Vidding discussion

I'm experimenting with streaming a few videos off my website that aren't on YouTube.  Not sure what the volume the site can handle is, but these experiments should give us the information. This one is for Dr Who.  I'd appreciate hearing how it goes for you.  The video is downloadable, and I won't guarantee how long I keep it up as I keep experimenting.  What I like about doing it is that I can get higher quality videos than YouTube allows.

Dr Who - mixed doctors - Jurassic Park - 'Weird Al' Yankovic

http://www.iment.com/maida/tv/drwho/video/DrWho-Jurassic-Park-Weird-Al-Yankovic.htm

Galaxy Quest - Alan Rickman Memorial - Auld Lang Syne - Stephen Bishop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx_LuEALz3A&index=1&list=PLYTtL1FB2XCpp51e2gGhpPg3egKURDEqt

Dr Who - Sir John Hurt Memorial - Auld Lang Syne - Mitch Miller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOOgllg6ee0&index=2&list=PLYTtL1FB2XCpp51e2gGhpPg3egKURDEqt

Blakes 7 - Gareth Thomas Memorial - Auld Lang Syne - Susan Boyle
https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=qYNDDiwyeFQ

And a bunch of older ones.

Four new songs for DS9:
  Cowboy in Me - Tim McGraw - Garak's harder side - 238 MB; 37 MB
  Be Still - The Fray - Garak/Bashir - 241 MB; 26 MB
  We are Okay - Joshua Radin - Garak/Bashir - 168 MB; 25 MB
   Song for my Father - Jane Olivor - Dukat and his daughter Ziyal - 241 MB; 37 MB

Obviously, Garak is my current passion.

http://www.iment.com/maida/tv/songvids/stsong.htm

All the vids going up to YouTube are organized by fandom on playlists.  So far the only major loss seems to be that we can't put up BBC Sherlock videos.  Otherwise, it's the usual blocking of specific music.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKo6Ll07wmk8TeGx9PShukg

The whole set of videos can still be downloaded at:

http://www.iment.com/maida/tv/songvids/index.htm

Since I'm going public, I'm going to start collapsing together the two shadow pages - the fandom part - keepthissecret - and the public part - tv.  What it means to you practically is that some of the more explicit songs won't be visible unless you remember the keepthissecret url.  Ask me if you have any questions.  But I'm going to start referencing the videos by the public name until I am given a reason not to.

Currently 129 videos up on YouTube.  Don't have high quality access to older videos right now except in the mp2 versions for downloading on our site.  YouTube would degrade our mp2s into mp4s.  They would have taken our mp4s directly, but we had made our mp4s small for ease of downloading.  Right now we're using what movs we have to create large mp4s to send to YouTube, so the YouTube versions are excellent.  We're looking into whether we can get back into the older projects on the older system, but we're not there yet.  Lots of Blakes 7 (42), Dr Who (28) and Professionals (17) , though not all of any fandom.

Please let me know what you think.  Best, Mary

Topic: Christmas Carol
Doctors: Doctor 12
DOWNLOAD:
http://www.iment.com/maida/keepthissecret/songvids/drwhosong.htm#drwhosantaclausiscomingtotown
http://www.iment.com/maida/keepthissecret/songvids/xmassong.htm#drwhosantaclausiscomingtotown
MP4: 19 MB
MP2: 121 MB
LENGTH: 2 min

A Happy Christmas, Mary

My websites:
http://www.iment.com/maida/index.htm
http://www.henrylivingston.com/booksbyandabout-hl.htmall: announcements, tv: doctor who,

Topic: Christmas Carol
Doctors: Mixed 11-12
DOWNLOAD:
http://www.iment.com/maida/keepthissecret/songvids/drwhosong.htm#fatherchristmas
http://www.iment.com/maida/keepthissecret/songvids/xmassong.htm#fatherchristmas
MP4: 32 MB
MP2: 212 MB
LENGTH: 3 min

Good layered meaning.  Going poem mad.  A Happy Christmas, Mary

My websites:
http://www.iment.com/maida/index.htm
http://www.henrylivingston.com/booksbyandabout-hl.htm

Vidder: maidavids
Fandom: Mixed Fandoms, Mostly Slash - You don't choose who you love
Lord of the Rings, Due South, Professionals, Boston Legal, Starsky & Hutch, Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek, Doctor Who, Blakes 7, Star Wars, Forever Knight
Music: "Love Decides" by Jane Oliver
DOWNLOAD:
http://www.iment.com/maida/keepthissecret/songvids/miscsong.htm
http://www.iment.com/maida/keepthissecret/songvids/index.htm
MP4: 26 MB
MP2: 170 MB
LENGTH: 3 min

My websites:
http://www.iment.com/maida/index.htm
http://www.henrylivingston.com

Vidder: maidavids
Fandom: Trying for the Stars (Mixed)
Music: "Let's Make Some Memories" by Jane Oliver
DOWNLOAD:
http://www.iment.com/maida/keepthissecret/songvids/drwhosong.htm
http://www.iment.com/maida/keepthissecret/songvids/index.htm
MP4: 25 MB
MP2: 168 MB
LENGTH: 3 min

I gave in to my husband. This is the first video I've made using Adobe Premiere instead of Avid Media Composer. Gawd, but I hate change. The waveform is SO much better in Avid and I'm not fond of strange keystrokes (Premier) rather than obvious buttons (Avid). The compelling reason to look at Premier is the way Avid hangs for so long when the IN and OUT points are set on the recorder and you're working with at least one track of Audio waveform. If we captured video every time we made a new Avid project, we wouldn't be dealing with the delay but, obviously, we prefer to capture every episode just once and work off that captured set. At least I now know that I CAN make a video to my standards using Premier. No idea yet where I go from here.

I used this music decades ago when I was working in Blakes 7. It's one of my very favorite Jane Oliver songs and it works great for Doctor Who!


My websites:
http://www.iment.com/maida/index.htm
http://www.henrylivingston.com