10 Photography / Video Tips & Tricks

10 Photography / Video Tips & Tricks

We've gathered up some useful tips & tricks for photographers and videographers.

1. 10 Top Photography / Videography Composition Rules http://www.photographymad.com/pages/view/10-top-photography-composition-rules
2. Camera Histograms: Tones & Contrasts http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/histograms1.htm
3. Creating Double Diffusion for Reflective Objects https://www.photoflex.com/pls/creating-double-diffusion-for-reflective-objects
4. High Speed Photography http://www.diyphotography.net/diy_high_speed_photography_at_home/
5. Photographing Children http://www.dpmag.com/how-to/tip-of-the-week/ten-tips-for-photographing-kids-06-07-10.html
6. Professional Lighting in Model Shoots http://www.tutorial9.net/tutorials/photography-tutorials/professional-lighting-in-model-photography/
7. Shooting Complex Architecture http://www.popphoto.com/how-to/2010/01/how-to-photographing-complex-architecture
8. Shooting Vehicles http://www.popphoto.com/how-to/2009/12/how-to-photograph-moving-vehicles
9. Shooting Water http://www.dpmag.com/how-to/shooting/water.html
10. Video Backgrounds for Interviews http://www.izzyvideo.com/video-backgrounds/

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Basics to Video Statistics - Learning From Your Reports

Understanding Your Video Statistics

Learning from your video reports to improve your video broadcasting success rate

It's easier than you may think to learn form your active
video content and playlists.

Bizideo’s content management solutions offer a wide range of reports as well as custom reports, however we’ll be covering the most basic statistics. If you would like to learn more please contact us: info@bizideo.tv.

To Get Started

1. Log into your account and go to “View Reports”
2. Click “Video Statistics”
3. Have fun! (don’t forget you can download any report as CSVs or customize a report using the filters at the top)

Playlist Views

As you can see sometimes one playlist is just far more popular than others of a similar nature.

These are the views for all the videos in a published playlist, what this can help you do is gauge what playlist is getting the most traffic. From there you can further analyze it based on it’s availability type (subscription, free, limited time… and so forth) and the items within the playlist.

• Your Goal: Find out what playlist is getting the most views.
• Why?: Experimenting with new playlists based off the successful one will help you figure out what formula/appearance/wording works best.

Views Themselves

This is pretty easy to understand. This is where you look at what videos are getting all the views and what aren't. Compare like elements from videos that work and those that don’t work.

Popular	Worst Performing
Upbeat music in the background	No music in the background
Alice was the spokesperson	The dog puppet or Anderson were the spokespersons
Custom Stop Graphic with Stock Images	The automatic Stop Graphic
Short Title	Longer Title

The above is a quick example of a comparison table.

Day of the Week

When you click to see more about a video’s views you may notice that there is a pattern between the day of the week and the amount of views. As simple as this sounds try releasing your next video on your most popular day to see if it fares well. You can also schedule content to be published at the prime times if they are inconvenient for you.

Don't get discouraged by a lack of views, it's an opportunity to learn how to better promote and place your content.

Starting small with these three areas of focus can help you refine your content until you have a formula that works for you. Best of luck!

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Additional Resources

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Once Published

• New Content Checklist
• Delivering Customized Playlists

Video Creation Help

• Small Business Video Creation Tips: Part I
• Small Business Video Creation Tips: Part II
• How to Create Effective Educational / Training Videos

Easy Support Request Checklist - 5 Items

Easy Support Request Checklist - 5 Items

Contacting technical support can be frustrating for everyone involved. To help we’ve got a short checklist to help you with any technical support request, not only will it help support better understand the issue but it should help you get results faster.

1. Take a screenshot of the issue - PC Link Phone Link Wins 8 Mac Link
1. This is normally the most helpful thing you can do.
2. What Operating System are you using? - Help link
3. What Browser were you using? - Help link
4. Any Error Messages you get.
5. What you were doing when the issue happened?

Remember support staff are people too, their goal is to help you resolve your issue as quickly as they can.

These may seem simple and really they are but they can help whoever is helping you better understand the basics of what is going on. The above are simple and pretty universal to technical issues by adapting your support request habits you can prevent a lot of frustration.

Other Helpful Links

• Contact Bizideo
• Log In Help
• Embed Code Help
• Member Manager Help
• Wizard Search Engine Optimization Help
• Closed Caption Help
• Supported Formats
• Template Help

Creating a Better Password

Helpful Password Tips

It’s surprising how many people on the web will use 1 password for everything, or will use rather weak passwords for high security systems. To help with the creative challenge of coming up with a password you’ll remember, but that isn't “123password”, here are some tips.

• Never use “password” in your password
• Use capitalized and lowercase letters (A = capitalized, a = lowercase)
• Use at least 1 number in your password
• Never use your name as your password
• Be sure to set your password reminder!
• Try combining some of your favorite things

Ex: Your favorite food + your favorite number + your favorite author + the number of times you’ve left the country (You don’t have to use this formula just know what the formula is and use that as the password reminder)

If all else fails don’t be afraid of using a generated password protected by a password tool. We like to suggest to our users LastPass. It’s free, highly reviewed, and works great. (https://lastpass.com/) However like with any decision you should research your options. There can be a lot of benefit to using a password vault, especially if you have a lot of accounts however in the end the decision is yours. 

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