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January 9, 2006

Don't blog it Vlog it! The rise of video blogging

Video blogging has been making an impression at CES, with software, services and web cams aimed at people that want to take their blogs to the next level.

Serious Magic is bringing out its Vlog It software within a couple of weeks, which lets people script, film and create their own video blogs. We've got an early copy of the software and will be testing it over the coming days – you'll see the review on the Personal Computer World site.

John Felts from the company told us that they took the idea of the traditional video editing software and “scrapped it because it's too complicated for the average person”.

Creative_video_blog_v2_1 You write your script, which then appears on a teleprompter. Any effects or images are dragged and dropped to appear at a particular point of the script. Once filming the image automatically appears on screen at the right point in the script.

It costs $50, but will also be bundled with Creative Labs' web cams in future. Creative has launched Zen Cast Organiser over the past few days. A public beta, it is the company's answer to iTunes, and  ties users to Creative's products (just as iTunes ties users to Apple's products) – in this case the Zen Vision and Zen Vision:M.

At the moment the site, zencast.com, is a little like an RSS feed, where it aggregates information, but in future you'll be able to add your video blogs.

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