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Ace Editor Harry Miller has published some tutorials for Avid users on editing and mixing sound.  One flash video tutorial is on working with AudioSuite plug-ins and the other is on using the audio tools in the media composer. Check out both as well as a tutorial on how to export video from Avid here.

[via FreshDV]

South by Southwest has just published a bunch of podcasts from the festival this year. Available podcasts cover lots of things computer and technology related, there was a pretty decent presence this year however of video related content. Some podcasts online video creators might find useful include:

Animation and Digital Effects on a Budget

Video Production for the Web and Mobile Devices

Quit Your Day Job and Vlog

Digital Cinema for Indies

Find links to all those (and more) on the SXSW website here.

If you’re going to be successful in video making lighting is one of those things you need to have a really good grasp on. MicroFilmaker Magazine has an article up now called “Learning to Light: Distance vs. Power.” The article discusses the law of inverse square as it applies to light and can give you a good grasp of how lighting works so you can do a better job of lighting your projects. Check out the article here.

The YouTube Awards are back! Now’s the time to start voting for your favorite YouTube videos on the site. This years contest includes twelve categories including five new categories: Best Short Film, Best Political Video, Best Sports Video, Best Eyewitness Video, and Best Instructional Video. Each category also has six nominees to choose from this year instead of the ten.

Voting can be done once per day and runs through Wednesday March 19^th at 11:59 PST. Winners will be announced Friday March 21^st. Check out the videos and cast your votes here.

Good Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an important step in making your videos easily located on the web.  The people over at Blinkx wrote up a pretty good article on how to maximize search engine optimization for web video. The article is currently posted over on Web Video Report. Some tips in the article include how to present your video, titling your video, tags, and sitemaps and RSS feeds. It’s web worth a read for anyone who’s looking to get their video more exposure on the web. Check it out here.

If you’re looking to make some money off your online videos then Googles adsense may be an excellent option for you. If you're thinking about using adsense, but you want to see what it will look like now you have a way. TremorMedia announced their participation in Google’s Adsense for Video program around a month ago. Now on their blog they have a demo up of how the video overlays are going to look intagrated into their Ad-instream platform. Check out the demo here.

In this weeks “New Media Minute” Daisy Whitney of TVWeek talks to some online video creators about what they think has made their videos so successful. In the video she talks to Kent Nichols from “Ask a Ninja” as well as Felicia Day from “The Guild” and video blogger Steve Garfield. Check out the video here.

[via WebVideoReport]

Zippy Videos is a free video sharing site designed to bring aspects of social networking into video sharing. The site is currently in beta but has a decent amount of videos already available to view on the site. Users are given their own video web page to share their videos, and videos can be tagged for easy searching.

Video upload size: Zippy Videos supports videos up to 20MB

Video files supported: Zippy videos supports avi, mpg, wmv, asf, 3gp, mov, rm, or swf formats.

Private Videos: Yes. You can set videos to private and only allow certain people access to see them.

Following Pakistan’s decision to ban YouTube over offensive videos the Chinese government has decided to ban YouTube in the country over videos showing the Tibet riots. The riots have led to over 80 deaths so far in the country.

A steadicam can help you capture smooth looking video while your camera man is in motion recording video. Unfortunatly steadicams are usually pretty expensive, and online video budgets are usually relatively small.  Johnny Chung Lee has written up some instructions for creating “The Poor Man’s Stedicam” that should theoretically help you create a working stedicam for around $14. Check out the instructions here.

CamcorderInfo.com is seeking a freelance blogger to write about online video.  Our audience consists of video enthusiasts and emerging professionals who want to make the most of their movies through the Web.  The blogger must have strong, opinionated writing skills.  The position will focus on creating original content with occasional “via” links to other industry blogs.  Blogger will write 40 to 50 posts per month and work remotely, under the guidance of fulltime editorial staff. 

- Breaking news and emerging technologies for online video makers

- Exclusive interviews with business leaders and viral filmmakers/videographers

- Regular updates to our comparison guide for video hosting sites

- Round-up lists of favorite niche sites (eg. Top music video sites or Top political video sites)

Requirements:

- Experience in online video, camcorders, and/or consumer electronics and software

- Familiarity with basic HTML

- Professional email and telephone etiquette

- Passion for blogging and enthusiasm for video and social networking on the Web