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All transfer files, but none
provides a mobile editing platform.
The best option is VeriCorder’s First
Video app for $10.
This app lets you record HD
video on an iPhone 4 or iPod touch
4th generation, and record SD
video on an iPhone 3GS, plus
record CD quality audio. You edit
the video on the screen of the
phone with one video and two
audio tracks. Here is an example of
HD video shot in Australia with an
iPhone and put on YouTube:
/
watch?v=2RNWyhG8c7M .
A version of First Video is also
available for the iPad. Symons
described the app as the “most
advanced mobile video editing
solution on the market today”.
USEFUL APPS
Other useful apps for reporting
include Fluent News for
monitoring news via RSS, LinkedIn
for research, Wordpress for
updating my blog, JotNot Pro for
scanning documents, Business Card
Reader for scanning business cards
and AroundMe for locating things
like petrol stations or cafés when on
the road. I use Skype on my iPhone
for most of my international phone
calls, provided I have a reasonable
wifi connection.
In early 2011 the number of
mobile phones had surged to 5.2bn
worldwide, effectively one for
every adult on the planet. At least
half of those phones contains a
camera. This means potentially a
pool of more than 2.5bn reporters,
though obviously not everyone will
take photographs. But it means
news organisations need to find
ways to embrace those potential
reporters.
HOWTOWIN
VeriCorder’s Symons said that
unless newspapers and media
chains could lower the cost of
production to the same as that of
individual bloggers, they could not
win.
“What is now obvious,” Symons
said, “is that the entire news
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industry is in a state of crisis.
Individual bloggers armed with cell
phones can produce content at a
fraction of the cost of traditional
broadcasters. At the same time,
traditional advertising is fragmenting
at an ever‑increasing rate.
The point of what we’re doing is
to create a system that lowers that
cost of production so it is virtually
identical to that of the individual
blogger...and at the same time, we
are creating a new method of
monetising news networks that lets
them take advantage of both
tional and very local advertisers.
If we can lower the cost of
production and administration,
which is what VeriLocal does, then
large media networks can survive
in this new paradigm.”
Want to know more? Two
Canadian journalism students,
Ashley Rowe and Nick Wynja, used
VeriCorder software to make a
video about how mojo worked at
last year’s Winter Olympics in
Vancouver:
watch?v=jbK_OrbKHLM.
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