How to Make Stress-Free Marketing Videos

November 17, 2015

Before you worry about cameras, lights, mics, greenscreens, special effects and above all, selling, there’s something about video you need to know. This secret can open you up to amazing success, but if you turn your back on it, it can shut you down just as fast. We don’t talk about this enough because everybody […]

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Got Junk in Your Greenscreen Trunk? Here’s a Fast Fix.

November 11, 2015

Getting junk in your greenscreen trunk is all-too-common. Lights and cameras and ladders and boxes, like unwanted pounds, can all creep in without you ever noticing it… until you get in your editing program. Then it’s “Aw, heck. Now I have to do it all over again!” Except maybe you don’t. Here’s how to cut […]

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How to edit business-class videos with iMovie

November 4, 2015

The responses to the video on editing last time made me really contemplate the question “can we really not edit business-class videos on i-devices?” So I dove in to the problem. It took two weeks. But I got it. Pete, this one’s for you. And it’s for everyone who’s ever despaired of getting this right. Bottom line, […]

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Edit a Great Video Fast With These Simple Tips!

October 21, 2015

Editing your own video can be daunting. I get it. So much of how your message is received has to do with the way it looks and sounds. If you want to present in a way that it can be appreciated, then you need some degree of control over the tools that are capable of making […]

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What’s Your Video Question?

October 13, 2015

I think it’s time I got back to making videos. I feel like it’s been ages since I brought you anything really cool. So please watch the 90 second video below to see how you can participate. By the way, did anything happen around here while I was asleep; anything I should know about? 🙂 […]

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What Really Makes Your Videos Look Ugly

September 23, 2015

My websites went down recently. Hackers took over the entire compound. Stevie was taken hostage and the bad guys were threatening to send him to military school if I didn’t hand over all the passwords. This got me thinking about a lot of things. And it ended in a revelation I’d like to share with you. By […]

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Genre-Bending For Fun and Profit (and Revelation!)

September 1, 2015

Go ahead. Try and tell me this 2:49 piece isn’t a Brainy Video: 🙂 (Sorry about the commercial they put in at the beginning. Just wait. It’s worth it!) Movies are meant to put you into a kind of dream state. You sit in a darkened theatre by yourself (even if you are with someone) […]

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The Surprising Source Of Your Video Authenticity

July 28, 2015

Learning how to make a video that your market will enjoy is a fabulous goal. And there is a surprising way to shorten that learning curve. The key is to understand something about yourself that maybe you’ve never asked yourself in quite this way.   Watch this very brief video to get your personal key.  And […]

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The Timeless Charm of Motion Graphics

July 20, 2015

I’m thinking about using more motion graphics videos, since my voice still sounds like Clint Eastwood at 14, sometimes sounding like the man he became and sometimes breaking to his inner 9 year old… It’s in moments like these I’m thankful that I created at least a few videos that won’t need updating for quite […]

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Why suspense in your videos is so powerful

June 14, 2015

Why would you want to use suspense in your marketing videos? Well, it’s an amazing way to hold your viewer’s interest. It does the work of a hundred other tricks. And it’s one of the most authentic ways to demonstrate what you’ve got. But here’s the thing. No one understands what suspense is really all […]

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