What are the advantages of videoconferencing?
The Problem Until this very day, the Internet has been of little use to Jim in coaching his clients in their performances as comedy often involves facial expressions and stage business that demands split-second timing. The “jaggies” we associate with web video interfered with transmission so badly, Jim never knew what a client was really trying to show the coach. Whenever Jim digitized a client’s video tape to put it online, he’d be required to make several passes with the video codec program before Jim could finally get the exact gesture, etc., to show up. What a pain! In the past, clients had two workaround options if they wanted to show their split-second timing, : 1) video tape themselves, then snail mail/FedEx the tape and call up for Jim’s notes on their writing and performing while they were also viewing a copy of their video tape on their end. or: 2) spend over $3,000 flying Jim across the country, putting him up in a hotel and feeding Jim for a week or longer; all this require
