First thing is to determine whether your interview subject has a web cam. Then, what video communications software they have.
Two options seem to work best: iChat (mac) and Skype (both mac & pc). Yahoo messenger has video conference capabilities too. Basically, whatever video conference software your subject has, you should have as well, and be prepared to record from that. Else, convince your subject to download and familiarize themselves with a new program. For iChat, I use ecamm's Conference Recorder. This is without doubt the easiest I've found. Trouble is, not everybody owns a mac. http://www.ecamm.com/mac/conferencerecorder/ For Skype, I use iShowU (mac - thanks Verdi), which is a screen capture program and may be used with any video-capable chat application. I've only used it for an interview once, and still troubleshoot audio recording in it. http://www.shinywhitebox.com/home/home.html Best of luck! Jan On 6/12/07, Betsy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > First of all I want introduce myself. My name is Betsy and I recently > launched www.StartupStudio.com, a pod/videocast that interviews > entrepreneurs with the mission of inspiring others to follow their > dreams. Examples of interviewees include George Foreman and the > founders of Southwest Airlines, Coinstar, Tazo Tea, Meebo, blip.tv, > FeedBurner, Esprit, Grouper/Spinner Networks, Grammar Girl, ZipRealty, > Kong, WordPress, Ravenswood Winery, etc. Most of the interviews have > just been audio, I'm just now moving to video. > > Here is my question. Let's say I want to interview someone who is out > of state and I want to record a video conference call from my computer > to the interviewees computer. Can someone tell me if there is an easy > solution to do this and record it? I am not that technical and I may > be interviewing people who are completely unsophisticated with regard > to technology. So the simplier the better. And I don't currently have > a web camera so I know I'd need to get one of those. Anyone have any > recommendations? > > Thank you very much for your help. > > Betsy Flanagan > StartupStudio > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- The Faux Press - better than real http://fauxpress.blogspot.com http://wburg.tv http://twitter.com/fauxpress aim=janofsound air=862.221.5280 skype=janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
