We are extremely pleased to announce the launch of the first of several new designs that have been working on.

Sleek is now available for use!

A few interesting notes about sleek:

• Sleek is our first skin to offer the ability to hide all image names from public view, making the workflow for customers that don't care about image names a bit faster and also providing more room for the…

We are kicking off "tactical" video with a contest.  Best use of Tactical Video in a Real Estate Tour. 

Contest closes January 31st.  Post your links below. Best feedback from your peers wins the prize.

Please vote for your favorites be replying to their post.

Be creative!

Paul

Of all the hair-brained things I’ve ever done with my business, this was one of them. Yes - there have been many, but this one stands out in my mind as one of the biggest wastes of money. The problem is that it seemed like such a good idea!! I won’t say it accomplished NOTHING, but it was close to nothing. I fell prey to the lights and the dazzle and all the not-so-subtle promises of success that are targeted directly at my kind - small business owners.  It wasn’t the first time I’d tried to…

You can now add tactical video clips to your TourBuzz Tours. We will be supporting full length video in the coming weeks.



Tactical video is meant to enhance your tours with minimal extra work. Examples include Agent introductions, fire in the fireplace, water features like lakes, pool, fountains, streams, front door opening, etc.



Tactical video is treated the same as a still or panoramic…

Every once in a while, a photographer ask about TourBuzz syndication. Syndication has become a huge industry mess.  Here is the short story and what it now means to you:

5 years ago we had a grand plan to help market individual property by creating a web page and syndicating the information to Zillow, Trulia, etc.plus several more features. Neybor was born.  We have many grand plans but at the time syndication was the killer feature.…

A few weeks ago we launched our Export-to-Video feature which makes it trivial to publish a video-format version of the tour. However, the #1 use case for a video export was YouTube publishing, so the new feature still required a few minutes of work to get the video to your customer's YouTube account.

Automated YouTube Publishing

We're pleased to announce today that we've completed our automated YouTube integration. Your customers can now link their YouTube…

Originally posted here.

Now that you can create mp4 video from your TourBuzz tour, how do you create a DVD that you can give a Brokerage or Agent to play on their TV or computer?

I did a little research and found out a few good options.

PC

HandBrake - Free shareware

http://handbrake.fr/



Freemake - Free Shareware

http://www.freemake.com/free_video_converter/

Convert video…

After a successful beta period, we are pleased to announce the general release of our export-to-video feature.

Thank you to everyone for trying out the feature and providing feedback.

For complete details on the new export-to-video feature, read our initial release announcement.

We are almost finished with the automated YouTube posting; we…

This is probably the most common question amongst current and aspiring real estate photographers.  How do you know how much to charge?  You don’t want to price yourself out of the market, but you meed to make enough to sustain yourself and your business.  What about the competition -…

We take quality very seriously at TourBuzz; we do our best to use techniques that preserve image quality while maintaining reasonable file sizes.

Over the years we've been working hard to improve the quality of the images in our player, but it can be very tricky due to limitations of Flash. For instance, Flash doesn't have built-in high-quality resizing algorithms (like those used by Photoshop), and lack of hardware acceleration means that resizing a single image in Flash can take 2+…

Today we released a new version of TourBuzz that has been in the works for over 15 months. While there are only a couple of minor visible improvements, we now have in place the groundwork required to launch major new features and support the needs of our growing customer base.

One of the improvements you will notice is that any additional images you add to a tour will be reliably placed at the end of the tour. If the image processing queue is very busy, it will also inform…

Fellow helps real estate tour photographers establish a profitable business

(Nov. 8, 2011, Atlanta, Ga.) TourBuzz, the leading virtual tour software for independent professional real estate tour photographers, announced today the selection of Tim Ray an experienced businessman, real estate tour photographer and owner of Colorado…

I went to Real Estate Barcamp Atlanta last week. One of the agents talked about an app called EyeJot, which is basically video email. He said clients loved the personal nature of it and that it's faster to use than actually writing an email since you don't have to worry about editing, spelling, etc.

Any thoughts on if this would be useful for communicating with…

More interested in doing photography than post production?  

My daughter is available for your post production needs.  She's been using Photoshop since she was a young tot, graduated from University of the Arts and knows the Tourbuzz system intimately.  

She is making herself available as a virtual assistant for anyone that would like to offload their post production work.

Not only will she handle color correction, etc., she'll take care of uploading everything…