U.K. Skate Video Archiving *See 1st Post For Archive Link*

@Pedromayn and I were just talking about criteria here…because I’m worried this might enter into the territories where any single ‘edit’ on YouTube made in the UK could have a right to be in here and that could become a nightmare.

Especially as there is this weird point where things are ‘official’ releases by brands or (IMHO) ‘proper’ scene videos which were only ever online. What gives them the right over say a local park edit filmed over a summer and covering a scene?

Maybe this should be about “Commercially Available UK Skate Videos”? but then that still doesn’t answer the question around independent online releases.

Yeah I noticed that. I think you’ll struggle to do that perfectly in a spreadsheet to be honest. You’ve got a one:many relationship between the “crew/company” and the “creator”. E.g. there can be two people credited with making a video for one company. So your choices are either to group the creators together which causes duplicates in the “by” column, or split them out into multiple rows, but that would duplicate everything. Best just leaving it as is I reckon.

You could add another tab with a “crew/company” column and a “creator” column if you really wanted to handle it gracefully in something like Data Studio… but that’s overkill. And that’s what databases are for.

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What about if it’s got a name, and a cover, and had stickers/merch to go along with it?

I just need a better term because money doesn’t need to change hands, really. It just needs to be about defining a line as to what is ‘legit’ in this situation and what isn’t.

All the Sidewalk ones are on the old Sidewalk YouTube channel.

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I got my dates wrong on ‘Cheese…’ and ‘Brighten’. Yours @wayout are right. I was confusing’Cheese on Tape’ with Slim’s first video, ‘High Tide’. Which I think I’m right in saying, came out in 2003.

High Tide was 2004

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIPE17fKjM0&feature=youtu.be

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I love normalising a database

Why not add a column for

  • paid for
  • free with magazine
  • scene video
  • available in shop
  • length

etc etc

God this is going to get messy

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Length is there. Width?

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Better weigh them as well.

With and without cover.

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Denny’s Thugs videos are online in broken up sectional form. Some sick shit in them.

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@buildafire @Mark thanks.

dick heads.

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Found links to two of the vids on the list, hopefully someone with the power can add them to the spreadsheet:

Greedy Markers - by Nick Marker / Flatspot - 1999

Greedy Markers ‘New’ Skateboard Video - Nick Marker / Flatspot

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Done.

If any of you lot browsing have time, peep that sheet and let us know if there is any info missing - from videos to other bits and bobs.

Also, if anyone wants to jump in along with the rest of us for some editing, just request it via the link on the sheet.

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Swift Blazer just uploaded this. Maybe he lurks?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oresyep7xE4

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Sucks that it is at a low bitrate…

Agree but 480p is alright for a DV video. How do people rip old videos into HD quality?

Is the HSC+ smoking bearings etc online at all? @nav gave it to me years ago. This was prior to his mega mix VHS he gave me. I’d like to watch it for nostalgia

Nah, its not “HD”. But the 480p option has a lower bitrate than what you’d see SD in ‘best quality’ if you were on anything but YouTube.

YT maxes 480 out at a low bitrate…So, export VHS/SD stuff for 720p and you are closer to the intended bitrates for the source.

Boring, huh?

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Very.

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