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Do you have some videos you've created that you'd like to make available for the world to see? Do you own all the rights to the video? (i.e. Are the music and images in the video not copyright by someone else?)

Then the free web hosting on the Internet Archive is a good choice. http://www.archive.org

As an example, here is a 52-minute (400 megabyte) QuickTime file that VMUG member Phil Shapiro recently uploaded to the Internet Archive. To view this video, click on the word QuickTime in blue on the left of your screen.

http://www.archive.org/details/multimediastorytelling

QuickTimes are best viewed using Safari or Firefox. Internet Explorer sometimes makes you wait for the QuickTime to completely transfer before you can start watching it.

Phil used Cyberduck to do the uploading. http://cyberduck.ch/

Cyberduck is a free download. You can make a donation to the creators of Cyberduck if you find the program useful.

Using a cable modem, this 52-minute video took about 3 hours to upload to the Internet Archive. If you have Verizon's fiber optic service, you could probably upload this video in about an hour (or less.)

Using a dual-processor G5 PowerMac, this video took about 40 minutes to export from iMovie, using Share on the File menu.

All this is to say that it's entirely possible to shoot a video, edit it and upload it to the Internet Archive all on the same day. It takes about a day for the Internet Archive to release videos that have been uploaded.

You can always go back and edit the description of the video from a link at the bottom left of the screen describing your video -- after you are logged in to the Internet Archive. Phil missed seeing that link and added a public comment to his video to add some extra information he forgot to include.

If you have ideas for some group video projects that VMUG members can work on, you might bring them to the VMUG Multimedia special interest group (SIG.) See the Multimedia SIG blog for further information.

http://web.mac.com/haly2k1/iWeb/Site/Blog/Blog.html

Are you curious to learn a bit more about Brewster Kahle, the visionary who created the Internet Archive? Search for his name in the Internet Archive. You can view a video of a speech he gave at the Library of Congress in December, 2004. (Scroll down about 5 items in the search results.)

If Brewster Kahle has given the world this immense gift, what's the most appropriate way of thanking him? Use the gift.
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Phil Shapiro pshapiro@his.com
http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://digg.com/users/pshapiro/submitted http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html

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