I am experimenting with recording some audio and video.
Ideally, I would like to use it to help my students create a more dynamic record of their trip in China (as well as to start developing some teaching support materials that use audio and video). For the time being my occasional efforts are more about learning the technology and its potential than producing some finished work. I have been trying to balance the two for this type of project as well as for more regular teaching (I reported on my podcast ideas, experiments and drew some conclusions).
I am slowly getting the hang of puting together the video and editing it (in short snippets of time) and have identified a way to host it. This is my first somewhat respectable attempt.

Sights and Sounds: Urumqi from Darryn Mitussis on Vimeo.

The video was shot with my little Panasonic DMC-LX3 (which is a pocket still camera with some basic video capabilities). The sound comes from both the camera and my Olympus LS-10 digital recorder. I edited it in Final Cut Express. The titles were created with Live Type (part of Final Cut Express) and still need some work. I didn’t use an external microphone or process the sound and I haven’t applied colour correction to the video.