Challenging all Channel 9'ers: upload your video birthday greetings!

OK, now you all have no excuses. The Internet Archive is offering free space to upload videos and massive huge files. Among other things.

Here, look at the video I shot last night here in my office. After compressing it in Windows Media Format it came out to 13.7 megabytes.

Why don't you shoot your own Channel 9 video and put it up on http://www.archive.org ?

Then link to it here. I'll see it. Then we can have some fun on our birthday.

Whadda ya think?

Sounds interesting. What do you mean with our own "Channel 9 video?" There are some Microsoft guys here in Slovenia, but I'm sure their not up for an interview. Is that what you mean? Or just some random "shakey cam" thing?

Unfortunately, they don't accept Flash movies.

Another problem is I have a face for radio & voice for blog.

... i LOST my canon a80 at the beach today..

arrgggg

Dr. Shim wrote:

Sounds interesting. What do you mean with our own "Channel 9 video?" There are some Microsoft guys here in Slovenia, but I'm sure their not up for an interview. Is that what you mean? Or just some random "shakey cam" thing?

You can do your own video. Make it whatever you want.

I'd love it if you interviewed some geeks in your life the way I do here at Microsoft.

Not necessarily of Microsoft employees (although if you can get them to agree to do that that would be most awesome -- I might even put those into the official feed).

But, I was thinking of just the geeks in your life. Show us how you're using technology. What your software looks like. Put up a video. Link to it here.

Or, even take videos of your cats or kids.

Anything fun! If they are really good, who knows, maybe we'll link them on the home page.

>Another problem is I have a face for radio & voice for blog.

Why do you think I usually stay behind the camera?

I've got some great video interviews that I shot at the Portland Podcasting Meetup last night that I'm going to post  up this weekend. I'll definitely drop a link here when they're ready.

Beer, I'd love that! Go over to the Novell booth and check out their latest stuff. It's pretty cool.

jabancroft: cool! Let's give Adam Curry a run for his money!

Robert,
I sent you an email, one amongst your 1,100 unreads, re: hosting the Flash animation recently. Hope the offer is still good. I'm working on alternative hosting, but in case that falls through, it'd be nice to have a back up.

scobleizer wrote:

Here, look at the video I shot last night here in my office. After compressing it in Windows Media Format it came out to 13.7 megabytes.

Sounds like a good idea, but what could I do... The only camera I have is an old fashioned one that uses analog tape and runs on steam (well, okay, maybe not steam, but it's six years old), or a phone camera, which has horrible quality.

A bigger question is, what would I film. I do have some ideas, but I'm not too sure they'd let me in the CompSci building again after that.

What's the deadline for this?

Looks hard to hold for hours on end.. No arm strap
either... The sound quality is good IMO ... That
looks like something I might buy if it was *cheap*..
Not something I would spend a large amount of money
on.



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Scobles toilet-video:

If it weren't for the 1 hour lasting battery and poor color, it would have been quite nice cam.

However on the point of 1 mbit mpeg2 (?) being too large for internet.. Hardly! That's the slowest "broadband" you can get.

If you could find a camera that records directly to H.264 that would rock. Perhaps in 2 years.

The HD cams come at a steep price and given the 300 kbit you offer here it would be slight overkill. Very slight.

Sven: no deadline. But for the birthday video our celebration is April 6. So it'd need to be up either on or before April 6. If everyone gets their video up by the evening of the 5th, then I can link to everyone's video on the 6th.

Here's some inspiration: http://www.michaelverdi.com/video/anarchy2.mov

Neat camera there really small! I see what you mean about the steadycam feature that really is good (but worth $1100? dont think so). The general video quality isn't too bad and its a decent enough frame rate. Not too bad sound quality either.

Is it just me or did I hear the hard drive whirring when you were holding it by the camera end not the microdrive end?

The best video I could record would be off a cheap * webcam :/