Christoph Tilly, Web Video Expert

no nonse advice for working with digital video and publishing it on the web.

Videocameras:

• preferably in HD and progressive
• capture codec in a format your NLE Editing System) can handle natively
• if you downscale interlaced video you get jittery result.

Audio

• camera built - in microphone
• on-camera shotgun microphone
• professional studio microphone
• Wireless systems (Sennheiser G3) - flexible
• External Audio Device : flexibilty

Screencapture

• if you do something on your computer -> there are sophisticated tools for recording this as video

Editing

• Edit the codec you filmed in.
• combining video, graphics and Audio
• Color correction

Export

• compressor quality vital for video quality
• H264 for web - video
• if using HD downscale in even steps (divide by 4)

Hosting

• providing hosting services (youtube, vimeo)
• self maintained hosting (control of videoquality, privacy, information)
• Podcasting

Advanced

• Video set lighting
• Multicamera setup
• cheap SD mixers EDUROL V4 -- developed for VJs.
• you cant do mixing on a computer because of latency - video - audio
• motion graphic (intro, outro etc.)
• lower thirds animation (subtitle)
• chroma keying

Style

• Web Video can be very fast paced.
• (people can rewind if they dont understand, experienced users dont get bored)
• Television must be slower -so people can drink a beer
• plan ahead, be specific, don´t prate
• develop a style, you are comfortable with

Thomas Köck - Apple

Podcasting

• Multimedia content with syndication
• mobile use

Thomas Fürstner Bwin Labs

(to come)