Video Tips

Cutting Content Team

3 Royalty-Free Music Websites for Content Creators [And 3 Paid Sites]

The right background music can take your video from a 6 or 7 to a solid 9, folks. Here's where you should head for the perfect track.

Cutting Content Team

The Ultimate Video Marketing Guide: 10 Best Practices and Tips

Video marketing is one of the best content types to add to your marketing strategy. But venturing into this whole new terrain of content...

Deepak Narayanan

PART 7: The one with short answers

Will keep updating this FAQ section as and when new questions pop up! What’s the ideal length for a video? There is no such thing - there...

Deepak Narayanan

PART 6: Basic rules of decent voiceovers

In the last post, I wrote about the importance of thinking visually. A part of videos very closely linked to the visuals is the...

Deepak Narayanan

PART 5: Think visually (without obsessing over visuals)

Yes and No vs This is not a post about using cliparts. The first part of this post is about seeing where you can replace words with...

Deepak Narayanan

PART 4: More Planning = Less Stressing

Think of this as cooking for the first time. You’ll spend some time thinking about what to make. You’ll find a recipe. You’ll make sure...

Deepak Narayanan

PART 3: How to keep your viewer engaged

The biggest difference between writing and making a video is that a video allows you very little room for self-indulgence. When you...

Deepak Narayanan

PART 2: Don’t make a video, tell a story

India recaptured the crown that Kapil Dev and his men first lifted at Lord's in 1983 vs “Man, last night’s match was unbelievable… that...

Deepak Narayanan

PART 1: How to make a great video

Walking into a glass door can be unpleasant - a unique combination of shock, pain and embarrassment that’s hard to match. Oddly enough,...