taking things apart

this video podcast i’ve been making now has a few episodes & seems to be a feasible - and thus ongoing - project. you can subscribe in iTunes to get the videos delivered directly.

i shoot with a Canon ELPH still camera in video mode, sending its composite output into an analog-to-FireWire converter on my PowerBook. iMovie captures the DV stream, so that’s also where i do the edits, titles, fades, and output. from there it is a one-click export to open a new RSS article / page in iWeb, and one more click to publish the results to my iDisk.

with every episode i have been itching to fall back on Final Cut & Compressor for vid cap / edit / export, Dreamweaver & BBedit for HTML / XML / text, published to my own Apache & PHP & MySQL & WordPress box - but i will not give in! this has to be kept simple, and the limitations of the iApps are going to impose that restraint. more about what one can’t do with this workflow later.