"10 YouTube Tricks" - manage your video distribution better

[John and Janet Ruiz]

YouTube Videos - 10 cool things you can do.This may not be an actual Blog item per se but it does give me a chance to use the phrase per se, so I'm happy.If anyone has other trips, trinks or hicks of this type to share, please feel free to use this space for that or any related purpose, including but not limited to discussion of video, audio and image web functionality, tips tricks, hints, FAQ's, answers and information. And stuff.

[lois gueli]

Wow John, that looks amazing! I'm talking about your kitchen, the computer is nice too :-)

[John Richeson]

Remember Crocodile Dundee in that movie when he was approached by a street thug wielding a switchblade, He says "That's no knife, mate. Now here's a knife" Dundee pulls out a knife from hell and the would-be-mugger runs away like a girlie man.

Well...here's a computer! Finally finished this one.

[lois gueli]

The Filmore concerts were incredible. I would go to the late show on Saturday night at the Filmore East in NYC. I remember falling asleep at a Cream concert when Ginger Baker was soloing. Woke up and he was still playing!

[John and Janet Ruiz]

By the who - here's a glossary page of 'Puter Terms HERE. Enough jargon, nomenclature (there's a word fer ya) and tech-terms of endearment to warm any cold winter night. Some definitions aren't complete however, as they don't give alternatives - like:

"ad hoc" - (pronunciation: add hawwghk) - the sound made when unwanted particles are expelled from the mouth.

[John and Janet Ruiz]

NIce tune, Lois - thanks for that. And my apologies - I did not mean to miss your comment Carol! As for digital cameras - major pain in the hiney it seemed for a few years there and still can be. We were into film for years and when digital hit, scoffed at the notion of a "digital" being comparable to film! Ha! It's definitely caught up though and then some. Nikon's kicking it the right way, for sure. Several years ago we got a Sony Cybershot, little rascal, looks like a cell phone turned sideways, think it's 7 megapixels (there's a term for you - MEGA pixels, makes me think of giant amoeba like dots) and I started to use it. It's been the go-to camera now, take it everywhere. Very durable, small, got a battery for it that lasts 2 hours and a memory card that will take about 300 hundred pic's. We get very nice 5X7's with it. Perfect for web stuff. Plus, this year I worked out a little system for taking pics of the inside of acoustic and hollow body guitars and it ROCKS - so for the money, it's been a great all around camera.

One thing I did - if this is of interest - I stopped using the cord that connected the camera up to the PC and their software and got a little adapter thingie (tech term) to put the memory card in, to grab the photos onto my computer. That allows me to "see" the card and the photos on it as a drive, like the "C" drive on the computer, and deal with them the way I want to - rather than having to try and use the software the camera came with to do that. It was okay, but could be a major pain and added a step. Now I just pop the card out, stick it into the adapter thingie and pull the pictures I want, move them over, delete what I don't want and I'm done with it. Much easier.

That sounds like a great intimate concert Lois! I've always enjoyed Seals and Crofts. And Chuck Berry - : ) That reminds me of the way Bill Graham used to schedule the Fillmore concerts, years ago. He'd get different kinds of music together on the same bill - I saw Frank Zappa and Albert King on the same bill once, with Booker T and the MG's. It was a great time "back then" and a great way to expose people to new music.

The Band - always dug them. Levon Helms has such an original sounding voice and the entire "band" made great music!

[lois gueli]

Carol, What are you doing on this blog! NO GIRLS ALLOWED!!! Seriously, John, I love the picture of your computer room, I especially love the little rocks on your book shelf? I'm assuming you borrowed them from a really high mountain you were balancing on :-)
I saw Seals and Crofts in the early 70's in a large classroom at New Paltz University in upstate N.Y. Chuck Berry was the opening act.
Levon Helm (The Band) still lives in Woodstock. His cd "Dirt Farmer" is great and he just came out with a new cd "Electric Dirt" which I haven't heard yet. He gigs in Woodstock in his barn quite often.

The Mountain is one of my favorite songs from "Dirt Farmer".

[John and Janet Ruiz]

And Lance Hoppen, Orleans bass player is XXX rated. Drop dead in the pocket, on the mark. : )

[John and Janet Ruiz]

Orleans are just the Stuff, in my book. Glad you've gotten some enjoyment John! Both guitarists, Larry Hoppen and John Hall are really impeccable players and incorporate a lot of styles and foundations into their playing, which can be deceptively simple. Any musician who sits down and transcribes their stuff though will quickly discover it doesn't dwell in the standard pentatonic scales and forms (rock and blues) and can get your fingers in a twist doing what they appear to knock out effortlessly. Yet it's informed by the emotional sensibility of American blues and jazz and as a result has that kind of fundamental strength and power in statement. Or somepin' like that. : )

I first heard John Hall on Seals and Crofts second album, and the song "Cotton Mouth" has a solo by him with some nice stinky wah-wah on it that got my attention. If you've never listened to S and C's first two albums, definitely give them a listen too by the way. It's before "Summer Breeze" and all of that and has some great tunes. Seals and Croft have had great careers with all of their stuff and found a way to make intelligent, heart felt music - and make them hits. No slackers, there. : ) They've always had great production and musicians too, like Hall, and that's helped too.

Yeah, the video revolution! Who'd have thunkit. And as you noted above - if anyone hears Pressed Down doing their thing - if that doesn't make you want to love somebody, what's gonna? LOL! They're great, always were, was and are.

[John Richeson]

I see. That is a great tip, John, and one I never knew about.
You can make the You Tube video start where you want. Cool indeed. So the 50 represents seconds.
But it only works on first play apparently or refresh browser. I suppose a person could download it, edit it and then post it back up somewhere. Hosting video on your own site...that's probably a whole new discussion.

By the way, this group, Orleans, is awesome. You have made a fan of me. Honestly I had never heard their music before. You, being a guitar aficianado and singer...I can understand why you appreciate their talent. Wow, they are good.

Here is the caption to that You Tube:
"Orleans, captured in a rare trio performance! Original members John Hall, Larry and Lance Hoppen play the beautiful Opus 40, near their "home town" of Woodstock, NY."

[John and Janet Ruiz]

The above video had a fairly long and very nice instrumental introduction. I added the snippet

&start=50

to the end of the big long ugly YouTube url, which appears in two places in the embed code that you copy over from youtube. That's the part that starts with "http", in two places.

"50" is the second where I wanted it to start in at, and it picked it up fairly closely, forwarded to that spot and started there. This can be very useful in these video copy/pastes if you find there's stuff at the beginning you want to skip.
You'll also notice that if you hit "replay" after a video plays, it starts at the beginning - that's because Youtube's script lays over the whole thing at that point. But, each time a person starts at your video, fresh, it will start at the point you designated.

Another good page that steps you through the processes to putting up a video on the web is HERE, kind of a checklist with links to related sites and app's to do what you need to do.