we love the new wistia super embed.  seriously, it’s awesome.

ok, sure i’m bound to say that because i’m kind of an unpaid/but paid in kind of brand advocate exploring and using their service instead of posting my content on services like vimeo or youtube (although i’ll be using youtube for traffic/money generation this year in some areas unless wistia partner with someone regarding monitizing content streams - think blip.tv/boxee/settop/box) and actually i really like the system for clients — having a web secure system for showing clients potential drafts is brilliant.  it’s a real highlight.

please ignore the jerky quality in the video btw, it was really a test on something that i’m working on that i explain below, we were streaming over wifi and it was supposed to be a test that ended up being an hour catchup video! - i’m hoping that the super embed can be expanded to also include a block underneath that has either a jump bar or something similar to jump to timed comments in the video (reading this wistia?)

the above video embed is one of the new super embeds - you can customize so many features to do with how the embed acts and looks within your website (even call out url at the end which works really well - i wonder if they capture the click rate on that for the stats view?) the feature i’m currently looking at however is taking the admin chat comments (the logged in user on bambuser doing the stream) and piping them into the wistia api as a .flv conversion of the archived video stream after an event, conference (i.e ontheground event) - once on wistia i’d like to automatically take the bambuser chat commands and put them as timed comments for jumping to different sections in the video.

what is even nicer about this arrangement is that we can also build in an element of triggering for a transcript if we are recording and streaming live for a client on the ground like i hope we will be doing for audiences europe this year (crosses fingers) - it means we can have the embed and the video all tagged when certain presentations start or interesting things have just been said, piped over to wistia, tagged and embedded into a blog for offline viewing by those that never made it to the live stream. 

having those additional timed markers opens up lots of other interesting areas which we are currently experimenting with similar to the old rezpondr system i tried to build a number of years back with a difference this time, more lightweight less db management and with layers onto of the ui and experience that allows you to do actions with the media you have pulled together.  other people do this in some apps i have seen but they are dedicated applications with gobs of money thrown at them.  we are building something a bit more homebrew.

i’ve met with some local phonegap and full fat ios developers to discuss my options and how these things work and which way to go with it.  right now we are looking at creating a webapp and wrapping that into a phonegap chromeless browser style applications to get on the appstore that we give away for free that queries my content to start with.  i expect this will take a few more months of development to get it to the place i want but it opens up the ideas i have about social media and advocacy develoment throughout this year.  oh, and i’m aware it’s time sensitive. another year and this stuff will be on your television.

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behind the scenes those desk wizard ninjas over in somerville, boston in the united states have been busy beavering away at all things code and gubbins to bring us wistia users a new player embed that also does some amazing heavy lifting behind the scenes.

for instance, this player is super smart that when you hit the full screen button you automatically get served the higher quality HD version (if one is available) and even has smart traffic management knowledge (first seen with the swedish boys from bambuser - heart those guys too) depending on your internet connection.

ok for those not knowing what it is i’m trying to show it’s basically that the player has had a face lift in the ‘information’ department of the player.  that is however, half of the story.

i’m expecting a raft of pushes before the christmas session and i’m sure the wistia boys are up to something in the studio before they see in the new year.  it’s hard to believe that this time last year i was heading my way over their to see them.  it’s crazy it’s been a year already.

in that time i have seen nothing but regular, constient release cycles and dropping the ‘awesomesauce’ hammer every so often to wake us all up — the service has been really bulletproof allowing us to do some really nice moving and shaking in the showyou app world when it comes to subscribers and viewers.

if you have not experienced an enterprise class video host yet i suggest you take a trial run of the wistia service and you’ll see what exactly it has to offer over services like vimeo (which i still use for my vlogging btw) and youtube — for doing social media video with clients it is a must and the super private viewing before you make live has proved really popular with everyone we have worked with this year.

as for video seo, check out the transcription services that wistia offer increasing your video seo massively by providing you with all the text that has been spoken during your video - the pricing is perfect and you’ll find your website getting more traffic once you open up all that media to the likes of google.

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quicklink | periphery, tweetperview and the new preroll tool

super productive day today and i’ve recorded another batch of webperiphery finally after what seemed like forever (actually four months - scary) - part of the problem was the ‘not enough tshirts quandary’ of trying to record content in bulk from existing notes that i had been putting together in wunderlist offline (as in, away from the computer!)

so, something new to play with.  the preroll tool is a new tool from wistia that allows you pass a project of intros (preroll) to play before the video plays.  this is neat in that we do not have to bolt the pre-roll onto the video and that video performs as the iframe worked before.  super cool and quite easy to use.  i say quite, because we can always have more right? :)

i’m hoping that tweetperview will update for the wistia iframe so you can have the overlay over that iframe because this way we can’t post the html as before so we lose that feature overlay i talk about in ep22 if we use this new pre-roll countdown system (which already i like)

i’ve been thinking how this could be used on the ground too in terms of mobile media making and triggering a bunch of actions for a pipeline for those clips that do not need to be edited but still have some level of branding or intro on them.

one way would be to have a project with multiple sections.  in the project i’d have intros and outros folders and an upload folder - if wistia built in support for the sections to have dynamic email address support (say, 12j3h!@£@projectname.wistia.com - or cname) then you could simply email your video you shot into the project and have the it automatically attach an intro and an outro for that particularly project.

it’s something for an api project me thinks.  it certainly opens up the possibility of doing pieces of video from your mobile phone (especially with the iphone5 around the corner and better optics) of recording, emailing you video content up to wistia - it top and tailing the video with intro and outro and dropping it back into your playlist embed for the main website.

if you had multiple ‘ontheground’ people on the ground you could have different intros for the different people sending in reports and dynamic content on the outro - something like generated QR codes.  for doing some kind of realtime gaming this could be pretty awesome for a remote user to interact with.  no post production, just send up and let the cloud handle it.

http://fibreca.mp/a-pcmcatchup-show-at-fibrecamp-for-week-one-o by posted email about we lost the video feed last week, it went black.  then we fixed it. lots happening last few weeks it’s been quite the blur with work coming in and things picking up for the better.  ordered a bunch of new cables for the studio, got give some freebie kit to reuse in the studio space and got my introd …