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You must sign up as a Broadcaster and Within minutes you will be streaming Live Video to i2air from your Mobile Phone. As a Broadcaster you can share archived videos with your friends and stream Live to your friends.

You can also add your friends email addresses, easily share archived and live video with them. You can also see all of the videos that have been shared with you, Chat with Live Broadcasters, Comment on Archived Videos, Flag Videos as Inappropriate, and Rate Videos.

No, when you register for a free account on the website you will have a broadcaster account. This will let you start broadcast from the mobile device, see all of the videos that have been shared with you, Chat with Live Broadcasters, Comment on Archived Videos, Flag Videos as Inappropriate, and Rate Videos.

First make sure you have a cellular signal. The best way to test this is to navigate to a website using your mobile browser. If you can connect to a website you have a data connection! Now make sure you are not plugged into a power source such as your computer or the wall, if you were connected to a computer with a sync connection then disconnecting may fix the problem, restart i2air.

If you have a data connection, but still can not connect, please check the settings from the main screen in i2air and confirm your user name and password are correct. If you still can not stream then quit out of i2air and launch the program again. Make sure you have at least minimal cellular signal showing on your phone. Last but not least restart your phone! If you still can’t stream to the server, then wait a few minutes and try again, our server may be busy.

 

On your phone start i2air, click on menu (right soft key), scroll down to Disable Audio and click O.K. If you want to Enable Audio do the same steps and you will have the option to Enable the Audio.

When you are logged into the site, under my profile, click add contacts. Click import email addresses to add email addresses from most major web based email accounts. Enter your email address and password for the email account and click Find Your Friends. We do not save your password or log-in information!!! Select your contacts names you want to import, then click Import Contacts. Your contacts will appear under the Contacts tab.

To add Contacts Manually, click Add Contacts Manually. Enter the email address and name for the contact.  Click Add More Contacts, to add more than one contact manually at a time.  Then click Submit. Your contacts will appear under the Contacts tab.

While logged in, Under My Profile, Click Media in the top left corner, you will see the videos broadcasted or uploaded to i2air.
Click on the top line above the video on the text Untitled and enter text to Title the Video.

Click on the x in the upper right corner of the Video to Delete the Video, you will have to confirm you want to Delete the Video.

Under the bottom left of the Video Click on Share, a screen will pop-up with a list of the Contacts that have permission to view the Video, Select the names of the contacts you want to send an email and click Share. An email with a link to the Video will be sent to the selected individuals.

While logged in and Viewing a Live Video you can send Chat messages to the Broadcasters Phone by typing a message in the Chat window to the right of the Video playing and Clicking Comment. The message is sent immediately to the screen of the Broadcaster and remains on the Broadcasters screen for 20 seconds before being removed automatically. These comments are archived along with the video.

While logged in and Viewing an Archived Video you can Comment on a Video by clicking in the Comment window to the right of the Video playing, typing your Comment in the window and Clicking Comment.

All videos that are flagged as inappropriate are reviewed. You must be logged in to Flag a Video as Inappropriate.

Click on The Flag as Inappropriate Text to the right of the Video. You must confirm you want to Flag the Video as Inappropriate. The video will be removed from sharing and/or Public display and be reviewed by the i2air Content Monitoring team. The Broadcaster of the Video will be notified by email that the Video is being reviewed. The video will also indicate that it has been flagged on the video.

The Video will be viewable by the person who Flagged the Vido until the refresh the page or navigate away from the page.

The Code of Conduct and Terms Of Use are available using the links at the bottom of the Main Home Page. Violating these Terms is cause to be permanently banned from i2air.

Typically we suggest setting the backlight and display to never time out. You have 2 options here, the first is you can click on any key, which should cause the display to turn back allowing you to see what you are shooting. The 2nd option is to change your display to timeout after 1 minute or even more extreme to never timeout (please note that never timeout mode will shorten your phone’s power time). On Windows Mobile, click on your start menu, scroll to sttings, scroll to more, then to power management, Click O.K on power management, scroll right and left to select the length of time you want the backlight and display screen to stay on for, click done to save your changes.

While logged in, under My Profile, click Profile.

Click Change User Photo, click Browse to locate a photo on your computer (must be in jpeg format), after selecting the file Click Save Changes.

Click Change Password, you must type in your old password, then your new password, click Save Changes. Please note, You MUST change your password in Phlyr on your phone!!!

Click Show Email, you will see the email address associated with your account.

While i2air is streaming on your phone, click on the right soft key Menu, select View Recordings. Here you can either view recordings by selecting a video and clicking on the Left Soft Key View, delete a video by selecting it and clicking the Right Soft Key Menu and clicking on Delete, or Delete all records by clicking on the Right Soft Key menu and selecting Delete All Records. Note you can also view the locally recorded files here or upload files you may have shot while out of signal range or not connected to the server. You can also move directly back to Start Broadcast from this Menu key.

We suggest locking the phone when you are not using it. This may take a little getting used to but it will put your screen to sleep, prevent accidental phone calls, accidental streaming on i2air and save your battery life.

Shooting quality Video on a mobile device is an art form, here are a few tips for Capturing great mobile video.
a)    Consider using close-up shots. Wide shots lose focus, which makes it difficult for the viewer to see the people.
b)    The fewer people in each shot the better. If a single person is in the shot, you do not have to frame the person in the center. The person can be set to the side, using the rest of the image to capture background or something else integral to the shot.
c)    For a background, use the simplest background that makes sense. Complex backgrounds will not translate well to mobile, but go ahead and experiment!
d)    The slowest amount of camera/phone movement possible is best. The same is true for people moving. A lot of movement by a person or animal is hard to watch on a mobile device or capture with a reduced frame rate.
e)    Fast cuts or movement between scenes are difficult for the viewer to comprehend and should not be used.
Most important of all have Fun and Experiment, Mobile Video is an art form!