Why V-blogging is not so popular among us?

Yes having an U-tube channel and then embedding u-tube links at relevant parts of your blog... isn't that most effective and video-blogging in true sense? I mean I've seen non-Indian bloggers doing it [Thinking cap still on]

why do we have to have a sperate channel or a separate blog.

if you can manage pages on your blog it is more than enough.

Why dont just have a Video blog page on the blog and manage it with you tube links.

No dude... don't be orthodox and stick with the notion 'men dont dance'... concept has changed, even Pappu can dance [Grin]

I checked your Vlog on ipega gamepad... a good effort but next time you may improve it by:-

- not keeping a shiny reflective material over your desk (black something in this case)

- request your videographer not to prompt/tease/comment... It makes your vlog look very non-serious!

- make lighting in your room more ambient

- unless you love anonymity of face, it is a good idea to show the face of the vlogger at the introductory part of the video

Hope to see more vlogs from your side......... [Cheers]

@anunoy, congrats. You may have been the only one to see that video in full lols

Hahaaa... more we explore, we actually oblige ourselves... don't we?

more we explore, we actually oblige ourselves

That's a very good line

Hmmm... must be a 'stolen' one too [Wink]

Couldn't agree more Ajeet!

Till now, after 20 years I assume, I find internet very expensive throughout India... [Sigh]

Video-editing is really a cumbersome and resource consuming process... you reminded me of the era I used to tear my hair and beards for extracting the video from those mini-DV cassettes of sony handycam... Now a days I don't deal with video files, so no idea how softwares have tuned up presently...

@cyberkid. There are various methods to uploading a video. The video of 12 mins approx that i made  occupied a huge space of +400 mb. But then i resized it to .flv and i could upload the video to youtube easily, the new video size being 72 mb without loss of quality (ps dont use my video as comparison becuase it was too messed up and therefore i had to reencode the video 4 times). Plus there are loads of youtubers who are acting independently and have good followings. For eg superwoman, scherazade schroff..some indian kid who regularly uploads his short films to youtube ( this kid recieved a hand written letter of appreciation from spielberg for his effort), the poimt being bandwidth cannot be a reason to explain low penetration of vloggers in india. As for software, i dont think that is a problem because piracy zindabad, or good freeware options available too. Editing is a resource hog true, but that doesnt actually stop you cuz without resources, it would only mean an editing of 1 hour may take you 3 hours but it wont stop your work

agreed ck

+1 to CK..

Sneh, I understand your positivity towards it but here Ajeet's points are too valid to be nullified... See, you can start vlogging but seeing the 'videsi' saturation in vlogosphere and their HD qualities,if you want to get a lead, or even survive, you ought to have quality gears... If you're Vlogging under Indian vlogger tag then also people will compare you with non-desi vloggers only, i.e. even though there's no saturation of vloggers in Indian blogosphere, unfortunately merely this fact won't give you any advantage [Sigh]

Sneh, agreed to your points. I stated those points, because I've tried doing some stuff with videos, not video blogging, directly, but then even being a sort of techie, with a pretty capable hardware and pretty much conversant with software applications, I faced problems, lots of them.

The biggest problem I faced with that specific assignment was that since I planned to do a time lapse video of a Hibiscus bloom, I needed a platform to keep the camera. A tripod would have been best, but I didn't have one, neither the dedicated camera, so, I chose my laptop to serve as the camera to capture the video, a timelapse one. But then, the options were limited and I ended up with a ~7 minute video, which was shot over a period of around 1+ hour, which in no manner looked like a timelapse video. Thus started the hunt for a video editor that could let me run the video at a faster than normal rate. I hunted and hunted and hunted, but, more because I wasn't afare of the features most of the video editors provided, I failed finding one.

Ultimately, I accomplished the task by playing the video at a faster speed, as far as I recall, @ 20x the normal speed of the original video and recorded it again with a screen video capture software to get the desired result.

So, I can conclude that if you're not inclined to do whatever it takes to accomplish something so tedious as video editing, you won't able to do it, leave alone doing t again and again, as required for video blogging.

In case anyone wants to watch those videos and appreciate my work, you can do so on youtube. Here are the links.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y7jjpGjMko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSD25iTussU

@cyberkid: will have a look at those videos at home. And obviously you will have trouble with creating a video if you take up a assignment that is high on the difficulty scale. Agreed that creating videos is a difficult task because post processing takes up a lot of time as compared to a simple edit on a written blog. But if you arent serious on completing a task, then even completing a blog write up wold be difficult. out of curiosity, why did you make a time lapse video?? was it part of a sponsored assignment???

Nothing sort of sponsored or paid assignment. I did it all for fun. Actually seeing people doing it on a photography thread in another forum, I decided to do it with my phone, but, didn't get an application to do it, so did it with the laptop. 

Other than that, I did some videos for my present blog, but never posted those as they were long about 10+ minute videos, that went above 600MB+ with 1280x720p resolution. Found it a bit difficult to edit and upload those videos even on YT.

Hoping there're few more hundred Megabytes still remaining in my 8 gb quota, will check out your video Ajeet....... [Curious] 

I don't know how exactly it will fulfill your requirements, but the new app Hyperlapse by Instagram does seem to have fast playing features. It isn't exactly timelapse but coupled with something else, Hyperlapse could serve the purpose somehow. [hoping it does]

I am a poor hungry Indian.  (phrase credit: Hunky ) 

I was thinking of creating video tutorials (withut showing my face) but I don't have money.

• You have NIC.. 100mbps ISP..
• You have a Dell Core i5 (educated guess) laptop..
• You can screencast without showing your face..

So why don't you start few screencast series on Java 

Well, tutorial is something people will watch even if the video quality is 240/360 px, provided you're providing unique/superior things... so where's the hitch?

Adding to the above comments, you can use your laptop's webcam to create proper video tutorials and upload them.

You missed the 'room lighting' portion which is quite essential for vlogging [grin]

Its not a factor for me since todays cameras are much more friendly to low light..

Yes, when you move up the ladder you may something extra !!

Exactly to move up the ladder you need the quality ! I have seen many food bloggers being v booggers are very famous 

again you missed the necessity for good lighting gears, perhaps being dazzled by the "CMOS sensor" hype [grin]

Now situation is such, you need a proper startup to be able to climb the ladder Hunky sir... food bloggers you see, do you think they rely on low light capturing abilities of their cam? [Hurrr hurrr dabaang dabangg]

We all have the mother of all light, the sun light, so start with that 

I think even our so much hyped CMOS, much more hyped are the BSI-CMOS that have been making way into our smart phones increasingly are not able to cope up with low or even proper artificial lighting conditions.

Like for example, if I share examples of my own photography devices, I used to use a Nokia C6-00, a 5MP camera with auto focus and flash. Currently, I am using a Huawei Ascend P1 with an 8MP primary camera with auto focus and flash. This one has the much hyped BSI-CMOS sensor (BSI=Backside Illuminated Sensor) that theoretically improves the photo quality captured using the sensor in low light. But, I haven't seen any improvement over my old C6-00 with the P1 being equipped with a BSI-CMOS sensor against the theoretically inferior CCD sensor used in the C6. In addition to this, the software calibrating the firing of flash in relation to the opening of the electronic shutter, as I found in almost all the android devices I have checked, is just bad. You can't expect an android devices, like the ones I've seen and tested, to get you proper night-time pictures with flash on, while this was not the case with my C6, and with it, I ended up pretty good photographs (closeups), most often in night conditions.

Hunky, I'm imagining you creating your vlog under the midday sun [biting nails]

Dont image, check it in Reality !!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HOIruFMP1o

Ajeet, as I said these are mostly marketing gimmicks... what can you expect from a sensor of 1/6 inch size (probably your Ascend P1 has not larger than this)! They're constantly trying to figure out new ways to make the tiny sensor somehow perform and BSI is one of those means... it's letting the micro sensor take a manageable photo by increasing its effective surface area, i.e. partially making up for its tiny size. As a matter of fact I don't trust anything these camera company claims... first thing I do is, finding out the sensor size and lens used from the spec sheet [Grin]

Hunky, imagination has its charm which is can be a complex carbohydrate for a pure automobile blogger, thankfully which you're not [Grin]

I have one, for my blog, but, mostly unused. There are just two videos there, nothing too impressive.

Well Uma, that video was done entirely on my iPhone. Most of my other videos tend to get shot on Nikon D5100... a rather basic DSLR but one that does its job fine. The audio in both cases is always a worry... so I need to make sure that there are no unnecessary ambient sounds or noises disrupting when I'm doing the narration. But so far as effects are concerned, I have installed a few iOS apps for making videos and keep experimenting with them. They are: iMovie, Diptic Video, 8mm, StackMotion, Hyperlapse, Video in Video, and Stop Motion...

Do let me know if there are any others that are as useful as these.

My cabe gives same upload speed as download, but its only 512kbps 

Sadly true Roshan... I see no doughnuts too! If one has to keep it competitive at least 720p is a must.... [Sigh]

In my observation in my vicinity, 3G speeds of Vodafone on my mobile exceed those of my BSNL WiFi at home !!! :(

but again, I find voda-3g too expensive for extensive usage [Sigh]............

Hmmm.... only if I knew how to edit video, my works for travel-blogging could be more easily accomplished... or, don't know if it's the green grass on the other side....

Hahaaa shorty-memento looks cool bro.... I love those tokens [greedy grin]