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Yesterday YouTube began automatically captioning new video uploads.  That means viewers now have the option of reading what is being said in a video, while it plays (much like subtitles).

Right now, YouTube is only captioning new video uploads where the audio contains English language.  And the transcription is done using Google’s voice recognition software.  This is the same software Google uses to transcribe voice messages in Google Voice.  If you use Google Voice, you know how inaccurate this voice recognition software can be…and it will be the same with videos on YouTube.  But as Google software engineer Ken Harrenstien said “…it’s better than nothing”.

If you want to try the new auto captioning service out for yourself, you’ll need to upload a new video to YouTube.  Then click on the closed-captioning icon in the player to watch the video with captions.

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Dave Kaminski is a professional copywriter, videographer and 10-year veteran of direct response marketing whose work in multimedia advertising has resulted in millions of dollars worth of sales. A former U.S. Marine, Dave specializes in teaching entrepreneurs how to effectively use web video in their marketing efforts.

Dave also offers online coaching classes on how to create web video, as well as tips on how to promote and market them, for both MAC & PC users. I have taken these coaching classes and highly recommended them. For more information on creating web videos, please go here

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If you’ve ever landed on a web site where a video plays and it appears that the person in the video is magically floating on top of the page, that’s a transparent video. And in this video, Dave Kaminski from Web Video University shows you how to do it …

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Transparent commands used in embed code:

Placed in the object tag of the embed code

Placed in the embed tag of the embed code wmode=”transparent”

About the Author

Dave Kaminski is a professional copywriter, videographer and 10-year veteran of direct response marketing whose work in multimedia advertising has resulted in millions of dollars worth of sales. A former U.S. Marine, Dave specializes in teaching entrepreneurs how to effectively use web video in their marketing efforts.

Dave also offers online coaching classes on how to create web video, as well as tips on how to promote and market them, for both MAC & PC users. I have taken these coaching classes and highly recommended them. For more information on creating web videos, please go here

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Many people want to add clickable links to YouTube videos. And there are several ways to do it. In today’s video, Dave Kaminski of WebVideoUniversity share’s one of the slickest ways using a site called Bubbleply.

The best part? It doesn’t cost a thing …

Go to Bubbleply.com now

About the Author

Dave Kaminski is a professional copywriter, videographer and 10-year veteran of direct response marketing whose work in multimedia advertising has resulted in millions of dollars worth of sales. A former U.S. Marine, Dave specializes in teaching entrepreneurs how to effectively use web video in their marketing efforts.

Dave also offers online coaching classes on how to create web video, as well as tips on how to promote and market them, for both MAC & PC users. I have taken these coaching classes and highly recommended them. For more information on creating web videos, please go here

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Klickable.TV is a service, currently in beta, that allows you to take any video and quickly make it interactive. For example, let’s say you have a cooking demonstration video. With Klickable.TV you can create hotspots in that video, say around food ingredients, the pan or around the host. Viewers can then click on those areas of the video and more information will appear, as well as clickable links to product web pages.

While this certainly isn’t the first service to offer video interactivity like this, it is the most affordable…with plans currently starting from free, up to $100 a month.

As I mentioned, the service is still in beta so there are some rough edges here and there, but not enough to turn anyone off from actually trying the service. In fact, celebrity cooking host Rachael Ray uses Klickable.TV for some of her own videos (click here for an example).

If you’d like to test Klickable.TV for yourself it’s simple enough. Just click here, open a free account and you’re on your way.

And finally, I’d like to thank my friend Shama Kabani of MarketingZen.com for bringing this resource to my attention.

Go to Klickable.TV now

About the Author

Dave Kaminski is a professional copywriter, videographer and 10-year veteran of direct response marketing whose work in multimedia advertising has resulted in millions of dollars worth of sales. A former U.S. Marine, Dave specializes in teaching entrepreneurs how to effectively use web video in their marketing efforts.

Dave also offers online coaching classes on how to create web video, as well as tips on how to promote and market them, for both MAC & PC users. I have taken these coaching classes and highly recommended them. For more information on creating web videos, please go here

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If you’ve ever clicked on a link and seen a video magically appear in the center of a web page, that’s a video lightbox. Creating them has always been a bit confusing. But in this video Dave Kaminski of WebVideoUniversity share’s a useful tool that will make it point-and-click simple for anyone.

Go to VideoLightbox.com now

About the Author

Dave Kaminski is a professional copywriter, videographer and 10-year veteran of direct response marketing whose work in multimedia advertising has resulted in millions of dollars worth of sales. A former U.S. Marine, Dave specializes in teaching entrepreneurs how to effectively use web video in their marketing efforts.

Dave also offers online coaching classes on how to create web video, as well as tips on how to promote and market them, for both MAC & PC users. I have taken these coaching classes and highly recommended them. For more information on creating web videos, please go here

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We all see video ads wherever we go online. But they are not just for the big boys. Small business owners can run videos ads on popular web sites too, and for a lot less than you might think. Dave Kaminski of WebVideoUniversity share’s how in this video

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Dave Kaminski is a professional copywriter, videographer and 10-year veteran of direct response marketing whose work in multimedia advertising has resulted in millions of dollars worth of sales. A former U.S. Marine, Dave specializes in teaching entrepreneurs how to effectively use web video in their marketing efforts.

Dave also offers highly recommended online coaching classes on how to create web video, as well as promote and market them, for both MAC & PC users. For more information on creating web videos, please go here

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This week both YouTube and Vimeo announced beta testing for HTML 5 video. But what exactly is HTML 5 video and what does it mean to you? Here’s a breakdown on what you need to know.

First, the overwhelming majority of video you see on the Internet is Flash. And to place Flash video on a web site for people to view, you need a few things. You need the video itself in a Flash format, you need a player for the video (the thing with the play button), which is also a Flash file. You need embed code which makes the video and player work together on a web page and the viewer needs the Flash plugin installed on their browser.

It can get pretty confusing for people trying to place videos on their web site (at least at first).

HTML 5 is the latest HTML standard for the web… and it aims to make video on the web much simpler for people. Instead of all the stuff I listed above, you just need your video file. Then you can place the video in your web page using a <video> tag… just as easily as you place images on a web page.

Sounds great, right? Well, not exactly. At least not yet.

First, HTML 5 is only supported in the latest and greatest versions of web browsers (and Internet Explorer still doesn’t offer full support). That means instead of downloading a plugin to watch video, viewers would have to download the latest version of their browser.

And second, HTML 5 has sparked a bit of a video war…as to what video format should become the web standard in HTML 5. Firefox decided to support a video format called Ogg Theora. That means to take advantage of the easy-to-add-video features of HTML 5, your video must be encoded in the Ogg Theora format and any existing Flash videos must be re-encoded to the Ogg Theora format (again, this is if your viewers are using Firefox).

Other browsers are somewhat more liberal, or not…Google Chrome supports Ogg Theora and H.264, while Safari doesn’t support Ogg Theora at all.

As a side note, a big part of this “video war” is due to Ogg Theora itself…not only in terms of existing Flash videos having to be re-encoded to the Ogg Theora format…but Ogg Theora is also perceived as producing lower-quality videos than H.264…among many other things.

Still a little confused by all this video format/browser/HTML 5 stuff?  Well, you should be.  What started out as a way to make web video simpler for people has turned into a bit of a mess.

And it looks like the major video sites (where the vast majority of people go to watch video) will ultimately have the final say in how the whole HTML 5 video thing plays out.

Which brings us back to the title of this post…YouTube and Vimeo begin offering HTML 5 video.  Both of these sites, for now, and when it comes to HTML 5 video, have chosen H.264 over Ogg Theora.

That means you can go to Vimeo or YouTube and watch a limited selection of videos using HTML 5.  You’ll need Safari or Google Chrome or Chrome Frame on Internet Explorer to do this.  Firefox users are out of luck.

For YouTube, click here to join their HTML 5 beta program and watch HTML 5 videos.

For Vimeo, click here and select a video on their site.  In the lower right corner of the video description, you’ll see a blue link that says “Switch to HTML 5 player”.  Just click on it.  Or you can learn more about Vimeo’s HTML 5 video offerings be reading their blog post here.

About the Author

Dave Kaminski is a professional copywriter, videographer and 10-year veteran of direct response marketing whose work in multimedia advertising has resulted in millions of dollars worth of sales. A former U.S. Marine, Dave specializes in teaching entrepreneurs how to effectively use web video in their marketing efforts.

Dave also offers highly recommended online coaching classes on how to create web video, as well as promote and market them, for both MAC & PC users. For more information on creating web videos, please go here

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Originally posted in: July ‘09

I see that several of you have taken advantage of the current 7 day trial offer for $1 at Web Video University. I cannot say enough about this great video training program offered by Dave Kaminski. Everything is taught via easy to understand video based tutorials, and are offered both for MAC and PC users.

Whether you’re a web based business owner looking to drive more sales, a YouTube posting fanatic, a musician wanting to make music videos of your material, whatever… these classes can teach you almost EVERYTHING about creating web videos (from software to use, to cameras, techniques and tricks, lighting, 3D …) To find out more, go to www.creatingwebvideo.com (choose selection one for information on classes).

My Testimony About Web Video University
A few months back I wanted to get into making videos for my web business. I knew ‘nada’ about how or what to do to accomplish this. I stumbled accross Dave’s website and paid for the 4 week course that was available at the time. I do not claim to be anything still other than a video newbie, but if you visit my YouTube channel, you’ll see a few of the videos that I personally have done thus far. Not only were they a blast to make, but I have started to get a few offers from people for me to make videos for them (extra income).

Check out the 7 day offer for $1. If you know web video, wanna know web video, think you wanna know web video – get over there today and start the classes.

Click here to visit the Web Video University website.

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