Vegas 5 Seminar - Video stream from NAB - Please answer this Poll

Liam_Vegas wrote on 4/12/2004, 11:53 PM

sorry for the double post... but I was worried my other post to the original thread about this may get lost

Plans are moving forward for the special video stream of the Vegas 5 seminars at NAB next week.

To further help in the planning it would be very helpful if you could answer some questions

Thank you for your help

Liam Kennedy
Southern California Vegas Users Group

Comments

Grazie wrote on 4/13/2004, 12:36 AM

Come on Guys & Girls! Get to answer Liam's Poll ! Neat idea Liam - I'm very grateful you've put yourself out for us. But 6 responses?!?!?! PLEASE ! Get over to the site and vote now . . .IT is for your own good!

Best regards,

Grazie

Liam_Vegas wrote on 4/13/2004, 12:46 AM

Thanks Grazie.

This forum has done so much to help me better my skills that this seems to be a pretty good way to "pay it forward".

Still... although it will be a lot of work... I am really looking forward to it.

Grazie wrote on 4/13/2004, 12:50 AM

No problems matey!

G

randy-stewart wrote on 4/13/2004, 1:04 AM

Liam,
Thanks so much for what you and SoCal Vegas Users are doing for all. Wish I could be there. Have a great time at NAB!
Aloha,
Randy

Cheesehole wrote on 4/13/2004, 4:00 AM

I think this will be really cool. I'd be happy to host an "on demand" streaming version on a WM9 server. Looks like Windows Media is on the way to a landslide victory.

Survey was a piece of cake - I left my contact info for you. Thanks!

TheHappyFriar wrote on 4/13/2004, 6:22 AM

no dialup in the net connection options. :'-( I feel forgotten and abused!

:)

Liam_Vegas wrote on 4/13/2004, 1:18 PM

<tongue in cheek ON>
Well I guess we should not do this at all then should we!
<TIC off>

I somehow did not think that a dialup user would have the patience for downloading a 100Mb file... but I guess we are all used to some substantial render times (on those complicated projects) so maybe that assumption was invalid.

Chienworks wrote on 4/13/2004, 1:29 PM

I've got a co-worker who downloads a new Linux image file (695MB or more) every week on his dialup at home. It takes about 30 to 60 hours on his 56K modem depending on how good a connect he gets. I keep telling him to let me do it for him here in the office over our 2400Kbps DSL line, but he likes feeling like he's accomplished it himself.

Liam_Vegas wrote on 4/14/2004, 12:36 PM

Thanks to all who have responded to the poll. I have included the results below. Your answers helped me to understand the proportion of you who would be hanging around to view the video very soon after we post it to the web site.

In view of the results I upped my "bandwidth" capability on my streaming video server from 10Mbit up to 100Mbit... so I think we will likely be OK with hosting the video on my server initially. I'll look to get the file farmed out to others if I notice any dramatic problem with the bandwitdh availability on my server. I have a 500GB monthly allocation .. so we'll see how close we get to that!

A few of you have suggested we use this new (and very intriguing service) called "BitTorrent" to share the distribution of the video. I am tempted to give this a try... but... on the other hand I feel a little uneasy about asking people to load yet another piece of software onto their systems in order to view the video. The concept of BitTorrent is quite amazing... just not sure I want to go there right now.

Results of Poll.

1) Do you intend to view the video stream of the Vegas 5 Seminar?
Yes 134 (88.74%)
No 2 (1.32%)
Maybe 15 (9.93%)

2) When will you want to view this video?
The moment it becomes available (sooner if possible) 70 (46.36%)
Within a few days of the event 57 (37.75%)
Within a week or so. 24 (15.89%)

3) What sort of an Internet connection will you be using to view the video?
DSL 69 (45.70%)
Cable 63 (41.72%)
T1 14 (9.27%)
Satellite 5 (3.31%)

4) How would you prefer to view the video?
Streaming (you do not need to download to view) 52 (34.44%)
By downloading it (you'll maybe need 100Mb+ of space) 99 (65.56%)

5) What is your preference for the video format?
Windows Media Video 133 (88.08%)
Real 3 (1.99%)
Quicktime 9 (5.96%)
MPEG1 6 (3.97%)

Thanks also for the great comments you all left.

I really appreciate the remarks and I am very much looking forward to making a fantastic piece of Vegas 5 video for you all to see.

Jay Mitchell, Matt Reason, Ronald Rennie and myself will be operating cameras and pulling the video together for you all.

If you are going to NAB we'll also try to get little video clips of everyone from the forums... so don't be shy! Let's put faces/voices to the names!

See you next week!