In Glorious HD

This is my first attempt at creating and uploading an HD Video.

It is actually only a slideshow created in Picasa from pictures I took on my Nokia N95 mobile phone.

I do want to create real HD video and I'm looking at the Flip camera at the moment - although I may wait until it is incorporated in a mobile phone as I don't want to carry round an extra object.

The 3 minute video is 320 mb in size.




For comparison this is an SD video I created with the same photos which is about 60 mb in size.

Screencast

I've created a Screencast account and uploaded a few videos.

http://www.screencast.com

This is the free screencast account with 2Gig Max storage and 2 Gig max monthly bandwidth. With the miniscule following I have I don't think I'll exceed the latter figure.

Content hosted on Screencast.com isn’t compressed or re-encoded into a "one-size-fits-all" format. The integrity of your original content is protected, so what you upload is exactly what your viewers see.

It allows bigger files than YouTube and playlists can be created.

YouTube file size limit of each video is 2Gig. The max length of the videos remain at 10 minutes.

FlixWagon

The problem with all the streaming video tools I've used is that the quality drops dramatically. They produce something viewable in small screen but make it full screen and it is like a John Logie Baird original. This is especially true if there is a lot of movement. In all cases I'm choosing to broadcast the highest quality of video the application allows.

So far I like the facilities of LiveCliq best but I think it gives lower quality than Bambuser. Bambuser however fails completely if it can't stream immediately.

Looking also at FlixWagon. Not sure the video quality is any better than LiveCliq. It does however automatically cache and upload later when it has to.

Nothing comes close to the near live option. Record as a video clip and then upload to YouTube.

Having said that LiveCliq is great if you just want a bit of a video diary.