[Hidden-tech] Positronic Design Party Videos - An incredibly cheap and easy way to "podcast"

[David Caputo]

Hello All,

With regards to the previous discussions on Podcasting...

I just discovered how absolutely easy it is to create a channel on 
YouTube.com, download your videos from a DV camcorder like my >$300 Sony 
Handycam with Mini-DV, edit and compress them using iMovie on a Mac, and 
then upload them to YouTube and include them in your web sites for free 
with no bandwidth charges.

It's truly amazing.

Set up a "Director" account and it gives you your own Channel, i.e. all 
of your videos on one easy-to-link-to, easy-to-remember-url page.

For example:

http://youtube.com/PositronicDesign

See also the one we put up on our home page:

http://www.PositronicDesign.com

It's very easy to embed the videos (they give you the code), and they 
run on your site for "free", as in a hundred or a thousand or more 
people could watch and it wouldn't increase your hosting expenses 
because of the bandwidth used, it's all complements of Google at this point.

The examples shown are live music videos (recorded at a business 
anniversary party), but Talking Head videos or narrated stills showing 
charts, graphs and illustrations wouldn't be much harder and the video 
processing is easy-as-pie now thanks to iMovie, and iMovie comes free 
with any new-ish Mac.

So enjoy the videos, Check out Unit7 with Kim Zombik and the Trailer 
Park Horns at the Iron Horse on May 19th, be sure not to miss the next 
party May 12th.

Email me back if you want to be put on the invite list.

David Caputo
Positronic Design

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For more info on Northampton's incredible Unit7 see:

http://www.myspace.com/unit7band