I have a large collection of videos from my fitness shows.
Here is the story behind
them...
- I entered a show myself way back in 1991 and at the show they had a guy at registration with an order form to buy the show video. When I say video I really mean VHS tape set.
Remember those? VHS tapes? Do you still have any of these
sitting around?
I think I have some VHS tapes in my parents attic but no longer have a VHS player anyway.
- Then I started producing shows in 1993 and guess what I used the same production guy to come and shoot the show and sell his DVD
sets.
- In the year 2001 we had a big upgrade to DVD sets.
Just like a photographer he would come to the registration meeting and hand out his flyers and take registrations for the show video which was at least $49.95 plus shipping.
Once the video guy left that was it - no more orders were taken.
- Right around this time I started to focus more on my website and really wanted to host videos online but the only way to do it was to host clips on a website and viewers had to either have windows media player or quicktime and many websites
had the two options to watch a video.
The problem was hosting and bandwidth until we had two options Google Video or YouTube. My webmaster and I decided to go with Google Video as the player looked more professional and you could upload longer videos. (bad move as that no longer exists).
- Then in 2005 the video guy got sick and I made a decision to go out and buy the video equipment myself. It wasn't an easy decision to order and big camera and all the equipment but did that and hired a film school graduate to work the camera and edit it for the show DVD.
Things went pretty well
and at registration athletes ordered the DVD and we made enough to cover the orders but it took forever for make the copies. Now I had to go and order a DVD duplicator to turn multiple DVDs at one time.
So we filmed the show with tapes, uploaded the video to final cut to edit, exported the video and had to make 4-8 DVDs per set. After we had a final product we had to
design a cover, have covers printed and buy the plastic DVD cases - then buy foam packaging and shipping them out. It would be 2 months before people had the DVDs in hand.
- Last year we started working on FSTV and figuring out ways to host all of my DVD collection online and make it affordable. We finally did it and it wasn't an easy task as most of the shows are 8-12 hours
of video.
For the newest and cutting-edge way of watching online videos of these events check out FSTV now.
