What are some tips for optimizing videos for the web?

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I’m looking for some camera tricks to help spruce up my online videos. What are some tips to make video clips look more appealing to viewers?

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Answer 1

Um my first tip would be to put yourself in them more often! Hi there!

Seriously though, as a viewer of a lot of web videos, (clips, trailers,etc.) I find most appealing is colour, and don't make the action shots too too fast. Need to remember there are those of us without the best equipment! Also, add a little space to the shots in frame, this way if a wee bit gets cropped while filming, the integral parts of the pics won't be compromised. GL

Answer 2

Um my first tip would be to put yourself in them more often! Hi there!

Seriously though, as a viewer of a lot of web videos, (clips, trailers,etc.) I find most appealing is colour, and don't make the action shots too too fast. Need to remember there are those of us without the best equipment! Also, add a little space to the shots in frame, this way if a wee bit gets cropped while filming, the integral parts of the pics won't be compromised.

Answer 3

Here are few tricks for best cam results.
1) Always shot with the light at your back
2) It means that while shooting keep in mind that the light source should not be in front of your camera, this makes a dark impact on you videos.
3) Light properly
4) Use gay colors around, if you really want your videos to appear more attractive.

Answer 4

Record Them On A Good Camera To start With & If Your Talking About Compression, Then Anything Wiht Mp4 All The Way.

Answer 5

I apologize that I do not have the ability to record my answer in a video and post it here. I'm clumsy; so, it's best to keep fancy electronics away from me...

You should wear really bright colors to get everyone's attention on the video and do something unforgetable while filming to catch the attention of your viewers. For example, you could balance a plate on your nose while riding a unicycle, play the alpine horn from the back of a pony, etc. You see, do something unusual.

Answer 6

Sorry, I don't have a video camera but here's my answer.

Optimizing your video or movie in order it can be distributed and played on the web implies many aspects. This action, often known as streaming video, must be achieved carefully in order not to loose an important amount of video quality on the process. Due to the great amount of data a video or movie contains and the big size it file would have, transferring it or playing it over the web with its original quality might be not easy sometimes.

The PC or equipment the person who will watch your movie has will be one of the main factors you should consider at the time of sending your video to him or letting him download it. Depending on the equipment, the video a person plays over the web will be played with good quality, bad quality or it might not be played at all.

To start with, a person should have a good Internet connection based on cable or DSL in order to be able to play or watch your movie over the web. If they do not have high speed connection, accessing and watching your movie would be almost impossible, since in case they were able to play it, it would be of very low quality and probably would go blank sometimes.

In order to optimize your video or movie and avoid as many of these web- movie related problems, there are a few things you should have into account. First of all, you should compress your video using an appropriate technology, such as, for example, Real Video, or any other which was meant for this specific purpose.

There are several different compression technologies which were developed in order to help movie makers uploading and transferring their videos over the web. In order to choose a good compression technology, you should check it allows you to compress your video without causing it to loose much of its original quality. You should always consider that maybe it is preferable that your video is transferred less quickly and looses not so much quality than it is transferred very fast and looses an important amount of data.

Answer 7

If you use YouTube, here are some tips on making them look clear as crystal. This is a letter from an employee after I asked a similar question.






Hi Kayleigh,
Our optimal encoding format is MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid) format at 320x240 resolution with MP3 audio. Resizing your video to these specifications before uploading will help your clips look better on YouTube.


Let me know if you have any other questions!


Best,
Maryrose

Answer 8

When you buy an HP printer, copier,scanner it comes with it. It has a detailed CD showing you how,exactly, to use all the bells and whistles. Also Adobe Photo Shop has all the goodies.

Answer 9

It depends on how you make the video or depends on the video card of the other users that view the movie clips..

Answer 10

U can try Windows Movie Maker