New Videos Online

So we filmed most of the shows at Territorial and Saginaw Vineyards this last week and have uploaded them to both our site here and youtube. This is pretty much the first time we’ve filmed anything in over a year and there’s a learning curve that I’m doing my best to climb, both in getting decent audio as well as the picture quality. We’ll keep filming and working on getting both of those elements improved (the background crowd noise, wind on the mic, etc. are the biggest issues right now). Still, it’s pretty fun and we’re really wanting to get some good footage of the White Album Stealing the Covers show next month. 

To see the videos click the video button at the top of this page. You can also view the videos on youtube of course. Please also add some comments to either youtube or to our website if your so inclined, we loving hearing from you.

Here’s something cool btw that I learned the other day. When watching youtube it adds a lot of compression to the videos to make them download faster. If you have a fast connection though, this just degrades the image quality for no reason. There is a way to view them at at a higher quality though:

Normally the youtube url looks like the one below which gives you low resolution 320×240 videos.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ABCDE

Simply add &fmt=6 onto the end of url
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ABCDE&fmt=6

Now you should see high resolution videos. If no change is observed, then it means the video has not been converted to the higher resolution yet. View the video in full screen mode to see the difference.

If you add &fmt=18 to the end of url.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ABCDE&fmt=18

Now it will play the high-resolution 480×360 MP4 high-bandwidth videos with higher quality audio when available, otherwise it will play the regular version. Give it a try.