Mother’s Day Video

Here’s another video for you to consider using. Mother’s Day is only about a week away, but there’s still time to send this video out to your customers. For those of you with a Facebook fan page, this would be easy for you to post.

As with our previous video, “Shovel Ready,” I’m giving this freely to the world to use in any way, and I’m giving you options. To link to the YouTube video, here is the address: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv3aOGkMLLY

If you want to download the actual video file and then upload it to your own website, YouTube account or Facebook  page, you can do that too. Just as with “Shovel Ready,” you can easily customize the video with your own message to promote your business. Need help with that? The video “How to Customize Shovel Ready” should help, since the same basic prinicples apply.

Here are the files. To download, right click on the links and select “Save Target As…” or “Save Link As…”

1. An MP4 file that contains the video AND the audio (This is most appropriate if you’re just going to upload to YouTube or Facebook without any customization…your browser may force you to save this file as an “HTML” file…if so, simply change the file’s extention after downloading to “.mp4”)
2. A WMV file that is Video ONLY. (Use this if you’ll be using Windows MovieMaker to customize)
3. Two audio files
   1. One with BOTH the Music and the VoiceOver and
   2. Another with ONLY the Music if you’d like to do your own VoiceOver. (You only need to download one of the audio files, choose the Music Only if you don’t like my voice!)

For more about the making of this video, click here.

So, I hadn’t thought of this video until yesterday afternoon (4/29). I went out and shot some video of our roses. The white one is “Secrets Out” the pink is “Double Pink Knockout(R)” and the orange muticolor one is “Mardi Gras.” I used the Canon Rebel T2i with a 60mm lens. Edited in Adobe Premier CS3 and did the titles in Adobe After Effects CS3.

The Rebel T2i video was shot in 1080p at 24fps, but I made the final video in 720p for several reasons:

1. 1080p files are huge and my computer just can’t handle them…it struggles with 720, 
2. Using the lower resolution allows me to pan and scan…which means that when I shoot in the field the camera can be stationary and then I can do the tricky cinematic camera moves in post, and
3. 1080p is probably overkill when you’re viewing things on the web.

The music is a royalty free track I purchased (Sony Orchestral Series ‘Cinematic’). I added the “nature sounds” background noise primarily to avoid breaking any laws by distributing the sound file un-edited. With the additional sound FX, I believe I am copyright compliant…however, please do not use the music for any other video project other than this one.

Hope someone out there can use this. Let me know what you think, or if you have any ideas for future marketing projects that will help our industry!

~ALP