I’ll try to move a bit more. Actually, I was trying to move a bit more in this episode. It does feel unnatural to me, but I suppose I can comprehend that a still face is even more unnatural.
Who’s running BHTV then? If they have any amount of resources they can make the process a “just push a button and, bam, you’re on air, no special software besides Flash plugin needed”. You know, like Ustream.
BHTV is a very low-overhead operation. My understanding is that they want to be able to set up a diavlog between any two people in the world by just mailing a box with a video recorder and a mic to the participants.
ETA: They also want the participants to be looking into the camera, not off to the side at a screen showing their interlocutor. (Of course, many participants just stare off into space anyway.) The goal is to have something like those interviews via satellite that you see on TV talk shows. On those shows, the interviewee is usually just looking into a camera and can’t see their interviewer.
Mailing a mic and camera is the most that I’ve heard them mention doing. I guess that they usually just provide some video recording software, if necessary, and then wait to receive the separate video files from the participants. Then they stitch them together in post.
I’ll try to move a bit more. Actually, I was trying to move a bit more in this episode. It does feel unnatural to me, but I suppose I can comprehend that a still face is even more unnatural.
What, you don’t see each other when you talk??
Typically, BHTV participants are just looking into webcams while talking on the phone.
… Why!?
Presumably partly because:
http://skypetips.internetvisitation.org/articles/record_skype_calls.html
...is not trivial and has drawbacks.
Who’s running BHTV then? If they have any amount of resources they can make the process a “just push a button and, bam, you’re on air, no special software besides Flash plugin needed”. You know, like Ustream.
BHTV is a very low-overhead operation. My understanding is that they want to be able to set up a diavlog between any two people in the world by just mailing a box with a video recorder and a mic to the participants.
ETA: They also want the participants to be looking into the camera, not off to the side at a screen showing their interlocutor. (Of course, many participants just stare off into space anyway.) The goal is to have something like those interviews via satellite that you see on TV talk shows. On those shows, the interviewee is usually just looking into a camera and can’t see their interviewer.
Judging by the varying and often bad quality of video, they probably don’t mail any video recorders, and by extension a microphone.
Mailing a mic and camera is the most that I’ve heard them mention doing. I guess that they usually just provide some video recording software, if necessary, and then wait to receive the separate video files from the participants. Then they stitch them together in post.
I’ll be sure to listen to rather than watch them in the future then.
For what it’s worth, these days they can sometimes see each other through some kind of Skype-like interface.