Austin Improv

I've made a 'channel' on vimeo for Austin Improv Collective videos. It's at http://vimeo.com/channels/austinimprov.  So far it has 32 videos and counting.

What does this mean?

1) If you use Google Reader (or any RSS reader), you can get notified every time there's a new Austin-improv video on vimeo by subscribing to this feed.

2) If you're uploading Austin-improv videos to vimeo, you should hit the "subscribe" button on that channel.  Then I'll add you as a moderator, and you can add your videos to the channel.

3) If you want a channel for your specific theater or your troupe, you can create one here. (If you do that, let us know, so we can add our videos of your troupe/theater to your channel.)

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http://vimeo.com/gggimprov has just subscribed!

Peter,

ColdTowne has a Vimeo account we use pretty extensively. Is there a way to feed our videos into that AIC account?

Jastroch wrote:ColdTowne has a Vimeo account we use pretty extensively. Is there a way to feed our videos into that AIC account?

No, I don't think there's a way to tell vimeo "automatically add every video I upload to the AIC channel."

So you're stuck doing things manually, I'm afraid.

To add an existing video to the channel, click on that video, click the "settings" button, click the "Add to" link, and check the "Austin Improv Collective Videos" box.  (Repeat for all sixty videos; slowly die of tedium.)

When you're uploading a new video... lessee, if you're using the Desktop Uploader, you can select your video, click the "Add to" link in the application and (again) check the "Austin Improv Collective Videos" box.  If you're uploading via the web site, you can use the "Add to" link there.

~ hope this helps ~



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It should. I'll keep it in mind for future uploads! Thanks!

FWIW, I put in a feature request with vimeo for being able to tell the desktop uploader, "Add all my videos to channel <x> by default."



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peter rogers @ home | http://hujhax.livejournal.com

I spent the middle year of the project reading: it is how I should have spent the first.
      -- Graham Nelson, on designing Inform

Love how they are chronologically ordered by the date they were filmed! I added Jill Bernard's Drum Machine performance.

http://vimeo.com/channels/austinimprov#16666806

hujhax wrote:(Repeat for all sixty videos; slowly die of tedium.)

Huh -- just noticed that users have been requesting batch-editing of uploaded videos  If they ever get around to implementing this, I'll let folks know.



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peter rogers @ home | http://hujhax.livejournal.com

Good dialog is when the character only says stuff that character would say; great dialog is when the character says stuff only that character would say.
      -- Alex Epstein

Peter,

What format do you use for the videos? I've got some stuff I could digitize and put up (GGG: Fishbowl-The Musical & Louder Than Words plus a few other tidbits), but since I've been experimenting a lot lately it seems that compressed formats (mpegs) just suck and uncompressed formats (like .avi) are enormous.

How do you shoot the gap here?

Hey Brockman --
Lessee... I shoot the videos with my iPhone, so that records them as Quicktime files.

Then I bring those files into [url=ahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Movie_Maker]Windows Movie Maker[/url].

When I'm done editing there, I output them as .wmv files, following vimeo's compression guidelines.



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peter rogers @ home | http://hujhax.livejournal.com

Wackiness for its own sake is not a substitute for humor or much of anything else.
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Thanks Peter,

That'll save me some search time. Much appreciated. -MPB

hujhax wrote:2) If you're uploading Austin-improv videos to vimeo, you should hit the "subscribe" button on that channel and add your videos to it.

OK - edited the "Louder Than Words" show from Wafflefest. Used Premiere with all the recommended rendering settings (mpeg4, AAC 640x480 etc.). Looks great on my computer. Looks like hell on Vimeo. Lines/hesitations etc. The audio seems OK but the video? Pffffffft.

I also can't seem to figure out how to add a video to the AIC channel. It just keeps trying to give me my own channel (or something) even though I subscribed to the AIC channel.

I deleted the vid after looking at it. Got any more helpful hints?

The only thing from the guideline sheet I wasn't able to do was set the data rate. I couldn't find any such control.

OK, seriously - I just tried again with a 4 minute snippet of something. The Vimeo recompression appears to turn good vid into trash.

Maybe I should just burn a CD and give it to someone who's not having a problem.

Hey Brockman -- thanks for trying to sort this out, and sorry it's been frustrating so far.

mpbrockman wrote:The Vimeo recompression appears to turn good vid into trash.

I did spot this tutorial for getting Premiere to play nice with vimeo -- dunno if it might be useful.

It looks like there's also a discussion on their help forums on this topic.  Maybe you could post a link to one of your 'trash' videos to that thread, and the vimeo staff/users could diagnose the problem?

mpbrockman wrote:I also can't seem to figure out how to add a video to the AIC channel.

Aha -- I see the problem.  I actually have to add you as a moderator for the AIC channel before you can add videos.  I just did that, so you should be set.

~ hope this helps ~



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