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What video equipment and tools should I use for marketing?

Posted by Mike Volpe on Thu, Aug 27, 2009
 

I use video a lot for creating marketing content, mostly because I hate to type and I think and speak a lot faster than I can type.  So for video I do marketing webinars, a great marketing video podcast, this smaller marketing podcast and lots of other marketing video through and with the team at HubSpot.

To be honest, for most people the first steps are easy.  I do all these "Marketing with Mike" videos just using a webcam and a PC and edit with either Windows Movie Maker (free!) or Camtasia (expensive).  You can use Quicktime Pro ($30) to convert the video formats if you need to, because Windows Movie Maker does not do a good job of supporting the iTunes formats.

What is much more important than the equipment is the content.  For all these videos, I have notes to guide me, and I try to take topics from videos that come directly from people I have met in person or online, so I know the videos will be on topics interesting to all of you (hopefully).

Remember, think content before production value.

Download video for iPod and iPhone.


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Absolutely indispensable (to me) is my Canon PowerShot Digital Elph pocket camera. It is so portable that I don't even know it is with me, yet it packs so much power that I rarely need more. For what? For capturing: audio, macro-photos, regular photos, stitched photos, and videos. It can even serve as a videocam. It has given me permanent records of so many things that would otherwise be lost. This piece of equipment is a beast. I'm about to purchase my 3rd-generation. I consider this my #3 accessory, just below my mobile phone and my laptop (Mr. Laptop is getting nervous as mobile computing takes over my life). 
 
 
 
Put a 12-megapixel camera, along with 1,280 x 720p HD video wHDMI output (found in a Powershot SD980 IS) into a Blackberry and I'd only need 1 device. 
 
 
 
The portability gets to CONTENT. It allows you to capture any- and everything, on the fly. Observations, interviews, features, reviews, demos, processes, etc.

posted @ Thursday, August 27, 2009 2:58 PM by Rick Short


Nice! Did you know that iTunes itself (free of course) can convert videos to one with an iPod-friendly format? Simply right click on the item and select "Create iPod version" from the pop-up menu.

posted @ Saturday, August 29, 2009 7:11 AM by Colin Warwick


@Colin - cool! I did not know that. It is a good tip - thanks for sharing! 
 
@Rick - agreed! I have an iPhone 3g ... And wish I had the 3Gs so I could record video...

posted @ Saturday, August 29, 2009 1:46 PM by Mike Volpe


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