Hi guys.

I am Powershot. You can learn more about me at my video blog:

www.seoulstream.com

I am an American living in Bundang, and have been in Korea since March of 2002.

Welcome Derek!

Excellent Blog site! Those videos are excellent ideas for the Koreans to practice their English. Was it your idea or part of the program? I am adding your blog to our links directory. Anyway I can get a link on your blog?

I am creating a site called koreablogs.com and will add your to it.

What kind of camera did you use? Editing software? I am curious because I am thinging about producing a documentary on the military is South Korea.

Teaching in Korea seems VERY rewarding.

Again, welcome and let me know if you need anything.

Mike

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It's quite simple to add video to your site, really. But I was a TV Producer back in Iowa for 8 years, so what may seem easy to me might not be for most.... anyway, here's what I do:

1. I shoot video on a 4 year-old Panasonic Mini-DV camera. Mini-DV is practically the standard these days, but you can also shoot on older models if you have a video card in your computer capable of capturing video. I just use the firewire input from my camera, and that works fine.

2. Use a program like Adobe Premiere Pro or an earlier version to import the video and edit it. You can use other programs too. One that is free with XP is Windows Moviemaker. You could import your video into that and do some basic editing too, but that program is pretty sucky. Still, it's doable.

3. If you have Adobe Premier Pro, you can choose to export the movie as a .wmv file, and play with the quality settings. This is where it gets tricky. I've found it's best to export at 320x240 size around 250 to 300kps at 15 frames per second. Make the audio quality something low, like 16/16 mono. You can make it whatever you like, actually. Just play around with it. The trick is to make the files small enough that they will stream on most computers with a cable or DSL connection. I used to make tiny files that streamed on 56k (almost) but it's really not worth it to bother with those now.

Another method, if you don't have Adobe Premier Pro, is to export the video from Moviemaker or whatever program you used to edit, as an .avi file in full quality at 320x240, for example. This takes some time, but once it is done, you can import it into Windows Media Encoder, which is a free download from Microsoft. In their attempts to make it easier, they seem to make each new version more and more difficult to figure out, but if you set things to the parameters i gave you , you should be happy with your results.

Things like Frame rate are important. I will try to explain. Full-motion video is about 30 frames per second (fps). You can do 15 or even 12.5 if you like. Don't go lower than that. The reason you want to lower the frame rate is because if you have 300kps of video information per second, for example, the 15 frames it creates with that 300kps will look much more clear than if it had to make 30 frames with 300kps. Spreading the video information out over fewer frames will improve image quality.

And don't make the audio quality too high, because that just ups the overall kps rate a lot.

Once you export the .wmv file, you can save it in your web directory just like a photo, and link to it with text or a pic, or whatever. Once the user clicks on it, it will automatically download or stream on their computer, depending on what they have their Windows set to do.

Will link you to my blog tomorrow sometime. Am in Osan now teasing some filipinas and waiting for a friend.

Hope that helps!

Awsome! Thanks for the reply and great info. I was actually considering making the video for DVD and selling it. Looking for some work?

I wish you would have told me your were in Osan earlier, we could have gotten a beer! Send me a PM with your number and I will buy you a beer.

Mike

Maybe we can do that another week, for sure. My friend never showed, which ticks me off, because he was the main reason I came to Osan in the first place. I am back in Bundang now. Decided to catch the last bus home rather than spend money on a hotel.

You can make your DVD with Nero Reloaded or Nero 6 Ultra Edition, provided you have an updated copy (releasing a useless version and then providing updates they check for security codes seems to be their attempt at controlling piracy).