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Jay Wilson is talking about using iMovie/iChat. Some key points

• Ugly is good. Don’t worry about making it beautiful - capturing good content is more important than competing with Spielberg. A lot of educational video is not played back under optimum conditions - low bandwidth, old equipment, etc. so spending a lot of extra time on gloss is not important. (Wildcat video)
• file formats: for streaming video, Jay’s experience has been that Real Player gives the best performance.
• FireWire (a.k.a. IEEE1394 a.k.a. iLink) is the most universal way of getting video from a camera to the computer. You can use the camera to shoot and the computer to record when they are hooked up. To record straight onto the computer, an iSight camera works well (autofocus, good microphone, adjusts well to various lighting situations)

Jay demoed iMovie. As always, iMovie is pretty easy to use and almost anybody can start using it right away.

(BTW - Heather Ross is sitting right across from me, and is blogging this right now. Well - I think she’s blogging this. I just checked - she is blogging about the conference in general. Cool. I wonder if she’ll mention me).

Back to demo. Jay has loaded clips from a video camera. Showing how to add clips to the product. After the movie is created, it can be exported (”shared” in MacSpeak) to e-mail, DVD, back to the video camera, etc.

Jay says the most practical way of archiving old tapes from the video camera with stock footage is to keep them on the tapes, and store the tapes in a cool, dry place.

Final Message - in relatively little time, we can assemble some video together that looks well packaged.

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