February 22, 2007
Horse Power Audio Podcast to become a Video Podcast
Robert and I have talked about changing the Horse Power Podcast from audio to video. Currently, we record the podcast on an Edirol 4-channel portable recorder with an internal hard drive. It mixes up to four mics into one track. Yesterday, I went out and bought a Sony DCR-SR80 hard drive based video camera (I say “I,” but Twelve Horses paid for it). We also purchased a directional shotgun mic for it for better sound quality.
The camera is pretty sweet. Every time you hit record, it creates a separate MPEG-2 file on the hard drive. When you connect it to your computer, it shows up like an external hard drive. You can simply drag the clips you want from the camera to the computer. It’s very similar to shooting video on most digital still camera. Last night, I shot a 43 second clip of my kids, dragged it to my desktop, and then uploaded it directly to YouTube. What could be easier?
We are recorded a podcast today with Laurian Dixon who spoke last night at the local AIGA event. For this episode, we are going to use both the Edirol and the video camera. If the video turns out good enough, we’ll use that. Otherwise, it will be our last audio only podcast. On Tuesday, I’m going to Salt Lake City to meet with our team. I will be handing off the Edirol to Steve Spencer, President of Twelve Horses, who will use it for a new community event he’s created down there called the Utah Tech Spotlight.
I also want to use the video camera to create videos of community events we frequent. I think it will be awesome to draw attention to how much really goes on in this town from a social networking standpoint.
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