Getting Ready for the Urdd Eisteddfod

It's not long now until the Urdd Eisteddfod (29th May - 3rd June) which will be my first experience working on live video production for the web. I'm really looking forward to it, but there is a lot of hard work to do first. At the moment I'm focusing on researching the technical logistics of encoding and broadcasting the video content for the S4C Urdd website. There will be a combination of live streamed webcasts and as well as prepared highlights and feature clips that will be available on demand. I'm hoping they'll all be available to be viewed via a nice, simple video player that will sit in the main page of the site.

I'm also still working on the Bandit website. I customized the Flash Photo Gallery to enable it to display more than 1 page of photos and added captions for the photos that can be updated in the XML file. I've also put all of the videos of this series up in the Archive section.

Last week I started working on a showreel Flash video player for the Boomerang site, which is coming on nicely but has had to be put to one side for the moment as I focus on the Urdd.

The DVD of our trip to Kuala Lumpur is finally finished too and looks great. Thanks to Manon and Norman at Derwen for editing it for us. We're hoping to get it on the web too soon.

Alongside work, I've been learning more about integrating PHP, MySQL and Flash and managed to set up the Apache server on my iMac so I can test files without having to upload them.