[Web4lib] Re: Web4lib Digest, Vol 5, Issue 1

[Leslie Hassett]

Hi Mari,
I'm finally at a computer!  Today I'll work on getting
the bathtub done and the dishwasher ordered. Also, I
plan to bring your rental agreement down soon.

Thank you too for your hard work!  It was fun!

Talk with you soon.  

Leslie

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>    1. quicktime conversion for Windows for video
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> Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 09:31:07 -0700
> From: "K.G. Schneider" <kgs at bluehighways.com>
> Subject: [Web4lib] quicktime conversion for Windows
> for video blogging
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> Yesterday at the BlogHer conference
> (http://www.blogher.org ) I had an
> opportunity to make a very brief Quicktime video of
> danah boyd, who is
> speaking at the LITA conference this fall. (You do
> not want to miss her
> talk!) I'd like to vblog (video blog) the recording
> (and yesterday I
> attended a session on vblogging, so am raring to
> go). I had previously
> modified my blog's RSS 2 feeds to support
> enclosures, since I have played
> with podcasting. However, I hit a small snag on the
> video compression. I use
> Windows XP, and I don't have a native Quicktime
> compression tool, as far as
> I know. Avid Free DV, recommended on
>
http://freevlog.org/wordpress/index.php/category/tutorials/
> , mystified me.
> Needless to say, Windows Movie Maker won't open
> Quicktime videos (and
> Quicktime Pro or iMovie won't open wmv files, as far
> as I know). 
> 
> Is there some free/open source tool for compressing
> Quicktime videos as-is
> for Web-related use, e.g. vblogging (I don't need to
> edit the file--a lucky
> first effort) or converting Quicktime to .wmv? I'm
> tempted to just bite the
> bullet and for $30 get Quicktime Pro 7, which
> apparently has an idiot-proof
> drop-down menu (when it comes to still and moving
> images, my patience is not
> infinite--EasyShare was made for me). But I felt a
> frisson of irritation at
> the Hatfields and the McCoys for putting barriers
> into something fairly
> basic. 
> 
> Karen G. Schneider
> kgs at bluehighways.com
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