Playing with video embeds

Good evening everyone!

Great to be back home and to be getting back into some blogging here on good old Hive. How are you all, what have you been up to?

Video uploads in Ecency!

I recently learned about the latest updates introduced by Ecency. One of these enhancements includes the option to directly upload videos into your posts by utilising 3speak on the backend. This is something I have been eagerly anticipating (hoping for to be honest) and now we have the opportunity to try it, which is utterly brilliant! Well done Ecency!

I attempted to upload a new video, and it was successfully uploaded. However, the encoding progress is currently stuck at 99.8%.

So in the meantime, using the video gallery feature, I've added an older existing video to the post instead which has worked ok, though I can't preview the video other than look at it's thumbnail with the play icon overlay. I think it would be great to be able to check the video in-situ if possible.

This video demonstrated how to use the Beat Slicer tool in Logic Pro, which is very cool indeed.

Got there in the end

Ah!! There it is! Encoded fine :-)

Wrong thumbnail for it but this is one I may not have published here before, I can't remember. I love the ability to view the gallery of videos and how you can insert them so easily.

How I plan to use this!

I am very excited for this feature, very, very excited in fact because it means I can now do something in Hive that I previously could only do on Substack, where I run a newsletter called Modulations which I would prefer to bring across to Hive fully; that is the ability to embed videos in your content, wherever you want them to go.

A couple of things I can use this for:

• To share my recent jams on the iPad or other devices that I've recorded as videos
• To write more tutorial style posts where I demonstrate through video how certain things work in conjunction with writing
• To re-share videos I've posted on the platform in the past

So here are three more videos from the past, that you may or may not have seen!

I'll leave it at that for now. I'll be back soon with more of the following:

• Photography and video, Cyprus trip
• Samples and other found sounds, including some recorded in Cyprus - Hive sound library to resume!
• My semi-modular setup and where to next? Shame @tdctunes has gone away but can understand his reasons
• Running, yes, actual jogging which I'm tracking through @strava2hive