I've done plenty of interviews in my career. I've migrated from phone interviews that I've either incorporated into articles, to fairly straight transcriptions - also delivered as text. About 3 years ago, I started recording video interviews, mostly at trade shows. Next week I'll be recording more formally set interviews at the Web3.0 conference in Santa Clara, CA. and this will be a departure from my earlier experiences.

Next week at the Web3.0 Conference, I'll be setting up both my video cameras in a 'studio' situation, and recording interviews with a dozen or so of the speakers. I'm looking forward to this not only because I love being involved in the semantic technology space, but also because it will be another level of video experience for me. I've shot previously with 2 cameras, but in this situation, I'll have both cameras on tripods recording both a dual shot (myself and the interviewee) and just the interviewee.

I know that Premiere Pro CS4 has multi-camera editing capability, and the updated computer I'll be using for edits should handle the editing load just fine, but putting together and editing 2 videos will be an interesting learning experience. I'll be recording the audio on only 1 of the cameras, so I'll need to understand synching. And neither of my cams have timecode functions (at least as far as I can tell), so synching will be a manual process.

I'll be experimenting just a bit at home before I go for the real thing. Hopefully I'll get enough learning under my belt to avoid any really serious problems while I'm there. As a fail-safe, I'll get enough plenty of video from the main cam to be able to create a finished product.

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