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The end of SteveIsaacs.tv?

Steve Isaacs — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:37:26 +0000

Looks like it might be. On Friday yet another Goddamn camera was stolen. I’m over it. I carry my camera all the time, so sometimes I’m not as vigilant as I should be, but this is ridiculous. This makes 3 pricey Canon HD camcorders swiped since December. I don’t know if I can go through all this again. Maybe the universe is trying to tell me something.

Tons of Great NYC Footage to Edit

Steve Isaacs — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:25:49 +0000

The last two weekends all the stars aligned: The weather was flawless, and there were TONS of things to see and do all over NYC- perfect conditions for my videos. I checked out the NYC Dance Parade and have lots of crazy images of dancers and kooks of all shapes and sizes. On Memorial Day weekend, I strolled around the newly renovated Washington Square Park, the Loisida Puerto Rican street fair, did a late night walk of the new traffic-free Times Square, and lots of little journeys in between. A big editing job is ahead of me, but I’ll try to get the stuff up as soon as possible.

And yes, the New York Pizza Tour is coming soon. Hope to begin shooting this weekend! Thanks for watching.

Sound Too Low? Yeah.

Steve Isaacs — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:22:25 +0000

Thanks to Dafire, I discovered that my new videos with the new camera are WAY too low volumewise. Sorry about that. I’m working on re-exporting the last two videos and re-uploading.

Update: Did the best I could and re-uploaded the last two videos. Figured out what happened, and the new ones should be fine.

Some Asshole Stole My Video Camera

Steve Isaacs — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:47:46 +0000

04-13-09: First video after having my video camera lost/stolen. New camera, new start. Tired to edit this on Final Cut Express, but realized that I wanted to kill myself after 2 hours of struggling with the program and ran back to iMovie ’09 with my tail between my legs.

Really Bad News

Steve Isaacs — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:43:14 +0000

My camera was lost/stolen yesterday while having a bite in Hoboken, NJ. I don’t have any jokes to go along with this cause it’s a total bummer. That was my 2nd Canon HF10. I won’t be able to make a new video till I figure out what to do about this.

New Webhost – Moved to Mosso

Steve Isaacs — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:15:52 +0000

This site has been really a pain in the ass lately and I apologize. I have been with my web host, Media Temple for over a decade, but things have been dreadful lately – coincidentally since around the time I started steveisaacs.tv. Behind the scenes I’ve been fighting, calling tech support, annoying my friends with questions, re-doing things and staying THIS CLOSE to going on a murder spree when nothing seemed to help.

Today I couldn’t take it anymore and moved over to Mosso. It sure ain’t cheap, but I hope it’ll all be worth it. I want this to be a site that you can enjoy that’s fast and always online, cause hey… my inane babbling really deserves the BEST that the Internetosphere has to offer, right?

So once again, I hope this solved any issues that might have been a drag, and if you notice anything squirrely about the new setup, please let me know!

Working on Smoother Video

Steve Isaacs — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:34:44 +0000

Of all viewers, My Mom let me know how jumpy my videos were playing. I was aware of this, but chalked it up to the fact embedded Vimeo needs to be put on pause until the whole video is loaded, then playback is smooth.

I wrote to Vimeo support and they set me straight about my export settings: I should use 25 frames per second, and a keyframe every 30 frames (for the videoheads out there). That seemed to do the trick, so I’m going to re-export as many videos as I can at this new setting and hopefully playback here will be a dream come true riding atop a magical unicorn of golden dreams.

If not, please let me know how playback here on steveisaacs.tv is for you!

By the way, Vimeo Support’s Dalas Verdugo wrote me back in about 2 minutes with great info to get me on the right track. Hats off to Vimeo for once again being the horn on the magical unicorn of online video.

My Webhost is an Asshole

Steve Isaacs — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:47:07 +0000

I know the site has been really unreliable lately, I’m at my wits end with my web host. Currently I’m looking for candidates to move over to. Thanks for your patience, and I’m sorry for the pain-in-the-assness.

Want a Custom Icon for Commenting?

Steve Isaacs — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:48:22 +0000

Wondering how you get one of those nifty custom icons for the comments? Just head over to Gravatar.com, it’s WordPress’ (my blog engine) default place for getting a custom icon and using it across any WP blog on the Internet. It’s easy and free and then we can see who you are!

Viewers Choice Day

Steve Isaacs — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:03:02 +0000

Have a question you’d like me to answer? Have somewhere you’d like me to go video in New York? A topic for a video? It’s viewer’s choice on steveisaacs.tv, so let me know your ideas, and I’ll pick one and use it as my starting point in the next few days.

Hope you’re enjoying President’s Day!