.com
Thanks Caitlyn. I’ve pretty much slimmed my output to two things. Blog entries, and videos. This way I can keep rather focused on both tasks.
#3
Chris Marshall → chrismarshall.ws
Will watch with interest :-)
#4
LOR3N → www.r3fresh.com
Like the show, but you should probably put a link (button) at the top of your blog. I would have never seen the show if it wasn’t for Pownce.
Keep up the good work.
#5
EricJust so you know vimeo isn’t working with the latest builds of safari and any of the recent leopard builds and camino and firefox still have the problem where you can’t actually type anything into any box (ie. a URL).
Perhaps you could upload to youtube or offer the video in a native format (other than .flv) to users (like myself) who are having problems with vimeo at the moment?
#6
Marc → marcloehrwald.com
Glenn, great work!!!
Do you think there would be a way to put that in a feed and publish it as a video podcast?
Cheers,
Marc
#7
Dumitru Tira → www.static-13.deviantart.com
This whole content/video creation makes me want to do my own show :D, unfortunately my spoken English is a mess(no spell-check extension for that) and my hardware is too old for intensive processing such as video creation :(
anyways, best of luck for you and your show. You have any plans for the airings or schedules or it will be occasional?
#8
Dennis → dennisbullock.net
Good stuff Glenn. I hope too launch my own video show in the near future that will focus on Digital Media
#9
Glenn Wolsey → www.glennwolsey.com
I’ll be finding a way to incorporate this into the blog sometime. On the note of an RSS feed, this is also coming soon. Dumitru, I’m targeting to do a video each weekday starting in a couple of weeks when I’m back from my holiday.
#10
Dumitru Tira → www.static-13.deviantart.com
Maybe creating a separate page on this blog only for the video show would be a nice idea.
#11
Ondra SoukupUmmm…RSS feed with videos in MPEG4 would be nice :)
They call ‘em podcasts or something like that…and you can even take it with you on your iPod and watch it on way to work…
all online video hosts are really bad for a show - they are all flash :/
#12
Chanpory → www.lifeclever.com
Congrats on the new computer and getting your video show started. Nothing beats a 30in display!
#13
Ryan Ponce → www.tacocar.com
Hey Glenn I just watched your show on Vimeo and I’m hooked. Did you make the introduction to it. It’s really well done. Keep up the great work.
#14
shadownight → thomasgvl.50webs.com
Why not create an iTunes video podcast link and submit the podcast to the iTunes podcast directory?
#15
MattFM → heretogeneva.com
Hi, good stuff. Just wondering how you’re encoding your vids. I’ve got a number of vids on vimeo but the quality is lacking in most of them. I just can’t seem to get the settings right on the compression.
#16
Glenn Wolsey → www.glennwolsey.com
I’ve got a little bit of planning to do but this is definitely on the cards.
Yep, just waiting on iTunes to accept the show then you can subscribe through there and have shows delivered to your desktop. Thanks for the suggestion Ondra :-)
Thanks Chanpory! This system is wonderful, I’ve got used to the size of the screen now. It’s a joy to have such a powerful Mac to work on.
This is in the process, waiting on validation from iTunes now.
H.264, Letterbox, Quicktime Movie at 640×480.
#17
Ben → mashable.com
Hey Glenn, it’s great that you are using vimeo, but it’s not really designed for podcasting. Blip.tv would probably work much better for your needs, mainly because you can manage the itunes feed right from the site. It might be worth a look.
#18
Zain → zainkhan.info
Same as LOR3N really, you need a link in the blog header or something. I wouldn’t even know you were doing a show if it wasn’t for this entry. Just watched all the videos on Vimeo looking forward to the rest.