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Re: Tools matter, at least with video

Christopher Coulter — Sun, 21 May 2006 12:48:25 -0000

About time you got ridda the shaky cam. Now all you need is to start doing some real editing and production, Avid or Vegas it, flag up Particle Illusion or get some ArtBeats or whatnot and start kicking in some lower two-thirds. And work on your audio.

HDR-FX1 is a good basic DV/HD choice, but the lack of 24P and the lack of XLR audio inputs are MAJOR killers for me, plus the Carl Zeiss Vario only goes to 12x. One of those, "what on earth was Sony thinking" cameras. And it doesn't work as well in low-light as compared to the Panasonic's, personally I woulda gone Panasonic AG-DVX100 A/B (or AG-DVC60 for Shoulder mount'isms) or the AJ-HDC27H and Panavision Genesis (at the extreme). ;)

This HD trend still doesn't beat the film-look, imho. And for your use, HD is overkill. In the Prosumer market, I am all a DVX baby.

You shoulda let me go camera shopping with yah. A major improvement, but Sony expensive and still lacking key BASIC features. I really don't get that camera, the lack of features like 24P and XLR, is frankly, crazy.

PS - You see the news on the AVCHD format? Basically, 1080i and 720p video to 8 cm DVDs.

Re: Tools matter, at least with video

Robert Scoble — Sat, 20 May 2006 20:20:28 -0000

Tracy, thanks!

Brian, I'll try to get that fixed.

Re: Tools matter, at least with video

Robert Scoble — Sat, 20 May 2006 20:16:45 -0000

Peter, yeah, it's a Sony camcorder (HDR-FX1). Does HD, although I still shoot in 4:3 NTSC for Channel 9 videos. http://www.sonystyle.com/is...

Re: Tools matter, at least with video

Goebbels — Sat, 20 May 2006 19:55:38 -0000

The tool behind the camera matters too.

Re: Tools matter, at least with video

Tracy Sheridan — Sat, 20 May 2006 19:41:51 -0000

Robert,

I am late in commenting after some post-show work, but wanted to *thank you sincerely* for helping make Waxxi history with us today. Yours and Shel's content, contribution and banter with everyone in 'the room' is what made this such a great start to an exciting future of interactive podcasting. We had a lot of fun, and hope you'll consider doing another one down the line. (and thanks to David for asking the first, historic question!)

Re: Tools matter, at least with video

Easton Ellsworth — Sat, 20 May 2006 17:26:10 -0000

Robert, I'm glad the Waxxi broadcast went well. It sounds similar to Skypecasting - except that Skypecasts currently have nowhere near the functionality that it sounds like Waxxi has. I did my first Skypecast the other day, and I was appalled that there was no chat room set up - I had to do it manually, which detracted somewhat from my ability to run the show - and also no realy way for anyone participating to know who was talking, who was muted, etc.

Exciting tools, though - we'll see what the future holds for this format!

Re: Tools matter, at least with video

/pd — Sat, 20 May 2006 17:01:04 -0000

Robert,

I expceted about 400 particpants ..not like 1K participants.. thats mind blowing sucess in anyones books .. Kudos to Tracy !!

yeah, its "It's like giving a speech at a conference only from Shel's kitchen table."

coincidently, me2 was sitting at my kitchen table !!

This was fun.. grrrrrrrr.. but I missed the backchannel chatter

Re: Tools matter, at least with video

Brian Sullivan — Sat, 20 May 2006 16:37:44 -0000

You might want to have the webmaster of the Channel 9 site (or whoever is responsible for the html/javascript that presents the media player) update the video player displays to Microsoft provided standards for avoiding the annoying "Click to activate" tooltip over activex components business (caused by changes to IE required by the EOLAS settlement).

Re: Tools matter, at least with video

Robert Scoble — Sat, 20 May 2006 15:33:46 -0000

Kevin: thanks, the best way I've found to improve what I'm doing is just use a tripod and sit the damn thing down. :-)

Re: Tools matter, at least with video

Kevin — Sat, 20 May 2006 15:08:16 -0000

Robert - You might want to take a look at the Steadycam Merlin. It's an inexpensive way of getting professional results with a video cam.

http://www.steadicam.com/ha...

Re: Tools matter, at least with video

David Dalka — Sat, 20 May 2006 14:44:19 -0000

Hello Robert,

Thank you for participating in the first interactive pod cast on Waxxi today and answering my first historic question during it so thoroughly! I really appreciated your thoughts.

Sincerely,
David

Re: Tools matter, at least with video

David Ing — Sat, 20 May 2006 14:15:47 -0000

Hi Robert - It would be criminal for me not to point out Taglocity for Outlook - http://www.taglocity.com after seeing your Outlook 2007 video ;-)

I completely agree with you that people are going to need some new ideas on how to tool email - it's getting out of control. That's what I'm trying to do with Taglocity.

Social tagging within emails, different ways to visualize bulk info and going beyond simple categories is a pretty interesting area to think about...

Would love to get your feedback.

- David

Re: Tools matter, at least with video

Peter Svensk — Sat, 20 May 2006 13:52:38 -0000

Just curious as to which camera you got. HD-capable?

Re: Tools matter, at least with video

Patrick Grote — Sat, 20 May 2006 13:35:39 -0000

What do you use for video editing?

Re: Tools matter, at least with video

John C. Welch — Sat, 20 May 2006 13:30:53 -0000

While tools can't totally substitute for skill and talent, the proper tools always make doing the job easier.