I Got My Video Inspection Tool.

[Stephen W. Stanczyk]

that works fine. A little small but clear...Have fun with this one John.....

[Larry D. Kage]

Works fine, John.

Have fun with your new toy...errr...tool.

[Leonard E. Ungar]

I'm gonna TELL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bob Elliott]

What do you need to spend to get a camcorder which allows you to pull good res pics for the report?
Anybody know.?
I imagine 3 pix would do it.

Some of them have sweet zoom.

[Michael H. Butters]

I got it the first time; John. It looks fine to me. You don't sound funny to me - No twang. No twang at all. Nope, Can't hear that twang.

[John McKenna]

I got this little cam and coverted the file to flash (reduced size).

I may offer to take vids for out of state clients for an extra $50.

Then I will place it on my server in a flash file (like my sample) and
let them veiw it so they can see a little walk through of the house.

I can reduce a low resolution 2 minute AVI file to a flash file and get
it down to 5 MB. I will give them a link to the clip in their pdf report.
(and I will give them a link to download the clip if they want to keep it).

Read the report... click and see 2 min walk through clip on their browser,
in a flash file format. Easy for low tech clients.

Have I got the idea right? I'm getting close.

[John McKenna]

OK... I got this set up ...

This is a sample video tour of a home (1.5 min)
http://texas-inspection.com/13

This is the cam I used ($86). It produced a 13 MB avi file from this 1.5 min video tour.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000P6J77G/ref=pd_cp_p_0?pf_rd_p=250314001&pf_rd_s=center-41&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B000T9U4O4&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKI K X0DER&pf_rd_r=1011JGK82G447QTZ9G4Z

This is the FREE flash coverter I used to reduce to a 4 MB flash file from this 1.5 min video tour (click done.)
http://www.dhost.info/jack1024/video_to_flash_en/

Make code to embedd flash on your site (very easy and you can adjust size anytime).
http://cit.ucsf.edu/embedmedia/step1.php

Once you have the code set up, you can use the same code each time for different clips.
(keep it small so the low quality looks good)

So I take 2 min clip at the inspection. Plug in cam and it uploads without
software or hassle. Upload to page with pre-set code ready to play flash video.

Thats it... now I can offer a brief video walk through service with my my
regular inspection and thermal imaging service...

[klott]

That's one way to keep the client out of your hair. tell them they don't need to be at the inspection to see it.

[klott]

You're gonna need 3 hands before long John.