Re: A Lucrative "No Competition" Niche
 

After trying a number of them, I settled on Subtitle Horse for it's ease of use.
http://subtitle-horse.org/

Talking about a few Niches to get your Creative juices flowing...
 

No affiliation regarding the following FREE at this time warrior forum WSO...

But as long as you're Interested in FaceBook and other related Social networking WEB 2.0 ideas...
http://www.go2web20.net/

If you happen to be a Creative Brainstormer... Great at Marketing & Deal making etc...

This one's Full of long-term Golden nuggets, especially if you fall into one of Brent's favorite intriguing passions... :)

Might be a perfect fit for a few SowPubbers, as long as you're willing to share a Simple email address...

Highly recommend following this one and Seriously applying the idea with your own little “Twist”...

Hope I haven't given anything away...

Pay close attention to comment #8... ;)

[FREE WSO] You can profit immensely by helping others to profit. I promise, you have not seen this!!
http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...-not-seen.html

Phil

Re: A Lucrative "No Competition" Niche
 

I created my first video! Yea Me! My head is spinning, need more coffee. That was hard work, passing my last kidney stone seems easy by comparison. :)

I'm gonna try a few more before I go full bore with World Cup videos.:D

Rick - can you post a link to the vid for us?
 

thanks.

I'm workiong on a video too.

-- TW

TW--a setback
 

SNAFU! A recap before I get to the problem. I'm running SoThink video capturer. It doesn't seem to capture all the videos even when I run the SWF catcher also. No problems, there are plenty to get.

I have four I've downloaded that I've transcribed. Next the flash videos need to be converted to wmv, I am using Freeze flv to avi, mpeg, wmv, etc
For some reason furysinc doesn't recognize flv and I don't know why.

Next I transcribe the videos at 30% speed with Express Scribe and save as txt file.

I had trouble downloading Subtitle Horse, I don't have the programs (.php?) to run it so I am using furysinc. It's fairly easy. This creates an .srt file. The .srt file and the wmv must be in the same folder and have the same name. The tricky part is that I need to be running a submux program in order to see the subtitles.

I have not figured out how to embed the subs into video permanently. So if I were to upload or just email the video the subs don't show up because the other computer doesn't have the program to play subs with video like my laptop. Once I get a handle on this then it's just converting the video back to flash and uploading it to my award winning site. :o

It's really not bad & hopefully will figure out that little problem b4 the World Cup starts Friday! ;)

I have 4 videos done so far, my wife thinks they're good, I just need to synchronize a touch better. It may be a matter of having longer sentences or more sentences or something. I'm learning.

Re: TW--a setback
 

I love it!
I ab-so-lute-ly love it when people
take action even though they don't
have all the immediate answers.

Good for you, Rick and TW.
(Rick, when I see your name I always think
of the famous Rick Dees :)

Because you both have taken the initiative
to actually DO something with this, I'll
try to take a little time away from current
project in order to do a quick video showing
how I do subtitles.

Watch for that soon.

Re: Rick - can you post a link to the vid for us?
 

Rick, create a squeeze page offering something
along the lines of: Top 50 Weirdest World Cup
Goals.

"I scoured Youtube and ten other sites to gather together 50 of the weirdest FIFA World Cup goals imaginable, by some of most famous players in World Cup history. Then I captioned them all...just for you!"

I suggest you do exactly that. Take a few hours and search Youtube, Metacafe and others for World Cup Goals. It's not hard. Each video clip (I guarantee) will not be more than a minute long.

This means either you or someone you pay at odesk.com can whip through captioning them in no time flat.

This will be one powerful squeeze page to offer deaf people. It'll all of course, be captioned. Keep practicing, you'll going to get better and better at it.

Once you have your name squeeze set up and you're capturing hundreds of email addresses, you can sell all sorts of video packages to deaf people.

Remember, these people are HUNGRY for valuable video content. After the World Cup is over you'll now hopefully have a sizeable email list to which you'll then market your products.

Capece?

Re: A Lucrative "No Competition" Niche
 

When I first started using Subtitle Horse
It was a free download. Now I see the
developer is charging for it...and quite
rightly so. It's a good software.

But you can still try it out for free in the
download for 30 days. The online version
is still completely free.

I just attempted to create a video as
promised demonstrating my method
for creating subtitles, but my voice is
much too hoarse.

Sorry about that, but this thyroidectomy
has left me sometimes speaking in a
whisper.

Here instead is a short step by step of
what I do. This is the same instructions
that I gave to my Philippino outsource
workers :

How to Caption a Video
=================
Step 1. Open the Subby folder.
(This the folder containing the
Subtitle Horse download, which
I renamed, "Subby")

The only two files you'll be using are
"offline" and "video." Ignore the other
files in the folder. They are necessary for
the captioning process, but you do not
need to use them in any way.

Step 2. Copy and paste the flv video
clip to be captioned inside this Subby
folder.

Step 3. Delete the existing file entitled,
"video" found inside the folder.

Step 4. Rename your newly pasted video
clip, "video" (without the quotes.)

Step 5. Double click on the "offline"
browser file, opening it.

Step 6. You will be copying and pasting
the transcribed text, one line at a time,
into the small box found just below the
video player.

Each line will be approximately seven
words long.

7. Click the play button on the video
player and as the video starts to
play, you can stop it after the first
few words have been spoken.

8. Copy and paste those spoken
words from the prepared transcript,
into the small box area found to
the right of the video player.

9. Click on "Create." Look over to the
right inside the large box area, you
will now see the transcribed text turn
into captions. That is your goal.

10. Again click play on the video
player in order to continue the
video. Again, after a suitable amount
of words have been spoken, stop the
player and copy and paste the next
six to eight words into the small box
below the video player.

11. Continue doing this until you have completely captioned the entire video.

12. Once you have completed
captioning the video, next click
on "Titles" then choose "Export."

From the resulting drop down menu,
choose SRT. This will show you the
entire text nicely captioned.

13. Copy and paste the entire code.
Paste it inside Notepad and name it
exactly the same as the original title
of your video. Make sure the code now
has a .xml extension. Save it as a .xml file.

14. Congratulations! You have just
completed your first captioned video.

Re: A Lucrative "No Competition" Niche
 

Ok, I "think" I have 3 videos to share. They are 2 ESPN videos & 1 Fox Sports Video. Where can I post these for all to critique? I'm getting better with the synchronization & probably will have it down soon. I had to modify Brent's instructions due to my laziness in installing Subtitle Horse. Hopefully it worked, if not the bar opens soon it's gotta be 12:00 somewhere.

Re: A Lucrative "No Competition" Niche
 

Here is the ROUGH draft. I'm having trouble w/ the width of the video that distorts the right side of the page. I haven't signed up for an email responder yet so don't fill that out, and I'm using the free player so go full screen to minimize the players signature. I've spent so long on the website that I haven't had time to perfect the video. Embedding aint easy thats for sure. Once I work out those kinks it should be nice. What do you think?

Go to writteninvideo.com to critique it. :)