JULY 18, 2010
My vacation to Amsterdam was a great multi-media experiment. We brought a couple of tools or toys (depending on how you look at it). And, it was an adventure every step of the way.
Stuff we brought:
a flip MinoHD Camera
a "gorilla" or "spider" tripod
a handheld camcorder
a sony video camera/microphone
a tripod
2 digital cameras
a Macbook
lights
batteries
tapes
converter
power strip with two USB ports and three AC/DC plug-ins
* The two things we used the most: our Flip camera and our Macbook.
* The thing we forgot: a firewire cable (which was important but we still managed to get one at the MAC store in Amsterdam); a charger for my digital camera. (darn!)
* The two twitter tools I really like: Twitvid and Twitpic
* Without a phone to use internationally, we used Twitpic and Twitvid from our laptop to send video and pictures.
* What I wished I could have got going: Skype from our laptop.
* Things I learned along the way: not all airports have free wi-fi. Just because some places have free wi-fi doesn't mean it's actually fast or efficient for uploading pictures or video clips to a blog.
BLOGGING: We used Blogspot. I prefer that over Travelpod. It's fast, it's friendly, it's used by many more peeps.
To get a video clip of the WorldCup finals/thousands of fans in Amsterdam onto or our blog, it was a matter of shooting a quick clip on our flip camera, uploading that to iMovie, editing/trimming it, rendering it, and then posting the clip. In order to send the clip back to Sacto (for use in any other capacity, i.e. for air), the easiest thing to do was to just post the clip on Twitvid.
FTP: We would have had the ability to ftp had we needed to (per breaking news).
Still learning lots of things along the way...but this international trip took our multi media skills out of our "comfort" zone--always a good experience to have.
-Suzanne
Twitter: @suzannephan
Facebook: @SuzannePhanNews10
Blog: www.suzryan.blogspot.com
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