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Vimeo Price Hike
It was long a favorite of independent filmmakers, but Vimeo's new prices are ending that. Prices have jumped thousands of dollars. One creator had been paying $200/year, but suddenly was asked to pay $3500/year. She was given a week to upgrade her content, decrease...
Photoshop offers NFTs via Content Credentials
As another sign of how big NFTs are becoming, Adobe will begin allowing creators to create Non-fungible tokens or NFTs through a new Photoshop feature. This function will be a part of the 'Content Credentials' project by Adobe. Content Credentials is designed to...
What Producers and Directors Do
This excerpt from the Occupational Outlook Handbook is compiled by the US Dept. of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics. The following is a summary. What the report calls "commercials, and other performing arts productions" also covers corporate video, industrials, and...
To Rent or Buy
With the constant dizzying introduction of new and better cameras and video gear, owning gear can be a real challenge. The danger is that it can lose its value before you have made the final payments. Or that your income from this gear will not meet your projections....
New Airline Regulations for Batteries
The airlines naturally worry about battery leakage, fire or explosion. Bad enough on land, but potentially disastrous on an airplane. Last year, the FAA said that lithium-ion batteries were sparking airplane fires once every 10 days on average. The International Air...
Reversing a Video Clip
I'm working on a short video promoting my transfer business. I thought about the Bob Dylan video
Profit From International Video Transfers
The Samsung SV-5000W Worldwide VHS Format VCR does a beautiful job of playing PAL, SECAM and NTSC VHS tapes on any TV. You can output to any DVD recorder. It's on Amazon for $1300, but I found a used one on eBay for $150. I've just transferred 4 PAL VHS tapes to DVD...
Documentary Distribution Brings 1 Million
Age of Champions is a documentary that follows five competitors who sprint, leap, and swim for gold at the National Senior Olympics. Includes a 100 year-old tennis champion, 86 year-old pole vaulter, and rough-and-tumble basketball grandmothers who ignore the...
Study Your Competitors
I'll never forget the marketing person from one of my biggest video production contracts. After I won the contract, I met often with Paula, the marketing person, to outline a script and to plan the video. At one point I asked something about my competitors for this...
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