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The Most Important YouTube Video Analytics Explained
Over the last 15 years, video analytics have improved a lot in order to accommodate this increased need for planning and strategy. Gone are the days when the number of views was the only metric you could use to determine whether or not a video was successful. Nowadays, all major video platforms, including YouTube, Vimeo and Flowplayer offer content creators access to stats such as Audience Retention, detailed demographics, top traffic sources and more.
We added Flowplayer support to Flixier!
For over a decade, Flowplayer has been providing broadcasters, publishers and media houses with a performance-focused, scalable platform to live stream and monetize videos.
How To Make Better Instructional Videos
Whether you need to help your online students catch up on a subject or have to train employees on how to use a new software suite, instructional videos are an incredible teaching and training tool.
How to Create Video Content Faster With Flixier
At Flixier, one of our goals is to help lower the barrier of entry for video content creation and make it easier for people to edit and publish video. That’s why, in this week’s blog post, we’ve decided to give you seven tips that will help you create videos faster and increase your company’s video output:
How to Start a YouTube Channel Using Your Mobile Phone
Who says you need expensive cameras and gear in order to start a YouTube channel? Nowadays, our smartphones can take better videos than most budget camcorders could 10 years ago. Nothing can stop you from "broadcasting yourself", so grab your phone, connect to the Wi-Fi and learn how to start a YouTube channel from your mobile phone!
Five Ways to Make Your Videos Scarier This Halloween
October has finally arrived and Halloween is creeping around the corner! Pumpkin decorations are starting to go up and the internet is slowly being taken over by “spooky” memes, horror movie discussions and hashtags such as #spooktober. As an advertiser or video content creator, it’s only natural for you to want to join in on the fun and take advantage of this fun seasonal trend in order to grow your business or audience.
How to Make Your Voice Recordings Sound Professional Using Audacity
This week’s article is all about post-production, meaning the things that you can do to enhance your audio after it’s already been recorded. More specifically, we’re going to teach you how to use Audacity, a professional audio editing tool in order to clean up your recordings and create professional sound voice overs for your videos.
Seven Tips That Will Make Your Microphone Sound Better When Recording
If you’re looking to improve the quality of your voice recordings, you don’t need to worry anymore! We’re here to give you some tips that will help you get better sound for your videos. These tips will work regardless of whether you’re using Flixier to record your voice or other programs like Audacity or Adobe Audition. For the most part, getting a high quality recording relies mostly on preparation, meaning most of the work gets done before you even press the Record button.
4 Essential Cuts Every Video Editor Needs to Know
Using the right cuts at the right time can be such an effective yet subtle way of telling a story that it might even go unnoticed by the untrained eye. Improper cutting, however, is always extremely noticeable and something that can keep a good project from being truly great. In this blog post, we’re going to explore and explain a number of essential, simple and yet highly effective cuts that we believe every video editor should master.
How to stream games on Twitch from an Android phone
If your phone is your main gaming platform, it’s only natural that you might want to stream your gameplay on Twitch as well. After all, PCs and consoles have been doing it for years, so why not phones? This article is going to show you how to easily start streaming your mobile gaming sessions on Twitch. All you need is your phone and an internet connection.
The 5 things you need to start streaming on Twitch
We know that starting your own Twitch channel can be a daunting experience. That's we wrote this article to help you navigate the sea of “streaming gear” reviews out there and show you the necessary tools to achieve a quality stream while spending the smallest amount of money possible.
How to edit your Twitch streams without downloading them
This article will tell you all you need to know about our new Twitch integration and how using it makes editing your Twitch streams and getting them on YouTube faster and easier than ever.
How to stream on Twitch using your PS4 with NO capture card
This article will show you how to start streaming your game sessions on Twitch straight from your PS4 in only a few minutes, without the use of a capture card, a computer or Remote Play.
How uploading your Twitch VODs to YouTube can make you a more successful streamer
This article is going to help you achieve growth as a Twitch streamer by promoting your content on the YouTube platform. By reading it you will learn how to enable Twitch VODs, the benefits they bring and how you can edit and export Twitch VODs to YouTube. It also contains tips and tricks on how to edit your past stream recordings in order to turn them into proper gaming videos for YouTube.
How editing in Flixier compares to iMovie
If you’ve ever tried editing a video on a Mac, an iPad or iPhone, then you’ve probably heard of iMovie. The powerful video editing program offers users a free and easy-to-use solution for all their video editing needs. While most of the actual editing features present in Flixier are present in iMovie as well, there are a couple of key differences between the two that we think might make Flixier a good alternative for some users.
The advantages of real-time online collaboration for video editing
Working remotely is becoming more and more commonplace these days, and remote collaboration is an area that we feel is mostly neglected by video editing solutions. When developing Flixier, we focused a lot on making sure our software facilitates collaboration.
Editing in Flixier vs Adobe Premiere Rush
The latest addition to Adobe’s Creative suite of editing software, Adobe Premiere Rush tries to provide a cross-platform, easy-to-use alternative to the more complex Premiere Pro. Although aimed at a similar audience, there are several differences between Rush and Flixier that could prove to be important to you depending on your needs and use cases.
Flixier cloud video editing vs Camtasia
After its initial release back in 2002, Camtasia (formerly known as Camtasia Studio) quickly became one of the most popular tools for creating video tutorials or presentations. However, even though Camtasia is a fantastically powerful piece of software, that doesn’t mean there isn’t any room for alternatives such as Flixier.
Editing your Zoom cloud recordings in Flixier
Being able to create video recordings of your Zoom meetings can come in handy in many ways, from keeping colleagues who couldn’t attend up-to-date on what was discussed, to creating video content such as webinars or podcasts. Sometimes, however, your video recordings may require some editing. Flixier lets you do that without having you download a single thing!
How to effectively use audio in your video
We all know how important it is to use audio in your video. It helps you convey a much stronger message and it overall improves the quality of your content. In this post, we will go through a few simple ways to use audio more effectively while you edit video.
How to get amazing audio for your videos
How to add background music to my video? Where can I get high-quality music for my video? Are there free sites to get audio? To answer them in an effective way we decided to write this blog post and go through top 6 audio sources for your video.
How to make your YouTube videos more engaging
If you’ve been trying to make your Youtube videos more engaging we made a quick list of actionable tips and tricks that you can get started with right away.
Edit a gaming video on a Chromebook
If you’ve been thinking about editing your gaming footage on the go or if you play on mobile or on consoles and only have a Chromebook to power your computing needs you’ll be happy to know that you can still make gaming videos on it.
Chroma key tips and tricks
Flixier offers a super flexible chromakey system that enables you to take your video to the next level. Let’s get started and uncover the coolest tricks you can do with chromakey right away.