Box Break UPDATE: Videos

Blog Group Box Break: Basketball

Update: The Videos

Sorry for the delays. Most of my nights I have just been extremely tired or had other things on my mind or got very distracted. Plus scanning things has always been my downfall. I've been a bad box break host. Yet another reason for retiring from the whole hosting thing after this one.

I have a ton of scanning to do. Each box as a bunch of inserts I need to scan and rookies as well as the 3 or 4 hits. The Jumbo Box has a ton so even with just scanning the claimed teams there is a lot to scan. This scanning is part of what is delaying me. Sorry for the wait on this I know some people are more detail oriented and prefer seeing the scans rather than sitting through a boring half-hour video.

All boxes except for the Past & Present box have been opened, their breaking videos and recap videos recorded and uploaded. The videos of the box openings and the following recaps have been uploaded to my YouTube here are the links to them for those who want to see the raw poor man's footage what has been pulled. Sorry it isn't the best quality but you get the general idea and some progress on my part gets done. 

Update: 27 May 15: All videos have been uploaded to my YouTube Channel klandersen42.

The Videos:
2012-13 Panini NBA Hoops Freebie Bonus Packs

2012-13 Panini NBA Hoops 11 pack box 1 - Recap

2012-13 Panini NBA Hoops 11 pack box 2 - Recap

2012-13 Panini NBA Hoops 11 pack box 3 - Recap

2012-13 Panini Past & Present Hobby Box - Recap

2012-13 Panini Prestige Hobby Box - Recap

2013-14 Panini NBA Hoops Jumbo Box - Part 1 - Part 2 - Recap

2014-15 Panini NBA Hoops Hobby Box - Recap

Blog Break Randomization Video

I have the posts for the 2nd box of 2012-13 Hoops 11 pack box scheduled to post later tonight: Part 1 at 5:00 PM and Part 2 at 6:00 PM. I hope I didn't screw them up. So far I think the only things messed up in this whole process are the ding-dang videos.

UStream UGH

I recently checked up on my account at UStream to review how to do stuff there. It had been several months seven to be exact since I had last "broadcast" according to my account. I discovered that with the changes I had noticed a few months back that now my archived videos were GONE. I don't recall getting any notice that things would disappear after the changes, if I did get them I just thought it was typical updating with no real action required. I was wrong. With my BASIC account after 30 days any videos are automatically deleted. If you pay for a premium account you can keep whatever. So now any of the box break videos I had done here and the pack breaks I had done, anything I had UStreamed is GONE. I never thought to save my broadcasts offline. Why should I when the server that broadcast them in the first place was storing them?

The thing that really sucks is all the links I had made on this blog, and on some of the trading card forums now lead to an error page. **Sigh** I suppose I should do something about the links on my blogs that I can fix. Everything else OH WELL.

This reminds me of a few years back when Yahoo got rid of the personal photo albums. I hadn't backed up all of the photos I had there (most of them were stuff from emails that had been long deleted and swimsuit pics I found on the web) and so after the shut down anything I didn't have saved any where else was gone. Occasionally when I remember an image and can't find it anywhere maybe it was something from there.

This comes after I noticed that my Logitech webcam wasn't doing offline videos. Apparently as of 31 July 2013 Logitech no longer supported the software for my particular webcam for making videos. They suggest using Skype. Well I don't want to do Skype I don't even know how to use it. It is on my cellphone, not on my laptop. In someways with online videoing I am a super amateur newbie.

I toyed with the idea of using one of the box break services like UStream, but Blog.TV is now part of something else (YouNow?) and doesn't look like you can actually record what you broadcast. I looked into how to record on YouTube and it looks like that will work. I might need to do some practicing, and eventually I should get a better quality webcam. Who am I kidding so long as the cheap webcam works and as long as what I record isn't anything that would totally devastate me if it were lost I'm not going to get a new one.

This checking up on video making came about because I got word that a package I am expecting the sender wants the mailday opening to be video taped. The packaging has a surprise or a story or is in some special kind of order or some such nonsense like that. I was told the package was shipped out on Tuesday, so I should get it today or tomorrow (Saturday)