This is just great. To see a bunch of folks getting together is more than I ever dreamed of when I came to this site. I've been fortunate to visit with a few folks from the site as well. Last year I met with Damian (D-Dog) in Vegas while we were both out there for some conferences. After our visit we were able to put a few colaboration videos up. I've also met with Jay here in NH as he lives about 45 minutes away. That was alot of fun as we played a few songs but really just got a chance to see where we may be able to collaborate in the future. We didn't have the camera on at the time but maybe the next time around we will. I was up in Montreal a few weeks ago for work and met with Pierre (cosmicmechanic). I didn't have my guitar but it was an absolute pleasure meeting with Pierre as we went out for some dinner in a snow storm. Many thanks to Pierre for letting me borrow a hat so I didn't freeze my ears off. I'll be back up there in Feb again and hope to bring my guitar this time so we can play some songs. Hopefully Marc will be around as well this time. Just yesterday I went to BobR's house in MA where I did bring the camera. I had a great time with him and hope to do it agian in the future. I did have the camera so after I wade through all the content I can find some clips worthy of putting up here. We went through a bunch of songs and maybe one or two will be good enough. Lastly as everyone knows by now I was able to meet with Neil last month and have the "Fly on the Wall" session to show my crash course in fretboard management :laugh: :laugh: . Hopefully this year I'll be able to visit with some more folks. Having a TG guitar camp would be outstanding if we could get that off the ground.
MarkM
Visiting Tg friends
As MarkM said above we met yesterday at my house and had a great time. It's really cool to chat on the forums and see what everyone has going on, but to actually meet in person makes this site as great as it is. Mark and I had discussed a few songs we might try prior to our meeting and we did a few but mostly we just had fun playing. Hopefully some of the video Mark has will be worthy of posting :laugh: Most of the time I forgot Mark had the camera recording so who knows :ohmy: . I would encourage fellow TGers to meet if at all possible because I just had a blast.
Bob
Bob
Haha, 'niet slecht' (= not bad, Anton's first words after they finished the song)!
Very well done guys, sounded great! Am looking forward to our 'three-dutch-buskers-collaboration'!
willem wrote:
Very well done guys, sounded great! Am looking forward to our 'three-dutch-buskers-collaboration'!
willem wrote:
It was all in the beginning of TG,,i knew Anton from a other site and told him abaut this site and he signed up too,,after a while he felt from the stairs and broke his hip,, i visit him then and we had a nice day playing some tunes and Anton was singin from the top of his longs,,the vids i uploaded then where bad of sound,,this one is better..
''what's up'' 4NONBLONDS, AND A WARM WELCOME THROUGH THE FRONT DOOR,,
Vanessa Yeh the three Dutch buskers.
Thats Willem and Vanessa,Anton.
Hope to vissiting you together with Willem next year.
O my god,one day to go,and than NEW YEAR YEHHH.
Til soon Vanessa.
PS.Good ending of 2010 and a happy new year.
Anton
Thats Willem and Vanessa,Anton.
Hope to vissiting you together with Willem next year.
O my god,one day to go,and than NEW YEAR YEHHH.
Til soon Vanessa.
PS.Good ending of 2010 and a happy new year.
Anton
sws26 & jimcjimc in San Jose
As some of you may have viewed Stuart's visiting San Jose thread or saw the reference to it in Neil's latest On the Beat, Stuart and I did meet up on Saturday at Guitar Showcase in San Jose. It was a lot of fun to meet in person someone whose videos I have enjoyed at TotallyGuitars. We chatted with Jack who stars in the Guitar Showcase videos on this site. We played around with lots of different guitars and played some snippets of songs we know. We didn't shoot any video at the store. I only have one guitar and am thinking of getting another - trying to decide between a Taylor GS mini or a Martin mahogany.
It turns out Stuart had also been to Gryphon and picked up a rental guitar, so we met Saturday night at my house and played mostly Dylan songs for a couple of hours. I turned on the camera a few times and have video of us doing I Want You, Don't Think Twice It's Alright and Lay, Lady, Lay. I made videos in the past with my webcam. I made these videos with a digital camera that shoots videos. I have 3 humongous .mov file 330 MB, 650 MB, and 320 MB.
Any suggestions on free software (I have windows XP) to convert and/or compress these a bit for uploading. I did a free download of something called imTooMOV, but the free version only does the first 3 minutes.
As some of you may have viewed Stuart's visiting San Jose thread or saw the reference to it in Neil's latest On the Beat, Stuart and I did meet up on Saturday at Guitar Showcase in San Jose. It was a lot of fun to meet in person someone whose videos I have enjoyed at TotallyGuitars. We chatted with Jack who stars in the Guitar Showcase videos on this site. We played around with lots of different guitars and played some snippets of songs we know. We didn't shoot any video at the store. I only have one guitar and am thinking of getting another - trying to decide between a Taylor GS mini or a Martin mahogany.
It turns out Stuart had also been to Gryphon and picked up a rental guitar, so we met Saturday night at my house and played mostly Dylan songs for a couple of hours. I turned on the camera a few times and have video of us doing I Want You, Don't Think Twice It's Alright and Lay, Lady, Lay. I made videos in the past with my webcam. I made these videos with a digital camera that shoots videos. I have 3 humongous .mov file 330 MB, 650 MB, and 320 MB.
Any suggestions on free software (I have windows XP) to convert and/or compress these a bit for uploading. I did a free download of something called imTooMOV, but the free version only does the first 3 minutes.
Hi Jim, it is great that Stuart and yourself met. You cannot go wrong with the 2 guitars you are choosing between. I am sure someone will help you the compression. You can always edit them to cut them in 2. There is a possibility that your sound setting (sound format) is too large with the mov file. I had this problem before and I revert to MP3 and it reduce the file by more than half.
Looking forward to see those videos
Marc
Looking forward to see those videos
Marc
jimcjimc wrote:
sws26 & jimcjimc in San Jose
Glad to see you got the chance to jam with other TG members, its something I'd certainly like to do one day too.
As for your movie file size, were you aware that you probably have software on your system that will do that for you already? Your windows xp should have windows movie maker on it as standard. With movie maker, you can do a whole host of things, including adding titles, editing, and deciding in what format, and what size, to save your completed files.
If its on your computer, here's a link to a website which shows you how to use it.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/usin ... fault.mspx
Hope this helps.
Thanks
Joe
sws26 & jimcjimc in San Jose
Hi JimAs some of you may have viewed Stuart's visiting San Jose thread or saw the reference to it in Neil's latest On the Beat, Stuart and I did meet up on Saturday at Guitar Showcase in San Jose. It was a lot of fun to meet in person someone whose videos I have enjoyed at TotallyGuitars. We chatted with Jack who stars in the Guitar Showcase videos on this site. We played around with lots of different guitars and played some snippets of songs we know. We didn't shoot any video at the store. I only have one guitar and am thinking of getting another - trying to decide between a Taylor GS mini or a Martin mahogany.
It turns out Stuart had also been to Gryphon and picked up a rental guitar, so we met Saturday night at my house and played mostly Dylan songs for a couple of hours. I turned on the camera a few times and have video of us doing I Want You, Don't Think Twice It's Alright and Lay, Lady, Lay. I made videos in the past with my webcam. I made these videos with a digital camera that shoots videos. I have 3 humongous .mov file 330 MB, 650 MB, and 320 MB.
Any suggestions on free software (I have windows XP) to convert and/or compress these a bit for uploading. I did a free download of something called imTooMOV, but the free version only does the first 3 minutes
Glad to see you got the chance to jam with other TG members, its something I'd certainly like to do one day too.
As for your movie file size, were you aware that you probably have software on your system that will do that for you already? Your windows xp should have windows movie maker on it as standard. With movie maker, you can do a whole host of things, including adding titles, editing, and deciding in what format, and what size, to save your completed files.
If its on your computer, here's a link to a website which shows you how to use it.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/usin ... fault.mspx
Hope this helps.
Thanks
Joe
heyjoe wrote:
I did try moviemaker, but it says it can't open a .mov file. I got a suggestion from Daryl to use WinFF to convert it, which I did. (I also got a suggestion from willem to try any-video-converter )
Anyway, it's much smaller now and i tried to upload it with the busking loader and got an error:
Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in /var/www/vhosts/totallyguitars.com/httpdocs/ZendGdata/library/Zend/Gdata/ClientLogin.php on line 150
Fatal error: Call to undefined method Zend_Http_Client::setRawDataStream() in /var/www/vhosts/totallyguitars.com/httpdocs/ZendGdata/library/Zend/Gdata/App.php on line 652
So ,still on hold...
Hi Joe,jimcjimc wrote:
sws26 & jimcjimc in San Jose
Hi JimAs some of you may have viewed Stuart's visiting San Jose thread or saw the reference to it in Neil's latest On the Beat, Stuart and I did meet up on Saturday at Guitar Showcase in San Jose. It was a lot of fun to meet in person someone whose videos I have enjoyed at TotallyGuitars. We chatted with Jack who stars in the Guitar Showcase videos on this site. We played around with lots of different guitars and played some snippets of songs we know. We didn't shoot any video at the store. I only have one guitar and am thinking of getting another - trying to decide between a Taylor GS mini or a Martin mahogany.
It turns out Stuart had also been to Gryphon and picked up a rental guitar, so we met Saturday night at my house and played mostly Dylan songs for a couple of hours. I turned on the camera a few times and have video of us doing I Want You, Don't Think Twice It's Alright and Lay, Lady, Lay. I made videos in the past with my webcam. I made these videos with a digital camera that shoots videos. I have 3 humongous .mov file 330 MB, 650 MB, and 320 MB.
Any suggestions on free software (I have windows XP) to convert and/or compress these a bit for uploading. I did a free download of something called imTooMOV, but the free version only does the first 3 minutes
Glad to see you got the chance to jam with other TG members, its something I'd certainly like to do one day too.
As for your movie file size, were you aware that you probably have software on your system that will do that for you already? Your windows xp should have windows movie maker on it as standard. With movie maker, you can do a whole host of things, including adding titles, editing, and deciding in what format, and what size, to save your completed files.
If its on your computer, here's a link to a website which shows you how to use it.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/usin ... fault.mspx
Hope this helps.
Thanks
Joe
I did try moviemaker, but it says it can't open a .mov file. I got a suggestion from Daryl to use WinFF to convert it, which I did. (I also got a suggestion from willem to try any-video-converter )
Anyway, it's much smaller now and i tried to upload it with the busking loader and got an error:
Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in /var/www/vhosts/totallyguitars.com/httpdocs/ZendGdata/library/Zend/Gdata/ClientLogin.php on line 150
Fatal error: Call to undefined method Zend_Http_Client::setRawDataStream() in /var/www/vhosts/totallyguitars.com/httpdocs/ZendGdata/library/Zend/Gdata/App.php on line 652
So ,still on hold...
As Jim says, we had a great time together at Guitar Showcase, trying out most every guitar they had on the wall and chatting up Jack van Breen. Jack talked a bit about some of the new videos in the pipeline and played a little bit of 'Hey Joe' for us an a Martin acoustic.
Jim was also kind enough to invite me over to his house for some more fun with a few Dylan tunes he's been working on. Some of this we captured on camera and I'm sure Jim will be sharing it soon.
-Stuart
Jim was also kind enough to invite me over to his house for some more fun with a few Dylan tunes he's been working on. Some of this we captured on camera and I'm sure Jim will be sharing it soon.
-Stuart
I am visiting the Dallas area for work this week and I had a chance to meet with Wiley and his charming wife Donna,tonight . We met in an excellent restaurant in Wiley's town. They are very interesting people. We had an enjoyable conversation on all kinds of subjects. Wiley contributes a lot on the forum with very thorough response or topics that he creates and it was great to meet with him.
Marc
Marc