When technology and consumers work well
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Now that I have a fantastic reason to use the new camcorder, I have been making some recordings and otherwise playing with the features. I recently posted two videos to Youtube.com, and the front-to-back process was really straight-forward...technology should continue to put consumers at the center of their world like this:
- Plug camcorder into computer, turn it on
- Load Windows Movie Maker
- Tell WMM to import video from the camcorder
- WMM detects the clips on the camcorder
- Take each clip you want to save, save the file as a seperate WMV
- Upload WMV file to YouTube
While the above process is really cool, here's how I could see it optimized even further:
- Plug camcorder into computer, turn it on
- Load Windows Movie Maker
- Tell WMM to import video from the camcorder
- WMM detects clips, but also stops when hitting the end of the tape that's been recorded on
- Take each clip you want to post, post the file (menu item/context menu) directly to YouTube - if login required, WMM can request, or integrate with the upcoming Infocard