New Column: Ask the Experts!
Submitted by Eric Skillings
We've been getting some tech related questions from readers, so we feel like it is a great opportunity to start a column answering the questions for everyone!
We were asked:
"We have recently returned to in person services, and are looking to continue to record our services for uploading to fb. We were able to record from zoom and upload, but now we are looking for some technology help. There are two churches that alternate services monthly. The one church has internet and the smaller one does not. We would be able to live record through internet on the one for upload. My questions are: 1) Can we record on a phone and upload to fb without live streaming? 2) Is a phone too small a memory to do this?"
Martin Dawson of PEI answered:
Yes, you can record the video on a smartphone. The problem is the size of the file and the storage on the particular smartphone. Older phones have only 8 to 16 GB of storage on the phone, of which most of it is needed just to run the operating system and a few apps. Newer phones vary from 32 to 128GB of onboard storage. Apple phones do not give you the option of using a micro-sd card to augment the storage space; however, many Android phones do. If you have such a phone (my Motorola does and so does my older LG brand phone), you can insert the micro-sd card into it (through a side drawer or by removing the back) and then go to settings of camera to allow the recording to go directly to the micro-sd card instead of the phones own storage.
Also, be sure that the smartphone is near the speaker if you are only using the phone's internal microphone.
Stay tuned for the answer in our next newsletter! If you have a question you'd like answered, or you have an answer to one of the questions, please email editor@ucrmn.ca.
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