To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org From: mjm <mmoynihan-AT-wi.rr.com> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:48:53 -0600 Subject: [Puptcrit] YouTube While this is not strictly a puppet centric issue, it is related. In addition to the text information that is offerrred here, I always look for being pointed to a web site to see a puppet video clip or jpeg images. Sometimes that has meant looking to Goggle or YouTube. It seems some people & organizations use Google & YouTube very effectively as marketing sites. Certainly TV networks and large Theatrical film companies do seem to. After the recent experience of being involved as a writer and performer in a video shoot and waiting and finally seeing the clip on YouTube, I began to wonder about the issues of audio and video quality that seem to be lost in the process. I had never attempted to put one of my own videoworks on YouTube, so I took some footage of an old experimental personal documentary that I had been working on for about 20 years. I imported it into iMovie on my out of date eMac. I imported some instrumental music to use as a a sound track and then created a 2 minute clip. I then exported it to the highest quality of a Quicktime DV. Then using Quicktime Pro I exported it to the Mpeg4 format that YouTube requires. I downloaded it to YouTube, which did not tale as long as I thought it would. But once it was downloaded it seemed to take forever for it to finally show up on the YouTube site. I am surprised at the audio/video quality. It is bad as bad as I expected. I'd like your thoughts as to why this clip at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdNx-vM5xO0 looks as blurry and sounds muffled and why this other clip at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ15Gc1_NAo Looks and sounds almost as clear as the original Quicktime DV file. Of course it has no dialogue, only music, And the footage is more monochromatic, all close-ups, and has slow-mo and fog special effects. But I am surprised at how some of the grain in the fog effect seems to show up well on the YouTube Mpeg 4 version. Please take a look and tell me what you think. I think it will be more important if puppet & theatre artists attempt to put more clips on YouTube for marketing, advertising as well as archival purposes. Michael John Moynihan Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org Admin interface: http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit-driftline.org Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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