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sales guy vs web dude

For any of us that are in IT or Web services this video is one of the funniest because it’s so true.

Enjoy.

Dumped Ustream for Mogulus aka Livestream

With the recent “improvements” offered by UstreamTV, myself and many others have been looking for something that has the communities best interests in mind.  With that being said, I think you can see that I have chosen Mogulus, now known as Livestream.

My main concern is that UstreamTV has taken to making their site LESS friendly.  We used to be able to host our chat on a third party server, not anymore.  And recently, we couldn’t even add html to OUR page for a third party chat.

Livestream allows the broadcaster many more options to customize their page and the video viewer.  I haven’t tried the desktop broadcaster as of yet, but the control I have over the stream and page is easy to use and much more intuitive than UstreamTV can ever hope to have.

Instead of bringing people together UstreamTV, you pulled them apart.  I hope you are proud of your fresh new pile of shit.

muvee Reveal

I was looking for a decent, easy to use movie making software yesterday, when Chris Pirillo mentioned the muvee movie making software. So I downloaded the 15 day trial and installed it.

It is very easy to use. The process is straight-forward and intuitive. With only three steps, how could it be difficult? Select clip, select from pre-loaded templates, add music and you’re done with the hard part. After that, all that is needed is to add the intro, titles, credits and file name.

This is when my problem started. I was using an HD video for the test. When trying to save the movie, the conversion would either, not start, or stop during the save process. This would effectively lock-up muvee. I had to kill it through Task Manager. Since I would be using a lot of HD video, I am declining to purchase muvee at this time.

There is only one more day for the half-price offer. I will still decline.

Converting .flv to .mp4

I recently recorded my first videos using Ustream. I might as well have recorded them on the HD camcorder and processed them that way… First, the “post to youtube” link was a fail. It’s been running for two days saying “upload in progress”. No way, that I could see to stop it. So now I had to find another solution.

Youtube recommends uploading in the .mp4 format. So the search began for a decent .flv to .mp4 converter. I would have liked a free solution, but the online or desktop version of Vixy doesn’t like the Ustream url. I tried to do it locally, that didn’t work. I didn’t see any other free converter that would do the job so I tried Moyea FLV to Video Converter 2 free trial. It worked!! The watermark and female voice were annoying, but it’s a free trial so it didn’t matter.

I noticed the FLV to Video Converter 3 product on the site added a whole lot more capability to the 2 version, adding watermarks to vids, batch conversions, and much more. So I bought it, at $44.95, it’s a bargain and $5 off the retail price.

Compare converter 2 and 3.