I just got off a streaming test with Mike Versteeg the developer of CastBlaster and VidBlaster. He’s very close to having a viable alternative to Tricaster at a price any individual, church, school or community group can afford.
VidBlaster can stream to the Internet now using Windows Media streaming, but we’ve asked him to make it [...]
I’ve been getting some great advice from Jason “Cannonball” Jenkins about lighting. Jason is a professional lighting designer who is currently on tour with the Osmonds on their 50th anniversary tour. After he introduced me to a few hardware and software solutions that would enable us to control our lighting from a single control point, [...]
This post is meant for googlers. Smurf sex is just when sex happens with so much blue light that the participants look blue. No mystery really.
Spending money in new media is a tricky thing. Everything we do costs much, much less than antique media, but it isn’t exactly cheap. Lighting for the Big Trip cost just under $6000. That’s a lot, but it’s a choice that will make sense for the next several years.
Usually when we buy something for production, [...]
A new Mac owner recently asked me to recommend some Mac apps. so here we go!
VisualHub is the application we use to compress GeekBrief.TV into four of the five versions we release. It’s a lightweight video conversion utility that’s easy to learn and fun to use. The developer writes his sense of humor into error [...]
So, I have an idea and I want to see if anyone is game. Here goes…
Researching and writing The Brief usually takes us half a day or more. Shooting takes about 30 minutes and post production (editing, graphics, compression and uploading) takes about three hours. Check the Twitter transcripts. It’s pretty well documented.
This week, we’re [...]
Max Murphy is a teen podcaster who produces a show called Mac News Weekly. He’s a HUGE friend of GeekBrief.TV.
At the end of Max’s latest episode, the audio on the credits is a lot louder than his audio on the show. I used to do that all the time on Geek Brief. Levelator is an [...]
Final Cut Pro is my favorite application because I learn something new almost every day. The app. does something, though, I’m not sure how to manage. It writes files to my scratch disk and then leaves them there.
Once every two weeks or so, I go into my Final Cut Pro Documents folder and delete, delete, [...]
Doing what we do, producing GeekBrief.TV, is often exhilarating, but isn’t constant, so it reminds me of an old gospel song that says, “I thank God for the Mountains, and I thank Him for the valleys. I thank Him for the storms He’s brought me through. Cause if I had never had a problem, I [...]
This week we got a peek at what flash video will look like on the PodShow network. It’s beautiful.Adam Curry says they’re waiting for greater user adoption of the latest version of flash before PodShow does the upgrade. The conversion process is expensive, so the wait makes sense.I think it would be really cool if PodShow created a [...]
