This afternoon (while taking my shower) I was listening to an NPR program discussing fall foliage. Some of what I heard was unexpected. Is it possible some of what I’ve always taken as carved-in-stone truth isn’t quite? Maybe the time of leaf changing doesn’t happen like clockwork.
I do a daily science/technology segment. Is there a better story to cover?
My purpose in writing this isn’t to tell you about my story as much as the enabling technology I’ll be using.
I contacted the professor I’d heard via email. He responded a few minutes later. We made an appointment to meet on Skype.
I love Skype dearly, but it’s not always dependable or easy to operate. There was no audio coming to me from his Mac! We rescheduled for 5:30 this evening.
This time the Skype problems were on my end. They were quickly overcome.
As he spoke an editor here captured the audio and video on a server. Videotape is passe.
I don’t want to log and write my story tonight, so I’m currently spooling off the video (all 1.7 Gb of it) onto a USB stick I carry with my keys!
If you’re my daughter’s age this is all matter-of-fact. If you’re my age you understand that none of this was possible as recently as a few years ago.
Though we use these tools at the TV station they’re available to anyone. Email is ubiquitous. Skype is free. The USB stick cost less than $20.
Information technology is more powerful than ever before and at a price that’s democratized it! It was once said, freedom of the press is limited to those with presses. Not anymore.
Oh, how I love technology! You can do SO much with SO little…
What is the clip editor you are using?
It is built into our mass storage system called TONS. It is proprietary software built in house at Tribune, our parent company.