Camera Support

Camera Support and fixing Shaky video is discussed.  Should I use a tripod, or other type of camera support?  If you haven's used a camera support I demonstrate how to remove shakes in Final Cut Pro.

Online Video Production

Ranking for Online Video production is proving more difficult than I thought it would. I am not getting any traction at all.  In the Mill Park Beautician challenge the Digg that I submitted ranked very early and continues to rank quite well. The two Diggs I did for this challenge are not ranking in the top 200 for the phrase online video production.

Interestingly though the site and the optimised pages have now been indexed by Google they still dont rank at all.  It funny really because if this blog has any themes at all they would be "video" and "online".  Clearly Google though doesn't see this site as an authority on these matters at all.

One possible explanation of not ranking could be the confused linking structure I embarked on when I started this particular campaign and the "back-dating" of content as I wrote four articles all on the same day.  I will expand on this confused linking structure in a later post but hopefully the linking of this article will help boost this flagging experiment, trying to rank for Online Video Production.

Online Video Production

Producing online video for your company is becoming more and more important. Your clients want to "see and hear" if they can "feel" your product.  Camthecameraman has extensive experience in producing video for both offline and online markets.  From full Broadcast quality HD TV shows to "on-the-road" web cam reports, Cameron can handle them all.

Online Video Production requires different strategies to be successful and Cameron can talk you through all stages of production.  Whether its that you just need "a bit of help setting something up" or to hand off the entire production process Cameron can help.

Contact Cameron via his hotmail account camthecameraman at hotmail dot com (Sorry I cant write it properly, the last time I did that I got inundated with SPAM!!  I think it is fairly easy to understand though ;-) ) Alternatively if you are in Australia you may wish to try my mobile number which is 0413 642 965.

Online Video Production

Online Video Production is something I am very passionate about.  It is also something that this site doesnt rank for, that concerns me on two fronts: One, I should rank for phrases that I am passionate about and can offer value to organisations for and also I have been challenged to rank for phrases hard than the ones I have ranked for previously such as "Zappo the Clown" "Basane" and "Absolute Legend"

As an SEO strategist and video producer I thought it important to rank for a phrase like this and to make my details available for anyone who wants a video producer who fully understands the online space.  My work at industry leaders Stew Art Media allows me to pursue video production for the online space.

This challenge though is more about seeing if I can rank for this phrase "Online Video Production".  I do already rank number one in google.com.au for the phrase "video conversions melbourne" as a result of  an article I wrote on the adwords campaign of a company here in Melbourne.  I will keep the blog updated on this and other ranking attempts.  But his challenge maybe the hardest yet "Online Video Production"

This article by Phil Cooke confirms what I have experienced with creating video for the online and mobile market.  Attention spans are shorter online.  You need to grab your audience early and keep the video interesting so people wont click away.

Found this video today and thought I would share it here:

 

Interactive Video Object Manipulation from Dan Goldman on Vimeo.

 

One of the most commonly asked questions I find on twitter is a varient on the theme of "free software" for a variety of tasks. While I can throughly recomend the use of paid software I also know the thrill of performing a task at an advanced level and "sticking it up 'em" by not having to pay for the tools to perform the task.

When it comes to free editing of images for your videos you could try free online software as mentioned in my article, or if you require real grunt you cannot go past GIMP. This is a open source project, available for free for Windows and Mac and Linux.

I intend to provide some tips and pointers for using GIMP in future posta but in the meantime I found a great tutorial on How to Touch Up Portraits in GIMP . I hope you find this useful.

I monitor Twitter for various trends, I like the fact that "the cloud" as it were has so many answers and also so many questions to solve.  One of the most common complaints I hear from people in regards to video editin is why is the software so expensive, how can I get free video editing software?

I am not about to go into the hows and whys of why software cost so much or the morality of using downloaded/pirated software.  I will say that I do use legit software but have had the privellege to have been given a significant amount of free software by manufacturers to test and learn for training or sales roles I have held.  Personally at home I use Adobe Premiere, switching recently after about 4  years of Avid Liquid in all its various guises.  Ialso use and recceomend the "Studio" suite by Pinnacle, its is a low cost easy to use editor, I saw it being sold for $AU200 recently but I am sure you can get it better than that.  I have though recently found a free MPG/video editor for windows users.

When I started this blog my intention was to come up with original content, I intend to do that but I also feel it is important to highlight great answers written by other bloggers.  I dont want this site to become a pointer to other sites rest assured I will continue to comment and write my own articles.  One of the most common issues I hear when it comes to editing, shooting and encoding (in fact a student here at TAFE just said "Why is this still picture flickering on the monitor)  comes back to interlacing issues.

Problems present as "shimmering" still pictures, jerky or jumpy moving shots to footage that "doesn't look right".  Usually it is caused by multiple software packages treating footage or stills differently or more correctly interpretting the interlaced image differently.  I wont keep writing about this as a far more intelligent and eloquent blogger than myself has written an excellent page of information with diagrams etc on this subject.  Check out http://www.100fps.com

 

This is a guide to producing simple but good quality videos using easy to find, and cheap, equipment and software.  For this exercise we will be using a basic Mini DV video camera and Windows Movie Maker Software.