Entries tagged with “video production” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

A few weeks ago, my General Manger, Dan Brodnitz, asked me to create a new feature for our Digital Media site. He showed me a sample video of an online editor chatting about recent topics his site was covering. Dan wanted something like that for O'Reilly Digital Media. "But," he said, "I don't want you to spend a lot of...

"In a world..." voiceover legend Don LaFontaine died yesterday. After watching a few brilliant YouTube videos of him in action, I thought I'd download them for posterity. Fortunately, I'd just found an excellent tool for that.

DekePod is back with an insane vengeance. Here's a behind the scenes look.

As part of today's feature article on making movies out of still photos, Michael W. and Debra Jean Dean whipped up this funny demonstration of good and bad background music. It contains five brief examples. See if you can figure out why each helps or hurts the presentation. Debra Jean reveals the answer after each segment. I burst out laughing...

One of the hallmarks of amateur podcasts and screencasts is extraneous sound in the voiceover. Here are two DIY solutions for making quality recordings on the go and on the cheap.

First off, a request: if you're so inclined, go straight to the comments and say whether you watch online technical interview videos, and if so, which....

There is no shortage of opinions about the fate of television - be it professionally created or user generated content (UGC.) Views range from the misguided "UGC has changed TV forever! Power to the People!" — to the pensive "TV ain't what it used to be... where's Milton Berle?... I want my MTV!" To say that the future lies...

Happy Thanksgiving. As we gather with relatives to watch TV (the Thanksgiving Day Parade, your favorite football game) and to record home movies centered around a—hopefully—delicious turkey, I’d like to talk about mobile video and effective ways you can use the medium.