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It lives! The Talk-Now video demo redone.

I’ve been experimenting with video again, and made another video of the iotum Talk-Now preview. The last video I made was criticized for:

  • Being overly long. This one is nearly two minutes shorter.
  • Being hard to view because it was shaky. In this one, I clamped the Blackberry into a stand on my desktop, and mounted the camera on a tripod.
  • Poor color and lighting. This one is much better lit. Now, the lights I used are NOT photographic lights, but rather ordinary halogen shop lights that I bought at the local hardware store. This has resulted in a yellowish cast to the video, which I believe I could remove (at shooting time) by using the color balance features of the camea.
  • Poor sound. Rather than record a voice-over using the PC, as I did last time, I simply used the microphone on the camera. The sound quality is much better, even when turned away from the camera, as I was when shooting the demo sequences.

Hope you like it, and I hope you give Talk-Now a try.

The video is available on You-Tube , Google Video , Video.ca, and Revver .

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7 Responses to “It lives! The Talk-Now video demo redone.”

  1. BlackBerryCool » Iotum CEO talk’s Talk-Now Says:
    February 13th, 2007 at 2:34 pm

    [...] Iotum’s incredibly hardworking CEO Alex Saunders has posted a self-produced walkthrough of their new Talk-Now application. We’re headed to their offices soon to have a sit down and discuss the product more thoroughly, but this should entice you to go and at least check out their site. It really is an incredible application. [...]

  2. Paul Sweeney Says:
    February 13th, 2007 at 3:00 pm

    Well, I thought that this demo was very good. Easy to understand and a very clear demonstration of how it would benefit the end user. Great. Well Done.

  3. Iotum Talk-now at Roam4free Says:
    February 13th, 2007 at 3:23 pm

    [...] I can,t wait to install this on my new Blackberry Pearl tomorrow. Talk-now Looks fantastic, well done Alec [...]

  4. Alec Says:
    February 13th, 2007 at 4:00 pm

    Thanks Paul!

  5. Garrett Smith Says:
    February 13th, 2007 at 9:02 pm

    Alex – This is awesome – Fantastic job!

  6. Making your own demo video on the cheap -- Alec Saunders .LOG Says:
    May 1st, 2007 at 7:02 am

    [...] the previous videos, this one is a very quick overview of Talk-Now. It’s super important to keep it short, [...]

  7. Talk-Now: A Pragmatic Introduction to New Presence : voiceontheweb.biz Says:
    September 14th, 2008 at 4:22 pm

    [...] produce their own demo videos: check out Alec’s experience producing and mounting this video here and [...]

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