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Gumballs and Telescopes
I'm sorry to anyone who is getting bored of my cinematography, but I have such fun making these things, even if they are rubbish. The latest efforts are views of two things from Burning Life. Ms Rebekka Ruff told me about the Steam Powered Gumball Factory and clearly I had to visit that - but on the way I also noticed Jillian Callahan's telescope, and felt that that deserved a piece as well.
Burning Life - Telescope on Vimeo
Burning Life - Gumballs on Vimeo
Unfortunately I am producing these little clips at a rate that seems to be exhausting my uploading allowance on Vimeo. I do like Vimeo very much, it is far nicer, prettier and easier to use than Google Video, and I'm afraid we do not use the YuTbe word around here. However, it restricts one to a mere Thirty Megabytes of Information per Week, which sounds like an awful lot but in actual fact isn't. Particularly as one's allowance begins anew on a Sunday, and I tend to engage in such projects on Sundays rather than Saturdays. Because of this I have been forced to produce things in piddly little 320x240 format.
I suppose that I should examine the Burning Life areas a little more thoroughly before they vanish.
I'm quite frankly surprised at their upload limits. When one deals in video information, Thirty Megabytes is not very much at all. One may hope that they will increase this limit as their service becomes more popular and they can bring additional storage on-line.
The only other drawback to Vimeo is that it appears to require version 8 of the Flash plug-in, which renders the in-line preview windows inaccessible to users of Linux (since Macromedia seems to never have gotten round to updating the Linux Flash player past version 7). Not a huge drawback, mind, but an annoyance nonetheless, especially since the other two services you mention here work properly with the version 7 plug-in on Linux.
Yes, it's not a lot, even if it's weekly, and the Flash 8 problem has been mentioned before... I find Google Video a pain to use, and I am irrationally prejudiced against YouTube, and I think that Vimeo has been rather unfairly overlooked and would like to help promote it, but there are certainly drawbacks.
Ooh okay, nevermind. You're aware that us *nix users can't view your stuff. I won't rehash it then.
You should be able to if you select the "download" link from the page on Vimeo. I have tested that with VLC and it should work fine.
As soon as I have a way to post things in a better format I will....
have you tried ourmedia.org?
I haven't... and attempting to do so now, I see that their site appears not to be working. I shall try to remember to take a look later on.
[...] The esteemed Ms. Ordinal Malaprop, of whom I have written here on a number of occasions, has started getting into video in a big way, and is using a hosting service called Vimeo for her clips, such as the two she highlights in this recent blog post. She prefers the service to Google Video (which she finds extraordinarily difficult to use) or YouTube (which she loathes). Unfortunately, Vimeo has a maddening restriction: she can only upload 30 Mb of video to them per week…and when you’re dealing with video, 30 Mb is nothing compared to the output she can generate. [...]