Video editing on a mobile phone
Ever since I read in the specs for the Nokia N90 that it did video editing I have been anxious to see just what that involved. So this morning I shot a couple of videos down at the creek in my backyward and wanted to string them together with a simple title, a dissolve between shots and whatever cutting and trimming the shots required.
The good news is the phone does all that and more, as you can see in the video below.
The bad news is you have to figure out how to do it through trial and error. Never have I seen a more useless instruction manual than the one that comes from the Nokia N90. I pity the person who tries to edit on the N90 with no previous experience and just that lame instruction manual to go by.
It took me about two hours to figure out how to trim, add effects and combine videos. But now that I have figured out, it will be interesting to see how this camera can play a part in my blogging and reporting.
The 1:57 project takes up close to 8 MB. I’d like to figure a way to be able to blog it streaming and in a slightly smaller window. And it’s not as polished as I could make it. But today’s supposed to be a day off and I’m not going to waste any more time on this or I’m going to risk the wrath of my wife. I’m satisfied that the camera and its editing functions are more than solid.
I’m posting this with the new Video Egg tool on my Typepad blog. This is the easiest solution to vblogging as a post that I have found. If you know of a better one, let me know.
I do notice that there is a vertical bar of scrambled lines that Video Egg seems to put on the right side of the video. That hash is not on the original MPEG-4 clip recorded by the N90.
(To start the video, click the play arrow… it starts with a fade in title on black.)
VE_EmbedPlayer(”gid325/cid1093″, “TypePad/228307_1134239660″);