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Now past and all seems to have gone well. Fantastic service from various Ustream and Justin TV clients. Remarkable work by Storm Chaser Shane Williams broadcasting live from Townsville in his car during the night and next morning. Looks like the mobile data network remained intact. I am installing Ustream Broadcaster app for iPhone4 just [...]

Bruce from benallaonline.com.au gets up to speed with HD video. Includes 24 inch iMac, Canon 7D DSLR shooting 1080p video, loaded to Aperture 3 and edited in iMovie. Export at 720p and embedded from Vimeo upload.

A very recent installation job nearly went pear shaped when a new “feature” in iWork 09 Keynote stopped us from scheduling a shutdown of a kiosk style big screen sideshow on 3 screens. The job is a display of news and coming events on 3 big screens for The West Footscray Neighborhood House. The screens [...]

We uploaded some new video to the video folio page. Along with some HD embedded there is an old video I had forgotten about. The Bloopers tape from a daredevil like effort by Jos Van Hulsen aboard his dirtboard invention. Excuse the expletive at the end, it is hilarious. Video folio page here. Ferel Bloopers [...]

In shooting Melbourne’s best heritage listed trees this morning we decided to try a little piece to camera, just to see how it looked. Steve you are a natural. Angophora costata (Smooth-barked Apple) from Philip Greenwood on Vimeo. This is my favorite from the shoot, Cussonia spicata (Cabbage Tree) Cnr Inkerman and Hawthorn Rd Caulfield [...]

The webcast from The Dog theatre went well last night and we will continue to improve our assembly of technical specifications for this type of event. The concept was for a lightweight portable and affordable two camera streaming solution. Video to follow soon of the recorded stream.

The new 720p HD video screen at Federation square lit up on Friday with a slide show of graphics and upcoming acts. Design by Petrina and built by Phil, this is the result. More details about the Festival at Melbourne Jazz Fringe.

This is my favorite ad at the moment.

My good mate James has finally got his CD “Carpet Bomb” onto the iTunes music store globally. His mates in the band, Velvedene have done a great job with this album and the video footage in support. Have a quick look at the new video. Or get the album now using iTunes

After much messing around we finally got Velvedene.com online. This is a WordPress site that contains video and audio from the debut album “Carpet Bomb” We used one track from this album for the PhotoGeek podcast intro each week so we owe James this plug at least. Have a listen to the sample mp3′s and [...]

Just released the Elgato H.264 hardware encoder. Make Apple TV ready content from Elgato recorded HD Free to Air TV in a flash. No more waiting for video to re-encode as 720p for iTunes playback. This makes the AppleTV a much more useful device for managing Free To Air TV on your widescreen TV. Read [...]

Released a week or so ago, USTREAM provides a method of streaming live video and audio to a worldwide audience. According to Cris Pirillo, this is indeed a revolution as it allows bloggers and video bloggers to go live with text chat to their audience. I suppose with Skype you could have live interview and [...]

I got my beta invitation to Joost today and for those not aware Joost is an internet TV service that works a little like free cable TV for your computer. The content and channel selection is interesting and predictably of a standard inferior to “free to air” traditional TV. Having said that my 9 year [...]

Well it seems that the times are a changin’…again. Elgato, having released the superb DTT USB stick for Digital HD TV on the Mac, now intend to have the export files compatable with Apple TV 720p streaming capability. I have been testing the Elgato on a 17 inch iMac Core 2 Duo and despite it’s [...]