Topic - Online Video & camcorder
Creating Videos for Business on a Shoestring Budget
Think it’s too expensive to start marketing your business using online video? Think it’s too complicated to start marketing your business using online video? Nope and nope. Use the powerful one-two punch of the Flip camcorder and Animoto to make stunning video on a shoestring budget.
Flip Ultra HD Camcorder Test Review Video
Can a pocket digital camcorder produce “business-quality” online video? In other words, be what I call, a “bizsumer” camcorder? ” The following video is a little test I did using the new Flip Ultra HD camcorder, where I provide some tips on how to get the best image quality out of it, and make up for its poor audio controls.
Sony HDR-XR500V Camcorder Test Review Video
The Video SEO Creative Vado HD review
Grant Crowell of ReelSEO reviews the Creative Vado HD digital pocket camcorder – is it good enough for serious business use, online video marketing and video seo? Watch our YouTube playlist and see us put it through a full battery of tests, learn about the advantages and limitations of the Vado, and hear Grant’s special tips for Video SEO with pocket camcorders.
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Flip mino HD camcorder review – good or bad for business video?
Billed as the “world’s smallest HD camcorder,” is the Flip mino HD a smart investment for those serious about online video marketing and video SEO? ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell, and video producer and director Bob Sandidge of Creative Core Media, put the camcorder through a series of semi-grueling tests in this podcast review, and a custom mino HD YouTube playlist on the ReelSEO channel in featuring video clips of common business scenarios. Hear what they say is good and bad with the mino HD, and whether its a “thumbs up” or a “flip you off” verdict…
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Will It Blend (for 50 bucks)? The ‘budget myth’ about a popular viral video campaign
One of the myths with viral video marketing perpetuated by both search marketing pundits and mainstream media is an example they give about a wildly successful viral video campaign, claiming it was done with only chump change, so anyone else with just their own creative strategy can do it, too – right? That ”budget myth” is Blendtec’s popular WillitBlend video campaign, which prompted one panelist at the Search Engine Strategies Chicago 2008 Conference to claim that “the cost to produce it was only $50!” Here’s the story on what the costs actually were, and how the budget myth got spread.
Youtube Gets Bigger – Goes All 16:9 Aspect Ratio Widescreen
As somewhat of a surprise to users, video sharing giant Youtube announced yesterday on their blog that they decided to upgrade the previous player to a new wide-aspect 16:9 ratio video player as the default player on Youtube. Finally Youtube is joining the ranks of those that have had wide aspect ratio players for some time like Hulu, Blip, Vimeo, and countless others.
According to the announcement, Youtube released this new player in order to users with a “…cleaner, more powerful viewing experience.”
New High-Definition Camcorder from Flip Video under $250 USD
The maker of Flip Video, the best-selling family of affordable and simple-to-use digital camcorders today introduced its latest breakthrough product: the Flip MinoHD. The world’s smallest high definition camcorder at just over three oz., this remarkably slim camcorder makes capturing and sharing HD video easy and affordable. The stylish Flip MinoHD from Pure Digital Technologies, priced at $229.99 (MSRP), records up to 60 minutes of HD video and features Flip Video’s new FlipShare software, also announced today. This advanced on-board software platform allows consumers to plug the camcorder’s signature flip-out USB arm into any computer for easy drag-and-drop video organizing, editing and sharing on YouTube, MySpace, AOL Video or via email.
Upload AVCHD Video with Motionbox
Back in March, Motionbox announced support for high-definition video for its premium users. Just the other day, Motionbox announced that they now offer video tools that will support the direct upload and editing of native high-definition AVCHD (Advanced Video Codec High Definition) formatted video. As far as I know, this the first online video sharing site to support upload of AVCHD formatted video files. After you upload these files, which are typically quite large, they directly transcode the files on their server and then allow you to edit the video using the Motionbox web-based editing tools.
HD Video Editing Platform for Adobe Premiere Pro
MainConcept AG, a wholly-owned subsidiary of DivX, Inc., and one of the world’s leading providers of video and audio codecs and software development kits (SDK) to the broadcast, film and consumer markets, today announced the release of the updated MainConcept™ MPEG Pro™ HD 3.2 Plug-In for Adobe ® Premiere ® Pro CS3, providing enhanced support for the editing of high-definition video.
Youtube is the Size of the History Channel on Cable TV
Well, the 2008 Video Search Summit was a great event. We will be featuring videos and interviews in the coming days as ReelSEO and Videoagency covered the event together. However, I thought that this particular clip from the keynote address, given by Stephen Chao, CEO of WonderHowTo, was very interesting. Stephen compares Nielson ratings for cable shows with the size of Youtube to make the point that the amount of video available online at this point in time, is miniscule in comparison to what will inevitably be the case in the future.
Final Cut Express 4.0 Does Not Support True HD
Below is a great post that I found which walks through Final Cut Express 4.0 and the fact that in reality, the software does not support true HD, rather it supports a maximum of 1440×1080.
