Spring 2006: a semester-long examination of Portable Video and Internet Distribution
USC Students, sign up for CTIN 499, or check out the Preview Syllabus
The amount of video online is skyrocketing, whether it's "Lost" episodes or movie trailer mash-ups. The phenomenon is putting new stress on ISP networks, which are seeing the demands on their bandwidth burgeon.
Now a new wave of companies--some newcomers, some with familiar faces--are stepping up to play the role of traffic cop, arguing that they have ways to manage this surge in video traffic and keep networks healthy.
more @ C|Net
still image of a flash mockup of a possible virtual controller full screen iPod from Deviantart
So Mac360 (and others) are reporting on the rumors of a full-screen video iPod with the controller part of a touch screen. Gizmodo has some stuff on recent patent apps from Apple. Hey, as long as I get 16:9 (native) on my vPod, I'll be happy. Now they just need to embed a camera in it and a version of iMovie that works via the virtual click wheel. Yeah, that's the ticket...
New patents from Apple, this time around a "tablet" device, and more importantly, a gesture-based UI. Tablets have been a miserable failure imho except for niche uses (e.g. we had a project with surgical slides that could be annotated for training purposes). But with the right applications and UI, things get much more interesting. Hrmpf.com has a nice write-up.
Veoh Networks claims to have 20K independently produced, user-published videos available to be pushed to Sony's PSP portable videogame console and Apple's iPod. Veoh claims to be "the first internet television peercasting network".
Kenyatta Cheese is coming back to town for another Portable Video Workshop!
He'll be screening a number of portable video works, showcasing the best of this emerging genre, and then we'll have another chance to format videos and upload them online. In the last few weeks since our last meeting, a number of devices were released (including the video iPod) and services launched (like revver.com). So there's ever more to talk about and look at in this medium.
We're meeting this coming Monday, November 21, 6-9pm. Same place as last time - the Interactive Media Lab, in the Zemeckis Center for the Digital Arts at USC. RSVP in the comments here, if you like!
This coming Spring 2006, students at USC will have a chance to spend a semester exploring Portable Video. We will make short videos, screen them and critique them - developing our understanding of the aesthetics of this new medium. We will share videos online, experimenting with internet distribution. We will talk about Intellectual Property, Citizen Journalism, Sampling and other issues in this lively field.
There's a preview syllabus posted online. Sign up for CTIN 499 - Special Topics: Portable Video Production and Internet Distribution, through the USC OASIS system. Todd Richmond is the lead professor, and Kenyatta Cheese will be visiting from New York, with Justin Hall assisting.
I ran into two high school kids watching 50 Cent and old Jay-Z music videos on a PSP last night. I told them I could never find any good video for my PSP and asked them where they got theirs. "On a bulletin board," they said. They get a lot of video that way. Music videos, TV shows, viral video... not a lot of movies, though. Why's that? Because DVDs are better on a big screen.
How do the music videos end up on PSPs? Other people take them off of television, transcode them to PSP-compatible (MP4) format, zip them up and post them to file hosting sites, then link to it on the bulletin boards they hang out on. Anyone who doesn't know how to get the video onto their PSP can search the board or read the FAQ. Nice.
If you're looking at the recent comments, you'll se a lot of activity from Ojai - specifically the Digital Dojo. They run a videoblogging users group and tutorials in that town. And a few of them will be driving down to join us during our next workshop! Yee hah!
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