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Mindy MacAdams set down what I now realise was a bit of challenge. A challenge, because I needed to work out how to say what I wanted to say in less than a phone books worth of type.
In a comment on my previous post about Online video Mindy asks for my views on:
…how a TV [...]

Jack Lail asked what other mic’s I would recommend for use apart from the M58 reporters mic I mentioned in a post on audio.
Those who know these mics will know that it’s a pretty mixed bag but I have used them either on external work or at the University so feel I can comment on [...]

To conclude todays video tinkering, here is an edited version of the clips from my Nokia experiment edited together in Eyespot - a free online video editor. Including uploading, it took 20 minutes. The video below is linked from their site - hence the cute buttons.
[kml_flashembed movie="http://eyespot.com/flash/flvplayer.swf?vurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdownloads.eyespot.com%2Fplay%3Fr%3DeVEXaw00ajqbyBuklHiEJW05IW6kll" height="300" width="400"/]
There are one or two other online [...]

How about a point and shoot video camera with an external microphone that is also a phone? Like the sound of that? Maybe your mobile phone is the answer.
Thanks to a relatively stress free house move, Dickinson towers is now Dickinson house, and I am back to blogging. Broadband at home is a [...]

Audio has been on my, and others, mind for the last few days. Robert Freeman left me a comment pointing to a post about The News of the World video of Des Smith, “the Downing Street advisor dramatically cleared in the cash-for-honours scandal “

On his blog, Robert doesn’t pull his punches –
The video was [...]

Adrian Monck has penned a piece of the BBC’s Journalism training website reflecting on online video.
His summing up starts in to the digital illiteracy discussion that kicked up here a few posts ago (which I want to comment on)
For all the hub-a-hubba and newsroom redesigns, newspaper power online resides with newspaper people, the younger of [...]

If the shear number of video service related sites on the web is hard to keep up with the take a look at this great post at Read/Write web:
There are now so many companies vying to be the next YouTube, it’s easy to lose track of them all. So let’s take a look at the [...]

In the last of my series (honest) on editng apps (Pt2 and 3), rather than look for an all in one application for editing, I’m looking at apps that are designed to do a specific task in the editing process – the capability of which is missing in your current app – or specific things [...]

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