Twitvid

Just like Twitpic Twitvid integrates video posting with Twitter.

I can't seem to send videos directly from my Nokia N95 at the moment as these are rejected but I can easily do it from the Twitvid web page.

Here is a sample of my craftsmanship:

Video Editing

I've used Picasa to create Slideshow videos but I've found it a bit limited. Great for quickly knocking something up but beyond that it can only do simple transitions. There is really only one timeline to play with.

AVS Video editor is quite easy to use and seems quite powerful to an amateur like me. It's not fee but there is a demo version available. $59 buys their whole suite of applications.

http://www.avsmedia.com/

The demo version is fully functional but leaves a small bitmap in the centre of the movie for the first minute or so.

Here are some Videos I've edited with this demo software.

In Glorious HD

This is my first attempt at creating and uploading an HD Video.

It is actually only a slideshow created in Picasa from pictures I took on my Nokia N95 mobile phone.

I do want to create real HD video and I'm looking at the Flip camera at the moment - although I may wait until it is incorporated in a mobile phone as I don't want to carry round an extra object.

The 3 minute video is 320 mb in size.




For comparison this is an SD video I created with the same photos which is about 60 mb in size.

Screencast

I've created a Screencast account and uploaded a few videos.

http://www.screencast.com

This is the free screencast account with 2Gig Max storage and 2 Gig max monthly bandwidth. With the miniscule following I have I don't think I'll exceed the latter figure.

Content hosted on Screencast.com isn’t compressed or re-encoded into a "one-size-fits-all" format. The integrity of your original content is protected, so what you upload is exactly what your viewers see.

It allows bigger files than YouTube and playlists can be created.

YouTube file size limit of each video is 2Gig. The max length of the videos remain at 10 minutes.

FlixWagon

The problem with all the streaming video tools I've used is that the quality drops dramatically. They produce something viewable in small screen but make it full screen and it is like a John Logie Baird original. This is especially true if there is a lot of movement. In all cases I'm choosing to broadcast the highest quality of video the application allows.

So far I like the facilities of LiveCliq best but I think it gives lower quality than Bambuser. Bambuser however fails completely if it can't stream immediately.

Looking also at FlixWagon. Not sure the video quality is any better than LiveCliq. It does however automatically cache and upload later when it has to.

Nothing comes close to the near live option. Record as a video clip and then upload to YouTube.

Having said that LiveCliq is great if you just want a bit of a video diary.

LiveCliq

LiveCliq does everything I've been doing as far as streaming with Bambuser and 'near live' with YouTube. It also allows photos to be uploaded in the same way.

If there is no 3G or Wifi the clips can be recorded into the Media Library and then uploaded by Syncing later.

The screen on my N95 has icons to tell me if I'm connected or not and it's generally quite good. At first I thought that the video resolution had to stay poor but I found the way of changing this from Options,Settings,Camera to a max resolution of 640x480.

The web hosting of the video and stills is also rather slick.

I can't however see any way of uploading videos or stills from other sources.

Writing with my mouth

this blog entry is being dictated and translated by vlingo in to the words to seeing now it's not bad but it's not per for it is a lot easier than trying to write the text using my nokia and 95

- The above paragraph was written entirely by speech to text. I created a Vlingo 'note to self' and then turned it into an email, attached a picture and sent it from my phone. It should read:

This blog entry is being dictated and translated by Vlingo into the words you are seeing now. It's not bad but it's not perfect. It is a lot easier than trying to write the text using my Nokia N95.