Take a Leap into the Future of Mobile Journalism [Webinar Recording]
 
 
Our foremost experts in television and news production are going to walk through many exciting portfolio enhancements and discuss some of the biggest disruptors in Mobile Journalism.
We will feature the AVIWEST MOJOPRO app, providing high-quality and affordable video and audio transmission and contributions from any mobile device ideal for Mobile Journalism. It encourages and empowers journalists to produce more video stories using their smartphones, in a quick, discreet, and flexible manner.
Jim Jachetta:                      Good morning, everyone. I’m Jim Jachetta, CTO of VidOvation, and today I’m joined by my good friend and colleague, Florian Kolmer. He is a sales director for the US for AVIWEST. He’s more than just a sales director. He’s a network engineer. He knows the AVIWEST product line inside and out. So, he’s not your typical sales guy, for sure. He designs systems, so Florian’s going to lay some knowledge on us today about mobile journalism. Tell us a little bit about what we’re going to talk about today, Florian. Welcome.
Florian Kolmer:                 So, thank you, Jim, for the introduction. So, the topic of today’s webinar is mobile journalism. So, especially during this time where everybody is staying at home or trying to be alone, alone in their normal life, daily life, alone in front of the camera, alone managing the camera, alone doing the production, basically.
Florian Kolmer:                 So, today’s webinar we explain all new solutions that are designed to do mobile journalism and one man crew journalism, as well. So, that’s the subject of today’s webinar. I will start with an introduction about what mobile journalism is, what it can do, what you can do with those the new technologies and products and then we will go a bit more technical about the MOJOPRO solutions by AVIWEST, which products we can provide, what the features they’re offering, how you can use them and then I will talk a bit more about very specific IT technology, which is behind it and which is making it much more reliable and high quality for broadcasters, proficient and production company prelaunch journalist compared to [inaudible 00:02:21] video apps for smartphones you can easily find on the marketplaces like Apple store or Google.
Jim Jachetta:                      Mm-hmm (affirmative). Well, so Florian, I have a little poll, a little survey but I want to ask people, do they use MOJO now? Maybe define what that is first so people know where we’re coming from. If they’re not familiar with MOJO or the term mobile journalism, maybe speak to that, then I can put the poll up.
Florian Kolmer:                 Sure. Mobile journalism is a way of producing live and recorded video content in an easy, mobile and portable way using smartphone technologies. In most of the presentation I will show pictures with smartphones but of course it could be using tablets as well.
Jim Jachetta:                      Okay, okay.
Florian Kolmer:                 [crosstalk 00:03:16] with tablets and smartphones, for example. Most of our users doing mobile journalism is synonymous of one man crew as well. It’s not necessarily monetary. You can still have a cameraman behind a smartphone but usually it’s a way to be ...