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Audio for video, microphones and a home-made windshield for the Zoom H2 recorder

GS — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:22:31 +0000

As we filmed in the canal cruising area in Ancoats last Saturday afternoon, there was a rather funny moment when I had my hand up David’s shirt. Nothing untoward was going on, I was putting a tie-clip microphone on him.

Making MP4 files stream

GS — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:54:20 +0000

Mp4/H.264 files give great quality for online video in web players such as the free Flowplayer. But they must ‘stream’. In other words they need to start playing before the whole file has loaded (which may take several minutes).
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How the BBC plants a seed of doubt regarding G20 footage

GS — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:48:59 +0000

The BBC reports on the latest video footage that has emerged, showing G20 protesters being hit by police.

The video, by Camp for Climate Action, shows IT worker Alex Cinnane being banged with a shield on the side of his head. In a second incident a man is punched in the face by a police officer.

The BBC adds:
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The highs and lows of film-making and why relatively few good videos get made

GS — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:29:05 +0000

Watching the G20 protests on TV it seemed that every other person had a camera. Yet only two video clips of the Ian Tomlinson incident have come to light so far. One was shot by a member of the public, the other by a broadcast news team and despite professional cameras being outnumbered by ‘activist’ cameras to the tune of hundreds to one.

A fluke? I suggest not.
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More4 News presenter attacked live on air following G20 protests

GS — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:24:57 +0000

Last night as Alex Thomson presented More4 News live from the City, a man pushed his way in front of the camera.
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Speaker of the US House of Representatives infringes rights of music composer

GS — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:27:09 +0000

Incompetech.com is a wonderful website that offers hundreds of original music tracks for free use. Most are released under a Creative Commons licence (a few are now in the public domain) and the only stipulation is that you must include a credit for the composer: Kevin MacLeod.

It isn’t a lot to ask. But

AOL pulls the plug on its user-generated content site

GS — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:51:23 +0000

AOL is to close its user-generated content site on 18 December.

Brightcove plugs the plug — the first of many?

GS — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:23:25 +0000

Video hosting company Brightcove has pulled the plug on its free service. Users who don’t want to cough up for paid video hosting have until 17 December before their videos disappear.

I believe this is just the beginning. In the current economic climate, many free services will close.
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Time is fast running out to transfer precious Video8 and Hi8 camcorder recordings

GS — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 07:22:49 +0000

If you have a stack of camcorder tapes from the 1980′s and 1990′s (and hopefully the camcorder to play them on) time is running out to preserve that footage for the future, by making a copy.

Video sniffing

GS — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:45:46 +0000

Channel 4 News reveals how film-makers are using footage from public cctv cameras. It’s called ‘video sniffing’.