I’m not a fan of greenscreens that fold small – too many creases. I use a pop-up greenscreen, not so portable for location shooting but I can set it up in an instant and with nice soft lighting I never have to iron it.

It’s not big enough for full length shots but for anything else, with one person it’s fine. You don’t need a lot of width (unless you want to include someone behind a wide desk in shot). All you need is the person to fall within the edges of the greenscreen, the edges don’t matter, you can crop them out when you edit and place the person over whatever background you choose to key with.

Here’s a video I made for my Video Marketing training course. You Like?

Have you been watching the launch of Andy Jenkins’ Video Boss programme? There are some awesome videos in the sequence.

Here’s a short clip, the takeaway for me is how Andy matches real world filming with screen capture. This breaks the video up visually, you get to see the face behind the product. I watch too many back to back powerpoint videos with a voice behind them as if the person selling you the product is hiding. You don’t need to be on screen for a lot of time if you are camera shy just a glimpse is good enough.

Also note how the music and the pace of cutting lifts everything from the bog standard to a video full of energy you want to stick with.

Go check out the rest of the videos they’ll only be up for a few more days.

But, wait for it, I spotted this tweet from Scosche in reply to a question about the Mic.

“We are still developing a strategy and talking to the people at Cisco before we make a decision.”

So maybe there is hope! Maybe they will release it anyway.

I think they need to know we really want it! It’s a one time chance.

I suggest you do this.

First, follow Scosche here: https://twitter.com/#!/Scosche

and @ them something like this ..

Please, Please release the #Scosche freedomMIC for #flip  #savetheflip http://savetheflip.com

Anyway that’s it for now, keep Flipping.

YouTube have introduced an awesome tool to help improve shaky Videos. It’s not easy keeping lightweight Flip Video cameras steady even with the image stabilisation features of the new Flip Versions 3rd generation. Using the YouTube Editor you can drag in your Videos and apply the  You Tube Image stabiliser.

The Video on top is before stabilisation and the video below is the Video after correction. It makes a massive difference.

Recently I told my Flip subscribers to expect an exclusive free Video from me. I did a quick survey and the Video the majority wanted was tips on How to film yourself. So I’ve shot the film (still from the shoot above) and I am halfway through editing it. Looks like it will be about 8 minutes of useful content.

If you want to access the Video when I release it this week you need to subscribe in the sidebar!

I spotted this Video where YouTuber KiwiKnowsKarate seems to be having trouble uploading her Flip Video. Answer: the easiest way is to use flipshare. Watch my video below, you might want to hit the full screen button. Please Facebook Like or Tweet if you found it useful.

I’ve just spotted this amazing new WordPress theme, released a couple of days ago. You can use ProfitsTheme for blogs, membership sites, sales pages etc. Profits theme does it all really easily.

Let’s say you are a fitness instructor and you want to use your Flip Video camera to create a money spinning membership site, where you charge people to access Video workout sessions. You collect the money and they get a password.

This theme can do it all for you (when combined with paypal) and it’s on a launch offer at $27 right now, rising to $97 next week. Do you want to make money from your expertise? Well it’s never been easier to set up a site that would have cost you £1000′s only a few years ago!

Check out the Video.