Educational Video TG2 Clouds

AP · January 06, 2012, 04:25:10 PM

I have Firefox 7. Is that out of the equation?

Mor · January 07, 2012, 03:56:24 AM

Hi Frank!

1 - Video Quality... Nice and smooth, no problems viewing.
2 - Audio.... Clear and well understandable. The 'errms' didn't bother at all, especially when you mentioned you just talked without a script. I didn't notice any background noise.
3 - Content... Speed is good and there was enough content.
4 - Streaming... Streaming was fast enough, no loading pauses. The video shut down once and I had to refresh the page to start it again, but otherwise no problems.

Definitely great start and hopefully there will be hours and hours of these to come!

FrankB · January 07, 2012, 05:11:29 AM

Hi all,

concerning the browser compatibilities - as far as things stand with HTML5, not all browsers support the same codecs. For example, FF and Opera can only do oggv and theora, but no mp4, whereas chrome, safari and even IE9 can support mp4, but no ogg or theora.
In the end we need to either fall back to flash (which i want to avoid), or offer 2 files of the same thing but with different formats.

Eventually I will offer something for FF users, too (I am a FF user myself), but at the moment we're just testing the server capabilities and experiement with the encoding, which is a science of its own.

Quote from: Oshyan on January 06, 2012, 01:53:22 PM
And now we know what Frank sounds like!

It's hard to withstand my irresistably awesome voice, I know.... Wait until you hear Martin's or Franck's

Cheers,
Frank

Oshyan · January 07, 2012, 10:14:53 PM

Do you just want to avoid Flash out of principle? Because despite its issues (which I recognize), it really is still the most broadly supported player/system by far. Any site that supports HTML5 pretty much only does it as an *alternative* to Flash, with existing Flash support available for the majority of users. I would just like to see these reach as wide an audience as possible, with a minimum of hassle for you, the content creator.

- Oshyan

freelancah · January 07, 2012, 11:56:19 PM

Updated my system thru windows update and yet no effect. Have no clue why it wont work

EDIT: nvm. apparently there were 3 more updates. It works now!

TheBadger · January 08, 2012, 05:38:46 AM

Hi FrankB.

Firstly, thanks so much to you and those who are working with you, for endeavoring to make top quality tutorials, they are greatly needed as you know!

I watched the tut with safari (current version), as I use safari for most web surfing.
The video quality was very high, I had no problems viewing and could see everything perfectly! Much better than almost everything on youtube.
The audio was clear and crisp. no problems.
Your english is very good, and understandable. And your accent adds character to the product.

As to html5, I say go for it. If guys like you don't produce content for the format, we will never get rid of flash. On the other hand, I understand that the tuts need to be available to all.

Keep it up!

mhaze · January 08, 2012, 05:47:23 AM

I enjoyed this very much. Video quality and sound was excellent. I thought the content was nicely detailed, covering a lot of ground in a learnable way. I call this a beginners tutorial but it would need to be part of a series, starting with the interface and moveing on ffrom there. Look forward to seeing more. It would be great if someone -you? could do the same thing with them pesky blue nodes. Personally I'd also like to see some tutorials on masking techniques.

Mick

microwar · January 08, 2012, 06:37:06 AM

Can't get it to play.
Updated browser, plugins, windows, and videodrivers, still only se a X in the middle and the spinning ring when i press play.
Using win7 64 and firefox 9.0.1.

Sorry did not see the FF warning. lol. Maby im blind to red text to.

Any chance for a download link for the video ?

Henry Blewer · January 08, 2012, 08:22:32 AM

It would not run on Chrome. Could you post this on YouTube? I'm trying Firefox now.

I get a message that it 'may have been removed from the server'. This occurs with Chrome and Firefox.

bobbystahr · January 10, 2012, 10:47:09 AM

No luck with Chrome don't know this Safari...please do a Flash version

FrankB · January 10, 2012, 12:54:14 PM

... could very well be that we switch to flash entirely. These are just experiments so far, so nothing is carved in stone yet.

Thanks for the interest!

Frank

cyphyr · January 10, 2012, 01:04:28 PM

I "think" Vimeo files are flash encoded/wrapped (forgive me but this is not my area). On showing some of my Vimeo hosted videos to a friend with an iPad he told me the reason they could not play was that Mac generally dose not support flash. Flash is not being developed by Adobe for mobile devices I believe any longer and it would seem likely that it will be fazed out altogether.
Cheers
Richard

bobbystahr · January 10, 2012, 03:51:25 PM

Ooops...forgot Flash and mac don't get along...sigh

astroman3D · January 10, 2012, 06:34:17 PM

Doesn't work for me, and I'm using Chrome. Same message about "may have been removed from server". I'm glad you're trying to use HTML5, but don't understand why it isn't working. Even typing the URL to the video returns error 404.
Oh, and yes, this is my first post here, but I've been lurking for quite a while.

Snowflake · January 21, 2012, 10:52:56 AM

I like the Educational Video TG2

But perhaps you start a production quality MasterClass Lesson. A real "Animation fly through Project" form scratch to Final product. I must not a free Tutorial but focus on realism Quality final results.

http://www.planetside.co.uk/images/stories/planetside/st-helens-anim_new1_add-rock_beauty-shot-test13_8192-ter_with-lake9_70fov_old-atmo_beauty-shot2_3h1m44s_final.jpg

So all the process and TG worklow to get this would nice....