Attend Viodi's Local Content Workshop at the Broadband Properties 2010 Summit, April 26, 2010.
Watch this short video for a brief look at the experiences of Viodi in providing local content workshops… the topics, ideas, and examples of those that do. Roger and Ken, through ViodiTV, have been producing content for nearly 8 years and providing local content workshops across the county. Watch this video for ideas, samples of what others are doing, and depth of our workshops.
I am not a big gadget person – really. I have had the G1 Phone for a couple of months and other than the electronic whoopee cushion application and the Shazam application (listens to music and identifies the song and artist), all of the applications I have downloaded from the Android Market have been ones intended to enhance productivity. So, at the Connections Conference, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the latest version of the Android software enables the recording of videos on my G1 Phone.
The video quality of the G1 can be marginal, especially in low light conditions and especially compared to the Creative or Flip camera I normally use. It cannot be beat for efficiency and ease of distributing the video either on YouTube or via email. The only thing I haven’t figured out is why the share feature doesn’t always work, which is probably just as well, as the world doesn’t need to see most of the videos I take.
The following video was shot while taking an early morning walk through downtown Colorado Springs. When I started my walk, my only plan was to get a little exercise in the brisk Colorado air. As I saw the various monuments and museums, along with the natural beauty of Pike’s Peak, I felt inspired to share what I saw with others, particularly since the upcoming OPASTCO Summer Convention finds its way to Colorado Springs next month. Additionally, I decided it would be kind of fun to present my impromptu creation during my presentation on Local Content (I didn’t).
Hopefully, we will see you in Colorado Springs at the OPASTCO event (July 25th-29th).
George Henny forwarded an interesting video a few weeks back. It was intriguing, as it left me wanting to know more about the interactive white board he had created using a Wii remote and a home grown electronics circuit. What George and his IT colleague, Wayne Jeffers devised was effectively an interactive white board that normally would cost thousands of dollars for about $60 in parts (including the Wii remote).
Henny explained that he was inspired by a video from a guy named Johnny Lee who came up with the idea and developed the software. Jeffers constructed an infrared LED pen, which provides positioning information to the Wii remote. Bluetooth connects the Wii remote to a PC and create an interactive white board or a low-cost tablet PC. Henny believes this could be a cost-effective solution for schools wanting the benefits of interactive white boards and has already presented it to his local school district.
George is speaking at next week’s IP Possibilities conference in San Diego and promises to bring this set-up with him. In the meantime, you can check George out in this video and the video that is within the video.
Do you have loads of old analog tapes that you need to convert to digital or need a way to bring analog video into your iPod? The Pinnacle Video Transfer [PVT] may be just the device you need. The PVT converts composite or S-Video and stereo audio inputs into highly compressed MPEG-4 files. There are three levels of encoding quality available with resolutions ranging from 320×240 to 720×480.
This device is about simplicity, as a computer is not required. Composite or S-Video is input one side of the device, while a USB 2.0 port interfaces to an external flash drive, hard-drive, iPod, or PSP on the other side of this unit. LEDS indicate recording status, signal presence and encoding quality. The output is MPEG-4 file, encoded from 512 Kbs to 1.5 Mbs, depending upon the quality selected.
I was able to edit the files in both Sony Vegas 6.0 and Pinnacle’s VideoSpin video editor. The above video includes clips digitized by the PVT (indicated by the time stamp in the upper left hand corner of the video). I found no problems in uploading the MPEG-4 files to YouTube.
Operation of the PVT was straightforward, although there were some recording issues, which were resolved with an updated driver. A scene detection feature would be nice, such that it automatically would split files into one large file. Another interesting feature would be if it had a Firewire interface, such that it would be possible to convert digital feeds directly into MPEG-4 files.
Although I cannot really think of how an independent telco might use this, the quality is amazing for a consumer-grade device. This is a cost-effective way to convert analog video to digital, in lieu of more expensive video capture devices. Others in this class that bear a closer look, that may have more features, but also come with more complexity include the SanDisk V-Mate and the Neuros MPEG4 Recorder 2.
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