Video Blogging
I’ve always had an on off relationship with video. I have a few holiday sequences much of which is from some time back and the edited footage is on VCD with the source long since deleted (I still have all the original footage on tape). One project that I have always been meaning to tackle is getting all my pre-Mini DV footage on to a an editable format, Its currently on VHS-C. I did capture it once on a PC in the early days of home editing but my equipment wasn’t up to the task. It was laborious and I had terrible audio syncing issues. But I digress, this isn’t the reason for this post.
One of the reasons I mentioned the old footage is down to the fact that from 1991 onwards I had a reason to film and much of that early footage is the kids growing up. Of late I’ve not really had anything worthy of recording. In addition the whole process of image capture, transfer, edit, publish hasn’t had the instant appeal that I’ve enjoyed with my photography. With the new iPhone 3GS I’ve been looking for an excuse to use the video and YouTube upload feature. It has also raised the old quandary of YouTube or MobileMe. You’ll note that from my previous sentence I’ve decided to go with YouTube. I put some bits on MobileMe just to try out but on the whole I just find it easier to link site like Flickr and YouTube to other sites such as this blog. The YouTube Channel is in the ‘My Sites’ links to the right. I have no doubt that much of what I upload will be throwaway crap but maybe it will spark me to move on and do some better stuff. If I do it will have to include the purchase of a HD camera. Those who know me will be aware that my current camera has mainly been used for work and promotional footage and my most recent project was blighted by an annoying squeak from the internal mechanism that the mic was picking up.
Spielberg? Maybe not but lets see where it takes up. Now I just need to find something to film.
