Comments on: Meet Your New Real Estate Agent http://www.tucsonazrealestateblog.com/tucson-real-estate/meet-your-new-real-estate-agent/ & What it is like living in Tucson Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:34:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dave Smithhttp://www.tucsonazrealestateblog.com/tucson-real-estate/meet-your-new-real-estate-agent/comment-page-1/#comment-3006 Dave Smith Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:43:02 +0000 http://www.tucsonazrealestateblog.com/?p=818#comment-3006 Paul, Are you sure you don't have a better formed opinion on these things? I haven't shot live video of a house yet. I do take photos which are very high quality and put together a video montage (slideshow) but don't usually host them on YouTube. Personally, the poor quality of images on YouTube are a huge turn-off. I don't like the flip video images or sound. But I hear everyday of people loving them. Maybe many have been desensitized to good video. Glad I've never seen the Massachusetts stuff. Sounds horrible. I was looking at some of the Tucson ones after the article and had to stop, they are so bad it was like torture. What I do post is approved by the seller or I don't put it up. Poor quality is something I just can't bring myself to put up. For my own taste and for the reason you mentioned above. It is a disservice to the seller and the property itself. Thanks for the comment Paul. Have a great holiday this week. Paul,

Are you sure you don’t have a better formed opinion on these things?

I haven’t shot live video of a house yet. I do take photos which are very high quality and put together a video montage (slideshow) but don’t usually host them on YouTube.

Personally, the poor quality of images on YouTube are a huge turn-off. I don’t like the flip video images or sound. But I hear everyday of people loving them. Maybe many have been desensitized to good video.

Glad I’ve never seen the Massachusetts stuff. Sounds horrible. I was looking at some of the Tucson ones after the article and had to stop, they are so bad it was like torture.

What I do post is approved by the seller or I don’t put it up. Poor quality is something I just can’t bring myself to put up. For my own taste and for the reason you mentioned above. It is a disservice to the seller and the property itself.

Thanks for the comment Paul. Have a great holiday this week.

]]> By: Paulhttp://www.tucsonazrealestateblog.com/tucson-real-estate/meet-your-new-real-estate-agent/comment-page-1/#comment-3003 Paul Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:40:58 +0000 http://www.tucsonazrealestateblog.com/?p=818#comment-3003 The biggest problem are folks just taking these (usually horrible) zooming slideshows and posting them on YouTube. People aren't going to YouTube to watch zooming blurry slideshows of houses! They are going to YouTube to watch video. Video = moving pictures! Would you be happy walking into your local multiplex and watching a zooming slideshow instead of the feature presentation? Would you be OK with watching your favorite TV show presented as a series of still photos... zooming in and out so stupid people "think" they're watching a video or movie? NO. Yet, this garbage is being put on YouTube everyday. There is a broker in Massachusetts (RE/MAX Innovations) that has put up 10 year old "spin around" virtual tours up on YouTube for every town in the state! They're all BLURRY - almost unrecognizable - They have no narration, speaking or even music. And you can't control it with your mouse like you could when these types of tours were the only thing you could do online. They're horrible. And yet, there are hundreds of those littering YouTube. If I were a seller and saw most of the garbage that I see on YouTube, I would FIRE my agent on the spot. You can't represent a $400K +++++++++ home with something that looks like a 5th grader made it with their new video camera. It's just a disservice to the seller, and it makes the agent look VERY unprofessional. And these Flip video cameras are just making even MORE of the stuff online. Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you should. The biggest problem are folks just taking these (usually horrible) zooming slideshows and posting them on YouTube.

People aren’t going to YouTube to watch zooming blurry slideshows of houses! They are going to YouTube to watch video. Video = moving pictures!

Would you be happy walking into your local multiplex and watching a zooming slideshow instead of the feature presentation? Would you be OK with watching your favorite TV show presented as a series of still photos… zooming in and out so stupid people “think” they’re watching a video or movie?

NO.

Yet, this garbage is being put on YouTube everyday. There is a broker in Massachusetts (RE/MAX Innovations) that has put up 10 year old “spin around” virtual tours up on YouTube for every town in the state! They’re all BLURRY – almost unrecognizable – They have no narration, speaking or even music. And you can’t control it with your mouse like you could when these types of tours were the only thing you could do online. They’re horrible. And yet, there are hundreds of those littering YouTube.

If I were a seller and saw most of the garbage that I see on YouTube, I would FIRE my agent on the spot. You can’t represent a $400K +++++++++ home with something that looks like a 5th grader made it with their new video camera. It’s just a disservice to the seller, and it makes the agent look VERY unprofessional. And these Flip video cameras are just making even MORE of the stuff online.

Just because you CAN do something doesn’t mean you should.

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