These Side-by-Side Videos Will Make You Rethink Your Captioned Videos

Screenshot of a video with Meryl on both left and right side: "Side-by-Side Captioned Videos"

With the growing number of tools for captioning videos making do-it-yourself captions possible, so is the growing number of captioned videos with crappy captions. Sometimes people don’t realize the importance of something until they see a good and bad example side-by-side. This series of side-by-side videos tell the story of why each rule of awesome … Read more

Overcome Fear of Video with This Easy #5DayChallenge

Video #5DayChallenge

Struggling to create your first video? Here’s a #5DayChallenge to help you change that! Each day will have a tip and challenge. #Day1: Record a video #Day2: Ask a question #Day3: What to talk about #Day4: Expand your reach #Day5: Put it all together Rules of Video #5DayChallenge Rules: No fretting Forget perfection Do the … Read more

What Can You Do with Live Video to Expand Its Reach?

Recycle live video to expand digital marketing reach

📹 A lot of people are excited about the possibilities of using live video since the advent of #LinkedInLive and Facebook live. 📹 Recently, a friend invited me to join a group to win cool prizes from a company whose products I liked. Freebies! Prizes! Behavioral marketing sucked me in and I signed up straight … Read more

The Complete Guide to Captioned Videos

Captioned Videos Complete Guide

Born profoundly deaf, I’ve depended on captioned videos since getting my first big clunky decoder in 1983. It was a box about the size of the older VHS and DVD players. Back then, captioned shows and movies were hard to find. Few things excited me more than seeing the caption symbol on the cover of … Read more

What You Need to Know About Types of Video Captions

1980s Caption Decoder

Image credit: Smithsonian Way back in 1983, I got my first caption decoder. It was a box about the size of two stacked DVD players. (As shown in header photo from Smithsonian.) Whenever I recorded TV shows, the captions burned into the video. That means I could take the tape and watch the show on … Read more

Outdated Software

When I bought a Flip camera in 2008, I also grabbed video editing software. Before buying the software, I researched for a good editor that wasn’t fancy or power-packed. Just enough to get the job done without spending much time with the user manual. With new software, I can usually dig right in. However, past … Read more

How Lenovo Outdoes Apple with an Ad

I rarely check out videos because chances are high that it won’t have captions or subtitles. But I bit on this Lenovo-produced video comparing its ThinkPad X300 to the MacBook Air [link: Dave Winer]. It presents a powerful visual message without using words. But not one to let commercials sway me without research, I wondered … Read more

Digital Camcorder

I finally got around to trying out my digital camcorder that I lucked out and found a great deal on it. I recorded my daughter’s team’s volleyball game last night and experimented. First, I would start/stop between plays to keep it short, but it has a slight delay when starting and stopping, so I stopped … Read more