Sunday, January 11, 2009
Experiment: My first Flip Interview - Maria Niles on the Financial Bailout
So, inspired partly by being interviewed by the intrepid Emily Goligoski for the Women 2.0 project, I bought myself a FlipCam over the holidays...just the lowest cost model.
And here is my first video interview: a 6.5 minute snippet of a longer interview with social media and branding consultant (and general knows-alot-about-everything guru) Maria Niles from Consumer Pop. Maria explains a bit about the financial bailout, and how it's different from the auto industry loans that were being requested.
One thing I can tell from this experiment? I need a tripod. Sometimes it gets a little too Blair Witch Project with the shaky feed. I guess I would occasionally get tired and shuft my arm.
Still, I loved the ease shooting it, and I actually used QuickTime Pro to edit it down. I will try to use Flip's own software for such work next time. Thinking it might allow you to edit snippets together more easily. All I did in this case was cut off the ending.
Anyway, it was a fun, impromptu thing to do, and I hope I'll be able to bring you other smart people talking about important things now that I have my easy peasy Flip.
(And yes, I totally did think about writing Smart People Talking About Important Things™)
Update: OK, from Quicktime this video was over 100 MB, so after uploading for ages, it got rejected because Blogger has a 100MB limitation. I had to go in and reduce the quality (i.e. compress it further) to get it below 100MB, so it could be uploaded. I'm sure there's a better way. Next time.
And here is my first video interview: a 6.5 minute snippet of a longer interview with social media and branding consultant (and general knows-alot-about-everything guru) Maria Niles from Consumer Pop. Maria explains a bit about the financial bailout, and how it's different from the auto industry loans that were being requested.
One thing I can tell from this experiment? I need a tripod. Sometimes it gets a little too Blair Witch Project with the shaky feed. I guess I would occasionally get tired and shuft my arm.
Still, I loved the ease shooting it, and I actually used QuickTime Pro to edit it down. I will try to use Flip's own software for such work next time. Thinking it might allow you to edit snippets together more easily. All I did in this case was cut off the ending.
Anyway, it was a fun, impromptu thing to do, and I hope I'll be able to bring you other smart people talking about important things now that I have my easy peasy Flip.
(And yes, I totally did think about writing Smart People Talking About Important Things™)
Update: OK, from Quicktime this video was over 100 MB, so after uploading for ages, it got rejected because Blogger has a 100MB limitation. I had to go in and reduce the quality (i.e. compress it further) to get it below 100MB, so it could be uploaded. I'm sure there's a better way. Next time.
Labels: bailout, flip video, maria niles
// posted by ElisaC @ 3:25 PM 
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(Completely irrelevant geeknote, but next time consider Vimeo for hosting your video. They make it easy to upload and embed and the quality is really nice.)
I like the casual nature of it. It was better when you closed in a bit on Maria rather than the long shot. If you had a tripod you could sit beside her and make it more of a conversation, which might be nice. Finally, make sure the sound level is high enough. Looking forward to hearing what more smart people have to say.
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: 1/12/2009 6:51 AM
: 1/12/2009 6:51 AM
I am very honored to be your first Flip video interview! And I totally think you should trademark: Smart People Talking About Important Things™ Virginia would be a fantastic Smart Person™ and I look forward to seeing her.
Thanks for chopping off the fermented tea part ;) I am, of course, horrified to watch myself and my cluttered abode but valuable lessons learned in my quest for vlogging/on camera practice and eventual media moguldum!
Now off to write a corresponding blog post :)
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Thanks for chopping off the fermented tea part ;) I am, of course, horrified to watch myself and my cluttered abode but valuable lessons learned in my quest for vlogging/on camera practice and eventual media moguldum!
Now off to write a corresponding blog post :)
# posted by : 1/12/2009 2:55 PM
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