New video and image formats
Saw this the other day and boy, I haven’t been paying attention.
Youtube Giveth and Youtube Taketh Away
Just learned today that Youtube has deprecated the ability to remove the related videos that appear at the end of an embedded video. From now on, using the rel=0 as a parameter will merely show…
Using Youtube for Video Review
Many times during a video production project I’ll need the client or a producer to review footage, make notes, or select clips. Using Youtube for video review purposes works rather well when you know the…
Interstate and Highway Signs PSD
Every once in a while I make maps for productions. Here’s a free graphic file I created of an Interstate Sign and Highway Sign. It is in Photoshop format PSD and are built using scalable…
Youtube Parameters Cheat Sheet
11/2022 See update at bottom. If you’re like me you do a little bit of everything. My main business is video production but I also do web design and programming as well as a host…
Youtube adds another related/suggested videos overlay on embedded videos
UPDATED 2/13/2018 – it now seems that all you need is the rel=0 to get rid of both the paused and end related videos. UPDATE 4/11/2018 – BUT it does not work with simple WordPress…
The Fake Animated Gif
Perusing Upwork, I saw a request to convert some videos of exercise instruction to animated gifs. A while back I read a very interesting article over on Popular Mechanics about the history of this format….
Playing around with HTML5 Video and CSS
I was playing around with my old website design I created many years ago, back when you made complicated graphic designs by slicing them up and putting them together in tables. This time I was…
Youtube Video Display Parameters
When posting a YT video on your web site, you have several options to control how it is displayed. The most annoying “feature” to me is the related videos that are displayed following the video….
News Super Template
I needed a quick news style super for a small production and VideoPilot had a great one here: http://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2008/07/breaking-free-news-templates/ I just used the Photoshop file and customized it to what I needed.