A couple of years ago, I did a 6month study of the progress of my high school level speech students.
On one day I took a video of them answering the question so often posed in job interviews.. tell me a little about yourself. Then 6 months later I filmed or rather videoed the same students answering the same question.
I then compiled the before and after video of each student right after the first 6 month. I burned a DVD and it was a good experience.
Some students wanted a DVD of their progress which I provided. It was amazing to me their progress. They were much better orally organized. They more clear in their delivery and overall it showed that every student had some pretty significant growth. It would be easy to take all of the credit for their successs.. but kids get older and get better at doing some of these skills because of their increased maturity.
Today I took the first baseline videos with my Cannon Stylus SD79IS. It shoots 10 mega pixel stills and does a great job with short videos. The current (before ILife 09) iphoto does not allow the videos to switch from vertical to horizontal. Put it into IMovie, however.. and wohla.. The editor needs to crop appropriately and each clip needs to be handled seperately but there it is.. it actually happens.. a vertical video is recropped in horizontal. In terms of digital memory, to took 2.6 gigs. I have an 8gig chip.. so plenty of space left over.. my the digital memory size has gone up and the cost has come down.
Next time I will shoot all movies in horizontal.... : ) Pat
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Oh man, I know that vertical/horizontal thing! You can fix in Final cut, but it's a pain in the you-know-what!
Sounds like you need a flip video...
for about a hundred bucks, good audio, quick downloads and they go right into any editing program. It's what I've been using to document my kiddos... pre and post therapy.
...and hey, take a little credit for your successes. In my writing today, I realized that I tended to chalk up my success to development and my non-successes to my own inadequacies... hmmmmm... a speech trait?! Let's reverse the trend!
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