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January 9, 2006Don'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”.
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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