Jerod Morris
Jerod Morris is an SEO consultant, blog strategist, and professional blogger who joined Orangecast in 2008.
In his first month on the job, Jerod started a blog to serve as a sandbox for SEO and social media strategy. Being a diehard sports fan born in Indiana, it was no surpise that the blog he created was called Midwest Sports Fans.
Since its inception, MidwestSportsFans.Com has seen an average of 5,000 unique daily visitors, broke the 3 million pageview mark in less than two years, and has gained over 40,000 links from sources such as The New York Post, the Chicago Sun Times, and ESPN.
In June of 2009, Jerod published a post called “The Curious Case of Raul Ibanez…” which ended up being the catalyst for a huge debate on bloggers versus the mainstream media. In addition to several radio and podcast appearances, Jerod was a guest on ESPN’s Outside the Lines to discuss his post and the blogger/MSM debate. Jerod also is one of the few bloggers to have hex named after him.
In addition to MidwestSportsFans.com, Jerod founded the music site IndieChristmas.com and is the Managing Editor for CorporateComplianceInsights.com.
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What program do you use to create the videos where the 3D characters sync with your audio tracks?
BTW, your comments are very frustrating in that if you forget to enter the CAPTCHA and have to click the back button, all of the content is lost!
Drew, thanks for the feedback on the comments. We are evaluating the best solutions for this. We get 5-10 remote file injection attacks a night where they try and overflow the comments page. I will put your feedback back to the team and we’ll continue to look at this aspect of keeping bad guys out and getting good guys (you) comments in.
We are using Windows free download software from http://www.xtranormal.com/ to create the news set. The sets cost a couple of bucks a piece. We create our audio on a Zoom H4N connected into a pair of R-144 ribbon mics from MXL. We record as native WAV files and upload into the software. That setup is about $600.
The xtranormal software has a long way to go but if you are patient with it you can get some great results from it. After we create our sets, we export to iMovie on Mac (free) and gen the final videos.
Xtranormal has free online text to movie version. You could also record direct into the Windows program with a $30 noise cancelling headset/mic setup.
Many thanks on the production info, I will check out Xtranormal.