Just posted a new SkyGuy.com video. This one is about the solstice. It is also the first time I have received a question from a cat.
I guess there is a first for everything.
I’m pretty happy with the video. The green screen could be a little sharper, and I spent too much time trying to cover two topics at once: what is the solstice and what causes the seasons. I finally opted to stop trying to answer that second question. I’ll put that in a later video.
I am really trying to keep the momentum. I’ve started to publicize SkyGuy.com, so I can’t start falling behind on content.
“How Many Stars Are There” is, I think, pretty funny. Let me know what you think!
I’ve been kinda spoiled. Here in Colorado, we often get a chance to see the ISS and the space shuttle fly over when the shuttle separates from the station.
This time, however … no such luck 
Oh, well. Like I said, kinda spoiled.
However, when I get up there, and I am in whatever craft has separated from the station, it better be viewable from my home of Colorado so I can wave as I head home!
Whew. Digital video (specifically, HD video) is a lot of work and a lot of waiting around.
I got kinda tired of that, so I thought “Y’know …. at this point, I’m just posting video to the web. I could get away with standard definition video (or even lower resolution).”
Well, I tried it. Standard definition video produces truly horrible green screen. Overall it looks unimpressive when finally encoded for the web.
I’m not thrilled with the amount of time HD takes, but I do love the results (especially now that I have compared them to what I would have gotten from standard definition DV).
This stuff takes way too long. Between the shooting, the editing (all in HD), converting, uploading, figuring out the way to make my blip.tv player look and behave the way I want, getting that player onto my site, etc — it’s all a bit much.
But I’m getting there …
I finally have the first video up on SkyGuy.com. It is also on Blip.tv.
I’m not happy with the encoding. I think I will re-upload the file to blip.tv to make a better version. I find that this one pauses in mid-stream. Blip tends to have substantially better quality than that.
What I did was upload to blip a .flv file. From now on, I think I’ll upload QuickTime and let blip convert it.
Comments(1)