Can Collaborative Online Video Creation Go Mainstream? Stroome Hopes So
Are you familiar with Stroome? I was introduced to the service this week, and I think they might be onto something. Stroome is a collaborative video editing service, where users can share clips or partial videos with friends and other members in order to get their help, and videos can be collectively edited by the ...
No Camera? No Problem! YouTube Integrates Animation Software for Filmmakers
Have you been wanting to jump into the online video marketplace but lack some of the necessary equipment? Do you have a great script but no camera? Well, then this is your lucky day. YouTube has just announced YouTube Create, a platform where you can use one of three animation movie-making software tools---Xtranormal, Stupeflix, or ...
YouTube Quietly Adds Image Stabilization Tool To Help You Correct Shaky Video
YouTube made things a whole lot easier for the amateur video creator last year when they rolled out a free, bare-bones video editor (named, not surprisingly, YouTube Editor). Not all filmmakers can afford Final Cut Pro or another of the top video editing software suites, so having an option to make changes right in the ...
How Microsoft Uses Video to Increase Employee Productivity
Did you know that Microsoft has their own YouTube? No, I don't mean Bing Videos. I mean Academy Mobile. Never heard of it? Me neither, until I read this piece yesterday at Ragan.com. Academy Mobile is just like YouTube--users can upload videos, rate videos, comment on videos, and watch videos--but this site is only for ...
We Already Have The World's First iPad 2 Movie
You may remember Majek Pictures--the filmmaking duo of Anna Elizabeth James and Michael Koerbel. They're the ones that made waves last June by shooting and editing a short film, "Apple of My Eye," entirely on the iPhone 4. That film has nearly a million views on Vimeo. Now the duo is making news again, with ...
Take YouTube 101 At A College Campus Near You
YouTube is really serious about improving the overall quality of the video content on their site. Like... really, really serious. In addition to providing a free service for content creators to upload and share video, and sharing ad revenue with the partner channels, they've also made cash donations to partners on one or two occasions to ...
The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons
Happy Friday everyone. It's been a long week for me, and I'm looking forward to the weekend. Your weekend comes a little early, in the form of the weekly viral video round up. I've got another great collection of clips that went viral this week---each with a unique and valuable lesson to teach us. I ...
Is YouTube Courting Celebrities To Create Their Own Channels?
YouTube is the clear and obvious king of online video... for now. And they got there by giving the masses a voice and letting any amateur filmmaker create an account and upload videos. But if the latest rumors are true--that YouTube is actively courting specific celebrities and entertainers to create their own branded channel--then the ...
Best Viral Video Ad Campaign: High-Speed Cute Animal Videos
I think TPS Film Studio has been reading my weekly viral video round up articles--you know... the ones where I show you the week's best viral hits and then attempt to break down why each video was successful? In a new campaign, the company is showcasing their PhantomHD cameras with a series of videos that ...
Vimeo Custom URLs, Enhanced Privacy & More Cool Stuff
Vimeo must think it's still the holiday season, because they're still handing out gifts to the members of the Vimeo Plus user community like crazy. Specifically, they're increasing the size of individual video downloads and giving users the option to use custom URLs, as well as a few other little extra perks. If you're a ...
The ReelSEO Review of YouTube & Ridley Scott's Life In A Day
I've been talking about Life In A Day--the film from producer Ridley Scott, director Kevin Macdonald, and thousands of amateur cinematographers from YouTube--since it was announced last summer. It was hard to avoid getting excited about something so unusual and daring, and I remained curious about how the finished product would turn out right up ...
The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons
Considering that I just shared some of my best viral video discovery websites with you yesterday, it's entirely possible you've seen some of this week's featured videos already. Tons of quality viral hits this week covering a variety of genres and topics. We have some truly impressive fan-made films, more cats and dogs doing silly ...
Canon 5D Mark III: The Ultimate Feature Request List for DSLR Video
For little more than a year now, I have been making video marketing productions using two Canon DSLRs as my weapon of choice: a 5D mark II (for its ability to do bokeh-porn) and the 7D (for those smooth Glidecam shots at 50 or 60 frames per second). Although both Panasonic (AF100) and Sony (F3) ...
YouTube's Crowdsourced Film, Life In A Day, Premieres This Thursday
We've written a lot about Life In A Day here at ReelSEO, and with good reason. It is, to my knowledge, the very first Hollywood film created from video clips shot by amateurs. That gimmick alone would make the movie worth checking out, I believe, but there's reason to believe they may have actually created ...
The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons
This is getting ridiculous. There are simply too many great videos--funny ones, shocking ones, videos that amaze--to squeeze into this once-a-week column. I'm going to have to start doing a "Best Viral Videos of the Midweek" article or something. This week I have so much great video content I want to share... I could easily ...
