Introduction to Web-based Video Recording for News

Wayne MacPhail

Why Use Web-based Video

• Access anywhere

• Immediate (or almost)

• Free

• Embeddable

• Linkable

• Flash-based

Disadvantages

• Often poor quality

• Requires high bandwidth connection

• Often requires Flash

• Difficult to edit

• May not be able to “own” it

Sites to Choose From

• You Tube

• Seesmic

• 12 Seconds

• Utterli

• oovoo

• ustream

• qik

• mogulus

You Tube

• Quick Capture

• Comment on other videos

• Create your own channel

• embed elsewhere

• annotations and closed captioning

• ustream

Seesmic

• Growing community

• Comment on other videos

• Create your own channel

• Tied to Twitter

• embed elsewhere

12 Seconds

• Time constraint

• Respond to questions of the day

• Create your own channel

• embed elsewhere

• download

12 Seconds

• Multimedia

• Mobile

• Cross posting

• Groups

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Oovoo

• Up to six users

• Can control audio

• Great for conferences

uStream

• Live broadcast

• Easy to use

• Embed elsewhere

• Chat

qik

• Live broadcast

• From cellphone

• Chat

• Works with mogulus

mogulus.com

• Live broadcast

• Multi-cam

• Chat

• Works with qik