Newton-Williams.com » streaming video http://newton-williams.com Our Online Home Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:50:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Election Morning http://newton-williams.com/2010/05/election-morning/ http://newton-williams.com/2010/05/election-morning/#comments Fri, 07 May 2010 06:04:43 +0000 Gareth http://newton-williams.com/?p=271 Normally this sort of this would be about wrapped up by now and all of the morning papers would be carrying the details. Instead the UK Parliamentary election is ongoing!

Here’s the BBC coverage:

]]> http://newton-williams.com/2010/05/election-morning/feed/ 0 Abominable Snowman Sighting http://newton-williams.com/2010/01/abominable-snowman-sighting/ http://newton-williams.com/2010/01/abominable-snowman-sighting/#comments Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:54:56 +0000 Gareth http://newton-williams.com/?p=135 This is just a quickie really. I made this teeny tiny abominable snowman video and wanted to share it with you all. Enjoy.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Word of the day: Trichotomy
-noun
1 – Division into three parts, classes, categories, etc
2 – An instance of such a division, as in thought, structure, or object
3 – The three part division of human beings into body, spirit, and soul

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Editing video is one of those thankless tasks that consumes prodigous amounts of time and gives you little to show for it until you have developed some considerable proficiency. The reason the above is a link rather than an embedded clip is because I am embarrassed by the wildly fluctuating light levels. I just don’t know what I did. One moment it was fine, the next it looks like someone is switching a set of disco lights on and off erratically with a rusty fader.

This is slightly better.

Click here to view the embedded video.

]]> http://newton-williams.com/2010/01/video/feed/ 0 Kodak Zi8 http://newton-williams.com/2010/01/kodak-zi8/ http://newton-williams.com/2010/01/kodak-zi8/#comments Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:23:12 +0000 Gareth http://newton-williams.com/2010/01/kodak-zi8/ This year my I got my wife a Kodak Zi8 as a combined Christmas and birthday present. As ever I did a fair amount of research before picking anything up and I have not been disappointed! This type of device has been brought into the mainstream by Flip who produced a remarkably cheap and simple video camera for everyday use. These devices are a little larger than a mobile phone. Which is a good thing really as the Iphone 3Gs represents the most serious competition out there. You certainly can’t take a call on a Kodak Zi8!

What you can do is plug in a wireless microphone which means that should you graduate from poorly lit unsteady home video clips there are plenty of ways to produce semi-pro videos with this microscopic device. The Kodak Zi8 has a built in rechargeable battery pack, but if you want energy wherever whenever then you could stick with flip as their HD device takes AA batteries. Great for those of us who don’t want to get caught out with no charge.

Wait! I hear you cry who is this gift for?

Oh, you got me! You can check out the video quality here. And while that video was made by someone else I can prove that my Zi8 really was a gift by directing you to the first video that my wife made and uploaded to YouTube using the bundled software.

Ok, yes, I did shoot that video.

Word of the day: Bayou
-noun
1 – a marshy arm, inlet, or outlet of a lake, river, etc., usually sluggish or stagnant.
2 – any of various other often boggy and slow-moving or still bodies of water.

]]> http://newton-williams.com/2010/01/kodak-zi8/feed/ 0 What about video? After all everyone else is doing it! http://newton-williams.com/2009/09/what-about-video-after-all-everyone-else-is-doing-it/ http://newton-williams.com/2009/09/what-about-video-after-all-everyone-else-is-doing-it/#comments Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:10:40 +0000 Gareth http://newton-williams.com/blog/?p=35 In some ways YouTube and Facebook are two of the most defining cultural features of my generation, those and the war on terror. I am confident that the 20/20 vision of the future will reveal many of the flaws possessed by these things so I won’t gripe here. Instead I wanted to talk about how we have learned more about how to convey information to one another than ever before. 

We have learned to sign, talk, write, correspond, telephone, email, mobile phone, blog, and now vlog too; perhaps even in that approximate order. More importantly the art of deception has spread to the masses; it’s no longer the exclusive realm of the politician and mass media editor. Next time you spend an hour looking for the ideal profile picture you will know that any old truth just won’t do!

Where am I going with this? Well, for fear of finding myself completely out of date, I am moving into the world of streaming video. Here’s my first try.

Click here to view the embedded video.

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