Success, I final resolved my issue with the audio delay on my Youtube videos.
The answer turned out to be a simple one, suggested by the young daughter of a friend of mine.
I had been helping them edit some videos sent in to them by satisfied clients who had used their Ag3derm age spot and skin blemish removal cream.
The voice track had to be correct, as there was some talking directly to camera on two of the videos, and an audio time delay was not acceptable.
So after some unsuccessful uploading at first, the .mov file was tried, and the rest as they say is history.
Previously, I have been uploading to Youtube by first converting my finished videos to MP4 format as recommended by Youtube, but this has resulted in my videos having a delay of 10 to 14 seconds on the audio track.
Her suggestion was that instead of uploading a .MP4 file, I upload as a .mov file.
Success, all is now well in my little world.
See the proof at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwvU3v7IOAk
Thanks to all who have attempted to resolve this for me with their suggestions, but in the end, the problem was just a matter of changing the saved file to the .mov File instead of .MP4
I hope someone else can be helped by reading this, and thank you all.
http://www.videomaker.com/
This is a massive, well established site with a monthly magazine, (something as rare as hens teeth) and there is everything on here relating to all things video. From camcorder reviews, product reviews, monthly feature columns, upcoming events and competitions, and even free software and free sound effects, this site has it all.
There is also an opt-in section to get free monthly updates on camcorders, editing, computers etc. There is also a very busy forum on this site.
http://www.ampsvideo.com/index.htm
AMPS stands for American Motion Picture Society, home of the worlds longest-running non-commercial film festival.
This is real heavy stuff, but always good for the newby to check out and find something useful such as free tools, links to lots of external sites, talks, festivals etc.
I cannot find a forum here, possibly too great a membership to be manageable?
http://www.yapperdesign.com/
This great new site was mentioned in my last post.
View their own short productions in the media section, click on Designer Bundles for 80 free textures for video and photo editing, 30 free title templates or 20 great sound effects, all for free. Join their new forum for information about all things related to video production.
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Now that I am not chasing rainbows anymore with Internet Marketing, I’m having a blast diving fully into all things video related. (see my new profile)
I have found so much free stuff out there to help video makers, I intend to pass this information on to my regular readers.
1: CamStudio This free open source software will record all screen and audio activity on your computer in AVI video files and with the built-in SWF Producer will convert to Streaming Flash videos (SWFs) Here is the free link: CamStudio20.exe
2: Who wouldn’t want free tuition?
Register an account at http://www.yapperdesign.com/ and download free video tutorials for Adobe Premiere Pro Basic Training, free sound bite effects, free after effects, well, you get the picture.
These young Belgians have just expanded their website to include a forum. Why not take a look and join in the discussions? Please give them all the support you can to get this forum off the ground.
3: Quick Media Converter
You will need a file converter before uploading to You tube etc. Download this free software and make uploading easy.
Please give me your comments if you like this new direction I’m taking this blog, and I can keep feeding you with free tips and tricks of successful video making.
With the bad weather, I’ve been spending all my time indoors editing and uploading videos to Youtube.
I have previously had no problems with this, but for about the last 6 videos, I’ve noticed that the sound track is going out of sync from the video track, and I mean by up to 13 or 14 seconds.
I don’t think it could be my coding errors because I have also uploaded the same videos to Yahoo and these videos are OK.
Please help me by first watching the Yahoo version http://uk.video.yahoo.com/watch/6723523/17481944
At about 1min 04 the shot is from the back of a green car with the plate DIPSY.
You may hear my wife say “DIPSY” and the my voice saying “DIPSY”.
So we have established that the soundtrack on the Yahoo version is in sync with the shots.
Now please watch the same video on YouTube ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVFackWh8hM )
Again at 1 min 04 is the “DIPSY” shot, but the “DIPSY” words are not heard until 1 min 17 seconds, a full 13 seconds later.
If a more emphatic demonstration of YouTube is necessary, please watch and take note of the drama in the changes in music here first,
You will have noticed the scarecity of new posts recently.
That is because we have been traveling, and recording video at every opportunity.
We then edited the footage and uploaded everything to YouTube where we now have our own channel with the name of hylonlad.
You can view short videos of Cities in the Mediterranean, Florida, Colorado, England and Wales as well as a few others.
Video has got a strong grip on my attention at the moment. Previously I was editing in Adobe Premiere Elements, and I will be happy to offer advice on any questions you have about the program, but now I’m learning to use Adobe CS4 which is a massive editing suite.
The video camera I use varies, as I now have 3 of them, The Aiptec pocketcam, a sony single chip, and a 3 chip Panasonic. I try and show in the script with each video on YouTube which camera I recorded each video on.
Watch out in the New Year for more video related posts.
We just returned from vacation cruising the med and one of the ports we visited was Civitavecchia for Rome, Italy.
The cruise line wanted $89 for a panoramic tour of Rome, or $49 just to drop us off there, so we decided to go-it-alone.
I’ve recorded a video of the whole visit to Rome which we did from an open top bus, and I hope this can help some of you who are planning to visit Rome, and give you confidence to make your own arrangements:
Yes, you read it right, courtesy of The Colorado Tourism Office.
As part of their snow promotion, applicants who have never seen snow before
are invited to submit a one minute video, then 10 entries will be shortlisted,
and the winners get a three month, all expenses paid vacation.
So get started now on that video, and you might be one of the lucky 3 winners who
will round-the-clock skiing, sledding, snowshoeing, hot-tubbing, night-clubbing in snow-filled days and starry nights.
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Hi again everyone, at last I can now give you what was to be the final list of the free programs I use to make my life easier on the Internet. Sorry about the delay, but I’ve been on vacation, but more about that later.
To make amends for keeping you waiting, after giving you just 5 in the first post, followed by 12 free Google apps, I now give you another 10 programs you can use to help your web marketing, making it 26 so far, but check back soon and I’ll give you another 10.
Remember, none of these are affiliate links, and no sign-ups are required.
I have found this program invaluable to shrink the file size of videos I’ve been loading to YouTube. Voted as one of the 12 best free windows applications of 2008 and is also now among the best 2009 freeware applications selection on PCMag
Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. I use this a lot in conjunction with Quick Media Converter before uploading my videos.
I use this free SEO tool to measure the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how the website can be improved from a marketing perspective.
Open Officeis the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose. I actually prefer to use this than use Word.
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Pulls in many useful marketing data points to make it easy get a holistic view of the competitive landscape of a market directly in the search results.
There is a lot involved with search engine marketing. In fact, it can be a bit overwhelming, even for those with a great deal of experience. The good news is that by taking it one step at a time, it is not hard to learn. And once learned, search engine marketing can provide an effective method of driving highly targeted visitors to your web site.
FreeMindhas made it as the finalist for the 2009 Community Choice Award in the category “Most likely to change the way you do everything” FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map) software written in Java. The recent development has turned it into a high productivity tool. The operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click “fold / unfold” and “follow link” operations.
The web designer’s resource for everything HTML and CSS, the most common technologies used in making web pages.
I mentioned I was on vacation. While I was away, I messed things up big time by not being used to a computer I borrowed. I’ve mentioned before what a fantastic hosting company I use, and just one email to them got things sorted out quickly, without any fuss at all, and at no charge, all included with their really low monthly hosting fees. Thank you Paula and Dan, owners of d9 Hosting.
Check them out, they have servers both in the UK and the USA.
Following my post of last week when I gave you my first list of my top free Internet tools, this week I thought some people may not know just how Google offers free tools.
Remember, none of these are affiliate links, and no sign-ups are required
So here are a just a few more tools, all of them from Google this week:
There’s no-one else like Google for knowing everything about the Internet. There are many ways you can use this tool for; it is so effective I’m surprised Google doesn’t charge for its use.
Keep tabs on all the sites you visit on a regular basis and be informed as soon as any site is updated, works just like an email program. Just subscribe, enter your sites and blogs, and get continuous feeds.
Check out long-term search trends with this tool, dating back to 2004. I haven’t used this much myself, but you may find it useful for your own research.
Check out all there is to know about the traffic to your website with this free tool. Analyze your traffic against each keyword and change your ads to reflect what your customers are searching for to get higher conversion results.
Convert more visitors – now! Website Optimizer, Google’s free website testing and optimization tool, allows you to increase the value of your existing websites and traffic without spending a cent. Using Website Optimizer to test and optimize site content and design, you can quickly and easily increase revenue and ROI whether you’re new to marketing or an expert.
Improve traffic with this resource for all webmasters. See how users are reaching your site
Make your site more search engine friendly, diagnose problems. View, classify, and download comprehensive data about internal and external links to your site with new link reporting tools. Find out which Google search queries drive traffic to your site, and see exactly how users arrive there.
Google Product Search helps shoppers find and buy products across the web. As a seller, you can submit your products to Google Product Search, allowing shoppers to quickly and easily find your site.
So, that’s another dozen free internet tools for you to check out, all compliments of Google. Watch out for more shortly by subscribing to my RSS feed above.
