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portfolio- TicketLeap online video production

adamvaluckas@vjix.com — 2010-09-06T09:31:37-04:00

TicketLeap launched its new service and website with our video. The video outlines how their service integrates with Facebook and Twitter to promote events and sell more tickets.

template- Template videos for small businesses

adamvaluckas@vjix.com — 2010-09-05T13:29:35-04:00

VJIX Creative Is launching Template Videos for growing businesses. These videos have the look of a custom video, at a fraction of the cost! Each video has as an opening shot, several body shots, and a closing shot. We use your company colors, logo, and images of your website to create a video explaining your service.

To learn more about Template Videos click here.

portfolio- Demandforce video production

adamvaluckas@vjix.com — 2010-07-02T20:49:42-04:00

Demandforce has launched their new website with our video, the video outlines how their service works and what benefits their customers will gain from Demandforce. To view the video click here for animation styles page. We also created a loop-able video that they could use as digital signage for trade shows.

2 Billion views, VP8, Google TV = @Google grandslam!

adamvaluckas@vjix.com — 2010-05-20T17:38:49-04:00

2 Billion Views

Google this week has made some major announcements to shake up the online video community. Seven months ago YouTube reached 1 Billion views a day, this week they are announcing TWO BILLION views a day. If you had any questions about where online video is going, this is your answer.

VP8

Also google bought VP8 (a video codec) a little while back for $150 million, they have released as open source. This comes in the wake of Apple and Adobe trading punches over the future of online video formats. I think it will take a while to see where the market lands but I will tell you one thing; anytime there are multiple paths on the web the designers suffer having to design for both such as the dreaded IE6 which most JUST laid to rest.

Google TV

During Google’s IO conference they announced Google TV. Basically you will be able to watch Internet video on your TV using Google’s powerful search with a set-top box. In the past few years I think people have started to want a smart TV where they can surf the web, check their email, social media site, and watch TV all in one neat device. Like when BlueRay and HD-DVD were introduced we are about to see clashes over how we view entertainment, but unlike BlueRay and HD-DVD this might spell the beginning of end to physical media. This is possible as Netflix has shown us.

YouTube also turned 5!

diy- sidebar video to attract new clients

adamvaluckas@vjix.com — 2010-05-16T19:49:59-04:00

Within two weeks our best practices guide for online video has become our number one way people find VJIX organically. To make sure these guests see video, I have put a small 1MB video on each page in the sidebar. This way they are greeted with information they need, and some “eye candy”!

news- 64Bit upgrade & HTML 5 fight

adamvaluckas@vjix.com — 2010-05-10T19:56:29-04:00

This week has had a lot of ups and downs for Adobe the makers of Flash as well as other essential programs for designers such as Photoshop and After Effects.

To start with the good news, Adobe released Creative Suite 5 or CS5. This is by far one of the biggest updates I have seen in 10 years of video postproduction. For me the nicest update is After Effects becoming completely 64-Bit. No more 8 or 16-bit effects that have been around for 10 years, what an amazing transformation! It is like putting a Mustang engine in a Ford Fiesta = Lightning Fast.

The bad news is Apple stated they will not support Flash on their mobile devices, ever. Then Microsoft said it would not ship IE9 with Flash. Each is gearing their new products to HTML5 for video playback, which is good and bad. The good is with HTML5 content distributors can easily embed video into their webpage with simple HTML tags. The bad news is not all browsers use HTML5 like IE6 and IE7.

In the long run HTML5 video embedding will be a big deal, right now Flash is on 99%+ off all computers. The safest thing to do (if you get Lots of traffic from iPhones and iPads) is make a mobile site devoid of Flash interaction.

diy- best practices for business videos

adamvaluckas@vjix.com — 2010-05-03T20:31:58-04:00

We are starting a guide for best practices to create online video for business.
Click here to learn the basic rules of any good video production.

These are short tips to make sure you don’t screw up your video! Check back often and feel free to request a topic that will help you to produce a business marketing video.

press- VJIX Creative wins a Telly for Use of Animation

adamvaluckas@vjix.com — 2010-04-24T16:04:18-04:00

Our first year out and we landed a Telly Award for Use of Animation. The Telly Awards receives over 13,000 entries annually from all 50 states and countries around the world from companies large and small including Comcast Entertainment Group, Clear Channel, Chicago Tribune, Disney and many more.

To win an awards in the same group as these companies in a honor for us.

portfolio- SearchAndShare.org Video Production

adamvaluckas@vjix.com — 2010-03-27T15:58:08-04:00

SearchAndShare.org posted our video on their landing page yesterday, their service should be officially launching soon. Check it out below or on the portfolio page.

portfolio- ValueAppeal and Google TV Ads

adamvaluckas@vjix.com — 2010-03-13T07:56:14-05:00

ValueAppeal contacted me about making Google TV ads from their original online video. We created four versions and we also cut a :60 radio spot for their campaign.

portfolio- AuditConfirmations Video Production

adamvaluckas@vjix.com — 2010-02-13T09:36:46-05:00

iTickmark released their new product AuditConfirmations, our video can be found on the landing page and the Video Tour page. This is our first 2D and I am really proud how it came out! Watch the video below or on the portfolio page.

portfolio- LessAccounting Video Production

adamvaluckas@vjix.com — 2010-01-24T16:23:26-05:00

LessAccounting redesigned their interface and added a new video greeting for their future customers; an excellent way to kick off the new year! Watch the video below or on the portfolio page.

review- 2009 & 2010 VJIX Creative

adamvaluckas@vjix.com — 2010-01-01T09:52:06-05:00

What a big year and a bigger one to come! In case you haven’t started a business, it is hard work and there is always 1000 more things to do. Also starting a business is awesome, being able to do things your way has got to be the best payoff.

For me 2009 will be one to remember.

became a LLC
Developed the vjix.com, as a non-web developer this took more time than I had hoped.
Made relationships with new clients to make awesome videos!
Snagged agency work which I hadn’t thought of doing, but was great.
Made 1000 changes to the website.

2010 is truly going to be awesome!

Two new products or levels of videos will become available.
More marketing to get our name out there.
More online video news in the blog, there are so many great developments in online video.

I have one goal, that is to make clean videos that show off other people’s businesses to get them more clients. If I can do that, then my business will flourish respectively. Best of luck to all of you in your ventures, 2010 is going to be great!

update- blog update

adamvaluckas@vjix.com — 2009-12-04T22:13:18-05:00

For those people who have subscribed to this blog thank you! The RSS feed has changed slightly so we could add some new features. If you would to continue to follow our blog please re-subscribe. Thank you again!

press- WebWorkerDaily

adamvaluckas@vjix.com — 2009-11-14T14:15:55-05:00

Editor Simon Mackie of WebWorkerDaily posted my reader profile yesterday! My profile is a part of their month long look at online video. Last week they interviewed Izzy Hyman who is making a big name for himself with his online tuts.

It is exciting for me since I enjoy reading their blog for the new web products and trends. Plus I received some very nice emails regarding the post and a surge of traffic.

Thank you Simon!

Click the picture to read the full write up!

news- 1080p HD Is Coming to YouTube

adamvaluckas@vjix.com — 2009-11-10T11:30:33-05:00

"We're excited to say that support for watching 1080p HD videos in full resolution is on its way. Starting next week, YouTube's HD mode will add support for viewing videos in 720p or 1080p, depending on the resolution of the original source, up from our maximum output of 720p today."
Read YouTube's official blog post.

This is awesome news for people shooting 1080p. They will no longer have to convert to 720p and any advancement forwarding web video is great news. It is funny to think about how just a few years ago online video was mostly AVI or WMV files that looked horrible, with small frame sizes, and a gigantic file size. We have come a long way!

On the flip side- I have a cable connection that steadily has 14MBs down and 4MB up running to a dual quad core Apple Pro with a great video card and I still get stuttering video from YouTube in HD. So will it really matter if the picture is bigger is their bandwidth is lagging? Yeah, I'll take it!

portfolio- ValueAppeal Video Production

adamvaluckas@vjix.com — 2009-10-19T09:01:44-04:00

ValueAppeal video production is complete and is now living on their site!

news - August 2009 Online Video Numbers

adamvaluckas@vjix.com — 2009-09-29T19:57:40-04:00

Here are some interesting facts and figures from Comscore.

All totaled in August people watched 25 billion videos, 10 billion coming from Google.

Other August 2009 stats:

* 81.6 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video.
* The average online video viewer watched 582 minutes of video, or 9.7 hours.
* 120.5 million viewers watched nearly 10 billion videos on YouTube.com.
* 44.9 million viewers watched 340 million videos on MySpace.com.
* The average Hulu viewer watched 12.7 videos.
* The duration of the average online video was 3.7 minutes.

I think this online video thing is catching on! ;)

portfolio- PipeLine Deals Video Live

adamvaluckas@vjix.com — 2009-09-18T17:15:24-04:00

PipelineDeals' video went live and the video looks great on their front page! Click on the image to visit their site.

portfolio- PipelineDeals Video Production

adamvaluckas@vjix.com — 2009-08-27T15:12:11-04:00

VJIX Creative has finished our first video for PipelineDeals. The video will be on their front page in a few days. This is a great day for me as a small business owner! Check the video out below or on the portfolio page.

update- site v1

adamvaluckas@vjix.com — 2009-06-01T08:45:58-04:00

Hello! At the time of writing this VJIX Creative is a little company sorting it's self out. Until there is something worth watching on the site, here is a beautiful video by Pierre Michel.