A Worldwide Audience for Your Speeches and Presentations

I shot these videos (and a bunch more) at the 2010 PerlOasis conference in Orlando, Florida. Since these presentations are now on the Internet, including slides, hundreds (perhaps thousands) of programmers who couldn’t make it to Florida will still be able to learn from them. Online video is an amazingly cost-effective way to deliver your speech or presentation to more people, at less cost, than you ever will at a single conference or meeting. I don’t consider myself any more than an above-average cameraman or video editor, but clients have flown me as far away as Baltimore, Maryland, and Portland, Oregon, to make presentation videos for them, and often tell me that my non-intrusive filming style, attention to detail (especially sound!) and picture-in-picture method of displaying slides are worth the travel costs. (I’m sure the fact that I charge Florida small-town freelancer prices instead of big-city production company prices is another reason they choose me.)

More about costs and such below the videos…
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Cory Watson: “From Zero to CPAN”

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WARNING – DIRTY WORDS IN THIS ONE (BUT FUNNY)

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Dylan Hardison shows sample code, so I zoom in on the screen a lot…

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…and a rousing keynote (rousing if you’re a Perl programmer, that is)

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Please understand: I am *not* competing with the major audio-visual companies that handle all sound and lights and production for large conventions. I’m just a pretty good videographer in Bradenton, Florida, who has developed a few unique shooting techniques and editing workflows that make it possible for me to make presentation-based videos that bring out your personality and help you share your information with audiences all over the word without anyone having to get on an airplane.

The videos on this page are displayed through the free/low-cost video hosting service Blip.tv, which allows much longer videos than YouTube’s 10 minute maximum. For more clarity and generally higher reliability, I have a pro account with another service, but using that one will cost you $5 – $25 per month depending on the number of videos we upload and the number of people who watch them.

You can also put your videos behind a “password wall” if you don’t want them to be entirely public (i.e. you want people to sign up to see them), and I also deliver DVD master copies you can duplicate and sell, show privately or whatever else you like. I mean, I work for *you*, not the other way around, so you tell me what you want — and I do my best to make it happen.

I charge no travel costs in the Tampa Bay, Florida, region, minor travel expense to Orlando, Florida, reasonable driving (and overnight stay) costs to Miami, Florida, or anywhere else within a day’s drive, and I don’t need a fancy hotel room no matter where I am.

My charges? Never over $500 per day for shooting (with two cameras, no less) or $400/day for editing or travel time. Figure that a shooting day leads to two editing days, add travel time and costs from your own experience, and you can almost write your own quote. Simple!

Thanks,

Robin ‘Roblimo’ Miller
Millers Art & Video
Bradenton Florida USA
phone 941-746-2602
email robin@roblimo.com
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PS – After reading this page, a friend asked, “Do you only make videos of IT presentations?” No. I’ve made videos of live music performances, motorcycle demonstrations, in-service training for psychologists and dieticians, boxing matches, and so on. I’ve also done hundreds of interviews with people in all kinds of occupational fields. I tend to get more work from IT companies than from others because a lot of people in that field know me. Check my resume to see why.