Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, here we are, once again, it's Thursday, it's
11.30 a.m. Pacific Standard Time, this is Creature Label, glad you guys are here, and
once again I have my trusted partner in crime with me, Victor Allen.
What's up, man?
How you feeling, man?
Man, I'm tired, tired.
Man, you ain't going to be tired after about 30 seconds?
I can't because I'm so excited about what we're going to talk about today, you know.
But the fatigue just comes because, like most of you, as we've said on many occasions, I
too work two jobs.
Oh, yeah.
Well, you need three.
You need three jobs.
You need three jobs, man.
That should be.
That's right, man.
In the house, man, before we lose you, man, are you going on that Vegas excursion, man?
I'm going on.
I'm going to be leaving.
Not only did I work last night, then I came in and got ready for the broadcast, but I'm
leaving to go to Lake Las Vegas.
So we're going to be testing out some new things, one of which is Wavecast, the software
that we're going to be recommending to people to go try.
It's a new software.
I wanted to start out and tell them about that bitch.
Okay.
But I'm going to be going to Vegas to have a few days, but it's not total relaxation.
You know, I always take my technology with me.
It never leaves home without it, huh?
And the new technology basically involves a new netbook, one of those $350 Acer netbooks,
a projector, hand size that projects 50 in screen, that's brand new.
Also that runs about 350.
And we also are testing out a new high def cam, right?
High def cam?
Yeah, definitely.
That's the one.
I see.
Is this the one we're on right now, Vic?
Well, yeah.
Well, I got you on the high def, yeah, but the high def one that you were talking about
is right there.
Okay.
That's the high def one.
So this is the new cam.
This cam right now that you're looking at us on is $190.
Yeah.
Okay.
That's that new Sony Webby cam.
Right.
And you can order it online.
It's $190.
So you get the kit with a little tripod, a little bag, a little card.
I like the kit.
I bought the kit for 240.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it shows you the difference between here.
Here goes your digital camera.
Okay.
That's the digital, on the same tripod here.
Oh, okay.
Right up here at the top.
Okay.
That's the mini DV.
That's the mini DV.
That's not our high level Sony, okay.
No.
And this is the...
That's a $200 one, right, Vic?
That's a $200 mini DV Sony handicap.
Right.
Right.
Okay.
That's it.
And you notice the difference in the lighting.
It's on auto.
Everything is a little bit more enhanced and it's cheaper.
Right.
So we wanted to talk because we wanted to introduce some technical things because we've been getting
some letters about that.
Yeah.
And I want to shout out to Mac and all the other people that have been writing us.
You know, and I actually still am going to get back to having that outline for you guys
in the future.
Just get, you know...
As you know, we're still winging this.
Yeah.
Because we've still...
We've got so many opportunities.
But Vic and I wanted you to see the difference in the cameras because that's what we're playing
with.
Right.
I mean, I just hooked this up so we could try using a four-camera shoot, right, Vic?
Yeah.
The whole idea is, you know, while you're going around this little treatment of getting
yourselves in a position to have the best product, sometimes you have to show the people
this is the difference and instead of just taking you off and putting on high-def only,
we say, let's put this as part of the show, show the difference.
This is what you have to go through.
And the push for high-def is because the online world is starting to ask for it.
You know, we like to be on the front edge of everything.
And so we were looking at doing switching everything over to high-def.
Now, I know this is kind of a technical discussion, but I'm going to bring this back to all you
create, you label people, hang with me now because it is going to be relative because
you're going to be utilizing and spending your dollars here and I'm about to save you
some money again, okay?
But I am.
I'm going to help you.
We were looking at dealing with high-def, okay?
High-def or regular shooting with the mini-DV, high-def, okay?
Because everybody's asking for YouTube is taking high-def, a bunch of the syndication
points where you're going to be sending out your videos, whether it be a video about your
artist, a video about your new book, you know, a video of interviews, commercials, the videos
that you make.
Man, we talked about taking the tracks from your CD using Animoto to make a music video
using photos and then putting that on the internet, okay, those different things or
shortened versions of that.
So the whole question is whether or not to do this in regular digital mini-DV or high-def
because they're asking for high-def.
So Vic and I, we wanted to move up to high-def, okay?
We shoot some things in high-def even though our regular camera is the Sony HDR, what,
21, oh, what, 2100, that's the cheapest of the professional Sony cams, we got two of
them.
That's the one that's on Victor most of the time.
And they own you in the long shot.
This is the long shot.
I'll see if they can show you.
That's the long shot, okay?
So those are the Sony, is the HDR 2100 or something?
Yeah.
Yeah, right, me, but you know, it's the one, it's their 2200 bucks, okay?
Now we have two of those, but we're saying everybody can't afford that, everybody.
So we go out, first thing we got is one of those Canon high-def, high-definition cams
to add on to that.
Those were running about 900 at the time.
Those are now about $600, okay?
So remember that, okay, that's for single-camera shoots, high-def 600.
But this webcam, this webcam is $190 online.
Yeah.
Yeah.
See, somewhere along the way you have to sit back and say, what's the difference in cost-effectiveness
and getting the product?
Yeah.
And what's more important here, you know, you're not trying to do what you call high-end
film, TV, Hollywood, traditional way.
You know, we're doing grassroots.
Exactly.
And that's what I've been trying to tell you.
I mean, basically I've been trying to tell you how to do this all with either a $200 mini-DV
cam, and now I'm telling you a $200 high-def cam.
Let me grab the model.
I got the box here.
Yeah.
And you know, just to give my idea of where the industry is going, the camera shot right
here with the Sony handicam, if I call it that.
Which one?
The mini?
Yeah.
I'll tell them this here.
It's the Sony handicam.
Right.
That particular camera cost how much?
It's now like under $200.
It's right around $200.
It might be $210 some places or $220, but as low maybe as $190.
Okay.
And it's sitting exactly six to eight inches apart from the other camera.
Right.
So there's a difference.
When I go here, that shows you now.
If you're going to spend a couple of hundred dollars, yeah.
Well, here's the difference though.
Here's a couple of other things to say.
Peacher-wise.
Yeah.
The Sony handicam is a DV, you know, digital videotape.
More reliable.
True.
Okay.
More reliable.
The webby cam is going to feel cheap to you.
Okay.
It feels a little light and plasticky.
It just works well.
I wouldn't put it through a whole lot of changes.
It's designed to be used.
It makes a great addition though to your regular, your PC, your built-in laptop cam.
You can plug it in USB.
Okay.
And use it live streaming.
So that one, and it's, by the way, here's the model number.
It's the Sony MHS-CM1.
The Sony MHS-CM1.
Okay.
There it is.
Okay.
That's it.
Okay.
And there comes in colors.
It's so cute.
It comes in colors, but that'll allow you to start doing some stuff in high-def because
on Create Your Label, Create Your Channel, remember, some of these things you're going
to have to do no matter what.
I don't care if you're sitting at home talking about your quilting because you're doing
a book on quilting.
Now, because of us, you're doing a video on quilting.
Right.
Okay.
I'm telling you, you're going to have to decide about high-def.
Now, let me throw you out, and this is kind of a technical broadcast.
I know.
Let me tell you about the issue.
Vic and I said, okay, we want to go high-def.
Okay.
We got to figure it out.
We got high-def cams that are around $600 that are better to go out.
That's our cannon.
Right.
We got the cheap high-defs for $200.
We also can go with the USB PC-CAM, the Logitech Pro 9000, which is under $100.
That's a PC-CAM, though, but you can use those.
Okay.
So all this high-def, but check it out.
We couldn't find a high-def switcher.
Of course.
Of course.
Yeah, it is.
The cheap as well was $4,000.
Right.
And really, they want you to spend $9,000.
The one they had me doing was $9,000, like $9,000.
It was like a car.
Yeah, but you know what's coming.
Well, it ain't a car for some of us.
Well, yeah.
You know what's coming because the industry is going to be, it's a push.
I mean, by definition, if everybody's going to use, for the example, the camera you're
talking about, if you're doing, if you're a label and you actually have artists and
you want to record your live performance and you have just a set camera feed to get
good quality.
Right on a tripod.
Yeah.
I mean, sitting in a control, not a club, right, Vic?
That's correct.
In your garage.
Right.
If you're a label, think in-house recording and footage versus going outside your studio
and doing live performance.
It's a whole different approach and you can work it and benefit yourself in both ways.
Oh, okay, Vic.
And here's the thing too.
If you do that, the rehearsal spots, I know here in LA, they have them for $15 an hour.
All right.
