Today, a lot of people rent films on a regular basis. Often they wait for the DVD to come out, as opposed to watching films at the movie theaters. Here is a short list of some of most heavily rented DVD’s in Oct. 2008.
A different avenue for aquiring movies is movie downloads. You can find websites where you can purchase tons of movie downloads. This is an easy way to create a film library.
INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL: The Indiana Jones adventure continues, after a 19 year hiatus. This is the most recent movie in the Indiana Jones series. In this, the latest adventure, Indiana takes on the Russians. The Soviets are looking for the Crystal Skulls, and the secrets they carry.
THE LAZARUS PROJECT: One time crook Ben Garvey is a changed man. With a stable home, and a good job, he has found happiness. Then, he is fired from work, and he finds himself heading back into the criminal world. People die during an attempted robbery, and he is sentenced to death. Death by lethal injection awaits. To his surprise, he regains consciousness only to find himself in a psychiatric ward. Now its all on the line, his sanity, and his soul.
LINEWATCH: Mr. Michael Dixon is a well seasoned boarder agent in New Mexico, and life seems to be good. Eventually, his past is coming back to haunt him. He was a member of the violent L.A. gang scene, but he had the courage to leave. When a chance encounter exposes his whereabouts to his old gang, his family is put in great danger. For the sake of his family, he will take a huge risk, and ensure that the gang can bring a big drug shipment into the U.S.
THE INCREDIBLE HULK: This feature film tells a story about Scientist Dr. Bruce Banner, who has become the green Hulk. The movie tells of the marvel comic hero, the Incredible Hulk. Edward Norton is the top star in this film. Louis Leterrier directs this film. The film style is sci-fi/action-thriller.
DECEPTION: Jonathan McQuarry (ewan mcgregor) has a chance meeting with hof shof lawyer Wyatt Bose. This chance meeting is one that turns his life upside down. He is introduced to “The List”, which offers a decadent sexual indescretions. Sadly, he also gets caught up in a treacherous game of back stabbing and death.
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH: On a mission to discover what happened to his brother, professor Trevor Anderson goes on a mission that sends him into the depths of our planet. This is a remake of the original 1959 movie, which was about the classic novel by Jules Verne. Cast includes Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutchinson, Anita Briem, and Seth Myers.
THE HAPPENING: Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberb), along with his wife and some friends are escaping Philadelphia by train. Philadelphia has been thrown into chaos. Many people are being overcome by an unusual force, and are commiting suicide. Can we overcome this problem, or is this the end of the human race?
IRON MAN: Playboy, engineer genius, Tony Stark is captured by insurgent fighters in Afghanastan. He is instructed to create weapon systems for the insurgent group. He was wounded while he was being captured, and has metal in his chest. To survive his injuries, and get away from the rebels, he creates a suit made of armor, that makes him super strong. Iron Man, a new super hero has arrived.
SPEED RACER: The 1990′s television cartoon becomes a feature film. Much like the film The Flinstones, Speed Racer was a TV cartoon that was turned into a feature film with actors. Young Speed Racer who loves racing. His goal is to win The Crucible, a big race that his older brother lost his live in. With the odds stacked against him, and the future of the family business at risk, he partners up with his old rival Racer X, in a last ditch effort to give himself a chance to win, so the family business won’t go under.
Everyone watches video on their PC. From Youtube to Hulu, everyone is at it. More viewers watch video every day and your business needs to get in on the act. Did you know that by tapping into video promotion you can increase your traffic tenfold or more.
As a website owner with a marketing strategy, you really must latch onto the power of video promotion and incorporate video into your websites. Because everyone else is either doing it right now or are planning to.
Now days recording a video is simplicity itself. You can choose from a range of devices to record from mobile phones to camcorders or a myriad of other devices. After recording simply upload to your account on Youtube and then use the embed code to place the video into your site. This can result in scores more visitors as Youtube videos show up in the search listings.
YouTube is now the second largest search engine on the net and the fourth largest website on earth. It also attracts hundreds of millions of users a month, and 15 hours of video are uploaded every minute by users.
After you have uploaded to one video site it is very easy to get listed on lots more video websites. Then your single video becomes a massively viewed creation across lots of sites all linking back to your money making or business site. This can have a great cumulative effect.
Here is where you get to be creative. Put slideshows in your video or maybe you talking to camers. You can even record what is happenning on your PC screen and use that. Make it short 30 seconds to a minute for that dynamic effect.
If you are not at present incorporating video into your marketing efforts then you are missing out on some great low cost traffic generators. In this day and age where you need every advantage over the competition, use a promotional tool that works. Video marketing.
Online video and video search is HOT! You have surely seen all the buzz on the internet about sites like youtube, blinkx, etc… With this, bloggers have been writing posts about how to shoot video, how to upload videos to these sites, etc… However, few have provided information on how to get these videos seen and discovered. Here enters Video SEO.
To have a success in video search engine optimization, you should have knowledge of some key technical aspects involving online video and search.
Keyword research is important for Video search engine optimization. However, there are some key differences in terms of the methods that should be employed for keyword researching video terms. In order to know your target audience for seeing your videos, it is important to first conduct some research on keywords and compile a keyword list. This list can be obtained by doing some simple searches for a related product or service. There are not yet any keyword research tools specifically for video. Keep in mind that video searches at this point tend to be shorter keywords, not “long tail” searches. In addition, more than anything, your keyword list should have the word “video” in it. Examples – car videos, car video, racing video, automotive videos, etc….
The next step after you have generated a keyword list is to take a good look at the video search platforms to see which channels and categories, tags, etc… tend to get the most views, as well as to look at which platforms have the highest performance in views, ratings, etc… You will certainly want to submit your video to multiple sites but you will want to make sure that at the least, you submit your video to the more popular engines.
As a side note, pay attention to the audience that is already searching for the terms that you identified in your keyword research. Are there closely related terms that you did not include? Take a look at videos that are similar in terms of the keywords that you are targeting and view the comments and feedback from users to find related terms.
Studies show that people who regularly provide user feedback tend to take frequent action on your uploaded video. This even includes visits to your actual website and end-point conversions.
If your video is popular in the video SERPs, you get the opportunity to submit fresh content. Many websites make a common mistake by providing the same content again and again. Don’t make your video content to simply repeat what’s already out there, instead, finding a fresh “content space” for your target keyword term.
Studies have shown as well that users who watch videos are less interested in watching videos that are more than a few minutes in length. Try to target your videos to be less than 3 minutes in total length. If you have a very long video, perhaps try to create multiple segments or clips from the video targeting videos with 1-3 minutes in duration.
You can even put the actual branding inside the video, such as text or domain name or specific URL as a graphic in the video. Of course, getting users back to your website or business is one great result for doing video SEO in the first place.
Therefore, in order to get more visibility for your business, website, etc… search engine optimization for video is an excellent, and fairly new concept that you can take advantage of right now, while the buzz is hot.
For any advertising method to be effective, it has to have a target audience that is consuming the medium with which the advertising is attached to. That being said, advertisers are starting to realize that online video advertising is now an effective method to attract large relevant audiences. Online video consumption has grown tremendously in the past few years and as a result, video sharing and video search companies are poised to reap the benefits of video advertising.
Because of the keen interest of the advertisers towards the online video segment, many video sharing sites have been encouraged to come up with different formats for the placement of video advertisements. The quantum of investment in this segment has fueled innovation of the methods in which video sites are deploying online video monetization and advertising programs. In-stream (pre-roll, mid-roll, post-roll) advertisement formats have been in existence longest and have produced a good share of revenue for online video content producers.
Pre-Roll Ads – In this format of advertising, the advertisement clip is inserted before the actual video and while playing the video, the advertisement clip is played first and the viewer is compelled to watch the advertisement before the start of the real video file.
Post-roll Video Ads: In post-roll ads, just like pre-roll, a 15 or 30 sec clip is streamed at the end of a video itself. This is usually launched in conjunction with pre-roll as well as often times, the advertiser never gets their ad seen as users most often only watch part of the video.
Mid-Roll Ads – This advertising format is where the clips are included in the middle of the videos so that the viewer goes through the video advertisement if he is curious enough to see the remaining part of the video, this format is also very popular with many of the video sites.
As stated earlier, due to the demand, many of these video websites have begun to test and offer new, innovative ad solution for video. One of these experimental format is the In-Player ad: With in-player ads the player skin itself can be used to place relevant images or text content for the advertiser so that the ad is displayed for the entire time that the video is played.
One of the most promising video advertisement formats is contextual advertising which attempts to match advertisements with the most relevant content and visa-versa. This ad itself can take of various different forms, in-video banners, lower-thirds, and contextual text overlay advertisements. The nice thing about this particular method is that it does not disturb the viewing of the video and it responds only when the viewer clicks on it.
Of all the various experiments with contextual video advertising, one format has taken off and has even become the standard video advertising format that YouTube and many other sites have adopted instead of pre-roll ads. This format is known as the Overlay ad and it is basically a contextually relevant text ad that is shown in a portion of the player and does not annoy users as much as in-stream advertising.
I have given you a brief overview of the most common formats of video ads that are being tested and utilized at the moment. That being said, with growth being what it is, and video discovery as new as it is, we will certainly see many different companies innovating in regards to developing new and exciting formats for online video advertising.
You might be the greatest thing since sliced bread when it comes to lighting and framing. But if you’re no good at these preliminary things your online video quality may seriously suffer. That could mean less viewers, less revenue and less projects in the future. So check out these few quick things to help you get set before you say Quiet on the Set!
What is it? – Every good video starts with a good idea. But that good idea has to then be turned into a good script and good dialog (if you have any). It needs to be compelling and keep the viewer’s interest. But not only that, the story needs to go somewhere or the video has to be setup so that it leads the viewer into wanting to obtain further information, see further episodes or buy the product, whatever the goal of your video is. This can be accomplished with good pacing. An average person speaks 120-150 words per minute so if you are going to have someone speaking then a five-minute video would require around 600 to 750 words if it were one person speaking for the whole video.
Who’s on First? – That old Abbott and Costello bit still gets me even now. But it was all about placement and timing. Storyboarding is where you, as the creative talent behind your online video, get all your placement and timing hashed out before you get on set or location and start muddling about. This is where you can outline exactly what’s happening in every piece of the video. We’re not talking doing a second-by-second mock-up here but a general visual outline so you know exactly what route you want to take from point A to point B. Once you’ve got this and your script in hand you should have a pretty clear idea on where you are headed and how you’re getting there.
Ohhh, shiny! – You’ve got your footage, you followed your script, your storyboard showed you the way. Now what? Well of course you’ve got to edit together the pieces. But you’ve also got information that you need to communicate to your viewers. This could be as simple as an opening title or as complex as a full set of subtitles, closed captions and scene transitions and closing credits. Either way you have got to get URLs, email addresses and product names. Depending on if you’re selling a product, a service or a person that is.
These are just three simple things to take into account even before you step behind or in front of that video camera and yell Action! Done properly these initial foundations will give you a solid base from which to build your online video empire.
Thanks to modern technology, audio cables are more sophisticated and work better than ever before. Knowing the difference between the most common types of audio cables is essential to making sure you buy the kind that will best suit your needs. You absolutely do not need to be an electrician or some kind of engineer to understand the basics of audio cables. Below, we highlight the most common types of digital audio cables and some of their key features.
Coaxial Digital Audio Cables
Coaxial digital audio cables are by far the most commonly used and popular today. They look very similar to the analog audio cables that have been used for many years. In fact, the primary difference between these cables and analog audio cables is that these carry digital signals. They work in much the same way as their analog counterparts, and just about anybody can use coaxial digital audio cables with ease.
Coaxial digital audio cables are made out of copper, which is then wrapped up in aluminum which reduces interference. That is then encased in an outer layer which protects it from harm. Digital signals are sent within the coaxial using electrical pulses. If you want to experience excellent sound quality, and don’t want to spend a lot, these are the cables for you. They are much more affordable than many other options.
Optical Digital Audio Cables
Optical digital audio cables use newer technology to provide a clear audio. Unlike the coaxial digital audio cables, these cables use pulses of light to obtain a clearer quality sound.
With a Coaxial cable you will often receive sound quality problems. This is not the same with optical digital audio cables. Because these cables use light, instead of cooper, their is no risk of interference and the sound quality is the perfect audio experience.
The price of these cables is where many have issues, as they are 50% more expensive than coaxial digital audio cables. The price may be a deal breaker for those on a tight budget. However, if sound quality is extremely important to you, optical digital audio cables are the perfect choice.
The kind of audio cables you use depends on a lot of things. Do a little research and look around to find the best deals. You should be able to come up with a set up that works great for you and your audio needs.
You’ve put time, energy and money into creating your videos and you’ve got them up on the web. Now you’re waiting for people to suddenly find them and watch them right? Well you’ve got a bit more work ahead of your in order to do that. You can’t just sit back and wait for people to find your video content. You’ve got to get your videos in front of the video search engines and the spiders so that they can be indexed. So here are some quick ways for you to help get your videos in front of viewers.w
Keywords “If you don’t have good keywords then you might as well quit now. These are vital pieces of information that will help categorize your videos and make them findable in search engines. When people search for video what do they do? They put words into a text box on a webpage and that’s how they search. So make sure you choose specific words that correctly describe your video and then use those words in the title, description and the keyword areas when you post the video up on the web.
Video Sharing Sites – Comscore says that YouTube gets more search traffic than Yahoo does. So if you really want people to find your video you might want to put it there just to be sure. You’ll still have keywords and other things you need to fill out to help people find you content and you can even make a channel to extend your brand. There are numerous other places that you can submit videos as well and some of them you don’t even need to actually upload the videos but can use RSS and MRSS (see below).
RSS and MRSS “These two protocols allow you to tell the search engines when your site updates and when you post something new on the web, specifically for MRSS a media file. There are very specific formats required for these files but they’re easy enough to research. Many CMS software packages even make them automatically so you don’t even really need to worry about making it, just submitting it. This will really help the search engines find you content when you tell them where these files are and soon your videos will be shooting up the search engine results charts.
Sure these were just three quick ideas to help you get your videos noticed. There are numerous other things that one can do to get the search engines to notice your content the least of which is to have good content to begin with. Another is to make your video content easy to share by including social networking links and more. A little work can go a long way, so get out there and do it