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The Netherlands, Spain and Beyond: Travel Blog

By Katie Curtis | Jul 25, 2019 | 0 Comments
I did not take this picture

As my and Daniel’s trip to Spain draws closer and I must look into accommodations, activities and transportation, I also want to keep in mind what sort of video I want to make! While going through my old blogs to optimize for SEO (no, I did not do anything with that in mind although it …

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VIDEO: How-to Collaborate on Video Projects Remotely using FCPX and Google Drive

By Katie Curtis | Jul 24, 2019 | 0 Comments
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What are your Three Words?

By Katie Curtis | Jul 4, 2019 | 0 Comments
I definitely still have that shirt

Happy Independence Day to America! I would also like to wish a “Happy Independence Day” to everyone who realizes their destiny is forever in their hands. No matter how our hands are or feel bound, our thoughts are always our own. Today has reminded me of an activity the illustrious Tress Hotzel of https://tresshotzel.com led …

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Permission to Speak? Granted.

By Katie Curtis | Jun 22, 2019 | 0 Comments
I gave a speech at the event Permission and here it is

I am blessed to know so many amazing and inspirational people! One of them, Nick Suino of https://nicklaus-suino.com put on a kick-butt day-long event and asked me to speak. So I did! I come to the stage at 2:36 I talk a bit about my story and how asking “What’s the worst that can happen” …

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Should I hire a videographer for my event?

By Katie Curtis | May 17, 2019 | 0 Comments
Hiring me is always a good idea. :)

It’s a difficult decision to decide if it’s worth the cost to hire a videographer for your event. In the effort of making things simpler, I made a flow chart! (Ooh! For the record, if you’re wondering about a photographer for your event, this flowchart works the same- just exchange for the right lingo.) I’ve …

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Your Life is a Movie and You are the Editor

By Katie Curtis | Apr 4, 2019 | 0 Comments
This is a video film strip

The Director may have the vision, and the Camera Operator may capture the shot, but it is the Editor who decides how the story flows, where the scenes appear, which shots gets seen and which don’t. We are all Editors – irrespective of whether we make videos for our selves/businesses or not, we are all …

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Three Ways to Turn your Vertical Photo into a Horizontal Image in Final Cut Pro X (video)

By Katie Curtis | Feb 26, 2019 | 0 Comments
Loki Pokey is adorable

Vertical, Square, Horizontal… there are so many formats for our media nowadays! It’s hard to know what format you need when going into content capture mode. Good thing we can transfer between platforms and formats! In this Tutorial Tuesday video I’ll show you three ways to turn your vertical photo (this would work for vertical …

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My Best Life Speech : Inspired (video)

By Katie Curtis | Nov 19, 2018 | 0 Comments
Nothing like speaking at AND filming and event

I forgot to post this on my blog! Oh no! Last month I spoke at the Best Life Summit in Durham, North Carolina – it took me a long time to come up with what I wanted to say, but I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out – even if I haven’t exactly watched …

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It started with a donut…

By Katie Curtis | Nov 15, 2018 | 0 Comments
Now I'm hungry...

What did you do to your hand? The short answer is “I punched a wall”, the long answer is a little more embarrassing and a little  (okay, a lot) less indicative of anger problems.  On a totally nondescript Friday evening, after a productive (I think?) day of work, I was set about to sit down …

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How-to do Slow-Mo on your iPhone (video)

By Katie Curtis | Sep 20, 2018 | 0 Comments
iPhone Videography - it's a thing

I cut this part out of the video, but the MOST important part about doing slow-motion on your iPhone is REMEMBERING that you have the capability to do slow-motion! Don’t miss out on those cool moments because you forgot you could do this cool thing. Short clips from : The Matrix Guardians of Ga’Hoole The …

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Tips & Tricks

There's a thumbs up next to a cool coffee video still and a thumbs down next to a dog post

Don’t do THIS with your Social Media Videos

I see this mistake made with business's social media video posts. And their photo and text posts too. Don't do this!
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There are polka dots on a pink background and it says how to make a thumbnail on canva gary see inspired

Canva Makes Video Thumbnails EASY

Ever played with Canva? Let's make a simple video thumbnail to begin! Gary Vee inspired this one.
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Video Marketing MAGIC

So. I’m trying to sit down and have a normal, productive day of work. And it’s really failing because I can’t get Brandon Sanderson’s latest announcement out of my head. When I watched it, sent to me this morning, it was a #1 on trending. At this point, it’s been out for about exactly a …
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