Twitter in Live Video
Jaap Stronks from The Netherlands has quite an interesting mashup, but one with a purpose: Twitter and live video!
Just wanted to share that I’ve been experimenting with live webvideo myself; I was particularly interested in integrating relevant Twitter messages realtime in a live video, something you may be interested in. At the Next Web Conference in Amsterdam, I produced an interview with Robert Scoble, which I broadcasted in Ustream with added backchannel tweets as a video overlay. If you’re interested in the result, you can watch it here (I simultaneously recorded it with Quicktime), although the web page is in Dutch, the video is of course English:
www.jaapstronks.nl/archief/twittercasting-met-robert-scoble/
If you’re interested in the method I used: I use Adium with the Twitter IM function (with a separate account with no friends, only tracking a certain hash code) and a message layout with big white letters and a black screen, plus Camtwist with a desktop video source (custom area) with a chroma key on black, so that only the letters remain visible. I should add a black semi-opaque rectangle to make the letters more easily readible, that’s for next time.
This was just a first video after a couple of tests, I’m thinking of producing a regular live show, perhaps interviewing people using video conference calling services. I just wanted to share this with you because I thought you might find it interesting. I’m now going to dive into your blog and see what things and ideas you’ve come up with.
I keep telling everybody that the WHOLE point of doing LIVE video is that you can interact with your audience - and vice versa.
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10 Comments
dbrusilovsky
April 6th, 2008
at 1:09am
I think this is awesome. The way he implemented the actual feed into the top of the video was pretty neat, I must say.
I still use either the web or Twitterific for updating Twitter, but getting another account, like Chris, wouldn’t be such a bad idea.
Keep it up,
Daniel Brusilovsky
http://www.danielbru.com
FearedBliss
April 6th, 2008
at 8:46am
It’s pretty cool but I would prefer IRC.
jeff norris
April 6th, 2008
at 10:57am
Pretty cool effect with the text tilted to appear like its scrolling at a 45 degree angle e.g starwars scroll.
I would like to see more widgets for Mac OSx and XP/Vista that capture twitter, irc, weather, gps, clocks and so on build with flash that can be used as a overlay or mask in your virtual webcam programs like Camtwist or Webcammax.
D0M1N8R
April 7th, 2008
at 4:26am
I’ll have to look into this. Interesting
izotov
April 7th, 2008
at 6:08am
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April 7th, 2008
at 7:45am
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Scott (sah1510)
April 7th, 2008
at 9:29am
I think that this is a great concept, and, can be relatively easily done as you can see from the link given.
However, I think that there must be somewhere to draw the line. For example, if Chris was to use this in his live stream I think he would struggle to find a good way to place it on his video because, obviously, the main content is the video and if there is only a tiny bit visible behind extra content, it is just unwatchable.
Still, good idea! ;)
Jaap Stronks: programmamaker, weblogger, freelance journalist.
April 15th, 2008
at 10:21pm
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Jaap Stronks: programmamaker, weblogger, freelance journalist.
April 15th, 2008
at 11:18pm
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