There are a lot of statistics (and hearsay) floating around about how sites featuring video fair against sites using only text. Much of the actual data comes from major advertisers using pre-roll video (the video ads you have to watch before the video you want to see is played). So these statistics, while telling, aren’t [...]
If the massive copyright-infringement lawsuits brought against YouTube have taught us anything, it’s that the wild-west days of the Internet are over. Actually, the previous music-industry lawsuits should have taught us that…but I guess we’re slow learners. These days, if you use copyrighted material in your online videos…and you don’t have a license or explicit [...]
Much of the buzz around online video has to do with videos that go viral. One day a person or a business is unknown, they post a video on YouTube…and boom…overnight they become a sensation. But what are the characteristics of a viral video? Is there a pattern to them? A formula? Well, Mike Laurie [...]
Picture this. You have…or want…to start an online business selling radio controlled cars. Or t-shirts. Or clothes you design. Or surfboards. Or…whatever. You get the picture. You could start a web site or get listed on Amazon or do the eBay thing. But what if instead, you could produce a video for your product. And [...]
Sony Vegas has a lot of “hidden” effects buried within it. In fact, with some of these effects, people will swear that the video was made with After Effects or Final Cut…instead of Sony Vegas. Today I’m going to share with you one of these effects. It’s an effect that’s used quite often in image [...]
