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Lowell Telecommunications Corporation (LTC) will be holding its annual membership meeting and Board Election on January 16, 2008 at Wannalancit Mills first floor conference area. The meeting was originally scheduled for Thursday, December 13th but we all know what happened that night.
LTC is Lowell’s community television station, media and technology center. Lowell Telecommunications Corporation serves the interests and needs of our diverse and vibrant community by providing equipment and training for residents to create and share media in a no-cost, free speech environment.
If you are not a member of LTC, you can easily join; individual membership for Lowell Comcast (cable tv) subscribers is $30/year; non-Comcast (cable tv) subscribers is $45/year. And if you are interested in taking any of the courses offered such as Studio Production, Digital Storytelling: Intro to MAC Basics or Web Design or produce your own show, and have never taken the Orientation class, the Winter one is scheduled for Wednesday, January 9; first session 10:00 a.m. – 1 p.m. and the second session 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
This past year LTC had many highlights. For me the best improvement was the live streaming video of municipal meetings on their web site. This is in addition to the expansion of the digital video archives and the quick turnaround, within 48 hours, of posting those meetings. I was so impressed with this service that I purchased QuickTime Pro to save the files on my computer. Now if I only could figure out how to post portions of those meetings on Youtube!
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December 31st, 2007 at 7:46 pm
YouTube isn’t too difficult. The two big things to remember are:
1) File can’t be more than 10 minutes long
2) File can’t be over 100 megs.
If you’re a Mac user using iMovie the easiest to export a decent file (after importing the original and cutting it to the under ten minutes that you need) is to export it “CD ROM.” LTC can also teach you about this stuff.
December 31st, 2007 at 7:47 pm
“easiest” should have been followed by “way.”
January 1st, 2008 at 1:02 am
Blip.tv is better - none of those limits.
January 1st, 2008 at 12:08 pm
You can do both. Blip is a lot better in a lot of ways (better selection of copyright choices, better sound and video conversion, people can download from it).
YouTube’s big advantage is that it has a much larger audience. It also has better organizational tools. For example, if you want to upload a longer clip to YouTube you can do it by breaking it up and creating a playlist (uploading several clips to a sort-of folder and having people select “play all”). The playlist feature also comes in handy if you want to organize things by category. I don’t know if Blip has that yet.
Of course neither of these advantages mean much if you’re just going to post something so that you can link to it from here.