Posts Tagged ‘video’

BigTen Network adds on-the-fly mashups

I am a big Iowa Hawkeye fan.  I grew up 12 miles from the stadium and have been black and gold from day one.  So when the @bigtennetwork tweeted about their mashups – I gave it a try.

It took me about 10 minutes to do this video.  I think there is a bunch more that could be done – some of the videos I saw were much, much cooler than mine.

But, albeit my video is very cool :) – that is not the point.  It’s the simpleness of the technology.  BigTen Network supplies the video clips – the world supplies almost free promotion for Buffalo Wild Wings (you’ll see their clip at the end – I’d get that bumped to the front!) and the teams of the Big Ten Network.

This is such a great idea – college sports nerds love to see team video, they would love to create a cool mashup…here are the tools to create it and it is game on!

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Invisible images in an image

I saw this video yesterday and then kind of forgot about it – I really thought it may be a hoax.  Then it popped up in my reader again today.

Here is the video:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAX_3Bgel7M]

It seems like this could be a very interesting way to superimpose images, text and logos on different things.  Because I work with some people from broadcast TV – I’m wondering how long it will take to get something “posted” on the news @ 10?

Does this change the way people will “advertise” in the future?

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Video Stitching & Stabilized Video Collage

Filmmaker Spike Lee shoots on his video camera during batting practice prior to game one of the American League Division Series between the New York Yankees and the Detroit Tigers on October 3, 2006 at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx Borough of New York City.  (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Spike Lee

Image by Getty Images via Daylife

It all started with a tweet from a guy in Utah.  He said he had cracked up be cause his mother had emailed him after watch his lawn cam – capturing some landscaping.

Anyway – his blog post was a bout the concept of video stitching:

I saw this amazing Stabilized Video Collage this morning while reading … this is really impressive.  You have to see it to really appreciate what is being done.

Link to Flickr video – thanks for the help Wordpress.

The author has used a program called Motion (in FinalCut on the Mac) to stitch two videos together to make one.  Not only is it obscenely cool, it makes the video enjoyable to watch.  It appears you can stitch video from many different sources and multiple camera together to build a killer panoramic vid.

Very cool.

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More People Tuning in to TV Online

Are we surprised?  With the writer’s strike making online TV viewing about as entertaining as back-to-back-to-back episodes of “Are you Smarter than a Third Grader?”

Another week, and another stat has just been released showing that people are increasingly turning to the web to consume televised entertainment. The latest from Solutions Research Group claims that 80 million Americans (43 percent of its online population) have watched their favorite TV shows on the web, and that 20 percent watch TV on the web on a weekly basis.

Who knows – maybe the writers strike will drive all TV viewing online…who knows?

AT&T – weasels into the 700mhz band

 It seems everyone has to go the auction except our friends over at AT&T:

AT&T bought the spectrum from Aloha Spectrum Holdings. The spectrum, in the highly coveted 700MHz band, covers 196 million of the 303 million U.S. residents and includes 72 of the top 100 media markets in the country. Aloha acquired the spectrum in earlier FCC auctions and from other auction winners. This portion of the 700MHz spectrum is not part of the FCC auction now in progress.

I’m just not sure it seems “fair” to allow this to happen.  Why not include this in the auction.  AT&T is getting away with highway robbery @ 2.5 Billion!  (I cannot believe I just typed that!)

Study: Ads in online shows work better than ads on TV

Interesting post at arstechnica “Study: Ads in online shows work better than ads on TV“:

Good news for TV networks: online ads work. As TV shows continue their lengthy migration onto the web, new research finds that the people watching those shows actually pay more attention to both advertising and content when they watch online.

I know it’s true for me…when I watch internet TV it seems like the ads are made specifically for that application.

Internet TV: 2007 Year in Review

ReadWriteWeb has a great post about internet video in 2007:

From YouTube’s continued dominance, the television networks’ newfound willingness to experiment online, the rise of the desktop Internet TV application, and a number of new PC-to-TV devices and set-top boxes — it’s been a big year for Internet TV in all shapes and forms. In this post we look back at 2007 through the lens of last100’s coverage, highlighting some of the important stories and trends, and how they point to what we might expect for Internet TV in 2008.

Making video interactive

Here’s a post from Robert Scoble about the idea of interactive video.

Nat Kausik, CEO of Asterpix, shows me more of the ways that video creators can use Asterpix to add links to certain parts of the video, to interact with the surrounding area, to add clickable areas to the video, and much much more. This is some of the coolest video technology I’ve seen lately and will let us create new kinds of interactive video experiences.

Sure seems like the “thing to do” as more TV goes to the internet and internet to the TV.  Wouldn’t it be cool to be able to click on something “on screen” and see more information about it.  Or maybe have multiple plots or storylines and you could follow which one you were interested in.

Information R/Evolution

I had never seen “R/Evolution” appear like that – I love it. That explains exactly what you want to say so many times. I think I’ll take it for my “toolbox”.

Anyway – more importantly…I found this in a post from information aesthetics – it’s a video explaining the evolution of data and data storage/retrieval.

This video was created as a “conversation” starter & works especially well when brainstorming with people about the near future & the skills needed in order to harness, evaluate & create information effectively.

Interesting way to post a video

I’m not sure I have seen this before – but it caught my eye.

Link to video – this video is from an arrest video – but the interesting thing to note is below the video in the related links section they have a link to the raw video.

I like that – it lends credibility to the story when I can go back and see all the video – not just what was “canned” for me.

Cool!

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