On the Interviewee’s side, the recording button will appear in the lower right corner. Pressing this button, will pause or stop the current recording.
With the dual delivery strategy, interviewers can conduct a real-time interview in low resolution while a high quality recording is saved locally on the device. After the interview, the HD recordings from each side are automatically transferred to the cloud and processed into one full conversation. You don’t lose any interactivity between interviewer and interviewee, while your audio and video footage is recorded in HD quality. The synchronized audio & video footage is instantly available for editing.
‘Locally recorded’ means that the recording takes place on the smartphone instead of over the internet. You’re not dependent on limited bandwidth and connection speed, so you don’t lose any important information and don’t encounter any disruptions.
All recordings are provided in .mp4 format. The audio recordings are 48 kHz 16 bit. The video recordings are up to HD 1080 & 30 fps per track. NowMax records with industry leading codecs, without any artificial upscaling.
You can record 30 minutes during the first 14 days for free and see how it sounds and looks. Request a demo.
As an Interviewer, you can remotely control several parameters: white balance, light intensity and output volume. These changes will also be visible and audible in the recorded footage of the interview. It’s quite important to correctly adjust the parameters during the realtime conversation in order to generate the same HD image.
You can even send on-screen commands to remotely ‘direct’ your Interviewee and you can add a ‘rule of thirds’ overlay – however, these will not be visible in the end result.
If you want any of the video call screens enlarged, you can just click on their side of the screen. Your share of the screen will become a little smaller by doing so, and vice versa.
It might seem strange, but using your LTE/4Q mobile data produces a more stable connection stream during video calls. However, your mobile data plan might be more expensive than your Wifi internet connection.
In order to process the amount of video footage (realtime video call + upload of HD video footage to the servers), you would transfer up to 1 Megabyte per second.
As a rule of thumb, you would require 1 Gigabyte of free space on your mobile device for a HD recording of approximately 30 minutes. NowMax temporarily stores the recorded footage before uploading it to the cloud.
Of course, the transmission of the HD video footage demands the biggest amount of data.
In order of size: HD video footage > realtime video footage > HD audio footage > realtime audio footage
You can request four different HD outputs:
Before it is transferred to the NowMax servers, your local recording is temporarily stored on your mobile device (you won’t be able to find it, though). Before starting a recording, you should make sure that you have enough storage capacity available.
The rule of thumb is that an HD video recording of 1 minute would require between 30 and 45 Megabytes. In comparison, you would require one Gigabyte of free space for a recording of respectively 33 to 22 minutes.
Within the video call, you can check your available disk space by checking the ‘Status’ tab. The recording is automatically deleted after it has been uploaded.
After the interview, the HD recordings are automatically sent to the NowMax servers (cloud). You can request the recorded files through the ‘history’ tab on the app, or on the the NowMax web portal. After processing these files, they become available for download at the same location. As an interviewer, you will also receive a download link via e-mail.
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