Finally figured it out!

[Stacey]

Okay, I finally got my video to load successfully on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2TAxy_cE0U

The sound is all off, timing-wise, but if anyone is interested, you can watch the video I made for the Oxygen reality show (She-larious) audition. It was written, shot and edited in four days.

Other than Wendy, I play all the women in the video. It's hard to tell at low res.

Thanks to Wendy Mateo, Craig McCarty, James Harris, Devin Keast, Jill Olsen, John Abbott, Crago, iO and Nappy Headz Salon, and of course, Bob.

If I spelled anyone's names wrong, I apologize...

[Carr]

Did you make it onto the show? When will you know for sures?


Erin

[Stacey]

We all got an email about two weeks ago that said no firm decisions were made yet. Who knows if and when we might find out. It's TV development! It could be shelved, changed, canceled, or just about anything else. It was a fun, and demanding, audition process though. I am sure you will all know when any of us know.

- Oh and thanks to Matt Larsen and Bob for letting me use their whip pan technique..

[Wendy!]

You're welcome Stacey!!!

I can't wait to watch it, I can't watch it at work.

But it was definitely fun, let's do some more!!!!

xoxo

[Stacey]

or i thought i figured it out.

so the fact that the audio and video are so terribly off is driving me crazy. i heard this may be an avi format issue.

if anyone knows how to upload videos so they look better, please let me know. when i have time, i'm going to relaod the video from my external drive and start all over experimenting with compressing the files so that it might look and sound better.

not just for this one, i don't care THAT much, but in general. i want to be doing more of this and i'm disappointed with how crummy it looks - and comedy with the timing all thrown off is tough.

one of the problems i was having is that i don't think firefox is that friendly to this sort of thing so i used safari and it worked. anyone have any experience with that sort of problem, too?

and i've tried multiple times to upload to myspace and it loads for twenty minutes then tells me it's encountered an error.

maybe this should be another thread...

i must be getting old. technology is starting to defeat me when lots and lots of other people seem to be doing just fine...

[Hendo]

MySpace is NOTORIOUSLY hard to upload to. Also, be careful about content... if it is at ALL objectionable to anyone, MySpace can not only take down the video, they can take down you whole page.

I feel your MySpace pain, though... it took me 8 tries to finally get one 3 minute video uploaded. Have you tried the new "advanced" uploader? It's actually pretty nice, once you get the hang of it.

ETA: your YouTube videos will always look and sound weird to you, due to the compression they use to enable their site. The timing between pictures and sound are off, and the pictures look downright fuzzy.

[smaher78]

Oh Man, I thought I'd open this thread and really find out something about life.

[sigh]

Sarah

[Hendo]

It is, Sarah. It's all a metaphor. Read it again.



Get it? Isn't it AWESOME?

[HeatherConnelly]

Hendo's right.

We're all in some way or another auditioning for She-Larious.
Life is like t.v. development. You can't count on anything but the potential is exciting. Anything can happen and nothing can happen.

You can never download your life into a way that's not compressed or different than how it really was, so all you can do is take it all in in the present moment.

And along the way, you make friends who will let you use their whip pan technique.

[bill binkley]

I've found that even though their compression stinks up your films something fierce, it helps a little--especially with titles--if you save your movie at the highest quality possible (keeping it under 1GB in accordance with their standards).

I've never tried an AVI file, but I've had no trouble with MOV files (generated by iMovie), neither with uploading, nor with sound syncing. (Okay, so there was one exception in sound, and it was minor.)

So maybe saving to MOV will help, if that's possible. What are you using to create your films?

[Mike McKeown]

Stacey, regardless of any tech issues you're having, I still really like that video. Good job!

[Stacey]

Thanks, Mike!

I edited the movie in iMovie.

I will try some other formats again. I should have tried YouTube before MySpace apparently.

Thanks everyone! This is very helpful. Both literally, and metaphorically.