Tips for Hiding and Concealing Microphones
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008The people at Videomaker have some great tips for hiding and concealing microphones. Useful for many of us Internet TV makers.
Posts Tagged ‘TV’
Flickr Video to be(come) THE Stock Video Library?
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008Flick got video.
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.
Tips for Creating Internet TV shows, from Kent Nichols, Lindsay Campbell, Felicia Day, Steve Garfield, and Gary Vaynerchuk
Sunday, March 16th, 2008Good tips from experts in Internet TV.
Avoiding Continuity Problems
Thursday, March 13th, 2008The people at Videomaker give a great overview of Continuity is and why it is important.
Here’s the articles from the video…
Attack of the Killer Ninja
Thursday, March 13th, 2008Andrew Michael Baron (of the Rocketboom fame) tells us that Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, of the Ask a Ninja fame, have just landed a film deal, to remake Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.
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.
Apple to Adobe, Flash video not suitable for iPhone
Thursday, March 6th, 2008It wasn’t too long again that we pointed out the announcement that Apple’s iPhone would be able to play Flash Video soon.
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.
How YouTube Became an Online Video Giant
Thursday, March 6th, 2008YouTube founder Jawed Karim gave the following lecture (shown in the video below) about how YouTube became an Online Video giant.
(Via GigaOM.)
Learn the Secrets of Deceptive Camera Shooting
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008The people at Videomaker have a great tutorial on deceptive shooting…
Here’s the articles for the tutorial listed…
1000 True Fans - The idea is that a videoblogger could make a living from just 1000
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008Andrew Michael Baron (of the Rocketboom fame) wrote to point of an article that suggests that you can make a living off of video blogging with just 100 “true” fans.
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”.
7 Ways to Promote Your Web Videos
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008Over at Web Video Doctor there’s a list of 7 things you can do to promote you videos. He’s a summary of them.
#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.