April 18, 2007

Request for Dance Videos for Testing Purposes

I'm in the process of experimenting with a number of video sharing sites such as YouTube, Blip.tv and many others.

As part of this testing, I'm uploading short dance videos in order to figure out the best way to prepare videos for each site. If you've spent time looking at dance videos on YouTube, you've probably seen that some of the videos look great and others look terrible. For videos to look their best, they have to be prepared (encoded and compressed) in specific ways for each video sharing site.

To conduct these tests, I could use some help. I'm looking for specific types of dance videos that I can use for these experiments. If you have a video that I can use, please email me to let me know. Please do not email me the video files.

If you can provide me with the following types of videos, I'd appreciate it:

1) I'm looking for about 30 seconds of video in either Apple QuickTime or AVI formats. The files should be uncompressed - and will thus be very large. Preferably the dancer or dancers will take up 50% or more of the video screen. And the lighting will be very good so that all of the dancers are well illuminated.

2) Also, if you happen to have shot dance with a high-definition video camera, I would also like to experiment with a 30-second (or shorter) hi-definition uncompressed video file.

So please email me to let me know if you have video that I can use - thanks!

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