quicklink | periphery, tweetperview and the new preroll tool

super productive day today and i’ve recorded another batch of webperiphery finally after what seemed like forever (actually four months - scary) - part of the problem was the ‘not enough tshirts quandary’ of trying to record content in bulk from existing notes that i had been putting together in wunderlist offline (as in, away from the computer!)

so, something new to play with.  the preroll tool is a new tool from wistia that allows you pass a project of intros (preroll) to play before the video plays.  this is neat in that we do not have to bolt the pre-roll onto the video and that video performs as the iframe worked before.  super cool and quite easy to use.  i say quite, because we can always have more right? :)

i’m hoping that tweetperview will update for the wistia iframe so you can have the overlay over that iframe because this way we can’t post the html as before so we lose that feature overlay i talk about in ep22 if we use this new pre-roll countdown system (which already i like)

i’ve been thinking how this could be used on the ground too in terms of mobile media making and triggering a bunch of actions for a pipeline for those clips that do not need to be edited but still have some level of branding or intro on them.

one way would be to have a project with multiple sections.  in the project i’d have intros and outros folders and an upload folder - if wistia built in support for the sections to have dynamic email address support (say, 12j3h!@£@projectname.wistia.com - or cname) then you could simply email your video you shot into the project and have the it automatically attach an intro and an outro for that particularly project.

it’s something for an api project me thinks.  it certainly opens up the possibility of doing pieces of video from your mobile phone (especially with the iphone5 around the corner and better optics) of recording, emailing you video content up to wistia - it top and tailing the video with intro and outro and dropping it back into your playlist embed for the main website.

if you had multiple ‘ontheground’ people on the ground you could have different intros for the different people sending in reports and dynamic content on the outro - something like generated QR codes.  for doing some kind of realtime gaming this could be pretty awesome for a remote user to interact with.  no post production, just send up and let the cloud handle it.