A lot of people have asked how I did the video blog. I’ll do another one soon and talk more about it, but I used a piece of software from Serious Magic call Vlogit! I used a webcam that I had already and a green sheet of plastic paper clipped to my window shades as my green screen – just like they do on TV.
Serious Magic has a partnership with Playstream to do the video hosting and I had a choice between putting it up as Flash or Media Player. I used Flash this time and I’ll try Media Player next. It was not quite perfect but it was pretty easy for the price of $49. I’ve just scratched the surface of what it can do – I think someone who knew something about video production could put together a great looking piece for very little money.