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Making Money: Lowdown On YouTube Partnership

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Earlier I had announced that Leechon had finally become a YouTube partner. This means that as a partner, Google will share some of the ad revenue that they get with Leechon, Inc.

What I’ve Learned So Far:

  • Appropriate Keywords Are Important –
    The Google Adsense ads that appear in the lower third of the video are based on the tags and keywords placed in the video description. For example, most of the videos I’ve filmed have been shot with Canon cameras, thus I always put “canon” and the model of the camera into the tag space. You’ll notice those specific videos get ads that link to brands of digital video cameras.
  • Pay Attention To Conversion Ratios -
    Paying attention to my conversion ratios for the past few days as well as reading up on forums discussing money making potential of the YouTube Partnership program, I’ve learned that YouTube video Adsense ads have a click-through rate of 0.3% – 0.5%. This ratio means that for every 2000 ad impressions the content get , Leechon will earn about $1.

Obviously, the number’s aren’t glorious. For a moment they’re downright depressing.

However, they are an extra income stream. Over time (probably a looong time) as the subscriber base grows, the video count increases and quality of entertainment content put forth improves, this number can grow into something substantial.

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Leechon Is In The YouTube Partner Program

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A few days ago, I got the following email:

All I can say is, (deep breath) “Alhumdulillah…”

The great thing about this is that this provides Leechon with new source of passive revenue for producing videos and now videos longer than 10 minutes can be hosted on the Leechon Films YouTube account!

Look forward to more videos being posted :)

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WordPress 3.0 Crashed Leechon But Now We Are Back In Business

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Earlier this week I made the move to upgrade to WordPress 3.0 on a couple of the websites that I'm maintaining. The move resulted in the following message appearing on for all people using Internet Explorer to access the site.

Thus normal reaction was to restore the old version of WordPress, but that for some reason didn’t solve the problem. BlueHost was kind enough to restore a backup that was a week old resulting in the websites coming back to normal, except for Leechon.com – thus the last day and a half was spent in getting all the website files back in order.

We’re back in business! Alhumdulillah :)

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Camera Got Stolen – Might Buy Canon 7D

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This past weekend my Canon HFS100 and Azden SGM 2x shotgun microphone was stolen.

I was setting up to do recording for a video I’m working on with AlMaghrib and it was my mistake to not notify some of the people there to keep an eye on it while I go into the seminar room to make a note of which people I’d be doing recordings of. 20 minutes later I come back and find my equipment missing.

As it was a major bummer to find my equipment stolen, I figured it’s a great opportunity to upgrade.

canon-7d

The following setup is what I’m considering :

7d-camerasetup

The breakdown of which is:

  • $1,600 – Canon 7D body
  • $350 – Canon 50mm EF f 1.4 lens
  • $600 – Tokina 11mm-16mm f 2.8 wide angle lens
  • $318 – 1 meter Glidetrack
  • $125 – Manfrotto Tripod head
  • $150 – UV and Neutral Density Filters
  • $100 – Hoodman Loupe
  • $140 – Battery and 32 GB memory card

Total cost: $3383.00

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I’d love to hear your thoughts and suggestions on the setup:

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Exploring 3D Filmmaking

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3d-glasses

[ UPDATE: 12.26.2009 - 3:41 AM ]

Turns out that there are several types of 3D development over the years.

The type that most people are familiar with is “3D Stereoscopic” which is basically capturing with two sources and then having it projects in two different colors (red & blue -or- red & green) and the goofy glasses would cancel out the non-overlapped colors to give the artificial depth.

3D Stereoscopic can be duplicated in a low-budget project, it just takes proper planning – mounting of the camera with the right measures – and understanding of how to sync two different video files and audio files together in the same time line so editing is fully synced.

The end product will be like your classic 3D videos.

In today’s day and age of digital film making – instead of the diffusion of red and blue colors, its the diffusion of light known as “orthogonal polarizing”

During production you have a camera that has 2 lenses mounted in the front where it records the video data in two separate streams, much like how stereo audio is recorded in two separate streams.

The final cut is then projected via dual lens projector where each projector lens has “orthogonal polarizing filters” mounted on the front of it so than when you wear the 3D glasses – which also have orthogonal polarizing filters on them cancel out the non-overlapping image ads an artificial depth to the video.

More on this here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarized_3D_glasses

Question:
How does one jimmy rig two separate projectors with “orthogonal polarizing filters” to play back two separate video streams at the same exact time?

Is there a software out there that could output two video streams using a video card with two video outputs to a projector and the program sends two distinct streams onto a screen so viewers can watch the feature in 3D?

I’d love to hear your responses!

[ UPDATE END ]

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With the release of Avatar Ive been wondering, what does it take to produce a 3D film on a short budget and what knowledge is needed?

I found some links that might be a valuable resource: 3D Stereoscopic Production & Delivery

A couple more links that may prove to be educational:

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