Make short form video work for you
By Ken Subedi, Kathmandu
Instagram launched a glorious feature called video to be edited with image stabilisation. What does this step mean for Vine? The competion gives users adequato excitement wheather you are a Vine freak or Instagram loyalist. Instagram attracts people who document their feet, coffees and pets, whereas Vine has been pleasing users who are pleased by the objections made in the app.
Instagram’s video offering is just as good as its photo offering due to its photo offering due to its filters, longer video lemgth, stability technology and already ingrained user behaviour. Vine videos are nearly 6.5 seconds long. Twitter specific Vine determines that its length is perfect for video consumption and also makes the creator to think out of the box so as to tell the story concisely. Instagram video lasts for 15 seconds, which could feel lengthr for the viewer but for the creator it can be spacious.
There are many similarities in both platforms, like allowing to shoot multiple, disjoint clips, and string them together. Instagram lets users delete the last clip they shot in a series to recover the bad take. You can remove the most recent clip taken. However, Vine does not let you edit at all. Both Instagram and Vine will not let you take video from your camera roll. Both demand that you shoot Vine-able or Instagramable video through their own respective apps. However, Vined or Instagramed clips will be instantly saved to the camera roll for later camera and let you switch back and forth between front- and rear-facing cameras while taking snaps.
Instagram’s cinema feature helps to stablise video shot within the app. Vine does not have such feature. In case of sharing options, Instagram tops Vine. Vine lets you share to Vine, Facebook (FB), and Twitter whereas Instagram lets you share videos to FB, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, foursquare and even through e-mail. As Twitter’s video service, Vine has Twitter’s full card support allowing Vines display right in your Twitter stream. Geo-tagging of locations can be done in both apps but it is only Instagram that offers a photomap that lets you surf users’ photos based on location.
Both Vine and Instagram will auto play videos but Instagram will auto play videos but Instagram makes you two-second buffer wait before it plays. Vine is more rapid, maybe due to its short length. There is no option for silencing video in both the apps.
The author is the technical writer at www.thinkdigitalworld.com and Living with ICT. He can be reached at kengb1@gmail.com.
