Stories about ‘Video Production Tips’


By Brett Bumeter

This year my wife has been working to complete her National Boards and the video requirement has been very problematic.  In general the National Board Requirements for video are out of the dark ages.  They require 15 minutes of uncut and unedited video.  The reason for this is that they don’t want a teacher to cherry pick the best portions of their work in...

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By Brett Bumeter

This is going to be an atypical holiday season for many many people.  Budgets and wallets and credit lines are tight everywhere, and Santa is still paying his gas bill from last year. Things just won’t be the same as people start to get into the holiday shopping spirit whether you compare prices like crazy when you are...

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By Brett Bumeter

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Last January I wrote an article about a simple video converter program.  I bought it back then after using it during...

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By Brett Bumeter

This week I did a hard drive upgrade on my laptop and afterwards, my registration on some of my programs had to be re-registered.

This included all of my adobe products and my favorite video conversion tool, AVS Video Converter known today as AVS Video Tools.

They still have the free trial download!

If you happen to lose track of your...

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By Brett Bumeter

There are many points in creating and editing video for the web where by a video can get hossed up. 

Hoss being a technical term from TV Western’s for the application of Murphy’s Law.

 

The points that affect the quality of a video include but are not limited to the following:

  1. The quality of the camera lens shooting the video
  2. The quality of...

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By Brett Bumeter

Livestream announced a new mobile system, that fits in a backpack.  It lets you plug your HD camera into the gear in the backpack so that you can film and transmit in real time.  Their gear uses 3 different 3g carriers at the same time.


By Brett Bumeter

YouTube has been elevated to such heights by its own success, that you may not have come across these 4 other video services.  There from 4 of the biggest (sometimes legacy) names on the internet, Yahoo!, MySpace, AOL, and even Google (in case you forgot Google tried to knock off YouTube before...

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By Brett Bumeter

Pamela Recording for Skype is a great little tool for recording your skype calls.  The basic version is free and will record 15 minutes of a Skype conversation.

The standard version will record 30 minutes of conversation at a time at a cost of $14.95 US. The professional and the business versions will record an unlimited amount of a...

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This tool rocks and should be about as popular as Phentermine without prescription at a night club in LA.

A few months back, I wrote an article listing a half dozen plus different software programs that can be...

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By Brett Bumeter

This evening I am working on upgrading my preferred video editing software Pinnacle Studio Ultimate 11 to Pinnacle Studio Ultimate 12.  Despite the flaky and very long name, the software works well for me.

Kind of…. :)

I have to throw out the caveat that I use Pinnacle all the time and it is a huge improvement over working with the free...

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