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Entries from February 2007

Handheld TV production

February 20th, 2007 · No Comments

Done it! I’ve managed to use the Nokia N93 to capture, record and publish video which is good enough for broadcast on TV as well as the web. OK, what I’ve made is only ten seconds long, to work around ShoZu’s 4MB upload limit, but it worked.
Here’s the clip on YouTube and here it is […]

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Tags: technology · mobile · digital storytelling

Using a mobile phone to tell a story

February 19th, 2007 · No Comments

The three production phases on mobile are:
1. capture
easiest of the three, but the author needs to decide which forms to adopt
2. edit
(a) on the phone, limited scope but it’s possible to mark ins and outs on clips and assemble them on the phone.
(b) on computer. Technical issues include formats, conversion, standards, etc.
3. publication
(a) ftp via […]

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Tags: mobile · digital storytelling

VideoForum07

February 8th, 2007 · No Comments

I had an interesting day in VideoForum 2007 at London’s Earl Court on Tuesday. Here are three products/newsbytes that may be of interest to digital storytellers:
1. Edirol R09 portable audio recorder looks ace. When I chose the M-Audio Microtrack, Edirol’s products could only capture audio at 44.1k and I needed 48k, because this is the […]

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Tags: technology · digital storytelling