Many videos can instantly be improved by adding background music.  And while there are plenty of sites that allow you to purchase music for this, the problems are you can’t customize the music or have it automatically trimmed to fit the length of your video. There are software packages...

iPad’s are used for a lot of things they were never intended for.  Especially with photography and video.  They can be used as teleprompters, clapperboards and even control cameras.  But most people don’t realize that iPad’s can be used as video or photo lights too. As a...

Website analytic services, like Google Analytics, can tell you what pages people are visiting on your site.  But if you want to know what people are actually doing on those pages, you’ll need to use heat maps. Heat maps show you, both graphically and statistically, what people are...

Vimeo has long been synonymous with outstanding video quality.  The videos on their site look great.  But they never allowed users to upload any type of commercial content.  All of that changed in August when they introduced Vimeo Pro, which offers the same outstanding video quality that...

If you create enough videos and have them online long enough, chances are that sooner or later someone might “borrow” your videos and use them in ways you don’t approve.  So what should you do if that happens? Well first, if you have uploaded your videos to YouTube and...

We’re all familiar with placing orders online. You manually submit your payment information into a form or sometimes several. But a new service called Netswipe from a company called Jumio plans to change all of that. With Netswipe, customers can pay for things online using their...

Many people think that the video camera you use will determine your video’s final quality on the web.  Actually, as I proved in this previous video, the camera you use doesn’t impact video quality as much as you might think. Instead, the biggest “secret” in getting...

Far and away, the most frequently asked questions I receive are about video cameras.  Either people want a recommendation for a camera or they’ve seen a video online (including mine) and they want to know what camera was used to shoot the video. There’s a hidden little catch...

We all spend too much time staring at our computer screens, especially for extended periods while editing video. Tired eyes, red eyes, burning eyes, headaches; sound familar?  There’s actually a lighting technique that can help reduce or even prevent these things. It’s called bias...

Cartoons can be a very effective and unique approach to web video, particularly for people who are camera shy. But how do you create a cartoon video if you can’t even draw? You could go the “web route” with sites like Xtranormal or GoAnimate.  But if you want total control...

Recently a new plugin for WordPress was released that allows you to easily create popups and opt-in forms for your site.  Nothing new there, there are lots of plugins that allow you to do that.  But this one is different, very different.  Here’s why. First, it allows you to create a...

In the world of video, one camera has quietly become a very coveted piece of equipment.  It functions much like a normal video camera, but shoots gorgeous video like a DSLR camera.  And here’s my full review of it. The camera is of course the Panasonic Lumix GH2.  And while it looks...