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Katie Curtis

This is not MY microphone

Katie’s Top Ten Resources for Finding Music for Videos

So you make a cool video and you pop in your favorite song and try to upload it to Youtube… only for it to be BLOCKED. Because Youtube has determined that the content you used does not belong to you. Aaaaand because you used your favorite song that you don’t own nor have any ties …

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Gosh this problem frustrated me

If you can’t share a post from your Personal Facebook Page to your Business Facebook Page on Mobile – DO THIS! (video)

I went live at Dragoncon for my Vlogs On Saturdays – but couldn’t share the live to my business page! Grrrrr… Something to do with “Facebook Business Manager” and their dumb defaults. 🙁 But! thanks to Kayla Crosby though, I was able to fix this, and now can share all I want! If you have …

Read moreIf you can’t share a post from your Personal Facebook Page to your Business Facebook Page on Mobile – DO THIS! (video)
sleepy seal is sleepy

Sometimes you win while sleeping (usually after sacrificing lots of sleep)

I awoke to a flight attendant tapping my shoulder and urging me to pull down my tray table. Odd, don’t they usually wake you up so you can do the opposite? Groggily, I pulled down the tray in a dreamy, Charlie pre-golden ticket state to reveal a (not gold but) yellow sticker proclaiming, “Congrats! You …

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There are so many places to put videos nowadays...

4 Ways to Post Videos to Instagram and How To Do Them (video)

I got asked a question about posting videos to Instagram. It was about that vague- I mean, there are FOUR main ways to post videos to Instagram, which way did they mean?   In true Katie-style, when the choice is “big” or “home” we choose big. SO. Here are the four ways to post videos …

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Thousands and thousands of dollars in equipment right there

Why and When would we use a Two Camera Shoot?

I just got asked this question “I’ve noticed a lot of people using two cameras including a shot of themselves on the side when they’re actually facing the other camera, why?” Great question! And it’s one I’ve taken for granted. My answer was, “I do it because it looks cool!” But that’s not entirely accurate. …

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Loki just tolerated that helmet. Until she wanted to eat it.

Three ways to turn a vertical or horizontal video square in Final Cut Pro X (video)

Tutorial starts at 1:37 if you don’t want to hear some information about square videos and such. Do you own Final Cut and have you been wondering how to make a square video like you see all over Facebook? This tutorial will give you three ways to do it! Article I referenced: https://blog.bufferapp.com/square-vid…   Stay …

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Isn't it pretty??

Video Marketing Inspiration: Create a space you love

“I don’t want to do a video, my space is a mess” I get this a lot. And I get it! I look back on old videos where I “Just did it” because I was being pressured  (Hi Sandi. 😉 ) and while it was good to get the video out there, I cringe at …

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What face am I making?

How-to add captions to Facebook videos THE EASY WAY (video)

  In 2016, Digiday reported that 85% of Facebook video is watched without sound. Insert captions!   You’ve watched plenty of videos with captions. Some of them you can choose to put on, some of them are a part of the video file itself, and some of them automatically appear like when you are scrolling …

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I don't know why but I love this pic - thanks hubby!

What does the “Inspired” stand for in “Inspired Video Marketing”?

“A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr The day I woke up and was to meet with my resident agent to sign my business LLC, I had no idea what my business would be called. For the past 2 or 3 years, I had been working part-time doing …

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Ha. And I thought Youtube wouldn't make it...

How to add an Automatic and Consistent Description to your Youtube Videos (video)

For so long, I’ve manually typed in my description for each video, and while, as you can see now, I’m typing in something unique, I would have to re-think and re-research and re-type certain things for the video. Like my website and email etc etc. It was time consuming and not efficient. What IS efficient, …

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Some seasons feel more creative than others.   And Some seasons feel more creative than others.
 
And some seasons feel like you’re forcing every idea just to keep up. That doesn’t mean you’ve lost your creativity.
 
It usually just means something needs to shift. Give yourself a little room to pause, rethink, and reset your approach.
 
You’re allowed to create in a way that actually feels sustainable. And if you need help figuring out what that looks like for your content, we’ve got something for you.
 
Comment FIRST and we’ll send you our free guide to help you decide what video to create next �
Happy Memorial Day 🤍 Feeling grateful to those wh Happy Memorial Day 🤍

Feeling grateful to those who made days like this possible. (shoot for @michiganvideo )
Apparently, still ends up taking videos 😅 I know Apparently, still ends up taking videos 😅

I know I'm late to the Star Wars party, but there are still a few cold pieces of pizza and at least one un-opened soda, right? @spacedive313 @clairewinnauthor @ardent_hermit @chelsea_eoconnell @peterson.b
me trying to act normal after that 😭 me trying to act normal after that 😭
Well that was a first! Have I already used this so Well that was a first!
Have I already used this song? I don’t know. Singing it to him makes me cry every time.  #mothersday #firstmothersday
If you slowed down your content this year, what do If you slowed down your content this year, what do you think would actually improve?
No one talks about how editing is basically just “ No one talks about how editing is basically just “move this 0.2 seconds earlier” for 2 hours straight 😅 But somehow that’s exactly what makes the whole video hit.
 
If you don’t feel like arguing with clips all day… we do that for a living 😂
 
DM us and we’ll handle your edits!
You can have good footage, good lighting, good edi You can have good footage, good lighting, good editing, but if people don’t get it right away... they’re already scrolling.
 
That’s usually where things fall off.
 
If editing or just putting everything together has been sitting on your to-do list… send us a message and we’ll handle that 😉

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