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Completely Revised #77 Professional Video Producer: How To Start a Successful Home-Based Business Producing Corporate Videos
Start part-time or full-time in this lucrative and satisfying work. Earn the respect of small businesses, corporations and non-profits who rely on your expertise. This is an amazing adventure and the best way to pay for video equipment!

BOOK

#101 Marketing With Digital Video: How To Produce a Winning Video
by Hal Landen. Completely Revised Second Edition shows you step-by-step how to produce a highly effective business video on a SHOESTRING either for your business or for your business clients.

#103 Guide To Public Domain Footage
Remarkable guide to thousands of public domain videos produced by the U.S. Government with complete contact information.

Mini DV tape

#108 Buy Out NASA Stock Footage Library
No Royalty Fees! You get over 50 minutes of the best video from NASA including amazing shots of planet earth, liftoffs, satellite deployments, moon walks, spectacular animations and a whole lot more! And it’s all in the public domain! Finding and getting all the tapes from the U.S. Government used to be a tedious process, but we’ve done all the work for you. And we’ve organized all the best shots on one MiniDV tape 720 x 480. You won’t believe the incredible shots in this royalty-free NASA library on MiniDV. Available in both NTSC and PAL.

Set of Printed Contracts available by mail or email

#111 Letters of Agreement for Ambitious Producers.

Customize these contracts and you will be paid for ALL your time and PREVENT client misunderstandings.

Book and CD-ROM

#112 Wedding Video For Profit: A Business and Marketing Guide

This book is guaranteed to start or expand your wedding video business on the road to profit. It includes the best strategies, marketing letters, brochures and everything you need to build a thriving business. The CD includes 11 wedding video contracts you can use, cut and paste and modify.

DVD

#114 The Video Guide To Professional Wedding Videography

This companion video shows you step-by-step how to shoot and edit a professional wedding video. We asked some of the stars of The Wedding Forum on this site and boy, did they give us some great video to show you how it’s done. If you’re ready to get serious about making $1000 a weekend, you must see this DVD. Discover the secrets of planning, shooting and editing a wedding video that will thrill your clients.

Four DVDs

#116 Advanced Wedding Video Package from Mark and Trisha Von Lanken

If you’re ready to take your wedding video business to the next level, you can learn everything you need to know from these WEVA award-winners Mark and Trisha Von Lanken. Click the link to watch sample videos from the DVDs. Also includes the notes from their very popular WEVA Presentation on how they booked their first $7000 wedding video.

DVD and CD ROM

#117 Capture The School Market by Bonnie Durkin

School Event Videos can be surprisingly profitable. Just ask Bonnie Durkin. Her strategy has brought in more than $8600 from DVDs she sold to just ONE school! For Bonnie, her school videos are more profitable than her wedding video business. But then she was a teacher for 23 years and knows just how to work in the school system. She’ll show you how to choose the most profitable schools and sell the most profitable event videos.

DVD and CD ROM

#118 Shoot and Score with Sports Videos by Bonnie Durkin

Shooting high school sports videos is a growth business. If you love sports and video, this could be an ideal business for you. Sports videos can be a lot of fun and if produced the right way, a surprising profit center for the event videographer. This DVD and CD set by WEVA presenter, Bonnie Durkin, will set you on the path to regular profits. A season’s coverage of just one sport in one school can be worth up to $7000 to you. There are lots of sports and lots of schools.

Storage Rack

#121 Mini DV Storage Racks

Forget those small racks. This one holds 50 Mini DV tapes and its so strong an elephant can stand on it! Get three racks and SAVE.

Teleprompter Software

#129 InteliPrompter for Windows
Professional Teleprompter Software for all versions of Windows at a fraction of the normal cost. Optional plans, handcontroller, and video.

Hand Controller for InteliPrompter

#131 Hand Controller for InteliPrompter
This hand controller for teleprompting is fast and precise. A simple twist of the speed control knob on the comfortable, handheld speed controller does it all instantly.

Teleprompter

#134 JonyPrompter – New Generation Teleprompter

This lightweight, compact teleprompter uses an LCD flat panel monitor. See why small TV studios are using this one and saving a couple thousand dollars. Superb value.

Speech Prompter (Presidential Glass)

#135 Speech Prompter or Presidential Glass

This Professional Speech Teleprompter is also called a Presidential Prompter or Presidential Glass. It’s just like the ones the president uses. Great for public speakers, teachers and politicians.

Camera Jib Arms

#136 Camera Jib Arms

Moving camera crane or jib shots give high production value and set your work apart from the rest.

DVD, Printed Manual and CD ROM

#140 Legal Video Specialist Business Kit

Videotape legal depositions for $60 – $100 an hour with a 2 – 4 hour minimum. If your schedule is flexible, this can be an ideal full or part-time business which requires only basic equipment.

CD ROM with Rembrandt Card in Protective Binder

#145 DV Shooters’ Guide to Advanced Videography and FREE Rembrandt Card

The DV Shooters’ Guide to Advanced Videography shows you advanced videography techniques that will transform the way you shoot video. Many interesting techniques you can apply with color, focus, lighting, camera moves and more. Lots of tips and tricks to make your next video look spectacular. Outstanding Quality!

Free Bonus: The Rembrandt Card. This special card lets you White Balance the same way shooters for network TV shows do to get that pleasing, warm look. Now you can give your video interviews, landscapes and other scenes that same, warm Rembrandt look! Complete instructions included.

DVD

#162 Learn DV Lighting

Lighting adds a new dimension to video. Learn how it can make your digital video look like a feature film or a high-concept TV commercial. Discover how to use basic lighting techniques as well as advanced tips and tricks.

DVD and Booklet

#166 Start A More Profitable Event Video Business

One of our very own VU Forum Members has an event video business that is unlike any I have ever seen. This one can bring in up to $20,000 in a weekend with little or no post-production! It does require some technical skills perhaps more than other video businesses.

Book

#181 Video Production Handbook 4th Edition

The best low budget textbook for students and anyone wishing to learn how to make good videos.

Book

#182 Independent’s Guide to Film Distributors

Your documentary or feature film deserves distribution. This is the place to start. Here are all the best distributors for the independent with full notes on each one.

Anti Fog Material

#183 Anti Fog For ViewFinders and Lenses

Does your viewfinder fog when it’s hot and muggy? This is the same anti-fog used in feature films

Two CD-ROMs

#220 How To Make Your Movie: An Interactive Film School

DVD

#222 6 Steps to a Successful Acting Career

This video helps you understand the business of show business with tools to help you take your first steps. It’s for anyone who wants to enter the acting business but doesn’t know how to start. Interviews with key professionals including an Agent, Manager Casting Director, Acting Teacher and Working Actors

Stock Footage Libraries on DVDs

#232 Time Image Stock Footage Library

Most buy-out or stock footage libraries cannot claim they have sold footage to ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, Disney, MGM and the Super Bowl! These are remarkable buy-out libraries. Just look at the online demo. High quality and affordable price.

Royalty Free Music Library via download, DVDs or CDs

#238 Royalty Free Music Library via download, DVDs or CDs

You’ve heard this music library on NBC, ABC, CBS, WB, VH1 and CNN. Now it’s available at a greatly reduced price. Take a listen. This is the quality you want at price you can afford.

#240 Produce Day In The Life and Settlement Videos

If you are a skilled documentary producer, attorneys need your expertise. These videos are used in lawsuits and to settle out of court. Your documentary skills can result in multi-million dollar settlements.

#248 Start Your Own Video Duplication and Transfer Business

The duplication and transfer businesses are a natural for anyone who produces videos. You probably already own most of the equipment. Why not turn it into profit? And if you don’t own the equipment, this is a low cost business to start. And you can outsource the work.

Transferring photos, slides and all kinds of film to DVD is a bigger business than you may realize. There’s a reason CVS, Walgreen’s and every other chain offers these services. Because there’s a lot of money in it!

But you have many advantages over the corporations – you’re local; you care about you work; and you can turn it around quickly. Check out this business and see if you don’t agree that it’s a creative and profitable business you should pursue.

#249 Getting Government Contracts for the Small Video Production Company

You will be amazed at how many videos the US Government produces every year. A substantial number of them are produced by independent producers just like you. You paid your taxes. Isn’t it time you got some of that money back? Discover how to become a government pre-approved production company.

DVD

#251 How To Setup, Light, and Shoot Great Interviews

Interviews are often the heart of a video. Look how important they are to TV Network Magazine Shows, Business Videos, Testimonials, Video Biographies, Settlement Videos. Put another way, could you produce many videos without using interviews? If you only learn to light one type of scene, the interview is the one to learn. With a basic lighting kit and the instruction in this DVD your interviews will look like they were shot by a network magazine crew.

Book

#1007 Secrets of Producing and Selling Successful Videos

The Special Interest video business is a smart business because, unlike the video service business, in this one you can multiply your profits. Create a product once and sell it MANY times. Use the Internet to sell videos 24/7 to an international audience. Learn which topics or genres are the most profitable and which you are best suited to produce. Learn how to promote your video to a national audience and place your video with large distributors. You’ll meet individual producers who have sold millions of dollars worth of their videos. Don’t re-invent the wheel. Study what successful producers have done. This 324-page book is the definitive book on the hot business of producing and selling non-fiction DVDs and web video.

DVD

#1008 Special Interest Video Magazine Vol. 1

Companion DVD to the book above, this DVD introduces you to a major distributor who explains what they want; a major video reviewer who shows you how to get a good review; and a special segment on how to price your video and more importantly how NOT to price your video. See the Special Offer.

Electronic or Printed Files

#BIZPLAN Video Business Plan You can Use

Download or Printed Plan Start or Expand Your Video Business with a smart business plan.

Disc, Viewing glasses and Instructions

#BRD Blu Ray Test Disc

Picture Quality Calibration and Evaluation Tool for Monitors, Displays, Blu-ray Players and Video Processors. Adjust your home theater system for optimal playback. Includes a 3-minute montage that was shot entirely on the RED ONE camera at 4096×2048! This alone is a great demo for your home theater.

Six DVDs or Download

#BAS Master Course in High-End Blocking and Staging

Serious about a career in feature films? Directors, Cinematographers and Editors all need to be expert in blocking and staging a scene. Without these skills you’re flying blind. This six DVD (or download) course is used by every major film school and university, every major animation studio, including Disney, DreamWorks and Pixar, every major game studio, including EA Games, Sony and UbiSoft — and some of our most esteemed users have personally won over 10 Academy Awards and over 15 Emmys.

Two DVDs

#EX1DVD Sony EX1 Instruction DVDs

Sony should have included these DVDs with the PMW-EX1 and EX1R. This is the easiest way to learn both the fundamentals and advanced features of these tapeless cameras.

Two DVDs

#EX3DVD Sony EX3 Instructional DVDs

Doug Jensen from Vortex Media helps you master the fundamentals and advanced features of the Sony PMW-EX3 tapeless camera.

Seven Inch LCD Monitor

#LCD7Monitor

Seven Inch LCD Monitor switchable from 4:3 to 16:9, low cost, with built in speaker, flippable image and more. Perfect for video-assist and general field production.

Seven Inch LCD HD MONITOR

#LCD7HD

7″ HDMI LCD Monitor. Perfect for DSLR cameras, HDV, HD camcorders and SD. A great monitor without the high price tag.

LCD Light

#LEDZ96 LED Lighting For HD
Very bright (800 lux) LED with 96 individual LEDs with an HD pattern. At a fraction of the cost of competing lights.

Database Software on CD-ROM with Booklet

#MFiler Database-For-Video-And-Media

Standalone professional database program for tapes, disk and other media. Powerful, but simple to use. Used by Gateway Computers, Burger King, Honda, Intel, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, Ford Motor Company and hundreds more.

Software on CD-ROM with Printed Manual

#SEB Easy Budget Feature Film

Want to Produce a Feature Length Film? You will need to present a professional budget estimate to everyone who will finance, insure and distribute it. Easy Budget provides a comprehensive check list of all the necessary expenses from beginning to end. It’s essential for fine tuning and adjusting a film budget. It can be used to estimate budgets ranging from next-to-nothing to hundreds of millions of dollars. Puts a professional face on your budget. Feature Films or Commercials/Mac or PC

BOOK

#VB1 VIDEO BASICS by Herbert Zettl

Called the “Bible” by hundreds of college professors. This book has launched thousands of video careers.

DVD

#VB2 VIDEO LAB by Herbert Zettl
Companion to the “Video Basics” book. Amazing! A virtual production studio on your computer. Learn camera, lighting, audio, process and editing by doing it. Cross-platform.

#VB3 Video Basics 6 Workbook

This Workbook is a companion to Video Basics 6 above. It provides students with hands on applications and exercises that will reinforce the concepts in the texts and increase the students video production skills. This Workbook can also be used at the beginning of the course as a diagnostics tool to determine what students already know about video production.

DVD

#102 The Marketing Video Magazine Vol. 1

Companion DVD to the book “Marketing With Digital Video”. In this video you’ll learn the best marketing techniques and how to use them in your videos. Study successful real life examples.

Booklet and DVD

#141 Getting Started in Cable TV Advertising

If you’re creative and a good editor, you can be making money producing TV commercials for your Cable Company. Better than than, you can become the Ad Agency and make 15% on all the media buys. This is a fascinating business. Let Lucy Galbraith show you the road to profits.

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