Another Flipping Edition of Dot Com Pho
Posted by Stephen on
June 21, 2008
For this week, I focused more on the people of Dot Com Pho. I focused on Michael Kwan’s unfortunate need to sell himself for 50% off, Greg Morgan’s love for Michael Landsberg, Gary Ng’s obsession with gaming John Chow’s Blog. Of course we have the Super EGO himself, John Chow and his thoughts on not thinking at all. We also have a new member indoctrinated into the Dot Com Crew. Ray (can’t remember your last name) of FlipVancouver has reached “regular” status (whatever that means) and John Chow presented him with one of the many free USB drives that he poached from Gigabyte who is one of the sponsors of this week’s event. Ed Lau also makes a brief appearance as he bitches about his accommodations.
So who’s video reigns supreme this week?
Stephen Fung’s – Another Flipping Edition of Dot Com Pho
John Chow’s – Dot Com Pho – Highly Leverage Edition
Again, if there are any comments on how my video can improve, please let me know. Hopefully you can see the indifference of a 30 minute edit job vs the care and craftmanship that is etched into 4 hr edit job. I kind of think of this like how the Incredible Hulk movies ended up. By rushing to the box office, John Chow made the first Hulk movie. Then I have to come along and remake it into something that you can be proud of and I think it’s easy to see the difference.
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I think I got dizzy from my drunken camera work at the end there…almost made you crack up during filming! hehe
FF3 FTW!
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Just when you thought that Stephen could hold in his displeasure, he cracks at the very last moment.
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Mission Accomplished!
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I still prefer the John Chow version. There is a lot of noise in that restaurant, and your clip seems to pick up more of the background noise to the point where it is just as loud, if not louder than John Chow’s version.
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Do me a favour. Turn off the volume. Try again. It’s actually quite interesting.
Also, can you tell me WHAT you are listening to the videos on? The voices are clear on my end. If I can match how you’re listeing to this, maybe I can understand where you’re coming from.
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That’s only my hotel room…my apartment is twice that size!
…although that’s still tiny.
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I am listening to it on a desktop computer with seperate ACER speakers. Not sure what other details you are interested in.
Your version, picks up the voices clear enough, but John Chows voice and noise made by the other restaurant patrons sounds at the same level. Whereas John Chow’s version, you can hear John Chow speaking, and while you can hear the people talking in the background, it is not as loud. Not sure what camera each one is being filmed with, but perhaps the John Chow camera is closer to the person being filmed, and the other one relying on zoom? Perhaps more noticeable if you compare the equivalent clips of where he is showing the flip video camera.
Another point, your color looks redder, John Chow’s version looks lighter and better quality. Also if you add text over the video, I think it looks better appearing in the lower two thirds of the video the way you have done most of the time as opposed to in the middle of the screen which you did on a few occasions.
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I just wanted to make sure you weren’t using something out of the ordinary to make the background noise jump out unnecessarily.
John uses his Flip Ultra which has no zoom so you have to push it up to someone. I was using the Canon 850is and was using zoom quite a bit since I was at one end of the table. This makes sense based on what you observed; I’m picking up the noise around me from where I’m sitting. iMovie HD actually has the fancy audio scrubber. I ran a couple of the clips through it and it removes a significant amount of background noise. Might have to use that next time if I continue to use this camera. I might try using the MINO next time, since I have one.
I don’t think the picture quality can be better. The Flip does not have the same quality output as the Canon, even by John’s admission, though that doesn’t matter because of the technical reason. The Flip cannot record at 640×480. The Canon can. The Canon is redder, which tends to make the pictures it takes look warmer. To me, the Flip is washed out, the Canon, yes, is a bit red. Somewhere in between would be ideal.
As for the text, if I put it on the bottom in some cases, it would be illegible because I would have to shrink the text too small. Yes, it looks better, no you can’t read it. I think legible is preferable.
Thanks for your comments. I think I know what to do for next time.
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dont change anything.
At least your version, doesn’t have a case of the shake’s.
My vision may be a little blurry but its not that blurry.
fung is supreme
all heil fung
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No longer available???? What, have you been banned by YouTube?
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Never mind worked the second time.
Damn, I see Russian advertisement in the right side of this post.
Is it Russian or banner shows pushing of ip???