Dealing with Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (F.U.D.)
15/01/10 16:43 Filed in: Technology
I started out today with the intent to create a draft
for a monthly submission to Property Investor News™
(http://www.property-investor-news.com/).
How one should be planning for 2010 and how you deal
with unknowns when you are a business owner.
At the same time I am thinking about a presentation need to deliver late in the month at a seminar on lease options for residential investing in the UK. The seminar is hosted by Property Investors News™ so some obvious overlap in terms of message and audience.
One of my goals in 2010 is to take my social media activities to a new level. To great some video content that can spread the word on specific topics. Partially as a way to deliver helpful information to a wider audience as not everyone passes through London. There are definitely business benefits to having a more established brand so I see it as an investment in terms of time, money and climbing the learning curve that I will call video content production.
I might have hit a bit of a wall in terms of getting ready to get started.
As some of you will know I have a technical background and I feel pretty confident in terms of being able to figure out how to use a gadget. I am not bad in terms of knowing what looks good or good enough in terms of a finished product (article, brochure, video clip, etc.).
My search a video recording device started by thinking I wanted something that would work well indoors, that was easy to carry and use and which is inexpensive. A point and shoot type of experience where most of the time the images will be of people speaking or similar. Maybe the odd occasion where I want to film the interior of a building when checking out a property to acquire. Either there will be enough lighting or I will largely pass on recording the scene so nothing too extreme in terms of environmental conditions was my viewpoint. Battery life is a possible issue. Compatibility with an Apple Macintosh computer is required. Enough recording time so I can get through a meeting or similar without needing to upload the video to the computer was the only other requirement I thought.
After a bit of online shopping I am getting a bit confused.
In a bit of an effort to future proof the content I was thinking of recording in HD. I searched for a Flip that handles HD. Not that hard to find. The price is about what I was expecting. Then I read some reviews that said the audio is not great. As I may be recording from the back of a room hearing the speaker is important. One reviewer suggested the Zoom Q3. I take a look at the device and it seems to meet the sound requirements. It is not HD and I sense that it is less able to adjust to lower light conditions like the Flip devices. Another factor could be the size as a larger device might be less likely to carried around as often so not at the ready when needed. Then again maybe the idea of spontaneously capturing a video is an idea too far.
It seems that it might also make sense to have a small tripod for those times when I want to record myself on camera and there is no one to hold the device. I also get the impression that the audio recording could be better if one is not handling the device while the recording is taking place assuming that makes sense in a live event.
Anyone with any thoughts? Smaller HD device with poor sound quality? Or great sound quality with from a ‘large’ device with no HD (i.e., average image quality)? Tell what I should care about and then how to find it.
-John Corey
At the same time I am thinking about a presentation need to deliver late in the month at a seminar on lease options for residential investing in the UK. The seminar is hosted by Property Investors News™ so some obvious overlap in terms of message and audience.
One of my goals in 2010 is to take my social media activities to a new level. To great some video content that can spread the word on specific topics. Partially as a way to deliver helpful information to a wider audience as not everyone passes through London. There are definitely business benefits to having a more established brand so I see it as an investment in terms of time, money and climbing the learning curve that I will call video content production.
I might have hit a bit of a wall in terms of getting ready to get started.
As some of you will know I have a technical background and I feel pretty confident in terms of being able to figure out how to use a gadget. I am not bad in terms of knowing what looks good or good enough in terms of a finished product (article, brochure, video clip, etc.).
My search a video recording device started by thinking I wanted something that would work well indoors, that was easy to carry and use and which is inexpensive. A point and shoot type of experience where most of the time the images will be of people speaking or similar. Maybe the odd occasion where I want to film the interior of a building when checking out a property to acquire. Either there will be enough lighting or I will largely pass on recording the scene so nothing too extreme in terms of environmental conditions was my viewpoint. Battery life is a possible issue. Compatibility with an Apple Macintosh computer is required. Enough recording time so I can get through a meeting or similar without needing to upload the video to the computer was the only other requirement I thought.
After a bit of online shopping I am getting a bit confused.
In a bit of an effort to future proof the content I was thinking of recording in HD. I searched for a Flip that handles HD. Not that hard to find. The price is about what I was expecting. Then I read some reviews that said the audio is not great. As I may be recording from the back of a room hearing the speaker is important. One reviewer suggested the Zoom Q3. I take a look at the device and it seems to meet the sound requirements. It is not HD and I sense that it is less able to adjust to lower light conditions like the Flip devices. Another factor could be the size as a larger device might be less likely to carried around as often so not at the ready when needed. Then again maybe the idea of spontaneously capturing a video is an idea too far.
It seems that it might also make sense to have a small tripod for those times when I want to record myself on camera and there is no one to hold the device. I also get the impression that the audio recording could be better if one is not handling the device while the recording is taking place assuming that makes sense in a live event.
Anyone with any thoughts? Smaller HD device with poor sound quality? Or great sound quality with from a ‘large’ device with no HD (i.e., average image quality)? Tell what I should care about and then how to find it.
-John Corey
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