HOLY Roanoke! Need a job?

12 Responses

02.21.07

This is awesome!
Gitner is the man!
Way to keep pushin’ the envelope Seth.

Lee Brimelow has some great tutorials on how to do this stuff on his “Flash Professional 8 Video Integration” Lynda chapter at:
http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=182

He also has some free flash tutorials at:
http://www.gotoandlearn.com

His Lynda author bio can be read at:
http://movielibrary.lynda.com/authors/author/?aid=62

Patrick Yen

02.21.07

Question for Seth..

I was curious if the video was shot vertical?
Also I was curious if the camera y’all shot with was in interlaced mode?

The reason I ask is their seems to be some aliasing around your shoulders and your hand appears to have some interlace artifact albeit vertical.

I’ve come across this before myself..
same thing happened when I shot this for Tim Broekema’s [WKU PJ] New Media Web Publishing class last spring.
I shot it vertical 16×9 anamorphic widescreen with a crappy 1 chip Canon Zr10 MiniDV camera.
I assumed the aliasing artifacts were the result of the camera being interlaced but I’m not positive.

Thanks =)

Seth Gitner

02.21.07

patrick,

yes it was shot vertical. I have done several other alpha video projects and just could not get the size i needed out of the video without crappy looking edges, so one day using the panasonic DVX I turned it sideways while in squeeze mode and shot the piece.

dark clothing is key to a good chromakey when exporting to a flv alpha — don’t wear WHITE — you will regret it.

and i wondered why i had never thought of it before.

there are some hiccups i know — i have heard many folks ask about my data rate — and what not — what i have found is that if you let it cache it will be fine and we will work through these issues.

That’s one thing I really enjoy about roanoke.com — experimenting and innovating — there is always the opportunity to try something new — try fail succeed — it’s all in a day’s work and that’s the type of thought that is promoted here.

-seth

Tom Walat

02.21.07

Seth,
Very impressive!
One quibble: the audio “hiccups” in parts.
When I first viewed the page, it was extremely distracting.
I tried refreshing, which improved it quite a bit, but the playback still wasn’t exactly smooth.
If it’s any help in troubleshooting, I’m up to date with Flash, am on a speedy connection and can view YouTube videos without this problem.
- Tom

Tom Walat

02.21.07

Update: In the earlier comment, I was using Internet Explorer 6. I also tried it in Firefox 2, which on first load of the page, gave the same very choppy audio. When I refreshed, it played without a hitch. Odd.

Seth Gitner

02.21.07

tom,

thanks for working though it — I have gotten a lot of response about the ad — I really appreciate your post saying it worked for you later on –

lots of folks have asked about my compression data rate etc. etc.

i’d like to put the blame on your connection but I can’t rule out that it could be my server — over the next few days I’d appreciate if folks out there can comment back on to this thread about how it looks.

You can’t test in every environment — there are so many variations of how the audience will see it.

so any help you have is appreciated — if i figure out my issue I’ll be sure to post.

-seth

Tom Walat

02.21.07

Seth:
Gave it a whirl from home via Firefox and it runs smooth as silk.
- Tom

Seth Gitner

02.21.07

I NEED YOUR HELP! READ THIS!

I am trying to enlist the multimedia journalism community to help me out.

please watch editor ad video — that starts up the project — it is running off of a different server.

http://editorjob.roanoke.com

i was hearing from a a lot of people who were saying they could not watch the video that starts tehad

so i wanted to test to see if it was the way i encoded the video or if it was the server.

all feedback is welcome — just post here or email me at sethgitner@sethgitner.com — (i have spamarrest so no worries)

-seth

mike moore

02.21.07

He needs a teleprompter. I can see his eyes drifting to the side of the camera.

Seth Gitner

02.21.07

mike

– thanks for the comment — we do have a teleprompter and I did use it — but I have to say the teleprompter does not go vertical —

since the video was shot vertically the teleprompter had to be to the side of the camera — next time I will figure a way to mount the camera to the telelprompter for a better effect.

thx,

-seth