{"id":9792,"date":"2019-05-18T13:04:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T12:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=9792"},"modified":"2025-12-06T20:38:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T20:38:39","slug":"the-may-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/the-may-is-out\/","title":{"rendered":"The May is Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-9792-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" poster=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_4037.jpeg\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_4036.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_4036.mp4\">https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_4036.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>A test of <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/app\/id1277445843\">snapthread<\/a> which has been updated to version 2. When <a title=\"Snapthread\" href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/snapthread\/\">I tried the 1.8.1 version<\/a> I rather liked it. It was then an app to stitch live photos into wee videos on iOS. <a title=\"Version 2.0 \u2013 Snapthread\" href=\"https:\/\/snapthread.app\/2019\/05\/12\/version-2-0\/\">Version 2 adds a lot more features<\/a>. I still like it.<\/p>\n<p>This video should not be used to judge the quality of the output, I used <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/cloudconvert\/id842077384?mt=8\">\u200eCloudConvert<\/a> to squash the 38MB 1440\u200a\u00d7\u200a1080 mp4 down to 4.5MB <a id=\"fnr1-2019-05-18\" href=\"#fn1-2019-05-18\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My class used the free version, limited to 30 seconds of video, last session a bit, we had a few crashes, but I think it is a promising app. Ease of use, limited time of the free version and lack of stickers, for now <a id=\"fnr2-2019-05-18\" href=\"#fn2-2019-05-18\"><sup>2<\/sup><\/a>, are useful for the classroom. My class use iMovie and Clips too, but sometimes we might not want the greater complexity of iMovie or the wacky possibilities of clips.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately CloudConvert doesn&#8217;t work for me on the school network, I&#8217;ve tried a few apps that convert and squash video but no really found a good one for pupils to use. I would like my pupils to be able to do that, to save space on their blogs and to speed up uploading. I am not sure on the official line on posting to silos in North Lanarkshire. Social media, especially twitter, is very popular. That is staff rather than pupil posting, I&#8217;d like my pupils to be involved in the uploading of video to their e-Portfolios and the class blog without my interference.<\/p>\n<p>For Glow Blogs, I&#8217;d also like the app to change the file type to mp4 or m4v as .MOV files, that are apples favourite, don&#8217;t play nicely with all browsers. We made a change to standard WordPress functionality to accept .MOV files as video, but some browsers don&#8217;t play them. Strangely, just editing the file extension, from .MOV to .m4v works, at least for Chrome. I can&#8217;t find a way to change extensions on iOS but I&#8217;ve tested on the desktop.<\/p>\n<p>FWIIW Snapthread&#8217;s videos are .MP4 when exported to the camera roll, so only need squashed for my needs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"footnotes\">\n<ol>\n<li><a id=\"fn1-2019-05-18\"><\/a> Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcoutts81\">Martin Coutts<\/a> for the <a title=\" \u2102 \uf8ff on Twitter: &quot;Try using cloudconvert. CloudConvert by Lunaweb Ltd. https:\/\/t.co\/U5MMISkfek\u2026 &quot;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcoutts81\/status\/1128713125568577538\">pointer to CloudConvert<\/a> <a href=\"#fnr1-2019-05-18\">&#x21a9;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Snapthreads developer has a really interesting post about the development of the app: <a href=\"https:\/\/beckyhansmeyer.com\/2019\/04\/30\/journey-to-2-0-market-appeal\/\">Journey to 2.0: Market Appeal | Becky Hansmeyer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A  test of @snapthread 2.0 and some ramblings on video size and formats, classroom video apps and blogging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnjohnston\/status\/1136307014404059136","https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnjohnston\/status\/1129719356047351808"],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10,21,1784,222,45,84],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wwwd","7":"tag-blogging","8":"tag-classroom","9":"tag-glow-blogs","10":"tag-glowblogs","11":"tag-ios","12":"tag-video","13":"kind-article","15":"h-entry","16":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-2xW","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9792"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9902,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792\/revisions\/9902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9792"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=9792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}