vimeo / piwakawaka
Piwakawaka collecting nest material from dubh and Vimeo.
Around the house at the farm there’s a plethora of birdlife: mainly because my parents’ last cat died about a year ago. Everything is quite tame: my mother had a bellbird pair nesting about three feet outside the kitchen window; swallows perch on the TV aerial (the little shitters); and there’s a family of fantails (piwakawaka) living in the trees at the corner of the house.
This one was busy collecting dog hair (moulted from Grace, the elderly retriever) for her nest and didn’t mind me with the camera at all.
I’m testing out the video sharing concept: there’s a few options around where people are trying to create the Flickr equivalent for video. There aren’t many clips I’d want to share: most I do on the camera are of the kids. But sometimes I take something interesting (I think).
At first I thought I’d use Google Video – so I signed up and uploaded a couple clips – I even complied with their requirements (unencumbered formats: MP4 for video and MP3 for audio). But for some reason the audio has come out crap, so I’m now trying Vimeo, which is a more obvious Flickr clone.
I can’t quite see Vimeo taking off as strongly as Flickr: video is just not as straightforward for users as photos are. But who knows: maybe in a couple years something will have happened to change all that. It usually does…
Alan
29 December 2005, 22:30 #
Ha!
I’ve proven the point. I can’t even see this clip in any of my browsers on my Mac (even though it plays happily as a stand alone file).
What am I doing wrong? Can anyone else see the clip?
ben.run
30 December 2005, 10:07 #
Do you need an seperate service to host the clips? Why not just host them on your website. I thought your webhost had good traffic allowances.
Alan
30 December 2005, 21:08 #
Yeah, it does… but it wouldn’t take too many hits on the clip to start eating into that allowance.
I’m probably just being paranoid about that though.
The other thing you get from the shared site is that community thing – groups for photos / video; tagging; searching etc etc… so that the sum is way way greater than the parts, if you get my drift.
katja
31 December 2005, 12:55 #
The video shows perfectly on both Google video (sound is bad indeed) and Vimeo, with Opera&XP. No more mac here since 1/2 year, so can’t check that.
Wonderful clip, amazing birds. Even though you say they’re common in NZ, they appear quite exotic to me!
Alan
31 December 2005, 17:10 #
Hmmm, thanks Katja. It must be just my Mac that won’t play the clips in the browser. As for the sound on those Google clips: I have no idea why they are like that. They weren’t that way when I uploaded them.
Alan
2 July 2007, 10:14 #
And so now, eighteen months later, I’ve re-uploaded and re-embedded the file… and it works!