YouTube Android App Update: Playlist Creation, New Upload UI, Information Editing
There's a brand new YouTube app for Android users, with the updated version fixing a number of minor issues and bugs. In addition to letting users edit description and other video information, it also allows for the uploading of longer videos, even over the 3G networks.
Film Riot Video Production Tutorial: Camera Techniques & Coverage
Last week I took a look at a pair of recent episodes from Film Riot--the Revision3 series known for simple filmmaking tips delivered in a fast-paced style. Those two episodes (113 & 114) focused on how to recreate Harry Potter-style special effects. After one more movie-related effects episode (115, which we'll get to below), the ...
We Lost Our Gold: Using Audience Incentives To Drive Web Series Growth
We've discussed a number of ways web series creators try to collect viewers, but how about the possibility of discovering buried treasure if you watch? On July 31 of last year, almost exactly a year ago, a group of puppet masters aired the first of eight episodes of We Lost Our Gold, a series in ...
Adobe Edge: Animated Web Content With HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript
Adobe is all about Flash, or are they? While supporting their existing products, they are also taking on an approach to allow it [Flash] to co-exist with HTML5. Gaming, media and data-driven applications are all done in Flash already, so in HTML5 they want to facilitate that along with all sorts of interaction and animation, ...
The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons - Fireworks & Bloopers
This was an especially difficult week to group the videos together according to a common theme. While there were plenty of viral video success stories this week, it was about as diverse a bunch as I've ever seen. We have accident videos, we have animal videos, we have movie trailers and space shuttles. They may ...
The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Social Network Edition
These days, if you turn away from your computer monitor for even a few minutes, you might miss a huge story in the world of online video. And this week was no exception. Facebook had big video news. Google had big video news. It's a very, very fast-paced world, and even many of us who ...
Free Final Cut Pro X Video Tutorial From IzzyVideo
This is amazing. Within days of the release of Apple's new video editing software, Izzy from IzzyVideo has already created and launched a detailed, full-scale Final Cut Pro X video tutorial series. The series is 2 hours, 39 minutes long, and is broken up into 26 different chapters like Overview of the Interface, The Precision ...
Apple Releases Cheaper, More Streamlined Final Cut Pro X
Apple's Final Cut Pro has been the industry standard for video editing for some time now. Sure, there are plenty of other great editing suites, many used by professionals, but Final Cut Pro has been the clear leader in that space for years. But it's price tag ($1000 or more) and deep tool set have ...
An Interactive YouTube Music Video Featuring QR Codes
We've written a few times lately about QR codes getting all mixed up with online video, and the possibilities raised by that sort of thing. Even though QR codes are still below the radar of most of the population, that will very likely change. And it's exciting to think about the ways they can be ...
How To Manage Your Client's Expectations Through The Video Production Process
Working in creative requires thick skin. It’s the business of rejection. But the victorious sense of accomplishment at the end of a project tends to make you forget all that. "Opinions are like assholes. Everybody's got one and everyone thinks everyone else's stinks." ~ Home for the Holidays (1995) Six Tips to Better Manage Client ...
Boeing Shows That Any Kind Of Business Can Find A Way To Use Video
Quick quiz: What’s a good sign that online video is the hot choice for brands looking to spend their marketing dollars? When even companies that don’t traditionally advertise on television are embracing it. Like Boeing, for example. The airline manufacturer is jumping into social media in a major way, with three separate Twitter accounts and ...
Real Estate Industry Finally Moves Beyond Standard Virtual Home Tour Videos
Online video has proven to be an effective tool for real estate agents. If pictures can show off an available home better than text alone, then imagine how powerful video can be to the prospective buyer. It gives them the feeling of actually touring the property--outside of them visiting the house in person, there's no ...
Corel Video Studio Pro X4 - Video Editing Software Review
We talk about video, how to get it online, how to help people find it. But we rarely ever talk about the software for actually making, editing and putting it all together. So I got my hands on some video editing suites including the Corel Video Studio Pro X4. Since I just recently got a ...
Is Apple Building Their Own YouTube Competitor (iVideo)?
Steve Rosenbaum, the CEO of Magnify.net and the author of Curation Nation, has an interesting editorial piece over at The Huffington Post today where he suggests an intriguing new service might be in the works at Apple: a YouTube killer. He cites several pieces of evidence and recent Apple news that he uses to draw ...
Crowdsourced Video Is On The Rise: Interview With Stroome
I only found out about Stroome last week--and promptly wrote up an article about their approach to collaborative video editing and creation. Imagine my surprise when co-founder, Tom Grasty, reached out to let me know they were launching a new-and-improved version of the service this week. I'm intrigued by the idea of collaborative video creation ...
