In the first days of podcasting you had to have a server to store your podcast on. Usually that was the same server where you had your website, and if you ever got a lot of downloads/views at one time, the server (and your website) would go down until you paid for more bandwidth. Fortunately, there are now dozens of services that will host your media for free! This means that extensive views and downloads of your podcast will no longer bring down your website, and in most cases the podcast will...

Google Maps has a great feature to draw paths and plot points directly on their maps. You can then take those and embed them directly into your site. We've added some hiking trail paths next to the hiking episodes of our travel series "Getting Around". Check out the updated website: www.urbanexplorerfilms.com

Scott Kirsner of the CinemaTech blog has just posted a great article on several unique and interesting ways to finance a feature film using Web 2.0 sites and the power of social networks. Great job Scott! http://cinematech.blogspot.com/2008/04/internet-film-financing-evaluating.html - Posted by Jedrzej Jonasz

I've just started using a video sharing service called Vimeo, they offer great quality and are one of the few video sites that offers HD. Check out the HD stream of my music video "Safe With You" (Click on FULL to get the HD experience):   Safe With You from Jedrzej Jonasz on Vimeo.   I'm going to be adding a few other HD projects to the site and use it to showcase Capital j. Films HD work. Isn't this free world of video sharing great! - Posted by Jedrzej Jonasz

  During the filming of our web travel series "Getting Around", we met Mark "Dr. Tea" Ukra at Dr. Tea's Tea Garden and Herbal Emporium in West Hollywood. After we posted that episode on TripFilms, it occured to us that Dr. Tea would make the perfect host for a tea-centric video podcast. He had the energy, charisma and knowledge to make a fun and informative podcast. Now, although Mariessa and I had already been producing a web series, this is my first forray into the world of...

There's independent films and videos of all budgets, in Hollywood independent can mean under $20 million, but to most of us it means credit cards. To the indie filmmaker, who's budget is in the range of zero to a few thousand, finding the right camera can be a lengthy and complicated search. I recently settled on the Canon HV20 as my compact camera of choice. There's a few reasons for this, but the main one by far is 24p recording, and there are very few under $2,000 24p cameras out there. More...