Many people have been reporting on it and commenting on it.

And with all those opinions going around, it seems only fitting to throw in one of our own.

Here’s our prediction……. Flickr Video will not be like YouTube, Blip.tv, Revver, Veoh, or any of the other video sharing sites.

Flickr Video will be(come) a Stock Video library. Maybe THE stock video library.

(This may even turn out to be revenue source for them if they act as the “payment gateway”, and take a small cut of all purchases of stock footage.)

That’s why only 90 seconds. (Stock Video video is usually short.)

Back when I first heard Flickr was getting video… I thought to myself, if I were Flickr, I’d try to be a Stock Footage site. Flickr certainly already has the right type of users to build up an impressive stock footage library. It also presents a possibility of a revenue source of selling stock footage.

Thinking that I suspected that that may be their plan. And now that they’ve said the videos can only be 90 seconds long, I’m more certain about it.

It will be interesting to see how things play out.

Here’s the articles from the video…

• Five Tips of Continuity
• Composition 101
• Composition 102
• Shooting for the Final Edit
• Got a Match?
• Shoot the Plan: Production Planning Tips
• Maintaining Continuity

As Andrew puts it…

You guys are *$@#$@ awesome!

This is awesome news!

Seeing what Doug and Kent have done with Ask a Ninka, you know their remake of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes will be better than the original.

Well, it seems Apple Computers has done a “180″.

Apple is now asserting that Flash Video is NOT meet Apple’s performance standards for video.

Is this a case of business maneuvering, with Apple simply choosing to not give Adobe an easy in on their iPhone systems?!

Or is there actual merit to these claims? Does Flash video actually have performance problems (that QuickTime itself doesn’t have)?!

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

(Via GigaOM.)

Here’s the articles for the tutorial listed…

• How DID They do That?
• What’s Your Angle?
• Tilt! Using the Frame for Special Effects
• Getting Started: Shooting for the Holidays

As Andrew says…

The idea is that a videoblogger could make a living from just 1000 “true” fans.

From the article…

A True Fan is defined as someone who will purchase anything and everything you produce. They will drive 200 miles to see you sing. They will buy the super deluxe re-issued hi-res box set of your stuff even though they have the low-res version. They have a Google Alert set for your name. They bookmark the eBay page where your out-of-print editions show up. They come to your openings. They have you sign their copies. They buy the t-shirt, and the mug, and the hat. They can’t wait till you issue your next work. They are true fans.

Assume conservatively that your True Fans will each spend one day’s wages per year in support of what you do. That “one-day-wage” is an average, because of course your truest fans will spend a lot more than that. Let’s peg that per diem each True Fan spends at $100 per year. If you have 1,000 fans that sums up to $100,000 per year, which minus some modest expenses, is a living for most folks.

I’d encourage you to read more of the article… it’s an interesting read.

UPDATE: Kent Nichols (of the Ask a Ninja fame) gave a followup that basically says that about 1% of your total fan base will be “true fans”, so that you’ll end up needing about 100,000 fans to get 1,000 “true fans”.

#1: Submit your video to these social bookmarking sites
#2: Submit to these entertainment sites
#3: Promote within YouTube
#4: Submit to forums on the Internet
#5: Submit to the major network television shows
#6: Post to your blog, especially if you have a high traffic blog!
#7: Forward to family and friends

#5 on his was surprising to me…

Submit to the major network television shows: Get your video on one of these huge shows for a chance of big time publicity

He even lists the e-mail addresses to use.

Read the full list to get all the info.