Live Streaming Video | Flash Video | Online Video Tips and Tricks

Want to use online video to promote your business, or boost your marketing efforts? Or maybe you'd just like to entertain your fans with cell phone video footage. Whatever it is, these videos show you how (or at least point the way). I've tried to keep the most obvious promotions for some kind of program to the minimum, so most of what you'll see here should have some educational value:

Make Your Own Live Video Show - How To Use Ustream

Ustream.tv is an online platform anyone can use to launch their own live video show. This video takes you through the process, from signing up to launching your first broadcast to a (potentially) global audience. This includes audio/video settings, checking stats, changing fonts and colors and other customizations.

Create Your Own Live Streaming Website

With this video you're shown how to use your own website to launch streaming video to a global audience. Similar to the previous video, you'll be using a free account from a streaming video platform. The instructions are fairly simple, the video is short, and you should get a few ideas from this one.

How to Stream Video Online for Free

Continuing the topic of streaming video, and as it turns out, another pitch for the (fortunately) free service, Ustream.tv. The guy points out obvious, yet useful tips, like you need a mic and a webcam to put your voice and face on the Internet. In the end, the most useful thing about the video is the fact that you might get as excited about the guy on the cam about streaming your own thoughts and musings to a TV-tired public.

Use A Cell Phone As A Webcam

Breaking away from the Ustream theme, this video teaches you the endlessly useful trick of using your mobile phone as a webcam. You're shown where to download a "mobile power toy" and how get hold of a "vh screen capture" tool. The tutorial is detailed, although a bit fast-paced (just click the replay button at the end if you didn't catch everything the first time). Once you're done capturing footage of yourself having lunch and talking politics into your mobile phone, where do you go? Ustream, of course.

How to Capture Streaming Flash Video with Flash Video Downloader (video tutorial)

 From your ordinary, pedestrian online video to "streaming flash", this video tutorial enlightens us on how to go about capturing streaming flash videos with a program called "replay media catcher".