RSSVideo Blogging for Real Estate #2 – Talk About the Market
By Ryan Ward | October 29, 2010
I just finished and posted a video about the 3rd quarter metro Atlanta market statistics on my main blog. It’s a rather long video and, like my first post in this series, I’m learning too – so I am ok experimenting with length of video here. I suspect it’s too long, but there is no real way to shorten it with that much information. Maybe I’ll try another with only 1 topic that will allow me to keep the video shorter, but let’s wait and see how this one does first. Here is the video:
Equipment
The equipment I used in the video was a Nikon D7000 DSLR that shoots HD video, a 35mm f1.8 nikon lens, a green screen, lamps in front of me angled roughly at 45 degrees one a little closer than the other and lights behind to eliminate the shadows on the green screen so that I could use a chroma key in Final Cut Express to cut out the background as well as one behind and aiming towards me, Screenflow for my Mac and Final Cut Express for video editing. Here is what you need to know about your set and chroma key. You need all of this if you want to remove your backgrond from the video and replace it with an image, another video, effects or any number of combinations.
How I Made the Video
The first thing I did was shoot the screen capture portion of the video using Screenflow and edited in the zoom and highlights I wanted and exported that as a .mov file. This was a powerpoint presentation that I opened in Keynote (the Mac equivalent to PowerPoint) and added a nice looking reflective transition. I used Grab (a screen capture tool for Mac) to record the background image you see when I’m talking and imported it into my Final Cut. Only once the presentation was recorded with my voiceover was I was able to record my introduction because I needed to know what I was saying within the video first. I then shot the summary at the end of the video at the same time and imported all of that in as a new project in Final Cut.
Resources
I’m using a Mac and it took me a while to put the resources I use together. I see we will need some resources for PC users so I will save all of that for one post in the series to keep it organized…if you have any questions, comments or help please leave it in the comments section below.
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