Mobile presentation gear - what would you use today?
From:
Graham Lally
Date:
Apr 24 09:03 UTC
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I'm afraid I don't have any experience in this except for media consumption,
but it might help to get the ball rolling anyway.
I guess it depends on the context (i.e. citizens' technical abilities, indoors
or outdoors coverage, who's going to be consuming the media, etc), but
Laughing Squid (http://laughingsquid.com/) springs to mind for its recent video
coverage of the Olympic Torch in San Francisco (see
http://flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/sets/72157604458841560/). This was
mostly done with just one of these Flip Video Ultras
(http://www.theflip.com/products_flip_ultra.shtml) and Flickr's new Video
service (http://www.flickr.com/help/video/).
The Flip Ultra looks very smooth and usable (and I'm wishing they were
available over here in the UK too now), while Flickr's 90-second limit on video
length keeps things short and sweet - although this is probably only useful if
you want to limit yourself to "snippets" (edited or otherwise). Again, I think
this depends partly on the audience, and partly on how much effort citizens
want to put into editing and the like.
For streaming, you might want to take a look at Qik (http://qik.com/) - I've
not used it, but it seems fairly popular with people.
Hope that helps, sorry it's not more specific :)
- Graham