What do you think of the imagery in this?

It feels good to be producing again.

Izzy Video is back!

These days, most internet videos (including video podcasts like mine) are rendered for small screens such as those found on the video iPod. This can be a challenge because when you shoot for small screens, some different rules apply. This installment of Izzy Video will show you how to ensure your video looks great on small screens.

This video tutorial is available to members only.

Virb has some pretty good video clips.

Twitter is a free communication service that keeps people in touch all the time. You can receive message updates from the folks you follow a variety of ways.

I use text messaging on my Treo. This works well for me because I have unlimited text messages. Good thing too, considering some of the people I follow like Scoble, Rice, Calacanis, Laporte, and Pirillo send about 100 messages per day each! (I’m exaggerating, but only slightly…)

You can also receive messages several alternative ways (this is far more popular than SMS). For those of you who are interested in keeping in touch via Twitter, please add me as a friend.

I enjoy Twitter because it’s far less of a time commitment than email, Myspace, and other services. You can the great feelings that come from communicating with friends, but the limit of 140 characters per message makes everything so wonderfully efficient!

You can see my Twitter profile at www.twitter.com/israelhyman. If you add me, let me know you watch Izzy Video, and I’ll add you back.

What a great way to stay close to someone!

So what happens when a guy decides to mount a camera on his head and give the world a first person perspective of his life, in real time, all day every day? Well, you get Justin.TV.

It’s a crazy idea, but just clever enough to get the world’s attention. He has the camera going into a laptop in his backpack, where it is streamed via wireless broadband. You can watch him live anytime, everywhere he goes. For the last few minutes I’ve been watching him type on his computer and talk on the phone…which is incidentally the exact same thing I’m doing right now!

Anyway, I’m predicting that this will be very popular. In the next few years, celebrities will start doing this. It’s a new kind of reality television.

Link

Since I haven’t had time to put up more tutorials, I thought I’d post content from someone else who is doing great work.

This is a great tutorial which shows more info about Green Screen. The “Avoiding Shadows” part of the show is probably the biggest point in here.

If you have links to other free tutorials like this, please leave them in the comments.

I laughed so hard when I read this email, I had to post it for you all to see:

Love your Podcast, best thing out there, hits that middle ground that
other instructional resources miss…They’re all “This is a camera”

or

“Because of the refraction of the sun at 8:15PM in Zimbabwe, you
should use Tiffen 25b filter with a Nikon 4526 25mm snottgrubman lens
at its sweetspot of 1.8T.”

The intermediate users of the world
thank you for your educational resource!

He really put his finger on it!

Please visit Cole McDonald’s website at http://www.yafiunderground.com, and see the great stuff he’s working on.

Well, if you’re reading this at the website, and not in an RSS reader, then you’ve already noticed that izzyvideo.com has a new look. My goal was to feature the most recent video at the top of the site, so newcomers will immediately understand that they can watch videos here. Also, all the archived episodes are now listed in the sidebar for easy access.

Although I received several compliments for the photo used in the previous masthead, it was only decoration and didn’t really communicate anything — especially regarding video. What does a guy sitting on a chessboard have to do with video? Nothing.

Also, this is still a video podcast, and I will continue to release new installments of Izzy Video, but I will also be posting them to Revver, because I actually think the quality, although flash-based, is not bad at all. In my opinion, Quicktime still reigns from a quality standpoint, but Revver does a pretty good job converting to Flash.

Yes, I’m still here, and yes I intend to release more installments of the Izzy Video Podcast. Please be patient, because I’m busier than ever, and I’ve had to increase my hours at work (yes, I have a day job unrelated to video – podcasting and video are hobbies of mine). Something had to give. For the short term, I’m spending less time podcasting.

Finally, I’ll ask that you please stay subscribed to the podcast, and please continue to tell others about the show. If nothing else, there are 52 tutorials freely available, and although new content is slow to release, the old content still has value.

That’s all for now. I hope you’re all doing well. I’ll update again before too long.