Oculu Video Blog

This is a continued post from our last blog, that shows the final ad example for including a start image in an ad. Check out http://www.oculu.com/start-image-for-ads for the previous tutorial.

Video is HUGE. It’s just everywhere, and expected to grow and grow, driving properly hosted videos to the top of search engine rankings. In fact, it’s predicted that 90% of all web content will be video by the end of 2013. Ok, so it’s everywhere, and you should be doing it, got it. But can you shoot it yourself with good results? The answer lies in several questions…

In this how to, Dave will run through keying and creating an alpha channel for a video spokesperson style clip like this which is ultimately delivered using the Oculu overlay player insertion code. The tool he uses for keying is Adobe Aftereffects, which is a very common app in the video post-production world.

On a typical shoot day, the Innovate Media team shoots with the Red camera. They have developed this particular lighting setup over the past five years shooting over three thousand titles. They use a big six bipod……