Category Archives: Video Tech

Reviving Old Henry Kissinger Video From Daily Show To Test Out New Format Strategy

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Simon Woodside is my hero this week.
He’s been very patiently educating my stupid ass all week long about how to make my video’s smaller, look better, and play well in all browsers.
Now, in all fairness Kevin Marks has been trying to help me do this for weeks (months?), but for some reason the instructions just weren’t clicking in my brain. Sorry Kevin!
The first result of Simon’s tutoring to come to fruition this week is a revamped version of the old Daily Show clip of Henry Kissinger heading up the “Independent” 911 investigation committee. (Yes he was subsequently taken off that committee.)
Update: lots of folks wanted a direct link to the movie file — so there it is!
The Daily Show rendition of the event is priceless. (I re-edited it a bit.)
This all came up recently when Henry Kissinger appeared on the Daily Show this last Monday night (October 20, 2003).
So please let me know – lisarein@finetuning.com — how these new movies play in your browser and if you like them better. This one’s just a file generated from the quicktime I generated earlier, so the quality issues can’t be addressed. But, once I figure out what Simon is trying to teach me, I believe I will be delivering all of my movies in this manner. (Unless you write me to tell me it sucks and to stick with the imovie-defaulted “email” movies I’ve been using.)
Thanks again Simon!!!
lisa

A Daring Recovery!

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I managed to save the Howard Dean footage! Looks like the rewind is scrooey on my camera — I can only rewind by pressing play and hitting the rewind to play in scan mode.
This is troublesome indeed. Looks like I’ll have to get my camera serviced or something…
Thanks to all who wrote in with Cleaner info to help get me started.
As a reward, I’ll be serving up the rest of this week’s killer
Daily Show clips — hopefully all in one evening…

Need Your Help Folks

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One of the greatest things about writing my blog is that I’ve learned so much from my readers who have so much more experience doing many of the things that I’m in process of learning now. Way back in the day, it was XML I was learning and getting help from the world at large — now it’s video technologies — and I could really use some help.
I gotta kinda high tech problem (barely) and a very low tech problem:
1) I finally got a copy of Discreet Cleaner (yeah student discounts!) and now I’m wondering if I can start reducing file sizes quickly without having to learn much (cause I won’t really have time to learn anything too intricate in the next week or two). I’m wondering if any of you pros out there can fill me in on the step by step for configuring say, one of my huge ILAW files into a smaller animal.
2) EMERGENCY: My camera crunched part of my Howard Dean tape from last night. I’ve rewound the tape, but it still won’t play. my camera instructs me to remove the tape when I put it in. any ideas?
thanks!

About These ILAW Videos

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I don’t have any notes for these opening sessions because I was getting aquainted with following Larry around with the camera.
(Jumpy bunch those ILAW folks! — Larry, Jonathan, Yochai, Terry, Charlie — the whole lot of them!)
In the afternoon, I actually got to be on a panel so I had to just get a long shot for most of it (although I did end up going back and forth between being on the panel and getting some close ups when the subject matter was to precious and I knew a long shot wouldn’t do.
A bit later, after I was able to get used to things, I was able to take notes while filming. You’ll know when this takes place because 1) you’ll have the notes and 2) you’ll start to notice me missing a shot every now and then when my subject bounces out of view momentarily.
So there are trade-offs, but this whole thing’s just a big experiment anyway. So it would appear that no harms done.
I would really appreciate your feedback on this footage. Does it work OK? Can you hear everything? Suggestions for next time? All that kind of stuff is duly appreciated.
Oh yeah — Every clip is numbered in order, by day (1-day1-larry-1of4-sm.mov, 2-day1-larry-1of4-sm.mov, etc.), so you can just watch them all in order if you like.
See more about this in the “How these files are named and organized” section I’ll be putting up soon.

Quicktime Instructions For Viewing My Movies

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Note: the most important thing to understand is that I’m committed to helping you get set up to view these, so if the instructions don’t work for you quickly (that means if you aren’t viewing the movie within five minutes of reading and following the instructions), then you should just email me at lisarein@finetuning.com and we’ll figure it out together.–ed
This page will serve as a central location for technical information about viewing my movies.
There’s not much here now, but there will me more soon.
Step 1
Download Quicktime (if you don’t have it already) to run these movies.
Step 2
These movies are small enough to run in your browser, but, if that doesn’t work, right mouse click (PC) or click and hold (Mac) so you can download the file to your hard drive, and then double click on the file on your hard drive to launch.

Links To Quicktime Players On Different Platforms

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Aaron Swartz was nice enough to download one of my files and test it on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.
Here are links to the players that could run the files.
Thanks Aaron!!
The scoop:
Aaron downloaded http://www.lisarein.com/videos/tvclips/dailyapril2003/4-02-03-shilling-sm.mov and tested it:
Mac: Works in QuickTime.
Win: Should work in QuickTime and VLC
http://videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html.
Lin: Works in VLC
http://videolan.org/vlc/.