Nature Tech Connect: Helping you promote nature with media
Does Video Content Take Forever? Most people think to shoot and upload a video can take a long time. And they are RIGHT! It can take forever to put your video online, but it does not *have* to be that way. If you spend a few minutes learning new methods, you can reap the benefits and [...]
I get this question every once in a while, because YouTube and Iphone webpages used to have problems. Here is an example of how an embedded YouTube video now looks in the iPhone’s Safari browser (2011). The video is public, and the code was copied off of YouTube and pasted into the WordPress page. This [...]
Script, Shoot, Edit and Promote on One Device: A Smartphone I get this question a lot: “What camera should I buy for making web videos?” If you don’t have a good way to edit your video already, the answer is simple: consider a smartphone. They are not always the best at what they do, [...]
A beautiful pre-sunrise moment this morning over Town Mountain. Rice Knob, on the left was just about to light up. The clouds get their richest colors about ten minutes before the sun crests the mountain.
I recently bumped into French Broad River Academy instructors David Byers and Willy Kates’ down by the French Broad River. Their 6th and 7th grade students (all boys) were jogging, playing soccer and having a picnic lunch. It looked like a frequent outing for them and I suppose it could be, since the school is [...]
Dogwoods at Beaver Lake, Asheville, NC Gear: iPhone 4, iMovie mobile app I shot and edited this on my mobile phone. Pretty crazy! Some day soon, it will be no big deal. I did not upload this version from the phone, however. It’s only a 30 MB file, but the iPhone won’t upload in HD. [...]
A test pic from the WordPress iPhone app. This is a pic of where you change the settings that allow the app to “see” WordPress. Just in case you need to know!