Reely useful, reel possibilities

I heard about ReelDirector by Nexvio on MacBreak Weekly 163 when Leo Laporte made it his "pick of the week." and purchased it almost immediately. (I don't exactly fall into the category of impulse buyer so that should be enough of an endorsement right there!) ReelDirector (available in iTunes store for AU$9.99) is a very capable video editing application that has been released this month for the iPhone 3GS. It covers almost all of the features you could want. Trim video, add titles, transitions and adding and reordering of clips. The only minor complaints are it can't access photos or audio tracks from the iPhone for digital stories and mixing into your projects. But according to Hongyu Ch, president at Nexvio given the lack of API support at the minute from Apple they have done well to get this far and development of the application is continuing.

There are plenty of other sites that will give more detailed description of the features and limitations of ReelDirector so I there is no need for me to repeat stuff here (I believe in outsourcing!) but I am genuinely excited about the impact this application may have, especially for the education market (more on this later).

I strongly recommend ReelDirector to anyone who has ever contemplated shooting video with their iPhone.

Post using ecto

ecto is another external blog editor for OSX. MarsEdit is quite good but unfortunately doesn't work from behind the school proxy. I cannot find any proxy settings for ecto either but the interface for seems a bit nicer.



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It provides more WYSWYG stuff with rich text editing or html depending on your preference. You can browse iPhoto post current iTunes track and some other stuff with the click of a button from inside ecto and there are neat check boxes for categories and tags. I'm going to try both for a bit and see which one I settle on. My money is on ecto. It's a bit cheaper too I think.

Post from MarsEdit

I was interested to find out if MarsEdit would work with Edublogs. I tried it at school and it wouldn't hook up (kept giving a password error - more on that later) so I thought I would try from home. Bingo! Worked first time.

Got me to thinking...

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Maybe I didn't read the password dialogue box very carefully. Maybe it was asking for my proxy password and I kept providing the blog credentials. i will try again tomorrow and post an update.

Above is the MarsEdit logo with a link to Red-Sweater (the peeps that make MarsEdit). Below is an image that I have added from my Flickr account just to test out the functionality of MarsEdit. The inline spell checking is nice and I have played around with the hotkeys to make the html tags easier. I guess going through the WordPress WYSIWYG input fields online means you can avoid all that but it can sometimes be a bit slow.