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| Last Updated: Jan 7, 2012 - 7:41 |
Today, I posted the first Comic Book Bin Podcast ever! I had this interview on Darwyn Cooke which I taped at the FanExpo 2009 in Toronto and had no way of posting that movie on YouTube. It's an hour long discussion and unless I get myself a premium account at YouTube - whose application they automatically rejected - then there was no easy way to post this online. At the same time, I don't want to open multiple accounts on several video sharing sites. We already have one with Viddler, but I'm not sure how reliable they are these days.
Working with the file was also a problem. I had to compress the video enough to be under download limits. I've been having a lot of problems posting stuff to YouTube because the file size is big. I have a good connection, but YouTube chokes a lot. The Dan Didio gave me a lot of problems and it's only when I exported it as an F4V file that it was small enough to fit and not crash.
So the idea of a podcast on Darwyn Cooke just suddenly appeared. At the Bin, we've been doing videos before all the major comic sites - Newsarama, CBR - check our earliest vids and our fan films. But podcasts were a new beast and it was a quick learning for me too. Of course, what would you expect from a guy who's been working as a Flash animator, done multimedia and work as a Web developers these days. Of course I learned quickly...
The process is clean enough now for me to convert other clips into podcasts. It might be an easier solution than YouTube. We do have the full video of course, but maybe one day when YouTube drops its 10 minutes limit, we'll be able to export easily.
Meanwhile please enjoy the interview/discussion with Darwyn Cooke. I'd say we agree on many points about comics.
And if you want to find out more on podcasting, there is an old article on the site about podcasts for comic book sites. It also gives a run down on pods, although from a 2006 perspective.
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