Two more women bloggers’ voices

I hope to post the rest of my short video interviews taken at BlogHer on Saturday by the end of this week. Here are two more, which I conducted with two of my new blogger friends.

Heather Schlegel (above), founder and vice president of kwikreel, discusses some of the highlights of the conference and points out that women bloggers are not hard to find. (Ourmedia page | play video)

Arieanna Foley of Blogaholics Consulting  discusses some of the ethical and privacy issues raised at the BlogHer session on citizen journalism. A public bus is not a free-fire-zone for Web shutterbugs, for example. (Ourmedia page | play video)

Methodology

Some people have asked me about the process involved. I shoot straight to mini-DV tape on my 3-year-old Canon GL-1 videocamera. I then import into my Apple G4 desktop using iMovie HD and a Firewire cable. It takes me 20 to 60 minutes, depending, to edit the video, add transitions and titles in iMovie. (I’m a big believer in metadata, so you’ll see intro and exit credits on even a 2-minute mini-movie.)

I then export (or "share," in the parlance of QuickTime) the video in a Web-friendly format — note, not the default in QuickTime, which is a meager 240×160 pixels. On Ourmedia we prefer 320x240p; with high-speed bandwidth in 58.6 percent of U.S. households as of last May, a 20-megabyte video file can be watched online without much difficulty.

I use the defaults I learned in the videoblogging group: Michael Verdi’s compression settings (finally got to meet Michael in person at BlogHer) and the tutorials put together by Ryan Hodson and Jay Dedman on the videoblogging mailing list.

Finally, I upload the finished video to Ourmedia. In the two cases above, it took all of five and 10 minutes to publish the videos.

Pretty simple, really.

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JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.