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based at 54/56 high pavement (@lacemarkethouse) is a brand new high quality and high definition web streaming video studio. our aim is to cater to the person in the street with an idea and concept right through to the fully fledged business with existing products and non-for-profit companies.

the community based 'fibre studio' as we are calling is unique in that we have a very fast fibre optic internet connection allowing us to broadcast video to the internet at a very high quality better than videos you normally find on youtube and facebook. our product has been designed so that the user can 'dropin' to the studio record a bunch of videos and clips and walk out of the studio knowing that the videos are already posted and online ready for you to promote on your blog, company website or intranet.

our prices is extremely low compared to a usual broadcast studio because our overheads are low and we want to scale the business up organically and so we have adjusted our pricing to suit. we are also able to provide additional social media and blogging services to assist our clients with promoting their content across the internet and show you how to build up your audience in the social digital space.

if you require any additional information feel free to contact myself (@philcampbell on twitter) or caron lyon (@pcmcreative on twitter) or use the contact phone numbers below to give us a call. the booking system for the website will be going up shortly on which you can book in the calendar date that suits you best.

example web streaming content shows are.. .

- makeup in hq (getting better, sharper quality that usual youtube videos)
- golf equipment reviews (direct from the source instead of magazine reviews)
- prepaid mastercard (howto use the card, model and spoken word)
- weekly or scripted episode based video show.

our fixed pricing is as follows

9:30 till 11:30 (2hr slot)
- £375 (record as much content as you can fit into 2hrs)

12:30 - 1:30 (3 x 20 minute slots)
- £50 a slot - (fast, company update or progress reports)

2:00 - 4:00 (2hr slot)
- £375 (record as much content as you can fit into 2hrs)

the studio is available every weekend and a special arrangements could be made for later evening or weekends if required but weekends would require the studio be hired for a complete day at a cost of £700 (9:30 > 4pm) - breakfast/lunch would be provided throughout the day.

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i was moving the studio around yesterday.

             

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reorganising_the_fibre_studio_.zip (941 KB)

- moved the main mac pro into corner away from 'stages'
- ledge above door with bracket to camera @ head height
- sofa on the side wall for weekly show
- main free standing box for twin shot
- old style sofa seats and old reading lighting
- fixed webcam and blue snowball for video chat
- lighting attached to the gazebo

I also came up with a genius idea yesterday that will be very useful for our projects on pcmprojects and also be useful for the studio. i'm keeping it a bit hush hush to raise a bit of excitement because we have to have something custom built and find some cash to enable us to be able to get the kit together. i promise you thou it's gonna be awesome. i spent a few hours yesterday making sure it would work on the configuration i wanted for the lowest possible footprint.

more soon.. .

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click on the full screen resize to see the quality this is now working at. now to mess around with boinxtv to see what kind of output i can get from that. i'm quite happy with the camtwist configuration. the fact that you can do categories and sets is a nice touch meaning we can get setup for different shows quickly. we like that.

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i've been dabbling around with groups on ping.fm so i do not create duplication of status updates when autoposting out of posterous. In the process i have created additional targets to send to thou that posterous currently does not support and this works well to update the services i do not frequent regular but still have eyeballs looking at them.

i put together a simple screencast of the grouping feature of ping.fm but also talked about using su.pr and hootsuite regarding scheduling tweets. i created this screencast so that karen and jason from @buddhistpodcast could get used to the idea of using su.pr, ping.fm and hootsuite as part of their twitter annoucement release cycle for the fortnightly audio podcast show from http://abuddhistpodcast.com and to raise some viewer traffic for the bambuser livestream 'behind the scenes' show they started doing recently.

what is covered in the screencast

- using su.pr to create shortlinks
- using su.pr to distribute to multiple twitter accounts
- click through tracking on su.pr and stumpleupon
- using ping.fm to send to a dedicated group
- hootsuite and scheduled twitter posting
- using time scheduled tweets for use at events

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i noticed quickly on this stream that you saw some compression blocks but that is because both my laptop and main machine are doing backblaze backups as well so might have been effected by this for upload speed today. hope video explains a few things.

we are using wirecast for this broadcast again but we are going to start a fusion of using wirecast and boinxtv - one so we have the great pre-production enhancements of boinxtv but using the strong streaming features of wirecast that allow us to broadcast directly into bambuser fms (flash media server) backend to get that hq/hd stream.  it works perfectly and i prefer to use bambuser over livestream and many others.

*NEWSFLASH* - check out http://bambuser.com/business for some awesome
things coming from bambuser

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a great little interview for her forthcoming videoblog series.

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I should have probably edited the bambuser video so that it is in sync with the screenflow - or even just recorded it live on the bambuser feed but i was not thinking straight. You can either play these together (but wait for the 3-2-1 countdown in the bambuser embed) or just watch them on their own. I'm just discussing a few things that i wish worked out of the box with wirecast and bambuser for the archive and titles broadcasting and also some of the bambuser chat suggestions that have been floating around my mind since some friends suggested it needed a makeover.

Wirecast + Bambuser Settings and Chat Suggestions [screenflow] from Phil Campbell - England on Vimeo.

Hoping to get out to sweden in april for a few days to have a proper chat with bambuser!

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Just a few photos of progress this morning. beta version of the layout so far.

               

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you know i like to come up with 'random' ideas.

They call it an activity course. .. from Philip Campbell on Vimeo.

this one came to me while running around (i say running but really i was out of breath and exhausted) on the 'activity course' at conkers. i'm not sure if they have ever had time trials or anything like it at conkers but all i could think about would be how much fun it would be to live stream and document a group of people blasting around the trail as we stream it out on bambuser.

I'm thinking. . .

- one person to carry mobility box (inet connectivity)
- a person streaming from the nokia phone using bambuser
- fun timing of the time trial based on the length of the video stream posted
- leaderboard system
- twitter voting to vote up their favorite entry
- split screen time trials maybe later on - split screen view side by side
- custom rezpondr theme for bambuser

Thinking that we should maybe test this at the next conkertu on the 27th of this month. If your up for it please drop me a message. i'm hoping to get some of the crowd that will be around the ampitheatre to take part on the day.

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just had a really good morning over in nottingham at lace market house hotdesking with @pcmcreative. a few weeks back we discussed about the potential of utilizing space and fibre resources and today was the first step towards making thegravity and HD streaming from a location possible - today was initial testing. turns out my laptop doesn't have the horsepower required to make it stream with an acceptable framerate but the actual picture quality was fantastic.

with the fibre currently throttled back on a port by port basis and with the ability to 'jack it up' I have every faith that the feed is perfect for the show and general social media making and aggregration for me to take my ideas and concepts to the next level and explore live in depth.

looking forward to my weekly trip over, need to find another sponsor for wirecast license, office space if I travel over more regular and some per show sponsors for rental of meeting rooms and such like.

... also need to flight case my future media making portable machine for broadcasting. expect this to happen quickly now I'm on it! ;)

Sent from my iPhone .. .
from a train towards home

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yesterday was very interesting at our first group meeting in the paramount.

it started of quite slow due in part to myself not having a massive amount of sleep from the nights before. emma (@zerocredit_uk) turned up first shortly followed by rob (@subwolf) and his mum. we relocated from the table i was at to another table with more room and then started to talk about the geovation proposal that we put in and never got through. we quickly got onto talking about the engine for doorstepr and some features that we could get in place by march/april time. rob also surprised me with a dvd gift but i have done a separate blog post about that.

It was great to have some advice from the two gentlemen that emma invited to attend regarding different coop setups (CIC) and they gave us some really interesting things for us to look into. We also spoke briefly about fibre at conkers and obviously the next conkertu event at the end of feb which will be round before we know it. I've got to start putting together some content for a fibre presentation and start to get a blog post up about the roadtrip that i need to try and raise some sponsorship for.

I've got a good feeling about progress and development on doorstepr. It's a potential product and service that has real legs. Once we have a more streamlined prototype up and running we will go into some more detail about it. Right now we are looking at pre-determined locations for the roadcamp event and also some new UI features which should make it interesting and interactive for the user, we hope that we can turn some of the controls into widgets for putting on blogs and elsewhere for the geo tracking side of media sites we will support - too start with that will be bambuser, youtube, audioboo and flickr.

after that we will look at overlaying different markers from a cross section of different api's including some of the awesome new iphone based ones like gowalla and foursquare. Oh, and we discussed multiuser as well - that is supporting multiple accounts. Might be useful to have a 'user' account that can be an api search of youtube for a geographic location area. I'm pretty sure you can do that kind of thing with twitter so i'm hoping that you can do it on youtube as well.

We would love to overlay twitter/tweets onto the map as well but a lot of work/processing power might be required to do that. Originally i thought we could us geoapi website to provide us with a feed of twitter geo information but it seems that is US only currently. We would have to use the firehose from twitter and look to get whitelisted - it's on the roadmap and would give us a nice phat chunk of tweets for the local area regular instead of worrying that the media map was up to date. I guess i need to start recording some more posts, take some more pictures around the park. I should actually speak to the ranger to geo tag his video media on youtube.

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I've got a good feeling about nottingham.

Ever since i started going over to see caron lyons (@pcmcreative) and working together on the social media for the public sector event plus recent interviews i have an affinity for listening to my karma and feel like it is the right decision. Quite strange really because while waiting for the train last week i noticed some flats right next to the train station that would be ideal once this house situation is sorted - funny how certain things fit into place. I'm looking at hotdesking from lacemarkethouse once or twice a week and have secured a great deal for my monthly wired connection there (read: superfast)

So, i'll be obviously offering the usual social media services and help while i'm hotdesking and i'll make sure to alert people when 'i'm in the office' if you want to drop in and maybe get some guidance or training/help while i'm in nottingham - i'm hoping some of the local businesses will require this. At the very least i'm hoping to make some good connections with businesses already in the lace market house and see how we can work together. Some other benefits that might not be immediately obvious are the equipment and other services i can now offer with this hispeed connection and my macpro onsite. I've listed them below.

firing back up 'thegravity' video show
it's been a long time coming and i'm chomping at the bit to do the video version of 'thegravity' again - i switched last year to making 'audiogravity' over on audioboo as it is a faster way to get some content out but i do miss doing the live/offlive/interactive gravity video show. you can find some of the episodes of the prerecorded version over at thegravity.blip.tv - i'm bringing that back with a new posterous vibe and distribution to it. should be fairly easy to setup.

potential for a livestream 24/7 radio show
i'm been playing with audio livestreaming for years, i started with SAM on a windows machine and recently started using a great mac application for sending out the audio to a remote shoutcast server which has some great tools embedded. i have the capacity to do a radio show, social show and even call in skype functionality - with a small budget we could get a really decent mixer and start to do some weekly live shows. i've also got a really smart jquery live notification add in for websites that appears when the stream is live - that notification system needs to be expanded on. Maybe a weekly social media audio show with local businesses and guests - live tweetup sixth second pitches with live interactive voting. all possible. maybe we take some of the local podcasters and do a live show with a roundtable discussion on topics that the twitter community fire over in realtime.

realtime officestream and HD experimentation
i've been waiting to get my hands on a chunky connection for sometime to work on some experiments with HD, the 16:9 perspective and different streaming solutions - i already know a few companies that can handle a HD stream and it would be good to build a HD livecast solution.

axis bonjour ultimate camera mashup
tried this already and it works. axis cameras have the ability to be connected to via bonjour - i have a great little application that allows switching to bonjour enabled cameras on the network. using this we could switch between rooms and actually have static cameras setup in different locations - great for tweetups - maybe we should look at doing a social media big brother 24/7 social project onsite 'get your idea/business online for free in a weekend' sessions. got some ideas for art projects and using the bonjour cameras could be a good way to switch into businesses in the lacemarket house for updates from different companies of what is happening that week without them having to leave the office!

greenscreen resource + boinxtv + livestreaming - realtime production
if i'm going to permanently have my macpro onsite (no way i can keep lugging it over - it's darn heavy) then i might as well have my greenscreen, canon hv20 1080i camera, hdmi to intensity blackmagic card and twin daylight 5300k lights over with me. this means i can offer a service for potential clients to have your virtual character on your website - those ones you see where a character walks on or appears on a transparent background etc - we can do all that.

I expect to be onsite and up and running at the lace market house within the next few weeks. follow me on twitter for updates - i guess i should make a public google calendar for when i'm onsite. I'm hoping that if things go well i might require to be over in nottingham more often.

exciting.

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I think the logos look rather fetching on the side of the ammobox. I'm playing around with the latest beta right now and i have to say it is rather lovely.  My favourite sticker on the box so far thou is my dubai one of course.   If you have a web startup and some logos printed please send them to me!

       

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I currently only have the iphone 3G. I'll probably be waiting till apple announce the date/release of the next one and sidestep the 3gs all together, just not worth finding that level of cash/contract for what it has which would only be the video feature in my mind. But it was nice to get an email from bambuser with a developer for beta testing version with the same kind of method enabled. I think the standard iphone 3G probably is a little too slow and the iphone 3GS will perform better. Weird, i still never think of the iphone as a videoblogging device really yet. Some of the new android ones look tasty!

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I forgot to post these images that were sitting on my memory card so finally today i got around to doing it (actually boxing day) but i have put the date back on the entry by posting these as a private entry - gotta love posterous for that. It was a really good day at the east midlands conference centre and it was great to work alongside @pcmcreative 'cj' caron lyons on the project for the day. the internet connection was smoking fast and the recording and day went fantastic. I really enjoyed myself.

                                         

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Just got this in an email this morning which excites me very much moving into 2010 that we are starting to see really portable devices that can stream in much HQ than we had in the last few years. Obviously bandwidth is still problem in making sure that these streams are high quality enough but the ability to have these units and a portable backpack of mobile broadband connectivity is surely going to take us to the next level of mobile media making.

The news from bambuser email is. ..

NEW VERSION FOR ANDROID - We've just released a new version of Bambuser for Android. Yes, it's awesome and it's available for download through the Android Market or our download page now.

HIGH RESOLUTION BROADCASTS - We also wanted to let you know that since the beginning of October we support live streaming in up to 720x480 on compatible Android and Symbian devices (like the Motorola Droid, Samsung Omnia HD, Sony Ericsson Satio etc). Just make sure that you have the latest and greatest version of our application.

Looks like time to pick up an android phone and start to have a play!

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the wizard that is the @subwolf has been beavering away in his spare time and we are starting to make some nice progress on supporting lots of different geo located services onto of our google mapping solution for the conkertu project. We are hoping to support bambuser, youtube as well as the current ones of flickr and audioboo.

I need to really mock something up in photoshop regarding the ui and how we want it to look, we will probably have a row of media from different events in a combi view but we need to do a 'less is more' type activity to see what works best. really pleased at the progress. seems to be only working in firefox at the moment so needs a fix for safari and obviously testing on more browsers.

*update* it was just the cache on my safari.  seems to be working perfectly.

You can see the test system over on http://me.dm/mapping

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