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All You Tube, all the time…. Here’s the breakdown of Video Sites’ ratings for June 2007 from WebOptimizer Click the picture for a full size view. If you combine You Tube and Google Video (both owned by Google), that’s almost 70 MILLION viewers. The next closest competitor is AOL with under 16 Million – not [...]

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We had a question at the final Monday night webinar about saving finished Photo Story movies to your PC. The actual “Save” process isn’t very intuitive. In fact, Microsoft seems to have thrown out the familiar steps and user interface for no good reason. But you can save both the project and the finished Photo [...]

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If you are interested in the Flash Encoder or Flash Player discussed in today’s webinar, you can find them here: Riva Flash Encoder – http://www.rivavx.com/?encoder AFCompnents Embedded Flash Player – http://www.afcomponents.com/blog/?p=14 If you would like more info about using these tools – take a look at the Beyond You Tube Training CD – http://www.ghostleg.com/beyondyoutube.htm

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Registration for Part 4 of the Using Video webinar, hosted by the Online Success Institute, is now open. This final webinar will cover using video to market your products and services outside of eBay by taking advantage of venues such as MySpace and Squidoo as well as your own web site and blog. We’ll also [...]

If you make short videos or podcasts – here are two Must Have pieces of software: a volume normalizer/equalizer and a teleprompter. Both are free – yes, free! The developers hope that you will want to buy the full-featured product or suite after using the free component, but there are no restrictions or obligations. Just [...]

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The third webinar in the four part Using Video series will be tomorrow at 6 PM PDT. Tomorrow’s webinar is going to look at editing your video for maximum impact using free and low cost software. You might be amazed at how easy it is to create eye catching videos with nothing but a hand [...]

Tags: cindy shebley, Janelle Elms, OSI Rock Stars, podcast, product creation, tutorial, webinar

In last week’s Video webcast, there was a question about how to fade music out while fading voice narration in. The trick is to use multiple audio tracks. The exact steps will vary, of course, depending on your audio software. Many video editing packages – like Sony Vegas Movie Studio – have multiple tracks. But [...]

Registration for Part 3 of the free, 4 part seminar, “Adding Video to Your eBay Listings” is now available. If you missed Part 1 & 2 – you missed a couple of great shows. Even if I do say so myself! Don’t be left out – sign up for Part Three. You can register for [...]

If you are making longer, more complicated videos and are looking for a software package that includes script, storyboard, and scheduling functions – take a look at Celtx. It’s released under a GPL license – which means it’s free! http://www.celtx.com/index.html

Here’s a great example of using video in an eBay auction – even if you don’t have a video camera And here’s the auction itself: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=170151303280&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=007 Don’t be afraid to bid!

Amazon is now accepting video reviews. To see an example, scroll down to the bottom of this listing for the Onboard Flash Diffuser. Of course, you can’t review your own product. But if you’ve created a short demo or how-to video about your product, there is no reason you can’t give the video to a [...]

Here are two identical versions of the same short video. All that changes is the background music. Click to play (don’t worry – there is no poster frame, but the videos start when you click on them.) Get the Flash Player to see this content. var params = { ‘allowfullscreen’: ‘true’, ‘allowscriptaccess’: ‘always’, ‘wmode’: ‘transparent’ [...]

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Don’t forget – Part 2 of the 4 Part Using Video Free Web Seminar Series is tonight at 6 PM PDT Register at www.ghostlegvideo.com This webinar series is hosted by the Online Success Institute and was launched to promote the new DVD How To Add Video To Your eBay Listings In Part Two we’re going [...]