May Mayhem!

scobot | April 30, 2009

Getting ready for this weekend’s “VJ WORKSHOP” for Reel Grrls. Punch-Drunk Productions and myself will be once again teaching a six hour workshop about VJing to girls aged 11-19. Last time we did this, it was a blast. So fun to see so many girl “VJs”! Awesome. I wish I had a class like this when I was a kid. I”m really excited how it has all come together and we’re already thinking about offering it to anybody who might be interested in the art of VJing.

ALSO: Saturday, May 9th, I’m being flown down to San Diego California to VJ at an event for Red Bull. Very cool. I will be working with Punch-Drunk on that adventure as well.

LOTS of editing to get content ready for these two events!

Oh yeah, Reel Grrls will also be presenting an all ages show on May 30th at the Vera Project (Seattle) featuring bands, spoken word and VJs! I will be helping coach “team VJ” – that should be very cool!

Somehow I found time to set up a Twitter account (@vjscobot) and a Facebook account! Nothing too special to look at right now – maybe never, but at least I can check that off my “to do” list! I actually kind of like the Twitter – even though I know NO ONE is following!!! It’s just me in my own little world. Kind of helps me figure out what I did in a day though, so that’s nice.

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Searching for old recipe

scobot | April 22, 2009

I may be getting closer to those old Halloween 2k6 videos on myspace that still look really well after being re-encoded when uploaded.

These latest experiments went something like this:
1) Original recording is in QT H264
2) Export from QT pro as NTSC AVI (with audio volume adjusted)
3) Edit, adjust, add watermark in Virtual Dub.
4) Export from Virtual Dub as MS-MPEG4 V2, Key every 150, 90% crisp, Data 3000. Audio @ 48kbs MP3

Here’s how it looks on YouTube:

Here’s how it looks on MySpace:

Here’s how it looks on Vimeo:


Test AVI from VJ scobot on Vimeo.

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Still working on this BLOG

scobot | April 15, 2009

Spent most of the day trying to figure out how to tie this blog into the rest of my site (along with my Amazon.com store) – whew! You would think there would be an easy way to work on these things!

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Testing FLV player

scobot | April 13, 2009

This is a test to see if I can run FLV video off my website. I was able to imbed this into my myspace page – (NOT EASY AT ALL!) – I hope this goes a little bit better.

HOLY CRAP IT WORKED?!! You have no idea how looooooong I have been futzing with this tonight!

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I’ve been busy – honest!

scobot | April 7, 2009

Been working on a lot of stuff behind the scenes – nothing is quite ready yet. (including this WordPress BLOG)

VIDEO: I’ve been amassing a ton of live VIDEO CAM remixing recordings of people dancing over the past two months. Ideally I want to post these on a weekly blog – so people can check to see if they were recorded – just good fun and promotion. BUT I’ve been going nuts trying to find the right codec settings for uploading to the web. Most of the clips need some editing and audio adjusting so I can’t just upload them as-is. WHAT A PAIN!!!! The number one WORSE thing for web video is FAST MOTION! And gee, guess what my videos are…frickin’ crazy fast cutting! (too much sometimes, but I just can’t help myself – I love it) – anyway, it looks like CRAP once YouTube/Myspace/Google and even VIMEO are done hammer away at it. At this point I’m looking at paying for hosting that doesn’t re-compress the videos or may even revert back to just having the videos on my site! (novel idea – but kind of limits the “social” aspect that is the appeal of a YouTube/Myspace hosted video) It takes SO LONG to encode a video, upload it, only to find out it looks like crap – then try it again! I’m really getting tired of it.

THE STORE: Still adding items to my Amazon.com store and want to upload some more designs for my T-Shirt shop. It’s a lot for a one man operation do, let me tell you!

Re-TV.net: Got sidetracked thinking Resolume Avenue A (vj software) was going to be the ticket for my live A/V sample happiness – so far that looks like a dead end. Promising there for a little while. So far, can’t beat the KORG Entrancer that I’m using. I’m sure some MAX-MSP/Jitter people are screaming at me to try that. Next time I have $900 to spend on software, I’ll do that.

SCOBOT TV: Have the streaming thing worked out now – pretty cool. May even try to take this “on the road” at some point. Right now I’m interested in setting up a some broadcasts with DJs just to get it going.

OTHER: Been incorporating my KORG KAPTIVATOR into my live set now. I think I have the routing pretty worked out. It takes me awhile to set up – but now I can run DVDs into my laptop, effect them in Arkaos, output that to the V-4, mix with a clip from the KAPTIVATOR, send to the ENTRANCER, manipulate it there and re-sample it back into the KAPTIVATOR and round and round it goes. Yeah, pretty wild!!!! Need to work on my technique, but if I could up load some videos you would see what I was talking about! lol

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