It's rare when you find a good product at a reasonable price from a company that gives excellent customer service. You get all three with Oscar Sound Tech. Vance Willis bought one of these lavaliere microphones for his on camera webcasts. It's connected to his wireless mic system.
The mic is omnidirectional, meaning that it theoretically picks up sound from all directions, including room echoes, but with a little practice, you can get a good sound with it. Almost all TV news rooms use lavaliere mics.
Whether to use a lavaliere mic is a question of aesthetics versus sound quality. Using my favorite comparison, a lavaliere mic is not a Heil PR40 in sound quality, but it is very useful when you want to go on camera and not have a gigantic mic, shock mount, and windscreen stuck in your face.
The mic is about $80 plus the appropriate connector, which is $15 and up. If you want to use the mic as an XLR mic, you will need to get the power adapter ($60). Contact http://oscarsoundtech.com for all the details. Via Mike Phillips 
Some YouTube users may be noticing that they can now edit their videos onsite thanks to a new feature that’s rolling out globally Wednesday. Using the feature will enable you to edit uploaded YouTube videos while also maintaining the same video IDs, making it possible to hold onto view counts and comments. Existing links to the video will also continue to work. All you have to do is click “Edit Video” on your video’s page or on the My Videos page. Via adVid 
At this week's IBC in Amsterdam, Adobe is delivering new server software for streaming broadcasts to more mobile devices, including Apple's wildly popular iPad and iPhone. The Pros And Cons Of Building An Audience Outside YouTube - 09/05/2011... |
ProRes 422 is Apple's lossy video high quality video compression format. It is the native format of Apple's popular Final Cut Pro video editing software. ProRes is also the format requested for HD Television and HD and SD Film to be delivered to the iTunes Store.
Still Apple products and tools are the only first class citizens of the ProRes ecosystem or were until now. Today an intrepid hacker released an open source reverse engineered ProRes decoder for FFmpeg. Now everyone trying ingest ProRes files is on an equal footing. Via Nicolas Weil 
For $199 per year, companies get generous storage and streaming limits, along with Vimeo's quality and ease-of-use. Wowza Reaffirms its Unbridled Commitment to Product Innovation and Relentless Customer Service to Help Customers Confidently Build Businesses on Wowza Software... 
At IBC2011, from September 9-13, 2011 at the RAI Amsterdam, Vizrt and Vimond Media Solutions AS will demonstrate the improved integration between their respective online video platforms within the Vizrt booth (Hall 2, Stand A31.) Vizrt has partnered with Vimond to integrate its online publishing software with the Vimond Video Platform to offer broadcasters tools to control access to broadcast-quality video on demand, and easily monetize content. Via adVid |
