Comments on: Video Review of the Sandisk 8GB Card

By: virdi

virdi — Sat, 23 May 2009 11:06:47 +0000

hahahahaha… the accent looked like you landed from US after your first trip to US… Kiruba??? but gave us a good laugh…
Review was impressive… Accent was funny…

By: Pradeep Raghunathan

Pradeep Raghunathan — Sat, 23 May 2009 11:06:31 +0000

Ok, where did you buy it and how much was the cost? Thinking of getting one for my phone.

By: YardBoy

YardBoy — Sat, 23 May 2009 11:06:10 +0000

Good to see you again.
Had you just hosted another vodka tasting?

By: Rhapsoder

Rhapsoder — Sat, 23 May 2009 11:05:51 +0000

* that accelerates writes to the same SD card to about 12-16MBps?

By: Rhapsoder

Rhapsoder — Sat, 23 May 2009 11:05:30 +0000

Hey Kribs,

Hmm.. 4MBps?? Could I interest you in reviewing a product that accelerates writes to the product to about 12-16MBps?

I’ve seen performances of approximately 1GB per minute.

By: Sandip Bhattacharya

Sandip Bhattacharya — Sat, 23 May 2009 11:05:03 +0000

I think the video is quite nice in content. Just echoing some other stuff that people have already spoke:

- more footage of product needed, especially make it fill the screen space to let viewers get a good feel of holding it in their hand.

- Trying not get the whole thing in one shot and breaking it up into smaller shots.

Two additional things that would definitely help:
- Try not to speak continuously while shooting. That would allow you later during editing to cut out portions from the video that are good. It is impossible to cut shots if a conversation is going on.

- You cannot believe the difference that a tripod can do to you. I understand you have a mobile phone, but you should quickly move to one which allows you to keep the camera static else you will make your viewers giddy.

By: Srini

Srini — Sat, 23 May 2009 11:04:47 +0000

the face of the subject is too close to the camera
at the same time if you have made it far away, the audio quality may have taken its back seat.

my 5 paisa
maintain some distance between the cam and the subject so that enough surroundings come into the frame and make it more interesting

record ur audio separately and mix it with the video

By: pat

pat — Sat, 23 May 2009 11:04:02 +0000

Kiruba,

when you reviewed your video and found all the issues that you should take care of.. why didn’t you just reshoot the video.. It not like you sanked in a whole lot of money and made a movie
Its like practising public speaking in front of the public.

-Patrick

By: Guru

Guru — Sat, 23 May 2009 11:02:55 +0000

These product review videos work better when someone else is shooting, that gives the reviewer two hands to handle the product.

And also, i think you posted the video directly unedited, right ? You could’ve edited out the bad parts and filled in with retakes of the lines and was the video shot all at once ? I don’t think any video review or unboxing video is done from start to end at once, the trick is to break the review it into parts and shoot each part at a place best suitable for it (like you could’ve used your PC to explain the transfer speed part) and then paste everything together, also you could use some on-screen text while giving out the specs ( at least for this product the specs part was very less) ..

My 2 cents..

By: Kiruba Shankar

Kiruba Shankar — Sat, 23 May 2009 10:54:49 +0000

Parallel cinema, yup that’s my inspiration!

Nah! just kidding. Shows how amateurish I can get. like I said, the only way I can go from here is up. Hopefully, things get better.