1. My job is either to get edited footage delivered to me via ftp and encode that to various formats while adding a watermark and putting it in an exact folder and naming scheme and then throwing it on a server where the web guys take over.

OR it's getting DV tapes and having to edit everything and then do the encode and watermark steps. I don't find it frustrating so much as boring, as it seems my whole life revolves around watching coloured bars finish what they're doing. It's also frustrating because Premier Pro doesn't have any batch export features, meaning I can't leave all this encoding work to happen over night. Trying to butter up management to let me switch to a mac and final cut for that exact purpose. ;)

Posted at 9:05AM on Feb 13th 2006 by epplegacks

2. Check out the Freevlog tutorial - http://freevlog.org

Once you get a videoblog set up, it's pretty easy. Edit > Compress > Upload > Post. From the time that I finish editing it usually takes me about 20 minutes to have it live on my site.

As for portability - I usually shoot on a Sanyo Xacti mpeg4 camera and edit with FCP 5 on my Powerbook. Ryanne Hodson and I did a bunch of videoblogs from Macworld this year. We did most of our editing sitting on the floor in the hallway.

Posted at 10:41AM on Feb 13th 2006 by Verdi

3. I’m not a TV guy, but my suggestions would be as follows: buy a Firestore and the fastest laptop you can get. The firestore is a device that records the video straight to a hard drive, so you can then start editing it without having to import it from tape. A dual-core laptop also speed up the rendering, especially with an encoding app that is fully multi-threaded. PC World reviewed a few here (http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,124513,00.asp), and they found the video encoding to be the task that benefited most from the second core: they got a 30 percent speed bump from a single core system.”

Posted at 1:44PM on Feb 13th 2006 by richard baguley

4. Edit with Vegas. You can export to a number of various formats right from the timelines and work with multiple instances. Everyone seems to overlook vegas.

Posted at 4:09PM on Feb 13th 2006 by Kingkool68

5. I've never done any video for TV, though Im working on a soon to be TV show. I basicly do the camera work, capturing, editing, uploading, and hosting all myself. My work flow is generally consumed by capturing all of my footage off of DV tapes, those firestore things are great btw. I used Adobe Premiere Pro for editing, with minor stuff in After Effects.

I just do it all becasue its enjoyable and 100% for myself, Im sure that if I was doing this as a 9-5 job I'd probably have a different opinion but I love web video production. Ive done a few DVDs, but I dislike being limited to NTSC colors (my videos generally have high saturation and sharpness that looks horrible on a real tv).

Oh and that freevlog site is a huge eye sore.

my two cents & new video coming soon to my website.

Posted at 5:20PM on Feb 13th 2006 by Jonathon

6. Id like to see an indepth review of the JVC enverio HDD camcorders, it looks like the sofware on the camera could potentially cut down my capture time. I only wish it was an HD camcorder :

Posted at 5:23PM on Feb 13th 2006 by Jonathon

7. i do use x.264 for video part + itunes for audio part, everything is done via simple batch script which is basically DV avi in, mp4 for web out, let me know if you need any details or find some on my page.

Posted at 11:21AM on Feb 15th 2006 by smok3

8. I do video for a major state university, and nearly everything we do ends up online in streaming video. Because we serve a variety of bandwidths, almost everything is done 320x240. We capture our footage to tape and a CapDiv harddrive (like a Firestore), which we edit then output to Real Video.

For fast turn-around stuff, where trimming ends is all the edting we need to do (like a lecture recording), we batch convert everything, then write up a SMIL file to link together the files at the right points.

For projects where we do live switching that need to be on the web right-away, we capture live to a PC or laptop on site, then upload it (we also sometimes capture directly to the server).

For most web video jobs we promise one business-day turnaround, and can do faster when necessary.

Posted at 3:20PM on Feb 20th 2006 by Paul