KANTABiZ is designed to allow users make and share their business video adverts, with viewers around the world, for 

The process of making and uploading your Business and Products Video advertisement has been made as easy as possible, at KANTABiZ.The tools that would allow you to make a Business and Product Video advertisements are video camcorders, Web cams, digital cameras and now most cell phones..., all of which have video capturing capabilities.

Once you have chosen your video capturing device, you may have to find out what format the device you have chosen captures in. Most devices record in either the .AVI or .MPG formats, both of which are supported by KANTABiZ. If the video captured, is large in size (Megabytes), it may need additional compressing on your computer, in a .WMV, .MPEG or DIVX or even a compressed QuickTime format. After which, the video can be directly uploaded to KANTABiZ website.

Please NOTE:
For example: A 30 seconds 104Mb .avi video file, converted to .wmv format, with a aspect ratio of 320x240 turns out to be less than 5Mb. Maintaining clarity and perfect audibility. All files uploaded are then converted to the FLASH format. KANTABiZ is a FLASH format video search directory.

-

Below are links to help you and to provide you with information, as to capturing, creating and transferring videos from your camcorder to editing software, before you upload to KANTABiZ.

• Connecting Your Camera to Your Computer with Windows Movie Maker
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/getstarted/cameratopc.mspx

• Capturing Video in Windows Movie Maker from Analogue Sources
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/expert/bridgman_02february4.mspx

• Analogue to Digital Video Conversion
http://www.videoforums.co.uk/guide-analogue-67.htm

• Digitise your analogue video for editing on a computer
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6500_7-5024560-1.html

• Improving capture performance in Movie Maker
http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/Tutorials/HowToImproveCapture.aspx

--

To edit your videos, you will need editing software. Most computers today, come with operating systems which have basic video-editing software pre-installed or integrated within the operating system. Examples of these are: Apple's iMovie, or Windows Moviemaker. On having completed capturing the video, you can then transfer it onto your computer, and then import it into one of the above mentioned video editors, to further improve the look and design of your video advertisement. All of which allow, adding effects, creation of titles, adding of music and dialogue to make your video adverts look and sound more interesting.

The links below are there to help optimise the whole video editing process effectively-

• Ten Tips for Improving Your Home Videos 
http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/8691/1894.html

• How to make better videos at any skill level
http://www.faithvisuals.com/help/articles/videoediting.html

- -

Microsoft Windows Moviemaker software is a perfect candidate for any video tasks concerning the preparation of your final video advert. It comes with every WinXP and Windows Vista operating system.

• Creating and sharing videos in Windows Moviemaker
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/create/default.mspx

• Windows Movie Maker 2.1 Download
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx

An optimised Google search, for documents regarding “How to use the windows Moviemaker” .pdf’s if need be.
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=windows+movie+maker+.pdf&meta

Once you have finished editing and finalising your video advert, you will then need to save it in a format that KANTABiZ accepts in order to upload. KANTABiZ recommends that you save your video advert as either a .WMV; QuickTime .MOV or .MPG file formats. All of the aforementioned are the most common formats and are compatible to the KANTABiZ server systems.

KANTABiZ, specifically recommend the .WMV or MPEG4 formats at 320x240 resolutions with MP3 audio at a min resolution of 64kpps. Compressing and resizing your video Adverts to these specifications before uploading will help the servers to convert the file to the FLASH video format error free, and helping your clips look better and work effectively on KANTABiZ.com

Note: [Help links and certain Information on this page may change from time to time]

[GO TOP]