Technical Stuff

If you host your own videos, maintaining your video quality is not a problem because you control everything from start to finish.
However, if you use video sharing sites to host your videos, it’s a different story.  Essentially, you upload your video and then give up total control over what the final product is going to [...]

A frequent question I receive from people who plan to start creating web videos on a regular basis is…should I use Windows or a Mac?
The answer isn’t so simple.  In fact, I use both.  So what I’m going to do here is highlight what you need to know about these platforms, as they pertain to [...]

About a month ago I did a post…or more accurately a review…of Microsoft Silverlight (Microsoft’s foray into the world of web video).  The review even drew a couple comments from the Silverlight team at Microsoft.
At the time, my big question with Silverlight was…why would someone want to use it when Flash is the Internet standard [...]

If you want professional looking video, you need to use professional lighting.  And for decades, professional lighting meant light kits with halogen bulbs.
Halgoen has it’s benefits…the color of the light is consistent, it’s produces great light and the light housing is generally small.  But as anyone who has worked with halogen lights knows, they also [...]

Back in 2006, Sony and Panasonic got together and created a new, consumer-level, high-definition video format called Advanced Video Codec High Definition (AVCHD).
These days, when consumers are thinking about buying a high-definition video camera, AVCHD is likely the “type of camera” they’ll come across. But there are a few pitfalls regarding AVCHD cameras you [...]