There’s a place close to where I live in Odense, where I come often to walk my dog. It’s one of those places I call ‘cracks of the industrial city’. As anyone familiar with the lyrics of Leonard Cohen will tell you, the cracks are ‘where the light gets in‘… In this case, it’s a stretch of unused railway tracks grown full with weeds and bushes, and surrounded by the backsides, walls and fences of old industrial buildings.
This place invites two particular breeds of people; dog owners and grafitti artists. It occured to me as a fitting spot to do our first videoblog, on what I term the ‘grafitti phase of a startup’ :
The video is also accessible on YouTube, which didn’t, however, work wonders for the quality of the video. The difficulty of getting compressed video (mp4) into an editing program, and getting it out in the same quality as it got in (mp4), is something I have yet to master. Add to this the further Flash-ification of the video on sites such as Blip.tv and YouTube, and you have a recipe for massacred material – especially if the quality was not that great to begin with.
This post is our first video blog post, and I know we’ve got a lot to learn. There’s a long way to go for us. We’d really like your input on how to improve. Ideas?
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This is also our first published video made with our new and handy Sanyo Xacti camera. It's a dream to operate and the quality is usually great. It's only minor quibble so far is it's battery life, which is little over 1 hour. Fortunately, this has now been remedied by ordering to extra batteries, so that one may recharge a used battery and still continue to film or operate the camera.
Hello Morten
Great videoclip, but you should maybe have been paying your sound-editor a little bit more because the sound could benefit from a bit more tweaking.
Either way its nice to se you are still going strong, the same thing is happening here. We have just opened our own datacenter from wich, among a lot of other exiciting stuff, kaplak.net runs.
I hope to be able to take som nice shoots of it so i can brag of how nice it looks and how we made it so far, but for now you just have to take my word for it :)
Thanks, man. Will try and pay attention to the sound. Making no excuses, but trouble with these small cameras is you can't connect a microphone to them (perhaps via USB?), so you have to keep it close to your head while talking.
Great to hear about your new facilities! – looking forward to seeing those pictures :-)
PS. Incidently, this comment, btw, will also test the Disqus “reply by email to another comment” feature…
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