My First Try at Video (I'm no Brad Hook) Clark Club Calves Agribition

This is my first try at video.  I have some work to do with the camera but it was just to find out what I have to improve on.  The cattle still need some work and it was really muddy the day I took the video it was only about a week after we had the "Weather Bomb" (12 inches of snow).  Take a look and tell me what you think. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uMco3AKInI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcP5f599BrA


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7805qQIMzes

I watched the 1st one and it looked good to me. You're right it was a dark day

The videos look good. Should definitely help in your marketing. Just a couple suggestions:

1. Try naming the videos something more descriptive - like you farm name and black heifer or farm name - agribition This will help when people are searching for your farm or animals for sale.

2. Also include more information in your description. Your farm name, perhaps a website, where you are selling and the date. I know you included it in your video but you need to give the computer keywords to be able to search.

3. Add more tags - black steer "steer for sale" agricbition Saskatchewan cattle - anything that you would use to find those videos when searching on YouTube. It is great to email your videos around, but how great would it be if someone stubbled across the videos on YouTube and ended up buying them.

Good luck at Agrbition - I'll be there too.

p.s. One more thing. I am a big fan of using a tripod. Even in cattle videos.

Nice work, video quality is excellent.  What video editor are you using?

Thank you all who responded it helps to hear what I can do better.  
I think my girl friend has a tripod to take the shakiness out of the video's.
The photo editor that I am using is Windows Live Movie Maker it came with my computer.  I think it does the job for what I want it for we only sell a few calves each year.

Ryan.....what camera are you using?  Looks like you put it up in HD, right?

I used a Sony Cypershot 12 mega Pixals I dont know the numbers on the camera it is my parents.  Yes it records in HD but the files are huge takes awhile to up load.  The camera will not zoom in Movie mode.

The videos are very good and do what they are supposed to do, that is give a person a better idea of what the cattle look like than a single picture does. I would agree that a tripod is a very good investment. They are not much money, and they can improve the quality of your videos a lot. We use a tripod when we are videoing our bulls every spring and it works very well. Will see you at Agribition!

See you there too Ryan!  I will come say Hi.  We will have 2 (as of today) RAxSM steers as well.  
Going to help halter break tomorrow...sometimes that sister of mine likes to slack on that part, lol.
Posted a couple pix of your competition .  These are from early Sept when they were still in pasture.  Im not sure how the 2nd guy is looking.  My sis
doesnt seem to like him anymore so who knows what were doing yet.

Editing in hd can be challenge unless you have some grunt by your computer.  The encoding work will max out your cpu.  I upgraded last year to intel's i series, more specifically the core i7, 920, 4 cores running at 2.8 ghz, but will show at 8 different processors in a 64 bit environment.  It will flat out run.  You also need to go with a 64 bit os to get rid of the 3gb max limited on all 32 bit systems.