A new study by tubebuddy.com and hey!.com reveals "After extensive research, we've found that saying the word "you" just once in the first 5 seconds of a YouTube video can increase overall views by 66%. And views can increase by 97% - essentially doubling the view...
FOX Sports joined with Intel to bring a new Player’s-Eye View to Super Bowl LI. This is not captured by Go Pros worn by players like Fox referee GoPro cams. This new system uses Intel’s 360 Replay technology. It includes 38 separate 5K cameras circling the playing...
HTML5 video is becoming the new standard way to show video on the web without plugins, instead of the previous de facto standard Adobe Flash. That program had so many critical vulnerabilities that it was finally retired. Adobe Flash is technically gone, with Adobe...
The Zapruder film is a silent, 8mm color motion picture sequence shot by private citizen Abraham Zapruder with a home-movie camera. Zapruder filmed President John F. Kennedy's motorcade as it passed through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. This...
The Sigma 200 - 500mm with a Nikon F mount is an amazing lens (currently unavailable). It has an aperture of F2.8 at the 500mm end and F5.6 at the 1000mm focal length. It's a heavy one at 35 pounds. It's pretty amazing. The only real catch I see is its price :...
A waveform monitor is a special type of oscilloscope used to measure and display the level, or voltage, of the lines of a video signal over time. The light in a scene is translated to voltage with brighter light showing as higher voltage. Many videographers shoot...
The last VCR will be built this month by the Funai company of Japan. They recently announced they are stopping the manufacture of VCRs as of July 2016. Funai once sold 15 million VCRs annually. Last year their sales had dropped to 750,000. The VCR has had a major...
Amish Barn Raising You can sell time lapse video just as you would any other business service. Chances are you have the right gear to make time lapse videos, or if not, you could rent the gear easily enough. This is a business service you could offer. It's simple to...
Finding great locations is an essential element in film and video. But great locations do not find themselves. On big budget productions, there is an official location scout. But if you're on a small budget, you'll have to do it yourself. You'll want to start by...
Color grading with LUTS has become very common in film and video production. Color grading is the process of altering and enhancing the color of a motion picture, video image, or still image. Today this is done digitally. Color correction, on the other hand, is done...
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