living in digitalpeeter marvetmedia hacker

channel and purpose

“can you help us to videostream our

conference?”

typical result?

5 viewers online

expensive setup,real-time problems,

good marketing needed

requirements for alternative?

#1 cheap and easyto produce

you never ever consider NOT to

record and publish it

#2 convenient for future users

linking, embedding, commenting, downloading

#3 marketing through search engines, blogs,

word-of-mouth

add descriptions, tags, shownotes, links, stenograms etc

typical setup

+

= MP3 file

for better audio...

• Olympus LS-10 ca 400$

• + flash memory ca 100$(4GB holds full day in high quality)

• + cable, batteries

• learning to operate, testing - ca 1h

• editing time per session - ca 5 min

for your own “studio”:

• + mixer ca 100$

• + mics ca 100-150$/pc

publishing to the net

more metadata

let’s add some video!

youtube.com (< 10 min)video.google.com

screen

speaker

camera

• Camera, tripod

• + cable, tape

• learning to operate, testing - ca 1h

• capture/editing/encoding/uploading - min 5x the length of original (mostly unattended for conference-type recording, very complicated for good video content)

conclusions

start trying!

these tools are made by users for users

= must be easy

and: if you ever want to archive it, you must be using the same tools!

thnks!