Learning Unit # 12

Task#1

Viewed in 1080p

http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/1/b/41b10a4f-f4f4-4692-aa44-a458d0047e91/Robotica_1080.exe

Viewed in 720p

http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/9/d/09d051c4-decc-4d39-9c57-f520187213a1/Amazing_Caves_720.exe

Viewed from Apple’s site

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/guide/hd/blue_man.html

Task #2

I attempted to upload to youtube via my ustream account, I thought it would be an interesting bit of synergy between tasks 2 and 3. It’s nothing really important in itself, just me explaining what I just mentioned in the previous sentance. If it uploads properly and works, great. I’ll modify this task as YouTube updates me.

For creating the video through Ustream, all I did was open up a broadcast from their website and save it like a normally recorded broadcast. After that I used the option to upload the content to YouTube, easy. I also used the program that came with my webcam to try and upload something, but the file size was going to take over an hour to upload on YouTube. The process there was fairly simple as well: hook up the webcam hit the record button and start talking. Go to YouTube and use their upload option finished the process in that instance… assuming the upload time isn’t ridiculous.

Update: about five or ten minutes after I started the upload from Ustream I was able to hit YouTube and get the URL for the video. (suggestion is to skip it, the upload doesn’t seem to work perfectly. The sound it nothing but static and the image appears to move faster than it should)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K01xUf86Kl8

Another attempt at uploading something to Youtube offered this, after a long, long wait for conversion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2WQj8IPDsg

After watching this version I notice that there are still some problems with the upload. The sound is much better, but the speed the video progresses at is too fast and doesn’t match the audio track. I’m unsure what the problem is with the conversion process that is changing the video, but I imagine that it must have something to do with the near 100MB file size that the webcam produced.

Task#3
I put up a few video’s on Ustream, the “best” version is here:

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/382027

The other version is below, the difference was I tried a few times in between to increase the quality of the sound. I’m honestly very disappointed in the sound quality, though I suppose that’s the reason why they offer the chat feature for their broadcasts.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/381998

I attempted to make the sound better by increasing the sound setting available and by using a better headset in the “best” version. I don’t think the difference is really that spectacular. I really can’t say how disappointed I am in that aspect, though I imagine that it is possible that I missed something about their sound options.

In the video’s I explain my reason for choosing the site, but due the the sound quality I’ll outline them here as well.

1. Stickam is big, but Ustream seems to listen to its customer base and has a lot of options that I didn’t find on Stickam. An example is the YouTube upload.
2. Ustream is very clean and professional looking
3. Ustream has a very nice interface that I was able to quickly learn and it allows for a lot of customization on your home page.
4. Livevideo looks a little unfinished, it also looks like it is battling pornography. I looked around the site briefly and turned it down when I noticed the top channels and groups all seemed to be linked to adult material, or at least showed images of women in skimpy atire. Needless to say I don’t care to have my professional reputation associated with that, it’s right out.

Task#5

I am signed up on Seesmic as “jaguidosh”

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~ by jaguidosh on April 29, 2008.