Introduction to Web-based Video
Recording for News
Wayne MacPhail

Why Use Web-based Video
• Access anywhere
• Immediate (or almost)
• Free
• Embeddable
• Linkable
• Flash-based

Disadvantages
• Often poor quality
• Requires high bandwidth connection
• Often requires Flash
• Difficult to edit
• May not be able to “own” it

Sites to Choose From
• You Tube
• Seesmic
• 12 Seconds
• Utterli
• oovoo
• ustream
• qik
• mogulus

You Tube
• Quick Capture
• Comment on other videos
• Create your own channel
• embed elsewhere
• annotations and
closed captioning
• ustream

Seesmic
• Growing community
• Comment on other videos
• Create your own channel
• Tied to Twitter
• embed elsewhere

12 Seconds
• Time constraint
• Respond to questions of
the day
• Create your own channel
• embed elsewhere
• download

12 Seconds
• Multimedia
• Mobile
• Cross posting
• Groups
•

Oovoo
• Up to six users
• Can control audio
• Great for conferences

uStream
• Live broadcast
• Easy to use
• Embed elsewhere
• Chat

qik
• Live broadcast
• From cellphone
• Chat
• Works with mogulus

mogulus.com
• Live broadcast
• Multi-cam
• Chat
• Works with qik