If you are doing online marketing, you are surely aware by now that video is one of the best tools a marketer has available. Almost every successful site uses videos to sell their products. But it’s not cheap to produce a quality video, at least the way it’s normally done. That’s why Lucas Adamski produced Foovly. It is a collection of movie templates, built by a professional graphic designer, that can make your videos look like they were created by a pro. One of the easiest ways to create a marketing video is by using Microsoft Powerpoint, easy, but not necessarily classy. How... [...]

Update: Online Marketers give Video Builder a massive ‘thumbs up’ #ad In the hours since VideoBuilder went on sale yesterday, internet marketers around the world have invested in (i.e., bought) over 10,000 copies. That is almost unprecedented for first day sales. This new software has filled a need that a large number of experienced marketers have long needed. The launch week pricing is still in effect, but the creators are gradually raising the price. There were 3 small increases on Friday and more are coming today, and later during this introductory sale. You can use the coupon code... [...]

Animated “explainer” videos that introduce a new product have become a way of life for many marketing introductions, but there has always been a drawback. It was not commercially practical for a small to medium business to make the movement of the on-screen avatar character’s lips to the words being spoken. Disney has the budget for it, but the average marketer doesn’t. The new software, VideoBuilder, now lets any business bring more-life-like videos into their marketing. And that’s not the end of the innovations in VideoBuilder. You now have a fully flexible animation... [...]

Astroblu LTD, headed by Fachrul Stream, is releasing a large collection of video clips especially designed to benefit online marketers. They are calling this new collection Gigavid. What’s included in This all-new Packages? As the name implies, this is a large collection of a wide variety of clips suitable for including in videos you create. In the basic package of video clips you are getting: ■ 50 opener video templates ■ 30 promotion video templates ■ 20 social media video templates ■ 10 HD Business video footage ■ 10 HD Holiday video footage ■ 10 HD Slow motion video footage ■... [...]

Viddyoze Live Action is new software, just released and unprecedented, that creates your marketing videos that can include both live action footage and animated footage. And its degree of automation will surprise you. You will be able to upload your own logos, images and text into a real moving cinematic scene, with your uploads becoming part of the action. But the bad news is that this is your last chance to get in on the launch sale. This time tomorrow, Viddyoze Live Action will cost $197 + $97/month. But today, it’s just a one-time investment of only $67. This is a sophisticated animation... [...]

Viddyoze was the first video “intro” creation software. Their long experience has kept them ahead of the pack of their newer competitors. Now there’s a new video tool available that dwarfs what Viddyoze can do. It’s called Viddyoze Live Action. Yes, it’s by the same team that created the original Viddyoze and then Viddyoze 2.0 (Joey Xoto, Jamie Garside and David Chamberlain), but this new software beats the originals hands down. For the first time ever with any software, you can use Viddyoze Live Action to put your logo straight into live-action video footage. And... [...]

Version 2 of PressPlay, was just released and gives you: • More control • More customizations • More list building and revenue-generating features • More analytics. This new version of PressPlay is loaded with features that offer you superior control over your videos: Player Style & Controls Control every element on the video player itself, including the ability to brand the player for your business or website. Player Skins Embed your video inside of one of the eye-popping video player skins. Your player can look like an iPad, an iMac, a Blackboard, or a Whiteboard and many more. Watermark If... [...]

Videos make good sales tools– if people watch them. Get them to watch for a few seconds, and they are more likely to watch the whole video. Jimmy Mancini has put together a tool that makes your videos stand out from the crowd, Intro Video Creator. This is Adobe Air software that creates Logo Stingers. It does this using your choice of 2D or 3D animations. As you use it for building your videos you can easily customize the fonts that are used and choose the background you want. The goal is to build a subdued but eye-catching introductory scene for your video. Often you would use your logo,... [...]

Last week, Apple released a new mobile app, called Apple Clips. It was built from the ground up as a mobile app, making it easier to do your work on a mobile device than with earlier editing apps, including its earlier products Final Cut and iMovie. An article in TechCrunch comments, “Clips lets users cut together short videos and photos, add filters, emojis and music and send them out into the world — albeit without a standalone social network attached.… Clips does offer a super simple way to pull together videos and images into a single cohesive package you can fire off across a slew... [...]

Video Producer Pro is new software, just released by Jimmy Mancini, for making and editing videos. It allows anyone to create professional looking videos by adding Intros, Titles, Outros and special effects to videos. It can work with videos it creates (including screen recording or video merger), or with any other video you have on your computer or even with any YouTube video that you download using the software. Take a look at what it can do for you. ■ You can add a title screen at the beginning of your video. ■ You can add an animated 3D or 2D introductory clip before your video, proper,... [...]