Video to Web 101

Video to Web 101
By: Jim DeSantis

For Internet marketers, the most powerful aspect of video that has been invented in recent months is the software and know how to create video products. Yes, video that you could actually watch from your monitor screen. Video that is accompanied by audio commentaries, which seek to inform, teach, sell, and to entertain. But, how do you pull it off?

Internet marketers still use the tried and true PDF eBook for products but more and more are graduating into video to promote those products. Some marketers are very effectively using a combination of video and ebooks to generate more sales than ever.

It's fairly obvious as to why video is growing in popularity.

We respond more to what we see and hear, rather than what we merely read.

We are more stimulated by a total visual and sound presentation.

Some information which can be tedious and confusing in print can actually be more clearly demonstrated with video presentations.

Video presentations present information in a clearer, and often, more concise manner.

Video presentations are viewed as more professional simply because we live in a visual information age and it is what we prefer when it comes to gathering information and entertainment.

For "old dogs", the problem that most Internet marketers experience with this medium is the seemingly complicated process involved in their creation. How can one capture the information in a 100 page ebook and put it into a video that not only conveys the information but makes it entertaining as well?

The fact is, there are a lot of terrible videos circulating the net because most people are not professionals at this or did not take the time to learn the essential steps. They simply slapped something together and it shows. One of my biggest complaints is videos being voiced by folks whose first language is not English. I am in the USA so accents are really difficult to understand especially when the audio track is muffled or recorded at too low a level. This is fairly common and a waste of your time and effort.

Hire someone to voice your video if English is not your first language and you are marketing in the USA. Your response rates will skyrocket.

Another poor presentation technique is one that uses text only as a video and the voice simply reads what is on the screen. I can read it for myself. No one has read to me since my mother read bedtime stories to me. You need to demonstrate what you are talking about! Video is a show and tell medium!

I was a TV News anchorman for many years. Imagine how bored you would get just watching me on camera reading the news to you without having any video of the story. Just watch any news program and you will see what show and tell really means. Apply the same show and tell principle to your promotional and instructional videos.

Here is how to do it right:

Pick a subject in which you are an expert.

Show how your information can help. A step-by-step tutorial works best. It should be about something engaging and helpful for your future customers.

Prepare an outline. What are the steps? How is each carried out? What are the advantages to the potential customer?

Do your research before you write your script an start shooting.

If your subject involves a certain off line niche, get a digital camcorder and record the relevant material. An example might be a course in dog training. Actually show a dog being trained. You may choose to add your audio in real time, that is, while you’re filming your footage, or later on, during the editing process. I suggest editing the audio later so you can correct any mistakes and so you can control quality.

If your subject involves a on line niche, download the free screen capture program at www.camtasia.com . This would allow you to capture your computer screen’s movements in .avi format. Camtasia would also allow you to record the audio in real time, or you may prepare a different audio file via Windows Sound Recorder and synchronize both formats later on, the method I strongly suggest.

Edit the materials using a video editing software program.

There are many of these for sale, but if you want something readily available, Windows XP comes with a Movie Maker program built in already. If you are going to offer your video product for download, Movie Maker converts your file into .wmv format to compress its size.

If delivering the video through an on line download intimdates you, an easier way to handle sales of video products is to choose physical delivery, that is, burn your video product on CDs or DVDs, and ship them to customers. Then you could market your product directly without the need for a on line download process. This eliminates one or two technical layers in the process.

Whether you choose downloads or physical delivery, adding video components to your sales page is a must do step. You will definitely increase your response rate and sales by showing a short demo of your product to give potential customers a taste of what you can do for them.

As for the product you might sell, the possibilities are endless and limited only by your imagination. Video gives you a powerful tool to persuade potential customers to become buyers.

Jim DeSantis

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Video Tube: Watching, Sharing & Uploading Video Content

Video Tube: Watching, Sharing & Uploading Video Content
By: Helene Salmon

The explosion of online web video sites just exemplifies the egalitarian appeal put forward by Internet. In today’s internet world, along with the boom seen in internet blogs and messaging services, video tube is another such section which is gaining popularity. Most of the video tubes online offer you with daily and updated videos. These videos can be interesting, funny, serious, or can be odd as well.

The entire idea of a video online tube is to allow you to easily upload your home and personal video contents and make is easily accessible on a webpage.

Applications & Features

Videotubes are form of networking sites. They allow their members to upload video content,
watch the existing uploaded content and share their ideas.

One can tag the video contents so that they can identify those easily with the keywords

One should take care that the content uploaded is not a copyrighted material and that no one can raise objections on it.

Video tube services also provide you with a library of film and music tubes along with sports clips and advertisements.

Watching Content

Tube vids and online videos allow you to watch videos online. You can type for keywords and can search for any content to watch. For example: If you have missed a cookery show to be seen on television, you can find the episode on any of the online video content website. Similarly, with the facility of watching content online, one need not bother about catching a program live. You can watch any program as per you convenience and availability.

Apart from this, many of the other benefits include one of the most sought after thing. Generally, this service is available for free which means that you can watch whatever you want as per your convenience without having to pay for it.

Sharing Video Content

This facility allows members and viewers to see content online including music files and games. At the same time, it also allows you to download content for free. Online videos and other related content like photo sharing, music clip availability are continuously growing with the increasing participation from viewers. You can share content and download it on your laptop or music instruments like iPods.

Sharing content is made easy with the availability of EDGE, GPRS and WAP in your IPods or mobile devices. You can decide to share content with a specific group of your friends or with the masses. Thus if you are in marketing business, you can also market your ideas, concepts and products this way. Support of professional equipment and software is available. The only thing you should remember while sharing content is that it should be rich and short in duration.

Uploading Video Content

Once you have created your own videos, you might want to upload them in any of video tubes. This would increase the viewer ship of your videos. Normally there is an upper cap on the size of video that you can upload. A limit of 100 MB is placed and the length of video should be around 8-10 minutes.

True to conclude, Video tubes give you an array of benefits. You can use video tube service for entertainment, for business, for marketing your products online, for getting customer suggestions, for training and self development and to enhance your personal experiences.

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Movie Downloads Demystified And The Jargon Busted!

Movie Downloads Demystified And The Jargon Busted!
By: Andrew Castlewood

Haven't movies changed in 100 years? First silent films with a man playing music live, then the 'talkies' and then color movies. Movies have been delivered to us differently over time too, movie theaters, drive in movies, then Multiplexes and then home cinema arrived. Then it got complicated. From Betamax through VHS. From VHS onto DVD. And now digital and HDTV! We all know the story so far - but may find it confusing!

But are you up to date with the latest? Are you new to the Internet and totally bemused by all the jargon? Have you got an ipod or PSP and don't know what to do with it?

Do you know your P2P from your DVD? Do you confuse your MP3 and MPEG-4? Have you got your codecs and plug-ins set up correctly and not exceeded your download quota or bandwidth? What does it all mean and does it matter if all you want to do is watch some movies?

The terms get longer, the speed of change is faster, confusion increases. Whilst I watch a downloaded film on my laptop my uncle needs to help to program his old VHS recorder! This speed of change is opening up a huge gulf between different users and this gap seems to continue to grow.

You can now easily download movies and films to watch when you want, with perfect digital quality. You can even watch them where you want - perhaps download some movies to you ipod or burn films to DVD and watch on any laptop or on the TV as normal.

But to do so it helps to learn the new language and if you are interested in joining in the movie downloading revolution then some basic knowledge of the essential terminology will help.

So where to start? Let's start with something we think we know:

DVD: "Digital Versatile Disc" or "Digital Video Disc" - these discs look like CDs (compact discs) but hold more data and are now used for storing digital movies. A DVD can be used for storing your music and computer files if it is rewriteable. There is no space here to explain the difference between all these permutations - DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R and the rest - that would be a separate article in itself!

So when a movie is downloaded what do you actually download? It is quite simply a computer file - but of course they come in many types! Here are the main bits of movie file jargon that you may come across.

MPEG-4: this is a standard for a file for video and audio, compiled by the "Moving Picture Experts Group" (hence MPEG) and it is their 4th version of the standard. So you can now download movies in MPEG-4 format - but this can take time as the files are so large!

DivX: created by DivXNetworks, this is a file that enables fast movie downloads without losing any picture quality - and DivX is also based on the MPEG4 file standard that we mentioned above.

Codec: although it sounds mysterious, this is a piece of software that enables file COmpression and DECompression to transfer it across the internet.

MP3: short for "MPEG Audio Layer 3" - from MPEG again. This is for digital audio only, it uses a compression method that means smaller file sizes. You lose some information but most people can't hear the reduction in quality. So it's great for music downloading and playing audio on an MP3 player. But this is only for music, not for movies.

P2P: short for peer to peer. This is a method of sharing and downloading billions of movie and music files. Peer-to-peer is simply a form of computer network that does not rely on a server and client, but each computer is connected to several others - great for downloading and sharing home video and audio content between them. Even when files are compressed it can take time and sharing the load amongst several computers is a great way to harness the power of the internet.

So when you've downloaded movie files - how do you watch them?

On Windows PCs these files will usually play without a problem on the standard Windows Media Player, particularly if you have the latest version.

For Macs, QuickTime is both a file format and a player. QuickTime has been around a while. You can download the player from the Apple website and you can run it on a windows PC.

The next step is to get all these movies on your PSP, iPod or Zune - but that's for another article!

The You Tube Internet Video Phenomenon

The You Tube Internet Video Phenomenon
By: Tyler James Ellison

Founded in 2005, YouTube quickly became one of the hottest sites on the internet. Today the site serves up over one hundred million videos a day. According to the research site HitWise, YouTube can claim over 46 percent of the entire online video market. Considering that site was started by three twenty something techies in silicon valley, and then sold to Google for $1.65bln in late 2006, it is easy to see how the site has started a revolution in the world of online video.

Originally thought up as a video version of the website HotorNot (a pioneer in websites that allowed a user to upload content) YouTube's founders quickly realized that users were uploading whatever videos they wanted. People were uploading videos and linking to them from their MySpace sites. YouTube piggybacked on the explosive growth of the social networking site to become the biggest online video site on the web today; MySpace continues to be the greatest source of hits for YouTube according to HitWise.

It was probably a number of factors, and smart decisions by it's founders that allowed YouTube such explosive growth. It was one of the first sites that allowed viewers to watch video from the site with no special software. The decision not to place ads before videos also contributed to the sites success. Probably the largest factor though was how easy the site is to use. A user can register, upload their videos, and it is so easy your grandmother could do it. The combination of the easy and edgy feel to the site fueled it's growth to where it is today.

Today the site serves up 100 million videos to users worldwide each and every day. From simple messages uploaded by users, to professionally produced videos, you can find almost anything on YouTube. Some users have found fame from their crazy antics in amateur skits. A couple of users have even garnered professional television contracts from their YouTube videos. The site really has become a phenomenon in the world of online video, and social networking.

What is it that really made YouTube different from other online video sharing websites?

It was the right site, at the right time. At a time when broadband internet is the norm and social networking was beginning to explode on the internet, YouTube gave users a new way to communicate. People now have an outlet for their creativity, any message they want to share, and a way to share information through video online. Combine that with the social networking sites like myspace or facebook -- that allow users to link to YouTube videos -- and YouTube is becoming a pioneer in the way people share information. For the first time, with a simple video camera, anyone can post videos of whatever they want for free.

It will be interesting to see how YouTube, and other sites like it, continue to change the way we communicate, the way we advertise, and mostly the way we share ourselves.

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Streaming Video Simplified

Streaming Video Simplified
By: Bruce Walls

Streaming video, or audio, is media that is being continuously received by, and displayed to, the end-user while it is being delivered by the provider. These, grouped together are known as streaming media. The name refers to the delivery method of the media rather than to the actual media itself. Television and radio are streaming media but here we are talking about streaming video on the internet.

With the internet came attempts to display video but little progress was made due to the lack of technology and bandwidth. Technology has overcome these problems with more powerful computers, standard protocols and formats. More homes and computers with faster CPUs can now access broadband and we now see the expansion of video on the internet.

Businesses and websites are steadily taking advantage of this booming sector. Some sites have had video on them since the technology was available, more sites are turning to video and its advantages daily while some sites may not understand the technology and prefer to remain with the written word. Having said that it is now so easy to incorporate video into websites that there is no real reason not to.

With true streaming video the end user can start watching the file almost as soon as it begins downloading. The file is sent to the user in a, more or less, constant stream, and the user watches it as it arrives. The obvious advantage with this method is that no waiting is involved. Streaming media has additional advantages such as being able to broadcast live events and sometimes referred to as a webcast or netcast. True streaming video must be delivered from a specialized streaming server. This type of streaming video is not used by most websites.

Progressive downloading, pretty much the same as HTTP streaming, enables the video to be viewed as soon as a portion of the file has been received. This simulates true streaming video but is not of the same quality but has the advantage of being able to be hosted on a normal server. This is the simplest and cheapest way to stream video from a website. Small to medium-sized websites are more likely to use this method than the more expensive streaming servers. For this method you don't need any special type of website or host, just a host server which recognises common video file types.

Progressive download video is downloaded from start to finish, typically delivering the entire video file to a temporary file area of the viewer's computer. After a few seconds of downloading, the video starts playing. For this reason, most viewers can't tell whether they're seeing progressive or streaming video. Most of the time, the download will go faster than the playback, so the media player will easily be able to keep up. If the internet connection is slow or suffers traffic congestion, then the player pauses until it once again has a few seconds of video ready to play.

To create a progressive or HTTP streaming video all you do is the following.

1. Create a video file in a common streaming media format
2. Upload the file to your web server
3. Make a simple hyperlink to the video file, or use special HTML tags to embed the video in a web page or blog post.

When the day comes that your videos are popular then you might have bandwidth issues with your hosting provider and you may need to upgrade or move to a different host and server. Hopefully that day will soon be here.

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YouTube vs DailyMotion - In The Shadow of The Giant

YouTube vs DailyMotion - In The Shadow of The Giant
By: Tyler James Ellison

If you mention the website YouTube, most people know immediately what you are talking about. Thus far, there really hasn't been much competition for the Google owned video giant. In the shadows of the giant, however, remains the second place video site. Lesser known in America until recently -- with innovative ideas and high quality video content --DailyMotion is forcing the larger video site to take a look.

At the time of this writing DailyMotion receives approximately ten thousand new videos every day, and serves up 16 million page views everyday. Although 16 million pales in comparison to YouTubes 100 million videos served per day, DailyMotion has gained some Hollywood attention since it US debut earlier this year. That very attention from some big names in the entertainment indrusty may just lead DailyMotion's quest to be the number one video sharing site.

Although the smaller company does not have the clout that YouTube carries with Googles financial backing, Dailymotion is the first site of it's type to sign on with a traditional television station. Before it's U.S. launch Daily Motion video signed on with the French T.V. station TF1. The deal allowed the television station to play the best from DailyMotion and it allowed the website access to some of TF1's programming. It was the first deal of it's type to mix online video with traditional television delivery.

Shortly after it's U.S. launch DailyMotion signed on with RDF. The U.S. company sells programming to traditional television stations, and is best known for it's television series featuring Shaquille O'Neal. Together the two companies plan to come up with eight new programming concepts. They will share in the ad revenues from the concepts, and they plan to come up with new targeted ad campaigns to fit in with the programming. It is another pioneering deal in the world of online video. Along with the deal DailyMotion raised thirty four million in capital from a British investment firm.

DailyMotion very much still sits in the shadow of the giant, but with their innovative ideas and push towards growth, it may be interesting to watch as the up and coming company may just give YouTube a run for it's money. The world of video sharing has been around for a while, but it in the past couple years with sites like YouTube and DailyMotion coming into play, the ideas have really taken off.

As a whole, online media, has long been caught up in copyright infringements lawsuits with both the music and movie industries. With companies like DailyMotion making deals with traditional media companies, this may be the beginning of a change for online video. The reality of it is that the two media delivery systems had to come together eventually. Innovative ideas and new relationships between online media companies and traditional companies may just pave the road to future for online video. Just remember to watch a small French company, DailyMotion, as they help online video push towards the future.

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Watch interesting music videos, extreme sports video, and crash video online through Video Tubes

Watch interesting music videos, extreme sports video, and crash video online through Video Tubes
By: Helene Salmon

Internet has gained its popularity amongst every individual. Every one including kids enjoys surfing on Internet. Do you have missed your favorite television program? Do you wish to watch your favourite videos, music online? Now all your questions come under one roof. Video tubes are the solution to all your questions.

Video tubeVideo tube is form of online video.

They are a foremost destination to watch and share original videos worldwide. Video tube sites are the medium of broadcasting where any one can view video clips, crash video, music video through websites, mobiles device, and blogs. All you have to do is just to log on these sites. Most of these video tube sites contains massive amount of material.

How to watch videos online?

To watch your favourite video you can log on to any Video tube website. Sign in the form and register the form as mentioned. And then you can watch or share your videos. The users who are not register can also watch videos on the site, while registered users can download unlimited number of videos. There is a restriction for the children under the age of 18 on some videos. Video tube has enhanced user function wherein one can also post video 'responses' and subscribe for the same.

Popularity

Video tubes have started to gain popularity and many companies have started to use it as a marketing medium. Many video sites have now launched an additional feature to help cross promote videos at the end of each video.

Features of the site You can watch any video on the website. If you have missed your favorite episode on television you can watch it on Video tube.

There are many types of video available on Video tube which any user can watch.

• Music video: - Pop, classical, international, top listed number, etc clips can be viewed.
• Sports videos: - Video related to sports like swimming, diving, snorkeling, scuba diving, surfing, windsurfing, kite surfing, water polo, sailing, powerboat racing, water skiing etc are available.
• Funny videos: - Videos like cartoon, Disney characters, laughter shows ect can be viewed.
• Crash videos: - Videos like motor crash, airplane crash or car crash can be viewed.
• Commercial clips: - Commercial clips like advertisements are available.
• There are many other types of videos also available apart from the ones mentioned above

Benefits to the users

• A person can watch the favorite music videos, films again and again.
• Kids can enjoy funny video, or videos related to his favorite sports.
• Register members can request for any video and get it download for free.
• It takes few seconds to open any video.
• Even the unregistered user can watch videos.
• People can get information related to the video.
• User can watch videos anywhere across the world.
• People can capture special moments on video; Video tube is empowering them to become its broadcasters in future.

Outline

In the past 2-3 years internet video business has gained thousand numbers of registered users who surfing on online for Video clips and music downloads. Efforts are being put to broadcast many other categories to its viewers.

Companies are now entering in contract with many of the content providers such as BBC, Universal Music Group, Sony Music Group, Warner Music Group, NBA, and many more to provide a vide range of videos to its users. now to be a part of this wonderful website and take advantage of web hosting features, and you are at a liberty to watch exclusive video footages or develop one of your own.

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