As everyone in Apple’s sphere of influence knows, the recently released 5th generation iPod nano now records video. In addition to video, the new iPod nano is a voice recorder, and has a built-in microphone. This makes it a very compelling educational tool. Students equipped with an iPod nano have a self-contained podcasting or video creation tool. Of course I thought it would be fun to try out the video and see if it would be easy enough to use in a classroom setting. I wanted to compare the video quality and try out both the Windows and Mac sides of this equation.
It is easy enough to record video on the iPod nano. However, Apple managed to put the video camera in probably the most inconvenient place possible. I wanted to see how easy it would be to use the video from the nano on a Windows machine and almost immediately ran into issues. Neither Windows XP Movie Maker or Media Player would recognize the video from the nano. The only way I could view the video on my Windows machine (the Aspire One netbook with XP Home Edition) was to view it with QuickTime player. I did a few Google searches for some video editing software that would accept MPEG 4 video and came across Pinnacle’s VideoSpin software. While not free, a final cost of $15 is not too bad.
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I’ve provided links to an iPod nano video edited on a Windows machine and the same video shot with an iPhone 3GS edited with iMovie 09 for comparison. (Although shooting video with an iPhone is pretty easy I forgot to switch to landscape mode while shooting with the iPhone, sorry.) As an added bonus, the Animoto video that starts this blog post includes the video from the iPod nano as a demonstration of the new video feature.
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