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The Squadcast 05 - Security Starts at Home
Hiding under your bed in fear of the latest Internet threats? Fear not young digital warrior, we've got you covered. On this week's episode of The Squadcast we talk to SecureWorks security researcher Ben Feinstein about staying safe online, keeping the hackers out, and more. Plus, Grant and Christina count down our five favorite free security downloads.
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MrGutts said 11:48AM on 12-11-2007
Why do they always film in the kitchen? They also gotta be Atlanta being they have Secureworks guy in the house for a interview..
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grant.robertson said 1:38PM on 12-11-2007
It's simple.. the light in the kitchen is better, which we discovered when we did the Thanksgiving show where we cooked frozen turkey dinners.
Keen eye, we are in Atlanta. Cheers, keep watching!
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Michael Rose said 11:14AM on 12-12-2007
Wow, the playback quality on Vimeo is so much better than on YouTube. Are you doing anything differently on the production side, or is this truly the difference between the two hosting sites?
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grant.robertson said 11:19AM on 12-12-2007
We've been playing with several video sites and Vimeo is hands down the quality winner.
We did make some changes this time around, however. We're using a new 3ccd camera, which has helped the white balance and noise issues. I've also started using Media Coder to re-encode the video down from raw DV to Xvid for upload.
The same uploaded file looks way worse on YouTube. I'd not realized what a huge quality difference there is between sites until starting this project, but I'm definitely going to write up some of my findings and give other people an easier time of it than I've had. I'd say in terms of quality, it goes Vimeo, Blip, Revver, Metacafe, and down from there. I was really interested in using Viddler, and I've seen other videos there which look great, but so far I've been unable to get mine to look anywhere near as good as things like Fork You or WLTV.
Vimeo's coolest feature may be the really uncluttered playback interface, and the fact that you can theme the player to match your site's colors. I'm totally in love.
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