I am headed to LA next Monday to turn around and drive 3000 miles back home. Sound insane?? Hear me out. A good friend of ours is moving to Va. Beach and I am going to make the trek with him. He does production work full time and has been helping write and even star in some of our videos at Reality.
All that said, we put together a plan to kick off the fall with a big non-believer focused series titled “Destinations”. If you haven’t figured out yet we will be filming our trip cross country back and building the series around the videos.
It should be exciting, hectic, exhausting and loooong! I thought you guys might be interested in the behind the scenes part of everything. So over the next few posts I will start by cataloging what I will need equipment wise but staying as compact as possible because we will have a truck full of everything my friend owns.
This device is simply a game changer. Forget that it’s a phone, that hardly matters. The addition of the video camera truly sets it apart. Alex Lindsay has an over the top, but unique approach to how the new iPhone will change things. Watch this video.
Then there is the flip. I love my Mino. Small form factor, 720p video and easy to use. I wonder though if it’s now irrelevant. I nkow the iPhone only shoots 640x480 video,but that’s now, what about down the road? Being able to shoot, edit and push to YouTube right from a wifi enabled device. In Flip’s defense, they were bought this year by Cisco. So the odds are they will be building a next gen. device with built in wifi. The problem is, it’s another device. Who wants to carry around two devices?
The Flip still costs less than the iPhone, and the transition will be gradual. But most everyone carries a phone anyway. And within a couple of years video will be as ubiquitous on those phones as photos are today. Now they need to put it in the iPod Touch.
As a small church plant that meets in a High School, Reality misses that connection point “between Sundays”. We have been looking over different ways to challenge our people to take what we talked about in church on Sunday deeper on their own during the week.
We have come up with ATM or After The Message. It is designed to in 3 minutes or less:
Recap last Sunday Challenge them to go deeper on their own Preview next Sunday
We think it’s a good start. Simple, bite sized and easy. Not a ton of production, quick and easy logo and that all important connection to people mid-week.
Videoguys has an awesome article on all the HD formats. t’s a really nice overview of all the mainstream HD acquisition and editing formats… DV, HDV, DVCPRO, AVC-Intra, XDCAM, AVCHD, DNxHD, ProRes, Cineform, it’s pretty much all here.
