Everything we design at Best Before stems from a single need - simplicity. This maybe because we can’t remember an FTP password and what video compression settings we need. Or it may be because we can’t be arsed to fiddle with simple things like overlays in editing programs like Final Cut Pro. And VideoBoo is the simplest thing we’ve made. A old fashioned photobooth in a digital video box, it’s a point and click approach to posting video online. Start her up, add some personal info like name and job description, hit record and you’re off. It already auto uploads to Youtube and Brightcove (complete with a rather nice overlay of that info you entered at the start) and we’ll be adding more services as we go along. Ideal for journalists, brilliant for businesses & schools - hey, we’ve even spoken to 10 Downing Street about this one. And best of all, our upcoming deal with the Brightcove platform means that their online solution suddenly got a whole more cost effective.
You can download a version by clicking here which uploads to a generic Youtube account: user is videoboodemo and password is videoboodemop. Runs on OSX 5 and up. We’ll hopefully be finishing a personalised evauluation soon that will upload to your own accounts.
November 28th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Hi Mark-
I’m glad to see VideoBoo again– it’s a great piece of software and definately satisfies a need! VideoBoo worked great for YourScienceYourSay this last summer- thanks for letting me use it early. You can see the response views we got here: http://uk.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=826047667C7371B1
Also, how is the refresh rate– it looks alright but not lightning-fast– is that because you’re running a screencast as well? It seemed smoother on the imac than on my macbook.
Cheers,
Ian
January 25th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
[...] thanks to Matt Waring and his team at Best Before TV, who are helping to cover the event with their VideoBoo package, which turns any Mac into a portable VideoBoo(th). We’ll get as much as we can embbed [...]
January 30th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
[...] aplicación hermana es Videoboo, aunque este no funciona en el iPhone porque éste no soporta grabación de vídeo. Esta [...]
February 1st, 2009 at 4:16 pm
[...] Mark Rock and Matt Waring at Bestbefore Media, as you can see in posts here. They have now made a free download available here. It will upload to a general YouTube account - videoboodemo. Personalised versions coming soon. Mac [...]
February 1st, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Only for Macs?
Any PC version planned?
February 14th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
We do have an AIR version planned, which will be cross platform. Can’t say when it will be ready but watch this space.
March 16th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
[...] video might be taken by recording vox-pops on a Flip, or using a service like the wonderful VideoBoo on a Macbook. The three services I tend to use are YouTube, Vimeo, and Blip.tv. YouTube has the [...]
March 18th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
[...] service from Best Before - the guys behind the awesome turn-your-macbook-into-a-videobooth service Videoboo - which is Audioboo. What you do with Audioboo is simple: record audio on your iPhone and publish [...]
March 23rd, 2009 at 11:15 pm
[...] is cool because it always people to send video to the web straight from their phones http://bestbefore.tv/2008/11/videoboo-simple-video-upload/ does a similar thing to qik but is on your computer and lets people interview themselves which is [...]
March 30th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Hi there, any news on when this will be available for pc? thanks!
April 8th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
hmm… love it.
April 9th, 2009 at 8:11 am
you mac guys have to come up faster with a good solution to catch up with http://www.nagashare.com/vjdirector.html