Partner or Vendor – Who Are You?

February 14, 2010

I learned years ago that there’s difference between vendors and partners.
Vendors sell hot dogs.
Partners do whatever it takes to make you successful.

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Greenscreen – Don’t say I didn’t warn you

February 12, 2010

Here are my rules for greenscreening (technically known as pulling chromakeys and sometimes blue is better than green but…)
RULE #1 – If there is anyway to avoid having to pull chromakeys then do it.
RULE #2 – If you have to use a chromakey do it with an uncompressed video feed right off the camera and [...]

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How Flat is Flat Enough?

February 10, 2010

I’ve written posts  before about then benefits of shooting with a very flat camera profile in HD DSLR cameras.
Looks like some shooters have taken this another step and are shooting SuperFlat so they can color correct in post. And another group religiously believes that you need to get it right when you shoot it.
What’s right [...]

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Canon EOS Digital Rebel T2i

February 8, 2010

Canon fires another round in the DSLR HD wars!
This is the new flagship for the EOS Rebel line and comes in with a suggested price tag of $899 with an 18-55 MM IS kit lens.
Not bad when you realize this camera has almost the same video specs as the Canon 7D. Yep, we’re talking 1080 [...]

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Ikonoshop a-cam 3d – wow

February 8, 2010

After the success of Avatar the movie, 3D video is all the rage. 3D flat screens, cameras, animation systems… you name it and it’s getting lots of attention in the video production world.
Panasonic announced a 3D HD camcorder for just over $21,000 and Ikonoshop, a small high end camera company, announced a 3D version of [...]

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Blip.tv – Upload once, distribute everywhere

February 5, 2010

George Carlin used to have a great bit about “stuff”. But if you’re producing online video you need a place to keep your “stuff” – your online programs.
I’ve tried pretty well most of the solutions for this from hosting my own private server to Vimeo, FaceBook, and YouTube to streaming from Amazon’s cloud. All have [...]

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Video Marketing, Video SEO, & Online Video Publishing

February 3, 2010

The last post was about improving the ability for Google to find your videos. But this is a topic that has a lot more to it than making your thumbnails better. It’s been proven that online video is unsurpassed for creating sales, leads, followers and subscribers.
If you’re creating online video for yourself or your customers [...]

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Optimizing Video Thumbnails for Google Universal Search

February 1, 2010

If you’re creating video for public distribution you need to consider how Google can find your programs on the web. Yes, you may have a fan base built on youtube.com or vimeo.com but there’s a much larger market searching Google and other search engines right now.
Wouldn’t it be great if the perfect audience could find [...]

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Canon 5D Post-production Workflow

January 26, 2010

Here’s a link to a blog post with clear and comprehensive details of a post production workflow for the Canon 5D Mark II by Oliver Peters.
http://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/easy-canon-5d-post-–-round-ii/
But what if you’re shooting something other than a 5D?

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Put your DSLR on the GlideTrack to Success

January 22, 2010

When it comes to moving a camera while shooting video, sometimes less is more.
That’s certainly the case when you want to smoothly move the camera down a track for a dolly shot.

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