Portobelly Telly

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 07 Nov 2005, 23:30

A high-profile meeting of local media tycoons representing Portobello Online, Radio Free Porty and Portobello Reporter took place earlier this evening to discuss 'Portabelly Telly', as I am already bored of calling it.

We sat around chewing fat cigars, drinking Remy Martin and pretending to be Orson Welles for a while and then, when we got bored with that, we thought it would be great if you could send us some video clips.

Yes, I'm talking to you. Most of you have a digital camera and it almost certainly has a video mode, which you rarely use. So, all you have to do is record 30 seconds of video and then send it to us.

It could be 30 seconds of your cat, or your kid, or just about anything. Dig out the manual that came with your camera, find out how it works, shoot some video, copy it onto a CD and stick it through my letterbox at 10 Rosefield Street. Or you could try emailing it, but it's going to be a pretty big file size.

Leave the rest to us and before you know it we will have our very own community internet TV station.

Sorry to put you to all this trouble, but this is an interactive website. You don't get to just sit back and consume it - you have to provide us with content and ideas. We all wanted to be DJs and we made that possible.

So, who wants to be a TV star, or a film director?

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 07 Nov 2005, 23:35

Is there a watershed? It might make a difference to what we video.....

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 08 Nov 2005, 00:41

Epykat wrote:Is there a watershed? It might make a difference to what we video.....

We'd rather have footage *of* rabbits than people acting *like* rabbits.

Post by **wangi** » 08 Nov 2005, 10:49

http://www.youtube.com/

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 08 Nov 2005, 11:09

wangi wrote:http://www.youtube.com/

Some great stuff on here!!

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 12 Nov 2005, 18:43

*NEW FROM PBEEBIES*

Duckies : Episode 1 - "Introducing the Duckies" (windows media, 1.8MB)

CatzVP · Post by **CatzVP** » 18 Nov 2005, 20:28

Any restrictions on filesize, time, or dimensions

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 18 Nov 2005, 22:24

No. Just send me anything you have at this stage. I plan to put up some test stuff over the weekend so your contribution is very welcome.

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 19 Nov 2005, 20:32

Still experimenting, but to whet your appetite here's a sample of what we might be able to offer:

Portobello Sand Sculpture

It's pretty rough. Shot on an old Sony video camera, edited with Windows Movie Maker (very basic but easy to use) and completed with Flash Pro 8. Flash is capable of producing very professional looking video if I ever get to grips with it. Let me know how it plays.

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 19 Nov 2005, 20:35

looking good here

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 19 Nov 2005, 20:48

I'm getting sound and a wee blue bar with buttons on it, but that's all

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 19 Nov 2005, 20:49

Marya wrote:I'm getting sound and a wee blue bar with buttons on it, but that's all

Me too, M.

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 19 Nov 2005, 20:51

Think I may have forgot to ask it to detect your version of Flash. Hang on a minute.

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 19 Nov 2005, 21:05

Bob Jefferson wrote: Hang on a minute.

Er...have you done all your tweaking now Bob?

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 19 Nov 2005, 21:08

When I said a minute I obviously didn't mean that literally.

Give me ten minutes.

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 19 Nov 2005, 21:37

I obviously didn't literally mean ten minutes either. Try it now. I've also reduced the quality from high to medium.

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 19 Nov 2005, 21:41

Dadaist wrote:
Epykat wrote:Is there a watershed? It might make a difference to what we video.....
We'd rather have footage *of* rabbits than people acting *like* rabbits.

Speak for yourself - I'm already thinking pay-per-view community adult channel.

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 19 Nov 2005, 21:45

Bob Jefferson wrote:
Dadaist wrote:
Epykat wrote:Is there a watershed? It might make a difference to what we video.....
We'd rather have footage *of* rabbits than people acting *like* rabbits.
Speak for yourself - I'm already thinking pay-per-view community adult channel.

Oh don't get me wrong - I was just talking about Portabelly Telly.

"Sex On The Beach TV" is an entirely different topic. Although we might have to keep it till next summer. Bit parky the now. Ma bits might freeze an fa off ken.

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 19 Nov 2005, 21:53

Can see it now.

Well done, Bob. It looks great.

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 19 Nov 2005, 22:14

Looking good

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 19 Nov 2005, 23:06

And now with added sound!

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 20 Nov 2005, 22:26

People pop the most interesting things through my letter box nowadays:

Rhythm

impossiblevoices · Post by **impossiblevoices** » 22 Nov 2005, 18:50

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 22 Nov 2005, 19:00

You got any more for us? My letter box is always open.

What about the rest of you? My video camera is currently sitting on a tripod ready for action. Would anyone like to come round and do their party piece?

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 22 Nov 2005, 19:09

Bob Jefferson wrote:You got any more for us? My letter box is always open.

What about the rest of you? My video camera is currently sitting on a tripod ready for action. Would anyone like to come round and do their party piece?

I thought we were doing a differet thread for the, ah, burlesque stuff.

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 26 Nov 2005, 18:54

This is video of Margaret and Archie's book signing earlier today. I'm having problems publishing it, so I've just stuck it up as a Windows Media Player file for now.

Book Signing

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 26 Nov 2005, 19:07

what about the other video with Epykat starring?

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 26 Nov 2005, 19:13

If you mean the cakestand video, we tried this morning but the weather was terrible. We are going to try again tomorrow at 11am, so hope you will all come out to join us.

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 26 Nov 2005, 20:25

http://www.porty.org.uk/video/book_signing.html

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 27 Nov 2005, 00:33

Raw, unedited footage, using a Â£99 digital camera. If I can do this, so can you.

Emily in the Botanics

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 27 Nov 2005, 23:35

At the other end of the scale, here's 4 hours worth of workshop to produce 30+ mins of footage and ultimately (several hours of editing later)3 mins of video which you will need a broadband connection to view. This is the .wmv version with a Flash version to follow. It's a lot of work and probably not sustainable within the context of marriage and family life.

A sustainable future for Portobello?

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 29 Nov 2005, 20:01

I'm having great fun with Windows Movie Maker which is bundled free with XP.

everyone's a winner baby

Someone else suggested that Porty's caption should read 'Putting the belly into Portobelly Telly'

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 29 Nov 2005, 21:38

still playing

the only way to surf

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 18 Dec 2005, 19:39

Pushing the envelope this time with a 7 minute epic! Ideally, I would like to play video up to a max of 10 mins so I'm interested to know how well this works.

Big Art discussion

How long did it take before you were able to start viewing?

Does it run smoothly or stutter?

Does it play continuously or stop to buffer?

Obviously this will vary according to your connection speed and set up, but it would be useful to get a cross-section of feedback.

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 18 Dec 2005, 20:34

Bob Jefferson wrote: How long did it take before you were able to start viewing?

3 secs

Does it run smoothly or stutter?

Smoothly

Does it play continuously or stop to buffer?

Continuously