The Camp Video Journalism workshops I produce for Visual Editors will be serving a new class at the end of September at the Chicago Sun-Times and one of the questions that always comes up is “what software should I edit with?”
A lot of video journalists I know like Avid, Adobe Premiere, and Final Cut Studio, but those are complicated and expensive programs. Nice, but often too complex for people who are first and foremost trying to learn the techniques of video storytelling.
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I have my Scottish ancestors to thank for being this tight, but I am only interested in the free apps. Here is my top 10 list of free applications currently on my iPhone.
- Pandora on the iPhone is amazing. It makes your iPhone into a commercial-free transistor radio, in a sense. Perfect for the towel on sand at Brighton, or North Avenue Beach.
- Twittelator is my must have Twitter app. Twitterific was great, but now has intrusive ads . . . ’nuff said.
- Last.fm also gives you a Pandora-like radio experience
- AIM - of course!
- Weatherbug - so much more detail than the basic Apple weather app. Love the animated radar - a life saver in Chicago.
- Google mobile app - gives you direct access to your Google docs.
- Facebook - natch!
- Truphone - for making skype like calls to international friends for pennies.
- BA Flights - to track real time flight info for British Airways flights I or friends might be taking. (Hello, American Airlines - get with the program, people . . ) Would also love it if Kayak or Sidestep offered a native app, too.
- Translators: The free Coolgorilla talking phrases apps include text and audio translations for common phrases in German, French, Spanish and Italian.
Ich verstehe nur bahnhof . . .
One more fave is the Apple Remote app that let’s you control your mac’s Tunes player with your iPhone. This one is creepy cool.
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