Written on July 2nd, 2006 at 09:07 am by Darren Rowse
A Day in the Life of a Blogger - Vidcast
Yesterday I got a new toy - an iSight webcam.What follows is a little video I made with it describing ‘a day in the life of me’.
It’s nothing to serious and not the best quality video I’ve ever made (it was a little dark in the room) - but it was a fun way to spend a lazy Saturday evening.
Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv)
This video was originally shared on blip.tv by darrenrowse with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license.
PS: The music is Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun from the albumn Dig Your Own Hole (aff)
34 Responses to “A Day in the Life of a Blogger - Vidcast”
Robert Bruce
July 2nd, 2006 10:13 am
Sweet dude. Sweet.
Mary Jo
July 2nd, 2006 10:32 am
Somehow — that’s just the way I pictured you spending your day. . . .
russ stalters
July 2nd, 2006 10:47 am
Nice job. I really like the fast paced editing and the way you incoporated the closeups. I think it is better that you thought.
Darren Rowse
July 2nd, 2006 10:55 am
thanks - it was fun.
I used iMovie’s timelapse mode to shoot it (captures every 10th frame) and then just dragged and dropped them straight in (no real editing - total production time - 60 minutes). iMovie is great.
brem
July 2nd, 2006 11:10 am
Oh, so blip offers to embed videos now? sweet.
Now If they would also alllow to change the “starting frame” that would be awesome.
So far, only buzznet and metacafe does that to an extent. Buzznet was my favourite, but they disabled the embedding feature… a**h*les ;)
Beggers can’t be choosers (well, we can be choosers I guess). Too bad the competition doesn’t do what I want.
Happy Canada Day to all Canadian Pro and Amateur Bloggers!
brem
Aaron Cook
July 2nd, 2006 11:17 am
Definitely sweet. Got mine last week. Not the best of videos, but good nonetheless.
Rodrigo Stulzer
July 2nd, 2006 11:24 am
Hi Darren!
Your video rocks! Very cool!
MNJ
July 2nd, 2006 11:31 am
Wonderful! The numerous sips of coffee, I assume, were amusing. Have you tried Senseo coffee? Got turned onto it by Adam Curry, love it! :)
Darren Rowse
July 2nd, 2006 11:43 am
hehe - too much coffeeeee……
~Dawn
July 2nd, 2006 12:10 pm
That was fun, especially the close up on your eye movements and great music to boot.
Patrick Grote
July 2nd, 2006 12:18 pm
Darren … why did you choose blip.tv over the other services?
Thanks!
James Henderson
July 2nd, 2006 1:17 pm
Hah I like the action-packed sounding music…
Basically the same as my day, but with less sitting there admiring my blank screen…god it’s beautiful (19” lcd)…and more coffee.
What’s that you’re writing at the end?
A list of things you want to do tomorrow?
John T P
July 2nd, 2006 1:44 pm
Wow, I just loved the video and the music. Great work Darren!
Harold
July 2nd, 2006 3:29 pm
Darren, Was that a Moleskine you were jotting in? If you use
those man you’re in!
Harold
Darren Rowse
July 2nd, 2006 5:24 pm
Patrick - I used blip.tv because I uploaded the video to youtube but after 12 ours of seeing it in ‘pending’ status I gave up. Plus I was familiar with blip.tv and liked their service last time.
PS: The music was Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun from the albumn Dig Your Own Hole (aff) and yes it was a Moleskine notebook.
Derek
July 2nd, 2006 5:26 pm
Awesome. Now I see why it might be a little more convenient to have an actual iSight rather than an integrated one. With the standalone camera, you can move it around instead of leaving it pointed straight at your face while doing your daily task online. Looks like a great way to capture my coding sessions. Unfortunately, I don’t think it will be as “entertaining” if all that people see is my face staring down.
Marco Raaphorst
July 2nd, 2006 6:20 pm
Haha. Well done!
You might also use http://www.revver.com/ and make more money :) Do check it if you’re not familiar.
Mark McGuinness
July 2nd, 2006 6:35 pm
Now I know how you manage to write so much stuff so quickly. :-)
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July 2nd, 2006 7:24 pm
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Michel
July 2nd, 2006 7:26 pm
Even if it was done on an lazy saturdayevening, it was nice editing.
CW
July 2nd, 2006 11:03 pm
And what a neat room and desk! Did you tidy up before filming? ;)
Kitty
July 2nd, 2006 11:37 pm
wow D, you’re so talente! So how does iMovie work? Is it easy to learn hehe?
Darren Rowse
July 3rd, 2006 1:05 am
CW - it’s called strategic placement of camera so as not to record certain parts of the room :-)
Kitty - its very easy to learn - but it only works on an Apple Mac.
Ma2T
July 3rd, 2006 1:53 am
Very cool :D. Great to see, funny and well made.
Very interesting to see how and where you run your business.
Barrie
July 3rd, 2006 5:04 am
Very fun! And much better quality than youtube. By the way, I’ve really been enjoying your blog - I only recently came across it. And I really like the Digital Photography blog - nicely written and good information. No wonder it’s doing so well. Barrie
Aaron Brazell
July 3rd, 2006 11:10 am
Oh what beautiful eyes you have, Darren. ;)
A. S. Johnson
July 3rd, 2006 11:36 am
Darren–what prompted you to make this new video purchase? Do you intend to use it mostly for your blog in some way? Or will it mostly be used for other purposes?
Calgary Rocks
July 3rd, 2006 12:24 pm
A great movie. Thanks Darren. It rocked.
http://calgarystampedeblog.com
Phillip Molly Malone
July 3rd, 2006 4:48 pm
Hey Darren,
Is the music safe to share on the net? I have used a product called Muvee and love doing it with Main stream songs but never post those ones as I assume I will get sued!
Also Blip.tv is really cool (I mentioned it to you, not sure if you where using it before then). My favourite feature is that you have access to the orginal file. Having said that, I am coming around to You Tude as well.
Molly
jon
July 4th, 2006 7:35 am
Darren, did you you basically just leave the camera on all day long pointing at you, and then occasionaly stop it, point it at the screen or notebook , stop.. put it back and let it run again and then at the end what format did it save it in?
lastly did you place it into that software and just apply effects to speed it up?
Darren Rowse
July 4th, 2006 2:10 pm
Jon,
I recorded each segment one after the other - it only took an hour to shoot and edit.
I recorded it via my webcam via iMovie which has the ability to record in ‘timelapse’ mode - recording every 10th frame. It recorded it the way you see it.
Mike
July 4th, 2006 4:38 pm
That’s a great bit of work. Always being creative!
Nick Schmidt
July 5th, 2006 8:57 am
Cool!! I’m a video blogger too!! I have done it over a year now!!!
nick
http://www.lastlapnick.blogspot.com
Mr. Sean M. Crawford Sr.
July 6th, 2006 11:44 pm
Darren,
Dude I guess drinking that coffee makes you move that fast huh? Or was it coffee? Clarity is nice. Since you now have the webcam what do you plan on doing?
Keep up the good work.
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