New Local Bias Promo

"Local Bias" Producer Drew Hutchison has been busy augmenting his Youtube.com offerings. In addition to this new promo you can watch all three parts of his interview with Eve Brown-Waite, author of "First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria", on our youtube channel.

Another Reminder to Check our Youtube Channel

Have you seen Jason Mazzarino's latest art project? What about the excerpt from the Frost Heaves' concert at The Pint? New content is added periodically but not always announced or shown here on our blog. Check it out here!

New Content on Our Youtube Channel

Musician, and independent producer, Laura Siersema has followed up her "All Souls Mid-week Music with Laura Siersema & Gary Snedeker" program with a series of videos on Youtube featuring the music from her new CD "Talon of the Blackwater". Laura worked with GCTV staffer Owen Weaver to add the music to still images of her album's artwork in Final Cut Pro on one of our Macs. The results are now available for viewing as part of the "Individual Producers' Videos" Playlist on our Youtube Channel. Here's a sample:

Toolbox: How to put high quality videos online.

Travis Roy (producer of "Valley Homegrown") inspired this post a week or so ago when he emailed the station to let us know he had come up with a new way to upload really spiffy looking video to Youtube.com. Check it out here! His method, unfortunately, is a little cumbersome.

However, Elijah Rottenberg (one of Travis' camera operators and a producer in his own right) emailed in with some more straightforward advice. Elijah uses "h.264 (but I'm on a mac). Restricting the bit rate to like 850 or 980 kbits/sec will keep the ending file size way smaller - but it takes a lot longer to compress. You can also mess with the frame sizes - the best advice is to have people experiment by compressing files that are around 10 seconds long till you find something that looks right, then do the whole file - you can also use those test files as a check on the quality on youtube as well before you devote your whole afternoon to compressing and uploading something that may not be right."

Garry Longe (President of GCTV's Board of Directors and an Instructional Media Specialist at GCC) has a slightly different take on the matter. "Experimenting aside there seems to be no one answer for web video. Depends a lot on what and how its shot and who you are trying to deliver to. We have a number of media servers and they all like it a little different. Note that You-Tube recommends you upload MPEG4 but delivers as a flash file after the conversion??? Working on Premier 2.0 and CS-4
on Windows seems okay to me as I haven't had any major issues although I am making a master rendered out file first before rendering to any other distribution formats."

What do you think? Do you have a method that works really well for you and gives you a high quality product online? Let us know, and continue this discussion, by commenting on this blog post. This is a great opportunity for all of our producers to share their experience with each other.

Rogue Reporter has youtube channel!

Reba Razz, GCTV's Rogue Reporter, has created her own youtube channel. Check it out at http://www.youtube.com/user/rebarazz. She has lots of great short videos there and adds new ones regularly. As usual, you can also see great shorts here on our blog, on GCTV's own youtube channel (see link on the right hand side of this page), and on Channel 15 as part of Short Attention Span Television. Oh, and here's one more from Reba to wet your appetite. Enjoy!

New video on youtube!

One of our independent producers, Rogue Reporter Reba Rasbury, has produced a short cooking segment for our youtube channel. Check it out!