Doing some conversion on a couple of submissions. Following through on Phoenix footage.
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Ryan Markel
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Ryan Markel
More WordCamp Boston video waiting in the FTP. Excellent. Grabbing it now.
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Ryan Markel
NYC wrap-up finally out after tangling with the blog layout and checking the links a bazillion times.
Moving on to Boston and clearing out some emails to contributors.
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Ryan Markel
BlackBerry and Android videos are up. Going to subtitle those today, get some more NYC video, and upload the last of the first wave of Boston stuff.
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Ryan Markel
Spinning up some more WordCamp NYC stuff today while I download the first batch of video from WordCamp Boston.
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Ryan Markel
Spent some time today and Wednesday grabbing everything from the holding area that hadn’t been posted and am now setting up the uploads to VideoPress to run overnight.
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Ryan Markel
Checking the two scheduled videos for today, then on to a possible third later tonight. Tomorrow I execute a planning and organizational whirlwind by catching up on as much stuff as possible and pre-loading publishing for the next couple of weeks if possible.
I kind of wish I could schedule backdated posts.
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Ryan Markel
Well, I had two videos in the queue for publishing tonight, but one of them was a partial when I checked it, so it looks like just one going out.
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Ryan Markel
After a couple of days waiting for my computer and the Internet to catch up, I’m finally getting some NYC videos up and will be hitting the recap tonight as well.
Next two days are crazy for me, but I hope to publish quite a few videos and get underneath what’s waiting over the holiday weekend.
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Michael Pick
Sounds like you’re still having some problems with video slowing you down, I feel your pain on that front – is it a transcoding issue or uploading? I guess a two-prongued attack might help at this point:
(a) max out your RAM. At 4GB (or is it 6GB on the older aluminium imacs?) you should have a lot less issues than 1.5GB, which is probably pushing it to the limit. I recommend OWC for this, I managed to get pretty cheap RAM that way (a lot cheaper than Apple prices). Also, if you aren’t using it already Visual Hub has now been open sourced and is an awesome, lightweight option for transcoding stuff with somewhat breakneck speed in my experience (beats slowcoach QT pro and compressor a lot of the time)
(b) if you aren’t doing so already spool off footage to a firewire or other speedy external drive – using your boot drive as a scratch drive will both slow things down horribly AND screw up your boot drive way sooner than would be desirable
(c) Just as importantly, as we discussed in a recent chat, we ought to implement a policy for peoples’ uploads being pre-crunched. I assume that people wouldn’t try and send their raw, uncompressed video to YouTube, Vimeo etc. (it would never upload), so we should insist on under 1GB files that we can then upload directly to VideoPress. Better yet, if we could work on the previously talked of user-upload form that then somehow goes into moderation, that would be even better (cutting out the awkward and time consuming FTP up and download routine you have to go through at the moment)
Maybe we could post to the blog on a super-easy step-by-step process for crunching your videos with super, ffmpeg or visualhub (or any other free, open source, reasonably easy video transcode tool)
Let me know if I can help!
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Michael Pick
From your previous description of your mac I’m guessing you need either: http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/apple/memory/iMac/Intel_Core_2_Duo or http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/iMac/Intel_Core_2_Duo_PC2-6400
PS – what was visual hub is here: http://www.techspansion.com/ but that will just send you along to http://transcoderredux.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/transcoderredux/ if you want to save a step
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Ryan Markel
Quick night tonight for various reasons – published the Elastic session from NYC and cleared out the inboxes. Grabbing a few more videos overnight.
Michael Pick is discussing. 
*Both* videos are partials. Hmm.