I put a chopped up preview of Blender Basics Part 1 on Youtube. I would have uploaded the whole thing but they have a 10 minute limit, so I settled for a preview that points people to Blender Underground, and shows some action highlights. Perhaps I’ll get some traffic from it. Comments are welcome; and if you feel like posting some comments or reviews at Youtube, head on over, it would be most appreciated.
I’ll also upload to Metacafe–and if you have other site suggestions, drop me a comment. I’m already on Google Video, where they allow the full length. I could chop up the video into 10 or 12 parts for Youtube, but I’m not sure it’s worth it. Peace out.UPDATE: (Sunday, August 5th, 2007)
Here are the Viddler and Metacafe channel links:
Viddler: http://www.viddler.com/Apollos
Metacafe: http://www.metacafe.com/channels/blenderunderground
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Try http://www.viddler.com
they have good compression w/o quality loss, lots of innovative features, and a 500MB limit.
That is the one I’m going to use for my tutorials.
August 2nd, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Thanks Duke, I’ll check out viddler.
August 2nd, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Duke, thanks for the link to viddler, which I had not heard of. I have been thinking about implementing timed tags and video tags, and they have done it beautifully, all in Flash it seems.
The Blender tutorial is not really usable with the compression. Is this the best quality we can use? Are there different settings?
August 3rd, 2007 at 1:19 am
Hey kaveh,
Duke certainly knows more about viddler than I, but it seems that most if not all of the video sites downsample to 320×240 or so. I’d be pleased to be proven wrong!
At least google, metacafe, and viddler allow long video lengths, where youtube limits to 10 minues. 10 minutes!!! Sheesh!!!
August 3rd, 2007 at 2:32 am
Metacafe is rejecting my full length submissions for parts 1 and 2. Part 1 was deemed “problematic” and part 2 was deemed “copyrighted.”
Not sure what’s going on, but I’m way too tired to comb through their documentation. The “problematic” status isn’t even listed in their definitions.
Perhaps I needed to say puleeeze. Or maybe they’re minions of The Man; a dark cadre of super-villainous tutorial rejecters.
I sent an email about the Part 2 rejection. I guess I’ll just have to wait and see.
‘Night all.
August 3rd, 2007 at 3:26 am
I think Viddler is the solution. Unless you record at 320×240, zoomed in 5x, video quality is going to be bad. As far as I know, Viddler just cares about the size of the video, not necessarily the resolution.
August 3rd, 2007 at 6:37 am
The only site that I am sure does not downsize or badly compress your videos is stage6, the DivX site. Might be worth checking out.
August 3rd, 2007 at 6:55 am
Metacafe has released both Blender Basics videos and they are now for viewing on their web site. They were originally tagged and held as copyright infringement.
August 5th, 2007 at 9:49 am
Cool! Can you post the links in the main post? So we wouldn’t have to search MetaCafe for them.
Looks alright in the normal view, but really blurry in full screen. Better than YouTube’s quality though.
Now, if you get 21,000 views you’ll earn 5$ YAAAAY!
August 5th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
I’ll take it!!! only 20,925 to go =D
August 5th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Done!
August 5th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
Awesome. At what quality/size did you upload to Viddler, the resolution doesn’t look all that good.
August 5th, 2007 at 9:38 pm
I uploaded at 320×240, the same res I was using for Google and Youtube–neither of which look very good. I need to make another conversion for a higher res version (assuming they don’t downsample).
I still need to look through docs for Viddler and Metacafe to see what the resolution requirements are, but I’ve just been too busy. I do try to make clear that the high res versions are available on the web site, so hopefully those who are interested in the material have a place to go for the content, and it gets traffic to the website.
I also found a keyboard overlay error in BB Part 1, and I think there’s at least one in Part 2 as well, and it bothers me! So I’m gonna have to find time to go through both and correct the errors before I bother rendering new versions.
Sheesh! It’s all a lot of work, but I think it’s worth it. All I need to do is add another 8 hours to my day by figuring out how to do without sleep. As they say, sleep is overrated.
August 6th, 2007 at 1:00 am
I don’t know if you have the same uploading problem as I do, but I can only upload the 1st 10MB of a file. If you can upload the entire 100-150MB file from both Blender Basics, you CAN do that. Like I said before they don’t care about the resolution or codec (for the most part), just make sure it’s under 500MB.
August 6th, 2007 at 5:26 am