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We`d like to get your opinion on some new video ideas.  Check out Jeff and Rich on YouTube.com in this quick-hitting video clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jxb-2fjY30

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Brian Cleveland,
Web Producer,
StartupNation

It just has too much camera movement. I was feeling a little sea sick.
"Cool company of the day" has a little less movement. 

I like the topic and I`ll have to agree with both Jeff and Kathy on the camera movement.

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Life isn`t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Degrees said it!

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Vincent Wilcox (a.k.a. KRAKR)
Drummer
My band: Letters Make Words

Whoa, whoa, whoa - slow down on that camera movement.  It reminds me of a technique popularized and named after the tv show Thirtysomething - it was called Jigglysomething.  Great for some things but not for this. 

I liked switching up the two camera shots and even enjoyed the color change (once, maybe twice... color change would get old REAL fast).  Use the color change sparingly, maybe when there`s something that really needs emphasized but not every time you make the camera switch...

Then again, if you use that particular camera angle ONLY as emphasis, then using the color change makes a lot of sense.  It adds to the emphasis.  Of course you then have to be reasonably conservative about what is and is not worth emphasizing...

Also - I really enjoyed the "Like it or Not" segment content, not so much the "Cool Company of the Day."  Of course, I only saw the one so it may have just been that the cool company for that day didn`t interest me much.  I do like the concept so... for what it`s worth!

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"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."
~ Oscar Levant ~

Twitter: @rossb

thanks everyone!!!

it`s amazing how consistent your opinions were (i "5" rated you, ross, and had already given out "5"s to everyone else who posted here b/c of your commitment and thoughtfulness today and previously).

you`ll probably not be surprised to learn that jeff and i had the exact same reaction. but i think it`s salvageable. the footage is there for these and 7 other features we did. we should be able to paste them back together in a less jarring and fancy way.

i think our beloved videographers were just really trying to do "what`s hot/what`s next" and they overkilled it...

we`ll do some recuts and see what you think.

thanks again so much for keeping us on a good path,

rich

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Rich Sloan , Co-Founder, Chief Startupologist, StartupNation