Showing posts with label Getting through. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Getting through. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Low Budget Video Editing Hackintosh Build Guide Part 1

What is a Hackintosh?

OSx86 (from Mac OS X and x86) is a collaborative hacking project to run the Mac OS X computer operating systemon non-Apple personal computers with x86 architecture and x86-64 compatible processors.

Parts

Here are the parts that I'm going to use in my build. You can watch unboxings and overviews of all BehindTheCreative.
of the parts on my channel

CPU- i7-3770K

MOBO - Z77x Ud5h

CPU Cooler- Hyper 212 evo plus

GPU- GTX770

PSU- cx600



Keyboard and Mouse- Gigabyte GK-KM6150


Build Guide 


Conclusion 

For part 2 I while dive into building the hackintosh, stay tuned! 



Monday, May 13, 2013

The Best Technique/ Tool for Organizing your Time 4 Quadrant Method

Time Management?

Time management is the act or process of planning and exercising conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency or productivity. Time management may be aided by a range of skills, tools, and techniques used to manage time when accomplishing specific tasks, projects and goals complying with a due date.

The Best Technique

The best technique for time management is the 4 quadrant technique  It's pictured right here. But before we can get to this, you'll want a system for uncluttering your mind. Read this for a great easy way to do that

Now that You've finished that we can start on this. The 4 quadrant time management technique is extremely simple, but also extremely effective. 

How it Works

As you see in the picture there are four quadrants. You'll want to spend most of your time in quadrant two, if you want to be the most effective. Quadrant two is for important, but not urgent tasks. Such as, planning, preparing, prevention, relationship building, and personal development.

You want to minimize the amount of time you spend in quadrants one and two. You can minimize the amount of items in your quadrant one by spending time in quadrant two, planning for those deadlines, and other issues. The only thing you can't really plan for in quadrant one is emergencies. 

To minimize the time spent in quadrant three resist the urge to pick up the phone while your in the middle of something. Don't read all of the forwarded email's you get. Quadrant three is difficult, because we think that the items are urgent, when they're really not.

If you want to be the most effective person you can be, then you defiantly don't want to be spending time in quadrant four. Quadrant four is not urgent, not important stuff. Such as, watching TV, playing games, some texting and phone calls, and other time wasters. 

Conclusion

Good luck with your endeavors for better time management  If you have anything to add please share it in the comments below. If you enjoyed it you can subscribe by email for more.



Friday, May 10, 2013

Great Free Classes for any Beginning Filmmaker

Online Classes 

Alright, online classes are really starting to take off. Many more families are able to homeschool because of this. Many college students are able to hold a full time job close to home, and also study as full time students. Now there is a place to take free online classes for filmmaking.

Filmmaking site

The name of the site is called coursera. Here is a list of their free classes.

Conclusion

If you think this will help others you can share it with them. If you have another site for free filmmaking classes, please share in the comments.

Thursday, May 9, 2013

The Best and Only Real way to Break Habits

What is a Habit?

hab·it  

Noun
A settled or regular tendency or practice, esp. one that is hard to give up.

Habits have three parts. The first part is a queue. This is like a trigger that initiates the habit. The second part is routine. This is the actual habit. The third part is the reward. This is whatever you gain from participating in the habit. To break these habits you must focus on the main components. The main components are steps 1 and 3. These steps shape what the routine is.


How to break it

There are two steps to breaking a habit. The first step is to place something in front of you that gives initiative. For instance, if I was trying to stop smoking, I would replace my cigarette packs with gum. The second step is to then chew that gum instead of smoking.The third step is rewarding yourself for following through. This can something as simple as a piece of chocolate. 


Key

The key to following this plan and breaking your habit is to divide up your habit into it's three parts. Then replace the first part with something that will initiate you do what you want. Then replace the second step with what you want to be doing instead. And finally give yourself a small reward for completing the first two steps.

Starting a New Habit

The same thing applies if you just want to start a new habit. Divide it into it's three parts. Then make sure you put in what you need to be doing for the first two steps. If you follow through on the first two steps give yourself a small reward.


Conclusion

After you break you habit please share the experience with others in the comments. Good luck!


Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Organizing your Life's Schedule. The Best and most effective way!

Key and First Step

The key and first step to getting your life's schedule in order is to dump everything you think of into
your inbox. Your inbox is a sheet of paper where you write down everything that you need to do. This is good because you can clear your mind of trying to remember everything that needs to get done.

Second Step

The second step is organizing your inbox. There are three places you can put the items. The first place you can put your items is on a calender. Use this for when you need to be somewhere, or doing something at a specific time. The second place you put these items is on a task list. You can have more than one task list. A good task list would be something like a shopping list. The third category for these items is a project list. A project list is any task that involves more than one step, such as building up a YouTube channel, or building a blog. To properly add a project you must write down all of the steps to complete it. For instance, if you were adding "building a YouTube channel" then it would look like this.

Project- Build Successful YouTube Channel

3. Share your YouTube channel with your friends
4. Share on Social Media sites like Twitter, Google+, and Facebook

Third Step

Once you've placed all of the items from your inbox into their proper categories you'll feel a sigh of relief. The third step is to follow through with it. Keep dumping your ideas into your inbox and then sorting them. Also, make sure that you are completing the tasks and not letting them build up.

Monday, May 6, 2013

The Best way to use Reddit for Advertising

What is Reddit?

Reddit is a social news and entertainment website. It was founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in June of 2005. It is owned by a private company, Advance Publications, and they currently employ 20 people. There slogan is "The front page of the internet"

How to use it?

When your posting to reddit for advertising purposes you must tread carefully. Most redditers do not like others posting for personal gain. When your posting something don't say, "hey check out this video that I made." or anything like that. In the title just let people know what the video, or post is about. 
Once you've posted it, try and get your friends to upvote it. It helps if your in a smaller subreddit. For instance, instead of posting your video in the video subreddit, post it in the filmmaker subreddit.

The best time to post your link is in the morning between 6 and 8. The faster you get your friends and family to upvote it the higher it will rise. This way when people are checking their reddit feeds in the morning, they'll see your post.

Conclusion/ Summary 

The first thing you need to do is come up with an interesting title describing your link. Second, you need to find a subreddit that's small, but not to small. Third you need to wait until between 6 and 8 in the morning. Fourth, you need to tell are your friends and family to upvote it. 

Good luck! Hopefully I'll see one of your posts. If you have anymore suggestions leave them in the comments.





Thursday, May 2, 2013

A Site for easy Unfollowing and Following

How?

The site is called Twitter Auto Follow Back. It is a great free site. All you have to do is sign in, and then you can go to work. 

With this site you can automatically follow back all of your twitter followers. You can also easily unfollow the people who aren't following you back. 

Here is a list of everything that you can do. Unfollow people who aren't following you back. Check recent unfollowers. Check inactive followers. Whitelist people. Check for fake followers. Follow back followers with one click of a button.

Conclusion

This site is awesome, but if you have a better site please share. I would love to hear about it. Once again here is the link. Click any word in this sentence.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Looking for Royalty Free Music for you Videos?

Great Site

The site is called beatpick. It has a ton of different songs. You can narrow down your results, and get a list of songs that will fit to your video perfectly.

Tricks

Now to downloads the songs for free there is a trick. First you have to find the song you want. Then add it to your beatlist. 

After you have all of the songs your going to want, click the "license" icon in your beatlist. Once you've gotten to the licensing page click on "try before you license." Now fill out the form. You only have to give a real email. The rest of the information is irrelevant.

Other Way

The other way to get free music is to click on "Show only songs for free non commercial use" It's above the songs titles to the right. Then when you have all the songs you want click license. Once your to the licensing page click on "non commercial projects" Do what it asks, and there are your songs.

Conclusion

I hope this site helps you as much as it's helped me. If you have a better site to get music from please share.


Monday, April 29, 2013

The Five Tenets of TaeKwonDo and Filmmaking

What are the Five Tenets of TaeKwonDo?

They are,

Courtesy 


Integrity

Perseverance

Indomitable Spirit

Self-Control 

Some of the greatest ancient warriors based their lives on these 5 principles. You as a filmmaker, or marketer can and should do the same. In the book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" the author writes that you should base your life off of principles. These are the principle that you should use.


Courtesy - The showing of politeness in one's attitude and behavior towards others.

You should be kind and polite to the people you work for, or the people who work for you.

Integrity - Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code

Don't do something that you don't believe in. Don't make a marketing plan for a company who's morals you strongly disagree with. Filmmakers, don't make movies, or videos for things you don't believe in.

Perseverance - Steady persistence in adhering to a course of action, a belief, or purpose

Don't give up! If something isn't working keep working on it. If it still doesn't happen, find a different way to meet your goal.

Indomitable Spirit - Cannot be subdued or overcome, will never give up and keeps trying.

Again, never give up! Always keep trying to get where you want to be, then keep going.

Self-Control - The ability to control one's emotions, behavior, and desires

Keep your emotions in check when somethings goes wrong. Don't get mad, yell, scream, and throw things. That will never accomplish anything, other than destroying things.


Wednesday, April 24, 2013

The Trick to being Successful at Marketing

To be successful at marketing there is one key component. That key component is your story. To be successful at marketing you need a "great story."

There are nine parts to a great story. Here they are.

1. A great story is true

Not factual, but consistent and authentic.

2. A great story makes a promise

You'll receive money, fun, safety, shortcuts. The promise is bold and it's exceptional.

3. A great story is trusted

No marketer can be truly successful, unless they have credibility.

4. A great story is subtle 

Let the audience draw the conclusion.

5. A great story is fast 

It should engage the consumer right away. The first impression is more powerful than you would imagine.

6. A great story is NOT aimed at everyone

If you need to water down your story to fit everyone. It will not succeed.

7. A great story does NOT appeal to logic, but to our senses

People decide what they want and like through their senses.

8. A great story doesn't contradict itself

You need to match the image to the message.

9. A great story agrees with our worldviews.

Great stories don't teach new things, they agree with current beliefs.

So there you have it, the nine parts to a great story.

A great story, 

1. is true
2. makes a promise
3. is trusted
4. is subtle
5. is fast
6. is NOT aimed at everyone
7. does NOT appeal to logic, but to our senses
8. doesn't contradict itself
9. agrees with our worldviews.

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Persevering! How to Persevere!

Persevering is a very important when trying to overcome your mistakes.

Word Meaning

Persevering - The present participle of persevere

Verb -

Continue in a course of action even in the face of difficulty or with little or no indication of success.


What It Means to You


There are many times when we have to persevere. Whether it's an athletic event, getting traffic to our blogs, or getting viewers and subscribers for our YouTube Channel's. If I were to list every instance that one might need to persevere, I would be here all day.

For this post I will focus mostly on the times we need to persevere, when were not getting the results that we're looking for, because it is the most common reason for persevering.



It is very difficult to keep making new content when you only have a few 

viewers. Many big YouTubers and some bloggers have talked about how their first few years were extremely slow. Most of them talked about their thoughts of quitting, but instead they persevered and became what they are today. You can also be one of these people, but to make it you need to be committed, and persevere. Don't give into defeat.
Many people will put out a large quantity of content. That doesn't cut it, and that doesn't count as persevering. Taking the easy way out is not continuing your course of action in the face of difficulty. To persevere you would have to instead, create a large quantity of quality content, or even just a regular stream of quality content. You need to do the work.
When you're in these lows it's very hard to stay motivated. Before you get to the low, try and pick something to read, listen to, or watch, so when you hit the low you have something to bring yourself back up. It's best if the thing reminds you why you're trying to persevere.