ResourcesForLife.tv – Video Production Services and Resources

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20070124-video-production-pbs-small-house-dsc06356Summary. Welcome to ResourcesForLife.tv and the Video Production Services Group, a division of the Technology Services Resource Group. Here you’ll find a portal to video content that we’ve produced as well as media from other sources. We have video feeds with the following service providers:

Our Production Services. We offer a variety of video production services including: video recording, editing, and producing DVDs and streaming video. Events we’ve recorded include weddings, plays, and public events. Whenever possible, we include our clients in the video production process. We also provide training and assistance to help people with their own personal video production. For a list of additional service providers, please see our list of national video production and conversion service providers.

Documentation for Video Production. Below are documents and resources for those who produce video.

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Featured Videos and Movies. There is a lot of online video content available today. Much of it is poor quality content and/or poor image quality. Rather than offer a flood of random videos, we’ve organized relevant videos on this website by category. If a quality relevant video is available for a specific topic, you’ll find it on the page that contains information about that topic. We hope to increasingly add more video to our site, and replace existing video with better content and image quality when available. Please let us know of any suggested content we should include. Below are some featured videos and movies.

Procrastination Warning. Like surfing the web, playing video games, or spending time on social networking websites, watching short videos can be very addictive since most sites continue offering relevant/similar video content after you’re done viewing which feeds your interest. For this reason, we encourage purposeful and limited video viewing.

Video on Demand. Below is a list video content providers. The best video providers offer excellent quality content, crisp image quality, excellent sound quality, and the ability to embed videos. Key: E=Embed, H=High Resolution Professional Quality, L=Link, M=Mixed High Quality and Low Quality Video, U=Upload.

  • Apple iTunes – “Music, movies, TV shows, applications, podcasts, audiobooks, university lectures and more. Download and enjoy all of then with iTunes.” (HL)
  • Apple Movie Trailers – High definition movie previews that can be downloaded with QuickTime Pro. (HL)
  • Apple Movies Under $10 – Weekly selections offered at a discount – requires iTunes. (HL)
  • Blip.tv – “A new class of entertainment is emerging that is being made by the people without the support of billion-dollar multinationals. Our mission is to support these people by taking care of all the problems a budding videoblogger, podcaster or Internet TV producer tends to run into. We’ll take care of the servers, the software, the workflow, the advertising and the distribution. We leave you free to focus on creativity.” [ Visit the ResourcesForLife.com Channel on Blip.tv ]
  • Google Video – View our videos on Google and YouTube or post your own. (EMU)
  • Hulu.com – “Hulu was founded in March 2007 by NBC Universal and News Corp and is operated independently by a dedicated management team with offices in Los Angeles, New York, and Beijing. Hulu closed a $100 million investment from private equity firm Providence Equity Partners in October 2007. Hulu’s mission is to help people find and enjoy the world’s premium video content when, where and how they want it. Hulu offers U.S. consumers a vast selection of premium video content, on demand, free and ad-supported: full episodes of TV shows, both current and classic, full-length movies, thousands of clips, and much more.” (EHL) [ Tour ]
  • MPAA Listing – “As a consumer, there are plenty of sites that offer legal downloads such as CinemaNow, Ifilm, Movielink, Movieflix and more. You can also get show-times and tickets for movies playing in local theatres online. There are also many options available to buy or rent movies, without even having to leave your home. For students, services such as Cdigix and Ruckus are becoming readily available on college and university campuses across the nation.”
  • MSN Video – Offering a variety of video clips, with some advertising. Registered users can upload clips. (LMU)
  • TED.com – “TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.” An excellent source of inspiring and thought provoking videos.
  • TheDailyShow.com – An amazingly designed video distribution system offering video searching based on topic, guest, as well as a unique timeline view. (EHLM)
  • Veoh.com – “Veoh is a revolutionary online video service that gives users the power to easily discover, watch, and personalize their entertainment viewing experience. With a simple broadband connection Veoh gives you free access to all of the great TV and film studio content, independent productions, and user-generated videos on the Web. From hit series on CBS, ABC, MTV Networks to content from Warner Bros., Sony Pictures and ESPN to your favorite YouTube clips, Veoh turns the vast universe of Internet video into an easy-to-use, high-quality, personalized experience that entertainment fans everywhere can enjoy.”
  • Vimeo.com – “Vimeo is a thriving community of people who love to make and share video. From simple moments to masterpieces, Vimeo is the perfect home for you to upload, store and share all the video you create. Your video’s quality and security is important to us, and that is why we’ve built advanced privacy options, sharing tools, and high quality video encoding. So whether you are an amateur filmmaker, proud mom, restaurant critic, or just a guy with a cellphone, connect with Vimeo today.”
  • Viddler.com – “Upload as many videos as you want—you get nearly unlimited space with Viddler. Record videos directly to the site using your webcam! Post comments and tags at specific points in the video. Share your videos with RSS and iTunes. Keep your money! We are 100% free!”
  • YouTube.com – “Founded in February 2005, YouTube is the leader in online video, and the premier destination to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience. YouTube allows people to easily upload and share video clips on www.YouTube.com and across the Internet through websites, mobile devices, blogs, and email.” (ELMU)

Movie Information Resources. Below are movie, video, and film information resources.

  • AOL Movies – “Movie showtimes, theaters, movie tickets, & everything movies – Moviefone”
  • Apple Movie Trailers – High definition movie previews that can be downloaded with QuickTime Pro.
  • Dove.org – Films that are most popular in theaters are typically those with a G, PG, or PG-13 rating. This is because most people don’t really like watching horror, violence, sex, and being exposed to vulgar language. The Dove Foundation is an organization offering a multi-faceted rating system for movies allowing viewers to avoid movies that have excessive and unnecessary violence, sex, horror, and vulgarity.
  • Google Movie Showtimes – Search theaters in your area by zip code.
  • IMDB.com – “The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is a HUGE collection of movie information. We try to catalog every pertinent detail about a movie, from who was in it, to who made it, to trivia about it, to filming locations, and even where you can find reviews and fan sites on the web. We then do our best to present this information in a manner that is easy to search and access.”
  • Movies.com – “Movies.com is now part of the Fandango family. One of the Web’s top movie destinations, Fandango entertains and informs moviegoers with trailers, clips, celebrity interviews, photos, fan reviews and much more. Fandango offers moviegoers the ability to quickly select a film, plan where and when to see it, and skip the box office by guaranteeing tickets in advance for more than 15,000 movie screens. With Movies.com and Fandango, you’ll get the ultimate moviegoing experience. Be sure to sign up for your own Fandango account, as your Movies.com account will no longer be active. With your new Fandango account you can save a list of your favorite theatres, movies and celebs, sign-up to receive weekly e-mail updates and special offers, exchange buzz with other movie lovers, share reviews and more. We know you’ll be Fandangoing in no time!”
  • MSN Movies - ”MSN Movies provides exclusive movies features, trailers and movie clips, movie listing and showtimes, celebrity photos, gossips and news.”
  • New York Times - ”Find movie reviews & breaking news on actors & actresses, studios, Hollywood, DVD & Video, Oscars, new releases, independent film, movie trailers, showtimes, movie tickets.”
  • Video Recording and Production Tips
  • Yahoo Movies – Showtimes, reviews, trailers, recommendations, and more.

Selected Videos. Below are some selected movies.

Support Documents. Below are more resources for working with video.

Featured Video. Below is an excellent animation video from The Neat Company. It’s featured here because of how nicely produced it is.

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