X-Message-Number: 28886 Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:39:07 -0800 (PST) From: un person <> Subject: re:kennita's comments on the music video kennita wrote: ///quote////// From: Kennita Watson <> Subject: Un Person's Video Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:55:37 -0800 I was thinking I may want to have the video running in the corner on continuous loop. /////end quote///// That would be fine, as long as you are not representing any particular cryonics organization, per se. THere is somewhat of a religious subtext to the video, and deliberately so. I think it is important for cryonics to branch out and attract a new target demographic. But the cryonics organizations should not be a part of that at all. The cryonics organizations should be putting forth a strong image as scientific organizations. But cryonics itself needs to be more people-friendly. And the people need something that resonates with their "religion" brain circuitry. But the cryonicists who are currently signed up do not need religion, by and large. We are freaks. Oddballs. Super-rationalists. But cryonics need more people than we have now or than we will have if we continue to attract only the kind of people we have now. ////quote//// There may be trouble, though -- I may be in a room where broadband doesn't work. I tried downloading the file so I could run it without an Internet connection, but it comes out with ugly color distortions/brushstroke patterns on my PowerBook G4 running Mac OS 10.4.7 and Google Video Player 2.0.0.060608. Does anybody else have this problem? In any case, I may ask Un Person for a version in plain old avi so I can play it using something other than Google Video Player. I may be asking people for other videos as well. Google Video doesn't have a Download button on all videos, and YouTube doesn't allow download at all :-( . /////end quote///// I used video vegas 5 to render this video, and I tried at first to create an .mpg file, but it wouldn't take. So I created an high-quality .avi file, but it was 2.4 GIGABYTES! So it would not even upload on the uploader. I went back and downgraded the quality, re-rendered, and wound up with a 116 Meg avi file, which was successfully uploaded to google. You can download a flash (not google video) file of my cryonics video by just pasting in the google video url of my video here at this site: http://www.videodl.org/ Once you get the flash file, you might be able to convert it to another format, depending on what software you have. Also, and the best solution, is that I can upload the 116 M avi file to www.archive.org, from which you could then download binaries of several file types, including avi, mp4, etc (archive.org will convert it). I tried to upload that video just now to the archive, but their server is real slow. I will be able to upload tonight, probably. However, I actually still need to do some more editing on the video itself before it is really ready for prime time (to the extent that it will ever be ready for primetime--it is really just youtube-type fodder, but then again, youtube, et al., is the future of video entertainment, and we cryonicists are so deficient in creating outreach media vehicles that my little one-week video is already the best thing we have created in its class, which is really sad.....). When is the date of this FDGD event? /////quote///// I hope reference to "supercooling" is removed. I don't want people who see the video going out and using the term. If I noticed it coming across the screen, I'd probably correct it, because I think that it's valuable to point out to people that what we want to do (vitrification) is most decidedly *not* supercooling. A supercooled liquid freezes at the slightest provocation, whereas a liquid cooled with cryoprotectant shouldn't ever freeze -- it should vitrify or "glassify". I don't want people who see my presentations to go out with the word "supercooled" in their heads, because even if they don't know what it means, someone they talk to might. This is important in the places I'm likely to show the video -- FDGD is right near the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the science fiction conventions I attend are full of geeks (my favorite kind of people) who may be more likely to recognize a scientific term than a sports team. ////end quote//// Yeah, well, I will see if I can come up with an appropriate substitute for supercold, but right now my mind is a blank.... ____________________________________________________________________________________ Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545367 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=28886