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Welcome
 This is the companion site for Web Video: Making it Great, Getting it Noticed. Here you'll find everything you need to make getting started easy and fun: footage to work with to complete the exercises in the book, extended interviews with the book's contributors, product reviews and tips for making your video better.
Make great video for the web with Tips and Tricks from the web's most successful video producers. Get it out to the world with marketing strategies guaranteed to get your work noticed.
Taking Your Video to the Web gives you step-by-step instructions for producing video that looks great on the web, and getting it out there. Practical tips and tricks that make producing high quality web video easy and fun. Advice from the web’s best producers to make your work look great and get it noticed.
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- What it takes to make your video a viral hit on the web.
- How to shoot high quality video that stands out with techniques borrowed from the pros, and why professionals sometimes copy videos made by amateurs to get noticed.
- Compression and formatting tips to keep your video looking great on the web.
- Editing techniques that get viewers’ attention and keep them watching.
- Make money by keeping your video free.
- How many hits you need before advertisers will return your calls, and how to get them.
- Make your professional video experience pay off on the web. When pro-video techniques work, when they don’t and where the jobs are.
- Everything you need to know to create great video, get it noticed and make it pay.
Jump right in and start making video for the web. Passion is the key to making awesome video. Obsession with the quality of your video and your subject makes people want to watch.”
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Beachtek DXA-4
XLR Adapters Bring Professional Quality Balanced Audio to Your Camcorder
"We're the missing link between professional microphones and prosumer cameras."
Larry Kaufmann, Beachtek
Those of you who have read Web Video, know getting good sound is an important part of web video production. One key to getting high quality sound when using prosumer gear (the kind with a miniplug input for audio) is an adapter that lets you use professional microphonew with XLR connectors.
My favorite is the Beachtek DXA-4 with I've been using for years and which I recommended in Web Video.
But why not use an XLR to mini cable or adaptor? After all it's cheaper and lighter. I'm glad you asked.The key to high quality sound is delivering a balanced signal to your camcorder. That's just not possible unless your camcorder, like the Sony A1-U has an adapter.
The Beachtek and similar adaptors by other manufacturers delivers balanced sound to your camcorder and gives you other options including gain or volume controls that are easy to handle.
Recently my adapter needed repair. Beachtek responded to my web inquiry within a few hours with instructions for a reasonable cost repair. Few things are worth fixing these days or getting repars done is a big hassle so easy low cost repair is a big plus.
They were kind enough to ship me out a new and improved model to share with you.
The DXA-4 pictured above now has a new curly cable connector to your camcorder which clears cable clutter and takes the pressure off the connection.
You might also want to consider the DXA 6
or one of the other Beachtek adaptors with phantom power. Powered microphone adaptors make things easier and keep your microphones lighter, imortant if you're using a boom pole. |
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Watch Jack Ferry's HMI Video
There's a reason why directors call for lights, camera, roll sound, action in that order.Lighting is a large part of controlling and crafting the images we create as producers.While it's tempting to shoot documentary style footage and interviews available light resist this temptation. Once you admit to yourself that lighting is a big part of video storytelling it's easy to see that taking the time to light your subjects will make a huge difference in the quality of your productions. When I talked with Kathleen Grace of Dinosaur Diorama for Web Video she mentioned that her DP on the All-for-Nots had launched an all out campaign to get an HMI light for the production. I understood immediately, An HMI has been on my wish list for some time now. But even the lamsps are too costly for my current bare bones budgets. Now a believer Grace said she didn't undersand at first why the production needed one light that cost so much, so DP Ja ck Ferry made a video for her. You can watch it at HMI Lighting Video
The results speak for themselves. If you haven't watched the All-for-Nots tune in and you'll see. The All-for -Nots.
Thanks Jack.
Coming soon. DVDs with practical lighting tutorials.
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