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A great article here describes the danger of customer engagement on your website if your video buffers. The important part: A new study by Ramesh Sitaraman, of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Shunmuga Krishnan, of Akamai finds that the exact amount of time before viewers begin to abandon online video as a result […]

Wednesday night was the 2012 Web Audio Video Excellence (WAVE) award show put on by MCA-I Madison, and we won some awards! The WAVE Awards Show recognizes the best web, audio and video media productions in the Greater Madison area. We helped produce the show by bringing the graphics and awards together into a fun […]

I’ve been in and out of the office this week with a cold. Naturally part of resting and recovering at home is watching movies. This time around I only watched one: Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, and I had a blast. Perhaps it was my cough-medicine-induced haze, but i thoroughly enjoyed the movie. Here’s why I […]

Our previous website served a purpose, may it rest in peace, but we are very happy to move on. Being a web developer I foolishly thought I would have time to develop our website WHILE running a business. It was difficult, and the thing that always suffered was the website. From the time we rolled […]

Just a friendly reminder for the day. March is proving to be a month of dangerous ideas! The ideas of March have come… but not gone.

The New Year and the new developments on the horizon for Backflip Films inspired me to dig through some of our old logo designs this afternoon. I suppose the nostalgia that I feel won’t be shared by those of you that haven’t known our company as long, but I hope you enjoy this glimpse back […]

We purchased a Wacom tablet this afternoon to streamline our storyboarding process a bit more. I was really excited to test it out but ended up having to scrap a half hour of work because I made a few mistakes. Here they are, learn from them: read the script – i thought i had the […]

I was notified by Twitter just before 7:00pm that Steve Jobs had passed away. Whether Apple Fanboy, or Google Gearhead, Steve Jobs has touched each and every one of our lives. He brought computing into the home and made it fashionable. Computers and mobile devices, whether they’re from Microsoft, Google, Apple, or elsewhere are what […]

You’ve heard it said that “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Well at 24 frames per second, a 4 minute video contains 5760 pictures. Multiply THAT by one thousand! Really, what I mean to say is this: All of that beauty, emotion, and extra meaning that can be captured in a picture can also […]

  We’re getting around to renewing old accounts and signing up for new things. One of these new things we signed up for was The Wisconsin Production Guide aka badgerguide. It’s a great centralized location to find freelancers and production companies for whatever your working on. The best part is (because we had the foresight […]