Video StudentGuy

At Podcamp New Hampshire I attended several interesting sessions and one of them was Walter Elly's talk on Foursquare, a location based social media tool. It opened my eyes to the amazing opportunities that phones with GPS provide to both businesses and the average person. I think it's another remarkable enabling, leveling technology. I don't know if there's a video opportunity here, but I'm betting there has to be.

Do you know of any ways that video fits in this new media space?

Last night I attended a combined Final Cut Pro user group and Avid user group meeting at WGBH in Boston. There were many great presenters as is usually the case, but here I present a brief presentation by Wes Plate of Automatic Duck. He's giving a demo of a couple of his company's FCP plugins that allow the editor to transfer whole sequences flawlessly between FCP & Avid.

If you want to see more go to the Automatic Duck Site and in particular, check out this demo of the products in action. Great stuff, Thanks for making the trip out from Seattle Wes.

At Podcamp New hampshire a few weeks ago I spoke with Sarah Cortes, a creative Technology Consultant in Boston, about her recent experience at Givecamp held earlier this at the MS NERD Center in Cambridge Massachusetts. I had never heard of this unconference and if you're unfamiliar with it as well she does a great job distilling it down to it's essential value.

My computer has serious illnesses and while it's in good hands at the Apple clinic I thought this was a good opportunity to talk about ways of preparing for the inevitable separation between you and your data.

Election day at last.

The long national nightmare of political campaign commercials can finally end. For now....

The first day in a month of daily episodes, all ad hoc and little editing. Well, somewhere between a little and a lot.

The goal here, for me at least, is to get out of my rut and be as spontaneous as possible. Let's just say that my goal is to end the month producing shows along the lines of Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon, cleaning out the jewelry displays and tossing everything in a bag.

Let me know.

Download the slides I used for yesterday's presentation on Screencasting at Podcampt Connecticut in New Haven. You can see the show notes at my blogger site.

In the last post I attached a PDF of the slides I used for a presentation on Screencasting I delivered a few weeks ago at Podcamp Boston. In this episode I've embedded a screencast that I made from the slides and the audio I recorded during that session. I've also included just the audio, which is part of the Video StudentGuy feed and will show up on iTunes if you're a subscriber.

Chapters & Timecode:

00:00 Preface
03:50 Introduction
13:53 What is Screencasting
15:45 How to do it
21:20 Workflow
29:00 Tools
31:35 Screencast Demo
41:30 Screenflow and Captivate
44:25 Online Screencasting Software
49:10 Other Editing Tools
55:08 Suggestions from the audience
57:20 Closing thoughts

The screencast was just too large to host on my Libsyn.com account. I don't know if I'll be doing enough of these to justify upgrading my account, so in the short term I'm going to look at TubeMogul and Blip.tv as a no cost solution. I'll let you know how that turns out.

You can view the source video and also download a copy of the file here at Vimeo.

I'm going to upload an updated version of this screecast in a week's time following a presentation I'll be making in New Haven at Podcamp Connecticut. And again, a week later following a third presentation at Podcamp New Hampshire.

If your interested in screencasting I promise to make it worth your while to watch the next two screencasts because I plan to include some, maybe lots of new material. I'll note in the Chapters & Timecode section if there's new material.

Last weekend I attended Podcamp Boston 5. It was a great experience meeting new people invovled in new media. You should really attend a podcamp, or any unconference that caters to your particular profession or interest. Why isn't there a videocamp?

Yes, there were  some video presentations, but only on a basic, video blogger level. I myself presented a session on screencasting, the first time I've ever done that. It was presentation rough and somewhat chaotic, which is what I expected and overall I had a great time.

I recorded that session, but I'm still editing it. I want to combine it with the the slides I used and insert a brief screencasting demo. I hope to have that completed and posted here in the coming week.

My main reason for getting this post out without a show is so I could include a download to the slides for the benefit of those attending the session and anyone else who is interested in screencasting. If you do download it, I hope you'll check this site again for the screencast, I'm sure you'll get more out of the slides that way. At least you can use the links I've included in the slides.

I've converted the slide presentation into PDF format so everyone can view it. You can download it either by clicking on the icon to the left of the title of this post, or click here. This file will appear in the iTunes feed.

Thanks for being patient, I'll talk to you later.

Paul

Here's a short explanation of the past three months Projects

Plans

Everything always takes more time that you think

Events

Podcamps Boston, NH, CT and Montreal in September and October

I'll be attending an introduction to Wordpress workshop at the Microsoft NERD Center in Boston Monday August 30.