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With the explosion of video online there is an equally growing number of companies seeking to take advantage of those of us who shoot and edit video.
I don’t want to sound like a conspiracy theorist because I don’t see this as a big conspiracy. Actually, I marvel at the prowess of these marketing moguls.
Initially there [...]

I teach part time at a local community college here in Longmont CO. In the summer I taught a videography course and have also been teaching web design/development related courses. Right after the director of the department I teach in recruited me for the videography course I got a second email from her inquiring if [...]

Watched this awesome video by Michael Coleman on Vimeo about the sound design in the new Transformers movie. It’s interesting on many fronts, but one of the most interesting is a statement made by at the very beginning made by Greg Russell, Re-recording Mixer:
Michael [Bay] has always said sound is 50% of the experience of [...]

So I just saw a Facebook status where an acquaintance was promoting his new friends who create and implement those videos where a person walks out on to your web page and talks to you.
Okay, that was fairly non-judgmental in introducing the issue, right? Now the not so judgmental portion and where I ask for [...]

Came across a great article today on viral video characteristics. He links a bunch and gives an alliterated list of characteristics videos that go viral tend to have:

Content
Chance
Characters
Comical
Community
Compelling
Creativity

Great stuff!

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If you’ve been around web video for a while, you know that On2 is a very successful, high-quality flash codec giving H.264 a run for it’s money. And now Google owns it.
Some of its codec designs are known as VP3, VP4, VP5, TrueMotion VP6, TrueMotion VP7 and VP8. Its customers include Adobe, Skype, Nokia, Infineon, [...]

I often wonder how much storage I’m gonna need for a video project and have found two tools to date that seem to make sense.
The first is a widget (or web page) called VideoSpace for Mac put out by Digital Heaven.
The second I discovered this morning (and am already falling in love) helping a student [...]

I’m always excited to see what is going on in the video world. Cori Chavez, a Boulder-based colleague began a series called New Video Monday which she is using to promote and explain some of the issues (which many deem illusive) surrounding the online video craze. Her latest highlights a simple online tool known as Animoto [...]

Thanks to Adobe I found a great chart for encoding video to FLV at a variety so different standard (and not so standard) sizes which their gurus had tested to determine which were the best, better, and good settings. Problem is I cannot for the life of me find it online again and I have [...]

… but what about video that gets results and doesn’t take a Hollywood production budget and crew to pull it off?
I’m really excited to have been asked to be part of the Learn About Web Denver conference taking place at the Curtis Hotel September 14th and 15th. The goal of LAW-D is to help small [...]