Free Screen Capture Software
- Software demonstration videos
- Videos to answer software FAQs
- Video tutorials for school or college classes
- Record technical support for recurring computer problems
- Demonstrate video-based information products
- Record new tricks and techniques for using software programs
Use your imagination, and you’ll probably think up a lot more ways you can use the free screen capture software, CamStudio.
Easy Video Uploading
Video Uploading has never been easier.
Want to upload your video to a bunch of sharing sites simultaneously? Check out http://www.pixelpipe.com. This site provides a gateway for video uploading your content across more than 100 video sites, social networks, and blogs with a single click. Subscribing services include: Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, hi5, imeem, Vox, Bebo, Hyves, Photobucket, Kodak, vimeo, blip.tv, Twitter, FriendFeed, TwitPic, Blogger, TypePad, WordPress, among many others.
Web Video Sites – Cheerandboo
Fun Video Sites
Web Video Sites – Metacafe
While thousands of videos are submitted to the site daily, only the most popular are selected. Metacafé videos are generated, selected, reviewed, and rewarded by the site’s user community. Original videos receive initial screening by a community panel of more than 80,000 volunteers. Once a video is selected and posted, it receives ongoing popularity ranking using Metacafé’s trademarked VideoRank™ system. Then the viewers also decide how video creators will be paid for their best original work through the Producer Rewards™ program.
Metacafé claims it attracts more than 40 million unique viewers a month. To help back up that claim and shape future video content, the site sponsors an annual study to measure trends in online video consumption. Results of their most current study were released June 29, 2010. The study revealed that consumers across-the-board are increasingly looking online for their entertainment, and this trend is increasing especially among the 18- to 24-year-old demographic. According to the Metacafé research, 85% of males and 68% of females aged 18 to 24 now watch online video weekly.
Regardless of your demographic, Metacafé is worth checking out. The videos are high-quality and chances are you can find an entertaining clip to suit any interest.
Web Video Sites – BlipTV
Pocket Video Camera Review – Kodak Z18 HD
How To Make A Video in Slow Motion
- Keep the slow motion clips short, maybe ten seconds.
- Don’t stack the slow motion clips up together—keep them at least several minutes apart.
- Don’t combine slow motion with other unconventional edits; keep the clips and the spatial relations clear.
- Don’t slow the motion down too much, or they’ll take up too much time and demand too much from your audience. There’s no real standard, but start at 70% and see how it works.
- Remove the sound from your slow motion clips, because it won’t sync correctly, and the slow motion effect should maintain interest without the sound. You can keep the sound for a comic effect (but that’s been so over-done!).
How to Make a Video Game
Have you ever wanted to learn how to make a video game? Lots of avid gamers have the skills and talent needed to build their own games, but don’t know where to start. Surfing around on the web doesn’t help much—a basic search will probably yield so many books and software tutorials that your brain might explode.
- Westwood College Online offers a Game Art and Design Bachelor of Science degree
- The Art Institute of Pittsburgh Online Division provides studies in the art (illustration) of games.
- DeVry University has a Game and Simulation Programming Online Bachelors degree program.
- FullSail Online has a BS in Entertainment Business program.
- American Sentinel University’s fully online Computer Science program offers specialization in Game Programming.
- University of Advancing Technology has both Associate and Bachelors programs in Game Art & Animation, Game Design, and Game Programming. UAT also offers a Masters in Game Production.
- 3D Training Institute is not an accredited university, but provides 12-week project-based courses including 3D animation and artwork.
Website Video
Learn how to add videos to your site now, or consult a professional videographer who can produce them for you—but don’t get left behind!
How To Make A Video HD
Are you wondering how to make a video HD to upload to YouTube? You can’t increase the quality of your video from how it was recorded; you can only decrease it—which means you can’t take a regular video and make it HD. When you compress a video file, the video’s picture quality is also compressed. Any time you resize a picture, it loses quality. Since YouTube compresses video files to reduce their size for fast streaming, you need to choose an optimum resolution for your videos to look good on the site. Here are some pointers for making video that appears high-quality on You Tube:
YouTube recommends that regular videos be uploaded in MPEG4 at 480×360, with sound recorded in MP3 audio, all at a rate more than 24 frames per second. Other files accepted by YouTube include AVI, MPG, MOV and WMV (Windows Movie Maker). If you want your YouTube video in high-quality, widescreen format at the 16:9 aspect ratio, you need to consider pixels and resolution. For example, almost all DVRs use 720×480 (rectangular) pixels, while computers use square pixels. Because Flash encoders rarely have capability to adjust for varying pixel types, they’ll render your uploads using square pixels; the resulting video looks fuzzy.
DVRs are not widescreen format, and in fact the term widescreen doesn’t have anything to do with the quality of the video. Widescreen just refers to the shape of the screen, in this case a more rectangular shape, which has become the common look on YouTube.
YouTube allows you to upload files up to 1,024 MB in size, and everything that appears on YouTube is high-quality. That means if your video resolution is high-quality enough, your video will look high-quality on YouTube. Videos can be uploaded at 480×270, 640×360, 864×486, or 1280×720. The optimum size is probably 640×360, because the file will be relatively small but you still get the 16:9 aspect ratio and the video will be encoded as high-quality.
I hope this helps illustrate that if you want to know how to make a video HD, you need to record it on an HD camcorder, but you can still make videos that look great on YouTube even without converting to HD.