Being a nonensical kind of person, I don’t really do interviews as I talk more than the other person. But Perou was a stand up chap, and indulged my nonsense questions – so I thought I’d try a dry run before the EMAs on my favourite question of the moment.
This clip was filmed on the BlackBerry Playbook and I was floored with the playback image and sound quality. The aspect ratio is a little messed up as the Playbook records in the MP4 format (read: Quicktime) and I wanted to use a clip instead of the whole recording. Since I don’t have Quicktime Pro, Final Cut or Adobe Premiere I had to convert the recording online from MP4 to WMV so I could edit in Windows Movie Maker (there’s some Tech 101 for you.) The Playbook also has HDMI output so I could have plugged it directly into a compatible TV, projector or laptop, as well as 3 MP camera, stereo sound and 720 & 1080 recording. And I also took some pictures with it to try out the lens which you can see below.
The Playbook’s strength definitely lies in the HD display and camera. Since I want to create more video content for my blog, this was definitely a bonus. You can easily upload to YouTube in HD via the Playbook also, but since I wanted to clip a portion out so I uploaded to my laptop to splice it. On the go, that isn’t particularly great if you want to live blog an event. However back in June, RIM announced that it was integrating Jaycut with its platform . That’d be nice to have a basic video editing tool on the Playbook, however no more news has been given since the initial announcement to when it will launch.
Oh and if you’re wondering what pop culture reference my post title is referring to, I direct you to the below:
