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What do you need to
create an Online Video?
By Lisa Simpson
The technology
of the Internet has made major advances in
recent years. There are many websites now on the
net with free online videos, where you can watch
other people videos, upload your own videos or
share home made movies with the bigger audience.
You can use online videos in website or your own
product promotion.
Websites no longer consist of just simple text,
but include images, animations and
videos.
Videos can help you reach wider range of
customers and most importantly, they will keep
their attention longer. Interested customers are
more likely to purchase your service or product.
Creating a video
for your website might seem like a difficult
task that should be left to professionals. This
is not the case. Anyone can create an online
video. If you can read, write and use software
then you can create an online video. As long as
you are willing to learn and experiment, you can
achieve success in online videos.
You may wonder what you need to get started.
What
type of equipment
should you buy? How much will this equipment
cost? What type of
software is
necessary? The good news is that there is simple
answer to all these questions, plus, technology
and software for
making online video
has become more and more user friendly and more
affordable for simple users. This allows more
people to feel confident about making an online
video of their own.
The equipment
you will need depends on the format of the video
you are going to make. There are two major types
of online video formats: Screen
Capture Video
and Full Motion Video. Screen Capture Video
consists of screen shots and is often used in
the software world to describe software
components and to create tutorials. You will
most likely have to use Full Video Motion
format.
The Full
Video Motion
format is used in the Videos you see on
television or in the Cinema. They include
people, items, products, audio and video. An
example of a
Full Motion Video
format would be one in which you demonstrate how
to develop healthy tan using your tanning
product.
There are few things that you will need to get
started with your
Online Video
promotion:
1) A basic
DIGITAL Video
camera to capture your video. There are many
high quality Video camcorders on the market for
quite affordable price.
2)
Firewire or
DV cable, this gives you a cable connection
which connects your Digital Video camera to the
computer.
3)
Mini DV cam
decks camera. A good one should cost $300 -
$500.
4) Professional sound by using a close
microphone. Close microphones are those that
clip to your shirt and are sometimes called
“Lavaliere” microphones. It is important to have
this type of microphone, because you have to
avoid excess environment noise and you have to
show, that you have professional sound quality.
A good quality microphone is around $100.
5)
Software
–for editing your digital videos. Non linear
digital video editing software can be expensive,
but there are quite a few affordable as well
available on the market. Windows XP and
Windows Vista Movie Maker is free, so is
Apple’s iMovie, both
applications
are easy to use, and both produce good quality
videos.
6) Tripod for camera is essential. You have to
achieve best quality you can get, steady Video
image is better then shaky.
You can find these items at
Amazon.com
,
Buy USA,
and similar online stores.
Get this equipment, tune your creative mind, and
film your online video.
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