I was at a NYC Podcasting meetup last night and it was pretty good. Ben (Bendrix) Williams spoke about creating videos and how that plays into Podcasting. One thing he pointed out, not general knowledge, if you are going to create both a video and podcast of the same information, the audio part of the Video should be mono rather than stereo to shorten the size of the file for downloading/bandwidth purposes.
The meetup took place at Ariel Publicity, on West 38th Street; I was there once before last year. My goal for going this time was to get some ideas about using Video for my trip to France at the end of the month.
People that I spoke to last nigh included Hollis and a lady that runs The Wine Scout, a website dedicated to wine events and wine tasting travel shows. Liz Camps also came by, my friend that owns and runs Green Media LLC and who I co-write BigGreenBlog with. Also, Lisa Greenberg, an Apple Sales executive was present.
My sense is that it's possible to have everything you need to record great video (minus the talent) in one bag, a backpack for between 1000 - 2000 dollars - that includes everything minus the software and workstation to edit the videos.
One thing I noticed - it's helpful to be able to relax people as you put a microphone and camera in front of them; I think Ben Williams did a good job of making you want to talk into a microphone - not everyone does that well.
