Video Search Engines
Go here for a blog featuring a list of video search engines.
Fantomas, a top SEO expert, lists them as follows:
And of course, let’s not forget these two big ‘uns:
You night also want to read his diatribe against crap, time-wasting web videos. He’s as concerned that they waste our time as he is that they’re, well, crap.
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Why This is a Good Time to Start Your Video Business
The economy’s tough. Prices are rising. People are getting laid off.Marketing dollars are being slashed.
What better time to start a business?
Tribute Video Book Now Available
No one is training people on how to tell a compelling story. How to interview, how to move pictures, how to choose music, how to pace videos, how to get a visceral reaction from an audience!
That’s where “Tribute Videos for Love & Money” comes in.
Here’s a Good Article on Writing… Sparingly.
Just bumped into this from a sight called Remarkable Communications. It’s worth a gander.
How to Write a Video Script, or, Words Only When Necessary
At some point in your communications career, you will be faced with writing a video script. It comes with the territory. How you respond to this distraught pleasure will say a lot aboutyou and your understanding of visual media.
What makes writing an av script hard is not knowing how easy it can be. By the very nature of the written word for a visual medium, the key to success is less, not more.
PSSST….Are You Packin’ Cam?
Are you packin’?
Your video camera, that is.
Your camera– and your right to use it– is as important to many of us as our right to pack heat– uh, carry a concealed weapon, that is. And no, I don;t pack heat.
But I do pack cam, and that can be just as important. With it, you can:
* Capture a family moment.
* Witness a crime.
* Record breaking news or a natural disaster.
* Make a personal statement by pointing the camera at yourself.
* Record a coworkers moment of triumph.
* Surreptitiously record b-roll for a company video.
* Ask Grandma 20 questions for posterity before she shuffles off to Baltimore.
* Narrate your own personal documentary.
* Record something worth 100,000 hits on YouTube (like that territorial squirrel fight I saw– and missed– the other day. I forgot to pack cam.)
So pack cam. The links you gain, the views you rank, even the money you make from a once in a lifetime catch, is worth only the amount of cam you take.
Slide Show Case History: A Family Tribute
This family history DVD was created as a Christmas gift from parents to their sons and daughter and their childrens’ children. What an amazing and thoughtful gift. While it preserves photos and especially 8mm films that had not been seen in decades, the larger story is the interviews from the parents that pepper the story. This excerpt hopefully will give you the flavor of a compelling, lasting keepsake not possible in any other way.
Maybe They Won’t Skip Our Commercials If We MAKE THEM LOUDER
Once again, there is an uproar over the “loudness” of commercials versus the loudness of the programs in which those programs reside.
As the keeper of the remote, I have spent a lifetime hearing “turn that damn thing down” whenever commercials come on.
Here’s the secret: they aren’t louder. Well, technically. TV spots are just as loud as tv shows… t their “peak volume”, The trick is– tv spots are all at peak volume…. through a technical audio processing technique called “compression.”
So while 24 has a peak volume of uns being fired and Jack dshouting and bombs detonating and stuff blowing up, it also has low peak volume of Jack muttering under his breath, “With all due respect Madam President, ask around.”
Then, a few seconds later, he yells “We don’t have time!!!” at the peak of his lungs.
So TV spots are the equivilant of Jack Bauer yelling “we don’t have time!” for 60 seconds straight.
Slide Show Secrets Podcast 1: Introduction
Recorded in my mobile recording studio outside of Stop & Shop, Phillipsburg, NJ.
An Introduction to SlideShow Secrets
“Edit Like a Pro”– the Software Package Promise
I just got a sales email from a software company telling me that if I bought their video editing software, I would be “editing like a pro.”
Well, that’s great. Because I figure, I’ve been doing this video thing for about 30 years now, and at this point, I hope I am a pro, so that I don’t need to edit “like” one.