New PBS videos about Clyde Butcher

[Mark McCarvill]

Here are two wonderful PBS videos about Clyde Butcher:

http://www.clydebutcher.com/AGCJ_Clyde_Butcher.wmv

http://www.clydebutcher.com/AGCJ_Swamp_Walk.wmv

[Eric Biggerstaff]

Mark,

Thanks for posting these, I enjoyed them very much.

[keith english]

Thanks for the link. I have loved Clydes work since I found it. Hope to get down to his Venice Gallery soon. I liked his quote "Color is a duplication of nature, B+W is an interpretation", although I shoot color also.

[Sylvester Graham]

I hate .wmv's

[bsimison]

I hate .wmv's

Why? Are you on a Mac? Have you tried using VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/)?

Thanks for the links. I look forward to watching them.

[Robert Skeoch]

They don't open on my mac... what application do I use to watch them.... or can you see them at a PBS site?
-Rob Skeoch

[bsimison]

They don't open on my mac... what application do I use to watch them.... or can you see them at a PBS site?
-Rob Skeoch

Try VLC for Mac OS X (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html)

[PViapiano]

They don't open on my PC either. I have all the latest updates, too...

[Louie Powell]

I can't open them on my PC - using the latest version of Firefox.

[Greg Lockrey]

I have an old Dell, works fine here. I especially liked his mural size easel and developer tray.;)

[Brian Schall]

With mY DSL it indicated a +6 min loading time. Cancelled it before it was thru. I would really like to see them. I got to know Clyde when I lived in SW Florida. He's one of the main reasons I shoot 4x5, eventhough he thinks 4x5 is too small. He consideres a 5x7 a Point and Shoot.

[PViapiano]

Well, one of those videos is over 80 megs, which is huge, and the Windows Media Player opens to almost full screen size here.

First of all, it's a waste to put a file that large on your website, really bad practice. Remember, if it doesn't load in five seconds, people will leave. Secondly, WMV is always the wrong choice for web media, period.

Flash, such as youtube uses, is one of the fastest-loading video applications for the web. Quicktime, using hinted compression (I think it's called) and Sorenson Squeeze is probably my favorite method. QT is just so reliable and everyone has it.

[PViapiano]

OK, so I dowloaded the video to my hard drive and it plays from there.

Did a Google search and found that many are having the same problem with this...