Lunch is a meal I generally skip, so I got to spend some time talking to Robert Sanzalone during the break. He’s presenting a session on podcasting and video blogging – here are some notes:
- Robert says podcasting kind of came from Apple…I disagree, but I see where he’s going with it. Apple has the iPod and rolled in support to iTunes, so they give the impression of being the first.
- Blogger is a great tool to get people blogging – all you have to do is link an MP3 file. I suppose in the most simple terms, sure, but there’s more to that. You need the enclosure tag.
- Robert suggests using Audacity for recording and editing, some other audience members suggest using GarageBand if you’re on a Mac.
- Sounds like Robert likes video – he has used MovieMaker and says it works quite well. He suggests that if you have a digital camera with video capabilities, you can produce videos. I suppose…but the quality there is not so good.
- Who is your audience? Robert says that’s a problem with the “tech” community, they don’t always consider the wider audience.
- A video tool/service he likes is vimeo.
- Another service he likes is YouTube, because it transcodes the video for you. In a way I suppose, but it’s not like you can download the video. A service that does have downloading is Revver – looks like they transcode everything to MOV format.
- Robert says a service that does some more of the pieces is blip.tv. You can connect it with Flickr too. It still stays in the format you upload it in though.
- The service that does the best job, according to Robert, is Dailymotion.
- If Flickr does video, none of the other services will matter – is the general feeling it seems.
Lots to think about with video, I still don’t think we’re ready for it.
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