Derek and I went downtown Saturday night to film Earth Hour. We tried to get a feel for what Nashville thought about the symbolic gesture of turning off non-essential lights for a hour and the gist of it is that everyone has mixed feelings on the whole thing. Instead of using the broadcast cameras, we used the Vision’s little HD cameras, Final Cut Express and Vimeo. Vimeo does a much better job of compressing HD video than YouTube, although there are limits to how many HD videos you can upload in a week (1) and how big the files can be (500MB per week).
I also uploaded it to Current. I kinda doubt that it’ll get picked for TV, but it’s entirely possible. You might be able to help that happen if you go to the video there and vote it up.
Here’s the problem with journalism and online video: the internet is where broadcast news style video goes to die. Think about it, when’s the last time you watched a broadcast news style video online? If you came across the same video in a week or a month, would you feel compelled to watch it again? The answer is probably no. People like us, that is to say connected young people, aren’t watching the nightly news on TV, so why would we watch it on the internet?
There are better ways to go about video online. Here’s one I like:
