I keep shooting these little video clips during meetings with candidates, and I’d like to put them on the blog, but I fear the files are just way too big, and I don’t have the software to reduce them or do streaming video or anything like that.
Could you do me a favor? Click on this link, or on the image at right, and tell me whether you’re able to play it without crashing your computer. And then tell me whether you think it would be worth including such clips on my interview posts.
The test video is from a meeting a few days back with S.C. Rep. Kenny Bingham. At the very beginning, Cindi Scoppe is asking him about his role in tax reform efforts of the sort she wrote about today.
Thanks.
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not sure i am exactly a regular reader but this is the 3rd time i have been by. Try streaming with one of the family providers, saves on contract stuff and might suit – i use http://www.mydeo.com – its kinda pay as u go.
Didn’t work for me. Windows Media
Player just sat there saying “connecting…”
Well, it didn’t crash my computer, but the estimated download time was WAY too long for me.
I look at videos online fairly frequently, so I suspect it’s you, not me. But maybe I’ll clean out my cookies and try again later . . .
At 32.9 megs to transfer, unless you have a T1 or OC3, I’m afraid downloading that file would take until next year *grin*
I have cable and it took about 12 minutes. Try again 🙂
I’ve got DSL(quit LSD),and it’s really slow-besides,Kenny really scares me.He looks like Udo Kier in “Dracula”.
Oh, it’s me, all right. The file’s just too big. I’m going to have to see about getting educated on this stuff, because I think including some video — if I could make it convenient to use — would be helpful. Put y’all right there in the room.
For instance, if you look at this clip of gubernatorial candidate Tommy Moore (and it WILL take a while to download), you can see right away the thing that particularly struck me, and others — that he was low key to the point of seeming indifferent, lethargic. Not what we usually see in someone seeking high office. There was nothing unusual in anything he said; it was the way he said it.
Once it finally downloaded,RealPlayer went wacko and popped up stuff I’ve never seen before.I hope you’re not trying to infect us,Brad!
Watched the Tommy Moore video. I didn’t find it as lethargic as you did. My reaction to his demeanor was neither positive or negative.
Maybe he’s just going throught the motions because he knows Sanford is going to get re-elected without breaking a sweat (no matter how much Lee Bandy and Cindi Ross-Scoppe wish otherwise).
Oh, and is there any chance you could add links to the columns of other opinion writers so we could offer feedback on the musings of Mr. Bolton and Ms. Ross Scoppe?
I’d love to comment on today’s piece of Sanford bashing which could have just have easily been titled, “SANFORD KILLS BABIES”.
Sheesh… any time Sanford flexes his libertarian muscles, Cindi Ross Scoppe cringes in horror. Imagine asking people to be responsible for putting their kids in child seats without holding a fine over their heads. Why not make the fine a million dollars? Wouldn’t that have even more positive effect? And maybe we should fine parents who let their kids ride bikes without helmets (you know, like we all did when we were kids)…
Sorry… back to the video discussion…
I think you need to look into whether there are other options for compressing the video using other formats.
Amen to that, Doug.
And I’ll be glad to pass on your comments to any and all.
It is my hope to make the Opinion part of thestate.com more interactive (as I’ve wanted to do for years), once we have a little time to fiddle with it. I’m hoping to get some time for that sometime between the June 13 primary and Labor Day.
By the way, Sanford’s entire staff agrees that his veto of that bill was nuts — according to him and them. I agree with them, even though I never even saw a car with a seatbelt before I was about 10 years old. (“Wow!” I said. “Just like on airplanes!”)
Why stop at $150.00 fine?
Why stop with regulating parenting in automobiles?
The last time I personally spoke with Ms. Scoppe about this subject and mandatory seat belts, I said that the free market solution was insurance policies with clauses to deny payment to drivers who were not buckled up when they had an accident, and for a return to the contributory negligence doctrine in tort lawsuits. She was adamantly opposed to both.
Yet in her attack on Governor Sanford, she claims to agree with him on these measures, but thinks they should be separated from the creeping intrusion we all predicted with the passage of the first mandatory restraint laws. I doubt her sincerity.