The newest tool added to my journalism arsenal is Videolicious. My experience with creating video until this point has been using professional equipment and expensive software. My stand ups are done with a microphone and somebody else behind the camera. Editing this type of package requires hours of tedious work and great attention to small details.
Videolicious is a free application available on the App Store. It takes just a few minutes to trim shots and clip them together with this app. The app is simple and allows you to upload video to Youtube as quickly as possible. It took no time at all to upload my first video. Even though it was just my first time using the app it took somewhere between 30 and 45 minutes for me to create the package (including filming). As convenient as this tool is there were still struggles. Videolicious does not allow the user to create a voiceover and use natural sound. In order to do a stand up and use natural sound you have to create your stand up in the camera rather than on the app, as Videolicious suggests. Trimming can be a challenge because it is nearly impossible to be precise with your fingers on such a small screen. There is no way to cut a clip frame by frame or to play with the audio. Because of these restraints my suggestion for using Videolicious would be to use it to upload raw footage of live events such as the Ferguson protests. This is not the kind of tool journalists would want to use for long form pieces. Videolicious is not a tool I would use unless my deadline was measured in minutes rather than hours. Obviously as we learn more about this new tool my opinions will change or we will learn new ways to use this tool. For now it remains a tool for instantaneous journalism.
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