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NOTE Episode: Media Tech Podcast - Episode 62
NOTE Host: Billy Newman
NOTE Support: https://wnp-pay.web.app

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<v Billy Newman>Hello and thank you very much for listening to this Media Tech podcast.

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<v Billy Newman>more difficult to talk or just like I was more self-conscious about it like when you're monitoring

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<v Billy Newman>yourself that's like I think the hard thing to deal with um but when you're not monitoring yourself

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<v Billy Newman>you can't unless you're like really keeping track better than I think you should if you're trying to

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<v Billy Newman>think you're not really sure like where your volume level is but if you're used to just like

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<v Billy Newman>talking to the microphone and you can do it I'm like that's probably super loud but if you can

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<v Billy Newman>learn how like talking to the microphone at a point and like figure out your volume you don't

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<v Billy Newman>probably have to like look at it to see like how loud you're talking so you can get away with like

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<v Billy Newman>doing something where you can chat for a while and just have it record and not have it be like

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<v Billy Newman>really loud and your headphones but I don't know I guess it's good to listen to

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<v Billy Newman>this phone case is so neat it's a little like military case for it it's so rubbery

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<v Billy Newman>it's like two plates of metal so there's like a little like rubber sheet that it goes in

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<v Billy Newman>that the phone goes in there's these two plates of metal that go over the iphone that are screwed

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<v Billy Newman>down with six hex screws and it's pretty bulky makes it like twice a second yeah yeah it's not

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<v Billy Newman>branded at all I think it's a little vibrant so that's pretty fun but it's like pretty hefty oh yeah

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<v Billy Newman>and I think it's drop shift from China I think like there's no one that owns this this stock

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<v Billy Newman>anymore I think this company like whatever company would have sold it or bought it like went out of

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<v Billy Newman>business it was like well or probably just like it was made in China like unbranded and then it's

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<v Billy Newman>branded bought up by someone in America that's trying to sell whatever they have

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<v Billy Newman>because I think that's where we get a lot of stuff too where they'll just say like

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<v Billy Newman>we make these generic headphones like these little earbuds and you can buy them you can buy these generic

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<v Billy Newman>earbuds and brand them whatever or you can just get the generic

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<v Billy Newman>this is definitely a pretty cheap one I mean I can feel it kind of coming apart already though like

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<v Billy Newman>this is pretty loose this isn't anodized this is just like like nail polished or something

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<v Billy Newman>this little like gold paint is coming off on this like little little aluminum piece and it's fine that's

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<v Billy Newman>what I expect to pay like 15 bucks for I'm just happy that it's even the shape of my phone

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<v Billy Newman>I don't think it'll last longer than the season you know yeah it'll be a good summer case I think

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<v Billy Newman>like this little tab down here is already about to break off

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<v Billy Newman>it seemed like it never really went in yeah this doesn't it doesn't really work very well

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<v Billy Newman>they used to try and sell this for a hundred bucks and I think everybody hated it

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<v Billy Newman>yeah for a hundred bucks yeah for a cheapo or like you know like a $16 little throwaway case

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<v Billy Newman>it's pretty cool yeah it's pretty sturdy for a few bucks or it's I mean it's as good as an

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<v Billy Newman>otter box I would say it's got it's got like the same components and if I had an otter box I feel

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<v Billy Newman>like this fits a little more firmly

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<v Billy Newman>yeah it's like a glass screen over it which I think is pretty cool and then it's like a little

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<v Billy Newman>plug at the base and a little plug at the top where the headphone jack is so it's like oh see that

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<v Billy Newman>how does the camera work for that?

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<v Billy Newman>yeah I don't really use my iPhone camera much anymore or not much once I have all these little snaps and stuff and little fun pictures

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<v Billy Newman>I'm really sure that I look around but it doesn't seem to it seems to be pretty good I seem not to notice the difference which is cool but I know they do get scratched up so the first thing you see is like anything outdoors or like it gets dropped in dirt or something

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<v Billy Newman>maybe I've got a little screen it's going to take the damage

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<v Billy Newman>that'd be cool

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<v Billy Newman>I'm going to check that even in a few weeks for some other cool little case

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<v Billy Newman>I want a slim case

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<v Billy Newman>I want a little some

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<v Billy Newman>some little tiny sleeve

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<v Billy Newman>I wanted to talk to you for a couple seconds today about the new IGTV and the new IGTV app.

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<v Billy Newman>That's Instagram television, I suppose.

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<v Billy Newman>I suppose you break it out to all of that.

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<v Billy Newman>But it's kind of, it's a trip.

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<v Billy Newman>It's weird.

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<v Billy Newman>I'm not used to it yet.

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<v Billy Newman>It's vertical video first.

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<v Billy Newman>I know Snapchat did that.

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<v Billy Newman>I know Stories does that.

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<v Billy Newman>But this is sort of calling it out a little bit to edit video, to produce video in this

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<v Billy Newman>vertical format.

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<v Billy Newman>It's sort of naming itself as a competitor to YouTube at the moment.

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<v Billy Newman>But I'm sort of interested to see how that'll play out.

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<v Billy Newman>I think it's maybe a little bit more of a competitor to a Snapchat system.

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<v Billy Newman>It seems like that.

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<v Billy Newman>Or it seems like, or maybe even Patreon.

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<v Billy Newman>It seems like it's trying to pull creators and sort of insert some monetization system

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<v Billy Newman>that you can throw in there.

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<v Billy Newman>But I'm interested to see how it all turn out.

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<v Billy Newman>I've been trying to mess around with it.

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<v Billy Newman>I'm always excited for new systems of, you know, kind of publishing content media.

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<v Billy Newman>And so I was trying to use my Instagram account, at Billy Newman, if you're interested, to put

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<v Billy Newman>up a handful of vertical videos that I'm editing together.

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<v Billy Newman>And so what I've been doing is I've been throwing it together in Final Cut, and I made a special

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<v Billy Newman>project.

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<v Billy Newman>Or, you know, I went to, you know, Final Cut new project.

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<v Billy Newman>And then I set the pixel layout to custom.

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<v Billy Newman>So instead of 1920 by 1080, you know, a horizontal layout of an HD video, I went in and I set it

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<v Billy Newman>to custom, and I made it 1080 to 1920, which throws that to an HD vertical video.

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<v Billy Newman>And so once I did that, the frame of the video is vertical.

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<v Billy Newman>Now, what I did is I had all these horizontal videos that I had in my browser.

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<v Billy Newman>I dropped those onto the project timeline, and it shows them, what would that be?

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<v Billy Newman>There's pillar boxed and sandbox or title box.

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<v Billy Newman>I don't know what it is.

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<v Billy Newman>It's like title box or something.

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<v Billy Newman>You know, just big things over the top.

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<v Billy Newman>But again, it's vertical with like a little band in the middle of it.

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<v Billy Newman>So what I have to do is you have to conform that video.

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<v Billy Newman>You have to transform it, stretch it out so that it fills the screen in a way.

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<v Billy Newman>So you use a transform tool.

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<v Billy Newman>You stretch the video out by holding the command key so that it scales the video out nicely.

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<v Billy Newman>And then it shows it vertically.

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<v Billy Newman>Then you have to clip it and orient it so that the kind of like pan and scan back in the 50s,

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<v Billy Newman>you know, when they were trying to transition widescreen movies to TV, you had a pan and scan.

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<v Billy Newman>And so that means you have to reorient the position of focus on the subject, right?

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<v Billy Newman>So does that make sense?

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<v Billy Newman>So once I switch it to vertical video, it pans out the subject of the video that I was pointed out.

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<v Billy Newman>You know, let's say there was something really cool in the left-hand corner of the video

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<v Billy Newman>and something really cool in the right-hand corner of the video.

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<v Billy Newman>And that was the frame that you had.

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<v Billy Newman>Well, now in this vertical video, it's just showing you nothing that's in the center of it.

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<v Billy Newman>It's not showing you the cool thing on the right or the left.

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<v Billy Newman>So you have to choose.

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<v Billy Newman>So you have to clip it, you know, cut it with the blade,

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<v Billy Newman>and then you have to transform what's shown to one of those cool points of interest

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<v Billy Newman>that you were shown in the video.

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<v Billy Newman>And you have to kind of manipulate, clip, clip around it a little bit.

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<v Billy Newman>It's still sort of a kludgy thing, but it was fun to get through.

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<v Billy Newman>I made a couple of clips of videos and stuff.

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<v Billy Newman>I made a clip of a podcast.

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<v Billy Newman>I threw it up there.

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<v Billy Newman>There's like a 10-minute limit right now.

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<v Billy Newman>And then I think there's what, maybe a 60-minute limit once you're over, say, like 10,000 followers

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<v Billy Newman>and you have a business account.

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<v Billy Newman>I don't know.

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<v Billy Newman>That's the thing, though.

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<v Billy Newman>Is anybody really using Instagram to watch 60 minutes of video?

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<v Billy Newman>Maybe not me, but here's the thing I've learned is I underestimate how much people are on Instagram.

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<v Billy Newman>It turns out.

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<v Billy Newman>So maybe that's why Instagram has enough data to try and put together a whole app

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<v Billy Newman>as a vision to compete with YouTube and Snapchat.

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<v Billy Newman>Something kind of interesting, but definitely check out some Instagram TV bits and pieces.

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<v Billy Newman>I guess there's content out there.

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<v Billy Newman>Probably something cool to see.

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<v Billy Newman>I wanted to talk today a little bit about how much video I've been editing I don't know if

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<v Billy Newman>you're in this position but now at least this year the set of years these decades maybe what

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<v Billy Newman>my work is but I seem to be editing more and more video as it comes through and I guess that's just

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<v Billy Newman>part of media and expansion as you sort of move on into time and you know obviously I've talked

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<v Billy Newman>about being a photographer and working on photos and media stuff so it'd be kind of expected that

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<v Billy Newman>I would work on that stuff a lot or a lot professionally but really I mean just personally

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<v Billy Newman>I just mean like on my phone or with other tools or with GoPros or with other systems like that I

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<v Billy Newman>seem to be shooting and saving a lot more high quality high resolution video like I was talking

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<v Billy Newman>about these 5.2k files I was getting off of one of the cameras I was shooting with and you think like

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<v Billy Newman>oh man that's a huge amount of data all that to save so I just went out and I bought another four

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<v Billy Newman>terabyte drive to save really just video files video projects and another part of that is like

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<v Billy Newman>the Final Cut 10.4 system that I'm using I want to talk to you guys about do you use Final Cut do you

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<v Billy Newman>use Adobe Premiere do you use some other kind of editing tool some other conversation to have I

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<v Billy Newman>bet at a time but I guess for this conversation it's interesting to see how much more video is

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<v Billy Newman>coming in to our phones into our lives over our phones you know like I remember just what 10 years

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<v Billy Newman>ago I was thinking about how unreal it was to put up and publish so much HD video every day when we

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<v Billy Newman>think about our Facebook stories our Snapchat stories the Instagram stories that's all like

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<v Billy Newman>video content driven up by everybody and everybody's phone in HD just about all the time every day so

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<v Billy Newman>it's coming into that you know just such a heavy visual data world where we're getting so much more

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<v Billy Newman>high quality but you know so much more I guess rich media content than we had ever before so

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<v Billy Newman>interesting how that goes but what I'm noticing is man somebody's got to be around to edit all of

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<v Billy Newman>that and it turns out I guess I'm getting some of that some of that remainder as it goes

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<v Billy Newman>Produced and hosted by Billy Newman. Explore media technology projects, audio workflows, and support the show at wnp-pay.web.app.