Mobile phone video
Mobile Phone Videos are online!
Check out the 3 films that were made during the "Pocket Films" workshop!
Node 101: video (blogging) resources
"NODE101 is an open source, collaborative project created to teach and spread videoblogging worldwide. From online resources to physical classrooms and ongoing events, the goal of NODE101 is to teach media literacy as a life skill and to change the current media landscape from being a lecture to being a conversation. Of, For and By media makers, NODE101 is here to support and provide resources to anyone willing to take action to teach videoblogging."
Free storage on Our media.org
Another resource worth mentioning is Our media - 'The global home of grassroots media' (http://www.ourmedia.org/). Our media aims to be a global citizen media community, so there are lots of people and projects to connect with. Even better (and probably convenient for most of us) is that they offer free bandwith and disk space to upload and store your media (video, audio, photos, ...). This happens through a collaboration with the Internet Archive.Freevlog.org
One the most interesting websites I came across while working on YEFF's Mobile Phone Video project, is Freevlog - http://www.freevlog.org/ .
This site offers loads of tutorials about video compression, videoblogging, different video codecs, ... all for free. It also keeps track of what's happening in the world of vlogging (video blogging). Very handy resource, worth following.
Set up a video blog - for free!
Freevlog.org offers a fun step-by-step tutorial on how to set up your own videoblog, completely free of charge. The tutorial assumes you have finished video material at hand, and would like to put that up on a video blog - aka vlog. The page also links to a lot of other interesting video resources.Editing your mobile phone video
Once you've got your mobile phone video clip(s) onto your computer, you might want to edit your material. Put a few clips together into a short movie, or use your mobile phone video in a video coming from a DV camera. You could use one of the big programs like Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere. But like all (or most) big programs, they are quite expensive. There's a bunch of free tools available to edit video. One of them looks particulary interesting for editing mobile phone video - on the condition that you're a Windows user:
Uploading video from your mobile?
As we've seen in a previous post, video coming from your mobile phone can be treated pretty much like any other video file. You can convert it to a Quicktime, MPEG, ... and do whatever you want with it. This also means uploading your video from your computer to a video sharing site such as YouTube.
However, some websites have developed specific ways to upload mobile phone video directly from your phone. We'll list a few here:
Mobile phone video blogging: the next big thing
According to Motorola CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Padmasree Warrior, mobile phone video blogging will be the next big thing. She said so in an interview with MIT Technology Review last September.
Video file formats: jungle or not?
One of the questions we asked ourselves when starting this mobile phone video project was:
"What about the file format of mobile phone video? Doesn't every mobile phone brand uses its own video format? Won't this make it very difficult for people to actually use mobile phone video?"
This fear proved to be false. In fact, there even seems to be a standard for mobile (phone) video: 3GP, or third generation mobile video standard. From the 3GP website:
