Editorial

Staff · Issue 82, Jan/Feb 2015 · pp. 4

Products mentioned: GoPro

Editorial Video in print There’s no doubt that with the marketing hype behind 4k, video is the new hot potato but discussing it in all its facets is actually quite difficult in a ‘printed’ magazine. Despite being in the digital age there are still lots of conventional magazines dedicated to photography where still images and the techniques behind them are displayed in print and discussed in the written word. The moving image - or video- however has been almost impossible to feature successfully in print because pages can’t include video clips. In a funny sort of a way UwP is rather like a conventionally printed magazine in that it too is limited as to how it can convey and discuss video footage and techniques. Sure we could embed video clips to go with the text but that would make the downloadable file size far too big which would take away from UwP’s advantage. The perfect domain for vi…