Here on FootageWorks.com, You can see the quality of over 800 samples of wmv's created in Vegas 6 at 320x240 with sound.

Jay Mitchell
FootageWorks

Thanks Jay and Jay. Nice examples of how video service companies present their video products.

But I am looking for examples of using video on business web sites outside the video/film/media industry. Like a pet shop, or a furniture store, or an insurance company, or a manufacturing company, or a laboratory, or a consulting company, etc. Anybody seen any good applications of web videos on web sites outside our own industry?

The best thing to do is simply get online and start surfing.

The big, and I mean BIG, corporate web sites usually have video in one form or another. They put big bucks into it, too, much of which is shot on film then transferred to video and compressed for the web.

The few mom and pop businesses that use video online run the gamet from being really bad to really good. You'll just have to search it out for yourself.

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Too, I wouldn't worry about showing potential clients what someone else has done. That does nothing for you or your client whatsoever.

Yeah...I found video on a pet shop web site! Spot, check out Howl-o-ween 2005: http://www.akaspot.com/events.htm.

Not exatly what I had in mind...but hey, if it keeps the customers coming in the door....

I've had some success with my infomercial-style videos:

Take a look:

http://www.TradingVideos.com

http://www.Sitefomercials.com

http://www.CopywritersSeminar.com

All edited with Vegas 4, flv'd with flixpro.

and much, much more!


-ken

The Namo web editor site and the Frame Forge 3D Studio site have some Flash movies--in fact a lot of company sites have Flash movies by now. Same goes for Microsoft Front Page 2003.

Also, Avid Express has a goodly amount of Quicktime movies explaining various product features.

FYI - the Food Bank video does not show up in Firefox.

Duncan

Douglas,

I produced the corporate product videos for http://zebraimaging.com/html/gallery.html (Manufactures 3D Holograms)

In addition, click on SAMPLES at www.videobackstage.com. You'll see the following corporate videos along with others listed elseware:

- GE Customer Conference. Sent via CD's and streamed from site. (corporation)
- Piano Teacher. This streams from www.coolpianoteacher.com (piano teacher)
- The videos for StudioRD is a design firm concept video (streams from their password protected site--shows customers their capabilities) (design firm)
- The Avisys video streams from their site (but is password protected since it has security content--shown to congress) (company)
- The 3 minute infomercial for "How to Finance a High-Tech Startup" streams at www.chanimal.com/video (consulting)
- There is a video for a retreat for the Catholic church is found at http://www.sjnaustin.org/Home/Home.asp (church)
- http://www.rootsbootsbrisket.com/ has a video about a geneology conference (organization)

I hope this helps.

Jay - what program did you use to create your animated 3D video of your company logo? Very nice. Also, very nice render quality on the first two, are they both rendered with Vegas 6?

Duncan

The animation was done with LightWave 3D.

All of the web videos were edited in Vegas, but they were compressed using
Sorenson Squeeze Compression Suite.

Jay:

Thank you.

Duncan