6 posts tagged “video”

Recently, filmmaker Spike Lee announced a partnership with Nokia to make www.nokiaproductions.com.
The site wants users to upload mobile created films and Mr Lee will pick the best ones to assemble a larger film.  This reminded me of a project from 2 years ago.

Last week, I vox'd about video ringtones for S60 Feature Pack 1

Recently this site was featured on techmeme.

It adds a simple right-click-save-as link on youtube videos.
Hook up your phone with the USB cable or bluetooth and you can save directly to your phone.

Remember to save the files with the .mp4 file extension
Sometimes the videos you save don't work.  If the video doesn't playback, it will need to be converted.  Its a good idea to down convert the file to .3gp using the Nokia Video Manager for PC or Nokia Multimedia Transfer for Mac.

Tip: Cartoon intros make for great ringtones

Most S60 FP1 phones support native video ringtones.  Lately, I've been downloading mp4 videos from youtube and using them as video ringtones.  Typical file sizes range from 5mb to 20mb.  This isn't too bad, considering how huge memory cards have become.

I recently found this great website: http://vixy.net/rawvideo/
What it does is take the url of a youtube video and finds the .mp4 version and makes it a downloadable file.  Then I transfer the file from my computer to my N95.   I occasionally run into some videos that dont play and require conversion.

It is possible to do this from the S60 Web Browser, but even with a bluetooth keyboard, its quite a pain to do.

What I'd love to see in the future is for an application like emtube or mobitubia to use .mp4 files instead of .flv files.  Or maybe for the OS to support .flv video files as video ringtones.

Many N95-1 owners upgraded to the N95 8GB because there is so much more RAM.  With 90MB free at boot, they were counting on being able to make and edit movies without out of memory errors like on the N95-1.  They were then disappointed that their N95 8GB has no video editor at all.

It turns out, the video editor has been moved to the N-Series PC Suite under the Nokia Photos application.  You can create Muvee's and have more easier control over the video editing compared to the on device version, since you have a full keyboard and mouse.

Nokia Photos with Muvee editing is free software for Windows.  However, if you are going to do video editing on a computer, you are probably better off using Adobe Premier, but that is very expensive software.  Either way, you'll probably need a strong cpu, since video editing is very processor intensive.

If you're on a Mac, you'll probably be using iMovie regardless since there's no PC Suite for Mac yet.

You can download the N-Series PC Suite here

Techcrunch recently reported that video is coming soon to flickr. 
Share on Ovi already supports pictures, sounds and video.
These are 2 of the services, along with VOX, offered with the Share Online application for S60.

When I go through a contact's recently added items I only get a thumbnail for anything that is not a picture.
If its silverlight or flash lite 3, I think Nokia will find a way to integrate streaming video into Share Online.
Instead of just a thumbnail image, I'll be able to click a shared item on either flickr or Ovi and watch a video.

Share Online already lets you post video to Vox and Ovi.  In this hypothetical future version, we should be able to just as easily post video to flickr as well.

Here I am amazing Douglas Welch doing video editing on the N95.  I love his reaction to the capabilities of the N95.  We had a conversation about how he wants an N95 so he can shoot QIK video.  But he is quite happy with the gear he already has.