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Ask Mr Video Weekly Newsletter March 6th, 2008 Dear Videographer, There is SO much happening in the video scene these days that I just have to jump right in and give you the best of what's out there. There is a new department on AMV called Video Classes. This is where you will find classes on all things video. I have posted the outline for the first class "How to Create 'How To' Videos". The first lesson in online now and available to all. How to Create 'How To' Videos Found Video of the Week Every week I bring you a new video that illustrates great video, great marketing or both. Enjoy! Red State Update: Mr Video says "Travis and Jonathan star in this series. Check out the rest at http: //www.redstateupdate.com" Monetize This! Use this idea to Monetize Video Mr Video says: "Amazon is all about Affiliate Marketing. What videos can you easily produce with your Flip camera and embed these pop up ads?" "Traffic Aggregators & Content Distributors" by Perry Lawrence To get more traffic to your site, traffic aggregators offer to reward you with all kinds of benefits if you first send traffic to their site. One such site is Qassia. Qassia rewards you with Q Dollars. First by getting others to sign up and then by submitting "intel" or content that get's peer reviewed. I signed up and then took an article I had just posted on AskMrVideo and submitted it for review. It was posted within an hour with 2 peer reviews. If you want to take a look at my page and article, check it out at http://mrvideo.qassia.com You can see my "assets" and my website listed along with my "intel". I don't get the photo on the page - I must not be the target demographic. Basically it is a MLM for web traffic. I'll monitor this and see if it impacts my traffic and see if they refer anyone my way. I use Google Analytics so I can easily tell where traffic is coming from. Another traffic strategy is a content distributor. One I recommend is TubeMogul. TubeMogul takes your video and sends it out to as many video sites as you want. Yet another traffic strategy is Article Submission. You submit an article(with your attribution link) to a clearing house and the article gets googled (good for back links) and it can be used by others on their website (even better for back links!). The best Article Submission sites are Goarticles.com and Ezinearticles.com. Try these traffic helpers and you will see a boost is traffic to your website. Did you like this article? Emailing it to a friend is easy. Just click below! Video Gear Review Here we go! My favorite part of every "Tip of the Week". This is where we get to look at some neat toys tools! Ever just want to get a video you saw online and put it on your computer, phone, iPod or Zune? Now there is a very easy site called ConvertTube that allows you to do just that. ConvertTube will convert an online video to mpg, mov, 3gp, flv, mp3, and mp4. You simply enter the url of your desired video and it processes it while you wait. I converted one of my YouTube videos and it was pretty fast and the quality was great. This is a site you should bookmark! I converted my video for free and you can sign up for a subscription which presumably gives you the ability to convert more files. However there is no indication what the subscription actually gives you. Check it out.   Do you know somebody who would find this review useful? Email it right to them. AskMrVideo.com Forum Highlights Every member has complete access to the AMV discussion forum, which is constantly being accessed by members sharing information, knowledge, insight, and fun. With an active community that's growing daily, this is one heck of a valuable resource! Here are recent posts from the forums: Thanks Perry!!! It's my first day as a member and the reply to my question above and my previous question paid for my membership for the year and more. Really appreciate the great information and your responsive help in the forum. Preston Campbell Innovative Profit Solutions Posted Mar 04,2008 10:25 PM Lagspike Hey! I had a problem that I needed help with. The video on my website suddenly started acting funky.. (it worked fine previously).. so that lead me on a quest to get hosting for the video alone.. This lead me to find AmazonS3.. which I'm signed up for. That lead me to this site, and I watched the Video Tutorial on setting up the Amazon Account. Where I'm stuck at is using the hosting, and then getting it on my website.. I use Camtasia to create my screen casts, and afterwards I export the project as a flash video (it usually comes out a .swf, but i even tried using it as a .fv and i'm still having complications) Anyhow.. i used the S3 addon for Firefox, uploaded the video.. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do.. so I just uploaded all 10 files that camtasia gives me. But after I load them in what do I do? I couldn't find any information on that in this site. Posted Mar 04,2008 10:53 PM Perry Welcome Lagspike! 1) You need to set the access level to Public on all files (right click on files in S3 Organizer and Edit ACL). 2) Right click on the html file and copy url to clipboard. This is the location of the html that embeds the player and all the files. I often just point to this link. 3) If you want to embed the player in your page, open the html file and copy the embed code (it's clearly marked). 4) Post a link here to the page in question if/when you get stuck. Perry Posted Mar 05,2008 12:52 AM Lagspike Okay, I got it playing... but I don't know whats happening. The sound..sounds all distorted.. like i'm alvin and the chipmunks. it happens everytime at the 9 second mark. So I figured maybe it was the quality. So I made a new one through Camtasia.. and put the quality at 100% as a .swf file. I tested this one out before I loaded it in, and it worked perfectly fine. So I loaded it up again and it did the same thing (the chipmunk noise). I'm not sure if you can view it from this link, but if so: http://goldguidetest.s3.amazonaws.com/Lasttestmaybe.html Posted Mar 05,2008 6:43 AM how2videoz It's funny you should say this, but I have noticed lately more and more screencasts that have the 'Alvin Syndrome'. That's it's technical name by the way ;-) Even big name Gurus like Brad Callen have recently been putting out camtasia videos that make him sound like Mickey mouse one minute and Barry White the next. It's funny to listen to, but not the most professional look! Anyone know what's going on? Pete www.howtovideobusiness.com Posted Mar 05,2008 9:25 AM Perry This is a know issue with Flash. Here are the solutions and workarounds: Camtsia /Flash Bug Perry Join the discussion today! 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