I Have to Re-upload 102 Videos

102 blog posts are now broken, and look like this:

It’s because Viddy shut down.

For a time, Viddy was like the Twitter of video; you could even edit using their app, add music, sophisticated stuff. Maybe too ahead of their time, people aren’t really watching online video like they will, so it’s out of business.

We had a good relationship – they’d promote me, Tweet my videos and highlight them in the app – so I uploaded a ton of videos exclusively to Viddy. That was my mistake.

Sad as it is to type this: that’s the last time I bet on the small guy. It’s YouTube and Google from now on, forever.

I downloaded all 102 videos, but they’re smaller than the originals and pretty grainy. The right thing to do is haul out my hard drives and sit here uploading 102 videos to my YouTube account, then re-embed them into the posts.

This will take 20 hours, at least.

The good news is it will force me to clean up my YouTube account.

Look how bad my YouTube account is:

I’ll make a few playlists and there’ll be 250+ videos (add in my “Canadian Explorer’ series, and that’s 400 videos online, totalling 9 edited hours of content.)

Top 4 most popular videos:

From left to right:

– How to backup a Trailer – here

– Blackberry Security is why you buy – here

– Watch a Ford Focus park itself – here

– Putting on & Taking Off my Scarf – here

Here’s some screenshots of upcoming
KeriBlog videos you’ve likely never seen.

Blog tag = videos

YouTube.com/KeriBlog

 

 

Let's Talk About 'The Canadian Explorer'

If we are just meeting you may not know that I had an internet show for 3 years and 80 episodes called The Canadian Explorer.

I believe Canada is THE best country to live in but, not since the 70s have we had a nationalistic fervour, so I set to celebrate Canada in effort to change that, and it was awesome.

I was CBC’s inaugural made-for-web show, got up to some hijinx, and worked my way up to an accredited journalist for Canada’s largest independent broadcaster when they shipped me out to the Olympics to cover them for Sun Media and Canoe.ca.

Then I realized I got as far as one girl can on her own (I did everything myself… shoot, edit, produce, and I’m all self-taught) and decided to shut it all down on a high note.

And that’s where Episode 80 comes in.

It’s a highlight reel episode I’m in the midst of editing, summing up three years of my life into one video.  And not gonna lie, I’m finding it tough.

It’s a lot to squish into 8 minutes eh, your past three years.  Plus it’s an end, which is never easy.  Every single day all for all that time all I thought about was this project, everything I did furthered it.  I have over 15 000 hours in it yup.

For example – see all this Canada stuff:

In the past I would have collected a few items, some for further episodes, some for thank you gifts for ones I’d filmed, some for a random Canadian fact I could use to blog about.

I know SO much about Canada… you know what I was thinking would be fun?

To get together with a tour bus company and have them drive me around while I yell facts from the top of their double decker bus.  Of course I would make a video, “Keri’s Canadian Tour of Toronto”.

Because I am a great Toronto tour guide.

Anyway, here’s what editing Episode 80 looks like, and click here to see more screenshots of what editing looks like, it’s neat.

PS – here’s the Google result for “the canadian explorer” AHAHAHAHA ha.