Recipe Video Resources Articles

The Best Tools for Creating Food Videos 

Natalie @ FBP
by Natalie @ FBP on Sep 12, 2024 in ,

Creating videos is one of the most popular ways to share content, especially when it comes to food. Plus, there’s plenty of tools out there that can make the entire process, from start to finish, as seamless as possible. 
While it may be easy to increase your blog’s income by adding additional ad units, writing spammy posts with many affiliate links, or pitching unrelated or untested products to your readers, the goal here is to increase your revenue-making capabilities without degrading the quality of your site.

The more value you can provide to your readers, the easier it is for them to return to your blog. Words to live by! 

Let’s explore some ways you can amplify your monetization strategies in this post!

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The Definitive Guide to Video Sizes for Social Media (Updated for 2024)

Emily @ FBP
by Emily @ FBP on Jan 12, 2023 in , ,
An image of Pinch of Yum's Beet And Burrata Salad With Fried Bread recipe with the name of the blog post, 'The Definitive Guide to Video Sizes for Social Media'

Are you creating videos for your blog posts? If so, you probably want to share them on social media.

Videos can be shared on pretty much every social media platform, which is great for getting the most out of the videos you’re producing.

But it can also be a bit confusing because there are different recommendations for each platform. Between the videos you share on Instagram Stories and on the Facebook Feed, the recommended dimensions can vary quite a bit.

Luckily, we have your back. 😊 This post will be constantly updated with new recommendations so you can be confident you’re sharing the right kind of video to each social platform:

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The Gear We Use For Recipe Videos

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by Bjork on Sep 1, 2022 in , ,
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Filming recipe videos is a great way to visually show your readers and followers how to make a recipe. Videos are also incredibly popular on almost every social media platform. 

Maybe you’re already filming recipe videos and just want to up your game, or maybe you’re a recipe video newbie looking for the best camera for cooking videos. Either way, we’re here to help! 

We are going to take a deep dive into the gear that our sister site and food blog, Pinch of Yum, uses for recipe videos – from cameras and tripods to editing software.

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Three Ways to Repurpose Your Recipe Videos

Alexa @ FBP
by Alexa @ FBP on Apr 14, 2022 in ,
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If you make recipe videos for your blog posts, I know you know that they take a lot of work.

There’s the planning, the shooting, the editing, the promoting… not to mention cleaning up the kitchen after the whole ordeal is over. 😉

So if you’re doing all of that hard work for just one video, is there a way to make that content work for you long-term? A way to take that content and repurpose it in a different way that will allow you to reach more people without doing more work?

The answer: Yes!

And in fact, we’re talking about three different ways that you can repurpose your recipe videos in this article.

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What Food Bloggers Are Focusing on in 2022

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by Leslie Jeon on Dec 30, 2021 in , ,
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Is it just me or does the end of the year always feel like the perfect time to step back and set some blogging goals for the year ahead?

It can be so helpful to analyze what’s working (and what’s not!) in your current strategy to decide what to focus your time and energy on moving forward.

As you’re thinking about your goals for the new year, we wanted to get a feel for what food bloggers are focusing on in 2022 to give you some ideas and inspiration!

We surveyed The Food Blogger Pro community, as well as the team behind Food Blogger Pro and our sister companies, to get their thoughts, and we can’t wait to share the results with you today.

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New Course: Recipe Video Bootcamp

Alexa @ FBP
by Alexa @ FBP on Jun 16, 2017 in ,

Hiya! And Happy Friday, friends!

This week has been an exciting one over here at FBP HQ. We held an awesome event called the Recipe Video Bootcamp, we started revving up for our open enrollment period next week (!!!), and…

We published a new course!

For those of who missed the Bootcamp, or for those who loved it and want to watch it again, I have some good news: we uploaded the session videos as our new course this month!

Excited? We are too!

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New Course: Food Video: Editing in Final Cut Pro X

Alexa @ FBP
by Alexa @ FBP on Mar 16, 2017 in ,

Hi, friends! Guess what?

It’s new course day! Can I get a woot woot?

If you’ve been following along, you know that food video has been a huge focus for us in the past few months. We’ve covered the tools you’ll need, we’ve showed you how to plan your shoot, and we’ve taken you behind the scenes of a Pinch of Yum shoot.

Next comes editing. We’ve covered editing in iMovie and in Adobe Premiere Pro, but today we’re covering the editing software that the Pinch of Yum team uses every week to make their awesome recipe videos: Final Cut Pro X.

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