YouTube Auto-Captions can hurt your video SEO
Auto-captions are usually only 60-70% accurate, meaning that 1 in 3 words is wrong. Because of this unreliability, auto-captions do not get indexed by Google or YouTube and do not improve SEO. The good news is that when you upload your own caption files, Google believes they are high quality and worthy of being indexed. Speech recognition software often gets things wrong because of accents, background noise, proper nouns, complex vocabulary, and the pace of a speaker. Want fast, accurate turn around of your caption files? Contact Duchin Production today and get the conversation started....
read moreVideo Length Matters, however…
It’s no secret that keeping videos short is a good thing. Once you add in your opening branding and a solid call-to-action, the actual content gets even shorter. Now here’s the kicker, we feel a video need to be as long as it needs to be. For instance, if there’s a one hour video that shows you how to fix your car and avoid a $2,000 car repair, there’s a good chance you will be watching the entire video. When you have a long format video to share, it’s sometimes good to break it up into sections. Each video could have a slightly different marketing message and...
read moreIs your YouTube Captioning Saying you Curse?
We just watched a corporate video on YouTube with captioning turned on. Not only was the company name spelled incorrectly but an expletive was incorrectly generated in one of the sentences! Why is it critical to fix your captioning? Because Google reads it. If your company is spelled wrong, chances are it might be omitted from important search results. Don’t risk it. You might be wondering who does the captioning in the first place. Well, technically it’s YouTube but as you probably know, Google owns YouTube. There are some amazingly powerful speech to text algorithms behind the...
read moreMake better customer testimonial videos
This blog post isn’t about cameras, microphones, elaborate graphics or the latest technology; it’s about the human side of getting great interviews. It can take months or even years for clients to agree to give a testimonial. Don’t make the mistake of simply having people say why your business is great because that’s really not the point. It’s about personalizing and sharing their experiences and explaining how working with your company helped them succeed. Always remember, you’re not interviewing a company; you’re interviewing a person. Sit in the hot seat: Every interviewer should sit in...
read moreThe best YouTube video
There’s a video link below but please don’t click it just yet. We want to explain why we feel this video is so great. It’s not because it’s beautifully shot or has amazing special effects, it’s because it works. We discovered the clip when we were on the Millennium/Takeda website. Since we’re in the video business, we clicked the YouTube link at the bottom of their page. What happened next wasn’t expected. A person welcoming us and informing us about the kinds of video on the channel. Top things that we like about the video: 1. Short, branded opener complemented by graphics explaining the...
read moreDo you really need that second camera?
Capturing individual interviews with two cameras has become very popular in the past few years. When done right, it looks really nice, but when done wrong, it looks plain silly. Before you green light the approach, make sure it has purpose. Don’t just do it because everyone else is doing it. Our main focus (pun intended) will always be the person sitting in front of the lens. Most of us are not naturally comfortable sitting in front of a camera, so adding a second camera often increases the anxiety level. When we record customers for a client, our goal is to get the person out of that...
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