Me, demonstrating the audio equipment I used in videoblogging, and how to set it up. Filmed by Yolande Poirier.
Category Archives: videoblogging
Notes: Videoblogging Session at CLS West
Problems
video is slow (text can be skimmed/absorbed more quickly)
Flash is not portable
hosting
curation and findability
video quality
language
transcription/search indexing
legal releases (someone was going to send us an example to use?)
Want More Info About
What makes good video?
screencasting/capturing softare demos
streaming
filming presentations
video on the web
post-production
covering events
extending reach
teaching
Solutions/Tools
Parleys.com (especially good for tutorials)
Animoto
Adobe Captivate
optical zoom
Slidecast
iShowU
Camtasia
Digital Tipping Point
archive.org
Reel Director in iPhone
what is TED doing for transcription/translation? Can we learn from them?
Making Better Video
don’t be static – move the shot
break up long video into segments/chapters
be a videographer, even if you aren’t
use Google Wave for annotation
Teresa Applies Her Training
The main reason I did videoblogging training at Sun’s Menlo Park offices a couple of weeks ago (rather than at some other time) was to get my colleague Teresa Giacomini ready to film the OpenSolaris User Group meeting she ran in Dresden this week. Looks as if she handled it just fine!
photo by stiefkind
Videoblogging Tips: Dressing for the Camera
Another snippet from the videoblogging training I did at Sun HQ.
Videoblogging Tips: Filming Engineers
Yet another in the videoblogging tips series: how to get good footage of engineers – or anyone else! – who may not be accustomed to being filmed.
