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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Graphics and Video

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The other realm of stuff that I know some about is video. Itunes/Quicktime comes native with MacOS, and Windows Media Player for Windows. Which is perhaps why the other major proprietary video player, Real Player , has had such a hard time catching on for all of these years. It plays everything.

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I'm Video Blogging from NetSquared Year 3!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's qik video of what it was like: I will be doing some video blogging, brief interviews with 5 of the 21 featured projects. Well, off to double check my compression settings for QuickTime. It was followed by each of the 21 projects introducing themselves for two minutes. Greener One Zoli Piroska. MetaVid Michael Dale.

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Excellent Use of Video in A Personal Fundraising Campaign

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He documented it on film several versions are available, including a higher quality quicktime - The Water Buffalo Movie. It is a terrific example of story telling and use of video as tool to support a personal fundraising campaign.

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Learning Journal: Experimenting With Adding Music to Web Videos

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Lack of technical skills or software tools in cutting, splicing, fading the audio and weaving it with the video track. Here I found phosphor by Francesco Stablum and decided to incorporate it into the video I created to practice my music skills. They also suggested picking the music first if making a music video.

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Nonprofits and Videoblogging: Janitors Own Words: Video from SEIU

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In a few weeks, there will be a video blogging geekout session at NTC. I'm the session designer and I got a couple of rock stars from the video blogging community with us - Jay Dedman , Ryan Hodson , Jonny Goldstein , Andy Carvin , and Robyn Tippins to lead the session. How did you incorporate the use of video in your campaign?

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Compression Confessions

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This video to marks our 20th Wedding Anniversary which we are celebrating today! Our wedding was before the days when people created wedding blogs or wedding web sites or engagement moment sharing vlog posts -- and even a little before video taping was common. Since I'm learning, it's also part of learning journal. I tried the H.264

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Vlogging Learning Journal: Editing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Editing The best pieces I read so far about video editing that gets a novice up and started quickly is in the book Secrets of Videoblogging by Michael Verdi and Ryanne Hodson. I'm stuck for now on a Windows XP platform (can't afford to invest in Mac but will eventually), so the free video editing program is MovieMaker.

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