MacDailyNews reader Mike McNeill, who works for Fox 4 (KBTV) in Beaumont, Texas, shot and lightly edited what is likely the first news story to broadcast over the air that was completely shot and edited on an iPad 2:
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But it’s for CONSUMING content, not creating it!!!???!!!!
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Hey look at me, first post! My first first post ever on any forum.
Welcome Memetech!
Since this is your first post ever, here’s a piece of advice. Don’t post anything even remotely anti-Apple on this site. Actually it doesn’t even have to be anti-Apple. Simply praise a competitor and you will be eaten alive by some of these commenters.
Don’t worry I’m as rabid as rabid as the next fan. Over twenty years of apple worship, including the hard times that tested my faith.
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And not my first post, my first “first post”
SO! You admit that your faith was tested! BLASPHEME! You are banned from MDN!!!
And we awaken in a new world.
Kind of generous calling it a “News” story isn’t it?
(on second thought I guess that fit’s with the rest of Fox’s “News”)
Why the quotes around Fox “news” ZBeeb. You find the sycophants at NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN superior? Non-biased? Really? If you want news and opinions other then those copied from the State-Run media and dutifully reported, then you NEED to go to the only media outlet free of serious progressive/lib bias…. that would be Fox…
I think the St. Patrick’s Day booze reviews on CNN offer far more nuance.
I have this new Safari plug-in. it’s called AutoTruth. it’s very frustrating…
here’s what I want to say to MacMan:
“you’re the best! I wish I were your friend.”
irritatingly, here’s what it keeps insisting I really mean:
“you’re an idiot. drop dead.”
Gawd help us, more inanity.
As an Apple loving, bagpipe playing, guy from Beaumont who is getting ready for St. Patrick’s Day I am thrilled to see both this story and how it was made. Way to go!
you play the bagpipes? come on the show thursday!
This I gotta see! Post somewhere please!
Add Beaumont, Texas to my list of places I never need visit…
Well, you’re either stodgy or boring. Every little town has its own certain thang.
My guess is that you’re from somewhere around NYC or LA.
Stan’s right, Cubert. Beaumont is not a place worth visiting.
Really.
I’m as serious as a heart attack.
That place sucks.
Indeed!
It seems he recorded with the VGA camera…failure number one. He’s also terribly annoying, failure number 2. He used an iPad for a news story, great idea, could have been better.
Had to use the VGA, I was one man banding, and had to know I was framed up.
On being anoying, well, you sound like my mom, so I can deal. š
Aren’t Texans already pretty much pros at drinking*? Who’s our audience here?
* …and I mean that with respect, and my hat is off to them.
Shot on iPad2. Don’t know about “edited.” It’s all one long scene with no cuts. The couple of graphics had to have been added in at the TV station after the fact.
That said. Who knows. We may see TV stations completely replacing their expensive pro video equipment with iPads!
It will always be hard to capture good footage on something as light as an iPad. Weight is inertia, and that’s your friend in video.
Steadycam for iPad might work wonders.
Make that weighted Steadycam.
Will that be an app? š
Didn’t see a whole hell of a lot of editing . . . good concept but I think we all know the iPad is capable of much more.
Saying “edited” is exceedingly generous. I don’t usually belittle stuff, but that was just horrible.
Don’t get lost in the substance of the story or the reporter’s style or location.
The fact that this was shot on an iPad and processed on an iPad is huge. This is a watershed moment.
Holy Cow!
That was shown on mainstream media. Just to clarify a little.
that was awesome. it’s obvious that it will change broadcasting… tell me you can’t see Anderson Cooper doing the same thing?
Yeah, this is going to be big with field reporters, I think. If an iPad is all they need to have, they can be more agile and post their stories right away. Just don’t expect it to replace the broadcast quality cameras quite yet…
Hey, Ruprecht, how’s the eye?
Jeez, liberals are like cockroaches, come from from everywhere when the lights go out. But turn on the Light, say “vote” and watch ’em scatter to Illinois!
Dumbest. Post. Ever.
not really sure what this post is saying…more like a weak poitico trying to be cute, i guess….sounds like a couple of my pop’s drinking buds..loud, spew words but don’t have a clue…neway..the video…thumbs up for giving it a spin and getting it on air..and lighting in an all night 7-11 kind of place isn’t easy at all, having done a few shoots in that environment myself…
Cool. But not sure that much editing was done. Look like a single shoot job.
You all make good points… I did use the VGA.. I was by myself, so need a monitor. I wish the front side cam was a little better.
The substance…well, you go where they send you.
They style…hey, part of my charm š
Editing… not much, but did trim things up and take out a few dead spots.
Nevertheless, it’s a good start, and shows the potential of the device. It’s going to take practice to get really good at it. But this was a first attempt on a 90 mins deadline. You do what you can do… and in that situation, you do what you can. And in THIS situation, and no photog around, I grabbed the iPad and went with it. No prep, and little planning.
Now, with more them and an extra body there in addition to the reporter, sky is the limit.
Mike
Fox 4, Beaumont TX
Mike, I think it was cool, and I’m not even a beer drinker. It certainly worked better than the old cell phone videos we see from time to time on networks. And the ability to frame yourself with an iPad opens things up. You are the innovator, so don’t worry about the couch potatoes trashing you from their parent’s basements. . . Too bad for the camera guys at your station. The GM will try to replace them all with iPads ;))
Congrats on the first known newscast made with iPad 2! I’m sure it’ll get better with time but it seems like you’re off to a good start.
P.S. The jerks that posted above are not representative of the readers of this site.
MIke, how did you get the shot so steady?
From the steadiness of most of the video, I’m assuming you had the iPad mounted to something.
Just held on w both hands!
Mike,
Great job! It’s amazing that it could even be done that way.
Apple needs to create a way for the camera app on the iPhone to transmit it’s stored video to an iPad without having to sync it to a computer. Can you imagine sending out people with iPhone 4s to capture video and then drawing it all into an iPad and editing it. It could change video journalism. I suggest shooting on the iPhone just because it’s camera is so much better and it’s easier to hold than an iPad.
It is called Photo Transfer it is great. It does need to be in a WiFi hotspot. Not a Apple product, but who cares.
Fox 4?
Booooo!
Sorry, but you can’t create content on an iPad. You have to use something like a Windows Slate to do that. iPad is only useful for consumption of content and not even good for that because it doesn’t support the world’s most important plug-in on the internet, Flash. No consumers or businesses will ever use an iPad and Apple will soon give up selling tablets and build netbooks instead.
Shot on an iPad2, edited on an iPad2. Presented on MDN in Flash.
unless you access it via iPad…..then it’s in html5
Once again we descend to the lowest common denominator. If this is the future of TV then count me out … Seriously, look at how crap the colours are – there’s no green – it’s all reds and blues, and the audio is peaking all over the place. Add to that the garbage framing and you realise why there are camera operators paid to shoot stories.
Just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should.
Had you read….you would have realized there was no camera man….just me holding the iPad. We will get ther w the sound and color, don’t worry. But to clear the reporter…me… was the operator. Not easy doing 8 things at once. it’s a first try. A little slack will prove to go a long way friend. š
Do you really think you would have gotten that great Irish beer review if the news producers had to use more than one guy? You think the camera work was the lowest common denominator? Now that Mike has paved the way, get ready for more in depth coverage of local cat shows and bake sales.
It’s great to see you on the forum mike, and exchange with the other fan boys about the story. It doesnt compare to a camera crew butI am sure you’ll become a lot better with experience on the iPad and I congratulate you for trying.
@Mike,
Great job!!
Don’t listen to the losers on this thread criticizing–I doubt they could have done better in 90 minutes.
You innovated and got the job done. That’s what counts!
Cheers.
Thanks,
It’s all good…..I have a thick skin.
I just can’t understand why the mainstream news media are losing audience by the bucketload.
LOL.
Mike – I read the story … Your framing is crap – I was pointing that out – it looks like a self-shot story. Should I congratulate you for churning out crap just because you did it all yourself?
Lowest common denominator.
Camera operators are paid to shoot stories for a reason and your story illustrates that well …
My point stands – just because you think you CAN do something, doesn’t mean you SHOULD.
Good on you for pushing the envelope of technology by using a consumer grade product to shoot a story for a major news network – well done.
Thanks for your effort, but to me it proves the value of trained, professional operators.
Tom,
Sounds like you are a angry, unemployed camera man.
Professionals using professional equipment usually will do a better job at whatever the task is. This guy did the best he could with the situation handed to him and it was the first time! It demonstrates the possibilities for the future.
First, before I forget, I want to be perfectly clear: Mike, with a 90-minute deadline, you did what you had to do and it’s as good as it is for mainly two reasons — your experience, and in no small part, the iPad 2. It’s easy for everyone to go Monday-morning-quarterbacking here, but if the choice was turn something in or not turn anything in, there really wasn’t much room for discussion.
I can understand Tom Waits and how he cringes when he sees one of the two faces on the screen half cut off, or when the beer bottles in the frame are tilted by 30 degrees. I tend to look at this from a different perspective: first, this is NOT a major news network; it is a small local TV station. Second, this is not a major news story about a senator soliciting prostitutes, or mayor receiving bribes from organized crime; this is a story about beer. Production quality criteria is not as high.
I’m sure, the next report done on an iPad will also contain some shots done by the other camera, intercut with the talking-head shots.
In NYC, there is a cable channel on Time Warner, New York One (channel 01), which does 24-hour local news about NYC. It started sometime in 1992, pioneering the concept of a single person reporter/cameraman. Back then, they all carried massive Sony BetaCAMs, often with tripods, and roamed the city looking for news. The station has recently migrated to HD and I’m sure their cameras are smaller, but their reporters still have to go through video journalism bootcamp before they can work.
It takes very little time to learn how to properly frame and shoot video, and I’m sure Mike is quite familiar with that. The only question is whether it is possible to properly do both tasks at the same time with the tools provided.
Is it me or is the resolution on that video very poor?
What I find ironic about all the naysayers talking about how mm can’t frame for crap is that mm is actually a really GOOD still photographer. He won’t take credit for it, but his photo skills should be credited for this turning out as good as it did. Steady photographer hands count for a lot. This could’ve ended up looking like “The Blair Witch Project.”
You mean the iPad isn’t a professional quality news reporting camera with built in professional editing features? Well I’m canceling my order asap. Jeez, take it for what it is. I’ve seen some news footage played on TV that is the same if not worse quality. Monday morning quarterbacking is right. Was this a really serious news story? I doubt it. I’m glad Mike has a sense of humor and thick skin. Maybe one of the detractors can write a book – Professional Video Shooting and Editing on the iPad for Dummies.
I liked the piece, it was a nice friendly segment, I didn’t expect it to be as polished as a 60 min piece! Obvioulsy it was mean as a fun casual report and it delivered that. Would have like to see more beer varieties though, instead of just Guniness Co.
Best NonAl beer I’ve had so far is from Lebatts. Almost passes for a real one. Just wish they could make a dark NA.
Sorry! 2 Typo’s- “ObviouSLY it was meanT as a fun casual report…”
Yeah, it’s definitely a first – maybe with the iPad camera and iMovie for iPad, maybe we’ll see more citizen journalism, and we the people can take back the news from corporate conglomerates! (Eat that, Rupert Murdoch! š )
I’m not some disgruntled camera operator – I work in the industry and if this is the direction its going then I see no future.
I wouldn’t get a plumber to fix my teeth and I wouldn’t use a journalist to self-shoot a story.
Sure Mike did what he could with what he had on the day and that’s great, but I look at his story and see some network executive saying to himself, “You know, give it a couple of years and we can sack all our camera operators. This will be our model going forward.”
It may seem far fetched, but the market for crap and fluff seems to outweigh the market for quality.
Kudos to you Mike and sorry if I slammed you unfairly.
I think we’re going to have to see widespread popularity among the citizen journalists before the commercial news studios decide to move en masse to using this kind of technology. I mean, yeah, it’s probably not that mindblowing to see a report on a local booze vendor shot on an iPad (other than it’s the first one), but what if we got some up close coverage of the Wisconsin protests? A big angle that the corporate media doesn’t want shown, but that a rogue everyday guy could capture and post online? That’s the kind of thing that would get iPad journalism going!
Would it affect the professionally paid cameramen? I don’t know. I suspect that a lot of it will still be towards people whose professions are something not related to journalism, but who capture the sides of the story that people want to hear about.