Get Your Geek On: Get Started Vlogging Links & Info

These are the links & tips from my Get Your Geek On show about vlog­ging last night. @KeepItClassyJen & @TheBudgeBunch joined me to share their vlog­ging knowl­edge with us all.

The hard­est part of vlog­ging is get­ting started. and the best advice is to just do it. I love vlog­ging because you can see a per­sons actions and expres­sions and get to know them bet­ter. When I go to a con­fer­ence, I have an eas­ier time find­ing vlog­gers because I’ve seen them in action already.

If you have any other sug­ges­tions, please put them in the com­ments and I will update this post with a link to your website.

Shoot & Share Camcorders

We dis­cussed sev­eral options

Kodak Shoot & Share — I have the Zi6 and it is the one I use all the time now. The qual­ity is excel­lent. The bat­tery does not last very long, but it does take 2 AA so I can eas­ily change the bat­ter­ies. I need to try the AA bat­ter­ies that are for elec­tron­ics and see if that gives me bet­ter bat­tery life.

Sony Web­bie PM1 — The design of the Sony cam­corder is unique. You can have the lense fac­ing you so you can see your­self as you are record­ing (for per­sonal vlog­ging) or you can face it away if you are record­ing oth­ers. The qual­ity of the Web­bie is not that great though. I find it to be very grainy and washed out.

Flip Mino HD — I am wait­ing for my Flip to arrive (hope­fully today). I have read that the ear­lier HD Flip cam­corders were not the best, but that the newest one is much much bet­ter. I will update once I check it out.

Cre­ative Vado — I have not tried this one at all. This is the one I would really like, but costs a bit more than the oth­ers so I’m not sure I’m ready to invest in this one.

Dig­i­tal Cam­era — If you have a dig­i­tal cam­era that takes video already, that is a great way to get started.

Web cam — The web cam for your com­puter works well to get started vlog­ging also. It’s just a lit­tle harder to move around unless you have a laptop.

Video Edit­ing Software

iMovie for Mac — This comes with all Macs and it is what I use. It is very easy to learn to get started and has a lot of advanced fea­tures. Every time I cre­ate a new video, I find some­thing new that it does.

Win­dows Movie Maker — This comes with all Win­dows com­put­ers and is also easy to get started.

Adobe Pre­miere Ele­ments 8 — Win­dows Only. This soft­ware offers some advanced features.

Final Cut Express 4 — I just pur­chased this a few weeks ago so I can take my videos to the next level. I’m work­ing on it, but I have not even begin to scratch the sur­face of what this soft­ware can do. I’ll do a full review once I under­stand it better.

Online Video Tools

Animoto.com — My videos on Ani­moto — You can cre­ate really pro­fes­sional look­ing videos with music, ani­ma­tion, effects, pic­tures and your videos here. I just paid to upgrade to the Full Access Pass for $30. I can now cre­ate full length videos. You can try it out for free and cre­ate short videos. I love the way the videos look after using Ani­moto. I look like I used a pro­fes­sional ser­vice to cre­ate my vids.

embedr.com — A tool to add a cus­tom playlist of your videos to your blog. (per Jen Hinton)

mixandmash.tv — another online edit­ing tool to cre­ate mashups of your videos.

Masher.com — Mash up your videos and pic­tures along with their gallery of BBC videos and pic­tures. My Masher.com post.

A few other I have not tried, but look interesting:

Jay­cut

One True Media

Pixo­r­ial

Upload­ing Your Videos

Youtube — The most com­mon one. It’s good to always put your video up here. Easy to add the link to your blog also. ScrappinMichele’s YouTube

MomTV — You def­i­nitely want to upload your videos here and earn reward points.

Vimeo — You can upload for free or pay for unlim­ited use. The inter­face is much cleaner than youtube. ScrappinMichele’s Vimeo

Vid­dler — Jen Hin­ton sug­gested this site. I do have a pro­file here, but I have not uploaded any videos. ScrappinMIchele’s Vid­dler

Face­book — I per­son­ally do not use Face­book very often for videos. I will usu­ally upload to youtube and then link to Face­book, but this is an option.

Flickr — Up to 90 sec of video can be uploaded here.

Pho­to­bucket –another great option if you like to keep all your pics and videos together.

Live Stream­ing Video

Jen Hin­ton dis­cussed sev­eral live stream­ing sites avail­able. Any­one can cre­ate their own live stream on any of these sites.

Stickam

Ustream.tv

blogtv

Livestream

Twit­ter Video

bub­bletweet — You can cre­ate a video mes­sage for your pro­file page on Twit­ter with bubbletweet.

vid.ly — Upload video to Twit­ter.

Video Chat­ting

tiny­chat — This is great for hav­ing small video con­fer­ences or chats. I use this one a lot and it’s very reli­able.

tok­box — Another good options for small video con­fer­ences and chats. With tok­box, you can watch youtube videos and view doc­u­ments together .

iPhone 3gs Video Apps

These links will take you directly to the App store in iTunes.

Reel Direc­tor — You can now edit video right on the iPhone for $7.99. I’ve tested it and it works really well.

Ani­moto - You can cre­ate short ani­moto videos using pic­tures on your iPhone. Free.

Video Memes

Casual Fri­day - Every Fri­day, Ban­ter­ing Blonde does a casual vlog post. You can vlog about any­thing you want. Be sure to link up too.

Mon­day Min­gles — Every Mon­day, Eighty MPH Mom has some ques­tions that you can answer in your vlog. Add your vlog post to the MckLinky.

The Budge Bunch 5 Ran­dom Facts — Not a weekly meme, but a great way to get started if you do not know what to vlog about.

Other Help­ful Links:

Video Blog­ging from Blog­ging Tips site

Video Blog­ging Toolbox

Com­plete Guide to Video Blog­ging Mashable

Thank you to @BarryMadden for the next 4 links:

Top 5 Ways to Share Videos on Twitter

Six best video edit­ing applications

400+ Tools for Videoblog­gers & Podcasters

Youtube anno­ta­tion tips

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