My "Nightcallers" blog is about ready for public viewing. I've been adding links to other blogs (got several from folks here) and uploading some of my animation and decaling tests. If you have a blog and would like to swap links let me know.

It's at http://nightcallers.net/arthropoda/

looks nice, well done!

Thanks. I'm posting my videos on YouTube and linking them, but having trouble getting good quality. I guess I need to look closer at the settings and YT recommendations.

I visited and live to tell the tale.

Looks good!

Looks good, Gerry!

I dug around and found this info I posted when I put the Christmas Greeting on my site. This lets you set the quality of the embedded video to "high":

This may be helpful to others:

I found out how to make my YouTube movie display in "high" quality when embedded on my page.

You go into the code and add: &ap=%2526fmt%3D18

after the two times the address appears. (You may have to put a semi-colon to separate it from other tags.)

It does make a difference!

Thanks Mark! The problem is that they look kind of cruddy on YouTube as well. I uploaded a pretty high quality version of that Skarab rotate, but once it was crunched it looked rough. One of the earlier ones of Midge was low-res and (I think!) compressed already, and both look equally rough on YouTube. But as I said, I need to spend a little more time looking at the YT guidelines.

Yeah, When I start posting movies to my Blog I will be hosting the files myself.

Cheers

With Youtube, it's best to let it decide what quality it's going to be for this simple reason. You can now upload a vid as high as 1080i resolution, the thing is, a lot of people's browsers and processors can't stream video at that high a quality, so what youtube does, is read your computer and play the video at the best setting (in pretty much all cases, low quality) The viewer can change the resolution of the video depending on how high a quality it was originall uploaded to youtube.

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